I have a small cut on the bottom of my little toe and it hurts a bitUgh.
...The very fact that this thread has reason to exist makes me have a big sad thread post..."big" :P
I swear, if that's supposed to be a dick joke...I was gonna search for a picture with a Homestuck troll with the caption "WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE MY DICK" but then I remembered I'm on a campus internet.
... and? So long as you're not also in public, I'm not sure why that would stop you. Even above and beyond the fact that more than one course of study legitimately involves researching various sorts of porn and other material of varying degrees of salaciousness, you can usually get away with looking up stuff along those lines without anyone really trying to stop you, so long as you're not outright breaking laws doing so (and often then, too :V). So long as you're discreet and not generating complaints, you're probably going to be fine.It's more of the fact that I probably won't be able to find it due to word filter.
... they probably have gotten more effective nowadays, haven't they? They had one during my highschool years, too, but they still occasionally had to clear the browser cache of horse porn or whatev'. Not the best at what it was intended to do.We had the opposite problem. The thing was too effective, so not only did we miss out on horse porn, but resources for essays and such.
I feel like we need this since the sad thread is filled with people with serious problems 24/7 and that makes it really awkward for people who want to vent about how their favorite hotdog stand raised their prices or something like that.
I suppose my tone wasn't clear, but I was saying that a lot of people feel bad about venting when there are people who deserve more sympathy.I feel like we need this since the sad thread is filled with people with serious problems 24/7 and that makes it really awkward for people who want to vent about how their favorite hotdog stand raised their prices or something like that.
It is almost like sad people often have reasons to be sad :P
So yeah, medical stuff happened. Also met my best friends dad running the triage but didn't have a very long chat.
I suppose my tone wasn't clear, but I was saying that a lot of people feel bad about venting when there are people who deserve more sympathy.
This really should go in the terrifying thread but eh. Flabort's is way more terrifying.LAWLSUIT NAO MAKE EM MAKE YOU A MILLIONAIRESpoiler: medical story (click to show/hide)
My mother says I can't get a scorpion because I already have a snake and a lizard.She is just afraid of you crosbreeding basilisk.
I'm sad Pufferfish changed his name, I liked the last one better :PWhat was the name they changed to? I don't know any threads started by them to check.
it saddens me mildly that common youtube commenters have little to no sense of humour (or a VERY DIFFERENT one from me, i guess)
Not entirely sure what i was expecting, but there's no reason for me to cause further distress to the poor creature. I might have been spoiled by my meatspace friends. :v
it saddens me mildly that common youtube commenters have little to no sense of humour (http://puu.sh/mvN4F.png) (or a VERY DIFFERENT one from me, i guess)I like how there are different skeleton dialects based off of how edgy you are, spoopy vs spooky, Bones vs skeltal, doot vs scary
Not entirely sure what i was expecting, but there's no reason for me to cause further distress to the poor creature. I might have been spoiled by my meatspace friends. :v
i am now mildly saddened by my own incompetenceSpoiler (click to show/hide)
I appear to be in the same boat as you...Spoiler: Possibly TMI for some (click to show/hide)
If you can still find your pants, its not a gypsy curse.
The OOCQ thread was locked.And Derm's offline too.
I seem to be posting less and less on Bay12. I just can't summon up the motivation to post half the time.Find a forum game you like.
How am I supposed to raise my PPD at this rate? :-\
I seem to be posting less and less on Bay12. I just can't summon up the motivation to post half the time.
How am I supposed to raise my PPD at this rate? :-\
Pretty sure that's what I do all the time, I just can't muster up the effort this past few days/week or so.I seem to be posting less and less on Bay12. I just can't summon up the motivation to post half the time.
How am I supposed to raise my PPD at this rate? :-\
Shitposting.
Find a forum game you like.These days I have trouble keeping up with forum games.
I would probably agree with that. Most of us are more open here than we are in real life, since we don't know each other IRL.
I am grateful that nobody I know IRL knows this forum. It would be horrible.
gaining 40 poundsThat's... what, 20kg? How do you gain that much?
gaining 40 poundsThat's... what, 20kg? How do you gain that much?
You're a wizard. Its probably your fault.Yeah it's not like I can skip second breakfast now is it
There are people who know me IRL who probably know I'm here, but I don't think any of them bother to read what I post. My personal text alone would give it away if the location didn't, but luckily(?) nobody cares enough about what I'm doing to spy on my internet activity.Oh, heh. Most of my friends would probably know who I am almost immediately if they could be arsed looking. Both my forum name and person text are in-jokes with them (that only I actually make or find funny).
What I find a bit sad is that people keep going on that those new Dance games are better then DDR but I've never been able to really describe what I prefer about DDRI just want a pad to play Crypt of the Necrodancer with tbh
Which I guess when it comes down to it...
Dance games are all about skill with complicated moves and isolations... (and usually the dances are terrible)
While Dance Dance Revolution is all about fitness and any skill is about knowing how to do the steps.
There's a great song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkIHYp2hXMg) i want to link but im like 90% sure the link wont work outside of belgium. what bsIt works for me.
love these guys' sound, but i fucking hate these dumb copyright policies.
Same here.There's a great song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkIHYp2hXMg) i want to link but im like 90% sure the link wont work outside of belgium. what bsIt works for me.
love these guys' sound, but i fucking hate these dumb copyright policies.
Edit: If you leave your rained-on washing out long enough and the sun comes out and dries it, will it be clean?
Or will it be all nasty and mildew-scented?
Edit: If you leave your rained-on washing out long enough and the sun comes out and dries it, will it be clean?Mildewy-scented comes from being damp for long periods of time. As long as you get them completely dry within a day or two than they should be fine, just think of it like you added another rinse cycle to the washing machine. :P
Or will it be all nasty and mildew-scented?
Goodness with the thread titled in such a way it sounds like the thread creator is sad that he found out he was a furry :PI'm always mildly sad about that too.
Goodness with the thread titled in such a way it sounds like the thread creator is sad that he found out he was a furry :PI'm always mildly sad about that too.
Fucking Yuki YunaOh yeah, that's a great show. I didn't really like the ending all to much though. That said, I didn't like the ending to PMMM either, so I'm probably just biased.
Dammit someone was talking about Doritos and now I want cheesy chips.
...huhGoodness with the thread titled in such a way it sounds like the thread creator is sad that he found out he was a furry :PI'm always mildly sad about that too.
Don't worry Furrys are the best cuddlers.
Maybe it's different in Usaland. From what I understand you folks won't touch each other with a ten-foot pole because physical contact is unchristian.Yes, but...
Here (and Europe to a greater or lesser extent) is much more laissez-faire with touching etc. in platonic relationships.
You capitalist eaglemen need to accept the bromance.Maybe it's different in Usaland. From what I understand you folks won't touch each other with a ten-foot pole because physical contact is unchristian.Yes, but...
Here (and Europe to a greater or lesser extent) is much more laissez-faire with touching etc. in platonic relationships.
Well. No.
Not really, but we do like personal space a bit more over here.
The sheer amount of content I have to read for class is making me sad. And apparently, this is nothing compared to what I'll have to read in law school.As someone who is university for history, I can assure you that in absolutely any field that is not one of the math-heavy sciences you will need to read tons and tons of text. Frankly, the hardest part is finding somewhere to put the piles upon piles of paper when you no longer need them.
The sheer amount of content I have to read for class is making me sad. And apparently, this is nothing compared to what I'll have to read in law school.As someone who is university for history, I can assure you that in absolutely any field that is not one of the math-heavy sciences you will need to read tons and tons of text. Frankly, the hardest part is finding somewhere to put the piles upon piles of paper when you no longer need them.
I don't know how a machine would use it besides as coolant, but for us it's pretty nice. Carrying nutrients, signalling molecules, gases bound to carriers (bubbles + blood = bad), removing waste, and so on and so forth. The circulatory system in general is pretty impressive really.The 'blood' machines use is for five-dimensional data storage and processing: longitude, latitude, height, pressure, flow. That's like making every bit in your computer be worth two bytes. At least, in theory. In practice, we're not quite there yet. It's like those multidimensional data crystals that were invented some time ago that cost a fortune to write on and can't be read with current technology.
Well, from what I know, all quantum computers so far are liquid-based, so in the future we might have computers bleeding lethal supercooled liquid metal in your face.I don't know how a machine would use it besides as coolant, but for us it's pretty nice. Carrying nutrients, signalling molecules, gases bound to carriers (bubbles + blood = bad), removing waste, and so on and so forth. The circulatory system in general is pretty impressive really.The 'blood' machines use is for five-dimensional data storage and processing: longitude, latitude, height, pressure, flow. That's like making every bit in your computer be worth two bytes. At least, in theory. In practice, we're not quite there yet. It's like those multidimensional data crystals that were invented some time ago that cost a fortune to write on and can't be read with current technology.
I suspect the ideas will be forgotten when some sudden breakthrough in data manipulation makes them obsolete before they've even been marketed.
It's one of those days where I'm mildly disgusted about the human body. I can't wait to be a robot, but then I heard IBM is trying to give machines blood.
I think I'm going a cry a little if having gross blood is a requirement for being an efficient machine.
I just feel like people are way too fragile. But so are machines I suppose.It's one of those days where I'm mildly disgusted about the human body. I can't wait to be a robot, but then I heard IBM is trying to give machines blood.
I think I'm going a cry a little if having gross blood is a requirement for being an efficient machine.
Can I know what's wrong with the human body? I'm human and I'm triggered!
Humans aren't fragile at all. I'd start going into details on what deformations, injuries, and general trauma we're able to withstand and recover from, but I don't want to make people throw up and/or lose faith in humanity once and for all.
But look at this, for example. (http://imgur.com/gallery/rEK4AIG) One note though: What they call 'pursuit predation' really is called 'persistence hunting'.
"Funny, isn't it? The human was impervious to our most powerful magnetic fields, yet in the end he succumbed to a harmless sharpened stick!"Did the sharpened stick kill him, or is he just going to yank it out and come back in a few weeks with body armour? Also, how many friends does he have? Lots? I'm betting lots.
Ooh, is that the stuff about The Veil? It sounds like it from the intro of the second one.The "Veil of Madness"? Yeah, those are the ones. :P
The Escapist video player has, once again, made it impossible to watch Zero Punctuation and Judging By The Cover. This time, because the video just doesn't load at all. Seriously it's been ten minutes.But then they'll have to give a cut of the ad profits to Google. And that's horrible.
Surely it would be less work to create a YouTube account and put the videos there, then embed the YouTube player on the webpage. They could even unlist the videos to make sure that people only watch them on the Escapist website!
The Escapist video player has, once again, made it impossible to watch Zero Punctuation and Judging By The Cover. This time, because the video just doesn't load at all. Seriously it's been ten minutes.ZP, at least, is being uploaded on YouTube. 95% certain JBTC is, too.
Surely it would be less work to create a YouTube account and put the videos there, then embed the YouTube player on the webpage. They could even unlist the videos to make sure that people only watch them on the Escapist website!
Bluargh, why am i not a rich fuck, i need that shirt on the right (https://www.pixeljam.com/dinorun/shirt.jpg). $75 is more than i can reasonably spend in good conscience though, because i have to save up. I'm really not keen on having to get a shit-tier job, but it seems like i'll have to. :<Oh hey, I think I remember that game... now I'll have to track it down and play it.
Of course they aren't bad or good, those are abstract concepts with frighteningly nebulous meanings at the best of times.FTFY. But yeah, it's just a matter of what you want, which is apparently salt-and-vinegar chips/crisps.
The only real Truth in this world is thatonion isMike and Ikes are delicious and all who disagree shall be slain my decree of theVegetableFruit Candy God.
@Reverie:If I could give you one of...No, actually, you may not have my one remaining Caramel Pretzel bar. MINE. I'd give you a Reese's though.
The snow from today didn't really stick around.
Dude, that's what I'm telling you: The idea of introversion and extraversion being two ends of a spectrum is a fad - at least in the form that's currently popular. A more solid analysis of human behaviour probably would start by identifying introvert and extravert behaviours, and then trying to describe with what regularities these beviours occur in different people. Maybe then we'd get some useful results from our new nomenclature instead of just the labels 'introvert' and 'extravert'.We'd probably also need a 'capacity for being alone' in order to make it work (i do know at least one guy who has explicitly stated that he needs other people to "recharge"), but i can totally see what you're on about, with it being more than a one-dimensional spectrum. I don't actually care that much about it, it's just easier to say "i'm introverted" than it is to say "i have a low capacity for social behaviour but i'll be fine after a few hours by myself", since it basically confers the same information. :v
I wager we'd arrive at some sort of 'capacity for social behaviour' that everyone has, but whose size and speed of regeneration varies from person to person. We'd need some empirical work to see whether this is a fruitful approach though.
This reminds me of an info bit I posted about a (long) while ago. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=43236.msg6267584#msg6267584) :PDude, that's what I'm telling you: The idea of introversion and extraversion being two ends of a spectrum is a fad - at least in the form that's currently popular. A more solid analysis of human behaviour probably would start by identifying introvert and extravert behaviours, and then trying to describe with what regularities these beviours occur in different people. Maybe then we'd get some useful results from our new nomenclature instead of just the labels 'introvert' and 'extravert'.We'd probably also need a 'capacity for being alone' in order to make it work (i do know at least one guy who has explicitly stated that he needs other people to "recharge"), but i can totally see what you're on about, with it being more than a one-dimensional spectrum. I don't actually care that much about it, it's just easier to say "i'm introverted" than it is to say "i have a low capacity for social behaviour but i'll be fine after a few hours by myself", since it basically confers the same information. :v
I wager we'd arrive at some sort of 'capacity for social behaviour' that everyone has, but whose size and speed of regeneration varies from person to person. We'd need some empirical work to see whether this is a fruitful approach though.
The snow from today didn't really stick around.
This reminds me of an info bit I posted about a (long) while ago. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=43236.msg6267584#msg6267584) :PDude, that's what I'm telling you: The idea of introversion and extraversion being two ends of a spectrum is a fad - at least in the form that's currently popular. A more solid analysis of human behaviour probably would start by identifying introvert and extravert behaviours, and then trying to describe with what regularities these beviours occur in different people. Maybe then we'd get some useful results from our new nomenclature instead of just the labels 'introvert' and 'extravert'.We'd probably also need a 'capacity for being alone' in order to make it work (i do know at least one guy who has explicitly stated that he needs other people to "recharge"), but i can totally see what you're on about, with it being more than a one-dimensional spectrum. I don't actually care that much about it, it's just easier to say "i'm introverted" than it is to say "i have a low capacity for social behaviour but i'll be fine after a few hours by myself", since it basically confers the same information. :v
I wager we'd arrive at some sort of 'capacity for social behaviour' that everyone has, but whose size and speed of regeneration varies from person to person. We'd need some empirical work to see whether this is a fruitful approach though.
Also it's less of a fad and more on common (mis?)conception of what introversion and extroversion is. The whole history of how these things develop and are constructed are somewhere in my many notebooks...somewhere. But yeah. Notes.
Though basically Introvert nowadays mean 'I feel rested and energized when I'm alone, doing my things by myself, thinking and listening to my thoughts[...]'. Which can basically apply to anyone. :P
And to make my post relevant: I seriously wish Psychology was a general subject with invested interest everywhere -.- The things you can learn...mmph.
Also pretty sad that despite the clarity and insight I (and others) may have, words fumble in delivery. GAH, YOU, SOCIAL ANXIETY!~
My feet are sore from shopping.This sounds like a good problem to have :P
discount flu.
I'm so tired of being alive.Being tired of living is up there, if that matters >____>
I should probably post this in the sad thread, but people are discussing actual problems there right now.
I'm so tired of being alive.You and me both.
I should probably post this in the sad thread, but people are discussing actual problems there right now.
I'm so tired of being alive.You and me both.
I should probably post this in the sad thread, but people are discussing actual problems there right now.
I'm so tired of being alive.Being alive is pretty exhausting. Sometimes the best thing to do is load up a big plate of food and start a K-On marathon.
yer welcome bro <3discount flu.
This made me better. Thanks, bro! :)
Uh-oh, it's almost 1 AM and it looks like I'm gonna be sitting here listening to sad/bittersweet songs for a long while yet.thanks bro <3
Not even sure what sparked this sudden melancholy feeling. Oh well my sleep pattern wasn't going to survive the weekend anyway, I guess I'll start rebuilding it after that. Probably.
Get well soon, Shook!
I'm so tired of being alive.
I should probably post this in the sad thread, but people are discussing actual problems there right now.
Depends on whether it's depression or ennui, really. But that's a fine line, and indeed there is a fairly large degree of overlap.I'm so tired of being alive.
I should probably post this in the sad thread, but people are discussing actual problems there right now.
...
*hugs*
Also, that is an actual problem.
I let my Sims go without any intervention from me, just to see what happened. One of my them had a rough day, so they stayed up all night playing video games and watching TV until they passed out in the hall. Because they were so tired, they slept right through the carpool and ended up missing work. That's... a bit more real than I'm comfortable with.That's probably an allegory for divine guidance.
Guess who has now not slept in 24 hours and won't for a good 18 more?...
I tried to eat a gigantic box of tomatoes but passed out with six of them left uneaten. So this is what failure tastes like.O.o
You take that back.I tried to eat a gigantic box of tomatoes but passed out with six of them left uneaten. So this is what failure tastes like.Um. I was kinda just gonna complain about feeling super tired and generally crummy and possibly ask someone to come cook me breakfast whilst I convalesce, but a sad of that magnitude really blows mine out of the water. I mean, you must have been really starving to resort to eating something as gross as tomatoes! :-X
*Egan_BW vibrates in anger.You take that back.I tried to eat a gigantic box of tomatoes but passed out with six of them left uneaten. So this is what failure tastes like.Um. I was kinda just gonna complain about feeling super tired and generally crummy and possibly ask someone to come cook me breakfast whilst I convalesce, but a sad of that magnitude really blows mine out of the water. I mean, you must have been really starving to resort to eating something as gross as tomatoes! :-X
because I hate my own drawings.You know, the brain is a funny thing.
because I hate my own drawings.In other words, NEVER SAY THAT AGAIN. Try not to even think it. You are quite literally letting your brain program itself into a cycle of ruining something you like.
This!because I hate my own drawings.You know, the brain is a funny thing.
It's surprisingly easy to create false memories in someone, just casually talking about an event "they were definitely at, last year" four or five times. Even preferences can be changed without too much trouble.because I hate my own drawings.In other words, NEVER SAY THAT AGAIN. Try not to even think it. You are quite literally letting your brain program itself into a cycle of ruining something you like.
You want to listen to two different things at the same time?Bah, it's happening again.
Yeah, sometimes.
D'argh, Shakerag didn't get the right cakeday image. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=136990.msg6812689#msg6812689)We need a Cinder down there because her art is amazing :P
And there's only an hour left.
I probably should have caught up with friends or something before I leave for a month tomorrow, but I'm pretty bad at that stuff.Make amends when you come back! ;D I usually do that when I forget stuffs (and I forget many times .-.;) Make a note or letter or otherwise if it makes the situation better \o/
No doubt someone will be upset that I didn't tell them I was going on a trip. >.>
I'm assuming you've proofread it.Don't worry, I'm really anal about that. Sometimes I proofread my shitposts.
Seriously we have so many "things that made you X today" that nobody posts in, making more is basically a waste of time and server resources
You forgot to mention at what ppp setting that last pages line is, tawa.Ach! I'd say 10 pages at 20 topics. If I'd actually been drinking when I did this myself I'd have finished my glass.
We keep getting the internet connection here checked and the responses equal connectivity problems.
Today, connection problems equal 2 minutes connection then router resets while I'm loading pages for study! Only to reconnect, stall, then reset again.
I'll never get a day wherein internet is stable. Ever. :'(
Why were you watching dumb christian movies?
Man Christian movies manages more then ANYTHING ELSE make me ashamed of religion.Ayup. I have yet to see an explicitly Christian movie that isn't horrendously cringeworthy.
Yup...Man Christian movies manages more then ANYTHING ELSE make me ashamed of religion.Ayup. I have yet to see an explicitly Christian movie that isn't horrendously cringeworthy.
Man Christian movies manages more then ANYTHING ELSE make me ashamed of religion.Ayup. I have yet to see an explicitly Christian movie that isn't horrendously cringeworthy.
-snip-That certainly sounds like an instance of the genre that I actually would want to read. Well, that and some sort of hypothetical one wherein it just goes into more and more fine detail so it quickly just gets to talking about the hormones and neurotransmitters involved before eventually just talking about quantum chromodynamics :P
I suspect it's because people making these are so invested in the 'Christian' part they ignore the 'movie' part. Or, more cynically, that the crowd that reacts to a film being marketed as a Christian movie does, and will happily eat up a pile of crap if it has a tiny, usually misshapen cross stuck on top and call it a fine cake.Man Christian movies manages more then ANYTHING ELSE make me ashamed of religion.Ayup. I have yet to see an explicitly Christian movie that isn't horrendously cringeworthy.
wow i am a dumb person who did a dumb thing and i'm going to get dunked on very hard*hugs (platonically)*
This lecturer is really chewing on some basic vector stuff that he could be explaining a heck of a lot faster and boring less of the class for less time.Reminds me of my engineering teacher...
I've been looking through my post history. I've told myself I'll never end up sounding low-key and unfriendly, but my posts are exactly like that. I think I might need to stop posting until I can try to sound at least a little cheerful...Nooooo!
I believe that if someone actually feel goodwill and interest in others, it will show through text. I mean, look at Tiruin. It's like she injects her posts with condensed puppies.That's mostly expectations and content. Also emotes. Tiruin's posts are often full of nice things. Because the content's nice, it sounds nice. Then, we expect Tiruin's posts to sound nice, so they sound even nicer. It's like a feedback look of happiness.
I can't seem to acquire a taste for red wine. Or scotch.:(
Also stuff like paw paw, cucumber and various other fruits. At least I don't like olives, because olives are objectively disgusting.
At least I don't like olives, because olives are objectively disgusting.
I believe that if someone actually feel goodwill and interest in others, it will show through text. I mean, look at Tiruin. It's like she injects her posts with condensed puppies.
I'm just feeling lonely for some reason...And it's just sad.*
I failed to notice a cute girl sitting near me in the lunchroom was talking about Death Note with an acquaintance of mine until the conversation had progressed to a point where it would be awkward to join in."So how about that live-action series, eh?"Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I've been trying to draw a comic for about an hour.Did you try templating?
Any time I try to think of something funny, my comic ends up being about something that makes me angry, sad or frustrated instead.
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@Tiruin:*applies (platonic) hugs, tea (because tea.)*Hugs are implied to be platonic and non-creepy :P You don't need to add that bit in parentheses in context every hugtime.
*also applies tea*Thanks you two c: (and everyone else).
<Skyrim modding woes>
<Woeful woes>
I kind of wish I have at least a single thing about myself that I can be proud of without requiring vigorous mental gymnastics and denial.Humbleness.
Falls in the mental gymnastic category.I kind of wish I have at least a single thing about myself that I can be proud of without requiring vigorous mental gymnastics and denial.Humbleness.
Maybe you could say you're good at mental gymnastics?I don't smoke weed or do drugs.
Those make you less good at mental gymnastics though. I don't think there's any positive correlation between them.Maybe you could say you're good at mental gymnastics?I don't smoke weed or do drugs.
That was a judgmental and mean joke I just made.Those make you less good at mental gymnastics though. I don't think there's any positive correlation between them.Maybe you could say you're good at mental gymnastics?I don't smoke weed or do drugs.
I kind of wish I have at least a single thing about myself that I can be proud of without requiring vigorous mental gymnastics and denial.
I don't smoke weed or do drugs.Well there you go. That's something to be proud of :)
hmm. one i'm too tired to understand, then.That was a judgmental and mean joke I just made.Those make you less good at mental gymnastics though. I don't think there's any positive correlation between them.Maybe you could say you're good at mental gymnastics?I don't smoke weed or do drugs.
That was a judgmental and mean joke I just made.Denial does not apply when you consider it encompassing everything in mind.
And then there's the idea that once I'm back home I can try and muster up the motivation to improve myself/my life.Anxiety (or otherwise) doesn't mean it'll never become true. It makes it feel like it'll never become true. Subtly huge gap there ._.
If I think rationally it's clear that's just a pipe dream, but sometimes I fool myself into believing it might happen one day.
You haven't been doing the right drugs, then.Those make you less good at mental gymnastics though. I don't think there's any positive correlation between them.Maybe you could say you're good at mental gymnastics?I don't smoke weed or do drugs.
Ah, looking it up it appears that there isn't a direct correlation between the two test scores. Never mind! :vHow did you do on the other sections?Look in happy thread a couple pages back. :P
@Tawa: I'm don't think they did yet, but I wouldn't know. It was my first time.
Man I have Crippling Procrastination.I sympathise with you. I'm meant to be creating a UI for a program today and instead I've got an empty Windows form sitting here. It's not as though I hate the task, I just don't want to start doing it.
If not for not wanting to come off as narcissistic by posting over flabort, I'd post in the sad thread. So yeah.
Thanks.Now you've done it, TBF. :P Now hugs are named to be platonic. :O
....Wait wait what- those hugs weren't platonic?! o__o
/me is traumatised.
...On a more serious mildsads note, I had an exciting and probably really cool dream last night, with a decent amount of story, plot twists and action scenes[...]but by the time I woke up properly this morning, I couldn't remember enough to write down. :'(This is a good summary of my sads on my dreams, though it's more that 'I've sooooo much to write down and [goes into background design]...the next pages are blurry D:'
Relevant xkcd (https://xkcd.com/430/). You guys aren't alone in forgetting your dreams....On a more serious mildsads note, I had an exciting and probably really cool dream last night, with a decent amount of story, plot twists and action scenes[...]but by the time I woke up properly this morning, I couldn't remember enough to write down. :'(This is a good summary of my sads on my dreams, though it's more that 'I've sooooo much to write down and [goes into background design]...the next pages are blurry D:'
I don't like forgetting my dreams. :'( I'm excited to dream darn'it! :I
The sad thread isn't a competition, guys, you don't need to censor yourselves just because someone has it worse.Mild sad thread is more like "annoyance thread", which was pretty much the milder stuff that used to go in the rage thread (RIP).
@karhell:Aww, thanks.
@Cheesecake:...Then complain to the teacher about the person who did suggest it?
Well I ended another dnd game
But unlike all the previous ones I think for once it is better off that I ended it, for my sake at least. As opposed to either depression, crippling procrastination, or guilt forcing my hand.
>_< but I think it means I shouldn't run any anymore. It just never works out...
Nooooo! I'm sorry if my absence contributed to that, bro. :(
But for real, if you don't wanna do it anymore, that's cool. It was really fun while it lasted.
While I was heating up some canned ravioli my jaw locked up and I cut my hand on the can.
While I was heating up some canned ravioli my jaw locked up and I cut my hand on the can.Wrong thread.
While I was heating up some canned ravioli my jaw locked up and I cut my hand on the can.Wrong thread.
Putnam, what thread do I put it in then?While I was heating up some canned ravioli my jaw locked up and I cut my hand on the can.Wrong thread.
The regular sad thread.
I mean, I don't know about anybody else, but cutting my hand open on a can wouldn't make me mildly sad.
It'd make me regular sad.
It's probably temporary, but I'm feeling like life is kind of pointless and I will never amount to anything.'S maybe what you encountered rather than your brain doing all that :P Fun thing with conceptual knowledge--this happens to me daily!
WTF, brain? I'm doing useful things! You believing that I can't do useful things does not help!
You're not the only one that doesn't like killing bugs.Pacifists, unite!
I mean, you can usually find at least some bright in the dark. Example - Tiruin doesn't need to shred cheese before eating it with stuff currently.It's probably temporary, but I'm feeling like life is kind of pointless and I will never amount to anything.'S maybe what you encountered rather than your brain doing all that :P Fun thing with conceptual knowledge--this happens to me daily!
WTF, brain? I'm doing useful things! You believing that I can't do useful things does not help!
Then I got slapped in the face with hope.
But being very sad daily isn't nice .-. Gah me.
On a more pertinent to the thread note:
EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY (minus mom) is coughing D: I'm really suspecting it's not allergies (or maybe allergies + colds) but ERUGH. My throat already feels like a cheesegrater. :I
I hate using C and C++, they are the most frustratingly tedious and obtuse languages I have ever attempted to learn. Yes yes low-level applications, memory efficiency, etc. but it's still really dull and sucks the joy out of creating a thing on your computer.Isn't that the one where even the simplest thing in the world looks like (((((%#@$&!*T$&*#H(@))$W&I__++0)))))
However, the knowledge that I will never be a "real" programmer without at least being okay at C saddens me in an existential way. I would like to be good at C++, but hell if I know how that is going to happen.
Also, check for that mold again. I know you've had mold problems in the past. Fungi are not good for your lungs.
Also, check for that mold again. I know you've had mold problems in the past. Fungi are not good for your lungs.
@tiruin: Probably should have a professional (as in someone who knows what to look for, how to look for it, and where) investigate whether you have a mold problem.
Its always the jpn release date first, unless the company is not infact, from japan. Or they copy pokemon and stick to a single release date.
You'd be better off describing bad animes :)Or pointing out redundancies.
T R I G G E R E DYou'd be better off describing bad animes :)Or pointing out redundancies.
/me drops the mic and struts off stage.
We should have a weird sad memory trigger contest.For me, ELO and blu-tack.
Forgot my lunch money at home today. Usually I'm able to "pay" for it anyway by singing a little slip and I have to bring in the money whenever, but I did that a few days ago and you can only have one at a time.You able to ask your friends for money to buy food there (then pay them back later), or ask them to treat you? :O That's what I do whenever I forget money at home (and that happens a lot thanks to my silly selective memory x_x).
And I can't have anyone drive the money over because I only realized a few minutes ago, lunch starts fairly soon, it takes a while to get to my school and nobody I live with has the time.
The fact that I'm already kind of hungry from a meager breakfast and it'll be six hours before I get anything proper to eat isn't helping either.
Forgot my lunch money at home today. Usually I'm able to "pay" for it anyway by singing a little slip and I have to bring in the money whenever, but I did that a few days ago and you can only have one at a time.Beat up a nerd and take theirs?
And I can't have anyone drive the money over because I only realized a few minutes ago, lunch starts fairly soon, it takes a while to get to my school and nobody I live with has the time.
The fact that I'm already kind of hungry from a meager breakfast and it'll be six hours before I get anything proper to eat isn't helping either.
Jeezums, my laptop battery has suddenly decided to take a nosedive in terms of capacity. It goes from 100% to 9% in about 20 minutes, possibly less. It's not even that old a battery. :C:'C
Eh, not worried about the HDD contents, i have the important stuff on dorpbox (and besides, it can be pulled out and connected to a different computer if necessary). Also, according to BatteryCare (http://batterycare.net), the battery has lost 85.29% of its capacity due to wear. THAT'S AN AWFUL LOT. Apparently i've inadvertently also been doing the wrong things re: (dis)charging, so i hope the next battery will last longer. :vLaptop batteries slowly die and then and then stop working entirely at best 3 years after you got it in my experience if you use the laptop a lot.
Did you leave your laptop charging when not in use (as in even if it may reach 100% like overnight)? I've heard that diminishes the lifespan of the battery and may lead to situations like the above...and that's how I lost my first battery .-.Jeezums, my laptop battery has suddenly decided to take a nosedive in terms of capacity. It goes from 100% to 9% in about 20 minutes, possibly less. It's not even that old a battery. :C:'C
Back up your laptop.
Good news, I took Tiruin's advice retroactively without knowing it was suggested and mooched money from my friends!That also means you told them you'll pay them back...right? :P
Did you leave your laptop charging when not in use (as in even if it may reach 100% like overnight)? I've heard that diminishes the lifespan of the battery and may lead to situations like the above...and that's how I lost my first battery .-.Rarely, i usually unplug it even if it's not fully charged. According to that BatteryCare site though, i've been doing terrible things by letting the battery drain to 10% (or less) before charging it fully again. :v (apparently having the battery at 100% also wears down the capacity, so recharging it fully before going to bed might also have contributed)
I failed to notice a cute girl sitting near me in the lunchroom was talking about Death Note with an acquaintance of mine until the conversation had progressed to a point where it would be awkward to join in.Follow-up: argh, now I've got a crush on Aforementioned Death Note Fan. Who I've never spoken to. I have yet to work up the nerve to talk to her.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Mention it to her?But that just plays out so awkwardly in my head
:vI know that feel bro, it's such a nice multi-functional smiley. :v (though i occasionally also substitute it with :U)
:v
I use that a lot, don't I? It just works in so many places.
Actually in my, admittedly limited, experience that often works fairly well.Mention it to her?I mean, could you imagine if some guy you see around sometimes but haven't spoken to just suddenly started up a conversation over something you're into? "Hi, I'm [X]! I heard you like [Y]!"
Ditto with the caveat that limited == pretty much none.Actually in my, admittedly limited, experience that often works fairly well.Mention it to her?I mean, could you imagine if some guy you see around sometimes but haven't spoken to just suddenly started up a conversation over something you're into? "Hi, I'm [X]! I heard you like [Y]!"
I'll just wait for the right time. An opportunity will arise someday, I'm sure.This never works. Strike while the iron is hot and all that, sure, but the iron ain't gonna hot up all by itself. Which in this metaphor means you need to strike her after putting her in a forge.
"Don't strike the iron while it's hot, but make it hot by striking." ~Mona LisaFTFY
The usual; my back hurts, I'm lonely, I'm exhausted and I have to work when I would rather be reading this book about natural language processing.Have you tried making your work into things that involve reading books about natural language processing?
You'd think that having the same four basic complains for so long would make me more resilient to them.
I feel better than I did yesterday, but I'm still kind of annoyed, becauseGood luck, and good luck.
A. I have a test coming up
and
B. I can't find a Space JamxMuppets Remix, and It makes me sad, bc I need to make this a thing.
Blood still in my cough everytime I wake up these past few days, or a couple days ago./me somehow make you chicken broth and tuck you in through textual medium.
Pretty much due to the force of my coughing. X_X
Curse thee, allergies.
Yoink:Tell ussssss.Just some drunk guy passed out belly-up on the footpath opposite the train station, with his shirt riding up to expose a huge gut to the world. I was watching with some amusement as the occasional passerby stepped around this unsightly obstacle, until eventually a jogger came along and stopped to crouch down and check on the guy.
Supposed to make a review of a ~200 page book. 4 pages in, still on the first chapter. Ask around. Thing is supposed to have between 5 and 10 pages. Fuck my life.
EDIT: This is made worse by the fact that I can usually bullshit my way through these assignments to actually high grades with ease, yet I somehow decided to be an idiot with this one.
The incentive would be learning, except the teacher that gave the assignment is a total asshole who thinks his is the only subject one must study for.Supposed to make a review of a ~200 page book. 4 pages in, still on the first chapter. Ask around. Thing is supposed to have between 5 and 10 pages. Fuck my life.
EDIT: This is made worse by the fact that I can usually bullshit my way through these assignments to actually high grades with ease, yet I somehow decided to be an idiot with this one.
Ah, I see the incentive with these things is still to become better at making up bullshit, rather than for someone to actually enjoy and understand a good book.
At least literary education is consistently rubbish then. That will be my mild sad for this post then. The institutionalized extinction of any interest in reading.
Who the hell likes string beans
does it count as a 'crush'Probably. That happens to me as well. Better than crushing on anime characters, at least.
Welcome to my life.Been there for a while i'm afraid, can't say i enjoy it. :v
Wouldn't worry too much about the language for games.NONSENSE, if they start out with dorfing then no game will ever seem insurmountable again! But anyways, it's not so much that i'm worried about them figuring it out as it's me knowing that they prefer to have it served on a silver platter, and me not really caring to do so. Especially the younger kid prefers to ask other people to complete levels for him when it gets a bit challenging, which makes me think all like DUDE WHAT IS THE POINT OF THAT. It's not like games get EASIER after the first level, at least not well designed ones. Supposedly the older kid knows some English now though, which opens some doors, but again, they're not yet very capable gamers at all. That, and both their mom and grandma are waaaaaaaaaaaay concerned about them playing violent games (well, their mom seems to have eased up a little bit), so it'll probably be a while before i can tell them to go play XCOM 2 and/or reasonably play multiplayer with them in some other game without having to drag them along. :v
Me and my sister grew up on English commodore 64 games, had plenty of fun and I think we both learned the majority of our English from them (and later PC games).
A lot of these older games didn't even have a tutorial to begin with, and there's something to be said for letting them figure stuff out for themselves.
That said you will probably want to start with something lighter than Dwarf Fortress.
I would, because I have a car, and that'd take like five minutes.See funny thing is I planned to drive over to her house since that'd make the whole thing take about 5 minutes total. But when I got home from work the car was gone, since evidently my mom went out for a night on the town without telling me she'd be doing so. I don't think I even paused my thought process before I was thinking 'well, gotta walk it then'.
Mutual friend forgot to strike up a conversation, will remind her and try again tomorrow :cSo that thing I posted about in the sad thread (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=155527.msg6881385#msg688138) turned out reasonably well today. I still couldn't work up the nerve to talk to her (gah, I'm -really shy,) but I did get a much less shy mutual friend to introduce me to her next time we're all in the same place together. :DAAAAAA I'M NOT READY
*patpatpat*Mutual friend forgot to strike up a conversation, will remind her and try again tomorrow :cSo that thing I posted about in the sad thread (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=155527.msg6881385#msg688138) turned out reasonably well today. I still couldn't work up the nerve to talk to her (gah, I'm -really shy,) but I did get a much less shy mutual friend to introduce me to her next time we're all in the same place together. :DAAAAAA I'M NOT READY
I had a dream that emotional maturation and advancing a relationship could be bought with microtransactions and premium currency, like a mobile game. There was a sidebar that you could click on your facebook or in a text message and it would bring up a list of possible replies, with the most emotionally intelligent ones costing the most gems.That is genuinely amazing
The front cover of the book I'm reading received a little bit of damage last time I took it on the train in my backpack.I mildly dislike it when that happens.
It's a shame, since it's quite a pretty cover design with nice artwork. It's not too bad, just a bit of a split on one edge, but still.
"Wait until Age 18 or buy Driver's Licence now for $10 000!"I had a dream that emotional maturation and advancing a relationship could be bought with microtransactions and premium currency, like a mobile game. There was a sidebar that you could click on your facebook or in a text message and it would bring up a list of possible replies, with the most emotionally intelligent ones costing the most gems.That is genuinely amazing
Urrgghh... I am being horribly overfed on this visit. Now they even want to pack me a lunch for my train ride tomorrow, for crying out loud!They insisted that I make and pack it myself, too. >.>
I shall need to fast for a long while once I'm back home.
Anyone want to share these curried egg sandwiches?Yes. I think I'm in the wrong country though.
I don't want to click that link and have whatever song it is influencing my Youtube suggestions... could you post an image?Dude, c'mon. It's free food. That's not really very sad.
There's a velvet coat I saw sometime last year (or the year before?) that I really wanted, which turned out to cost $850, if memory serves.
Quite a shock, yet I managed to keep a straight face and act like I was giving it some serious consideration.Urrgghh... I am being horribly overfed on this visit. Now they even want to pack me a lunch for my train ride tomorrow, for crying out loud!They insisted that I make and pack it myself, too. >.>
I shall need to fast for a long while once I'm back home.
Anyone want to share these curried egg sandwiches?
I was going to try starting a new Daggerfall LP, this time as videos with voice commentary, but I had to use my phone as a mic and it seems to be able to hear my birds on the other side of the house.Dude, birdsong is nice.
So unless people felt like listening to me talk with the sound of birds occasionally chirping in the background in an extremely repetitive fasion that'll probably never happen.
I'd be concerned more with the ape you call your brother rather than an intelligent avian that make funny noises, anyways.Excuse me, he's a gorilla.
I just sneezed. Thanks to involuntary movements, I snapped a small, barely noticeable crack into a completely unimportant part of my drawing tablet.:(
Only if they are tea-flavored.Looked it up, they don't exist :(
I sense an opening in the market, just waiting to be filled... who wants to go into business with me?- Quote from Whore of Wall Street
Sign idea: "Please do not thank in our shop. Fuck you."FIFY
I think it's kinda funny, too. Kinda. A little bit.Sign idea: "Please do not thank in our shop. Fuck you."FIFY
For some reason I think this is funny. Ignore me.
The bane of all existence
You forgot the emphasis.THE BANE OF ALL EXISTENCEFIFY
FTFYYOU FORGOT THE EMPHASIS.THE BANE OF ALL EXISTENCEFIFY
Normal essays I can handle. An essay on the role of morality in historiography? Kill me now.That actually sounds interesting though
STOP EMPHASISING THINGS YOU DORKSFTFY
That actually sounds interesting thoughI retract my previous statement. Kill you now. :P
Nah, the study of the study of history, or the theory and methodology of historiography can be actually pretty interesting. That said, it is really easy for a teacher to make it as boring as it gets. Fortunately, I studied this with a teacher who is somewhat renowned in this area (even though her specialization was in the area of Imperial Brazil). The university's servers are overloaded, so I can't check if she has a post-doctorate or "just" a doctorate.That actually sounds interesting thoughI retract my previous statement. Kill you now. :P
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Uhh, it's just long and boring. The study of the study of history is a boring topic for me, anyway.
Welp, power went out. Thank god I have a laptop with a functioning batteryAre you like tethered to your phone or something then? I mean if the power went out than generally that means that your router isn't getting power either, so nothing to connect to the internet through. :P
Are you like tethered to your phone or something then? I mean if the power went out than generally that means that your router isn't getting power either, so nothing to connect to the internet through. :PDialup
The vast majority of dialup modems still have to plug into some sort of power source (usually the wall), same as any other modem or router. :PAre you like tethered to your phone or something then? I mean if the power went out than generally that means that your router isn't getting power either, so nothing to connect to the internet through. :PDialup
I was about to take advantage of being awake so early (due to not sleeping) and go buy some still-warm pizza rolls from the store, but then I realised it is raining. Not too heavy, but heavy enough that I would be pretty wet if I walked to the shops in it. :-\I'm sure I'm too late, but do you have any large garbage bags? Cut a hole in the bottom, then wear it as a poncho.
Since I lack any easy way of getting dry once I return (the heater's in the lounge room, and someone is still sleeping in there), I guess I won't go.
I need something to write.What kind of writing are we talking about?
fictionWhat kind of game then?
preferably a game script, actually, i'm like a thousand times better at programming than writing
The story of an angsty teen who goes through everyday life and gradually realises that anime isn't real.
fictionWhat kind of game then?
preferably a game script, actually, i'm like a thousand times better at programming than writing
You don't own an umbrella?
Someone get this man an umbrella.
I'm sure I'm too late, but do you have any large garbage bags? Cut a hole in the bottom, then wear it as a poncho.
"Not a dating sim" isn't exactly specific :PThe story of an angsty teen who goes through everyday life and gradually realises that anime isn't real.
believe it or not that is a really goddamn good idea for a dating sim or similar
my reasoning: anime is probably the single worst thing to get ideas about other human beings from, especially as a teenager. Learning anime isn't real relates to the struggle to get a social identity that doesn't completely put people off, which becomes much harder when your ideas of how women act involve the word "onii-chan"fictionWhat kind of game then?
preferably a game script, actually, i'm like a thousand times better at programming than writing
probably not a dating sim or similar, since those are more write-heavy than gameplay-heavy and i'm waaay more confident in my ability to program game systems than my ability to write stuff
I hate the stupid arbitrary restrictions that professors place on what counts as "research". Statements by Brian Kernigan, author of The C Programming Language and creator of two other languages? Nope, it doesn't count as research, because it was on YouTube and not on a stupid archaic paper medium, or even better, behind a paywall on a university database.
Graknorke was banned and this makes me sad.
I don't know what it was for and I hardly knew him but he seemed like a cool guy.
Got my OSVR Dev Kit in the mail. Set the VR Headset up, was really excited to mess with it, etc.
Unfortunately, it makes me pretty nauseous, doesn't fit my big head, the adjustable diopter doesn't cover my prescription, the only lense position that fits my glasses is also the strongest vision correction setting (it and my glasses have a combined total vision correction of +9 which is really bad for my eyes) and by and large I can't use it.
Thinking about returning it, and just saving up for the HTC Vive. Worst comes to worst, I can just use OSVR software for developing. I just really wanted to support the project; I love what Sensics are doing creating a common standard for VR Hardware and Software, before everyone makes a bunch of proprietary connectors and software markets and crap.
Ah, well.
doesn't fit my big head
Salutations, fellow huge head citizen(s)! I hope that all these VR head gears have an adjustable circumference, because the Oculus Rift i tried was kind of tight. :vdoesn't fit my big head
Oh, dang. Didn't even consider that. My head is frigging huge.
Even though it's trendy to be a #nerd #gamer and post memes from I Fucking Love Science, I'm starting to suspect that geeks and dorks like me will always be the outcasts that are shunned even by other outcasts.Them's not proper outcasts then, the actual outcasts (well, at least the ones that aren't misanthropic and/or asocial) typically enjoy finding like-minded individuals to geek out with. :v (and if anyone's thinking of getting riled up about "fake outcast vs real outcast", don't bother)
Got my OSVR Dev Kit in the mail. Set the VR Headset up, was really excited to mess with it, etc.
Unfortunately, it makes me pretty nauseous, doesn't fit my big head, the adjustable diopter doesn't cover my prescription, the only lense position that fits my glasses is also the strongest vision correction setting (it and my glasses have a combined total vision correction of +9 which is really bad for my eyes) and by and large I can't use it.
Thinking about returning it, and just saving up for the HTC Vive. Worst comes to worst, I can just use OSVR software for developing. I just really wanted to support the project; I love what Sensics are doing creating a common standard for VR Hardware and Software, before everyone makes a bunch of proprietary connectors and software markets and crap.
Ah, well.
Awww, man, that really sucks.
I guess contacts aren't an option?
Yeah, not really. I've got some bad juju going on in my right optic nerve, and physical pressure on that eye is really bad news. I could maybe get good enough to avoid the problem when putting them in... but I have a hard time with the whole Put Things In Your Eye thing too. Especially given the infections and eye injuries that can result. Ewwwww.
Gonna try the VR gear again I think. See if I can handle the stuff. If not... Theres always Google Cardboard!
Happier-looking avatar acquired.I used to have many megabytes of Cirno fanart but it has sadly been lost to time
Bad movie.Mouse over any dotted text you see while browsing.
I don't see dotted text because I use Chrome :\The abbr tag is not well-supported...
Chromium :\
Wh... why did you...?Chrome :\
It's normally just a process that waits for keyboard input at the OS level (as opposed to window level) and chucks it in a file.Pretty much, just sit there reading the input buffer, and whenever something new pops up they log it into a file. Then once a week or so they connect to the internet (often at a time when you won't be using your computer so you don't notice the slowdown, such as 4 am) and upload the file to whatever server they are sending all the stolen data to.
Jesus, I've become the exact kind of college age, nonspecifically anti-system, all-talk-no-walk wannabe anarchist anti-corporate-yet-still-hopelessly-consumerist neo-hippie fucktard that I used to make fun of.It's called becoming a student. Embrace your hipsterism, buy a nice hat, enjoy the ride.
I still find it weird that fracking is a contentious issue. S'like, there's millions and millions of dollars' worth of dino juice just sitting there, and you're going to ignore it over some unsubstantiated claims about the environment? Why.Because environment?
Is it all that poisonous, though?
The better argument would be a climate change one, I think.
I still find it weird that fracking is a contentious issue. S'like, there's millions and millions of dollars' worth of dino juice just sitting there, and you're going to ignore it over some unsubstantiated claims about the environment? Why.Because in at least some places where its done people end up with sludge coming out of their facets.
That's their own fault for living in oil feildsI still find it weird that fracking is a contentious issue. S'like, there's millions and millions of dollars' worth of dino juice just sitting there, and you're going to ignore it over some unsubstantiated claims about the environment? Why.Because in at least some places where its done people end up with sludge coming out of their facets.
people end up with sludge coming out of their facets.Was that a misspelling of 'faucets' or 'faces'?
I'm glad someone other than me stepped into correct him.I still find it weird that fracking is a contentious issue. S'like, there's millions and millions of dollars' worth of dino juice just sitting there, and you're going to ignore it over some unsubstantiated claims about the environment? Why.Because environment?
Okay, serious answer. Fracking fluid either stays in the ground (poisoning groundwater) or evaporates (poisoning the air).
I still find it weird that fracking is a contentious issue. S'like, there's millions and millions of dollars' worth of dino juice just sitting there, and you're going to ignore it over some unsubstantiated claims about the environment? Why.Because environment?
Okay, serious answer. Fracking fluid either stays in the ground (poisoning groundwater) or evaporates (poisoning the air).
Current Mildsads...I...think that's a big factor to it y'know. Even if you may not personally feel it--those personality characteristics do affect interaction, thus subconsciously influencing the things around you along with the feelings of camaraderie with other folks and stuff along social connections/bonds :O
I'm glad someone other than me stepped into correct him.I really need to step up my satire game
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only sane one around here. :P
I'm glad someone other than me stepped into correct him.I really need to step up my satire game
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only sane one around here. :P
If that money was invested in something like reducing the cost of manufacturing Infrared Rectifying Antennas, we could be powering everything that extracted fuel would have with 100%-efficiency solar capture that works night and day... and which rather than being consumed would lasts as long as the Sun does. But that's long-term thinking, and represents another discussion probably.You've sort of skimmed over the vast majority of problems with said antennae :P, such as:
An unsuccessful one, though. People only oooh'd and aaaah'd about the 3D effects.And Stephen Lang. Dude was the best part of that movie.
https://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/720735039873359872...
;_;
lmao does anyone else get irrationally upset when people cancel plans due to what a magic 8-ball said literally almost 5 minutes before you would've left, and then once a few minutes later say that its actually okay but you cant do it now because you already said to your ride that it was canceled because i do lolThat sounds infuriating, yes.
I still want a Hatebomb shirt. Or maybe a patch, that'd be pretty cool.
I forgot how badly they fucked up the world building in this season. Good god they really did though.An unsuccessful one, though. People only oooh'd and aaaah'd about the 3D effects.I'm rewatching Game of Thrones in preparation for season 6 coming out, and I've reached season 5.
Oh god it's so cringey why
AFAIK, cannot Wifi from this half of this convention center.
It's 4/20 today, which means every basic person who's never done anything remotely risky in their lives is suddenly very into vaping and da dank ganja 420 mon. It's like how everybody is expected to become ultra-nationalistic on the 4th of July, but somehow even more tiresome.
slither.io seems to be unplayable on Australian Internet. :'(FTFY.
I don't know, a lot of offline things are unplayable on my laptop.slither.io seems to be unplayable on Australian Internet. :'(FTFY.
I honestly don't know who Prince was.
Fine, I'll do that speedtest thing and get back to you.
In other Mildsads: apparently that pop singer named 'Prince' died and I want to respond with a semi-sarcastic "Who?" but I worry that too many of my acquaintances would be horribly offended. Alas.
He could play over 100 instrumentsBut could he play them well?
According to this (http://i.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/68698993/nzs-internet-speeds-arent-that-bad) New Zealand's Internet speeds are much better than Australia's are.That's mainly because New Zealand's internet is obscenely expensive.
yesOh
That's mainly because New Zealand's internet is obscenely expensive.something something state monopoly something something
We pay $140 a month for 25GB that if we're lucky run at 500kB/s. It's mainly because I live in the middle of bumfuck nowhere but still.According to this (http://i.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/68698993/nzs-internet-speeds-arent-that-bad) New Zealand's Internet speeds are much better than Australia's are.That's mainly because New Zealand's internet is obscenely expensive.
Eh, as you say, if you're going to withdraw from it anyways, there's not much sense in attending the classes (i mean, unless you enjoy it or REALLY have to). I personally only felt bad about skipping classes (at uni, mind you) because i knew i had to have an explanation ready for mom, which is silly because the majority of the classes at (Danish) uni aren't actually mandatory. It's generally only lab class that's pretty much always mandatory, otherwise it's just "we're here if you need it (which you often do), just don't fuck up on the turn-in's or exams". Suffice to say, if you DO fuck up on those due to too much absence, it's probably your own fault. :v
50+ peopleHow the hell do you even teach that many
Lectures.50+ peopleHow the hell do you even teach that many
50+ peopleHow the hell do you even teach that many
I just realized I may have a bit of a want to feel powerful, because I just put on power armor in Fallout 4 and it's the best thing I've ever seen. Never taking this stuff off unless I have to or get something better.Wrong thread, or am I missing something here? ???
I absolutely hate power, and especially when it's in my hands.Power's great. You can do lots of cool things with power. You can also abuse the shit out of it, but that's dependent on the individual and not a property of power in and of itself.
By cramming them all (all ~60 of them) into a classroom and poor ventilation and teaching the poor fools. At least, that was how the American History I class was for me. Learnin' about incan economy while trying to not to succumb to the heat.50+ peopleHow the hell do you even teach that many
According to an excellent TV show I watched a while ago, the poor ventilation and uncomfortable warmth is intentional, to keep students attentive. :DUncomfortable? We're talking 40+°C here.
The name 'Windscreen Viper' is too good not to use, but at the same time I'm pretty sure I didn't come up with that on my own. And I'm completely used to going by Arx or a variant. :-\Use it as personal text then.
Time for an extremely trivial sad:Sounds like a perfect name for Slither.io
The name 'Windscreen Viper' is too good not to use, but at the same time I'm pretty sure I didn't come up with that on my own. And I'm completely used to going by Arx or a variant. :-\
Well...how do you know they hate you? Is there a chance you're mistaken?Yeah. That's a thing.
I just refuse to go to church or pray or do any of those religious things people do.Congrats, you're irreligious, just like a few hundred million other people
A few million gigabytes per second, if I recall correctly. Unfortunately it only works once, then you have to wait.So you're saying we would need a female computer instead?
I've just realised I'm running out of reasons to not run/exercise regularly.This has been one of my priorities for basically ever but I never do it. RIP.
I just spent three or four hours differentiating. I never want to see another equation again, but alas.
Like literally every paper of import is formatted. 11-point Calibri? Seriously? Why? WHYYYYYBecause that's MS Word's default as of... 2007? and people can't be arsed to change it. Me included.
Really? OpenOffice is the one that's always recommended to me.Openoffice is outdated, unless someone else revived it. Libreoffice is the way to go.
In other news, I honestly don't care much, but I can't seem to find a prom date and the ticket deadline is Wednesday.You could take the butler. :P
Ha...In other news, I honestly don't care much, but I can't seem to find a prom date and the ticket deadline is Wednesday.You could take the butler. :P
I just spent three or four hours differentiating. I never want to see another equation again, but alas.
Wait till you see integration! U-substitution! Reimann sums! All of this and more!
Ehh, I honestly wouldn't bother if you don't already have anybody to ask out. You have better things to do with your prom night, anyway. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kofeJ_skqxE)Ha...In other news, I honestly don't care much, but I can't seem to find a prom date and the ticket deadline is Wednesday.You could take the butler. :P
Wanting to discuss many interesting topics that come up on this forum, but by the time I see them everybody has already moved past them :I
Teeny sads!~
You could always just post your discussion anyway, maybe you'll bring it back up for the other people who missed it! I'd say within the last two pages would be fine (or the equivalent at lower PPP)Yeah, there's nothing wrong with doing that. I'm doing it now!
I finished the game I was playing yesterday so now I'm unreasonably sad.What game was this?
I really like playing games and watching shows, but I apparently get deeply emotionally invested in media at the drop of a hat so the roller coaster of post-story depression gets pretty exhausting.
The fact that I have to micromanage my game-playing time/methods due to intense physical pain from my post-RSI if I'm not careful and strict with myself just adds another layer to the mess. Can't just jump into the next thing yet because I pushed myself too hard getting through the last game's finale. :/
What game was this?Doesn't really matter, but it was Fire Emblem: Awakening. The story wasn't even particularly great, I just got really invested in all 40+ stupid characters and how their little lives would turn out.
Oh, yeah, it will most likely wreak emotional havoc. But, I can't recommend it enough, still.What game was this?Doesn't really matter, but it was Fire Emblem: Awakening. The story wasn't even particularly great, I just got really invested in all 40+ stupid characters and how their little lives would turn out.
My sister bought me Undertale and I've been interested in it for ages, but I'm still legitimately afraid to play it because I am absolutely confident it will destroy me. ): Physically as well as emotionally, at this point.
Eg, Undertale is an absolutely excellent game, I can't deny that. But I'd like to say that it lacked any emotional impact for me. You should still play it though, if only to get an idea of the direction in which game narratives should hopefully be going.Oh, yeah, it will most likely wreak emotional havoc. But, I can't recommend it enough, still.What game was this?Doesn't really matter, but it was Fire Emblem: Awakening. The story wasn't even particularly great, I just got really invested in all 40+ stupid characters and how their little lives would turn out.
My sister bought me Undertale and I've been interested in it for ages, but I'm still legitimately afraid to play it because I am absolutely confident it will destroy me. ): Physically as well as emotionally, at this point.
I like Undertale, but I wouldn't want every game narrative to be in the style of Undertale, in the same way I wouldn't want every game to be in the style of System Shock 2 or Deus Ex. They're great games for what they are, but asking for more to be like them in the hopes of more creativity is like trying to create a jet engine by reinventing the wheel.Um, I'm not sure that analogy worked all that well... but yeah, it seems strange to want the plot of every game to be like this one game you liked.
I like Undertale, but I wouldn't want every game narrative to be in the style of Undertale, in the same way I wouldn't want every game to be in the style of System Shock 2 or Deus Ex. They're great games for what they are, but asking for more to be like them in the hopes of more creativity is like trying to create a jet engine by reinventing the wheel.Yeah, fair enough. What I would like though, is if more games looked at Undertale and the ways in which it told its story and drew elements from it. Asking every game to be Undertale is ridiculous and would lead to boring games.
Considering what they said though, it seems like it would. I got emotional impact, and if they are easily emotionally susceptible (much like me) they'll probably get somewhat emotional.Eg, Undertale is an absolutely excellent game, I can't deny that. But I'd like to say that it lacked any emotional impact for me. You should still play it though, if only to get an idea of the direction in which game narratives should hopefully be going.Oh, yeah, it will most likely wreak emotional havoc. But, I can't recommend it enough, still.What game was this?Doesn't really matter, but it was Fire Emblem: Awakening. The story wasn't even particularly great, I just got really invested in all 40+ stupid characters and how their little lives would turn out.
My sister bought me Undertale and I've been interested in it for ages, but I'm still legitimately afraid to play it because I am absolutely confident it will destroy me. ): Physically as well as emotionally, at this point.
I like Undertale, but I wouldn't want every game narrative to be in the style of Undertale, in the same way I wouldn't want every game to be in the style of System Shock 2 or Deus Ex. They're great games for what they are, but asking for more to be like them in the hopes of more creativity is like trying to create a jet engine by reinventing the wheel.This is true.
I like Undertale, but I wouldn't want every game narrative to be in the style of Undertale, in the same way I wouldn't want every game to be in the style of System Shock 2 or Deus Ex. They're great games for what they are, but asking for more to be like them in the hopes of more creativity is like trying to create a jet engine by reinventing the wheel.Definitely. I hate it when games (heck, any form of media) claim to be like "[Popular Media] but better!" It's never better, it always just comes across as a cash-in with no creativity behind it.
@Yoink:Well, no, you don't need to unless you want to...P E E R P R E S S U R E
My fly was undone for most of the day.Sometimes people notice and tell you, which is nice
I read waaaaaay to fast for my own good :'(How is this a problem?
So much humblebragging
I can't accomplish anything because my art is shit = bragging?"I'm a fast reader, woe is me"
In other WTF: why do I always seem to be the one that ends up buying the toilet paper around here? I'm certainly not the only one who uses it. Cheap bastards are taking advantage of the fact that I like to poop semi-daily.This situation is still ongoing.
Well, not this time. I emptied my bowels with the last of the TP, now I'm gonna wait 'em out. I'll go hungry for days if need be. If these useless shitbags don't buy some by the time I crack, I'll just have to start maintaining my own supply of loo rolls in my room.
The housemate with the separate upstairs bathroom helped out a bit by supplying a few toilet rolls to those of us downstairs, but somehow the idea of buying TP has occurred to absolutely none of them. It's quite bizarre, really. I am still holding out in my determination not to buy this lot of toilet paper... it's becoming difficult, though.Buy toilet paper for yourself. Keep the rolls hidden, take one with you when you go to the bathroom, and take it back when you leave.
if you just want a quick fuck, it's attitude and a certain sluttiness*.And as we all know, Helgo is the biggest man-whore there is.
*This refers to both genders.
I think it stems from the prodigious amounts of alcohol consumed by both.That does indeed help: You get wasted together, go to the one bar in town that's open until 05:00, due to the loud music you need to stick your heads close together... The rest just sort of happens.
*This refers to both genders.Yeah except no matter what I'm going to be a gross dude in the eye of dudes.
Yeah except no matter what I'm going to be a gross dude in the eye of dudes.Okay, so. This will be kinda harsh, and I'm about 40% sure you would have heard this before. You really need to stop assuming everyone else thinks you're ugly/unattractive/whatever. If you think you're unattractive, so be it, that's a separate issue.
It's not that. It's that most people are heterosexual, and I suck at not looking like a man.Yeah except no matter what I'm going to be a gross dude in the eye of dudes.Okay, so. This will be kinda harsh, and I'm about 40% sure you would have heard this before. You really need to stop assuming everyone else thinks you're ugly/unattractive/whatever. If you think you're unattractive, so be it, that's a separate issue.
I can say that a good 98% of people will not think you're ugly, and those that do have unrealistically high expectations. Your appearance is fine. Seriously. If you keep going on about about how everything thinks you're ugly then people will think you're fishing for compliments.
People who are heterosexual are heterosexual. They are into the opposite gender, looking like said gender is secondary.It's not that. It's that most people are heterosexual, and I suck at not looking like a man.Yeah except no matter what I'm going to be a gross dude in the eye of dudes.Okay, so. This will be kinda harsh, and I'm about 40% sure you would have heard this before. You really need to stop assuming everyone else thinks you're ugly/unattractive/whatever. If you think you're unattractive, so be it, that's a separate issue.
I can say that a good 98% of people will not think you're ugly, and those that do have unrealistically high expectations. Your appearance is fine. Seriously. If you keep going on about about how everything thinks you're ugly then people will think you're fishing for compliments.
Although, now that I think about it, most people hate my guts from the moment I say hi anyway. Or they ignore me. That's my prefered response, actually. Saves me the effort of having a conversation with someone.
Well than I seem to have the type of personality that pisses people off on contact then, or I'm misinterpreting things (again). Either way, I'm not very good at making friends. Or talking to people. Or doing anything social not based off of doing stuff. Even then I suck at being social.
Aye.Well than I seem to have the type of personality that pisses people off on contact then, or I'm misinterpreting things (again). Either way, I'm not very good at making friends. Or talking to people. Or doing anything social not based off of doing stuff. Even then I suck at being social.
You're being social right now, and you're doing fine. 9/10 you're misinterpreting. Unless they literally scream at your face, or cut you off mid-sentence, or straight up ignore you (but this one might just be they didn't notice, i.e looking at their phone, busy with homework, etc.)
Why do you think your personality pisses people off?
Oh, and did I mention that I'm apparently self-deprecating?
I'm incredibly arrogant
I'm apparently self-deprecating?Pick one ffs
I'm saving my dollars to eat as many $5 burritos as possible tomorrow.
Man, there's a lot of heavysads misfiled into the mildsad thread.*koffkoffXankoffkoff*
Heh, I suppose that could probably qualify as a main sad thread post, huh? I put it here because I'm not feeling it that strongly yet and it's more a 'ah dangit this again? I just got rid of it' feeling.Man, there's a lot of heavysads misfiled into the mildsad thread.*koffkoffXankoffkoff*
Also, @Xan:I hope it works out, one way or the other. You should tell them, though.
Well, there's not much to it- an Australian chain of Mexican restaurants has a $5 burritos special each year for Cinco de Mayo (5th of May), which is a somewhat important date in Mexican history where a bunch of Mexican soldiers woke up from their siestas long enough to somehow beat a much larger force of French invaders, which was understandably a source of much national pride.I'm saving my dollars to eat as many $5 burritos as possible tomorrow.
I'd like to know this story.
Unity's default chromatic aberration filter effect thingy doesn't look right. It's either virtually unnoticeable, or OVER NINE THOUSAAAAND.
I think I'm going to do my best to avoid the fandoms of things I like. Searching up what some people think about some of the music I like and seeing them shot all over it and start to ruin my enjoyment of it pisses me off.This is a good idea. Sometimes fandoms can be a place for breeding resentment, as often as they are places for breeding joy.
30-something bimbos with more kids than brain cells in their head.The worst people.
Why hello there, Papa NurgleI'm sick (respiratory stuff) but I can't stay home because I have too much to do. :'(Make sure to spread the illness across the local community. Improve the immunity of your neighbours!
Bleh. Feelings. erhg.*patpatpat*
I'm trying to create a video game level set inside a mall, and it's proving quite the thought exercise. A shopping mall, which is basically a ring with tiny alcoves, does not make for a very compelling linear FPS level.Left 4 Dead 2 has a shopping mall level.
"Hey, somebody's trying to cook something, he only has one shot to not fuck up and it looks like he really needs to concentrate, let's not shut the fuck up until he messes up"Oh jeez I can relate to this so much. I'm so sick of living with people that I sometimes forget the "with people" part.
I am so sick of living around these fucking people I would almost rather just couch surf and mooch off of friends, or if I had a car of my own then live in that. I never get any say in even the most major issues that affect everybody, no matter how many groceries or cigarettes I buy.
@Blitz:What,no painkillers in the nurse's office?what nurse's office
You have to have a nurse somewhere.@Blitz:What,no painkillers in the nurse's office?what nurse's office
Photos just kinda remind me though, of how much guys bodies suck.It's always encouraging to be told in a blanket statement that your body sucks
I mean, I think it's a requirement, almost.Not in the Commonwealth. We have first aid gear, etc. but not dedicated medical staff. Should be paracetamol somewhere around though.
Well, some people might like 'em, but I personally, don't.Photos just kinda remind me though, of how much guys bodies suck.It's always encouraging to be told in a blanket statement that your body sucks
Y'know, maybe I should have waited until that improperly slit chicken pot pie cooled down a bit, instead of scalding the everloving hell out of my tongue trying to eat it. I'll remember not to make this mistake. Ever again.Owww.
WHY DO PEOPLE LIKE SUMMEREvery season has its ups and downs, but granted, i don't see the point in being overly obsessed with summer either. Insects, sweat and sunburns are among the worse things it has to offer, and boy does it offer. In that sense, i liked Iceland much better, because the temperature is cooler than here and the insects generally don't sting or bite. Sunburns? Well, hard to avoid that risk on this planet. :v
Summer vacation aside (which doesn't even apply if you're out of high school). "Oh boy, I can't wait for higher AC bills, drunken tourists, yuppies, soccer moms, off-school teenagers, bees, spiders, flies, pollen and allergies! Man, summer can't come soon enough!"
::)
I've been told that going on walks will help my mood. I tried this out today and despite walking for nearly two and a half hours I didn't really do anything that I wouldn't have done normally moping in my room like usual. Didn't talk to anyone or anything.Well, at least for me going on walks is not about talking to folks or stuff like that - it's about thinking forward, clearly and freely, without the distractions that would otherwise impede that process. Walking about just is an aid there, and a way to get some nice not-too-distracting stimuli.
Aren't you the carp?No, that's the other guy.
WHY DO PEOPLE LIKE SUMMERSummer is amazing. The whole world just opens up with possibilities.
Summer vacation aside (which doesn't even apply if you're out of high school). "Oh boy, I can't wait for higher AC bills, drunken tourists, yuppies, soccer moms, off-school teenagers, bees, spiders, flies, pollen and allergies! Man, summer can't come soon enough!"
::)
Summer is amazing. The whole world just opens up with possibilities.When the Minimal Socially Acceptable Attire is still too hot, winter looks a lot more appealing ;)
You don't have to wear a heap of clothes to go outside,
you don't need to plan for being cold if you're out late,Just what kind of temperature differences do you get ? o_o
you don't have (as many) cold winds blasting the skin from your face,Cold wind to the face is nice and invigorating. The problem is cold rain to the face.
missing the last train home isn't a big deal 'cause you can just relax in the night air and wait for the first one,Never happened to me personally, but I can see the appeal.
you don't wake up feeling sick all the time,Well, yeah, you don't wake up at all. You never went to sleep in the first place, because it's too damn hot!
you can have a nice sweat just sitting around doing fuck-all,Which is, IMO, one of the most unpleasant sensations in the world.
and of course cold beer on a hot day.Yyyyyeah. Can't really disagree with that one. *fetches beer*
I much prefer winter, myself. Cold, with wide open skies at night where the stars are much more visible. Also, I don't particularly like feeling hot and sweaty. Also, I prefer winter attire - overcoats FTW.Yes.
How the carp did it get to be 12:15 AM?2:18 a.m. here and I'm eating ice cream with stewed apples while waiting for some anime to download
I much prefer winter, myself. Cold, with wide open skies at night where the stars are much more visible. Also, I don't particularly like feeling hot and sweaty. Also, I prefer winter attire - overcoats FTW.This, except most of you skrubs with your maritime climates who need to git gud at seasons call that superior season winter, while a PROPER winter is like -20 Celsius, enamel-cracking unfun. Late Autumn/Early Spring best season.
If Minimal Acceptable Social Attire is ever too hot, you're either living in an oven or the Middle East. :PMaybe you can. I can't. Literally, physically can't, in spots. Which feels approximately like someone covered a bunch of ants in itch powder, then let them loose under your skin. And you can't scratch it, or it'll spread.
Otherwise, you can just sweat more! It'll be great fun. The only danger is chafing that can occur in extreme cases, so be sure to wear comfy pants.
I tried to get my box copy of Civilization IV to run on Windows 7. I couldn't.It runs fine for me.
-snip-Nobody really knows the full impact of their actions in their current era. They work with what they can do, and perceive for both present and future :3 I believe you can better your place, even if it seems little in comparison to the epic books you read about historical people in the world--'little' can't define the exact amount of effort you impact those around you and your environment; the contribution of many people is in stability and ensuring others can pave way to continually aid progress for the future, and that's also impactful in itself.
You mean the Nintendo Puu, right? :vkeep ur salt 2 urself ;-;
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generic red cross symbol
Huh, fancy that. Come think of it, i haven't actually seen the red cross used in video games for a while, probably due to that. :v (green or blue crosses, however...)
we can hereby conclude that toking is good for your health barHuh, fancy that. Come think of it, i haven't actually seen the red cross used in video games for a while, probably due to that. :v (green or blue crosses, however...)
That's funny, because a green cross is the unofficial symbol of marijuana dispensaries here (and presumably elsewhere).
I don't believe there is a hell, but if there was, it would sound like goddamned lawnmowers.Oof.
I don't believe there is a hell, but if there was, it would sound like goddamned lawnmowers.Nah, it sounds like a chainsaw.
I don't believe there is a hell, but if there was, it would sound like goddamned lawnmowers.Nah, there are just wall-to-wall cicadas all chirping their arses off.
Mild sad: the thing that is probably my greatest life achievement yet happened in middle school so it doesn't count for college :(Put it on your application anyway.
Yeah! Fuck the establishment!Mild sad: the thing that is probably my greatest life achievement yet happened in middle school so it doesn't count for college :(Put it on your application anyway.
Seriously, at least at most colleges, middle school might not get as much weight, but it's not just chopped off and disposed of with hazmat suits. It'll help.Yeah! Fuck the establishment!Mild sad: the thing that is probably my greatest life achievement yet happened in middle school so it doesn't count for college :(Put it on your application anyway.
Wait, why does applying for a college sound like applying for a job?Because it kind of is. Except you pay them.
Anyone here know about hair dying and bleaching hair and stuff? I want to dye my hair a dark blue, as opposed to this light orangish-red it is right now, and I'm afraid it'll turn purple. So I want to bleach it, but I already did 2 or 3 months ago, and my mom tells me my hair will get all brittle and fall out/break off, which I don't want either. So I need help. Also, I've been up for nearly 24 hours.Purple hair would be dope.
Dress codes vary a lot with the occasion. Jeans and polo shirt are well enough for a soft concert (even when you're the one playing the music) or other stage act. For a dinner party, you'll want a white dress shirt, but your other clothes don't matter much. For a formal party, you'll want the vaguely-defined 'evening suit'. And so on and so on. If you want to provoke, dress however you want, and not how others want.I'm not sure I agree with that. Except for the last bit and all.
I'm shocked to learn that polo shirts are acceptable in some parts of the world. :PI approve of this formal attire :P
For formal occasions, braid some bones (real or carved from wood etc.) into your hair and cover yourself in as many spikes as you can fit whilst still being able to move easily. Then drop acid about twenty-five minutes prior to arriving at the occasion in question.
Now if I could only acquire some bones, long hair, spikes and acid...
It's basically a job with negative wages.Wait, why does applying for a college sound like applying for a job?Because it kind of is. Except you pay them.
Only sounds like that at first, and then you begin getting exposed to further knowledge and personal enlightenment.It's basically a job with negative wages.Wait, why does applying for a college sound like applying for a job?Because it kind of is. Except you pay them.
add jacket and tie and you're pretty much at maximum.I've gone further than that. Few wear greatcoats anymore, so showing up with one thrown over the usual suit jacket makes an impression.
Knowledge is worthless if you're so far into debt selling your organs wouldn't be enough to pay it off.Only sounds like that at first, and then you begin getting exposed to further knowledge and personal enlightenment.It's basically a job with negative wages.Wait, why does applying for a college sound like applying for a job?Because it kind of is. Except you pay them.
EDIT: @Yoink: If it's not to big of a problem or anything, that would help a lot. But you don't have to :)Haven't had a chance to yet, said friend and I don't really talk as much as we probably should.
*patpatpatpatpat*Six syllables.
Hope nothing bad happened.
Refrigerator.
hap-pen-ed.*patpatpatpatpat*Six syllables.
Hope nothing bad happened.
Refrigerator.
*patpatpatpatpat*
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Refrigerator.
I have corrected the offending syllable with an accent. Good?Line breaks, you should use
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Having one of my "feeling lonely" moments. Usually I'd get over it quite quickly, but it's harder to do that when everyone around me is talking about dating and sex. Can't even get matches in them dating apps. I swear, it's like I'm better at celibacy than most priests and I'm trying for the opposite of that.I feel ya, man.
Then you are already in a better position than me. Walk up to her and ask. Sure, it feels daunting as it comes, but take too long and you may not get another chance, with her at least.Having one of my "feeling lonely" moments. Usually I'd get over it quite quickly, but it's harder to do that when everyone around me is talking about dating and sex. Can't even get matches in them dating apps. I swear, it's like I'm better at celibacy than most priests and I'm trying for the opposite of that.I feel ya, man.
Which reminds me, I still haven't talked to that girl :c
she got a new haircut today and I couldn't bring myself to use it as an excuse to start a conversation aaa
At the very least, I have a hunch she's interested in me based on the uncanny number of glances I catch from her, but still aaargh, why am I so shyyyyy?
Just be careful, glances can be misleading. The same happened to me.Having one of my "feeling lonely" moments. Usually I'd get over it quite quickly, but it's harder to do that when everyone around me is talking about dating and sex. Can't even get matches in them dating apps. I swear, it's like I'm better at celibacy than most priests and I'm trying for the opposite of that.I feel ya, man.
Which reminds me, I still haven't talked to that girl :c
she got a new haircut today and I couldn't bring myself to use it as an excuse to start a conversation aaa
At the very least, I have a hunch she's interested in me based on the uncanny number of glances I catch from her, but still aaargh, why am I so shyyyyy?
-snip-Ehh, it's not just glances. The other thing I can think of off the top of my head is this one time a little while back, she (and she is, from what I understand, almost as shy as I am,) seemingly very deliberately sat a couple seats away from me in an almost-empty auditorium.
Just be careful, glances can be misleading. The same happened to me.
Need to buy a cable.Just buy a bunch preemptively.
Once again find myself with the options of either driving to the store and spending $16 on a $1.50 cable or going online and paying $8.50 shipping on a $1.50 cable.
I know which one works out better mathematically, but they both make me feel like I'm mismanaging my money. :/
(Obviously the optimal solution is to just add more cables to my online order and ship them together, but I can't think of any other cables I'd need to buy...)
Need to buy a cable.Just buy a bunch preemptively.
Once again find myself with the options of either driving to the store and spending $16 on a $1.50 cable or going online and paying $8.50 shipping on a $1.50 cable.
I know which one works out better mathematically, but they both make me feel like I'm mismanaging my money. :/
(Obviously the optimal solution is to just add more cables to my online order and ship them together, but I can't think of any other cables I'd need to buy...)
@Tawa:You can do it! I'm rooting for you, dude.
Dude spoilerzzzz :oDID YOU KNOW THAT MARTIN DIES JUST BEFORE BOOK 7
The latest Game of Thrones episode had me almost tearing up. :( Amazing how they can make you feel for a guy who only says one thing.This has been blaring out on my facebook and it makes me sad because of ALL THE SPOILERS RUNNING AROUND LIKE IT'S NOT PUBLIC :I
Continuing my depressive streak for now ... yeah. You either break up or one of you dies before the other.I'd rather keep everyone at arm's length, that way I save the other person the pain of me leaving.This attitude makes no sense to me. Do you think every relationship you begin will end with you leaving?
...
yeah imma move that post in hereSpoiler: enclosed is some giant ramble of nihilism or something (click to show/hide)
That's a mild sad?Yep. Especially since I'm knowingly being a massive hypocrite and planning to ask someone on a date in a week, thus knowingly furthering those processes I just spent all that time ranting about. I'll forget all about this in a few hours in any case. Continuing mental stability can't be maintained if I allow thoughts like this to persist, so I'll be purging it in a bit.
Because books are boring!You wash your mouth out with soap.
Why not just write them like books?Because I am equally bad at writing.
Read a news article about 11 states filing a law suit against Obamas mandate, forcing public schools to allow transgender people to go to whatever bathroom they identify with. Kinda makes me disappointed, that some people just have such horrible opinions of transgender people.Oh you sweet summer child.
Clearly what we need to do is divide the bathrooms between "is going to piss all over the fucking place" and "everyone else", because the former phenomenon is the biggest obstacle to genderless bathrooms. Those with lady parts generally have to sit down, and that's not nice when Mr. Dick P. Richardson has been practicing his golden shower routine on the toilet seat.This is actually a solid idea
Wait until they get to agender people, that's when we're really going to see an uproar :)I swear gender is just the most irrelevant thing
In a week or so, there'll be a traditional gift-giving day that I qualify for. Everyone and their dog is asking me what I'd like. What I'd like is honest intentions: if people want to give me gifts, they should just give me gifts, regardless of whether it's Christmas or Tuesday. If they don't want to give me gifts, they should just not give me gifts. I'd be more appreciative of people being nice to me if they weren't obligated to by the calendar.As someone who like giving gifts, I only give them out in holidays and only to people I'm close with because I can't afford to give everyone gifts every day.
Read a news article about 11 states filing a law suit against Obamas mandate, forcing public schools to allow transgender people to go to whatever bathroom they identify with. Kinda makes me disappointed, that some people just have such horrible opinions of transgender people.Wait, what the carp?!
I want more fucks.Don't we all
:3cI want more fucks.Don't we all
Decided to quit soda yesterday. Failed today.
Only one tho, so that's better.
FTFYDecided to quit soda yesterday. Failed today.
Only one tho, so that's better.
Make sure to have a substitute handy, whether that's beer or cider or rum or bourbon or vodka or whatever. You still have to drink.
I don't mean permanently. I just mean totally be done with things for a while. Withdraw would be a better word.Sounds a lot like my occasional desire to temporarily phase out of reality and take a break. Like, i don't want to die at all, but sometimes it'd be nice to be able to put reality on hold for a bit, and just... I dunno, sit there and stare at the falling rain for hours without getting hungry or thirsty, or something. :I
@Yoink:I bet there's a USB outlet somewhere. But yeah, that sucks. Actually, a lot of those things suck. May your hardware troubles be resolved.Nope, there aren't any USB ports to be found here. I looked fairly thoroughly. Then again, it isn't an actual house so it's not too surprising. I've been able to charge my phone (and Ipod) at my mother's house today and yesterday, so that's good enough. It was just a problem on that first day, when my phone was pretty much flat and I needed to contact people.
I don't mean permanently. I just mean totally be done with things for a while. Withdraw would be a better word. And trust me, it's awkward. If I so much as say "Hi" to a girl it's instantly "So when are you going to ask her out?" from every guy in the group. Yet another reason I left our group chats.Okay, your group is kinda annoying, but that's not you nor her. So don't make it your fault.
...I'll probably wind up having some weird dreams tonight.When you're right, you're right.
I'm so tired of fixing computers. And by "fix" I mean show them how to change the volume, how you have to double click to open something, how to log in to their email, why a horrifically scratched DVD won't work, etc.I thought the people at my school were bad. The mouse at one of the computers wasn't working, so they spent a good 8 minutes unplugging it and plugging it back in as if it would eventually work if they did it enough.
Some people need a computer like I need a fucking rocket to the moon I swear to god.
It seems that the feeling of vague and seemingly source-less depression has gotten to me, again.*hugpats*
argh
That was probably more ranty than it needed to be, but it's a sad thing to see.By no means was that post unnecessarily ranty, that sort of thing is fucking tragic.
Also, my binge of Worm isn't finished yet.Heh. I was reading Worm yesterday. Made it to the last chapter before I had to stop.
Seriously this PBR (physically-based rendering)I'm glad you clarified, I assumed you meant the beer.
and people are going to hate me HARD for my opinionNot really. War is hell. No redeeming qualities at all. If it disturbs you then 10/10 would decent human being again.
So apparently there is a movie now that Advocates Suicide for people who are disabled.What is it? I want to start recommending it to disabled people.
differently abledI swear that's actually really patronising. S'like, see that blind guy? It's not that he can't see, he just sees differently. Losing a leg doesn't make you a cripple! You're just different!
So apparently there is a movie now that Advocates Suicide for people who are disabled.What is it? I want to start recommending it to disabled people.differently abledI swear that's actually really patronising. S'like, see that blind guy? It's not that he can't see, he just sees differently. Losing a leg doesn't make you a cripple! You're just different!
Political correctness is a weird mistress.
ikrI would love to believe that y'all are joking but this made me sad today. :-\
I'm not allowed to tell women to get back in the kitchen, even if it's where they belong
because they're a chef
and they're supposed to be preparing food
Person with disability, not disabled person.What? Those are synonyms. "Disabled" means "has a disability".
No, people who are disabled are people who has to be enabled, i.e they require peer pressure in order to do drugs, alcohol, and to masturbate to porn.Person with disability, not disabled person.What? Those are synonyms. "Disabled" means "has a disability".
I would love to believe that y'all are joking but this made me sad today. :-\Mention of disability before or after person, they're still a person. There are a select few people who would go so deep into the thought of address to them that they would assume them being called a disabled person instead of a person of disability means people view them as less of a person. And that's not related to malice or dehumanization on the end of the people addressing them, if they look at two words and assume that they're less of a person because of it, then that's something related to their view of things that they need help with. Besides that, no matter the ordering of things, a disabled person can't shake off the fact that they're disabled, so, hey, make the most of it.
It's like there's a lack of empathy and instead more priority to the vague and broad application of political correctness over actually seeing what these terms mean. (Or laziness to word it in a better way :v). Person with disability, not disabled person. <_<
Youtube's subscriptions seem to have decided to screw up. Annoying having to check through each guy's channel for vids.Is it ever not screwed up?
Pretend it's a new feature. You'll feel better about it!Youtube's subscriptions seem to have decided to screw up. Annoying having to check through each guy's channel for vids.Is it ever not screwed up?
It appears I have lost my mouse pad. The cord on my headphones is almost shot as well, so now I'm having a hard time using my mouse and I can't listen to music :(
This week's Game of Thrones was so incredibly disappointing that I'm kinda shocked. The first of three major events I was hoping for this season happened off-screen.
*applies hugs*That sucks. :hug:
In other news, it appears I have a minor allergy on something in the air.
I have a minor allergy on something in the air.I sure hope it's not love. :-\
I had a dream that I was talking to the most wonderful person, and then I woke up.That doesn't sound stupid, I'm pretty sure everyone has upsetting dreams like that.
It sounds stupid, but I really was sad that a) I know no one like that and b) they probably don't exist.
You know what's worse than food poisoning mid-exams?BAD MEMORIES
Food poisoning mid-exams caused by your own stupidity, to the point where you can pinpoint the second things went wrong.
I had a dream that I was talking to the most wonderful person, and then I woke up.I remember myself having a crush on an imaginary person from the dream a long time ago. Man just remembering that makes me feel sad all over again.
It sounds stupid, but I really was sad that a) I know no one like that and b) they probably don't exist.
Pfhahaha.oh nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
You are never safe from the chemicals.
*pats*
No, Sergarr, you are the chemicals.And then Sergarr was a philosophical zombie.
I have to be to work in twenty minutes, and suddenly I feel like the contents of my stomach are boiling. Uuuugh.If it's related to nervousness, then let your thoughts wander a bit to somewhere else, try to ignore what you're being nervous about.
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The best thing that happened for me and my parent's relationship was me moving out of the house (temporarily, thus far). Living with someone who has authority over you for 16+ years can really make minor tensions and personality flaws flare up....Hmm. That really does explain some things.
"Place the palms of your hands over your ears with fingers resting gently on the back of your head. Your middle fingers should point toward one another just above the base of your skull. Place your index fingers on top of you middle fingers and snap them (the index fingers) onto the skull making a loud, drumming noise. Repeat 40-50 times. Some people experience immediate relief with this method. Repeat several times a day for as long as necessary to reduce tinnitus."HMHMHM, interesting, thanks! I should try that once my relevant tendons and muscles stop being painful (i can feel by the resting position alone that it would hurt a lot to do 40-50 snaps), but really, i've basically attained complete indifference to the tinnitus by now, kind of like how you normally don't pay attention to the sound of your own breathing. It has probably been triggered by fireworks and a failure to plug my ears at a young age. :v
I have congestion nearly 24/7 due to the conditions of the weather and house, doesn't mean that I feel absolutely amazing when a condition I've adapted to goes away :P"Place the palms of your hands over your ears with fingers resting gently on the back of your head. Your middle fingers should point toward one another just above the base of your skull. Place your index fingers on top of you middle fingers and snap them (the index fingers) onto the skull making a loud, drumming noise. Repeat 40-50 times. Some people experience immediate relief with this method. Repeat several times a day for as long as necessary to reduce tinnitus."HMHMHM, interesting, thanks! I should try that once my relevant tendons and muscles stop being painful (i can feel by the resting position alone that it would hurt a lot to do 40-50 snaps), but really, i've basically attained complete indifference to the tinnitus by now, kind of like how you normally don't pay attention to the sound of your own breathing. It has probably been triggered by fireworks and a failure to plug my ears at a young age. :v
THAT...
Is a very good point indeed, there is more than one thing i've adapted to that i'd love to be rid of. I'm not sure if i'm doing it right here (am i supposed to be forming an airtight seal?), but i gave it a try as an experiment. It uh... Kind of just made my ears ring. I'm probably doing it wrong. :v
I had to cancel my birthday party because my mother can't figure out when stuff opens. It's not like I have a summer birthday so it's a rare excuse to see my friends or anything...:(
all my clean, weather-appropriate pants seem to be covered in toothpaste.Ew
I'm feeling stupid. Not because of anything in particular, I'm just feeling generally and abstractly stupid, for no apparent reason.When did you start feeling this?
Maybe he should talk to the landlord?
Do you have a tenancy tribunal you can go to?
What happened? Did you apologise, etc.?
I'm feeling stupid. Not because of anything in particular, I'm just feeling generally and abstractly stupid, for no apparent reason.
I'm annoyed by a really dumb plot twist in Kill la Kill to the point that I don't even want to watch the rest of the series. It's really a shame because until that point it was the best anime I had seen in several years.u wot m8
I posted (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=42204.msg7068842#msg7068842)in the happy thread, because I was happy I had 5900 posts. It was a nice, round number.Postcount happens :v
That post put me over 5900, though. :(
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!You could also not give a shit. There's a lot of people on this planet.
Had someone who was not on my Skype list contact me and I thought it was my friend who forgiven me.
nope... it was someone else.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Damn you Skype! daaaaamn you!
I could contact my friend on the few media he overlooked to delete me from >_> but I don't want to bug him.
You could also not give a shit. There's a lot of people on this planet.
Try the CivIII one, it's pretty good. Even fairly realistic, I read somewhere.Oh, no thanks. I'll come up with something. I appreciate the gesture, though!
If you want, I'll send you the editor, if that doesn't violate some copyright rule.
You could also not give a shit. [...]Not good advice for moving into the second sentence. :-\ It creates a tone of making the case into not caring, which won't help you care less or move from detaching yourself in the many times those few words have been said.
I got no one I can just talk to anymore or do things with anymore...It's not the end, dude :> That's the same state we all were before we met other folks! \o/
Why is drawing fantasy maps so hard? I try to make a traditional-styled continent, either it looks weird or it looks like a Europe knockoff. I try generating a map (tried the donjon fractal, Civ II, and Dwarf Fortress, among others) and it looks nothing like a continent (Civ II and DF both have fetishes for having the ocean carve up the continent; donjon either places the continent really badly or spontaneously develops the Civ II/DF ocean fetish.) I tried something unorthodox--namely, making the continent the corpse of a South America-sized brachiosaurus--and it's just... not what I was going for.Remember that, in a fantasy setting, the world might very well have been created by one or more gods. Thus, it doesn't need to follow the real life rules of topography.
Argh.
Also remember your tectonic plates :3 It's like drawing two main parts for ocean/land, then mashing them up together to create mountains or depressions for water, cracks for lining your continents, or rivers for water runoff. The best thing about it, despite its difficulty, is the freedom to do it all by creativity \o/Why is drawing fantasy maps so hard? I try to make a traditional-styled continent, either it looks weird or it looks like a Europe knockoff. I try generating a map (tried the donjon fractal, Civ II, and Dwarf Fortress, among others) and it looks nothing like a continent (Civ II and DF both have fetishes for having the ocean carve up the continent; donjon either places the continent really badly or spontaneously develops the Civ II/DF ocean fetish.) I tried something unorthodox--namely, making the continent the corpse of a South America-sized brachiosaurus--and it's just... not what I was going for.Remember that, in a fantasy setting, the world might very well have been created by one or more gods. Thus, it doesn't need to follow the real life rules of topography.
Argh.
The mildest of sads: I have one mouse and one pair of headphones. It makes switching to my desktop from my laptop an ache, but Dark Souls only works on my desktop, which in turn isn't great for anything else. Blurk. Also it's eleven degrees here and I can't feel my fingers. And I'm oddly nauseous. Blurk.If you're only going to use your desktop to game, you could circumvent the need for a mouse by using a controller. Not that hard to navigate windows with a keyboard, and you could use the steam big picture thingy.
I considered that sort of thing, but the setting I'm going for is a more low fantasy kind of deal (which I shamelessly admit is inspired by reading way too many Crusader Kings let's plays.)Why is drawing fantasy maps so hard? I try to make a traditional-styled continent, either it looks weird or it looks like a Europe knockoff. I try generating a map (tried the donjon fractal, Civ II, and Dwarf Fortress, among others) and it looks nothing like a continent (Civ II and DF both have fetishes for having the ocean carve up the continent; donjon either places the continent really badly or spontaneously develops the Civ II/DF ocean fetish.) I tried something unorthodox--namely, making the continent the corpse of a South America-sized brachiosaurus--and it's just... not what I was going for.Remember that, in a fantasy setting, the world might very well have been created by one or more gods. Thus, it doesn't need to follow the real life rules of topography.
Argh.
-snip-/me cackles maniacally
Also remember your tectonic plates :3 It's like drawing two main parts for ocean/land, then mashing them up together to create mountains or depressions for water, cracks for lining your continents, or rivers for water runoff. The best thing about it, despite its difficulty, is the freedom to do it all by creativity \o/
You can do it Tawa :D
Your name practically means 'laugh' in my language!
It'd help if people didn't instantly take personal offense to someone not seeing eye-to-eye with them, or if they weren't a total absolute dick about their political standings. Seriously.I wonder if there's a country where this doesn't apply
This whole fucking year has been such an exhausting shitshow in politics.
It'd help if people didn't instantly take personal offense to someone not seeing eye-to-eye with them, or if they weren't a total absolute dick about their political standings.Behold the Internet, in all of it's glory, and all of it's horror.
...What's TWS, exactly? I googled it but I kind of doubt you're looking for Transworld Skateboarding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transworld_Skateboarding), twinkie weiner sandwiches (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie#Twinkie_wiener_sandwich), or Toad the Wet Sprocket (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toad_the_Wet_Sprocket).That Which Sleeps.
I have cut, burned, pinched and slammed my fingers at literally every opportunity. I have two bandaids, a papercut, and a burn that is small enough that I don't feel like putting a bandaid on but large enough to hurt. It's also right on my fingertip so it's awkward to type.That's like my toes earlier in life. I'd stub them against everything, occasionally hard enough to actually produce an injury. :v
I sure would be having fun with Pokemon Go if it would let me log in. :(Oh good! I'm not the only person having problems with it. I hope the issues are ironed out quickly.
I spent like an hour last night working on a map of this fictional setting I've been working on. The map is made of two pieces of 8 x 10.5 graph paper, attached to each other on the 10.5 side. I spent ages drawing in the coastline, making forests out of tiny individual trees, and drawing textured, isometric mountains instead of the cheap little "^"s I used to make. Then I spent just as long inking in the whole thing, and finished up by spending a good fifteen or twenty minutes drawing little tiny horizontal lines along the coastline to imply waves (this is an easy way to make a map look much more detailed and professional, even though it's literally just a bunch of squiggly lines next to a bigger squiggly line.)
This morning I managed to spill one drop of milk right in the middle of the damned thing and now the graph paper lines have blurred and the pristine perfection of the thing is ruined.
/me commits sudoku
I sure would be having fun with Pokemon Go if it would let me log in. :(Oh good! I'm not the only person having problems with it. I hope the issues are ironed out quickly.
Or wait a couple weeks and draw it again. Its really disappointing to have to redo creative work, but it almost universally ends up better the second time.I spent like an hour last night working on a map of this fictional setting I've been working on. The map is made of two pieces of 8 x 10.5 graph paper, attached to each other on the 10.5 side. I spent ages drawing in the coastline, making forests out of tiny individual trees, and drawing textured, isometric mountains instead of the cheap little "^"s I used to make. Then I spent just as long inking in the whole thing, and finished up by spending a good fifteen or twenty minutes drawing little tiny horizontal lines along the coastline to imply waves (this is an easy way to make a map look much more detailed and professional, even though it's literally just a bunch of squiggly lines next to a bigger squiggly line.)
This morning I managed to spill one drop of milk right in the middle of the damned thing and now the graph paper lines have blurred and the pristine perfection of the thing is ruined.
/me commits sudoku
That blows.
But before you thrust a grid of digits into your abdomen or whatever, maybe scan it at a good resolution, touch up the borked spot or trace the whole dealio in your editor of choice, and just keep it as a digital image reference?
I redrew it the day after. I still think the original was a little better, but it's still a worthy substitute. Plus, I touched up some of the rivers, since some of them looked kinda weird on the original.Or wait a couple weeks and draw it again. Its really disappointing to have to redo creative work, but it almost universally ends up better the second time.I spent like an hour last night working on a map of this fictional setting I've been working on. The map is made of two pieces of 8 x 10.5 graph paper, attached to each other on the 10.5 side. I spent ages drawing in the coastline, making forests out of tiny individual trees, and drawing textured, isometric mountains instead of the cheap little "^"s I used to make. Then I spent just as long inking in the whole thing, and finished up by spending a good fifteen or twenty minutes drawing little tiny horizontal lines along the coastline to imply waves (this is an easy way to make a map look much more detailed and professional, even though it's literally just a bunch of squiggly lines next to a bigger squiggly line.)
This morning I managed to spill one drop of milk right in the middle of the damned thing and now the graph paper lines have blurred and the pristine perfection of the thing is ruined.
/me commits sudoku
That blows.
But before you thrust a grid of digits into your abdomen or whatever, maybe scan it at a good resolution, touch up the borked spot or trace the whole dealio in your editor of choice, and just keep it as a digital image reference?
Facebook made it so that when you click the post box, it darkens everything else on the page.Ew
The other day I started watching some dumb, mildly amusing video that showed up in the "similar videos" to what I was watching on Youtube, and now my recommendations are suddenly flooded with similar drivel. It's frankly somewhat insulting- I've gotten used to my YT recommendations being on point and useful. :(Youtube tracks the amount of time spent watching the video.
Wore my uniform pants for the first time, I've been wearing my home pants before. The pockets are miniscule, I can't even fit my entire hand into them.No under-the-counter pocket mining for you ;D
Nah. Dreams have mention that they're recollections of memories or thoughts (even thoughts not thought of before in distinct imagery). Don't label the brain under one idea, because the potential of a mind is vast and dynamic. :PYoink's Brain: "Oh hey, Yoink is extremely stressed and uncertain about his decision to leave his home and move back to his home state in the hopes of getting out of a rut, improving himself and finding some measure of happiness. Let's torment him with a nice, pleasant dream starring a who's-who of the friends and acquaintances he's leaving behind! Yay!"The why is because brains are nonsensical douchebags at times.
Yoink: "Oh gods why."
life is too short for worriesNah. Dreams have mention that they're recollections of memories or thoughts (even thoughts not thought of before in distinct imagery). Don't label the brain under one idea, because the potential of a mind is vast and dynamic. :PYoink's Brain: "Oh hey, Yoink is extremely stressed and uncertain about his decision to leave his home and move back to his home state in the hopes of getting out of a rut, improving himself and finding some measure of happiness. Let's torment him with a nice, pleasant dream starring a who's-who of the friends and acquaintances he's leaving behind! Yay!"The why is because brains are nonsensical douchebags at times.
Yoink: "Oh gods why."
Thesis worries. :'(
Love you dude. XDThesis worries. :'(life is too short for worries
Except if a train is rushing at you, then you should worry because your life will be too short.Literally jump to either side of the train. No worries. (Unless you are Pauline, then you'll have to wait for somebody to untie you, or there is another train on a parallel line.)
Uncertain about other places but this is a problem easily solved by avoiding the extremely telegraphed train tracks where trains travel.Except if a train is rushing at you, then you should worry because your life will be too short.Literally jump to either side of the train. No worries. (Unless you are Pauline, then you'll have to wait for somebody to untie you, or there is another train on a parallel line.)
Arx, will you be my wife?
My own mild sad is that I seem to have left my d6 at home, when I was pretty sure it was in a pocket of my jacket. This means I can't pass the time by updating RTDs like I'd wanted to.https://www.random.org/
My own mild sad is that I seem to have left my d6 at home, when I was pretty sure it was in a pocket of my jacket. This means I can't pass the time by updating RTDs like I'd wanted to.If you live in The United States you can easily find a six-sided die in any pharmacy or big-box general store, like the Walton Empire.
Normally that would be my go-to, but currently I'm doing my internetting by phone.My own mild sad is that I seem to have left my d6 at home, when I was pretty sure it was in a pocket of my jacket. This means I can't pass the time by updating RTDs like I'd wanted to.https://www.random.org/
I live in the Land of Oz, actually!My own mild sad is that I seem to have left my d6 at home, when I was pretty sure it was in a pocket of my jacket. This means I can't pass the time by updating RTDs like I'd wanted to.If you live in The United States you can easily find a six-sided die in any pharmacy or big-box general store, like the Walton Empire.
Dang Shook, that sucks. Get well soon. It's always upsetting when one's body decides to malfunction in an annoying way like that.Thanks brodude. The Throat GlobeTM fortunately mostly resolved itself overnight, and it turned out that i hadn't eaten anything bad, surprise surprise. But alas, today, more bowel woes. Something tells me that i should take it easy with the weekly pizzas. :v
I have a mosquito bite on the back of my heel and it itches when ever I move.Have you been jerkin' yer gherkin recently? That mosquito was probably sent by God to punish you.
What have I done to deserve this hell?
From what I understand, your body makes more fat if you underfeed yourself, as it's expecting a food shortage. Eat the bare minimum of calories for your age group rather than an utterly miniscule amount of food.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
From what I understand, your body makes more fat if you underfeed yourself, as it's expecting a food shortage.Oh, fuck all kinds of duck.
Because I'm worthless and don't like to bother people? Anyway, I haven't been eating lunch for about a year so I'd expect it to even out by now.From what I understand, your body makes more fat if you underfeed yourself, as it's expecting a food shortage. Eat the bare minimum of calories for your age group rather than an utterly miniscule amount of food.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Out of curiosity, why do you always spoiler your posts in the sad threads?
ExerciseExercise is something I do with with something approaching regularity. Not as much as I should but I do it.
I'm worthlessNo, you aren't worthless, I can personally attest to the fact that you're a pretty cool dude and thereby certainly a valuable human being. Not to mention that in every case I've seen, if you think you're worthless, chances are you aren't worthless, you just have self-esteem issues :v
Anyway, I haven't been eating lunch for about a year so I'd expect it to even out by now.But anyway, skipping one meal is the exact sort of thing that'll lead to this. Eat all of your meals, but eat light ones.
Because I'm worthless and don't like to bother people?Sad thread is for being sad, if someone's bothered by people being sad in the sad thread they can go jump in a lake
Anyway, I haven't been eating lunch for about a year so I'd expect it to even out by now.Not a terribly solid idea, make sure you're eating all your meals properly
This, and what everyone else said.Because I'm worthless and don't like to bother people?Sad thread is for being sad, if someone's bothered by people being sad in the sad thread they can go jump in a lakeAnyway, I haven't been eating lunch for about a year so I'd expect it to even out by now.Not a terribly solid idea, make sure you're eating all your meals properly
Starving yourself is bad juju
Head's been pounding for a good few days now, going on a week. Generally been able to ignore it, but it's still very noticeable if I'm not busy on something else or if I have free time. Might have something to do with band camp and the heat, we'll have to see, but all I know is it's not fun and I want it to stop.Talk to a doctor?
Sometimes I can't get rid of the feeling that I've never really contributed anything of worth to this forum, and that I don't belong here. :-\You contribute heaps to the forums. I haven't interacted with you a heap but I have read, and liked, your posts so I'd say you have worth here. Ah, when I say I like them I mean that I appreciate what you've written.
^ dis. Yeer ossum, Caroline, and you've put a genuine smile on my face many times before. :P You're pretty much contributing by being a decent person. That's the quiet commonality.Sometimes I can't get rid of the feeling that I've never really contributed anything of worth to this forum, and that I don't belong here. :-\You contribute heaps to the forums. I haven't interacted with you a heap but I have read, and liked, your posts so I'd say you have worth here. Ah, when I say I like them I mean that I appreciate what you've written.
And dammit guys, I was trying to wallow in self-resentment like a pity hippopotamus.
Nah, I'm still wallowing. The mud I'm wallowing in is a lot shallower though.^ dis. Yeer ossum, Caroline, and you've put a genuine smile on my face many times before. :P You're pretty much contributing by being a decent person. That's the quiet commonality.Sometimes I can't get rid of the feeling that I've never really contributed anything of worth to this forum, and that I don't belong here. :-\You contribute heaps to the forums. I haven't interacted with you a heap but I have read, and liked, your posts so I'd say you have worth here. Ah, when I say I like them I mean that I appreciate what you've written.
And dammit guys, I was trying to wallow in self-resentment like a pity hippopotamus.
Also Gamedragon, I guess you're not wallowing because of how awesome the others are here. :P
pity hippopotamusmore like hippoPITYmus m i rite
From what I've read up about it, not true. What does happen is that your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) drops. Which isn't the same thing. What's going on is that since your energy input falls, your body cuts down on things that consume that energy to maintain the equilibrium of energy in vs. out - so the less you weigh, the less calories you need. It also means you might be more tired, cold, sleepy, etc., though that might signify you've made too sharp a drop. But otherwise, no, if you full-on fast, or undereat severely, there is simply no way for your body to store more fat.From what I understand, your body makes more fat if you underfeed yourself, as it's expecting a food shortage. Eat the bare minimum of calories for your age group rather than an utterly miniscule amount of food.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Sometimes I can't get rid of the feeling that I've never really contributed anything of worth to this forum, and that I don't belong here. :-\
about to put my tablet down and go to sleepSystem maintenance?
laptop decides to turn itself on from hibernation and start doing god knows what
fucking why
i hope soabout to put my tablet down and go to sleepSystem maintenance?
laptop decides to turn itself on from hibernation and start doing god knows what
fucking why
I was literally entirely forgotten in my 10th-grade yearbook. I was absent the day the class picture was taken and they forgot to list me as being absent. Doesn't surprise me, though; people seem to have a hard time noticing me anyway. For example, the year before, we were going on a field trip, and the person taking attendance took at least a quarter of a minute to notice I was right next to her.Tawa confirmed for distant relative of Kellam.
Despite this, I'm absolutely terrible at Metal Gear :P
I've been having to take baths instead of showers lately, due to the shower drain needing some serious TLC.My bathwater is too hot. :'(
Don't believe I can remember the last tiime I had a bath. O.o
Have you considered cleaning the shower?I've been having to take baths instead of showers lately, due to the shower drain needing some serious TLC.My bathwater is too hot. :'(
Don't believe I can remember the last tiime I had a bath. O.o
There's a hole in my sock.Ditto.
Heh. Bowels. Shitty. Heh. Sorry. I'm childish.Hmm, maybe i should have said crappy instead.
I haven't really found a reason to continue to post here.It's the sad thread for people with low self-esteem
Not entirely. Me for example, things like my usual "bla bla bla social anxiety is killing me" whines I'd put in the main Sad thread, whereas "WAH my beer is too cold" fits much better over here.I haven't really found a reason to continue to post here.It's the sad thread for people with low self-esteem
Basically, I'm going to stop posting on Bay12. Carry on.Well, I'll miss your contributions. :(
As a big point, people's social relations may decline when things close to home are in trouble, personally, family-wise or otherwise. :-\ It's a :( thing, but the best we can do is as far as our limitations of communication. Wishing you well here, BorkBork! Hope your situation improves and you come out a better person than one laden with troubles. Am remembering what I've learned from you that really helped me, even if we didn't actually communicate directly. People are awesome to be with.Basically, I'm going to stop posting on Bay12. Carry on.But but- :(
Guess not everyone desperately needs the social interaction here because they have literally no one else to talk to outside of family.
Going to sea-side.Enjoy the freedom.
No internet.
Two days.
No internet.
Basically, I'm going to stop posting on Bay12. Carry on.Nuuuuuuuuu
*hugpats*As a big point, people's social relations may decline when things close to home are in trouble, personally, family-wise or otherwise. :-\ It's a :( thing, but the best we can do is as far as our limitations of communication. Wishing you well here, BorkBork! Hope your situation improves and you come out a better person than one laden with troubles. Am remembering what I've learned from you that really helped me, even if we didn't actually communicate directly. People are awesome to be with.Basically, I'm going to stop posting on Bay12. Carry on.But but- :(
Guess not everyone desperately needs the social interaction here because they have literally no one else to talk to outside of family.
It's Monday and what happened to weekends o_O I need to optimize my schedule because it's just after the first week of school and I'm back to how I was as the last semester ended! Stressed, fatigued, and messy! My obligations and 'stuff I said I'd do' online are deteriorating in efficiency D:
And I'm real thankful for the patience of the people who don't have what they asked/what I volunteered for from a long time ago.
I just realized that TheBiggerFish hasn't been on all day. It's unsettling, he's usually on literally all the time.Real life (AAAAAA COLLEGE), also TF2.
What are you even doing in TF2? Valve killed all the fun in the game.MvM, and matchmaking isn't the eeeeeevil everyone's making it out to be so far anyway...
At work all day, forgot to bring lunch. Was about to break my no-sugar diet. Was hungry, and the cookie in the vending machine was just... staring at me. Went to pay for it with my card, its only polite after all this eye-contact. NETWORK ERROR. No cookie. Looked wistfully at the glass, hand pressed against it longingly. She's still there... wondering how I could've abandoned her.True love waits.
There's a hole in my sock.Ditto.
Having to condense my posts within this phone's character limit is so annoying.My condolences :(
I miss rambling incessantly lik
At work fifteen minutes early, again because of shit that isn't my fault.
goddamnit honduras that was pretty scummy what you did. I don't know if SK could have scored with that time you wasted, but still. ugh.
I mean they should've added more than they did, even the commentators the channel I was watching it on had were surprised at the final whistle. Their goalie even got a yellow card for wasting time.goddamnit honduras that was pretty scummy what you did. I don't know if SK could have scored with that time you wasted, but still. ugh.
I've seen the referee extend the additional time by minutes because of time played or wasted a lot, by minute or two.
But football is like that, SK despite clearly controlling the game did had more than 90 minutes to make a goal...
I mean they should've added more than they did, even the commentators the channel I was watching it on had were surprised at the final whistle. Their goalie even got a yellow card for wasting time.goddamnit honduras that was pretty scummy what you did. I don't know if SK could have scored with that time you wasted, but still. ugh.
I've seen the referee extend the additional time by minutes because of time played or wasted a lot, by minute or two.
But football is like that, SK despite clearly controlling the game did had more than 90 minutes to make a goal...
Something is prodding my allergy pretty badly. Last night i thought i was catching a cold because of how violently overproductive my nose was. :I
Illegal human field testing?Something is prodding my allergy pretty badly. Last night i thought i was catching a cold because of how violently overproductive my nose was. :I
Huh. I've been having the same issue. I don't have any allergies that I'm aware of.
I have heard people say that there is some conspiracy to disable the pack after time/charges to make you buy more, even though the cells are fine. 4 out of 6 of the cells were completely dead, so that doesn't appear to be the case here.
I have heard people say that there is some conspiracy to disable the pack after time/charges to make you buy more, even though the cells are fine. 4 out of 6 of the cells were completely dead, so that doesn't appear to be the case here.That's basically just planned obsolescence tho
So what are you gonna do with those two good cells then? You still got the makings of a fun little project right there so long as you don't accidentally explode them like I did last year.
That's basically just planned obsolescence tho
Nah, a lot of laptop battery packs are super expensive for that reason.
How did you manage to explode yours?
Hanako... that Hanako?
How do illegal humans cause allergies?Illegal human field testing?Something is prodding my allergy pretty badly. Last night i thought i was catching a cold because of how violently overproductive my nose was. :I
Huh. I've been having the same issue. I don't have any allergies that I'm aware of.
Silly Cinder, it's illegal human fields causing allergies.#showerthoughts
There was never anything illegal about humanity though?
Unlikely to be inherited would be recessive, not dominant.
so inheriting it isn't unlikely.I actually misread the post in the exact same way, at first.
Ouch. Is there any soothing cream you could use?I was actually debating mentioning that, but it's not sad material, mild or otherwise - my mum got me a topical painkiller, and it's a really funny, tingly feeling, like mint on steroids.
The Indian food I had was not sufficiently hot enough. I can't work out how to ask for food to be extra hot, ridiculous descriptions like "impossibly hot" or "inedibly spicy" do not appear to work.Clearly, you just need to ask with more ham!
Just bring a bottle of pure capsicum with you wherever you go. Toss in a few drops and mix. That'll fix it all.Note: don't actually do this. Pure capsaicin is quite toxic.
Somehow I think it would.The Indian food I had was not sufficiently hot enough. I can't work out how to ask for food to be extra hot, ridiculous descriptions like "impossibly hot" or "inedibly spicy" do not appear to work.Clearly, you just need to ask with more ham!
"WAITER, WHEN I CONSUME THIS FOOD, I WANT THE BURNING FIRES OF HELL TO ERUPT FROM MY MOUTH IN AN INFERNO OF PAIN AND ANGUISH. WHEN I GET HOME, I WANT TO BE SHITTING OUT THE MOLTEN CORE OF OUR PLANET. TOMORROW, I WANT TO BE IN TEARS BECAUSE OF MY FLESH HAVING BEEN CONSUMED BY THE INTENSE HOTNESS OF THE DISH YOU ARE ABOUT TO SERVE ME. DO NOT HOLD BACK."
Maybe that'd work? :v
The Indian food I had was not sufficiently hot enough. I can't work out how to ask for food to be extra hot, ridiculous descriptions like "impossibly hot" or "inedibly spicy" do not appear to work.Do they use the Scoville scale of heat measurement?
What capsaisin level do you like?
Ghost peppers?
Ghost peppers?
I had sauce made with ghost peppers once. It was literally painful when it hit my tongue, and I coughed for at least a minute after swallowing it.
Westerners' inability to handle spiciness is so cute.I wonder if Easterners' inability to handle spiciness is cute? :P
To be fair most Thai people can't handle Thai food either.Westerners' inability to handle spiciness is so cute.I wonder if Easterners' inability to handle spiciness is cute?
Because between us, there's a thing being said about Malaysian and Thai food. :I
You dudes and your spice. It's awesome...but most of us can't handle it! ;~;
My apartment is swarming with flies. I have no clue where they're all coming from, I keep the place clean, I don't leave anything rotting in the trash or anything, but suddenly today there's dozens of them all over. I can't kill them fast enough, it's truly irritating.Have you checked the air conditioning ducts for rotting masses? You could have a dead mouse or something.
Turned out to be an unexpectedly brief poop, anyway. Only about four or five pages' worth.That's not a brief poop though. I heard Kevin Smith say in a podcast that he had an anal fissure which apparently is very common. So if you ever get numb legs from pooping you need to change your pooping habits. Anal fissure. Think about that for a second.
There is one stall in the bathroom at work. I need it. It's occupied, and has been for minutes.Throw a roll of TP inside. Works for me.
There is one stall in the bathroom at work. I need it. It's occupied, and has been for minutes.
Another day of being frustrated by loneliness while listening happy young couples chatting gleefully./me flirting intensifies]
And its fucking hot outside to boot.
I feel like we need this since the sad thread is filled with people with serious problems 24/7 and that makes it really awkward for people who want to vent about how their favorite hotdog stand raised their prices or something like that.
There's like... ten, fifteen pounds or better of chocolate and chocolate derived products in this house, now. Probably more.Ask your doctor?
And one of the medications I'm on is a stimulant. I.e. I'm supposed to avoid other stimulants, lest the heart or somethin' explodes. Stimulants like caffeine. Which is in chocolate.
It's a helluva' thing to be disgruntled by, but I zogging love chocolate, can't really eat it, and now have, like. Several months supply in the house. The pain is less when it's not here ;_;
@Shook: That is me at parties. Kids these days...
@Shook:I feel your pain. Like, literally, if it's that bad, I would have walked in the door and at least yelped. :vHuh, well, that's always something. :v
I hate loud noises.
And no, it's not boring, it's sanity. ;P
Honestly the first one isn't half bad, if you can accept that since it's a family-oriented film it had to have the cheesy "touching" ending. It's the sequels that are utter crap.DO YOU WISH TO ENGAGE IN COMBAT? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b88FR4gSLho)
You can still just upload pictures there that won't be seen by the mad bastards who think it's a social media site.Well it IS a social media site.
I suppose the social media aspect is how they are trying to monetize it, so I guess it makes a certain degree of sense that they are obfuscating image hosting services in favor of their bullshit other stuff but it sure is annoying as fuck as a user.They aren't doing their jobs very well if they're alienating their userbase.
Here I am still using Imgur and not erupting into flames because honestly I don't see anything bad.
Last I looked they'd made the UI more atrocious than any website I've had to use in years.
Here I am still using Imgur and not erupting into flames because honestly I don't see anything bad.Yeah, I haven't burst into fire either. I don't actually see the problem with the new UI and people using it less as an image hosting site and more as a social media site doesn't bother me.
The only reason I care is because the drive to make it more like social media is getting in the way of me using it for image hosting. Otherwise I wouldn't give it a second thought.Here I am still using Imgur and not erupting into flames because honestly I don't see anything bad.Yeah, I haven't burst into fire either. I don't actually see the problem with the new UI and people using it less as an image hosting site and more as a social media site doesn't bother me.
Probably, I suppose I will look into that. I barely use it beyond messaging (it's quite useful for that).
So some guy I met and added on Facebook turned out to be a huge Facebook user and also huge fascist. Now my main page is spammed with Putin/Trump/those-sexy-Nazi-uniform worship and posts blaming all the worlds ills on Political-Correctness/Cultural-Marxism etc.
This pillow has no cool side.
A glitch in sleep? Call the Fixers!
Indeed.A glitch in sleep? Call the Fixers!Oh man, that's a blast from the past.
I think I might be a masochist. Or pain is at least very interesting to me. Funny how that works; you get hurt your whole life, and then you want to see what other types of pain feel like. Either way, freaked myself out for a minute because I was thinking "What does a migraine feel like? I wish I could find out..." and started to google "how to give yourself a migraine" before I realized what I was doing.Eh, masochism in the usual sense is a sexual thing. You probably just have developed an unusual fascination, like a person fascinated with the idea of death, or maybe a hardcore hobbyist cheese maker.
Loud annoying rap music (can hear it on the third floor).
Thank goodness for earplugs.
Loud annoying rap music (can hear it on the third floor).Take out your earplugs, take out a suitable blunt/sharp implement, take out those responsible. Problem solved! :D
Thank goodness for earplugs.
If only I knew who.Loud annoying rap music (can hear it on the third floor).Take out your earplugs, take out a suitable blunt/sharp implement, take out those responsible. Problem solved! :D
Thank goodness for earplugs.
Or actually be a reasonable person and build an audio feedback cannon that cause speakers to vibrate at resonance and explode.CONCUSSIVE WUBS
Or actually be a reasonable person and build an audio feedback cannon that cause speakers to vibrate at resonance and explode.But that would blow up my computer! And my headphones! But it's cool! AAARGH UNRESOLVABLE TENSION
One of my housemates just came to my bedroom door and offered me cake. Completely unprovoked.If it makes you better, it wasn't as bad as what I did yesterday - some girl I'd just met was going to give me a goodbye hug, so I pushed her away and said "I'm not a hug person."
According to the person I was on the phone with at the time (my mother), it "wasn't very nice" of me to refuse it. It was rude of me or something. Well excuuuuse me, but I don't recall asking for any fucking cake. >:( Doesn't seem fair that I'm just expected to eat cake whenever someone offers it to me, purely for the sake of politeness.
Now I'm supposed to feel bad for not accepting something I didn't want or ask for in the first place? Great.
Perhaps I'm making a bigger deal of this than is really necessary, but this incident just adds to the general discomfort I feel around here.
And I was feeling enough of that already.
I have not been able to play skyrim at all this year, because of some stupid bug that's making it CTD fifteen minutes after loading. Both the game and the creation kit. I have not been able to figure out why, and deleting and reinstalling the game doesn't seem to help at all.Have you cleared your browser cache?
No, but I don't see how my browser affects skyrim in any way that matters :PDo you have math pain?
so sad today: calculus homework. Go to hell, mathematics!
My home town has been cut off from the rest of the country. By chickens.
A truck hauling a trailer with chickens tumbled over on the highway. Several thousands of chickens are now panicking on the highway, plus the truck's crash did some serious damage to the road. It has been closed down by authorities. Recapturing the chickens is expected to take all day.
My home town has been cut off from the rest of the country. By chickens.I am too drunk for this right now. o____o
Just finished watching Re:Zero. Now where will I get my supply of feels from? ):
It's 3am. Hard to go to bed at a reasonable time when you have nothing to look forward to the next day. :-/Start masturbating in the morning.
Seconded. That's good advice all around.
Don't forget to keep yourself busy, but definitely keep in touch with her this month! You could set up a time to call her, even once a day if you like. A lot of couples I've known do that; even my Mom, who sees my Stepdad every day, calls him every weekday during lunch to talk about their days. I used to think it was kinda silly, but it's sweet.
That's not what I meant when I asked for coffee creamer...It's 3am. Hard to go to bed at a reasonable time when you have nothing to look forward to the next day. :-/Start masturbating in the morning.
It appears I have run out of clean underpants. :-\This is why one does laundry. :v
including brain
[NOPE MASSIVELY INTENSIFIES]
JoshuaFH, et al.: Shouldn't this belong in the "Things that made you want to crawl into a sterile and hermetically sealed biodome never again to set foot in the outside world again" thread?We don't have one of those, Terrified Thread will have to do.
including brain
[NOPE MASSIVELY INTENSIFIES]
In much less terrifying news, it bothers me that so many people seem to prefer music at an ear-splitting volume. Even music teacher is guilty of this, but given that he's a fair bit older than me, he at least has the possible excuse of somewhat reduced hearing (which i am seeking to avoid). He does turn it down when/if i ask for it (which is nice since listening to musics is part of music class), but it's kind of tricky because the music in question often has highly variant volume. To hear the quietest parts properly, the volume needs to be high enough that the loudest parts are bordering on painful. I already have mild tinnitus, and i would rather not have it get worse. :IIf your music class regularly uses speakers loud enough to cause hearing damage I would be rather shocked.
including brain
[NOPE MASSIVELY INTENSIFIES]
The MRI scan I had a while ago revealed one or two of those in my headmeats. Thankfully benign... for the time being, at least.
Apparently a lot of people have harmless cysts in their brains without ever realising it. O.oIn much less terrifying news, it bothers me that so many people seem to prefer music at an ear-splitting volume. Even music teacher is guilty of this, but given that he's a fair bit older than me, he at least has the possible excuse of somewhat reduced hearing (which i am seeking to avoid). He does turn it down when/if i ask for it (which is nice since listening to musics is part of music class), but it's kind of tricky because the music in question often has highly variant volume. To hear the quietest parts properly, the volume needs to be high enough that the loudest parts are bordering on painful. I already have mild tinnitus, and i would rather not have it get worse. :IIf your music class regularly uses speakers loud enough to cause hearing damage I would be rather shocked.
More likely it's just loud enough to cause discomfort to someone who dislikes loud noises.
My jaw is just like, off. It clicks when I move it and it feels like its misaligned or something.Do you grind your teeth? Has your jaw been struck?
Yes to the first one, no to the second one.My jaw is just like, off. It clicks when I move it and it feels like its misaligned or something.Do you grind your teeth? Has your jaw been struck?
My jaw is just like, off. It clicks when I move it and it feels like its misaligned or something.I feel like my jaw dislodged itself spontaneously last month and now every time I move it it clicks.
Brain, why you gotta idly consider death whenever I'm bored. This is making me feel like a caricature.
Again, though, I'm able to see the beauty of this world and appreciate what I have and I don't think that's a trait that depressed people have.Nah, that's pretty much entirely disassociated from depression. There can be a correlation but it's not a very strong one. Can depend on the type a bit, but eh. Otherwise helg seems pretty on point.
Ach, i am once again struck by the problems of not living in 'murica. See, i'd like to buy a big bunch of dice for roleplaying, and this seems pretty much perfect (https://www.dnddice.com/misc/dnd-mound-of-dice-our-own-special-blend-of-a-pound-of-dice.html) (there's also a half-size mound, though i'm not quite sure if that's enough since it'll be shared with some others), and i would be able to handle price... If not for the $25 shipping. It'll also likely take a long time before it gets here. I'd LOVE to get this (https://www.dnddice.com/the-full-metal-packet.html), but it's a bit too expensive right now, and again, shipping's too much. There are roleplaying stores over here, but none of them seem to offer a big fat bag of dice, instead "just" selling individual sets, which would push the price way up for a big bunch of them. I'll have to ask my GM if he knows any non-murican places to buy a shit ton of RPG dice. :I
Well it's why I suspect I just have a bad attitude. I'm not inexplicably sad. I know I'm sad because things never meet my standard of being good enough. It's exhausting being an overly critical asshole.I know I'm not in much of a position to speak about the subject of depression but people say I'm depressed and I feel I have reasons to be sad too.
Generally speaking, a good solution for the price of a shit ton of dice is to use electronic ones, but I can understand why you'd want real dice.Ain't the dice price i'm complainin' about. ;o
But then in that case you shouldn't complain about the price you purist buttock. :v
I'm still not sure if I have depression.
Generally speaking, a good solution for the price of a shit ton of dice is to use electronic ones, but I can understand why you'd want real dice.But then the players will think you're using code-fu treachery to finagle the dice.
But then in that case you shouldn't complain about the price you purist buttock. :v
I appear to have acquired a girl of my dreams. By which I mean that I think I've dreamed about the same girl (who I have never met) three times. I feel like you're not supposed to have dreamed about the same person enough to have had conversations with them and a mild crush.Be careful, she may be a succubus.
Also it's gonna be slightly weird if I meet a girl named Thea in the near future.
I happened across an abandoned antique computer. I'm going to donate it to a museum.Apparently all museums that would have an interest in a Teleguide terminal and that I can find with a cursory Google search already have one. Now what am I to do with this rare piece of obsolete tech?
I happened across an abandoned antique computer. I'm going to donate it to a museum.Apparently all museums that would have an interest in a Teleguide terminal and that I can find with a cursory Google search already have one. Now what am I to do with this rare piece of obsolete tech?
I'm confident that I can strike up the conversation tomorrow. I know precisely what I intend to say and everything. Here's hoping!Yay!
I was in a Car Accident (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DEWD5t3vpI)
Yeah... why don't you like... readSo hilariously that's when I crashed my car.
My fault for checking the forums on the way to work. You know the drill, get off the highway, become complacent, next stop- gutterball!
Ironically enough I was planning on buying a new phone tomorrow, and if I'd bought that phone today I might not have been squinting at the cracked screen which could've averted the problem to begin with, albeit with the bigger, overarching "don't use a phone whilst driving" reason.
So, $350 for the incoming tow, had to call in as unavailable to work (it's currently midnight, when I'd normally start), and I, the last person in my household to have a functioning car, have now severed the lifeline we had between cheap rent suburbia and necessities from cbd.
Life is good.
Oh and darkling/images/cake.png
Another wonderful day of being at a total loss for words when I try to talk to my crush.Have they displayed any interest in you? Have you tried literally saying "Hello I'm
On the plus side, I'm now somewhat confident that whatever I may have figured out Wednesday last week (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=43236.msg7178090#msg7178090) is now null and void.
Still, though. It is not fun trying and miserably failing to talk to somebody.
Hand the person a note saying hello, that for some reason whenever you want to talk to them (about [topic]) you become physically unable to do so, and then follow that with the rest of what you wanted to say. It has a decent chance of working out.Heh.
I've noticed that 'everyone' seems to be the common replacement of 'people I interact with a lot, usually daily. Or in the least "Many people" within my experience' rather than actually, literally everyone. :O I take things literally like that and think about them :-[Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I prefer to pull the "important" out of that particular saying, life would be fucking dull if we were only allowed to say important things. In fact, i'm bad at saying important things, i'm much better at being a fountain of ramblings. Hell, let's just say "talk when you feel like it and it isn't inappropriate", we didn't get vocal chords so we could sit around in silence. :vSpoiler (click to show/hide)
What is broken?...The toilet. >.>
I cannot remember the last time I had quiet time. I have work to do. There is just constant noise all the time. The closest I come to having quiet is to blast my ears out with music but that still ends up with me not getting any work done.I know the feel. :v
Transplant the hair from your palms.I don't think hair will grow anywhere on his body after a burn like that.
I spend too much time daydreaming to be creative otherwise :lm8 you have no idea how much this rings true for me
I will have very spotty Internet access for an indefinite amount of time. (It's already been spotty; this and RL have led to my partial absence in the forums.) It's pretty sad to not be able to be on the Bays as much. You guys are the best part of the Internet.*hugs*
I could get more done if I didn't have to socialize to silence the metaphorical screaming in my head. Plus talking to people just make me freak out even more sometimes.I think you could get talk this over with the professionals there? :O As in, it really looks like an important thing to note.
I could write a Death Metal album, it'll be called {"CHAOS" messiness}
Yeah...I could get more done if I didn't have to socialize to silence the metaphorical screaming in my head. Plus talking to people just make me freak out even more sometimes.I think you could get talk this over with the professionals there? :O As in, it really looks like an important thing to note.
I could write a Death Metal album, it'll be called {"CHAOS" messiness}
*hugs Cinder*Well, what instrument do you play, again? You can contribute to the death metal album being made.
If there's anything I can help you with...
Death metal violin...Hmmm.*hugs Cinder*Well, what instrument do you play, again? You can contribute to the death metal album being made.
If there's anything I can help you with...
(Not really though.)Why do you tease us so? :(
Because I don't have an electric violin and music composition software.(Not really though.)Why do you tease us so? :(
@Iron Tomato:*nags you to not give into nagging just because it's nagging*
Its snowing. In October. I love winter.Winter is best season though
Its snowing. In October. I love winter.please dont start snowing here
what is snowa whole lot of unique falling down from the skies
can you eat
Snow is without exaggeration my favorite thing in the entire world. Some of my happiest moments alive were just me, trudging through the snow by myself. I don't know what it is, but even just knowing that it's out there, outside my door, makes me happy. I know that I can't really share this feeling with anyone.You can share it with me. I like snow, too.
what is snowHate, condensed into a cold solid-form. It is actually edible. Some of it.
can you eat
I am too. Until I realise that, giving it a year or two, I will be back to it.It's not so much a case of being sad about finishing it (that is part of it, but I'm an avid re-reader and re-watcher so it doesn't bother me too much), it's because I then begin to think about how completely, utterly dull my life is, especially in comparison.
That reminds me that I keep a five euro bill around in case I want to give it to a hobo or a street performer but I tend to end up feeling too attached to my money to actually give it to anyone. I guess that's more of a mild sad than a WTF thing so I'll crosspost this there.
Playing a random *ahem* "visual novel" online. One of the scenes mid-way through the game has the protagonist saying "I guess playing videogames... only really makes you good at videogames."
Man, I play these things to cheer up when I'm feeling like a socially-inept loser. Don't rub it in. :(
@greatorder:Yeah.Yeah.
Iunno what made me sad, just been generally feeling like shit all day.*hugpats*
@Calidovi:Honestly, I agree with you, if you're already scoring your best on it, taking yet another practice exam is kinda pointless.o_o
Didn't finish my Drunk Fortress turn. :-\
Iunno what made me sad, just been generally feeling like shit all day./me gives his kohai a hug
Who did Calidovi used to be? :PSheep guy.
Seriously wondered where he went off to despite me not interacting with him. :v And yay, it's nice to see them back \o/Who did Calidovi used to be? :PSheep guy.
The person I've kinda been interested in for a few weeks is turning out to be a snobby rich little daddy's girl that believes money just materializes when you need it.IINL confirmed for ATM denier.
Who did Calidovi used to be? :PSheep guy.Seriously wondered where he went off to despite me not interacting with him. :v And yay, it's nice to see them back \o/
( ͠° ͜ʖ ° )Is this one of those, ah, "japanese memes" that I've heard so much about?
We cal lthose amemeIs Lthose something like Cthulhu?
I gue ssma ybe Cthulhu f'thagnWe cal lthose amemeIs Lthose something like Cthulhu?
No,y oum eanC thulhuf 'tagn.I gue ssma ybe Cthulhu f'thagnWe cal lthose amemeIs Lthose something like Cthulhu?
You know, my university is disgustingly easy to breeze through with max or near-max grades compared to some of the stuff I've heard about Eastern Asian ones. I haven't failed a single subject (though there were some times where it was only due to me getting really lucky with choice of examiner), and I've only had one "mediocre" grade in my entire bachelor's 4 year course because I literally did not prepare for the exam (theoretical mechanics are kind of hard to wing), and I have had only max grades since I've entered master's course. It's kind of mildly sad because, while it leaves me a lot of free time, it also doesn't give me a good way of challenging myself.
I guess the lesson here is that I must find and solve my own tasks in that free time (like my scientific studies for my "master's work", IDK how it's properly translated), but it's kind of on the whole another level of difficulty and I still have no concrete idea how I'm going to carry them out, rather alarming after almost three years of thinking.
Oh well, I guess I'll just have to try harder!
...it's that high now? Back when I was entering, I had about 233/300 or so, and that, funnily enough, meant that I didn't get where I wanted to at first - the "Theoretical and experimental physics" faculty, but instead got to the second place I wanted - "Physical-technical" faculty one. Which turned out better for me, since I've realized soon after that I suck at theoretical sciences :DYou know, my university is disgustingly easy to breeze through with max or near-max grades compared to some of the stuff I've heard about Eastern Asian ones. I haven't failed a single subject (though there were some times where it was only due to me getting really lucky with choice of examiner), and I've only had one "mediocre" grade in my entire bachelor's 4 year course because I literally did not prepare for the exam (theoretical mechanics are kind of hard to wing), and I have had only max grades since I've entered master's course. It's kind of mildly sad because, while it leaves me a lot of free time, it also doesn't give me a good way of challenging myself.
I guess the lesson here is that I must find and solve my own tasks in that free time (like my scientific studies for my "master's work", IDK how it's properly translated), but it's kind of on the whole another level of difficulty and I still have no concrete idea how I'm going to carry them out, rather alarming after almost three years of thinking.
Oh well, I guess I'll just have to try harder!
Is not MIFI like turbosuperultramegaalphahardcore? ???
Entering exam scores required are like 95/100 average score for exams.
Try putting ice on it?I don't think I have any nearby, nor anything to hold it on my head without falling.
*hugpats*
Started reading Prequel Adventure (http://www.prequeladventure.com/). Now that I'm really into it and eager to see what happens next... I check the front page and the last update was this time last year. :(Don't lose hope, it's not abandoned outright. Patience will carry us through, yes, it will...
Lackadaisy
Consistently updatedU wot 0_o
Also I forgot to mention but yesterday I spent 3 euros on a claw machine and didn't get anything.From temperature animals, to Cthulu, to the CLAAAW. :P
Someone used a font looking suspiciously close to comic sans on a serious scientific conference poster.What's wrong with Comic Sans? :O
It just kinda looks like a bunch of squiggly lines. Difficult to read. Especially since there was a veritable wall of text on that poster, all in comic sans font.Someone used a font looking suspiciously close to comic sans on a serious scientific conference poster.What's wrong with Comic Sans? :O
Someone used a font looking suspiciously close to comic sans on a serious scientific conference poster.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
N'wah is a fantasy slur, not a cosmic god. :PAlso I forgot to mention but yesterday I spent 3 euros on a claw machine and didn't get anything.From temperature animals, to Cthulu, to the CLAAAW. :P
When I read the title, all I could remember was a Spongebob reference.Someone used a font looking suspiciously close to comic sans on a serious scientific conference poster.What's wrong with Comic Sans? :O
Someone here hates Comic Sans?N'wah is a fantasy slur, not a cosmic god. :PAlso I forgot to mention but yesterday I spent 3 euros on a claw machine and didn't get anything.From temperature animals, to Cthulu, to the CLAAAW. :P
When I read the title, all I could remember was a Spongebob reference.Someone used a font looking suspiciously close to comic sans on a serious scientific conference poster.What's wrong with Comic Sans? :O
At least it's not Papyrus.
Nah, only the skelebros. You may notice that they're the only ones with non-standard fonts. :vThere is also.. Hmm..
The answer to your question is yes.Nah, only the skelebros. You may notice that they're the only ones with non-standard fonts. :vThere is also.. Hmm..
Not sure if he should be mentioned, considering spoilers and not really existing in-game.. or does he?
cloves actually do help, if you have any around chew themyou're my savior
People suddenly going offline in the middle of conversations without any apparently explained reason make me mildly sad.Standard response: "X's computer just exploded."
Slightly funnier response:'X just exploded.'People suddenly going offline in the middle of conversations without any apparently explained reason make me mildly sad.Standard response: "X's computer just exploded."
Very possible, considering the number of wars/asymmetricals happening.Slightly funnier response:'X just exploded.'People suddenly going offline in the middle of conversations without any apparently explained reason make me mildly sad.Standard response: "X's computer just exploded."
Very possible, considering the number of wars/asymmetricals happening.You know, I don't think B12 is so awesome as to have a casual chat with the folks when one is in an active warzone. I'd be more concerned with getting to safety.
A vague sadness that Ned Stark isn't in GoT anymore. He was a great character.It was bound to happen, what with the books and all.
bless him, hes resting with the sacred yams of Ahia NjokuYoooo, ur back! Hi!
Now we need Rubidium.
A vague sadness that Ned Stark isn't in GoT anymore. He was a great character.
That's a theory?!?!?A vague sadness that Ned Stark isn't in GoT anymore. He was a great character.
Wait, has the "Varys snuck Ned out, and used his Cosplay Skills to dress up someone else to be executed in his stead, hence everyone saying 'that face doesn't even look like Ned anymore,'" theory been debunked?
I'm that kind of pseudo-awake where my body is moving and I don't feel tired, but I'm so physically and mentally uncoordinated that I'm not really going to get anything done. Example, I'm typing this post a second time because I hit "preview" and thought that meant I posted it and could close the tab.Just had about the same feeling a few hours ago. Quite... weird and annoying, though I went to sleep after a while. Try drinking tea?
Also, as happens late at night when I'm tired, I'm thinking the worst of myself.
Errrr, I kinda meant in both the books and the series?A vague sadness that Ned Stark isn't in GoT anymore. He was a great character.It was bound to happen, what with the books and all.
It wouldn't fit very well, given Bran's visions of Ned, and their knowledge of his death. Of course, I think that might have only been the books?That's a theory?!?!?A vague sadness that Ned Stark isn't in GoT anymore. He was a great character.
Wait, has the "Varys snuck Ned out, and used his Cosplay Skills to dress up someone else to be executed in his stead, hence everyone saying 'that face doesn't even look like Ned anymore,'" theory been debunked?
Now my WTF is the idea of the fantastic plot twist that would be.
I think the major narrative reason is that Jon Snow needs someone to legitimize his birthright as a Filthy Targaryen. And the only people who could do that are the survivors from the Tower of Joy; IE. Howland Reed and Eddard Stark. Also, I think Sean Bean is still contracted for the Game of Thrones show, despite being "dead". Excluding more flashbacks...Isn't Reed still alive? Besides, now we have Bran for all that stuff. Or it's possible Howland told his daughter.
Isn't Reed still alive? Besides, now we have Bran for all that stuff. Or it's possible Howland told his daughter.Don't want to do a big Song of Ice and Fire derail.... but:
But still, I still have a hard time accepting that unflinchingly proud and honorable Ned Stark would have lied and declared himself a traitor in an attempt to save his life. And the comments people made about his head not looking like him feel like a plot hook.Theory: It could very well be that they killed him out of sight in the dungeons and then substituted a body double for the official execution so that they could actually get a public "confession". It's the worst of both worlds!
Its soo cold out tonight. Why is Halloween always so cold!? ;-;So you can hear the chilling screams better at night.
I need to quit sleeping on my side, every time I do I wake up with my neck stiff in weird ways.I do this, but instead my right leg gets all fucked up and I end up half-limping for the rest of the day.
Ugh. Working with people who don't like working with people is hard. Especially when those people are blanketly uninterested in discussion or compromise. Even worse when you don't have an alternative; when you're stuck working with them, and "Not Doing Anything" basically isn't an option.Story of parts of my life there :(
It sucks to keep being the one who constantly has to compromise, in order to get anything done. >:I
Didn't really need advice in this case. Just some room to rant. :YEep ._. Yeah, I got that when I wrote it, but I wrote it in how the thought went, wherein 'you' became an unspecified pronoun towards me. The fun of being really tired sometimes makes for humorous (and really not humorous x_x) times. Sorry Soli if it came off that way D: It was more me sharing something about myself but then I used 'you' which is common in my thoughts when tired and thinking about stuff, at certain times.
Eep ._.
BAD DWARFYEep ._.
This is how Tiruin's soul is crushed; not with a bang, but with an eep.
not even a vegetable/10Dat's raycist! D:
I really don't know where this belongs. Maybe the Sad thread, but it's for real people with real problems to take care of. It feels more urgent than an idle pressure release.*hugs*
I'm just so fed up with it. I'm warm, dry, and I've just had a big lovely platter of food. All needs are covered. So why do I want to die? Why don't I want to live? Nothing that was worth doing feels worth doing anymore. I know that a feeling is useless. Yet why does it weaken and hinder me so? Why, in heaven's sake, do I want to die, when there are little children dragging themselves along by their parched lips in this world, et cetera?
It seems someone far more worthy should've had my spot in eternity. Maybe it's to teach me something, but I fear the lesson is passing over my head.
There's been a mistake, and this place in the human reality should've gone with someone with the sense to appreciate their blessings more.
I'm just so fed up with it. I'm warm, dry, and I've just had a big lovely platter of food. All needs are covered. So why do I want to die? Why don't I want to live? Nothing that was worth doing feels worth doing anymore. I know that a feeling is useless. Yet why does it weaken and hinder me so? Why, in heaven's sake, do I want to die, when there are little children dragging themselves along by their parched lips in this world, et cetera?
It seems someone far more worthy should've had my spot in eternity. Maybe it's to teach me something, but I fear the lesson is passing over my head.
There's been a mistake, and this place in the human reality should've gone with someone with the sense to appreciate their blessings more.
Been playing quite a bit of Drawception lately, and a theme emerged in one game that was rather entertaining despite me not getting the reference. I asked where it was from and was told to check out some Vinesauce videos on Youtube... I did, I was rather disappointed, and now I'm getting their brain-dead garbage showing up in my (previously rather good) Youtube recommendations. :-\I'm 18, and I've watched all of Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged over a couple weeks earlier this year. Youtube's algorithms now apparently think I'm a weeb looking for hentai.
I mean, this sort of thing has happened before, and after a while Youtube generally gets the idea and stops recommending whatever it is, but still. Mildly distressing. Perhaps I can remove suggestions...
Been playing quite a bit of Drawception lately, and a theme emerged in one game that was rather entertaining despite me not getting the reference. I asked where it was from and was told to check out some Vinesauce videos on Youtube... I did, I was rather disappointed, and now I'm getting their brain-dead garbage showing up in my (previously rather good) Youtube recommendations. :-\If you know precisely what caused the recommendations, you can delete it from your history to fix the problem.
I mean, this sort of thing has happened before, and after a while Youtube generally gets the idea and stops recommending whatever it is, but still. Mildly distressing. Perhaps I can remove suggestions...
As a tomato, I can confirm that tomatoes are just as good as all the other vegetables and also fuck you.not even a vegetable/10Dat's raycist! D:
People are partying here, too.It's a regular special occasion, called "friend weekend", where people can invite their friends over and have a jolly good time. I decided to not be a cranky old man about it precisely because of it being a special occasion, and well, it's not their fault that it's so damn easy to keep me awake. Pretty much anyone else could easily have slept through the sounds. :P
Is it a national special occasion, or is it just another case of students and parties?
You might have Depression or something that causes Depression resembling symptoms. Like, this may be a sincere medical condition. Not a doctor, but I recommend seeing one if possible.
*hugs*
Is there somebody you could talk to about this? A therapist, a friend? Random internetizens?
So hey, Depression has this way of short-circuiting your thinking, particularly about your self-worth, about meaning, about living, etc. It can make you want to blame yourself for all your shortcomings, count all your blessings as undeserved and a reason for self-loathing, and make you ignore or undermine everything you've done well. It can make it hard to see the value in things. Sometimes, it can even make you want to harm or invite suffering on yourself, as a way to correct some cosmic Karmic imbalance... as though your suffering is some payment that should be enacted for some imagined slight against the universe, just by virtue of being yourself.
Here's a thought experiment; would you hold someone else accountable in this same way, if they were in a similar place? Are you upset when other people important to you have the sorts of good things that you have right now? What about relative strangers... say if they were really ineffective people, worse than the way you see yourself right now... would you be upset that they have these things either? If not, why not try to extend the kindness, forgiveness, and generosity you show other people to yourself?
Depression sucks, but it's a temporary state. Once you're feeling better, if you're still bummed about some things in your life that you want to change, brainstorm some ways to make it better. For now, focus on putting one foot in front of the other. It'll get better. And you can make it better too, if you keep going.
Oy. You get your shot in life 'cuz nobody's going to have the same perspective or world experience that you do. Your measure of good, bad, comfort, discomfort are weighed only by you first, you're no less entitled to your own existence for someone else's suffering. Frankly, there's no 'slot in life' at all- the existence of the person that would be you is not owed to anyone, more or less fortunate- nobody but you. It's yours. Your comfortable existence is not counterbalancing someone else's less enjoyable one. You may live well because that existence is the fulfillment of so many people before you- every person doing what they do to make the world a little better for those that follow them.
Your feelings may not be quantifiable, but they do have gravity. Maybe they're not rational, maybe they're the product of a little suffering compounded on a little frustration compounded by a lot of existential disenchantment compounded by a little chemical imbalance in the brain. Probably doesn't make it any easier to deal with, and that's fine. We all end up suffering, and sometimes asking why and finding an answer why isn't enough to sate it. Again, your suffering is no less real, holds no less gravity, in comparison to yon parched child. You compare yourself like that, you end up devaluing yourself and your experience- I've been there. Sure, maybe it sounds a little selfish, but a little selfishness isn't a bad thing. You gotta take care of number one first so that you can fill whatever aspiration you think the person in your 'place of existence' should fulfill.
It sounds to me like you're grasping for a sense of purpose- it's something that doesn't come to people right away. It's something that some people have to go out and find. Maybe finding the purpose is your purpose, at least for now. There's schools of thought that there is no purpose and you may live freely knowing it. There's the idea that we have purpose through our improbable existence and that the chance to laugh in the face of both eternity and probability is purpose enough. Some believe in living well and having experiences, others walk a path for a higher purpose. Funny thing is, you get to choose, choose to live for the choice to live.
And some days you just want to step in front of a bus.
Hang in there, guy.
I just realized that if Trump gets elected, there's no way I'm getting any sleep tomorrow morning. The idiots on my school bus will just argue and bitch about half-remembered facts from sleazy newspapers. Probably at maximum volume. Usually they're quiescent in the mornings, but something on their level of dumbness will have them buzzing like little hornets.
The whining.The reasonable fear.
The president isn't a dictator. The House and the Senate have had disagreements with Trump, and trump in 1998 also said he would ever only go GOP because that their base s so easy to lie too.
We survived Bush, we may be comfortable under Trump.
Though pence can go fuck himself.
I just realized that if Trump gets elected, there's no way I'm getting any sleep tomorrow morning. The idiots on my school bus will just argue and bitch about half-remembered facts from sleazy newspapers. Probably at maximum volume. Usually they're quiescent in the mornings, but something on their level of dumbness will have them buzzing like little hornets.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
For god's sake Trump is in EVERY DAMN THREAD.I never thought I'd be the one to berate people for having no self control, but... people have no self control.
I think I'm taking a break from Bay12.
-snip D:-It's a way of coping with things ._. America is a major power, etc, etc. But if you've to leave, take a nice rest there!
For god's sake Trump is in EVERY DAMN THREAD.
I think I'm taking a break from Bay12.
How is that a sads?Hey, fuck you too :P
Forgot about the internet bill, which was due yesterday.The big thing that helped me with this issue was setting up a second saving account, so I had one saving account that was "saving to invest/save" and another that was "saving to spend". Whenever you get your paycheck or whatever drop at least part of it into that saving to invest account, and then never ever take money out of it (except to invest, obviously). Making the distinction clear right off the bat means you never end up being tempted to spend that other chunk of change on things unless you absolutely are running out of money.
No real drama, but it means I had to yank $60 out of my savings account. I never seem to make much progress saving for things. :-\
Got $60 in cash from my housemates towards it, but I'll probably spend that long before I can be bothered depositing it.
Checked a particular forum game that I applied to, but was not accepted due to the already amazing players (and then there's me :V) and small limit.Try PMing the GM maybe? :O It'll get to you only as much as you focus solely on it.
Was reminded of writing sads, and also just that one of them said that they were really happy with the current state of things player-wise, which probably got to me more than it should've.
See, the trick is to be eternally online, and only try First Come First Served. :PAlso this (And that what I'm inferring is the game isn't FCFS). You can also PM people for a game or prospective GMs can do that if they wish :P
You could also just try one of those games that always takes new players due to slight madness on the GM's part, like Omega Legion.
What I'm trying to say is that you should come play RTDs with us.
See, the trick is to be eternally online, and only try First Come First Served. :PMadness on the GM's part?
You could also just try one of those games that always takes new players due to slight madness on the GM's part, like Omega Legion.
What I'm trying to say is that you should come play RTDs with us.
Yeah, I'm presuming you're inferring correctly, Tiruin. And no, it wasn't FCFS, and I don't even join that many games. I just particularly wanted to get into this game.Checked a particular forum game that I applied to, but was not accepted due to the already amazing players (and then there's me :V) and small limit.Try PMing the GM maybe? :O It'll get to you only as much as you focus solely on it.
Was reminded of writing sads, and also just that one of them said that they were really happy with the current state of things player-wise, which probably got to me more than it should've.
And if I'm inferring right, your best option is actually PMing the GM :P Because y'all can then make many nice stories and conversations that way (And then there's you also being an amazing player but giving yourself a lot more slack than what is really needed). As a past GM myself, it is very stressful when you've got epic sheets submitted to your game and there's lacking slots. :'( So don't come out of it with sads at your own efforts because everything you did thus far is important.
It's just like being placed in a queue. You're no less than everyone else in that line.
But yeah. Player limits. Bop those thoughts that make your reasoning unreasonable, and place them in their context boxes so they won't spill over onto everything else. :P Thoughts are like liquids in that manner, they get everywhere they aren't better suited if not placed in something...that hold them, which is your mind?
/me just realized how badly tired she is and how that's related to the thread :ISee, the trick is to be eternally online, and only try First Come First Served. :PAlso this (And that what I'm inferring is the game isn't FCFS). You can also PM people for a game or prospective GMs can do that if they wish :P
You could also just try one of those games that always takes new players due to slight madness on the GM's part, like Omega Legion.
What I'm trying to say is that you should come play RTDs with us.
...but I really need to sleep if I'm going to get up ridiculously early in the morning to get to this daft "job" I'm expected to do.THIS IS WAY TOO EARLY TO BE AWAKE WHY AM I AWAKE ARGH
NOT AGAIN BLEUUUGH...but I really need to sleep if I'm going to get up ridiculously early in the morning to get to this daft "job" I'm expected to do.THIS IS WAY TOO EARLY TO BE AWAKE WHY AM I AWAKE ARGH
haDat pun :P
Think gay instead.;D
Think gay instead.No, think bi, it's the best of all the sexualities.
Think satan instead.Thank Santa. Goblin Santa.
One of my doggos died at some point last night, waiting for someone to bring a shovel over so I can bury her. Only mildly sad because she was just old, not hit by a car or anything.My pet rat died a few months ago. I wasn't even there, we were on vacation.
My Pokémons are in the mail and didn't arrive today, which means we won't get them until Monday. For some reason past-me thought this was a better arrangement than just buying them at a store. Past-me was a jerk. >:[
Everybody I know is actually stupid and I hate the Internet forever.I know the feels. You try and be friends with people because you are a creature with an instinctual need for socialization but it's hard 'cause the Internet (especially social media) is always throwing their stupidity in your face and rubbing your nose in it. Life's hard, man.
Got roped into a conversation about race-policing and "you can't use that word" and yadayada on facebook. One of my closest friends argues a lot of the same points that keyboard-warrior SJWs and ivory-tower communication scholars do. Everybody I know is actually stupid and I hate the Internet forever.
please don't suffocate people, TBFbut
There's a motherfucking piece of shit fly in my fucking room goddamnit.A parent-copulating insect composed of feces? In your room dedicated for copulation? Sounds good. No need for Armok to smite or damn it; it's copulating right where it should!
*is an annoying ass-bastard*How do you type with hooves?
with xkcd, obviously*is an annoying ass-bastard*How do you type with hooves?
I don't understand how people interact with strangers.By interacting with people who care what you have to say to begin with. Common interests and all.
Like you're apparently supposed to pretend they care about what you have to say, even though they don't, in order to build enough rapport for them to actually care about what you have to say? But it's annoying to bug people with things they don't care about?
How did I even manage to have friends
I do social interaction by... in Afrikaans it's called 'picking up stompies', which are cigarette butt
I don't understand how people interact with strangers.
Like you're apparently supposed to pretend they care about what you have to say, even though they don't, in order to build enough rapport for them to actually care about what you have to say? But it's annoying to bug people with things they don't care about?
How did I even manage to have friends
True enough, I suppose, but not always true. I sit next to someone who has some very interesting things to say on history every now and then.I don't understand how people interact with strangers.
Like you're apparently supposed to pretend they care about what you have to say, even though they don't, in order to build enough rapport for them to actually care about what you have to say? But it's annoying to bug people with things they don't care about?
How did I even manage to have friends
What people really want is for other people to listen to them talk.
I for one prefer when people actualy talk back :U, I hate the feeling of having someone completely passively listen to me.
Yesterday, I tl;dr'd a couple of weird's posts, and then a couple more, and today I just skipped 6 pages or something in the ameripol thread.That is a good idea and I approve of it.
I should probably just go back to not reading it at all.
Code Lyoko (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Lyoko) is still criminally underrated, and I just discovered that the sequel series got canned after one season, on a cliffhanger. :(Would love to watch this online if ever possible .-.
Scholarship essay, I have to write about something I did that benefited the school/my community/all mankind/the multiverse. I can't think of a single helpful or important thing I've done in my life. The best I can think of is to exaggerate my aborted attempt at a Python tutorial series that didn't even break ten minutes of content, and make it seem like that was a selfless dedication of my time to the betterment of others.Probably-not-so-great advice: Write about how you haven't done anything like that, focusing on why. Whether you'll even be considered will on the instructor judging it, I imagine, but it might be your only option.
Maybe I should have volunteered or something, instead of shitposting on Bay12 and not finishing anything I start.
Scholarship essay, I have to write about something I did that benefited the school/my community/all mankind/the multiverse. I can't think of a single helpful or important thing I've done in my life. The best I can think of is to exaggerate my aborted attempt at a Python tutorial series that didn't even break ten minutes of content, and make it seem like that was a selfless dedication of my time to the betterment of others.
Maybe I should have volunteered or something, instead of shitposting on Bay12 and not finishing anything I start.
Very late reply but personally I get a bit annoyed when people expect me to tell them about myself and be the one talking.I don't understand how people interact with strangers.
Like you're apparently supposed to pretend they care about what you have to say, even though they don't, in order to build enough rapport for them to actually care about what you have to say? But it's annoying to bug people with things they don't care about?
How did I even manage to have friends
What people really want is for other people to listen to them talk.
Very late reply but personally I get a bit annoyed when people expect me to tell them about myself and be the one talking.
The adage of 'don't go looking for it and it'll happen' doesn't apply well when there's nobody around.Know. The. Feel.
It's just, I don't know. I'm socially expected to lead in the matter without seeming desperate while also playing it as a numbers game where I lose every time and even still I'll never know what I'm doing wrong, if anything, because I can't even get a response one way or another. The silence feeds the isolation, but there's nothing to do about it but keep trying.
I should add of course that I know I'm not required a response or obligated one, that's not how these things work. My post does come off that way and I fear I'm thinking about it in the wrong light, but then I'm not sure if it's a valid point to be disheartened without it being conflated with some expectation that I get a response. Shit, I don't know how to feel about this.*hugs more*
Yes, it's annoying that the pressure is off women to be docile and passive whilst the pressure is only mounting on men to be outgoing and desensitised to disappointment.all the this
Honestly sometimes with all these relationship troubles I'm actually honestly tempted to break up with my boyfriends just to prove to people that you don't need other people to be happy.You could think about what you're planning more. Like, how are they connected and why you're doing it like that for this "point". Because yeah, that is pretty much a dumb thing to do to 'prove that "point"'.
But that might be a douchey thing to say...
Wait, did you say boyfriends, plural, Cinder?Check Cinder's signature.
Wait, did you say boyfriends, plural, Cinder?Check Cinder's signature.
I'm just saying that I feel like people ignore it when I say it's important to be able to be independent, because I'm dating people.Did...those people mention that kinda correlation between everything before the comma, and the thing after the comma? :O
But if I wasn't dating people, then I wouldn't really be that sad. Like, I'd be sad if me and Flame and BHK broke up for some reasons, but I wouldn't be sad because I'm alone per se.
OTP = OT3. :PWait, did you say boyfriends, plural, Cinder?Check Cinder's signature.
Oh. I never looked up what "OT3" means.
*pats Yoink*Just the same old thing, needing to make big (by my standards) life decisions yet having no idea what my best option is.
What happened?
Argle bargle death of romanticism.Whatchu mean?
element 115 hasn't been named Elerium.
No comment from Bob Lazar.element 115 hasn't been named Elerium.
Mass XCOM retcon time~
element 115 hasn't been named Elerium.
Mass XCOM retcon time~
element 115 hasn't been named Elerium.but it has been named Moscovium
New YouTube thing where they start showing ads for other videos before the old one is over is veeeery annoying.
How well can Internet cookies track your online behaviour? This well. (http://clickclickclick.click) Considering pretty much every site throws one (or more, if you haven't disabled third-party cookies) at you these days, I'm starting to understand how targeted advertising really works.
I was going to say that I don't really understand people's annoyance on ads, but the Chromecast ad is starting to get on my nerve.
I started blocking ads over a decade ago. My reasons are the same as that fellow's.
X-Men Apocalypse was ... disappointing. It had the potential to be a really interesting conflict, but just ended up kinda boring, cliche, and boring cliche. The fact that they have Jean Grey as a thing that exists is also saddening.Also it kinda sorta had really shitty character development, progress, and portrayal through it all. Which sucks.
fucking deus ex machina bullshit with no narrative justification special snowflake character stencil
I would do this, if my computer wasn't so infected with horrible adware that if I turn my adblocker off on pretty much any site that isn't bay12 or youtube I can't really do anything but BUY NOW.I started blocking ads over a decade ago. My reasons are the same as that fellow's.
I do too, but I make special effort to whitelist all the sites I can, particularly those of content creators who make stuff I enjoy, on websites with a good track-record of avoiding annoying ads.
If I can't donate to them in other ways, I'm happy to be served ads I can ignore to help them make a living.
You say that like you think I haven't already thought of that :PAre you sure it's not your moden that is infected?
I could probably get like, a professional devirusing or whatever, but I have a better security software in place now, and AdBlocker stops pretty much everything, and I can turn it off without having total ad problems, it's just sites like Deviantart give me terrible ads. It really depends on the site itself, but I'm fairly sure I did miss some adware. I have spent a lot of time scouring through files to find it.
Never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie
He said "it's all in your head," and I said "so's everything," but he didn't get it
Who lost the game :DYou did.
You won the game!There are no winners.
What type of food?Indian curry from one of those great, budget-friendly Hare Krishna restaurants. :)
Who lost the game :D
What type of food?Indian curry from one of those great, budget-friendly Hare Krishna restaurants. :)
Who lost the game :D
I managed to finish it all, don't worry- although it's technically an "all you can eat" thing. Just imagine, some mad person could actually go back for more after devouring that big plateful of rice and veg curry (two different kinds). Boggles the mind, that does. Not to even mention the dessert, which was a bowl of some kind of crumbly pudding/soft cake and custard (presumably vegan?). The whole thing was good, if a bit too far on the mild side for my liking. They try to cater to everyone with the same meal, after all, even total wimps.
Oh well, it was very cheap and very good.
Dang it, why can I never decide on a setting?!
I got halfway through designing a detailed, thoroughly researched setting for a hypothetical play-by-post Pathfinder game based on Viking Age Scandinavia, when suddenly, I want to write a campaign about Golden Age pirates.
Why does this always happen? It feels like I'll get nine tenths of the way through a Shakespearean Renaissance-type setting when I want to set a campaign in the fictionalized High Middle Ages. I'll get most of the way through writing a plot for a modern-day espionage story when suddenly I want a Victorian story about detectives and top hats and moustache-twirling Gilded Age corporate presidents. I don't think that I've written out an entire setting that I'm satisfied with in like two or three years.
You sound like you had halava.Yeah that was my first thought, but halava's a pretty broad category from what I'm reading so I don't know what it was specifically.
Also we aren't typically vegan.
Excessive sleep can actualy cause headaches (http://www.headache-help.org/sleep-disorders-and-headache) and make you feel tired (http://www.health.harvard.edu/healthbeat/are-you-tired-from-too-much-sleep), so, yea :UThat actually explains a good portion of my summer, thanks.
AND NOW I DON'T EVEN GET TO HAVE A SHOWER WHICH MEANS I WON'T SLEEP AT ALL TONIGHT BECAUSE I CAN'T SHAKE THE FEELING THAT I'M COVERED IN MY OWN FILTH AND SWEAT AND UGH...
I'm fine now, I actually got to sleep last night but it wasn't comfortable.I'm glad you were able to get to sleep. :)
What happened last night was completely my fault for over-reacting like I always do.If there's things about yourself that you want to change, well, some of them are changeable more easily than others. Personally, how I react to situations - and how I feel about them, in some cases - has been one of the easier things to change, though I assume that isn't necessarily the case for everyone. (I don't think that applies to depression, for example)
You'll find it one day. That bumper sticker shall be your white whale.
I need to work on my saucery skills. I tried making roux today. I botched my first attempt, creating some unholy greasy horror. Second try, I was more careful, but nothing tasty became of it before I got help from my mother. Why is the simplest sauce, literally just butter, flour and water, so hard to make?
I have a whole bunch of genius comments lined up but Imgur is over capacity and won't let me post them.
I need to get back to drinking. I'll probably forget them all if it doesn't work soon. :'(
Hey Bork, what happened to your avatar??Which one?
The most complicated thing you need to do is port-forwarding, as far as I know. I've never actually tried running a modded server, but the executable is just, click it and there's a server.Make your own server???I could run a local one. That's as willing as I'd be to go because if anything goes wrong, I would have NO clue how to deal with it.
And my brother's both ill, and from my understanding not entirely on board with the idea of playing it.
RIP Leia.
So, I've reached a point of absolute boredom. All the things I want to do I can't.
Voar.io has been offline for two years.
Modded Minecraft multiplayer isn't an option presently. (seriously, TBF, I can't even port forward. I've tried before, it has failed every fucking time for reasons utterly unknown to me)
I don't want to play any of the vanilla factions in ETW, and the modded ones can't be played thanks to bugs.
Don't feel like playing any paradox games.
I only like modded Rimworld now, but there's something dodgy as fuck going on making it impossible to get my guys to do anything with some mod. They just wander around, all I can do is tell them to move places when drafted.
Can't watch Youtube because nobody is uploading right now.
So, I've reached a point of absolute boredom. All the things I want to do I can't.Well that's weird. Are you getting any sort of error message?
Voar.io has been offline for two years.
Modded Minecraft multiplayer isn't an option presently. (seriously, TBF, I can't even port forward. I've tried before, it has failed every fucking time for reasons utterly unknown to me)
I don't want to play any of the vanilla factions in ETW, and the modded ones can't be played thanks to bugs.
Don't feel like playing any paradox games.
I only like modded Rimworld now, but there's something dodgy as fuck going on making it impossible to get my guys to do anything with some mod. They just wander around, all I can do is tell them to move places when drafted.
Can't watch Youtube because nobody is uploading right now.
Does your brain give error messages?Ha.
"I literally couldn't lift my leg high enough to step into the shower" apparently means I just have a low pain tolerance, I'm taking medicine for a quick fix and I just need this dank nugs and grease-drenched pizza diet plan.FTFY
I ordered a burrito and a beer in this restaurant before noticing the garbage music playing and fucking die argh fuckThis is late, but it's sometimes possible to connect to a restaurant's PA via Bluetooth and change the music.
Whatever that was, you sure edited it out quickly. :/
I recall seeing it as it was posted and...it seems to be the more common 'random thought that seemed so true until I thought about it more'. :P Fun with mental focus that way.Whatever that was, you sure edited it out quickly. :/
Eh, I was saying some cringeworthy edgelord shit that I didn't really mean because I was in a bad mood. Life sux, idealism is dead, altruism never existed, that kind of thing.
I watched it. Honestly, I could get past the animation. I liked it. Mainly because I couldn't get into the novels no matter how hard I tried. Really hate that I couldn't, but meh. Yeah.I wish I had money for most things outside of basic needs and other stuff .-. While not poor, I've a list of novels I'd love...or at least game novels given the accessibility. >_<
Our furnace is not working.Ask your mother to make roast or stew or the like for dinner. An excuse to keep the oven on for most of the day.
Ah, I remember that pre-University hatred of turning up.If you think about it university is the opposite of work.
I can't wait til the 30th so I can get back to work.
In the West, you pay money to the university. In Soviet Russia, university pays you!Ah, I remember that pre-University hatred of turning up.If you think about it university is the opposite of work.
I can't wait til the 30th so I can get back to work.
You have long vacations, but you pay money to work your ass off.
Wow, that's disrespectful. On the plus side, you [won't be|weren't] farting from beans during the house inspection. :PGood point, that is true.
What?Anyone suggest viable places for emails? ._. I've been feeling the same given several notices of security compromise so...wondering if I should just change my email altogether.
Yahoo has been going downhill for a long time, they've finally fucked up so much that I can no longer access my email accounts.
You may have to peel the drippings off, especially with the stickiness and gravity pulling the rest down. :OSpoiler (click to show/hide)
I will likely never have any of these, and that just saddens me.
Relevant Xkcd (https://xkcd.com/936/)
Steam Store changed its design again, and now it's even more awful! It looks like they're trying to make Steam Store look like Win8 interface!Wha? Huh?
Meh. I don't mind. I don't even get the hate for the windows 8+10 interface. It's an aesthetically pleasing interface.Aesthetically, it's alright, for using a computer, it's not quite.
I'm one of those people who don't really care about interface changes so long as they aren't awful open source UIs too.
Why do people listen to music without headphones? It's like "No, I can only enjoy my music if I'm bothering other people, and if anybody asks me to turn it down I'll get really butthurt"the same people who when they wear headphones have the volume up so loud you can hear it from across the room.
You people use Bluetooth headphones? 3.5mm audio out is the only true way to do it, and with decent headphones not earbuds. Reeee.
But seriously, I've never understood why people are so into Bluetooth everything.
Why do people listen to music without headphones? It's like "No, I can only enjoy my music if I'm bothering other people, and if anybody asks me to turn it down I'll get really butthurt"Are we talking phone speakers, or a decent portable speaker?
I have advice, but it involves copper wire and ten thousand volts.
I have to be up practically 24/7 to get any kind of peace and quiet, since everybody else's sleep schedule is apparently as fucked up as mine so there's always somebody awake at all hours of the day. It's like some kind of machine, I have to find the right gaps where the cycles all line up so I can sit on the couch and just not hear the sound of another person's voice.Are you me? Like goddamn, all I want is some alone time. But naaaaw. Ain't happening.
The APA style tutorial our teacher provided is some kind of Flash slideshow made in 1993 with Adobe Presenter. It's hosted on a seperate website but served in an iframe on the school's online learning system. The content is over an insecure connection, while the school's website is secure. That means that every browser and their mother is going to block it. Trying to go to the content itself doesn't make it load either, it just gives me a server error.why didn't they just link to the website https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ so much easier.
tl;dr it doesn't fucking work.
I'm tempted to just turn in 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR for this essay, and every forthcoming essay.
I used to be all for technology in education but now I just wish they'd just give me a piece of paper with the directions. It's clear that if you try to make schools do anything with websites or the Internet they'll just end up hurting themselves.
The EU agrarian commission does not see why it should make an exception on the label rule, even though the farmers have no choice but to keep their chickens cooped.
Dutch government is looking if it is possible to clear the mandate, although bird flu experts say it is probably too early to do that.
It's sad, because it hits those farmers who have been willing to invest in animal welfare, while not affecting the less animal friendly farmers.
The incentive itself is fine. The lack of leniency for special circumstance is perverse
Yes. You can.Rage with friends; talk with people. Let that grow into understanding to handle the situation or at least handle your feelings in facing similar situations. :P
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I never thought I would want a Rage Thread.
I like coffee, provided there's not too much/too little cream and sugar. It's just that anymore, I can't have a lot of it or it makes me pretty sick and uncomfortable. Caffeine also just seems to make me really tired after an hour or two, instead of imparting energy like it used to.Coffee doesn't work for that long. Coffee gives a strong but short caffeine alertness peak. For more long term caffeine effect, drink the various black tea melanges. Although the effect is less of a kick, it does last longer.
I beat MGS4.
I was kind of on board with this game, until the final parts of act 4. It was campy and kinda dumb at times, but I felt like I was following it and could tell why people liked the series as a whole. Then during act 4 it took a left turn and lost itself in speeches about fate and sin and destiny and ones and zeroes and memes, and never recovered.
I've played MGS1 and 2.You're missing out. MGS3 is a lot of people's favourite (mine included) for a good reason. Naked snake, best snake.
I keep not wanting to buy a PS2 or 3 though. MGS3 is probably the only thing I'd play on either console if I owned one, I only played MGS4 because I could borrow a PS3. I have a 3DS but that version looks terrible.You own a 3DS, don't you? There's a MGS3 port for it. Controls are a little clunky, but the game is still really fun.
A lot of the big Playstation exclusives just don't appeal to me, MGS3 is like the only thing I'd ever use it for. And maybe Silent Hill 2 but that's still a whole console for just two games. :-\
I keep not wanting to buy a PS2 or 3 though. MGS3 is probably the only thing I'd play on either console if I owned one, I only played MGS4 because I could borrow a PS3. I have a 3DS but that version looks terrible.You could try emulation. Not sure how well MGS3 works emulated, though.
A lot of the big Playstation exclusives just don't appeal to me, MGS3 is like the only thing I'd ever use it for. And maybe Silent Hill 2 but that's still a whole console for just two games. :-\
My Human Development class sucks. I dislike people and I like children even less, and the teacher really emphasizes memorization of words and figures rather than thinking about things. Also we cover about 3/4ths of the material in the textbook on our own time, despite it being a full-length lecture class with no in-class activities or practice at all.Concrete details over abstract ones :P That's how people build their knowledge base--down-up, and while this liking can and possibly will affect how connected one can be to what's being taught or what'll happen, I hope it goes well?
There's apparently a Vive first person shooter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a2O3wHEd0Q) out there.
This is the first time I've like, really wanted VR. But $800... you could get a solid computer for less than that.
I feel tired and sad.Me too.
And yet you remain unbanned by the toad so, good job, keep it up.
...What did you do?And yet you remain unbanned by the toad so, good job, keep it up.
I was disrupting /pol/
I remain on my best behavior here, though. I will do my best never to anger the toad.
From what I know of /pol/, they could have angered a literal Nazi Mod......What did you do?And yet you remain unbanned by the toad so, good job, keep it up.
I was disrupting /pol/
I remain on my best behavior here, though. I will do my best never to anger the toad.
People throwing food in the halls and shrieking like demented baboons.
I often wonder how some people can so fervently deny our place as animals.
People throwing food in the halls and shrieking like demented baboons.
I often wonder how some people can so fervently deny our place as animals.
-snip-Ok, maybe it's me but...I've been hearing stuff like these from people about university in America and...are things really like that about quality at times? o_O Just curious because it's pretty weird seeing that happen.
The American university experience is paying tens of thousands of dollars in tuition and then not getting free printing at the library.-snip-Ok, maybe it's me but...I've been hearing stuff like these from people about university in America and...are things really like that about quality at times? o_O Just curious because it's pretty weird seeing that happen.
> disrupting /pol/
Did you set hell on fire, too?
I keep starting to write things here (here as in Bay12, or even just the internet at large, not this thread in particular), start thinking otherwise, and end up just not posting anything even though I've been writing for 15 minutes and there's no reason to be worried (i.e. I'm not saying something personal or controversial). Just go on a tangent and then delete it in defeat.Ctrl + a; open Notepad++ (or download it :D); Ctrl + v; save it and don't delete it ever. Notepad++ even saves stuff if you're feeling not-really-good about saving the whole thing. :P
I miss when /pol/ was full of genuine fringe loonies and not just neocons plus edge plus butthurt.
I mean I basically already do this (I've got a file 5000 lines long and going strong storing just random thoughts). It's just that most of the time it's something I don't think contributes much. Maybe it was a one-off thought, maybe I spent 15 minutes fact-checking it (I hate being wrong), but no matter what it is, sometimes when I get to the post button I just, don't feel like saying anything anymore.I keep starting to write things here (here as in Bay12, or even just the internet at large, not this thread in particular), start thinking otherwise, and end up just not posting anything even though I've been writing for 15 minutes and there's no reason to be worried (i.e. I'm not saying something personal or controversial). Just go on a tangent and then delete it in defeat.Ctrl + a; open Notepad++ (or download it :D); Ctrl + v; save it and don't delete it ever. Notepad++ even saves stuff if you're feeling not-really-good about saving the whole thing. :P
Do it for the future to help yourself now to develop techniques you've got in facing whichever deeper down causes that stumble of deletion of thought into word.
I made nacho cheese and it didn't really turn out. It's thick and grainy, not at all like the beautiful, artificial squeeze-bottle goodness I was promised from pictures of the recipe. Also it's really sharp becaue I used sharp chedder instead of medium like the recipe said.Squeeze-bottle does not describe something I'd put on nachos. Queso is good, and yellow fake cheese is an abomination.
For just a moment longer, I'll have to go to Taco Bell to clog my arteries with fake cheese.
The way you wrote that immediately reminded me of this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzfNrkJ-3mE). Remind me not to accept any mayo from you :PMGS pls
I had the same grief with bordernalds 2
This is mild because it's completely selfish, but I really want this drought to end so water restrictions lift. I'm sick of only showering twice a week.Shower once a week for a refreshing change of pace.
Washing on the line got rained on.That's just God saying "you missed a spot," then continuing to say "Ah, never mind, I'll get that for you."
Plz don't that, people. Sun Tzu sucks.
Yeah, I mean, according to records, Sun Tzu most likely lost a battle and died. I'm not saying that your advice all become invalid if you fail once, but clearly it didn't help the man so much either.That's why all those people should quote Alexander Suvorov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Suvorov), instead. Won over 60 battles, lost zero, defeated armies outnumbering his own many times with low casualties on his side, including one case where the other army was defending in a fortress, and died in bed from illness. Probably the best general Russia has ever had. And his advice is pretty seriously different from what Sun Tzu offers - his method is not of deception and mind games, but of careful, thorough preparation and intense drills, and then a very fast attack, crushing the enemy along with their "tricky" plans. Very cool.
That's why all those people should quote Alexander Suvorov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Suvorov), instead. Won over 60 battles, lost zero, defeated armies outnumbering his own many times with low casualties on his side, including one case where the other army was defending in a fortress, and died in bed from illness. Probably the best general Russia has ever had. And his advice is pretty seriously different from what Sun Tzu offers - his method is not of deception and mind games, but of careful, thorough preparation and intense drills, and then a very fast attack, crushing the enemy along with their "tricky" plans. Very cool.Ahh but where people go wrong is in thinking that the specific tactics of war carry over. They don't. Wikipedia says Suvorov died in 1800. Can you remember any of the details of warfare in 1800? That's before trenches, machineguns, air power, radio, combined arms, and so many other innovations without which a war today cannot be fought.
There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.
"You win war by winning."QuoteThere is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.
A quote that was wrong before it was even said.
I sense your life may differ from mine.
Getting laid and drinking aren't two events normally associated with me :P
....It is?Getting laid and drinking aren't two events normally associated with me :P
Lol, well that's college in America for you
I've been lead to believe that it's true, and unless the world is engaged in a very elaborate plan to fool me, I have reason to believe people do get invited to sexual intercourse and alcohol (although I believe this is generally an implicit invitation). Strange to believe, I know, but it does apparently happen.Not to everyone.
Try harder, then. You do usually have to put in a bit of effort, y'know?Apparently.
(Honestly I think the legal age for any drug should be 21 all 'round...You know, at roughly the point where it doesn't get to play havoc upon developing brains.)Oh, that's a horrible idea. You know what's great about letting kids drink? Their parents are still around. So you start by sharing a beer or two that somebody smuggled away from his parents, then you start having a couple beers a night, but no liquor, since that's hard to get... Usually one of your friends has permissive parents, so you'll get the stuff before you're legally allowed to buy it yourself. But whatever you try, a responsible adult is never that far away, and you're usually in a safe environment, so nothing really bad can happen. The absolute worst would be puking your guts out, but your parents' wrath will keep a check on that, too.
Seriously, I have no idea why I hate it so much, nor how I might hope to induce reasonableness in the next generation. I have absolutely no intuition of the subject whatsoever, and I feel like all discussion of alcohol ends up tracing back to how the participants in the discussion were raised and how they felt about it; essentially, entirely based on intuition rather than numbers or statistics about what's best for kids and teens.Ah, be careful. My mum's like that, and her very stringent anti-alcohol stance made my relationship with the stuff a bit... complicated. Less would have been more in this case.
(Honestly I think the legal age for any drug should be 21 all 'round...You know, at roughly the point where it doesn't get to play havoc upon developing brains.)Oh, that's a horrible idea. You know what's great about letting kids take LSD? Their parents are still around. So you start by sharing a tab or two that somebody smuggled away from his parents, then you start having a couple dozen micrograms a night, but nothing too intense, since that's hard to get... Usually one of your friends has permissive parents, so you'll get the stuff before you're legally allowed to buy it yourself. But whatever you try, a responsible adult is never that far away, and you're usually in a safe environment, so nothing really bad can happen. The absolute worst would be a bad trip, but your parents' wrath will keep a check on that, too.
And so by the time you're on your own, living in a big town, buying your own groceries, studying or whatever, LSD is just another thing. It's not a taboo to break, and having a bad trip is not a way to prove your independence from your parents - it's just a way to embarass yourself in front of your friends, showing them you can't handle your LSD.
TL;DR: LSD is a cultural thing, so people need to learn how to deal with it. Being introduced to it slowly and under a degree of supervision is preferrable to ostrich tactics.
Tried to find someone to learn playing harmonica from, did not manage to. :(
If LSD use was wide-spread and an ingrained part of our culture, making eradication impossible, the above wouldn't be all that bad, no?(Honestly I think the legal age for any drug should be 21 all 'round...You know, at roughly the point where it doesn't get to play havoc upon developing brains.)Oh, that's a horrible idea. You know what's great about letting kids take LSD? Their parents are still around. So you start by sharing a tab or two that somebody smuggled away from his parents, then you start having a couple dozen micrograms a night, but nothing too intense, since that's hard to get... Usually one of your friends has permissive parents, so you'll get the stuff before you're legally allowed to buy it yourself. But whatever you try, a responsible adult is never that far away, and you're usually in a safe environment, so nothing really bad can happen. The absolute worst would be a bad trip, but your parents' wrath will keep a check on that, too.
And so by the time you're on your own, living in a big town, buying your own groceries, studying or whatever, LSD is just another thing. It's not a taboo to break, and having a bad trip is not a way to prove your independence from your parents - it's just a way to embarass yourself in front of your friends, showing them you can't handle your LSD.
TL;DR: LSD is a cultural thing, so people need to learn how to deal with it. Being introduced to it slowly and under a degree of supervision is preferrable to ostrich tactics.
This is what most alcohol discussion reads like to me, except I know that alcohol is worse for you than LSD, because all actual evidence points to that.
If LSD use was wide-spread and an ingrained part of our culture, making eradication impossible, the above wouldn't be all that bad, no?(Honestly I think the legal age for any drug should be 21 all 'round...You know, at roughly the point where it doesn't get to play havoc upon developing brains.)Oh, that's a horrible idea. You know what's great about letting kids take LSD? Their parents are still around. So you start by sharing a tab or two that somebody smuggled away from his parents, then you start having a couple dozen micrograms a night, but nothing too intense, since that's hard to get... Usually one of your friends has permissive parents, so you'll get the stuff before you're legally allowed to buy it yourself. But whatever you try, a responsible adult is never that far away, and you're usually in a safe environment, so nothing really bad can happen. The absolute worst would be a bad trip, but your parents' wrath will keep a check on that, too.
And so by the time you're on your own, living in a big town, buying your own groceries, studying or whatever, LSD is just another thing. It's not a taboo to break, and having a bad trip is not a way to prove your independence from your parents - it's just a way to embarass yourself in front of your friends, showing them you can't handle your LSD.
TL;DR: LSD is a cultural thing, so people need to learn how to deal with it. Being introduced to it slowly and under a degree of supervision is preferrable to ostrich tactics.
This is what most alcohol discussion reads like to me, except I know that alcohol is worse for you than LSD, because all actual evidence points to that.
Example: Smoking opium in areas where that's a traditional thing is very different from smoking opium in a Western country.
Ah, be careful. My mum's like that, and her very stringent anti-alcohol stance made my relationship with the stuff a bit... complicated. Less would have been more in this case.Well my mother said very little at all. Perhaps if I got caught reeking of alcohol or something she would have changed her tune, but she was pretty solidly in the "don't be stupid, have fun" category. And that led to both of her children becoming teetotalers. Where does that fit in your schema?
I mean, LSD has been pretty prolific in the scientific community, and has lead to some pretty ground breaking stuff. (see DNA) Everything in moderation, but i think it's an odd double standard that people are so ok with fucking with thier biology for anything even mildly medical related, but so averse to doing so for any other reason.
There's a coyote in the woods not far away that just won't shut the fuck up. Neither will our dog. I really just want to sleep(https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5470122de4b04bcdd4867706/t/56419615e4b01b8e03483b8a/1447138848401/)
There's a coyote in the woods not far away that just won't shut the fuck up. Neither will our dog. I really just want to sleep(https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5470122de4b04bcdd4867706/t/56419615e4b01b8e03483b8a/1447138848401/)
I'll bet a fiddle of gold against your soul that i'm a better fiddler than you!
There's a coyote in the woods not far away that just won't shut the fuck up. Neither will our dog. I really just want to sleepThey're having a doggy d'n'm.
I want to eat something insanely decadent and unhealthy. Like, "Hamburger with stuffed pizza slices for buns" levels of heart disease. Sadly, no such food is forthcoming at four in the morning.Wait, what? Where do all the drunks get gigantically packed kebabs early in the morning where you are?
The shitty tile-based Q function approximation is absolutely refusing to work. Fffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu I need something better.What are you implementing it in?
I just went to 3 different stores looking to buy a Nintendo Switch and everybody was out of stock. There were other stores I could have checked as well, but it had already been two hours and I wanted to die.
I thought that by waiting a full week it'd be easier to get one, but according to Mr. Gamestop, they've been slowly trickling in and being sold pretty much instantly.
Yeah, I know, trust me. I actually already bought a screen protector for it while I was out just in case they didn't have it later, since I heard that pretty much immunized your switch to dock-scratching, and I am aware of the wrist strap issue.I just went to 3 different stores looking to buy a Nintendo Switch and everybody was out of stock. There were other stores I could have checked as well, but it had already been two hours and I wanted to die.
I thought that by waiting a full week it'd be easier to get one, but according to Mr. Gamestop, they've been slowly trickling in and being sold pretty much instantly.
Personally, I would recommend you wait for Nintendo to release a better version of the switch which doesn't suffer from the hardware issues this first release is having. You may have to wait a bit but that way, you don't accidentally end up with a potential paperweight.
Still, if you insist on buying one, make sure you are aware of as many hardware issues as possible and how to compensate for them. Some issues I'd like to point out specifically are the dock scratching the screen, and the putting on the wrist straps getting stuck if you put them on the wrong controller.
Anyway, one final tip. If you find that the switch is defective in some way (such as having dead pixels), you can get it refunded at the store you bought it from and possibly get a new non-defective switch.
Matlab for training and Warcraft 3 for demonstration. I think I've isolated the problem to the discretization being too rough, but there's nothing I can do about it, because Warcraft 3 can only handle arrays of size up to 8192 elements.The shitty tile-based Q function approximation is absolutely refusing to work. Fffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu I need something better.What are you implementing it in?
Couldn't sleep for more than 4 hours because stupid nose keeps leaking >_<
I don't know how, but I ended up with X-Com: UFO Defense on Steam. I used to play it all the time for hours on end in high school, so I figured I'd give it a go once again.
It's not as good as I remembered, putting it nicely.
Get Openxcom.Yeah, the vanilla version hasn't aged very well. I can confirm that OpenXcom improves the experience dramatically, since it adds a shitload of features, bugfixes, rebalances and the like and also makes the game much more configurable.
Was about to sleep. Suddenly thought about Yume Nikki in the form of a vague half-dream of all the freaky events in that game, none of which will ever be explained. Theories provide plenty of half-depressing, half-terrifying fuel. I will not be sleeping well, fuck.
That's... a thought. Bats aren't exactly common in this area, though. Even a decent amount of cave systems in the area, but few bats. Pretty sure things eat them. Something like that. Can't recall what's suppressing the population in this region.
... also somewhat doubtful having a bat house around here would be particularly healthy for the bats. We have more than a few cats in the neighborhood, heh.
Hmm. I've been debating playing this after I play OneShot... but it's pretty hard to play, I take it? I could do without nightmares, but I rather like surreal horror as a genre.
Frumple: I've avoided them so far, but we're still kinda chilly here. Y'all need a bat house on your property. They do good work. >_oPlease tell more o_o We have mosquitos in the dozens here, and electronic warfare (...we've got an electric swatter!) doesn't do much >_>
Frumple: I've avoided them so far, but we're still kinda chilly here. Y'all need a bat house on your property. They do good work. >_oPlease tell more o_o We have mosquitos in the dozens here, and electronic warfare (...we've got an electric swatter!) doesn't do much >_>
In relation to the thread, I hear them everytime while I sleep. I cannot sleep well because of this.
Reading narrative format X-Com (old and new) LP's has made me want an X-Com TV show more than I already did. I doubt it'll happen, the fervor seemed to die after newcom 2. Dunno what the plot would be except the same damn thing that has happened in every main X-Com game to date (kill -> research -> kill bigger thing, until you kill the biggest thing and win). I'd still like to see it, though.X-Files style investigative duo trying to figure out what's happening and how, if at all, their strange findings relate to the alien menace and their nature and goals. I may have just described Supernatural.
I kill flies/wasps/bees/annoying bugs by using an old-fashioned method: The Palm of Death! But yea, try vacuum cleaner if your religion/morality doesn't allow it.Don't wasps sting you if you hit them with their hand? How do you avoid getting stung?
I kill flies/wasps/bees/annoying bugs by using an old-fashioned method: The Palm of Death! But yea, try vacuum cleaner if your religion/morality doesn't allow it.Don't wasps sting you if you hit them with their hand? How do you avoid getting stung?
Why not just make documents on your desktop and stick essays and things in there? That's what I do.
So make one folder, prepend an underscore, and put your documents in it.
Did a dance of death with a wasp. Lost. Now huddling in my chair in a thick coat and hoping the stinging needles of doom don't descend from their kingdom by the light.Protip: don't use crisp packets to try and capture a wasp. Use a glass, and a postcard. Failproof.
((In other words, I tried to capture the wasp in a crisp packet to get it outside. Killing it goes against my personal philosophy of killing nothing. When I failed, I think I made it angry.
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Why is this thread so dead?
Are you all suffering less minor annoyances and upsets these days, or are you just tired of posting about them?
Same!yay tiredness buddies *high fives weakly*
Why is this thread so dead?> No posts for 2 days
Are you all suffering less minor annoyances and upsets these days, or are you just tired of posting about them?
Even if the thread did die, you can always necro it as long as you're within good reason. Compared to other forums I've lurked on eons ago, people here at Bay12 are pretty lax with necroing and always encourage it for megathreads and such.
Why is this thread so dead?> No posts for 2 days
Are you all suffering less minor annoyances and upsets these days, or are you just tired of posting about them?
> Dead
Even if the thread did die, you can always necro it as long as you're within good reason. Compared to other forums I've lurked on eons ago, people here at Bay12 are pretty lax with necroing and sometimes even encourage it for megathreads and such.Negative or anime threads never die.
Those changes will come the way of patches over the next two months, and include additional character creator options, improvements to male romance options for a male protagonist, adjustments to Hainly Abrams' dialog, and more animation improvements.
>meme arrows were originally used for quotes
>mfw
what have we come to?
>not calling them comedy chevronsYou're doing it wrong.
>using the wrong shade of green
>mom's spaghetti
You're doing it wrong.>Doesn't even color his chevrons
>jpg.mfwYou're doing it wrong.>Doesn't even color his chevrons
>Tells me I'm doing it wrong
>jpg.mfw
Had two really interesting, story-driven dreams with plenty of action during my nap earlier, decided at the time that I didn't remember enough for it to be worthwhile recording them, and now they are pretty much entirely forgotten. One of them is, anyway.
I really need to get back into the habit of keeping a dream journal and forcing myself to write down my dreams immediately upon waking, but it's just so much effort. :-\
I'm a big fan of Steven Universe but every now and again they have episodes that are based on a main/recurring character going absolutely insane. I can think of 4 separate episodes where non-villains kidnap someone else and then put that person's life in danger (one character has done this twice. To the same person). I can also think of two episodes where someone tells a very large lie to get into someone else's pants. Usually but not always those episodes result in a slap on the wrist.Its only dumb if they're human too. You can always still idolize fictional characters :vThat could be really bad.
I've read books where a pretty decent character does some stupid shit which just makes me cringe and sigh.
(https://68.media.tumblr.com/a080c15df46a8cf5c32bdff9b5d3f66c/tumblr_ommklrea3y1tk8ivso1_500.png)I'm a big fan of Steven Universe but every now and again they have episodes that are based on a main/recurring character going absolutely insane. I can think of 4 separate episodes where non-villains kidnap someone else and then put that person's life in danger (one character has done this twice. To the same person). I can also think of two episodes where someone tells a very large lie to get into someone else's pants. Usually but not always those episodes result in a slap on the wrist.Its only dumb if they're human too. You can always still idolize fictional characters :vThat could be really bad.
I've read books where a pretty decent character does some stupid shit which just makes me cringe and sigh.
A person I really admire and wish I was more like is being dumb and oversensitive in an internet argument that they started and IMO are on the wrong side of.
Having personal heroes is dumb.
Fucking animals.please don't
I went to the mall so my little kid could play in the indoor playground area and there was almost literally no one else there let alone any other kids.That is pretty sad, actually. :-\
It was sad, because I remember it being a fun place with lots of people.
I dunno, that sheeps been looking pretty tasty lately :v
I dunno, that sheeps been looking pretty tasty lately :v
What are you, Welsh? :P
-snip-Huh, just before reading this I started listening to some synthwave album titled "romantic collection". Clearly it's somehow relevant, so here (http://lost-angles.com/album/romantic-collection-2).
Awwwwwww :3 Come on, give us some gossip, I live for the stuff...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udbz-_7xtJM
Kaz posted on April 4th that updates to Prequel should resume before the end of the month. It is now April 30th and no update. I don't know what I expected but I'm still kinda sad about it.Have you checked lately? Not a main update, but theres something.
Is cold. Waaah.
By "chat icon" do you mean their avatar, or is the icon in question elsewhere on the internet?
Avatar sorry :PIs it the Chairman's? :P
Given I never use a Avatar I forgot the name (I should change that... >_< but boy would people laugh at the one I currently use)
Avatar sorry :PIs it the Chairman's? :P
Given I never use a Avatar I forgot the name (I should change that... >_< but boy would people laugh at the one I currently use)
That one is wonderfully creepy.
And yes, an avatar is a good idea. You're well-known here anyway, but avatars are cool, why not have one?
I doubt anyone would laugh at your avatar, no matter how ridiculous. Ridiculous avatars are to be admired, not mocked. At most they might laugh with it.
Avatar sorry :PIs it the Chairman's? :P
Given I never use a Avatar I forgot the name (I should change that... >_< but boy would people laugh at the one I currently use)
That one is wonderfully creepy.
And yes, an avatar is a good idea. You're well-known here anyway, but avatars are cool, why not have one?
I doubt anyone would laugh at your avatar, no matter how ridiculous. Ridiculous avatars are to be admired, not mocked. At most they might laugh with it.
Well maybe I should PM someone the avatar I am thinking of and let them decide how bad of an idea it is.
I got paid two days ago and I've already spent $40 on ebooks and a game. Fuck.Oh, how very well I know that feeling. Commiserations.
When introducing somewhat toxic chemicals to your body, make sure your body has what it needs to deal with your decision.
Until some jerk animal decides to kill you for no reason, and there's nothing you can do about it because you're a plant.Plus your blood smells beautiful.
Nobody's ever told me that before, but I like the sentiment.Until some jerk animal decides to kill you for no reason, and there's nothing you can do about it because you're a plant.Plus your blood smells beautiful.
Pretty sure the word is 'dossier'.Perhaps "hit list"?
I had a bunch of notes on Bay12ers baack when I actually cared about being popular. Didn't help so much.Th4DwArfY1: Is a git. Kill on sight.
> Implying that's not what it says on everyone's entries.I had a bunch of notes on Bay12ers baack when I actually cared about being popular. Didn't help so much.Th4DwArfY1: Is a git. Kill on sight.
Antidepressants are not meant to be an end all fix to your problems.
Of course you've grown tolerance
trying to argue with flat-earthers
Not incorrect on the first part, dunno about the second.Antidepressants are not meant to be an end all fix to your problems.
Of course you've grown tolerance
Yeah, why do I figure you are in the "Antidepressants are bad!" boat?
The fact is that antidepressants are the kind of medication that goes "Better to treat the symptoms than nothing". You need to do other stuff alongside them. Lifestyle changes, therapy, whatever it is.
OK, so apparently me saying that antidepressants aren't a cure and stuff needs doing alongside them means that I'm part of the anti-antidepressant crowd.
Nice to know that about me, hadn't realised I was against antidepressants.
Neo, if I'm honest, this is one really, really fucking annoying thing about you: You strawman the fuck out of people. You'll make a whole personality for you to attack from the basest amount of information, which means that either you're attacking an imaginary version of them, or you have such amazing insight you're able to see so deeply into people with one comment that you know them better than they do.
Unless paired with something, antidepressants won't fix the base problem.
That place is not as a cure, but as symptom relief so you are actually able to get on with finding the cure for whatever ails you
So what you're saying is that no matter what, depression is only aggravated by exterior problems?
The issue with that is you can track down a lot of shit to something. If X triggers depression, X is viewed as the cause, because while mechanism Y is causing the effects, X caused mechanism Y to trigger.
It's like saying that your nose is blocked because you have a cold, then someone saying "No, actually, it's because your body's releasing histamines in the nose". The cold virus caused the mechanism to trigger, so the virus is accepted as the cause of the cold.
So, to go back to antidepressants: Doing X causes your depression. Taking antidepressants will fix the mechanism, it won't by any means fix X. Granted, yes, there are situations where nothing obvious caused the depression, it just decided "Hi, fuck you today!" and you spend the next 3 months feeling like you don't want to go to work, school or whatever, and the next 6 after that feeling only marginally better. But those instances aside, antidepressants will not fix the problem. You'll need to do something else. Note I've never said "Take therapy because that's the only course of action to fix your brain!" because I know that the cure will vary from person to person and cause to cause.
That place is not as a cure, but as symptom relief so you are actually able to get on with finding the cure for whatever ails you
I've been diagnosed with a "depressive personality type". There is no real cure. Ż\_(ツ)_/Ż
Not to mention you are putting the fault not getting better on the person. As well as blaming my tolerance towards one brand of antidepressants on my "Not trying to get better" regardless of any other circumstances.
Not to mention you are putting the fault not getting better on the person. As well as blaming my tolerance towards one brand of antidepressants on my "Not trying to get better" regardless of any other circumstances.
He never did any of that... he was saying antidepressants are best accompanied by other therapy, not accusing you of not doing such things. O.o
Antidepressants are not meant to be an end all fix to your problems.
Of course you've grown tolerance
... just defending his right to basically police people's need for it.
... just defending his right to basically police people's need for it.All these conclusions you're jumping to are making me wonder if you wouldn't be better off on antipsychotics than your current medication to begin with.???
Relax, Neon. No-one's putting you down or belittling you for needing antidepressants. Many of us are in the same boat, and I'm pretty sure most if not all of us are supportive of such issues. I personally don't know enough to offer advice as to the potential tolerance issue, but I hope it works out and you feel better soon.
I wonder how much money someone could make by writing online dating blurbs for people.
Could always trawl the dating profiles for people with shitty blurbs and offer to rewrite it for them.
I've tried not to complain about my group projects this term because I gripes about them all last term, but I have reached my limit.Don't you need a PAID version of MSOffice to be able to edit Word files? Or does OpenOffice allow for docx editing / conversion now?
One of my group members can't use email. She literally cannot unless she's at home, where somebody probably foolproofed her computer for her.
The other can't add to Word documents. Never realized, in all the days we've worked on this, that she could open the document I sent and type her part after what I had written.
I think I can safely claim no fault for the fact it is now late.
Kitty i helped mom hand-raise hasnt been seen for two days. We all fear the worst. He didnt seem to like to stray far from home, and its not safe to out here in the wilderness.Did you check all crevices while calling it? Kitties have a tendency to get themselves stuck in those. But yeah, 2 days. That's a long time to go without food and water.
Just as a bonus, ive been feeling extra shitty and lonely in general. Really wish i had some sort of positive relationship. Its been hard to stay focused on work too.
Aughhh today is the most frustrating day and I'm 100% certain I work 4th of July. I don't have the schedule that far ahead but I feel it in my bones.
Are there any countries that have absolutely zero holidays, seasonal practices or preferred vacation times? How would I go about moving there?
So I've been trying to get my mom to contact my old psychiatrist in order to find out what my old medication was that worked VERY well because otherwise I'd be on drug trials for possibly years!Did you pay for it with insurance? They might have kept records (disclaimer: I have no idea how that works).
I kept asking her for it over and over again and she avoided it on and on. Years gone by.
I finally get somewhere today and OOPS! She retired this year!
-_-
I think the question is whether one's depression comes from brain chemicals or one's circumstances. Usually it's a combination of both but bad circumstances can bring out the latent depression in someone who wouldn't have issue with it if their life was better, for example. And then there's people who is just depressed from the way their brain is wired. Those people definitely need antidepressants because no other things will help, because the issue isn't with where they are and their life, it's about them losing the genetic lottery.
Great life? Weren't you in prison for a while?
Does MDD stand for manic depressive disorder?The manic part of bipolar disorder (the name used for it nowadays, instead of MDD) is usually worse than the depressed part. When you are manic, or working up to manic, in hypomania, you will do all kinds of stupid stuff, trust people you shouldn't trust, lend out your credit card to strangers because they looked like they need some friendly help, and since the world is beautiful and flowers, why not help them out, right? Invite that junkie from the street corner in because he begged with such a friendly voice, only to find out a few days later he nicked your laptop and your children ("I was wondering why it was so quiet in the house"). Once it progresses to a full blown mania, you will not just 'feel happy'. You will be delusional, seeing / hearing / smelling things that aren't there. The manic side of the MDD coin is very comparable to a psychosis (and is in fact often treated with anti-psychotic meds). If you have never experienced that kind of mania, it's more likely that the depression stems from other causes.
I sometimes feel as though I might have something along those lines, although I've managed to keep up quite a prolonged period of happiness lately, despite a couple of hiccups.
Side note, but I've heard someone describe their mania as "I feel like I could go out and buy a new car, right now, with no money."There's a lot more to that. :O
I saw a link to Notch's old blog which reminded me of 0x10c and how it will never be made which made me sad because it was a great game concept.We could always.. Like.. make our own 0x10c
Work was hell today. No rest, no play.Gone to serve the Great Ones, in the Null. No death, no light, no rest
My eyes are feeling quite tired all of a sudden, after having a shower in preparation to go out later. I've been drinking cup after cup of black coffee all day. Damnit caffeine why must you fail me so?!
Perhaps turning the heater off will wake me up a bit... or inspire me to hide under some blankets instead of leaving the house. 😕
Fakeedit: holy carp, can you guys see the emoticon at the end of that paragraph?
If I remember correctly, Tiruin is studying psychology at university.I'm actually a graduate as of May 27 :3 so anyway if anyone has problems with what I say or mention, please bring it up anyway because how will I learn :P
Yoink, caffeine burns your energy stores faster. You feel more energetic at first, then you run out of fuel.+1 to this. Stimulants do that :3 also are mildlymildly moving to nudge your tolerance and dependency on them.
Have you considered buying some popsicles, shoving them up your ass, washing the sticks, and then reuseing those?The problem is that nowadays most popsicle sticks in popsickes for sale are of low quality and not really useful for recycling.
Why is it so impossible to find popsicle sticks for sale?
Everywhere I go, they just say "try a craft store/try a dollar store", but those places only sell craft sticks, which are generally not food-safe and are in no way guaranteed not to be dirty, splintery, and/or treated with chemicals that do not belong in a human mouth.
I've had this popsicle mould for over a year and have not been able to use it, because in all that time I have not found a single store that carries sticks intended for making popsicles with. It's hot outside and it's making me sad that homemade frozen treats are beyond my grasp. :'(
Why not use disposable plastic forks/knives/spoons? Or your own silverware, if you don't mind losing them for a while?The thought did cross my mind, but the moulds I want to use are a bit small for a spoon or fork work, and I have some doubts about how well it would adhere to a plastic knife...
Life is short, come play forum games with us! ;)
Eh, people change. Forums aren't exactly something that a person stay permanently on. I mean, not even Toady One can call himself a Bay12er these days.Yeah, I know what you mean. I've definitely changed since I first signed up in November of 2013, but if anything I think I've come to appreciate the culture here more than I did three and a half years ago--the small size and friendly atmosphere is much more pleasant after all these years and seeing all sorts of other internet communities. Just the sheer willingness to honestly care about other users that I've seen here is phenomenal.
There are no longer Naked Chicken chips at Taco Bell. I might have to eat real food when I'm at work now. Press F to pay respects.Real food is good tho
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O, why must that which I love most cause me such bountiful distress along with joy? Alas.You should cut back on the burritos.
/me laments.
Had my fancy goldfish less than a week and they're showing signs of white spot*. Caught it early so I should be able to deal with it no problem, going to go buy medication tomorrow. Still annoying and a tad upsetting, I like the little bogglers and it would be a shame if any died, especially since one was picked by my nephew and he'd probably be upset if it wasn't here next time he visits.Mutated golden carp aren't very robust are they, they seem to die rather easily.
*White spot is a parasitic infestation. It burrows into the skin of the fish leaving little white scabs, from which the baby parasites emerge and then later infect more of the fish. 100% lethal untreated. :(
Had my fancy goldfish less than a week and they're showing signs of white spot*. Caught it early so I should be able to deal with it no problem, going to go buy medication tomorrow. Still annoying and a tad upsetting, I like the little bogglers and it would be a shame if any died, especially since one was picked by my nephew and he'd probably be upset if it wasn't here next time he visits.Mutated golden carp aren't very robust are they, they seem to die rather easily.
*White spot is a parasitic infestation. It burrows into the skin of the fish leaving little white scabs, from which the baby parasites emerge and then later infect more of the fish. 100% lethal untreated. :(
Theres always alcoholic mango juice to smooth out the decision making processwhy would you ruin mango juice
Is anyone having trouble with steam today? Mine is running ungodly fucking slow and rebooting both Steam and my PC hasn't done anything to help it. Combined with listening to my burnt-from-too-much-pot Grandma never stop fuckin' prattling on and on and on about how hard her life is, and I'm getting a raging headache.
Edit: omg seconds after this someone on discord told me a fix im cry so happy
Looks like I'm going to have to find a new laptop soonish. I'm pretty sure the harddrive is dying, if its not the motherboard itself. That issue with 100% disk usage despite doing nothing and thereby not being able to accomplish anything in less than ten minutes has become ever-present, not to mention none of my issues with windows 10 have been remedied by anything I've tried (programs and games still crash without warning, error message, or reason, almost like clockwork)
Maybe I'll find something cheapish and install linux/ubuntu on it and figure out how to run windows in a partition or whatever.
It actually hasnt been, to my knowledge. I never see it there at the top when i look at task manager. Task manager just reports 100% diak usage at all times, even when theres only one program using 0.1mb/s and nothing else going on.
No idea what caused my ass to go haywire, but it's fuckin leaking. Not just the meaty chunks....Didst thou forget to lubricate thy deodorant stick this morn?
Whereas making a character who only exists to be a waifu is a shitty practice.well shit, looks like I'm out of ideas for character designs then
My 'w' key on my keyboard is broken badly and only seems to work 15% of the time or so. It's bad enough that I have 'w' saved on a notepad that I can copy-and-paste when necessary. I removed the actual key and cleaned underneath it, but that didn't seem to work (even pressing the little pad underneath it is inconsistent) and I can't find where I put the key itself. I wonder how expensive it would be to get it fixed...
My 'w' key on my keyboard is broken badly and only seems to work 15% of the time or so. It's bad enough that I have 'w' saved on a notepad that I can copy-and-paste when necessary. I removed the actual key and cleaned underneath it, but that didn't seem to work (even pressing the little pad underneath it is inconsistent) and I can't find where I put the key itself. I wonder how expensive it would be to get it fixed...
Noticed that some medicine I was taking was described as a "soft gel." I thought this meant it was a chewy capsule. It was not. I bit down on it and it popped, spraying foul medicine. The taste was horrifyingly bad and lingered for what felt like forever. And it'll be at least another six hours before it kicks in.
Did someone legitimately tell you "better accept companionship now, and fast, before you end up alone"? That's bizarrely rude and just an odd sentiment to be directed at a man.Weird gets that a lot unfortunately.
My toe hurts.I hurt toes.
I'm hungry.
I think you may have confused Europe for the United States of America. It's an easy mistake, I know. They're both on the same planet.
Turkey is not in Europe.
Russia is more european than turkey.
Like, professionally, or as a hobby?My toe hurts.I hurt toes.
Russia is more european than turkey.Turkey is native to America
You're talking about Europoors. In a continent there will always be a few countries that can't keep their shit together.I think you may have confused Europe for the United States of America. It's an easy mistake, I know. They're both on the same planet.
Europe is REALLY not doing any better (some are doing FAAAAR worse... such as Turkey)
Um, Scandinavia? They're all doing pretty well, no one talks about them because there's not really anything interesting to talk about countries run with a competent government.
Pretty much any country in Western Europe, barring Greece, really.
Italian standard of living is higher nevertheless
Yeah but you mentioned dire straits. Barring the refugee crisis and Greece shitting its pants and the famine in countries wrecked by WWII, most of the issues with Europe are old issues which are getting better while the states is getting worse.Pretty much any country in Western Europe, barring Greece, really.
As... doing particularly better than the US or that is having political problems?
Since Italy, the country that still suffers from widespread corruption, is in there.
(https://68.media.tumblr.com/7a29192385f209085193fa73b8593c27/tumblr_o8vq2yu5Xy1tayeo4o1_500.png)What show is that from? Seems like it has a nice art style.
To be fair this is said by a magic warrior woman whose race is responsible for most of humanity's problems.
What show is that from? Seems like it has a nice art style.
Or I suppose, how huge her *single* unresolved emotional issue is.
That ship, is despicable.Or I suppose, how huge her *single* unresolved emotional issue is.
Which is that she'd even go after mayor dewey if he had pink hair?
ummmm.proxy violence is a fantastic stress reliever.Video games are a much better way for proxy violence than small animals
Violence and ager, frustrations often get shifted into other endeavors.
Some might say that ... you invest your psychic energies into other activities and thus sate your id at the expense of creating the potential for cogdis when you must confront these suppressed feelz?
As a general rule, I don't believe in things involving psychic energy, as cool as it would be
Also the main reason I don't believe in magic healing rocks or astrologyAs a general rule, I don't believe in things involving psychic energy, as cool as it would be
The huge lack of evidence supporting theories of psychic energy is pretty noticeable.
i am aghast.
you know its a term for mental energies and not telepathy, yes?
its used as a measure of motivation and focus and mental acuity
It'd be cool to see a large-scale study done on the effects of acupuncture. Take four groups of thirty random people. One group gets acupuncture, one group gets nothing, one group gets anesthesia, the last group gets anesthesia and acupuncture. Compare results of feelings of wellness, general pain, anxiety, whatever acupuncture fixes.Control group gets nothing, group A gets a pharmaceutical drug or other previously-proven method, group B gets acupuncture, group C gets a placebo sugar pill, group D gets a placebo of being randomly stung with needles. Interview subjects before and after either in person or with questionnaires, using researchers different from those who applied the treatments/"treatments". Collate the results, publish findings.
Too bad it's impossible to double-blind, yeah?
Or here is something...
Have one of the groups get fake Acupuncture.
It does everything Acupuncture does but the needle points need not be the correct ones.
Pillars of eternity is a very interesting game, but I'm kind of disappointed that the game engine seems to railroad me towards dumpstatting resolve.... which is really important rp-wise. I can avoid that if I go chanter, since chanter chants are independent of stats barring int so I can dumpstat other stuff. But it feels a bit lame, in part because I'm unsure as to what a chanter actually is, in part because in most battles I dont really get to do very much
Nah, a level 1 DnD character is pretty much better at everything than you are, because they are the hero of the story and you're some dude. You probably have less HP than a level 1 wizard.
that chickThis. Very much this. It's a big reason I'm such a skirt-chaser.
Haha... that was basically my sole source of motivation for quite a while, and things apparently dying off in that area is doubtless the main reason I am currently feeling so, uh... whatever.that chickThis. Very much this. It's a big reason I'm such a skirt-chaser.
You had me at food.Aren't you the weirdo who prefers mashed potatoes (as delicious as they are) to rice 'n' beans? :P
Just don't go to Scotlandthat chickThis. Very much this. It's a big reason I'm such a skirt-chaser.
I am also one of those weirdosYou had me at food.Aren't you the weirdo who prefers mashed potatoes (as delicious as they are) to rice 'n' beans? :P
All those nutrients as opposed to just a heap of dairy and starch! I love mashed potatoes, too, but rice and beans are great.
The beauty of rice&beans isn't as apparent to those who haven't done a vegetarian stretch, or have vegetarian tendencies... They don't know what they're missing (;You had me at food.Aren't you the weirdo who prefers mashed potatoes (as delicious as they are) to rice 'n' beans? :P
All those nutrients as opposed to just a heap of dairy and starch! I love mashed potatoes, too, but rice and beans are great.
Women too, if they would, you know, talk to me.That's why it's called skirt-chasing, and not 'shooting skirts in a barrel'. Maybe also because that's sort of a Frankenstein metaphor, but still.
I'm pretty sure people use the block function much less than you think. I've never used it for example.
Also, this is a little hypocritical, but I'm glad someone on bay12 acknowledged me even a little. I was starting to wonder...To be honest I'm kind of glad to
@Neonivek Hang in there ): I really worry that someday you'll quit bay12, and that would make me very sad.The irony of this statement saddens me, considering what happened just 20 minutes after it...
hung over.
wine.
woozy feet
work nao
no lunch packed
send help
send water
send a sick day
I was searching for Meta knight. However, somehow i mistyped Meth Knight instead on a website(The original had no results of the search).It's Naruto Shipping den all over again.
I immediately searched for the same thing at Google. The punchline? Too few jokes about it(Well, there was one... but it's probably a mistype).
Had some difficulty doing ten pushups. Wow, I've slipped.
Life is just a long series of broken dreams and abandoned forum games.That is going in my sigs
I can see clearly now, the formatting's gooone(this part isn't being sigged btw)
Yoink, you wanna send that cold back up to Wisconsin? We're ready for winter.WOOOO, WISCONSIN BUDDIES!
Goodbye Neo, you were a forumite to remember@Neonivek Hang in there ): I really worry that someday you'll quit bay12, and that would make me very sad.The irony of this statement saddens me, considering what happened just 20 minutes after it...
Hah! Had my 'told you so' moment today.
My neighbor flat out refused to believe me when I told him I am spotting European hornets in my back yard.
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EDIT: also lol. Emergency service overreaction. Police, ambulances, fire services and even a police helicopter were dispatched to rescue the victims. They searched for the 5th victim for like 2 hours and only found his slippers. Then it turned out he had gotten in his car and checked himself into hospital.
Thinking about haiati getting destroyed, yet again, can those guys ever just catch a break?They just did, I think.
Thinking about haiati getting destroyed, yet again, can those guys ever just catch a break?A break is the only thing Haiti CAN'T catch
To be fair they're probably the ones who used voodoo magic to call all hurricanes in existence to attack America.Thinking about haiati getting destroyed, yet again, can those guys ever just catch a break?A break is the only thing Haiti CAN'T catch
In new Mild Sad, I did that thing again, where I wake up before my alarms ,then try to get a bit more sleep so as to stay on schedule, then wind up snoozing the shit out of both of them and sleeping in. Damnit.It's 7:20 am and I've been awake for a while. How very bogus.
I guess in future I should probably just stay up once I wake up, if it's within an hour or two of the intended time. Less disastrous consequences, at least. Not that I have anything I need to do today, but I'm just very protective of my sleep schedule.
Also there are plenty of things I should be doing today, I guess. Like buying furniture.
Nah, no mental disabilities, just some developmental problems.Sometimes I forget the two terms are actually different,
And we knew there would be certain difficulties. He has trouble chewing certain foods, had never napped on a cot, etc. A lot of children have issues the first time, everything will be fine :)
Nah, no mental disabilities, just some developmental problems.Sometimes I forget the two terms are actually different,
And we knew there would be certain difficulties. He has trouble chewing certain foods, had never napped on a cot, etc. A lot of children have issues the first time, everything will be fine :)
A Song of Ice and Fire: The Conclusion.
Do not try to clear your sinuses with fresh jalapenos, it just lights your mouth on fire and then you have a cold and are also on fire.stealin this
stealin thisJust don't put it in your mouth.
Also, I may be misreading that, but did you write a book? If you did, that might actually be worth its own thread rather than a megathread post.No, sadly - it is as Heydude said, I was/am simply reading a book that was stressing me out somewhat in its final pages.
I s'pose that's a solution, and my GM might even be okay with it. Alas, i need to practice my social skills, be they in a real or fictional situation, and i'm not above having a giggle at my own misfortune. :v
Humm, today in Shadowrun group it was plainly evident why i'm really bad at face (social) characters. My mind's normally quite occupied with a lot of thinking, but as soon as the matters turn to something where saying the right thing is relatively important, everything just grinds to a screeching halt and leaves an eerie silence in my noggin. I still had a lot of fun, but goddamn, it ain't easy to pretend social grace when anxiety slam dunks the mental brakes. :vI have never GMed Shadowrun, but maybe a workaround is giving 'luck' through your persuasion rolls. So you still look silly if you mess up but it doesn't interact weirdly with your character's supposed skill.
It's too cold to wear sandals now. And that's bad. Really bad. What I mean by that is, "hesitated between this thread and the sad thread" bad.Define 'too cold'. I wore sandals well into december last year, down to about 5C (admittedly, with socks)
...I still go bare feet...
Wait a second, I was almost sure I'm the only one who thinks any footwear that doesn't let you stack your toes on top of each other at will should be labeled as a torture instrument.
It started snowing today. Its all melted away now, but this is a dangerous precedant.
I wore sandals well into december last year, down to about 5C (admittedly, with socks)I was gonna have a go at you for wearing socks and sandals, but after some consideration I realised that wearing sandals at all isn't much better.
...I still go bare feet...
I get yelled at by my wife for running about in 40 degree weather in shorts. I would probably go barefoot if society would let me.
Wait a second, I was almost sure I'm the only one who thinks any footwear that doesn't let you stack your toes on top of each other at will should be labeled as a torture instrument.
It started snowing today. Its all melted away now, but this is a dangerous precedant.
Okay, officially screw you and your opinions.I wore sandals well into december last year, down to about 5C (admittedly, with socks)I was gonna have a go at you for wearing socks and sandals, but after some consideration I realised that wearing sandals at all isn't much better.
Seriously, WTF is with all these people actually admitting to wearing sandals? Who does that?! I could probably put my reaction into the WTF thread but I suppose it makes me sad as well. If you wanna be a hippie and free your toes from the oppression of proper shoes, toughen the hell up and go barefoot, damnit! After a while you get thick, waxy callouses on your feet, it's lovely.
Don't half-ass it and wear sandals, thereby flushing the last scraps of your dignity away! Might as well just throw on khakis and a polo shirt as well. :P
Barefoot is nice when you don't live in a city with broken glass and other sharp things everywhereI wore sandals well into december last year, down to about 5C (admittedly, with socks)I was gonna have a go at you for wearing socks and sandals, but after some consideration I realised that wearing sandals at all isn't much better.
Seriously, WTF is with all these people actually admitting to wearing sandals? Who does that?! I could probably put my reaction into the WTF thread but I suppose it makes me sad as well. If you wanna be a hippie and free your toes from the oppression of proper shoes, toughen the hell up and go barefoot, damnit! After a while you get thick, waxy callouses on your feet, it's lovely.
Don't half-ass it and wear sandals, thereby flushing the last scraps of your dignity away! Might as well just throw on khakis and a polo shirt as well. :P
Barefoot is nice when you don't live in a city with broken glass and other sharp things everywhereYeah, the war against shoes was already lost a century ago. You know the situation's bad when even a crosswalk's paint, which should be one of the softer things on the ground, feels wrong against your feet.
I get yelled at by my wife for running about in 40 degree weather in shorts. I would probably go barefoot if society would let me.I'm going to assume that's in Fahrenheit. Because That's outright unbearable in Celsius.
But... how? What does that mean? I can't even stack my fingers on top of each other, all I do is just bunch them together a little.
I can't do that. At most I can put my big to on the index toe.Hey now, you can't call me a mutant until I start talking about my shoulders.
Go away creepy toe mutants!
I can't do that. At most I can put my big to on the index toe.Hey now, you can't call me a mutant until I start talking about my shoulders.
Go away creepy toe mutants!
But... how? What does that mean? I can't even stack my fingers on top of each other, all I do is just bunch them together a little.
I'm sorry but reading this all I can imagine is scriver slowly looking down at his fingers and crossing the index and middle finger with dawning amazement spreading over his face.
I can't do that. At most I can put my big to on the index toe.Hey now, you can't call me a mutant until I start talking about my shoulders.
Go away creepy toe mutants!
I can pop my thumb out of its socket and wiggle it about. Good party trick.
Doctor says I'm anemic, and I have to keep doing yet more tests to figure out why. Here's hoping it's not bleeding in the intestines! Why did he have to say it could be bleeding in the intestines, now every minor gut flutter is making me worryBecause if its iron deficiency anemia, there are only two real possibilities: either you're not absorbing it (ie celiac disease) or you'e losing it (ie bleeding). Really, most IDA causes rest within the gut.
Doctor says I'm anemic, and I have to keep doing yet more tests to figure out why. Here's hoping it's not bleeding in the intestines! Why did he have to say it could be bleeding in the intestines, now every minor gut flutter is making me worryBecause if its iron deficiency anemia, there are only two real possibilities: either you're not absorbing it (ie celiac disease) or you'e losing it (ie bleeding). Really, most IDA causes rest within the gut.
Ah, but your missing the most important part.Spoiler: Just throwing this out there... (click to show/hide)
+Social prestige
+Taste
Beans:Funnily enough, despite the extreme flatulence they're supposed to cause, I've actually noticed a marked improvement in my digestion since I started eating heaps of baked beans - and they're supposedly the most flatulent of all bean-varieties, right?
+Posterior orchestration
Meanwhile Prequel finally updated..... And it's a giant flash game that I can't get to load. Ain't Flash wonderful?It's a bit weird that people still use Flash for major projects like this after Adobe announced the Flash Player to shut down in a couple years.
I would assume all the meat I eat would contain enough iron. My diet's not great, but the doctor didn't even mention it as a possibility.
The doctor tells me I'm anemic and have signs of inflammation in my intestines. .
...Wow, I've been eating bean-heavy diets so long I kinda forgot about the supposed flatulence. Maybe if I eat *way* too many black beans, but mostly it's not really a thing.Beans:Funnily enough, despite the extreme flatulence they're supposed to cause, I've actually noticed a marked improvement in my digestion since I started eating heaps of baked beans - and they're supposedly the most flatulent of all bean-varieties, right?
+Posterior orchestration
I normally just eat kidney beans. Not sure where they are on the fart scale. *shrug*
What I really hate is blanket anti meat people. there are lots of places and situations where its better for the environment and more efficient to raise animals....Are there? I'm curious what kind of environment is that extreme. Or even what direction of extreme makes livestock more efficient than, say, greenhouses or hydroponics.
not to mention there utility and cultural/religious importance. yes corporations are shitty but that's pretty universal, people don't advocate that we stop wearing clothes because of sweat shops.Metaphor aside, religious reasons are fine with me. Including ritual, consenting cannibalism :P
I've been having these really persistent headaches in the back of my head for a couple weeks now. I heard those are caused by stress? I've never really thought of my life as really stressful, so I just don't know.Its probably your posture in your gaming rig.
I do know I've been getting them during my play sessions of Dark Souls 3, and I want to enjoy that game, but it is true it stresses me the fuck out.
Anyone else slightly dissatisfied with their life but has trouble voicing it because they have everything better than other people around them?/me boops (~'u')~
No?
Anyone else slightly dissatisfied with their life but has trouble voicing it because they have everything better than other people around them?
No?
I mean, does that apply when your grass is the greener one?Anyone else slightly dissatisfied with their life but has trouble voicing it because they have everything better than other people around them?
No?
Grass always greener
I mean, does that apply when your grass is the greener one?Anyone else slightly dissatisfied with their life but has trouble voicing it because they have everything better than other people around them?
No?
Grass always greener
My laptop just did something concerning, HDD seemed to go bonkers and make really bad sounds, on the other hand it hasn't actually gone to silicon heaven yet and I have made backups of my more important pictures (that the computer was storing) to one of my desktop's EHDDs (3.5tb free? sure I'll use that for a backup). However the HDD has passed the various drive health tests that my system has... which is odd given what happened (unless I leaned on something I shouldn't have).
I've eaten all of my stewed meat that took 4 hours to prepare in under 10 minutes. I want more. SAD. <burps>
I would have no real desire to read a novel learning either way on my country's political spectrum (unless perhaps the prose was utterly fantastic), and even an unbiased, non-fictional account of some political event would only prove entertaining if there were any interesting incidents throughout Australia's history, which to my knowledge there really aren't.
Hey that's not as good as the time Britain bombed us with atom bombs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_nuclear_tests_at_Maralinga
... the first mainland place the Allies bombed was Emu Field, and they bombed it again two weeks later. This was to let the emus know we meant business. And after that there weren't any more Emu Wars.
Hey that's not as good as the time Britain bombed us with atom bombs.Nukes 1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_nuclear_tests_at_Maralinga
... the first mainland place the Allies bombed was Emu Field, and they bombed it again two weeks later. This was to let the emus know we meant business. And after that there weren't any more Emu Wars.
I dunno man. All the nukes they sent out to the war are dead. But there are still emus.Hey that's not as good as the time Britain bombed us with atom bombs.Nukes 1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_nuclear_tests_at_Maralinga
... the first mainland place the Allies bombed was Emu Field, and they bombed it again two weeks later. This was to let the emus know we meant business. And after that there weren't any more Emu Wars.
Emus 0
Do what author / illustrator Kamiya Yu (No Game No Life) did and just trace everything.
People underestimate how much commerical artists and musicians cheat to make everything perfect.
I'm enjoying Gotham, and I particularly like how Penguin is portrayed. Riddler, too.
Do what author / illustrator Kamiya Yu (No Game No Life) did and just trace everything.
People underestimate how much commerical artists and musicians cheat to make everything perfect.
The trouble is getting people to hold still while I trace them.
On the topic of sleep, found out one of my friends, not here, has a shitty ass sleep scheduleYeah, that can be
I'm trying to help them but afraid to come off as overly pushy. It's tough since I have no idea how to do that.I don't think there really is any way to do so, without the "overly pushy" part at least. All you can do is tell them how great it is.
Just do that double-dating thing like in TV shows / movies, where you slip out from one then join up with the other and vice-versa. It always worked out well in the Brady Bunch. Until your dad sits you down and gives you that week's spiel about being a responsible man.Interesting, although unfortunately the two social obligations in question are in different states. :(
Maybe I should give away my inheritance when my parents kick it. I don’t deserve it anyways.I will happily take all that guilt off your hands
Maybe I should give away my inheritance when my parents kick it. I don’t deserve it anyways.I will happily take all that guilt off your hands
really, just ask, I will accept this burden
Mmmm I love the taste of affluent guilt.You mean your parents have assets that you could inherit!?
Maybe I should give away my inheritance when my parents kick it. I don’t deserve it anyways.
i bought forza horizon 3 the other day and trying to actually download it has been such a pain in the assThere's a streamer I watch (Jerma985) who had a semi-sarcastic on-stream meltdown because he wanted to play Red Dead Redemption from the Windows 10 store. He paid for it and had a functioning internet connection, but it still wouldn't let him download it.
my usual method for downloading large games which involves taking my laptop somewhere with actual internet, backing up the program and then moving the backup to my PC to restore it doesn't work because forza horizon 3 is only on the windows 10 store which doesn't support basic stuff like making backups because it's just so good that it never needs to
also it doesn't offer refunds ever so that's a thing
so after like 4 days of figuring out what to do i finally discovered some stupid method of manually downloading the game installer which involves capturing urls and downloading them in IDM except i can't actually use fiddler to get the urls because i need to actually start a download to do that and the windows 10 store isn't letting me because it's stupid and thinks my laptop is 32 bit and after i managed to get around that i had to spend a million years fixing this stupid "UNKNOWN LAYOUT IN MANIFEST" error which popped up out of nowhere and holy fuck I just want to play the game already
i bought forza horizon 3 the other day and trying to actually download it has been such a pain in the ass
my usual method for downloading large games which involves taking my laptop somewhere with actual internet, backing up the program and then moving the backup to my PC to restore it doesn't work because forza horizon 3 is only on the windows 10 store which doesn't support basic stuff like making backups because it's just so good that it never needs to
also it doesn't offer refunds ever so that's a thing
so after like 4 days of figuring out what to do i finally discovered some stupid method of manually downloading the game installer which involves capturing urls and downloading them in IDM except i can't actually use fiddler to get the urls because i need to actually start a download to do that and the windows 10 store isn't letting me because it's stupid and thinks my laptop is 32 bit and after i managed to get around that i had to spend a million years fixing this stupid "UNKNOWN LAYOUT IN MANIFEST" error which popped up out of nowhere and holy fuck I just want to play the game already
Well there is the bunzone (happy thread) thread a little further down the page. IIRC it used to be called the "things that made you happy today" thread.
And upon checking yep, it was indeed called that.
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=42204.187695
I may as well post a mild sad while i'm here.
I have eaten all the cheese in my fridge.
No cheese is sad news indeed.Well there is the bunzone (happy thread) thread a little further down the page. IIRC it used to be called the "things that made you happy today" thread.
And upon checking yep, it was indeed called that.
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=42204.187695
I may as well post a mild sad while i'm here.
I have eaten all the cheese in my fridge.
That makes me sad.
It's taken a little chunk of my soul hostage, I think, forever lost amidst the escalators and malls that haunted my dreams the first week I returned therefrom.
We have to go back.
E: Oh god, what happened to Vector? I saw one of their posts a page or two back and their entire history is redacted.I believe they're doing okay :3 I've been in contact with them recently, and while it is in brevity, they sound okay (although I really want to keep in contact with them so I gave my email >_<).
Some people delete their account when they felt they're done with a community. Not sure why they didn't just ask Toady One to remove them from the forum though.Privacy and personal reasons, best asked to them if ever. :O
Vector is a complicated person. It's been a while, but last time they were here they were doing alright and seemed to be on the up and up. Never got to know them as well as some did, though.A complicated person like everyone else and myself :P But its moreso private matters entirely.
Well there is the bunzone (happy thread) thread a little further down the page. IIRC it used to be called the "things that made you happy today" thread.Do you have any juice left, though?
And upon checking yep, it was indeed called that.
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=42204.187695
I may as well post a mild sad while i'm here.
I have eaten all the cheese in my fridge.
After all the squeezing of juice (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JevHe85-Bg), I hope not.Well there is the bunzone (happy thread) thread a little further down the page. IIRC it used to be called the "things that made you happy today" thread.Do you have any juice left, though?
And upon checking yep, it was indeed called that.
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=42204.187695
I may as well post a mild sad while i'm here.
I have eaten all the cheese in my fridge.
Just woke myself up by punching myself in the nose and now its.bleeding. Lovely good fun
Just woke myself up by punching myself in the nose and now its.bleeding. Lovely good fun
Just woke myself up by punching myself in the nose and now its.bleeding. Lovely good funMeanwhile, I once woke up to discover that my hands were engaged in a ferocious, no-prisoners-taken war against each other. My left hand, on time of waking, was losing, being both the most scratched and also compromised by being forcibly held down.
Just woke myself up by punching myself in the nose and now its.bleeding. Lovely good funMeanwhile, I once woke up to discover that my hands were engaged in a ferocious, no-prisoners-taken war against each other. My left hand, on time of waking, was losing, being both the most scratched and also compromised by being forcible held down.
All hail Lord Right Hand!
Bleh, got a gross cold ):And now I'm imagining someone pouring soup down their nose
Woooo excuse to avoid people and eat condensed soup aw yeah!
Got a bloody nose from all the salt XD
I'm bored and I wanna write but my eyes hurt so I don't wanna be using the computer.You can write notes or cues for later on--in notepad++ or other places where you can easily save (or not, with notepad++, as it saves everything without even saving), and then rest. You'll be reminded by those cues about your ideas later on. \o/
Dear gods. I need to catch the train back from an appointment but apparently it's school lunchtime or some shit and there are horrifyingly exuberant and noisy highschoolers everywhere.
D:
Well, I have no ideas :P I just wanna write.I'm bored and I wanna write but my eyes hurt so I don't wanna be using the computer.You can write notes or cues for later on--in notepad++ or other places where you can easily save (or not, with notepad++, as it saves everything without even saving), and then rest. You'll be reminded by those cues about your ideas later on. \o/
ohey I'm driving to see half my family tomorrow... yay...Well that went waaaaaaaay better than expected! Like, wow. No drama, great food, got to chat about all the recent stuff in my life and shed a lot of mostly-irrational anxiety!
My last Pathfinder game here slowly died due to a combination of lack of updates, lack of responses, and a gradual decline in interest. That's fine, sometimes things just don't work out, I'll try something else, someday I'll run something that progresses beyond the second fight or so. That's not what I'm vaguely sad about.I've got the opposite problem, massive amounts of worldbuilding, but no skills to DO anything with it, so it just keeps piling up.
What I'm vaguely sad about is that I cannot seem to pick a theme for my next world building project. One day, I want to do a Thirty Years' War-style setting. The next morning I'll wake up and try to make a late Sengoku/possibly Edo Japan-themed setting. I'll have lunch and get cracking on a Ming China-inspired setting. I'll head to sleep after browsing Wikipedia articles about the Ottoman Empire to help make a setting based on that. It's been these four ideas that keep on juggling around in my head, albeit with smaller ideas (the ones I can remember off the top of my head being Safavid Iran, late 1500s Malaysia and Indonesia with bits of Polynesia, and early modern Ethiopia) tossed in here and there for a couple hours or so.
I'm loathe to try to combine these concepts in any significant way, because I'm terrible at mixing dissonant things, and the reason I keep switching between ideas is because I like the style or feel of each individual source of inspiration. It's a relatively specific time period (roughly 1580 to 1650) I'm interested in, partly because I'm more familiar with it and partly because I don't see that kind of thing written into fantasy settings too often. If nothing else, I take consolation in the fact that the roughly similar magic level and vagueness about the presence and power level of deities means that I can write them all into being part of the same setting, so in a distant way anything I come up with enriches the setting a little bit regardless of what I pick in the end.
I just wish I could stick to an idea, really. My last game died in part because my interest in the early Middle Ages waned; the one before that, because my interest in the Victorian era waned (although, bluntly, I half-assed that setting. Those were the days when I used random world generators... eep.) And I don't want to write a book, because I want an interpersonal experience, where other people interact with the world as I build it, not long after I've finished it.
Is there a reason you're not shaving?
My sad (well, the less complicated of them): my phone's screen seems to have stopped working. Shit.Good gods, when did I become quite so dependent on my smartphone?
It seems my tongue is not long enough to reach either of my nipples. :(This is indeed sad news but, uh. Why?
It seems my tongue is not long enough to reach either of my nipples. :(Solution: drink more beer, get beer tits, have nipples that can reach your tongue
GOD DAMMIT NOW THERE'S TWO
Caught sight of the valentine's day shit on sale already.
Theory: the current Christmas ads and sales running are actually early ads and sales for next DecemberCaught sight of the valentine's day shit on sale already.
You gotta appeal to the demographic of people that just fuckin love planning ahead.
Devilman: Crybaby
Isn't it just an ordinary kebab? Or was it gyros?
I'm pretty sure that, while gyros may be able to be made with falafel, traditional gyros are definitely meat of some kind.Uh. I'm not sure how "traditional" falafel kebabs are to begin with, but with fewer and fewer people eating meat gyros had best get with the times if they want to continue to be a thing. :P
Been keeping the dogs separated for four days because the bitch is in heat and the bastard isnt fixed either, mom comes home, lets them out at the same time while shes in the bathroom, they immediately get stuck together, this is just fucking bullshit. I have been going through all this work to prevent having puppies and shes not only too lazy to cooperate but never gets them fixed, and im not even supposed to express any frustration because thats "disrespectful"
Been keeping the dogs separated for four days because the bitch is in heat and the bastard isnt fixed either, mom comes home, lets them out at the same time while shes in the bathroom, they immediately get stuck together, this is just fucking bullshit. I have been going through all this work to prevent having puppies and shes not only too lazy to cooperate but never gets them fixed, and im not even supposed to express any frustration because thats "disrespectful"Its not disrespect, addressing disagreements is the only way to resolve them. Otherwise they fester.
No offense to anybody, but it seems that bay 12 attracts a large amount of people with major problems going on in their lives, like much higher than any of the (admittedly few) forums I've been on... I wonder why that is.
No offense to anybody, but it seems that bay 12 attracts a large amount of people with major problems going on in their lives, like much higher than any of the (admittedly few) forums I've been on... I wonder why that is.Are you sure most people just don't have major problems going on in their lives and just don't talk about it.
I just hope that I can get some sleep tonight.There's no pain that being unconscious won't fix.
Gosh. That does sound like an ordeal.It *shouldn't* be, it's all mundane stuff! First-world-problems at worst. Yet here I am freaking out like some spoiled rich kid or something. I guess that's why I'm so determined to keep going, rather than take a couple days for myself. (I don't live with them, I'm actively visiting them every couple days because "lol you make your own hours right? Come help with X!")
Speaking of dreams, I've had a few interesting, possibly really good ones lately, but I never seem to get around to writing/typing them down/up. Or, if I do, I never finish it. Blah.I try to type up and save interesting dreams, even if I don't post them here for obvious reasons. Lots of family stuff, sometimes insightful and sometimes painfully direct.
Also it is kinda ridiculously hot here. I have been sweating all day. I used to enjoy such weather, but now since I've been trying to gain weight and get in shape it feels as though the life is getting sucked out of me by such weather, along with any gains. Plus, how am I supposed to motivate myself to exercise? Not to mention eat enough food? x_X
Made pulled pork for dinner, cooked it for like 7 hours. Its fucking deliciius.Ooh, what sauce did you cook it in, barbecue-wise?
But at the last minute we ran out of propane and now im cooking the fries and beans on the wood stove, which is not easy. I should have seen this coming These fries are meh. Damnit
Haven't seen Vector for a while. I think I've seen Tiruin somewhat recently...Vector wiped out a couple months' worth of posts and said goodbye. Probably won't be coming back anytime soon :\ Tiruin posts now and then but seems to spend most of her time on the discord.
Can't recall Owlbread, I think I've seen Scriver a few times, Hanslanda or whatever his name is? Can't recall if he visited GD much.
Personally, I'm spending more time on Reddit now.
[...]I'm still pretty much active here! :P Just additional busyness and the like, but given that this is both my first forum and that I've met a lot of great people who impacted my life even with the tiniest, nice things, I'm not going away unless something major happens that stops me. :P[...]Vector wiped out a couple months' worth of posts and said goodbye. Probably won't be coming back anytime soon :\ Tiruin posts now and then but seems to spend most of her time on the discord.[...]
Encountered a shiny Chancey in Pokemon Ultra Moon. Accidentally one-hit KO'd it because I used the wrong move.I remember the only shiny pokemon I ever encountered was an Eevee in SoulSilver. It was in the Battle Castle so I couldn't catch it. Good times.
(The proper move wasn't even on my active Pokemon, but that didn't stop my brain's autopilot.)
Encountered a shiny Chancey in Pokemon Ultra Moon. Accidentally one-hit KO'd it because I used the wrong move.I remember the only shiny pokemon I ever encountered was an Eevee in SoulSilver. It was in the Battle Castle so I couldn't catch it. Good times.
(The proper move wasn't even on my active Pokemon, but that didn't stop my brain's autopilot.)
Its streppe throat and im super contagious yay!Probably means you are the first one to no longer be sick and get handed the backlog of work from sick colleagues.
I probably got everybody sick yesterday despite all the hand sanitizer and coughing into towels
Does milking a cow hurt it, if not I'm not sure why vegans have some problem against it, even more with wool....Mainly because dairy cows are rather often pretty badly mistreated.
(though the idea of eating what is effectively an aborted bird fetus grosses me out,)
(though the idea of eating what is effectively an aborted bird fetus grosses me out,)
Ah, fair enough. Kind of hard to draw a straight comparison, since bird eggs are pretty different from egg cells.(though the idea of eating what is effectively an aborted bird fetus grosses me out,)
Your breakfast eggs are unfertilized. Its more equivalent to the bird having a period rather than an abortion.
Not that its any less gross, but still.
oh dear(though the idea of eating what is effectively an aborted bird fetus grosses me out,)
You should totally research the Filipino delicacy known as balut :P
Does milking a cow hurt it, if not I'm not sure why vegans have some problem against it, even more with wool....You can't have a diary farm without butchering 99% of all male calves.
They all die in the end.Does milking a cow hurt it, if not I'm not sure why vegans have some problem against it, even more with wool....You can't have a diary farm without butchering 99% of all male calves.
They all die in the end.All humans die in the end too. Doesn't mean that medical science is useless.
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I reduced my energy drink intake to two per day. Still too much, that stuff is pure poison (well, mostly it's sugar content is).Huh, actually my energy drink for yesterday and today (yes, I have at last been reunited with it and am currently drinking it on my lunch break) was the sugar-free variety of Monster.
I tried the sugarfree versions but man those are gross.
Coffee is better. Needs way less sugar to achieve the same sweetness.
...and artificially impregnate the mothers for several years to keep them producing milk before slaughtering them once fertility declines.Ah, the ol' r*pe rod. Learning of that sort of thing is what originally shocked me into cutting dairy, too. I feel like if I hadn't ditched agriculture class as an elective subject in high school as soon as I was able I probably would have skipped vegetarianism and gone straight to vegan once they taught us dairy stuff. ^~^;
Do dairy farms have a lot of calves? Or do they also generally breed the cows for their beef at the same time? That would make sense.They are impregnated regularily, and their newborn calves are taken away immediatly so they can get pregnant again sooner, to keep milk production high.
Do dairy farms have a lot of calves? Or do they also generally breed the cows for their beef at the same time? That would make sense.They are impregnated regularily, and their newborn calves are taken away immediatly so they can get pregnant again sooner, to keep milk production high.
Do dairy farms have a lot of calves? Or do they also generally breed the cows for their beef at the same time? That would make sense.They are impregnated regularily, and their newborn calves are taken away immediatly so they can get pregnant again sooner, to keep milk production high.
Oh right, that makes sense too.
On the topic of veganism(and vegetarianism), my opinion is go ahead, just don't try to force me or a cat into itSame here, only I might consider eating anyone who tries to force me into vegan/vegetarianism. Or anyone who tries force me into anything else for that matter.
Wait, you're saying you need an excuse to consider eating people?On the topic of veganism(and vegetarianism), my opinion is go ahead, just don't try to force me or a cat into itSame here, only I might consider eating anyone who tries to force me into vegan/vegetarianism. Or anyone who tries force me into anything else for that matter.
Honestly, even the Deep Ones weren't overtly pushy.Well they do have that thing with driving people insane by just seeing them. That's problematic for getting to know each other.
Remember, Obed Marsh appealed to THEM for help first, and the Deep Ones totally made good on the deal. It's just that humans want all the good stuff, and don't like being responsible. Also, it isn't like awakened hybrids find the situation all that terrible anyway.
The Deep Ones are just aware of the flagrant Xenophobia of human kind, (a trait that they do not share, clearly. I mean, they are totally down with sharing "personal space" with mankind, it is the humans that are averse to the situation!) and would like to live on the surface. Little mermaid wants to live "Up There", and marry the human prince, is that so wrong?
The best worst part about working retail; customers who havent bathed or washed their clothes in months.I dunno, my manager just got shouted at by some angry lebo (or maybe Greek?) bogan covered in prison tatts. Apparently he was upset about the price of a piece of furniture... this is a goddamn op-shop, all our shit is cheap as heck.
+15 grossness if theyre smokers too
Are you not allowed to submit an empty ballot if you like? I thought that was an option in all countries with mandatory voting.We have that option, and voting isn't even mandatory.
Are you not allowed to submit an empty ballot if you like? I thought that was an option in all countries with mandatory voting.
Looking through this list of candidates (at least it's just a local election) is pretty bleak. There's the Animal Justice Party, which I am unsurprisingly putting at number one (I can't be arsed explaining our strange voting system, to put it simply you number all candidates 1-10), but all of the other options fail to align with my own values very much at all from what I'm reading - and as far as I can gather from what I've read in the past about this arcane voting system, the weight of your vote basically goes to the first candidate in your preferences that would end up with enough votes to win overall.
e.g. we're running an election where Alex always beats Bob, but if Charlie decides to run as well, suddenly Bob wins. However ... if Alex drops out, and only Charlie is running against Bob, Charlie always beats Bob. The ranked voting system used in Australia avoids this sort of paradoxical thing happening.
I am legally required to vote today. Lawd, what a waste of time.Look on the bright side, you could be like me! I am not required to vote in the presidential election today. In fact, since they removed the minimum turnout to consider the elections passed, my presence isn't even necessary at all! And we have a great list of candidates, to wit:
Vote for tha Big P, obviously!Abbadon the Armless is sounding pretty great in an ushering in an age of darkness kind of way.
Current Mild Sad: all these nice landscape paintings at work are making me want to gtfo out of the city and go climb a mountain or some shit. This is one situation where it would be rather handy to have a car.
It's called a better voting system. See Cpgrey's election videos to see why.It is suddenly necessary that I explain that ranked voting systems are not actually better. They suffer from exactly the same "paradoxical" (which is a funny way to say "mathematically inevitable but people don't understand the mathematics of voting well enough so they get upset") results as any other voting system (because every voting system does; all that's different is the precise conditions required to cause such a result. In fact, because of Arrow's impossibility theorem, all rank-based voting systems necessarily fail in one of three specific and well-defined ways that other voting systems aren't exposed to.
The reason it's better is that it doesn't suffer from splitting the vote. e.g. say there was a left-wing guy with 60% support, and a right-wing guy with 40% support, then obviously the left-wing guy should win. However ... say there was also another left-wing guy who's about as popular as the other left-wing guy, e.g. 60% of people like them more than the right-wing guy. Being logical the winner should be either left-wing guy A or left-wing guy B, since those two guys are the most popular candidates. However, that's not what happens. In the First Past The Post system, each left-wing guy only gets 30% and the right-wing guy gets 40%, meaning he's the winner, even though a majority of the population would have preferred literally any other candidate.
e.g. we're running an election where Alex always beats Bob, but if Charlie decides to run as well, suddenly Bob wins. However ... if Alex drops out, and only Charlie is running against Bob, Charlie always beats Bob. The ranked voting system used in Australia avoids this sort of paradoxical thing happening.
EDIT:And in America, it's possible for the person with the most votes to LOSE due to the stupid electoral collegegood old electoral college, the only reason it exists is because the government thought normal people couldn't handle elections
good old electoral college, the only reason it exists is because the government thought normal people couldn't handle electionsNo, it exists because before the adoption of the Constitution the states were essentially independent entities, and less-populous states refused to ratify unless they could be promised that the big states wouldn't dominate the political process. Back then, you were a New Yorker (say) first and an American second if at all, and you certainly didn't trust the people in those other states to have your state's interests at heart.
good old electoral college, the only reason it exists is because the government thought normal people couldn't handle electionsNo, it exists because before the adoption of the Constitution the states were essentially independent entities, and less-populous states refused to ratify unless they could be promised that the big states wouldn't dominate the political process. Back then, you were a New Yorker (say) first and an American second if at all, and you certainly didn't trust the people in those other states to have your state's interests at heart.
Which, uh, I have to say, looks pretty vindicated.
And no, it was a compromise between the slaveholding southern states which had more slaves than non-slaves and the northern states. Plus it being a compromise between the larger states and the smaller states.You say "no" but those are literally the same thing
Does Wisconsin count as a rural state, if so then I'm from one and I want that, as this election in particular proves the faults of such a systemThis election in particular was the system working perfectly.
And no, it was a compromise between the slaveholding southern states which had more slaves than non-slaves and the northern states. Plus it being a compromise between the larger states and the smaller states.You say "no" but those are literally the same thing
Does Wisconsin count as a rural state, if so then I'm from one and I want that, as this election in particular proves the faults of such a systemThis election in particular was the system working perfectly.
I'm from an urban, populous state and I can see this. :|
You don't have to like the results to realise that they are what the system was designed to produce, for a good reason.
I kind of only read the second sentence, somehow.Oh, haha, I just said "New Yorker" because that's my state, not because it was directly relevant to the compromise.
I don't know why it's hard to understand that rural states don't want to be dominated utterly by urban states.I wonder if it's as frustrating as living in an urban area of an east coast state and having the rural areas decide the governor, senators, and most of the representatives? Such concentrated groups of people, mechanically disenfranchised, might get resentful.
I don't think it actually is hard to understand. I don't think there are many people who don't understand this.
I think that people pretend they don't get it because of the most recent election, and they think they are being clever instead of obnoxiously obtuse.
good old electoral college, the only reason it exists is because the government thought normal people couldn't handle electionsNo, it exists because before the adoption of the Constitution the states were essentially independent entities, and less-populous states refused to ratify unless they could be promised that the big states wouldn't dominate the political process. Back then, you were a New Yorker (say) first and an American second if at all, and you certainly didn't trust the people in those other states to have your state's interests at heart.
The EC is based on the number of Senators plus Representatives in a state, so the citizen's vote simply tells then who to vote for, state-by-state.Also, y'know, the EC folks don't actually have to vote like their states did. They usually do, but nothing stopping them otherwise.
TBH I wish voting was treated more like Jury duty. Not only is it a right, but a duty of the citizen to vote and there are penalties to not voting, even if it's just to cast a blank ballot.
The EC is based on the number of Senators plus Representatives in a state, so the citizen's vote simply tells then who to vote for, state-by-state.I know that, I'm just talking about why it was made.
TBH I wish voting was treated more like Jury duty. Not only is it a right, but a duty of the citizen to vote and there are penalties to not voting, even if it's just to cast a blank ballot.same, I also wish people would stop voting for memes
e.Except you can't FORCE people to stop, because that means that not everyone who is an american born citizen over the age of, what 35 was it.. can't run for president, which is a slippery slope....TBH I wish voting was treated more like Jury duty. Not only is it a right, but a duty of the citizen to vote and there are penalties to not voting, even if it's just to cast a blank ballot.same, I also wish people would stop voting for memes
same, I also wish people would stop voting for memesIf you're not voting for memes, what exactly are you voting for?
The EC is based on the number of Senators plus Representatives in a state, so the citizen's vote simply tells then who to vote for, state-by-state.Oh hey, I didn't actually notice that. I guess that explains why the minimum is three, instead of one for house representatives.
TBH I wish voting was treated more like Jury duty. Not only is it a right, but a duty of the citizen to vote and there are penalties to not voting, even if it's just to cast a blank ballot.
Everyone responsible for (or who supports) Daylight Savings Time should be lined up against a wall and shot.I feel like the people responsible for it are mostly already dead
I can easily put it back you know...Avatar rotate between the mad (weird?) scientist and the bitey noodle?
I want to write up something, but god I just can't stand being so melodramatic over every tiny thing anymore. Honestly, it's probably the sad threads that connect me to this forum more than anything, I get so much catharsis from being a bitch, but it's a bad habit. Maybe I should just contact my old therapist, and see if I can't talk to her again, it's been quite a long time now.It seems like a good idea if you have someone to talk to. And we don't mind you writing things here. It's what we're here in the sad threads for.
So, after seeing it and its enticing description on Netflix the other day (at first I thought it was just a movie), tonight (well, last night) I started watching The End of the F***cking World.
Oh, man.
/me fans his face with his hands, blinking away tears.
This show makes me feel things.
I would put it under "Agressively Bittersweet".So, after seeing it and its enticing description on Netflix the other day (at first I thought it was just a movie), tonight (well, last night) I started watching The End of the F***cking World.
Oh, man.
/me fans his face with his hands, blinking away tears.
This show makes me feel things.
It's a good sad, though, really. Actually it's not really a defined emotion at all, just "tha feels". Could go in the Happy thread almost as easily, but I already gushed about it in the TV shows thread.
Have you seen the show, or are you simply deducing based on my reaction?The End of the F***cking World.I would put it under "Agressively Bittersweet".
Oh, man.
I have seen it!Have you seen the show, or are you simply deducing based on my reaction?The End of the F***cking World.I would put it under "Agressively Bittersweet".
Oh, man.
Either way, you are absolutely correct. It would definitely belong in such a thread if there was one.
In another bittersweet, mild sad/excited moment, I am now up to the final episode. On the one hand I kind of wanted to savour it, but on the other hand I know I'll be able to think of nothing else, that my desire to know what happens next will torment be mercilessly until I watch it.
So, here I go.
Oh, nice! :DAn excellent summary of the show!
That was a bloody good show. Wow. I just watched the last episode. Now, if you'll excuse me I'm going to go have a cold drink and attempt to scrape together the wreckage of my emotions off the floor before I have a total breakdown.
Does not appear to be the case, on chrome. I don't think I live anywhere near you though so it might be on youtube's end, just a different server.Then I guess Russian YouTube servers are struggling with something right now. I hope the servers will get better tomorrow.
Does not appear to be the case, on chrome. I don't think I live anywhere near you though so it might be on youtube's end, just a different server.Then I guess Russian YouTube servers are struggling with something right now. I hope the servers will get better tomorrow.
Possibly a symptom of the war on Telegram? I remember YouTube basically being the odd one out of the sites and IPs blacklisted by the government.
I went to go give a presentation on genetics to a local high school class today for DNA Day, as I apparently qualify as a "local scientist." Nobody asked or answered any questions or even looked up from their phones, let alone looked interested. They didn't even change facial expression or anything. Might as well have been teaching to forty coma patients.
It's just a little sad that all the effort required to set all this up was so thoroughly wasted.
Just to be clear, I'm not blaming the kids or the phones; I'm certainly not angry at them for not paying attention to something they realistically have no need to know. I'm just sad that this is the state of things: they're very well trained to come in and warm a seat for ninety minutes without doing anything disruptive or indeed anything at all, and I don't see how any of them are ever going to learn to do anything different.
Part of the issue (How to keep children interested/engaged, while also assuring a more or less uniform practice of availability and standardized educational CV) is that what interests students is a very "per student" thing, and what society wants from schools is "homogeneous CV acquisition."The biggest issue with the american system is the funding. Its inherently unequal and that will inevitably produce undesirable outcomes until removed. Its hard to talk about fixes when we are not even trying. It seems impossible to do anything when the solution of a certain group is to keep cutting funding, shoving more kids into classrooms, and closing down schools.
EG, the society is less concerned that billy and jane like English class, or develop a love for literature. The society wants billy and jane to be able to read instructions competently.
Then there is the whole, "billy is from an inner city with a high crime rate (and is also black), while jane is from an affluent suburban area with a low crime rate (and is also white)-- how do we assure that billy has the same CV as jane (or even has the same opportunities to gain a robust CV as jane)?"
Even with our "Cookie cutter, all kids are cardboard cutouts" approach to education, we *STILL* are not achieving this latter goal.
If we adopted, say-- the German methodology, where interests are identified early, nurtured, and students guided down preset pathways to assure high quality but very disparate outcomes-- we would have the "equality" people up in arms, because it would (by necessity of its design) segregate outcomes, and have strong statistical biases in those outcomes based on population and geographical demographic profiles. (What is interesting to impoverished inner city kids is going to be different than what is interesting to privileged affluent suburban kids, and so, the interest scores for various academic paths will be different, so on a track-based system, you will have wild differences in rates between the two.)
This is getting into the "I want my cake and eat it too." territory. Not every child is a budding physicist, or a writer of masterful fiction, or an aspiring engineer. Some kids really are "Future janitor." Society does not want to acknowledge this, is in love with the idea that everyone should be cookie-cutter equal as children, even when in practice, all this does is disinterest 99% of the student body, and ensure a homogeneous but terrible outcome.
Underfunding is indeed a serious issue.True fact, I recall nothing of proper comma use and have been winging it for years. No one seems to care.
But so is "One person in class cant figure out how to use commas, so the first half of the year will be review hell for everyone else, because we dont dare segregate the kid who cant figure comma use out and give him private tutoring."
I think people might care a bit to much about commas. Just mark the offending sentence up with a red pen and move on. If they care enough they will fix it. If not it's not the end of the world. You incentivize change you should not force it. That won't be received well.
So, in short, that pedagogy today is mostly based on a mixture of a shitty version of the scientific method, bureaucracy, tradition, political tension, and social expectation, everything except what is needed and wanted by the student's themselves.
To be fair, I can definitely see why giving kindergartners knives is a bad idea, because they tend to be dumb and clumsy, and that is a bad combination with sharp objects and forest crittersThe teachers supervise the trips. It sounds kinda like cub scouts to me. Therefore, I say eh, sounds cool.
Really? I do. If for no other reason, than because of the endless review hell I endured because of the handful of kids who could not read in highschool, because of a variety of reasons.
To be fair, I can definitely see why giving kindergartners knives is a bad idea, because they tend to be dumb and clumsy, and that is a bad combination with sharp objects and forest crittersThe teachers supervise the trips. It sounds kinda like cub scouts to me. Therefore, I say eh, sounds cool.
To be fair, I can definitely see why giving kindergartners knives is a bad idea, because they tend to be dumb and clumsy, and that is a bad combination with sharp objects and forest crittersThe teachers supervise the trips. It sounds kinda like cub scouts to me. Therefore, I say eh, sounds cool.
I get that kids can be clumsy and foolish but... Making sometimes painful mistakes is an important part of learning.
To be fair, I can definitely see why giving kindergartners knives is a bad idea, because they tend to be dumb and clumsy, and that is a bad combination with sharp objects and forest crittersMakes sense to me. Dump 'em all deep in the wilderness, armed only with knives - the ones who make it back (be it through strength, cunning, teamwork or pure survival instinct) are worth investing further effort in the education and upbringing of. :P
I suppose the closest place on earth to Arrakis is Australia...
Except they could DIE as all it takes is a cut to an artery, and they could bleed to death
Except they could DIE as all it takes is a cut to an artery, and they could bleed to death
Key word is could here.
Lets play with that word for a bit eh.
I could DICE from a cancer, we could all DICE from a solar flare, could would should mould fold cold DEAD.
Yeah I see what you mean, lets all hide in my bunker and not DICE ever.
I'm so confused?
That's odd. I believe 7 ultimate has a ridiculous upper limit on RAM, like around 200Gb or some such.Windows and CPU-Z both register it as being there, just Windows not wanting to use it. I'll attempt to reinstall it just in case I am dumb.
Perhaps a conflict with the existing RAM?
But isn't that like, the actual opposite of chinese food?
I've been fasting for about 28 hours now, and I guess I feel pretty hungry, but anything I can think of to eat feels like a waste of a perfectly good fast.Hm. Is steak an option? That and salmon are my usual go-to 'celebration' food options.
I've been fasting for about 28 hours now, and I guess I feel pretty hungry, but anything I can think of to eat feels like a waste of a perfectly good fast.Hm. Is steak an option? That and salmon are my usual go-to 'celebration' food options.
I know a guy who came back from an enforced hunger exercise in the military. For his first meal back at base, he went for a slice of bread with cheese on it.
Made it about halfway through the slice before his stomach balked at having food in it again and he had to run out of the mess to puke.
Alternatively, haleem is a traditional end-of-fast dish. I mean, sure, it takes 7-8 hours of cooking with intermittent stirring, but that just adds to your fasting high score!
That's odd. I believe 7 ultimate has a ridiculous upper limit on RAM, like around 200Gb or some such.Windows and CPU-Z both register it as being there, just Windows not wanting to use it. I'll attempt to reinstall it just in case I am dumb.
Perhaps a conflict with the existing RAM?
Edit: Was very slightly off. Working like a charm now.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Yes, but you'd have to beat one of the ridiculously high scores by "RIP".I know a guy who came back from an enforced hunger exercise in the military. For his first meal back at base, he went for a slice of bread with cheese on it.
Made it about halfway through the slice before his stomach balked at having food in it again and he had to run out of the mess to puke.
Alternatively, haleem is a traditional end-of-fast dish. I mean, sure, it takes 7-8 hours of cooking with intermittent stirring, but that just adds to your fasting high score!
Do you get 3 characters to sign your name with if you get a high score in fasting?
I FORGOT THE BUTTER FOR MY LUNCH POTATO AND THE DRINK MACHINE WONT TAKE MY CARD.
I FORGOT THE BUTTER FOR MY LUNCH POTATO AND THE DRINK MACHINE WONT TAKE MY CARD.
Are you...trying to get a bottle of molten butter out of a drinks machine? I'm confused.
Millenials.
Can confirm, our bodies are designed to extract all needed nutrition from Avocado and Wheat Toast.Millenials.
Millenials spend money on one thing and one thing only: Avocado toast
It is almost Cinco de Mayo, or as it is known around here, five dollar burrito day!...I just realised I don't get paid 'til the day after five dollar burrito day.
One fellow who got spread around an awful lot stated that it was "anyone born between the years of 2000 and 1986".Wait, why do you emphasise the 86? That's the one that's actually in the right range; it's the 2000 that's way off. Millennials are supposed to be people who were reaching young adulthood on the cusp of the millennium.
One fellow who got spread around an awful lot stated that it was "anyone born between the years of 2000 and 1986".Wait, why do you emphasise the 86? That's the one that's actually in the right range; it's the 2000 that's way off. Millennials are supposed to be people who were reaching young adulthood on the cusp of the millennium.
Well, I wasn't aware of the technical definition of the term, I was just reacting to the fairly broad strokes he used to classify the social group to which he was referring.
The rest of the talk was basically just one big pandering waffle... "Millenials are whiny, weak, narcissistic, socially incompetent and irresponsible... But it's okay, it's their parents' fault".
I am depressed again. I should make a graph of my episodes of depression.
One fellow who got spread around an awful lot stated that it was "anyone born between the years of 2000 and 1986".Wait, why do you emphasise the 86? That's the one that's actually in the right range; it's the 2000 that's way off. Millennials are supposed to be people who were reaching young adulthood on the cusp of the millennium.
Well, I wasn't aware of the technical definition of the term, I was just reacting to the fairly broad strokes he used to classify the social group to which he was referring.
The rest of the talk was basically just one big pandering waffle... "Millenials are whiny, weak, narcissistic, socially incompetent and irresponsible... But it's okay, it's their parents' fault".
The problem, of course, is getting motivated enough to actually write an entry when you're having one, heh...I feel personally attacked. :'(
My girlfriend was once locked away within the mysterious bathroom depths for 1 hour and 45 minutes straight. I know this, because I needed to pee.
A bathroom's sink is in reality a metaphor for the literal time-sink they are, consuming your precious hours, never to give them back.My girlfriend was once locked away within the mysterious bathroom depths for 1 hour and 45 minutes straight. I know this, because I needed to pee.
The only thing I know about the non-euclidean hyper-maze that the bathroom must be is this: if my Mom ever said "Five more minutes" I'd better put in a movie or something cause that's gonna be the longest five minutes in the world.
Sometimes I get really worried that I don't have friends that motivate me. They say you should hang out with successful people to be successful, you know? Or, at least as I see it, hang out with motivated, competitive people makes you a more motivated & competitive person. I mean, I love my friends, each and every one of them. But really the only thing i've only gotten better at as a result of my friendships is writing. None of my friends are putting any effort in, and I feel like I'm doing the same thing as a result.
Hope that doesn't sound super self-centered ://///
Just ditch Facebook and social media. You might experience some withdrawal at first, but once you've gotten over that, you'll realize how terribly psychotic you were for ever getting caught up in the fake world of social media, and be really happy you got rid of it.Ehhh, I'm usually not that bad about it. Facebook's events feature is also extremely useful - it's how I find almost all of the gigs I go to. I don't know what I would do without it... read the music press? Laughable, there are a couple of local magazines that offer a gig guide but they tend to be utter shite, cover all genres and miss out on anything truly underground. (Actually there might be a nice to fill there, for a decent music magazine/zine...) Use some other website, like BandsInTown or whatever? Those websites tend to be pretty thoroughly awful in my experience. Also they'd run even worse on my laptop/phone browser than FB does. Rely on friends to keep me posted about gigs? Well, that would be the coolest option, definitely cooler than using Facebook to begin with, and I do have various friends who are good at keeping track of quality live music across different genres and styles, but... to start hassling them via email or, even weirder, phone would require a radical shift in my life, as the introvert I am.
And this, gentlepeeps, is why we say that social media is bad for mental health. And yeah, I've done the same thing, in case you thought that that was any sort of strange behavior (not sure what I prove by saying that, though... I mean, I'm not generally a bastion of normalcy either).Hmm, well thanks for the solidarity!
Normally I would attempt to offer some words of encouragement (in fact, I seem to remember thinking up a whole bunch of them yesterday when I saw the post), but right now I feel like shiiiiit.If it makes you happier I regularly purge out of facebook people with whom I dont really interact anymore.
Instead of using the past couple of hours for anything productive, like, say, exercising and making a nutritious dinner like I had planned, I went into a weird mood (not to be confused with a "strange mood", ending in death or glory) and went scrolling mindlessly through my old Facebook posts, seemingly in search of happier times - that usually ended up being somehow disappointing when viewed through a digital lens - and paying a bizarre amount of attention to who 'liked' each post, and especially checking to see which of those people were no longer on my friends list.
Of course, most of them I had probably 'unfriended' myself for some reason or another, but in at least a couple of cases I couldn't remember for sure and found myself fretting over just why they might have deemed me no longer suitable for friendship. Jeez, I think I should start keeping a log of people I delete (and tracking my overall number of "friends") to avoid such ridiculously petty concerns in future. :-[
Anyway, now after wasting so much time on that BS, I have no time to make dinner etcetera as my housemates have gone to bed and this house is basically built of fucking paper if the amount of noise that travels between rooms is anything to go by. And if I can't eat a decent meal, what point is there in exercising? Yeah, my laziness and poor mood collaborated to make that seem reasonable.
Come morning, when I have to get ready for work, I'll have to cook a hearty breakfast instead, still in super-stealth-mode to try not to wake people. Not to mention I have to prepare lunch for the day... and then actually go to work. Ugh. This just seems more and more dreadful the more I think about it. Also, I've been getting paranoid about my hearing and the (hopefully imagined) feeling that's getting worse.
Also I didn't do any washing today. Or much of anything - although at least I had a reasonably good day at work, where I scored a wonderful old book of poetry and a new pair of sturdy work shoes, the latter of which I obtained for free.
Going to end this post here, even though there was more bellyaching and histrionics I'd planned to indulge in.
At least I can try and get a semi-decent amount of sleep, rather than add extreme tiredness to my list of problems... good night Bay 12.
Just ditch Facebook and social media. You might experience some withdrawal at first, but once you've gotten over that, you'll realize how terribly psychotic you were for ever getting caught up in the fake world of social media, and be really happy you got rid of it.Sometimes that is impossible. For example, many teachers in my university use facebook to share texts and notify students of things like tests or cancelled classes.
Just ditch Facebook and social media. You might experience some withdrawal at first, but once you've gotten over that, you'll realize how terribly psychotic you were for ever getting caught up in the fake world of social media, and be really happy you got rid of it.
I too found it hard to sleep last night, due to the near constant whirring and whining of heavy machinery (likely roadworks) just about audible through my windows and louder than the trains that go by.Urgh, yeah. Stupid lawnmowers right outside my place woke me up at 9 yesterday... After I was up till 6.
My dream involved talking jelly fish and taunting the mad scientist trapping me with said jelly-boyos to the extent that he attempted to make a new alloy oit of iron and something else. I was then gping to use this alloy, the result of his pride, to make good my escape. But I woke up.Was it iron and jelly, by chance? Irly?
Oh, you mean likeNot quite what I meant, I have a version that was supposedly an unofficial recut for showing in France, and its sadly the closest thing to the actual original film I can find. The one on Netflix is definitely the redux version.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I'm honestly not sure which version I watched in the first place or how many bonus scenes it had, haha. I've been meaning to re-watch it but the version on Netflix is pushing three hours... I think I'd rather watch something closer to the original and see how it compares to my (kinda hazy) memories of my first viewing.
Does irritated count for this thread? Cuz I don’t usually come up to GD but it’s fucking frustrating when my Tourette’s makes me unable to stay in bed some nights without getting up and running around my room like fifty times and I think I wanna have a post here to bitch about it.
Er, no, I mean, is that scene one of the ones added in the redux version(s)?Oh, you mean likeNot quite what I meant, I have a version that was supposedly an unofficial recut for showing in France, and its sadly the closest thing to the actual original film I can find. The one on Netflix is definitely the redux version.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I'm honestly not sure which version I watched in the first place or how many bonus scenes it had, haha. I've been meaning to re-watch it but the version on Netflix is pushing three hours... I think I'd rather watch something closer to the original and see how it compares to my (kinda hazy) memories of my first viewing.
Noisy people on the train. Looks like there's at least one small child in the next carriage, so there's not much point going to the effort of moving. So much for a nice, relaxing trip with my nose in a book-- oh wait!
The worst offenders just got off a few stops before me! Though now morons behind me seem to be filling the gap. Ugh. I should really get a more portable cord for my headphones already.
Heh, try living with one...Man, that sounds pretty awful. I don't have any advice to give, but I hope things improve soon (or better yet, have already improved) somehow. :-\
Noisy people on the train. Looks like there's at least one small child in the next carriage, so there's not much point going to the effort of moving. So much for a nice, relaxing trip with my nose in a book-- oh wait!Don't you have trains with silence wagons over yonder? Our trains are about 20% silence wagon, for people who want to read/work.
The worst offenders just got off a few stops before me! Though now morons behind me seem to be filling the gap. Ugh. I should really get a more portable cord for my headphones already.
Sounds like our trains are better than the US (though personally I see graffiti as a good thing as long as it doesn't impact the comfort or function of a vehicle) but not as good as yours.Noisy people on the train. Looks like there's at least one small child in the next carriage, so there's not much point going to the effort of moving. So much for a nice, relaxing trip with my nose in a book-- oh wait!Don't you have trains with silence wagons over yonder? Our trains are about 20% silence wagon, for people who want to read/work.
The worst offenders just got off a few stops before me! Though now morons behind me seem to be filling the gap. Ugh. I should really get a more portable cord for my headphones already.
Our trains are awesome and plentiful, but it comes at a price.
Sounds like our trains are better than the US (though personally I see graffiti as a good thing as long as it doesn't impact the comfort or function of a vehicle) but not as good as yours.
Hotdamn, that's affordable. If I want a single ticket to Amsterdam (no retour), which is about 1h and 10 minutes travel, it costs me 25-30 euros.
It is possible however to get a rail membership card for about 100 euros per year, which takes off 40% of all prices outside of rush hours.
its your heads on the block
I found a lost quarter on the ground and pocketed it, and while I suppose was absolutely trivial as far as actions go, made me feel like a petty thief.
I spilled peanuts on the gym floor because I was trying to be a weightlifting smartass and do something I read in a magazine that went something like "Eat some protein mid-workout for maximum gains" or some bullshit, and just accidentally made myself look like a dumbass.
I then cut my workout short because I felt stupid, and then made myself feel lazy instead.
I got angry playing a videogame, and just fucking screamed and smacked my controller on my desk. I wound up getting an excessive noise complaint pinned to my door that amounted to "Yo dude fuckin chill stop swearing at the top of your lungs."
QuoteI found a lost quarter on the ground and pocketed it, and while I suppose was absolutely trivial as far as actions go, made me feel like a petty thief.
I spilled peanuts on the gym floor because I was trying to be a weightlifting smartass and do something I read in a magazine that went something like "Eat some protein mid-workout for maximum gains" or some bullshit, and just accidentally made myself look like a dumbass.
I then cut my workout short because I felt stupid, and then made myself feel lazy instead.
I do one or all of these things every half hour or so and with quite some variation as to the details. These are common people things that in no way make you a stupid lazy embarrassing thief. Take heart.QuoteI got angry playing a videogame, and just fucking screamed and smacked my controller on my desk. I wound up getting an excessive noise complaint pinned to my door that amounted to "Yo dude fuckin chill stop swearing at the top of your lungs."
Look man I have broken keyboards in a spittle flinging rage before. It's all good to let it loose at an inanimate object, but yeah maybe learn to whisper threats of incredible specificity and unthinkable violence at your video games, like i do.
It sounds to me like you are a regular dude, no need to hate on yourself for that.
Holy Shit I have not been able to sleep for two nights ha ha how am I drivingDude don't do that.
Holy Shit I have not been able to sleep for two nights ha ha how am I drivingDude don't do that.
5 hour energy or equivalent. Pls. Don't drive tired.Holy Shit I have not been able to sleep for two nights ha ha how am I drivingDude don't do that.
It's work-o-clock and I ain't got a bus.
5 hour energy or equivalent. Pls. Don't drive tired.Holy Shit I have not been able to sleep for two nights ha ha how am I drivingDude don't do that.
It's work-o-clock and I ain't got a bus.
Holy Shit I have not been able to sleep for two nights ha ha how am I driving
Holy Shit I have not been able to sleep for two nights ha ha how am I driving
You're posting this while driving after staying up two nights? Even worse.
In fact, we're there right now.
Under your floorboards.
Waiting.
Hungering.
I can't stand windows 7 now.
You... can't wear your muddy/rainy weather boots because they're dirty? ???My mother can't allow me to wear dirty outdoor boots, to be exact. She's a complete germophobe*.
If history is any indication, the way to Heaven is paved with corpses.Reach heaven through violence, then.
Let us cut God to see if he bleeds!If history is any indication, the way to Heaven is paved with corpses.Reach heaven through violence, then.
"Oh, guess he doesn't bleed..." - Knight Belligerent, last words.Let us cut God to see if he bleeds!If history is any indication, the way to Heaven is paved with corpses.Reach heaven through violence, then.
Should you meet grisha5 on the road, kill him.Ia! Ia! grisha5 ftghan!
I may have missed a joke, but Egan was playing off "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him". Which I think is a statement about enlightenment being more than just finding a perfect guru who tells you all the answers. I think it's supposed to be more internal, yet all-encompassing... Honestly I don't know, but I feel like I should figure it out for myself rather than look it up. Hmmm.Should you meet grisha5 on the road, kill him.
Has this to do with failed attempts to update the wiki or am I imagining things?
Primordial chaos is not for the sexual.
Primordial chaos is not for the sexual.Slaanesh disagrees.
I may have missed a joke, but Egan was playing off "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him". Which I think is a statement about enlightenment being more than just finding a perfect guru who tells you all the answers. I think it's supposed to be more internal, yet all-encompassing... Honestly I don't know, but I feel like I should figure it out for myself rather than look it up. Hmmm.My answer to the koan would be that if Buddha is on the road, he's not within you. You should kill thoughts of enlightenment as an external force and focus on finding it in yourself rather than in whatever transient matter is on the road.
Uh... is Kill Six Billion Demons a person's name? ???Killing six billion demons doesn't sound very smart. Why wouldn't you befriend, or at least ally with, them instead?Well, there's a bit of a pseudo-lesbian relationship that's just budded between Kill Six Billion Demons and a demon (Who is technically gender/sexless) so...
I know that. You didn't answer my question.
Or would answering it count as a spoiler? It's okay, I am unlikely to ever read that drivel. You can put it in a spoiler for other readers if you like.
Uh... is Kill Six Billion Demons a person's name? ???Killing six billion demons doesn't sound very smart. Why wouldn't you befriend, or at least ally with, them instead?Well, there's a bit of a pseudo-lesbian relationship that's just budded between Kill Six Billion Demons and a demon (Who is technically gender/sexless) so...
Uh... is Kill Six Billion Demons a person's name? ???Killing six billion demons doesn't sound very smart. Why wouldn't you befriend, or at least ally with, them instead?Well, there's a bit of a pseudo-lesbian relationship that's just budded between Kill Six Billion Demons and a demon (Who is technically gender/sexless) so...
Yes, it is. It's the name given to the protagonist of the webcomic of the same name, after she's entrusted with a power gem that's now embedded into her forehead.
Why that was the name she was given, we don't yet know. She's only killed like two or three demons so far, and she doesn't even have killing demons as her mission, that we're aware of.
I'm flubbing and stumbling over simple math a lot again lately. I'm looking at a math problem, and I'm mentally mixing and matching all the numbers together in every single way except the correct one. I'm thought it would be fun to try Human Resource Machine, a game about beginner's level coding which is perfect for me, but I'm playing through the beginning of the game again, and I'm just struggling hard just to concentrate and mentally picture the problem in my head. God is my brain just going to mush?Ah, welcome to jumblemathbrain. Honestly, your brain probably just needs a break from said math. At least an hour.
I'm flubbing and stumbling over simple math a lot again lately. I'm looking at a math problem, and I'm mentally mixing and matching all the numbers together in every single way except the correct one. I'm thought it would be fun to try Human Resource Machine, a game about beginner's level coding which is perfect for me, but I'm playing through the beginning of the game again, and I'm just struggling hard just to concentrate and mentally picture the problem in my head. God is my brain just going to mush?Ah, welcome to jumblemathbrain. Honestly, your brain probably just needs a break from said math. At least an hour.
It's not like those concepts have zero philosophical merit; the problem is how engrained they're in any narrative and how that determines tought processes without people noticing or knowing why.
And 90%?! gtfo it couldn't be that 6 months of winter cause you to think more about the future.
You could also turn the argument around and use the Protestant work ethic as the reason Americas are so against a welfare state.
I gotta ask what the suicide rate did in that time though. I'm not saying it's all bad mind you. I was being hyperbolic in my previous post.
I mean the protestant work ethic is like 90% responsible for why the Nordic socialist model functioned and why Sweden could go from the poorest country in Europe to the most equal country in the world in less than 100 years, so I tend to be biased towards it.Why give the credit to religious morals? By that same rule of thum I guess the reason for Ireland, going from being one of the poorest countries in the EU to one of the wealthiest by GDP per capita, is Catholic guilt?
I don't think that's quite the answer, so I'll try to throw in my own two cents. I've heard it said that there is a noticeable difference between suicide in well-developed countries compared to countries that are not developed. In a country that is developed, it's easy to develop the idea that everyone else is doing well, why aren't I? People become isolated, think that they are the only ones suffering, and in the end, fade away.
In places where people are just struggling to survive, I'm not certain people even have the time to worry about things like that. And even if they did, they know that there are others immediately around them who are suffering just as much as they are, and that those people can relate to their struggles.
I gotta ask what the suicide rate did in that time though. I'm not saying it's all bad mind you. I was being hyperbolic in my previous post.
Hmm, Swede's suicide rate is lower than the OECD average, look it up. However, they're higher than some places, but things like lack of sunlight / dark winters are a factor close to the arctic. Look up season effects on suicide and depression. Any comparison of different nations needs to take those things into account, too.
However, you wouldn't be wrong to think they do, as they are often reported to have an extreme suicide rate, but it's a myth:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/the-secular-life/201712/no-sweden-does-not-have-the-highest-suicide-rate
sure, Sweden is higher on suicide than UK or USA, but it's about the same as France or Ireland, and lower than Belgium. All of which are definitely not Protestant nations. Sweden is therefore right in the middle of the pack of developed nations.
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Scandinavian-countries-have-high-suicide-rates
I think we can find an example of a higher-than-average-suicide nation which follows pretty much each and every religion on Earth, including atheism. China is pretty high, damn atheists killing themselves. So is Japan, damn shinto/buddhists, also lots of Atheists. So is India: being Hindu makes you suicidal. Catholic/Protestant/Orthodox and probably Muslims too.
I mean the protestant work ethic is like 90% responsible for why the Nordic socialist model functioned and why Sweden could go from the poorest country in Europe to the most equal country in the world in less than 100 years, so I tend to be biased towards it.Why give the credit to religious morals? By that same rule of thum I guess the reason for Ireland, going from being one of the poorest countries in the EU to one of the wealthiest by GDP per capita, is Catholic guilt?
TL,DR: I think they are bullshit concepts popularized by a religious elite who want to take credit for the hard work and struggle of the working class
There really aren't any burritos anywhere near here. There's exactly one place I know of that even serves burritos, and prides itself on that fact, but it's this weird self-important art cafe and the one burrito I ate there was only just kinda so-so, in addition to being served lukewarm. And I was sitting on the floor, because raised chairs are too derivative.
The standard "coffee and hotdog" kiosks also experimented with taquitos, and even though they were standard kiosk-quality food the attempt at flavor was a nice change of pace. Apparently didn't work too well though, because two days later I went back and they'd scoured the shop of anything taquito-related.
Also, I was hoping that I'd feel better enough by now that I could get out of the house and relax with a beer down at the pub, now that it's not the weekend and completely fucking insane. But, no, of course I have to spend five days on a 24-hour cold.
Yes, Friday is officially taco dinner day across the nation. The notable difference is that they are Norwegian tacos, and as such don't have a single damned thing to do with Mexican food or spices.
Yes, but they don't. They make the same tasteless, dry ground meat, the same hard shell tortillas, the same store-bought tasteless, spiceless "salsa", the same spread of corn, cucumbers and tasteless, inoffensive cheese, and the same drink pairing of Coke or Pepsi as everyone else in the country. If avocados are even involved at all, it's in the form of the same horrid store-bought "guacamole" which is completely uniform in color and consistency and has roughly 14% avocado content.Yes, Friday is officially taco dinner day across the nation. The notable difference is that they are Norwegian tacos, and as such don't have a single damned thing to do with Mexican food or spices.
The best part about about making your own food is that you can make your own food
Yes, but they don't. They make the same tasteless, dry ground meat, the same hard shell tortillas, the same store-bought tasteless, spiceless "salsa", the same spread of corn, cucumbers and tasteless, inoffensive cheese, and the same drink pairing of Coke or Pepsi as everyone else in the country. If avocados are even involved at all, it's in the form of the same horrid store-bought "guacamole" which is completely uniform in color and consistency and has roughly 14% avocado content.Yes, Friday is officially taco dinner day across the nation. The notable difference is that they are Norwegian tacos, and as such don't have a single damned thing to do with Mexican food or spices.
The best part about about making your own food is that you can make your own food
Fish tacos were nice, but the euphemism kinda ruined them for me.Railgun thread is still open.
Also, I hope Imic unlocks the religion thread someday soon ):
Yes, but they don't. They make the same tasteless, dry ground meat, the same hard shell tortillas, the same store-bought tasteless, spiceless "salsa", the same spread of corn, cucumbers and tasteless, inoffensive cheese, and the same drink pairing of Coke or Pepsi as everyone else in the country. If avocados are even involved at all, it's in the form of the same horrid store-bought "guacamole" which is completely uniform in color and consistency and has roughly 14% avocado content.Yes, Friday is officially taco dinner day across the nation. The notable difference is that they are Norwegian tacos, and as such don't have a single damned thing to do with Mexican food or spices.
The best part about about making your own food is that you can make your own food
I feel I can't even approach him now, because I know I'm being obsessive and creepy about it, and I can't NOT be obsessive and creepy about it, it's just in my twisted personality.Fark, dude, right in the bloody feels with that one.
I'm a generally charismatic fellow around here on Bay12, and I am a generally charsmatic dude IRL too.
I still super overthink things to the point where I'm sure everyone secretly is mad and/or is avoiding me. Then I realize this is silly.
QuoteAnd sometimes you find common ground, and then you exchange whatever, and there's a connection. Then they aren't a stranger anymore.
Based on the sample this forum is delivering, I think it's safe to say that people might actually enjoy some sincerity. And sofar as my experiences have gone, if you don't happen to stumble upon a total sociopath, that kind of natural selection get's you in contact with people who tend to be at the same wavelength.
I woulda rather just stayed constipated...That's what the headache's from. You've reached critical overshituration.
I'm still depressed. Just trying to push the, "You piece of shit, just eat your gun and do everyone a favor." Stuff out of my head, but it's not always easy.
I've got an idea for a hobby you could try! You should take up baking! Make some chocolate guns, and eat one of those instead.+1
I've been hanging out with my younger sister (she's 16, I'm 29) and I love hanging out, but she highlights how I feel I've lost the natural inquisitiveness and skills of observation that I had in my younger years. She notices a lot of things I don't, and I feel like I'm trying to concentrate so hard every day, but I can't get up to what I feel was the same level I did as a child. This is another thing to despair at, I suppose.I suggest you find yourself a nice grassy area with clover, and search it painstakingly for a four-or-higher-leafed clover until you find one. Then, and this is important, make a habit of looking for such clovers whenever you are near clover, which also entails noticing that you are near clover. This gives you a simplified setting in which to hone those skills without worrying about having to notice everything at once (because there is too much everything).
I train awareness by scaring my work friends and watching out for them to return the favor. I also deliberately walk as quiet as possible.
I frighten my girlfriend from time to time, as she apparently tends to forget that I live here.Does she tend to forget you're her boyfriend too?
I frighten my girlfriend from time to time, as she apparently tends to forget that I live here.Don't you live in a 1-bedroom apartment?
Does she tend to forget you're her boyfriend too?Possibly; she keeps asking me if I'm her Kissy-kiss. Several times in a row. Even after I've answered.
Don't you live in a 1-bedroom apartment?Yes.
You should try getting some kind of mask, and a cloak without informing her. Then ... just be wearing that when she turns around. Then hiss the words "kissy kiss".+1
I'm tall and silent too!
... we should make a club.
I'm tall and silent too!
... we should make a club.
We don't need clubs, we can sneak up and strangle people with our bare hands.
Sad that Josh deletes all his posts. I like hearing what he has to say.Yeah, I do wish I could see more of your contributions. Take your time as you need it, Josh.
In any case, still haven't popped myself which is apparently a good thing.
There's a new anime on the block: "Cells at Work" it's a delightful little show that anthropomorphizes the body's cells as people, and dramatizes their adventures, just like "Osmosis Jones" but Moe. The slight sadness I'm reporting doesn't come from the show, it's fun and educational in all the right ways, it's just that I find myself tearing up when watching it, almost unconsciously, because the show depicts such a wonderful and functioning community and the show reminds me how badly I long to be a part of society that is so closely knit, caring, and hardworking... and how what I actually exist in is so nearly the opposite."And that's what the cellular community looks like in a healthy, normal body! Now, let's take a look at the cells in my body! Or, as I like to call it, the ghetto."
Work to become part of the JET program then, and become a cog of the Japanese machine teaching English to Japanese students
You've gotta be some special kind of fucked up to officially reprimand an employee for getting pregnant before her superior did.
You've gotta be some special kind of fucked up to officially reprimand an employee for getting pregnant before her superior did.
What now?
You've gotta be some special kind of fucked up to officially reprimand an employee for getting pregnant before her superior did.
What now?
Context required.
My wife got fired for being pregnant. That was fun.
You've gotta be some special kind of fucked up to officially reprimand an employee for getting pregnant before her superior did.
What now?
Context required.
My wife got fired for being pregnant. That was fun.
Here you go. (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/03/japanese-couple-apologise-ignoring-work-pregnancy-timetable/) Have fun.
You can, uh, pursue some legal reparations there considering that's entirely illegal (https://money.cnn.com/2014/07/25/news/economy/rights-pregnant-workers/index.html). Assuming you're USofAsian
My outdoor cat seems to have struck out on her own and only come in very rarely to eat when she can't find anything to eat. o7
My outdoor cat seems to have struck out on her own and only come in very rarely to eat when she can't find anything to eat. o7Well, cats are more-or-less independent creatures. Let her kill things.
My outdoor cat seems to have struck out on her own and only come in very rarely to eat when she can't find anything to eat. o7
Yeah, that sucks, Cinder. If it helps you should know that it's something cats just do sometimes, so it's not likely to be because of something you did. My first cat, which was one year older than me and basically with me my whole life, just up and disappeared one day when I was like 10-12 or something. Was gone for months, and I was completely heartbroken. Then one day she just appeared outside the door again like she had never been gone.Did she bring back any kittens or was it just, "Oh hey cat college didn't work out."
Cats are weird, man.
Yeah I'd give money to panhandlers when they give sob stories because that officially means they're spending more effort than they would've if they just went to a job interview instead, which imo prove their innocence.There's legitimately a beggar mafia here, with practiced sob stories, defined begging spots, and a strict hierarchy. They make money hand over fist, because Norwegians are gullible as fuck and have large coin denominations (the most common pocket lint type coin being worth more than a dollar, smallest paper bill is closer to $6).
I also work literally adjacent to the most popular train-jumping spot in the area, so I do see alot of people who dressed up as a poor from a clothing catalog so they could have a train jumping romp across the nation.I originally parsed this as "jumping in front of trains" and was wondering why suicide tourists felt the need to dress up as hobos beforehand.
EDIT: Oh yeah! More horror stories: In India, we were advised by the locals not to give money to certain beggars (and holy shit there were a lot of beggars), because "They break their children's legs to make them seem more pitiful, so they make more money".In SE Asia, they just pretend to have broken legs... That's hardcore messed up to do it for real
EDIT: Oh yeah! More horror stories: In India, we were advised by the locals not to give money to certain beggars (and holy shit there were a lot of beggars), because "They break their children's legs to make them seem more pitiful, so they make more money".In SE Asia, they just pretend to have broken legs... That's hardcore messed up to do it for real
That said I can concur with the organized begging scammers. Got them in London only instead of postcards, they use postcards & tissues, and don't even have the common sense to not wear designer clothes and fresh faces whilst begging.
To be fair, pretty much anything pays better than the stage. Throwing rubber chickens at a wall pays better than the stage.EDIT: Oh yeah! More horror stories: In India, we were advised by the locals not to give money to certain beggars (and holy shit there were a lot of beggars), because "They break their children's legs to make them seem more pitiful, so they make more money".In SE Asia, they just pretend to have broken legs... That's hardcore messed up to do it for real
That said I can concur with the organized begging scammers. Got them in London only instead of postcards, they use postcards & tissues, and don't even have the common sense to not wear designer clothes and fresh faces whilst begging.
I was please recently to read a Sherlock Holmes short story about a professional actor and make-up artist that takes up begging because it pays more than the stage.
There's a reason NYC has a restaurant famous for singing waitstaff. Gotta pay those bills.To be fair, pretty much anything pays better than the stage. Throwing rubber chickens at a wall pays better than the stage.EDIT: Oh yeah! More horror stories: In India, we were advised by the locals not to give money to certain beggars (and holy shit there were a lot of beggars), because "They break their children's legs to make them seem more pitiful, so they make more money".In SE Asia, they just pretend to have broken legs... That's hardcore messed up to do it for real
That said I can concur with the organized begging scammers. Got them in London only instead of postcards, they use postcards & tissues, and don't even have the common sense to not wear designer clothes and fresh faces whilst begging.
I was please recently to read a Sherlock Holmes short story about a professional actor and make-up artist that takes up begging because it pays more than the stage.
Did the manually-set-resolution thing for windows stop workingNot really
I thought they updated it with better resolution support with the latest patch, along with the online tweaks?No, you´re misremembering the resolution hack which improved things to 1024x768... which STILL wasn´t ideal, and which was broken by patch 1.14
And yeah, manually setting resolution can do big things. Also, goddammit, but I can't find the video where LobosJr does an 8-player dentist no-item survival run... Fuck. That was funny.
Have fun and don't poison yourself fatally or venture near things that may cause massive bodily trauma whilst impaired.
Also, use protection while "working out frustration". And have fun ya know. And be safe.You guys will make a great mother someday. :P
I'm stressing myself out.
I argue about politics, which stresses me. I don't feel like I can't do so, because I feel like I need to call people out on things even though I know it won't make a difference. I just can't stop myself.
Try doing that to a Flat Earther. You'll tear your own hair out.I'm stressing myself out.
I argue about politics, which stresses me. I don't feel like I can't do so, because I feel like I need to call people out on things even though I know it won't make a difference. I just can't stop myself.
I do this too. But Saturday I completed a Herculean trial.
I convinced a global warming denier it existed and humans were a huge part of the problem.
I'm stressing myself out.
I argue about politics, which stresses me. I don't feel like I can't do so, because I feel like I need to call people out on things even though I know it won't make a difference. I just can't stop myself.
But the what about the sun cycles and and mini ice ages. Hides from rightfully trewn projectiles, giggling.
I argue about politics, which stresses me. I don't feel like I can't do so, because I feel like I need to call people out on things even though I know it won't make a difference. I just can't stop myself.This is what killed Socrates, you know.
I argue about politics, which stresses me. I don't feel like I can't do so, because I feel like I need to call people out on things even though I know it won't make a difference. I just can't stop myself.This is what killed Socrates, you know.
My mildly sad: Spent about $30 on a .5l of "something", because the liquor monopoly was closing in less than a minute and I didn't have anything to sip, and the employee I asked for recommendations spent 12 minutes telling me an extended-edition version of "lol idk", and would have continued into the epilogue had I not just grabbed a couple bottles and dashed.I wanna try it. Sounds like budget Jägermeister.
The bottle is this foul beast that somehow manages to be too sweet and too spiced at the same time without balancing itself out in the slightest. First it kicks you in the teeth with "HI MY NAME IS JUNIPER AND THIS IS MY FRIEND BITTER FENNEL, HOW ARE YA?", transitioning smoothly into "I'm 35% ABV and lemme fuckin' tell you about it", before fading out with this completely isolated sickly syrup note without actually being sweet. The fuck.
Out of desperation I've tried mixing it with random liquids I have lying around the house... First some unflavored soda water, which succeeded in giving this spirit's obnoxious grin a wide gap between its teeth, serving to further isolate and enhance each flavor speedbump rather than soften anything at all, and then later by adding Morgan's Spiced to the mix because I'm out of ideas.
I don't know what happened there, but it was decidedly unpleasant and I'd rather just not talk about it.
Clearly I'm not the "sporting, outdoorsy type" this concoction has marketed itself towards with its flavor profile of boiled twigs on a bed of congealed cough syrup.
Work got me a student lackey and it looks like I'm stuck with the bloke until friday. I'd rather work above my average pace than to drag his unmotivated ass around me... I can't daydream if I need to spell out everything for him, and it just feels wrong to let a minor who is like 70% of my body-volume do the heavy lifting (I'm fairly average with my shoulders growing larger by the day, he is tiny).
It's weird I really don't mind lazyness I just want to not worry about him.
Work got me a student lackey and it looks like I'm stuck with the bloke until friday. I'd rather work above my average pace than to drag his unmotivated ass around me... I can't daydream if I need to spell out everything for him, and it just feels wrong to let a minor who is like 70% of my body-volume do the heavy lifting (I'm fairly average with my shoulders growing larger by the day, he is tiny).
It's weird I really don't mind lazyness I just want to not worry about him.
Man, what do you do to get a lackey? I want a lackey.
https://shop.frankfurt-airport.com/en/brimi-vianvang-dram-35-0-5l.htmlThat site only ships within Germany, to airport customers. :(
Fun fact: It's more than twice that expensive in Norway, the country of origin.
I was too lazy to google. What group would you put wheat and corn in? that last sentence seems to also be begging for a pun
What do you get if you mix blood and flour together? The traditional Swedish dish "palt".Is it good?
It simply follows a time-honoured tradition of mixing blood with things to get other, delicious things. Black Pudding, for instance.And homunculi.
DID ANYONE MENTION CORN?
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...Is that prologue?Prequel, yes. A lot of the updates are JRPG-esque walkabouts now, like how Homestuck did.
...Was it always a pixel art jrpg? I don't think it was.
I stopped reading homsestuck soon after the world got destroyedThat's a funny way to say you didn't read Homestuck.
Well, it IS about, oh, two chapters in? It's a tiny fragment of the story.I stopped reading homsestuck soon after the world got destroyedThat's a funny way to say you didn't read Homestuck.
I stopped reading Homestuck as soon as I saw how godawful the art style and characterization were.Well as long as we're sharing terrible mistakes we've made, I watched episodes of Gordon Ramsey's Hotel Hell yesterday when I could have been seeing Neon Genesis Evangelion for the first time :P
So... the first issue/update/whatever.
I stopped reading homsestuck soon after the world got destroyedThat's a funny way to say you didn't read Homestuck.
Started reading again. Now, can we put the thread back on its rails before it turns into Homestuck Discussion Thread?True, we already have one. Mildy sad: I'm visiting family, but don't have a whole lot of time with these guys before I go see others.
I stopped reading Homestuck as soon as I saw how godawful the art style and characterization were.Well as long as we're sharing terrible mistakes we've made, I watched episodes of Gordon Ramsey's Hotel Hell yesterday when I could have been seeing Neon Genesis Evangelion for the first time :P
So... the first issue/update/whatever.
Fortunately, it was not too late for me. Damn, I thought I knew all about this show, but I only knew the superficial jokes. 4 episodes in and loving it.
I stopped reading Homestuck as soon as I saw how godawful the art style and characterization were.Well as long as we're sharing terrible mistakes we've made, I watched episodes of Gordon Ramsey's Hotel Hell yesterday when I could have been seeing Neon Genesis Evangelion for the first time :P
So... the first issue/update/whatever.
Fortunately, it was not too late for me. Damn, I thought I knew all about this show, but I only knew the superficial jokes. 4 episodes in and loving it.
Good luck with the ending man. It's a well-known to be a hell of acurveball.acid trip.
Do you have a cat? The cat could've bit him or something.A cat with balls that large would probably struggle to walk, let alone bite a living, moving creature. :P
Do you have a cat? The cat could've bit him or something.
Do you have a cat? The cat could've bit him or something.
No, she was no where near him at any point and it's like a partially ripped off scale not a puncture wound. I think he snagged it on something and twitched away too hard while sliding backwards out of it, he does stuff like that sometimes but I'm normally there to unhook him.
So now I've kinda fucked over her evening and further cemented the idea that anything I pipe up about on Netflix is to be avoided like the plague, particularly whenever I mention the word "Classic".
Force her to watch The Room.Shit, I haven't even seen The Room yet... I've got a pal to watch cinematic turkeys with (we've gone through a number of 80's barbarian classics, including the masterpiece that is YOR'S WORLD), but sadly he's been busy lately with legitimately going somewhere in his life, and has spent time actually studying for exams instead of getting drunk with me. The nerve.
John McCain is dead, the last republican in America who understood "Country before Party"Isn't this the story every shit US politician has had after a while? Like how Bush suddenly for a few years wasn't "dumb warhawk man who did untold levels of socioeconomic damage at home and god knows what abroad" but was instead "LOOK LMAO HE PAINTS CUTE DOGGIES! Wouldn't you want to have a beeeeeeeeeer with him?".
didn't see the original Get Smart
Oh my god, please don't tell me you saw the horrifically bad movie...Ayup... It tried very hard to reference the original, but... No. As mentioned, it should have just tried to be its own thing rather than be a reboot of a classic.
Apparently I've been lied toI know, and it's difficult to come to terms with... But FLEX TAPE® can't actually fix everything.
Dogma was a mistake.
I'm still wondering if you're talking about Ben Affleck, I honestly can't tell.
Yes thanks! Don't humanize them, you won't get rid of them anymore and afterwards you have to sanitize the whole place! Tough he was a patriot if you consider that the hegemonial empire is in the best interest of all US citizens...
Shooting must be done on location. Props and sets must not be brought in (if a particular prop is necessary for the story, a location must be chosen where this prop is to be found).
The sound must never be produced apart from the images or vice versa. (Music must not be used unless it occurs where the scene is being shot.)
The camera must be hand-held. Any movement or immobility attainable in the hand is permitted.
The film must be in colour. Special lighting is not acceptable. (If there is too little light for exposure the scene must be cut or a single lamp be attached to the camera).
Optical work and filters are forbidden.
The film must not contain superficial action. (Murders, weapons, etc. must not occur.)
Temporal and geographical alienation are forbidden. (That is to say that the film takes place here and now.)
Genre movies are not acceptable.
The film format must be Academy 35 mm.
The director must not be credited.
QuoteShooting must be done on location. Props and sets must not be brought in (if a particular prop is necessary for the story, a location must be chosen where this prop is to be found).
The sound must never be produced apart from the images or vice versa. (Music must not be used unless it occurs where the scene is being shot.)
The camera must be hand-held. Any movement or immobility attainable in the hand is permitted.
The film must be in colour. Special lighting is not acceptable. (If there is too little light for exposure the scene must be cut or a single lamp be attached to the camera).
Optical work and filters are forbidden.
The film must not contain superficial action. (Murders, weapons, etc. must not occur.)
Temporal and geographical alienation are forbidden. (That is to say that the film takes place here and now.)
Genre movies are not acceptable.
The film format must be Academy 35 mm.
The director must not be credited.
Sounds terribly boring
Oh good, I'm so glad we're not talking about the excellent movie Dogma, starring Ben Affleck aaaaaaaand.... Matt Damon, that's the one. A Masterpiece of not-so-modern cinema.You wouldn't be forgetting that Alan Rickman was a literal angel in that movie now would you?
You must have me mixed up with someone else there, I didn't comment on Dogma.
QuoteShooting must be done on location. Props and sets must not be brought in (if a particular prop is necessary for the story, a location must be chosen where this prop is to be found).
The sound must never be produced apart from the images or vice versa. (Music must not be used unless it occurs where the scene is being shot.)
The camera must be hand-held. Any movement or immobility attainable in the hand is permitted.
The film must be in colour. Special lighting is not acceptable. (If there is too little light for exposure the scene must be cut or a single lamp be attached to the camera).
Optical work and filters are forbidden.
The film must not contain superficial action. (Murders, weapons, etc. must not occur.)
Temporal and geographical alienation are forbidden. (That is to say that the film takes place here and now.)
Genre movies are not acceptable.
The film format must be Academy 35 mm.
The director must not be credited.
Sounds terribly boring
I took one of those inventories and, uh, I think getting a 100% might be indicative of something. I've already started setting something up, though, and the doctor sent me an actual physical letter (?? i live a block away from the hospital and i would still rather get a text message or similar) saying i should call to set up an appointment about that, so that's good.If you can prove medical reasons, many colleges will let you back in. If you choose.
What's bad is, like, I don't know, I dropped out of college due to it, I guess. It sometimes takes me days to do things that, if I were to time the amount I actually spent on it, ends up being one or two hours. That kind of thing.
I took one of those inventories and, uh, I think getting a 100% might be indicative of something. I've already started setting something up, though, and the doctor sent me an actual physical letter (?? i live a block away from the hospital and i would still rather get a text message or similar) saying i should call to set up an appointment about that, so that's good.
What's bad is, like, I don't know, I dropped out of college due to it, I guess. It sometimes takes me days to do things that, if I were to time the amount I actually spent on it, ends up being one or two hours. That kind of thing.
I had some doubts about whether or not I might have some form of ADHD, and as my girlfriend has the diagnosis she was of course very happy to potentially see me get labeled with same. Shrink said "Alright, we'll start you on Ritalin and see what happens".
Started on Ritalin, didn't notice much. Got increased dose, still didn't notice much. Shrink said "If you had ADHD, you would have noticed something. Test concluded". And that's how I don't have ADHD.
Arx! How have you been? Apart from the new banknotes and related miseries. Are they really ugly ones with big plastic watermarks that make them stupidly easy to crumple? Our asshole government has been insisting on our monies being transferred to such a form as well. Two denominations so far have fallen prey to this malignant idiocy. Makes me so damn mad.
I've been... staying alive, I guess. I've been worse, been better. Buried in large quantities of university work, for the most part, and/or caught in really bad mental spins, but that's another topic.Well, most of that doesn't sound too bad. I feel ya on the "mental spins" bit!
I have to stop jerking offIsn't it someone else's job to fap around here?
@Joshua, I read your post, and it brings up some valid worries. Have you talked to them about how you feel afterwards?
You can just tell the girl you've been off the tinder app for a month, it's not like she's going to dislike you for that."Google how to explain an absence"
Belts don't stop your T-shirts being oversized.
Belts don't stop your T-shirts being oversized.Just hang a brightly-coloured bandana from your back pocket and talk as obnoxiously as possible. Everyone will think you're really cool.
This is why the Lord, in his infinite wisdom, invented minifridges.
So you could bring your own alcohol to work and get hammered in style.
Step one: Acquire ice.
Step two: Place ice in potable liquid.
There is no step three. You're done. Cold thing to drink.
I wonder what it costs daily for a leather-clad threatening super-henchman.You could always just get an unpaid intern from the Antagonists Academy. I mean, henchmen tend to be bumbling and clueless at the best of times, so getting a trainee shouldn't be too big an issue.
I wonder what it costs daily for a leather-clad threatening super-henchman.You could always just get an unpaid intern from the Antagonists Academy. I mean, henchmen tend to be bumbling and clueless at the best of times, so getting a trainee shouldn't be too big an issue.
Though I suppose they might still be too competent, not having completed their training.
Trying to think of an original research proposal for doctorate concerning Henry II. How do you even.I'm Hen-er-ey the Eighth I'm not, I'm not,
Trying to think of an original research proposal for doctorate concerning Henry II. How do you even.How a theoretical rap battle between him and Thomas Beckett would unfold
Trying to think of an original research proposal for doctorate concerning Henry II. How do you even.How a theoretical rap battle between him and Thomas Beckett would unfold
I'm an alcoholic and I'm slowly losing control of my habit.In my opinion that's more of a big sad.
I'm an alcoholic and I'm slowly losing control of my habit.In my opinion that's more of a big sad.
If you want advice?
I've heard it helps to go cold turkey. Don't ration, don't give yourself the opportunity, just get it away and warn people about your tendencies so they can stop you.
People tend to age out of excessive alcohol consumption by themselvesIs that a euphemism for dying of cirrhosis?
Eh, more just that hangovers like to crank up the volume the older you get, heh heh.People tend to age out of excessive alcohol consumption by themselvesIs that a euphemism for dying of cirrhosis?
I'm an alcoholic and I'm slowly losing control of my habit.
I'm an alcoholic and I'm slowly losing control of my habit.
Move to Britain. We've got you covered - I don't even drink and I'm at a pub 3 times a week. Technically 4 if you count that I visit 2 pubs on a Tuesday.
lewlI'm an alcoholic and I'm slowly losing control of my habit.
Move to Britain. We've got you covered - I don't even drink and I'm at a pub 3 times a week. Technically 4 if you count that I visit 2 pubs on a Tuesday.
In America, 4 glasses of wine at dinner means you're an alcoholic. In Britain it means you're the designated driver.
lewlI'm an alcoholic and I'm slowly losing control of my habit.
Move to Britain. We've got you covered - I don't even drink and I'm at a pub 3 times a week. Technically 4 if you count that I visit 2 pubs on a Tuesday.
In America, 4 glasses of wine at dinner means you're an alcoholic. In Britain it means you're the designated driver.
One thought: you see a therapist, yeh? Maybe they could help you out a bit, both as support and suggesting coping mechanisms.
I actually had no idea about the religious aspect of AA. Sounds like they sort of suck.
Anyway I did it with the support of a loved one, you can too.
They tell you that you must have a higher power but it doesn't have to be god. But it should be. But it doesn't has to be.
But what about Satan :( ? Nobody has ever concerns for Satan :'(Hey, listen... Lucifer stood up to his own father, who is literally omnipotent, because of what he believed was right.
Now I'm wondering how it'd go if you answered that in the most whiney tone at an opportune moment at the AA meetings. If you get the chance: go full vegan animal activist on Satan's rights.
Yeah, it's bad enough that one meeting had a fellow atheist leave all references of god out of a certain passage, and half the people got up and left all pissed off.
Well, the thing is, AA is often a court ordered program. Would it be ethical to court order an atheist to pray?Yeah, it's bad enough that one meeting had a fellow atheist leave all references of god out of a certain passage, and half the people got up and left all pissed off.
I mean, that's kind of a dick move, since this is supposed to be the most sacred, important thing in their lives, and this friend removed the most important part of it since , you know, sacrilege and all that is usually a big deal, I mean unless these are the "trump is a gift from god" type of Christian, in which case they probably don't actually follow the bible's teaching.
I'm not saying they should be forced to pray, just that it's not exactly wrong for a Christian to be upset at someone removing God from the passages of their most important bookGranted, but that's not the issue here. AA claims to be nonreligious, presumably to keep getting sent initiates by US courts. Supposedly the program is for atheists and theists alike. The anecdote claims they don't necessarily follow that internally.
Secret of AA: After 75 Years, We Don't Know How It Works
That won't be a problem for a thickset man in a baggy beige sweat suit. "Doesn't matter how much snow we get—a foot, 10 feet piled up in front of the door," he says. "I will leave my apartment tomorrow and go find a meeting."
He clasps his hands together and draws them to his heart: "You understand me? I need this." Daily meetings, the man says, are all that prevent him from winding up dead in the gutter, shoes gone because he sold them for booze or crack. And he hasn't had a drink in more than a decade.
I'm not saying they should be forced to pray, just that it's not exactly wrong for a Christian to be upset at someone removing God from the passages of their most important book
I'm not saying they should be forced to pray, just that it's not exactly wrong for a Christian to be upset at someone removing God from the passages of their most important book
Well they try to force you to pray. And the passage was from a guide to getting sober, not a holy text. In fact, I was quite often put in situations where it could affect my freedom if I didn't at least pretend to recite the Lord's prayer or otherwise show compliance in such circumstances.
Whatever, it's just, what, like the first amendment or something. And I was just some criminal with no recourse but to do as I was ordered.
I'm not saying they should be forced to pray, just that it's not exactly wrong for a Christian to be upset at someone removing God from the passages of their most important book
I'd forgotten how much casual bigotry goes on here.Don't worry about it, it's just those goddamn Belgians acting up again.
I'd forgotten how much casual bigotry goes on here.
I'd forgotten how much casual bigotry goes on here.
Frankly, I don't hate or disprove of AA. They help some people and that's great. I take offense to my First Amendment rights being suppressed. That's all I personally was trying to say.
At the time of the novel's initial publication in 1851, Uncle Tom was a rejection of the existing stereotypes of minstrel shows; Stowe's melodramatic story humanized the suffering of slavery for white audiences by portraying Tom as a Jesus-like figure who is ultimately martyred, beaten to death by a cruel master because he refuses to betray the whereabouts of two women who had escaped from slavery. Stowe reversed the gender conventions of slave narratives by juxtaposing Uncle Tom's passivity against the daring of three African American women who escape from slavery.
American copyright law before 1856 did not give novel authors any control over derivative stage adaptations, so Stowe neither approved the adaptations nor profited from them. Minstrel show retellings in particular, usually performed by white men in blackface, tended to be derisive and pro-slavery, transforming Uncle Tom from Christian martyr to a fool or an apologist for slavery.
Yeah, I never liked the whole "Uncle Tom" thing.
The reason is that the original Uncle Tom story was an anti-slavery thing, however it got adapted by the Southerners into things like minstrel shows about a friendly and helpful black slave. So, using the phrase in that way to mean "collaborator" really disrespects the original author and their intentions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_TomQuoteAt the time of the novel's initial publication in 1851, Uncle Tom was a rejection of the existing stereotypes of minstrel shows; Stowe's melodramatic story humanized the suffering of slavery for white audiences by portraying Tom as a Jesus-like figure who is ultimately martyred, beaten to death by a cruel master because he refuses to betray the whereabouts of two women who had escaped from slavery. Stowe reversed the gender conventions of slave narratives by juxtaposing Uncle Tom's passivity against the daring of three African American women who escape from slavery.
Ok, so that's the original Uncle Tom. A black man who is beaten until he dies rather than betray other slaves, along with depicting strong non-white female characters.QuoteAmerican copyright law before 1856 did not give novel authors any control over derivative stage adaptations, so Stowe neither approved the adaptations nor profited from them. Minstrel show retellings in particular, usually performed by white men in blackface, tended to be derisive and pro-slavery, transforming Uncle Tom from Christian martyr to a fool or an apologist for slavery.
So, because there were no effective copyright laws back then, the pro-slave people converted the story into a minstrel show about how slavery was A-OK, just ask friendly Uncle Tom.
Going back to an online community, seeing how much it's changed, how much it hasn't.What community?
Messing around a bit, expecting to be too out of touch. No one recognized me, yet they liked my content. I suppose I learned the ways, heh.
I thought I moved on, but this is okay too.
I heard most BYOND games aren't very good, except for SS13 (which I adore).SS13 isn't very good either, it's just very well-liked.
Quoted for truth.I heard most BYOND games aren't very good, except for SS13 (which I adore).SS13 isn't very good either, it's just very well-liked.
Quoted for truth.I heard most BYOND games aren't very good, except for SS13 (which I adore).SS13 isn't very good either, it's just very well-liked.
SS13 is barely a game, it's more like a weird roleplaying engine, except nobody roleplays.Quoted for truth.I heard most BYOND games aren't very good, except for SS13 (which I adore).SS13 isn't very good either, it's just very well-liked.
Yeah, sadly true. I love the game concept but it could be so much more.
Also every time I think about space I get anxiety attacks. That was my slight sad.
Hey now, space is just a nigh-endless void full of forces beyond our comprehension that could crush our planet like a puny insect in an instant without even giving it a moment's thought. Nothing to be anxious about. :P
/TG/ virology can barely kill a single monkey handcuffed to a bed. They can make you wish you were dead from a spammy cocktail of sneezing, coughing, and itching, but actual tailored disease lethality is remarkably difficult to achieve in any reasonable sense.I was once killed by a virus that kills people in about a minute through... burning, I think? So they changed it.
Here's the thing though: Yes, there are symptoms that can be fatal, some of the more powerful ones (specifically, autophagocytosis necrosis and alkali perspiration) can be very fatal. The problem is balancing a disease so that it can deliver the symptom to its full effect (some effects are locked behind stat walls), while also making sure that it has at least some tiny amount of stats left over in order to function./TG/ virology can barely kill a single monkey handcuffed to a bed. They can make you wish you were dead from a spammy cocktail of sneezing, coughing, and itching, but actual tailored disease lethality is remarkably difficult to achieve in any reasonable sense.I was once killed by a virus that kills people in about a minute through... burning, I think? So they changed it.
If you want the general formula, there's another sum to know, which is that (1 + 2 + 3 + .... + n) = n(n+1)/2.
Denoting n(n+1)/2 as "T", you get the series T * (1/n + (1/n)^2 + (1/n)^3 + ...), which isn't quite the geometric series since it's lacking a leading zero power term.
Your real answer will be the full series minus that leading term that isn't there, which is T/(1-1/n) - T, which can be simplified to n(n+1)/[2(n-1)] for any n-sided die.
It's a pretty friendly, inoffensive joke. I don't get how it could be perceived as an ad hominem, especially when there is no real argument or debate going on in the first place.
It's a pretty friendly, inoffensive joke. I don't get how it could be perceived as an ad hominem, especially when there is no real argument or debate going on in the first place.
It can be easily taken as an attempt to ice someone out of the forums. Consider sarcasm tags.
And he edited his post! Talk about very justified friendly ribbing.
I've never even heard the phrase 'ice someone' before in a non-gangster context.
But... how? It's just mentioning that you edit your posts a lot. It's so innocent I can't even conceive how it could possibly be an attempt to harass someone or make them feel uncomfortable.It's a pretty friendly, inoffensive joke. I don't get how it could be perceived as an ad hominem, especially when there is no real argument or debate going on in the first place.
It can be easily taken as an attempt to ice someone out of the forums.
Confusion over a math problem causes a giant brawl, kills five
If you want the general formula, there's another sum to know, which is that (1 + 2 + 3 + .... + n) = n(n+1)/2.
Denoting n(n+1)/2 as "T", you get the series T * (1/n + (1/n)^2 + (1/n)^3 + ...), which isn't quite the geometric series since it's lacking a leading zero power term.
Your real answer will be the full series minus that leading term that isn't there, which is T/(1-1/n) - T, which can be simplified to n(n+1)/[2(n-1)] for any n-sided die.
Im so amazed by people who understand that stuff on a theoretical level. I'm just thinkering, like bashing numbers like a brain damaged toddler until they have an ok shape. I'm totally incapable of demonstrating the accuracy of what I do, but it...seems to workSpoiler (click to show/hide)
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It's hard to explain my problem but to put it into practical terms. Imagine you roll damages in explosive d6. I need to know how many hits it takes to take down one pawn on average, so as to balance HP of each ones.
For practical reasons, I now assume that an explosive D6 averages at 4.2. So I will assume that everything under 4.2 HP can be take out with only one dice. Everything below 8.4 takes an average of two damage dices, etc.
This is critical to know before designing stuff like classes for players, because they really did die too fast in my test runs
Just had to delete my meme generator off this derpy phone to make room to reinstall my banking app. Truly the end of an era.
Sure, it's been quite a while since I've been in any dedicated meme-sharing communities, but still.
Just had to delete my meme generator off this derpy phone to make room to reinstall my banking app. Truly the end of an era.
Sure, it's been quite a while since I've been in any dedicated meme-sharing communities, but still.
Take a look at your own goddamn sig sir.
Miserable assholes that think the transitive property applies to emotions. They try to make other people miserable so their misery is closer to happy.
Miserable assholes that think the transitive property applies to emotions. They try to make other people miserable so their misery is closer to happy.
Yeah, it's not even the transitive property, it's a zero-sum game. Cause misery so you can gain happiness directly from it, it's more efficient.
Miserable assholes that think the transitive property applies to emotions. They try to make other people miserable so their misery is closer to happy.
Yeah, it's not even the transitive property, it's a zero-sum game. Cause misery so you can gain happiness directly from it, it's more efficient.
It's too bad we can't make misery into a renewable energy source, there's plenty of it floating around.
Actually, not enough. Most experiments to those ends are purely unsupervised - what we need to do is form a scientific body dedicated to sourcing/creating misery, then recording their results in a clinical fashion. What we have at the moment is a layman's experiment, as it were. We need more misery professionals.
Actually, not enough. Most experiments to those ends are purely unsupervised - what we need to do is form a scientific body dedicated to sourcing/creating misery, then recording their results in a clinical fashion. What we have at the moment is a layman's experiment, as it were. We need more misery professionals.
Actually, not enough. Most experiments to those ends are purely unsupervised - what we need to do is form a scientific body dedicated to sourcing/creating misery, then recording their results in a clinical fashion. What we have at the moment is a layman's experiment, as it were. We need more misery professionals.
Unfortunately scientific ethics forbid(s?) such a thing.
I also can't imagine you would want someone scientifically unethical to also perform such a task, either.
Man I just want to get drunk and I don't know what beer I have.
I'm also sad it's late and there is much less activity on the forum when it's late.
Bloody Americans and their bloody stupid sensibility of going to bed at a reasonable hour.
Actually, not enough. Most experiments to those ends are purely unsupervised - what we need to do is form a scientific body dedicated to sourcing/creating misery, then recording their results in a clinical fashion. What we have at the moment is a layman's experiment, as it were. We need more misery professionals.
Unfortunately scientific ethics forbid(s?) such a thing.
I also can't imagine you would want someone scientifically unethical to also perform such a task, either.
Man I just want to get drunk and I don't know what beer I have.
I'm also sad it's late and there is much less activity on the forum when it's late.
Bloody Americans and their bloody stupid sensibility of going to bed at a reasonable hour.
Ey, fuck you, Yuropemate. I'm fully awake and quite capable of being an ignorant yank even at this ungodly hour. :p
I know this is a joke, but the killing of letters is not the same as the killing of human beings. If I'm wrong, using the backspace key is genocide. #letterlivesmatterActually, not enough. Most experiments to those ends are purely unsupervised - what we need to do is form a scientific body dedicated to sourcing/creating misery, then recording their results in a clinical fashion. What we have at the moment is a layman's experiment, as it were. We need more misery professionals.
Now presenting the latest from Mermaid Farm Laboratories (Also known for our studies in Dwarven Childcare), Why You're Miserable (We Did It For !!Science!!)
Actually, it's only genocide if you can backspace every letter there is, or if that was your intent. At the worst, it would only be murder.I know this is a joke, but the killing of letters is not the same as the killing of human beings. If I'm wrong, using the backspace key is genocide. #letterlivesmatterActually, not enough. Most experiments to those ends are purely unsupervised - what we need to do is form a scientific body dedicated to sourcing/creating misery, then recording their results in a clinical fashion. What we have at the moment is a layman's experiment, as it were. We need more misery professionals.
Now presenting the latest from Mermaid Farm Laboratories (Also known for our studies in Dwarven Childcare), Why You're Miserable (We Did It For !!Science!!)
Technically, it only needs to be a "substantial number", not necessarily all of them. Doing your best to remove a significant amount of vowels would be genocide.Actually, it's only genocide if you can backspace every letter there is, or if that was your intent. At the worst, it would only be murder.I know this is a joke, but the killing of letters is not the same as the killing of human beings. If I'm wrong, using the backspace key is genocide. #letterlivesmatterActually, not enough. Most experiments to those ends are purely unsupervised - what we need to do is form a scientific body dedicated to sourcing/creating misery, then recording their results in a clinical fashion. What we have at the moment is a layman's experiment, as it were. We need more misery professionals.
Now presenting the latest from Mermaid Farm Laboratories (Also known for our studies in Dwarven Childcare), Why You're Miserable (We Did It For !!Science!!)
Hah. Enjoy the cookie I just bestowed upon you; it was the last in the biscuit barrel.
Anyway, even by your definition it is not genocide. Backspacing for the rest of your life would not even put a dent on the number of letters online (not to mention the relative security of the printed word!), and as the backspace is an indiscriminate weapon, you could not focus upon a smaller sub-section of language to further the genocidal machine. The prefix, the definite article, various linguistic minorities; all would be safe within the mass which is language in general.
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Gave my knee a solid whack on a corner.I just woke up, so my eyes haven't finished booting their drivers properly. I misread "knee" as "child".
Fucking HURT.
You've got to be kidding knee...FTFY.
And whoops, there goes the joke. Someone fetch it from the stands, please. :PIt's not knees to stop a pun storm like that.
I got snapped at last night for putting my headphones away too noisily.
I got snapped at last night for putting my headphones away too noisily.
I'm trying to imagine you jumping off of your bed and swinging around the room by a ceiling fan, knocking over vases and maybe a TV before airdropping your headphones into their drawer, then coming off the fan and roll-landing through a bay window as your theme song proudly begins.
I am succeeding.
A sword, huh? Well at least you still have a thumb. :P
My (mild-)Sad: this was to be the second night of an attempt to re-form a healthy sleep pattern, and I dozed off into an accidental nap earlier due to feeling poorly and woke up at around 2300. Well, shit.
Unplanned sleep is better than no sleep, and when you're ill, you shouldn't worry about your normal routines and procedures.Well, naps certainly aren't helpful when it comes to improving one's sleeping habits. It's all a matter of self-training.
What is a Grisha5?Pathos but weak
The Pathos we seekWhat is a Grisha5?Pathos but weak
"The first rule of geriatric Fight Club is take your medication. The second rule of geriatric Fight Club is uh... Where was I?"
Wait, was there a theory that Catmeat was grisha5??Catmeat presumably is an unrelated user who claimed to be grisha5, then got himself banned in an attempt to frame Grisha.
Nah, Catmeat's a cool guy but as far as I'm aware he's not divinity.
Also, KittyTac, you realise you have now assumed the role of the new prophet, yes?
grisha5 be praised[
Huh, I didn't remember that particular tidbit. Although it's been so long, I can barely remember any details of why he was banned that time...What exactly did Orange Wizard do?
Holy heck, it's been over two years since OW was banned. O________O
What exactly did Orange Wizard do?Pretty sure he accidentally founded a New Zealand branch of the Ku Klux Klan. :P
The only thing I know of mahjong is from that old Window 3.1 game. Is real mahjong even anything similar to that?
Go on Pogo games and play their mahjong, it's more videogame-y.
a very oppressive 5 second turn limit
a very oppressive 5 second turn limit
I think that might be the problem. I can play chess... well, not fantastically, but alright, in general, but ask me to play bullet? Nuh-uh, no can do boss. Same for blitz, to a lesser extent.
Looks like the search function got broken. It shows me an error, "Unable to access the search daemon."
Looks like the search function got broken. It shows me an error, "Unable to access the search daemon."
Try sacrificing a goat.
Looks like the search function got broken. It shows me an error, "Unable to access the search daemon."
Try sacrificing a goat.
I don't remember where are my black robes and corpsepaint cosmetics kit, plus I don't have a proper sacrificial knife.
Now THAT'S an athame.
Now I just need to find my black robes and corpsepaint cosmetics kit.
Now I just need to find my black robes and corpsepaint cosmetics kit.
Well you're in LUCK!
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Two things:At least you're doing Jiujitsu to some extent... I tried out with a comparatively local dojo, made a complete pig's ear of the warmup exercises, and was so worn out/down that my head started spinning and I ended up just silently leaving before the actual lesson even started, and just limped my way home.
1) Breakfalls and rolls are 100% not my thing in Ju Jitsu. Which is annoying because they're something you need to know. Especially breakfalls because if you don't know that you're liable to do yourself an injury.
2) When practising them yesterday, I got three abrasions on my feet. One on my left ankle, one on top of my left foot, and one on my right foot's big toe's knuckle. As a result, shoes are painful.
I don't advise you to get as close as wrestling if you want to defend yourself. Boxing is definitly up to the task, but it can't hurt to know stuff about legs, hence the (kick).Thing is, fights don't always follow the recommended guidelines. Striking is all well and good so long as you can maintain the correct distance and have enough space to work with. Sometimes, though, that's just not how the fight goes, or even how it starts. Having a good base in grappling techniques is really a good idea so as to not turn into a dead fish the moment someone grabs you.
... Just learn a year of wrestling and boxing, and fuck up every martial artist you meet instead.
/me invokes the power of la.
Yoga is like, the deadliest martial art, man. You don't wanna mess with a yogic black belt, believe me.
... Just learn a year of wrestling and boxing, and fuck up every martial artist you meet instead.
The problem with this is that most functional martial arts* represent at least one of those with the limiters removed. :P An MMA fighter against a boxer in a brawl would be a very sad sight indeed, since boxing basically ignores the legs aside from footwork. Neither boxing nor wrestling will prepare you for sweeps or knee kicks, for instance.
*Obviously tai chi kata isn't going to do you much good in a fight, as an extreme example.
/me invokes the power of la.
Yoga is like, the deadliest martial art, man. You don't wanna mess with a yogic black belt, believe me.
I'm a natural grappler, I can't help myself but it's the most useful style to know when it comes to swordplay, which is the only combat I get involved in.
... How do you feel about rooftops and thunderstorms?
... How do you feel about rooftops and thunderstorms?
My little musketeer beard/moustache ensemble twitches with excitement at the thought.
... How do you feel about rooftops and thunderstorms?
My little musketeer beard/moustache ensemble twitches with excitement at the thought.
*crosses out Arx and writes Rowanas on his "List of Forumites to Duel On a Thunderstorm Swept Rooftop*
Hanslanda, stop challenging forum-goers to deadly roof-top battles.
Anyway, in terms of spatial sense and fitness, I suppose I'd be alright at martial arts. It's interesting working on a farm with poor facilities (when I say interesting, I mean deadly) so one learns to act quickly. Fun times getting a cow to stop by literally jumping on its horns and dragging its head around, or avoiding crazed-mummy-cow-trying-to-escape-and-incidentally-crush-you. Let's not forget the time part of the roof, including a beam, collapsed and I had to throw myself backwards. Or the time the cattle broke a gate and sent it flying, though granted it was just chance that had me standing just away from it and not spatial awareness.
Farms are dangerous places.
... How do you feel about rooftops and thunderstorms?
My little musketeer beard/moustache ensemble twitches with excitement at the thought.
*crosses out Arx and writes Rowanas on his "List of Forumites to Duel On a Thunderstorm Swept Rooftop*
I've often been nicknamed D'artagnon, but I'm more of a miniature Porthos. Can we tumble off the edge to an almost-certain doom, only for one of us to reappear at a plot-convenient moment?
Usually it's the antagonist who dies, though. And let's face it, you're not being protagonisty here Hanslanda.
Usually it's the antagonist who dies, though. And let's face it, you're not being protagonisty here Hanslanda.
We can always flip the script, break the trope.
Usually it's the antagonist who dies, though. And let's face it, you're not being protagonisty here Hanslanda.
We can always flip the script, break the trope.
Nah, we both survive. Also I'm definitely the antagonist. They have way more fun and get to do the coolest stuff.
I'm a sinister looking ex-criminal arrogant American. I'm definitely an antagonist.You're the underdog that was innocent all along, and is presently on a quest for redemption/to prove themselves innocent.
I'm a sinister looking ex-criminal arrogant American. I'm definitely an antagonist.You're the underdog that was innocent all along, and is presently on a quest for redemption/to prove themselves innocent.
I'm a sinister looking ex-criminal arrogant American. I'm definitely an antagonist.You're the underdog that was innocent all along, and is presently on a quest for redemption/to prove themselves innocent.
While I'm an externally cheerful, sober and law-abiding citizen, who hides an alter-ego capable of unfathomable evil in the name of his misguided crusade. A classic likable villain vs antihero.
You have a very particular set of skills.
Not if you let everyone in on that fact first, you won't.
Stupid pinky toe is still all bruised and sore from catching it on a bag handle three days ago. I had just gotten back into proper exercise, but I have to keep weight off it. My boots help, but extended walking just doesn't feel good.
At least your guns are clean!
Oh yes. Jail is where they hold you while you're on trial. Prison is to live out your sentence. Jail temporary, prison permanent ish is how I remember it.At least your guns are clean!
I bought all of them from a private seller, because I don't want da gubmint to know how many guns I have.
The problem of crime is intrinsically different, at least in many of our states. The reality is that many of us live pretty far away from police response.
I mean, I'm okay. I think we're probably within 15 minutes.
My housemate still keeps a gun, because he grew up in the "boonies".
And I'm completely okay with that.
I'm not anti-firearm at all.Is... is this a parody of something? After everything else you've said, this has to be a joke of some kind. I shall raise an awkward chuckle, then, I guess?
I won't even treat with a firearm policeman over here, nor will I walk on the same side of the road as them.
I'm not anti-firearm at all.
It is an unacceptable horror that the government shouldn't know how many firearms a private citizen has. fuck me, let's just sell you nukes, who the fuck cared, kill anyone you like. I am reminded once again of how much the USA needs to sink beneath the waves with all hands lost.
I've never been in a fight. Never broken a bone either, for that matter...At least you had a projectile weapon to... mouth... which he presumably didn't!
Closest I've ever gotten to a tussle was in the army, when I made the dreadful faux pas of suggesting that the polite young fellow return to the festivities upstairs rather than hold the broken restroom stall door closed for me while I vomit. He took offence.
Yes, he really wanted to fight me because I thought he should be doing something more entertaining with his time than stand pukewatch for me. Alcohol is a strange place...
Yeah, that's one of those cases where the recoil is at least as bad as the effect on target.I've never been in a fight. Never broken a bone either, for that matter...At least you had a projectile weapon to... mouth... which he presumably didn't!
Closest I've ever gotten to a tussle was in the army, when I made the dreadful faux pas of suggesting that the polite young fellow return to the festivities upstairs rather than hold the broken restroom stall door closed for me while I vomit. He took offence.
Yes, he really wanted to fight me because I thought he should be doing something more entertaining with his time than stand pukewatch for me. Alcohol is a strange place...
I won't even treat with a firearm policeman over here, nor will I walk on the same side of the road as them.I'm not anti-firearm at all.
How is that not, at its core, anti-firearm? You have an intrinsic distrust in anyone who carries one, including those trained specifically to handle them in public.
Also I haven't started on my Halloween costume yet. Shit.Get a dollar bill sheet and cut eye holes in it. Become the most terrifying looming specter of all; debt and predatory banking.
Servers fall, everyone dies.
I spent only five minutes on my costume last year. I had a handful of dust and a sign saying "3^^^3", because the best jokes are those that nobody understands. (Bonus points if you get the literary reference.)I'm sorry to inform you that I got both of them.
For similar reasons, I will be holding one clear box (containing candy) and one opaque box this year. Since I have both cardboard and plastic shoeboxes handy, this will probably take less than a minute.
Brandishing is a huge no-no and actually qualifies for a very serious felony in USA and is grounds for defending yourself from the brandishee with lethal force. Any gun owner with a half a brain knows you don't unholster a firearm without a serious threat to human life present. I wouldn't even take mine out for a robbery or car jacking as long as no one was in immediate and imminent danger. Most criminals prefer to steal your shit and run anyway.
Asking her about it would start a fight. It's not good advice.It was just a suggestion I made using the limited information I have.
This isn't an isolated incident, Kagus has indicated it's part of a recurring pattern of behavior. She's been making up spurious reasons to give Kagus shit for a while. It's not just a bad day, it's a bad attitude. Kagus just needs to brush it aside in a good-natured fashion. Sitting someone like that down and trying to have a "conversation" about the behavior, no matter how reasonably you broach the subject, is almost always a bad idea.
Talking it through with a third party involved such as a relationship counselor is a better idea, because the other person is far less likely to be able to derail the discussion with bullshit with another person listening. So rather than saying "we should talk about your behavior" saying "I think we should talk to a relationship counselor" is actually better tactic to actually get some constructive movement no matter how it ends.
RE: Alacrity. I have no shame in admitting that I was introduced to the word by Baldur's Gate 2... It's a fun word.
It's a synonym of haste, which is the more popular spell. So, to do something "with alacrity" means doing speed.RE: Alacrity. I have no shame in admitting that I was introduced to the word by Baldur's Gate 2... It's a fun word.
I wad thinking about mentioning that it's a spell there! Since that's all i know it from too.
Still no idea what it means, though.
So, my parents were actually telling me to do speed all those years??!The following comedic responses to this post have been prepared:
I'm learning to hate gill rakers.
Why do fish have them? To filter particles out and stop them getting into the gills. In ram feeders, it's to help with capture of plankton.
So why do animals that don't feed on plankton have entirely different gill rakers to one another?
I know it and what it means, but I'm pretty sure I would pronounce it wrong if I tried to say it.
Really? Huh, guess I was overthinking it.I know it and what it means, but I'm pretty sure I would pronounce it wrong if I tried to say it.
A-lack-rity
I started reading a book about the life of Bill Murray. God was he just a carefree and cool guy. I'd give anything to just be that mentally and emotionally free and uninhibited.Drugs.
I mean, he ("probably" as the book states) cheated on his wives, and probably hit one, which isn't as cool; but other than that, the book is nonstop cool stories about him. He's the manic pixie dream man, has fun everywhere, makes friends with everyone instantly, not inhibited by anxiety or self-doubt. It's just everything I wish I could be. (I mean, the book is written by third-hand accounts of the man, so it's not by him, so who's the say he didn't have internal struggles throughout his life? Though the many many exploits seems to exclude any time to spend not going from one adventure to the next.)
Drugs.Tempted to sig this, but I haven't time right now.
Just... So many drugs.
Reelya likely meant it as a more philosophical or political rejection, not a self-interested one.Well, that doesn't interest me (my phone came bundled with most/all Google services). But I respect your opinion.
:o
Where do u go to see that?
:oModeration log at the top of GD.
Where do u go to see that?
Who was Mickhah? Was he an upperboardsman? Or a Forumsgame-goer?Upper boards. He made a question on how to disable gays in the game (might raise some eyebrows, but otherwise OK), but then made some homophobic/transphobic remarks. That's how I remember it, you may ask Toady for details.
Who was Mickhah? Was he an upperboardsman? Or a Forumsgame-goer?Neither, really. They'd made a total of some 4-5 threads asking DF-related questions that are answered on the Wiki, and I believe one comment in a thread that he hadn't started. The final help-thread was one asking how to mod the gay away, because DF's homosexuality incidence rate was unrealistically high, and the resulting swarm of psychologically (or just psychic, in his own words) disturbed degenerates was simply too much. Was also trying to remove transsexuals, which a few members thought might be a misunderstanding of just how lackadaisical dwarves are about their clothing choices.
Mmmmm I saw that last thread, he said he wanted to mod the gay away because he didn't want to "play a modern tolerant ***". Even typed out the ***.He went further after that, as Kagus said. And he presumably ignored Toady's warnings.
Was a bit off, but he must gone too far.
Hey, I was against Teh Gays in DF. It just doesn't fit the Dwarven mould IMO. Any more than making them pansexuals would.
You could still introduce it for the elves, but then people outside DF would see the high gay death rate and get rather PCed.
Hey, I was against Teh Gays in DF. It just doesn't fit the Dwarven mould IMO. Any more than making them pansexuals would.
You could still introduce it for the elves, but then people outside DF would see the high gay death rate and get rather PCed.
This is a rabbit hole that can not possibly go awry.
Anyway I like my favorite dwarves to make babies so I turn off orientation tags. Doesn't fix-ster in DFhack basically do that, though?
How can you even be homosexual if you reproduce entirely through spores? (It's been a long time since I've last played DF, I just remember that dwarves never needed physical contact with a partner to produce children. I don't know if that's been changed in recent updates.)
How can you even be homosexual if you reproduce entirely through spores? (It's been a long time since I've last played DF, I just remember that dwarves never needed physical contact with a partner to produce children. I don't know if that's been changed in recent updates.)They changed it.
I started reading a book about the life of Bill Murray. God was he just a carefree and cool guy. I'd give anything to just be that mentally and emotionally free and uninhibited.But he also shot down a plane going over the Ukrainian border.
I mean, he ("probably" as the book states) cheated on his wives, and probably hit one, which isn't as cool; but other than that, the book is nonstop cool stories about him. He's the manic pixie dream man, has fun everywhere, makes friends with everyone instantly, not inhibited by anxiety or self-doubt. It's just everything I wish I could be. (I mean, the book is written by third-hand accounts of the man, so it's not by him, so who's the say he didn't have internal struggles throughout his life? Though the many many exploits seems to exclude any time to spend not going from one adventure to the next.)
Pickle Rick, clearly. The inspiration's right there in front of you!I clearly don't have the IQ necessary to appreciate Rick and Morty, so that's kind of a no-go. Also, considering my beardiness, I'd end up looking like a very moldy pickle, and nobody wants that...
There is such a neat cloud formation outside right now, this interesting wavy/ridged pattern that seems to repeat and stretch out as far as the eye can see in all directions, and I don't have a single camera of sufficient quality to take a decent picture of it.Try experiencing the event firsthand and possibly forming a memory of it.
Bummer about the IQ thing. Can always fake it 'til you make it, I guess?Pickle Rick, clearly. The inspiration's right there in front of you!I clearly don't have the IQ necessary to appreciate Rick and Morty, so that's kind of a no-go. Also, considering my beardiness, I'd end up looking like a very moldy pickle, and nobody wants that...
Like this?Ahh, yes. The phrase "Mammatus" brings back memories of a book I owned and lost as a tween. A wonderful book, with a weatherproof blue cover, all dedicated to something like "watching the sky." It had entire section on clouds and the day sky, an entire section on stars/planets and the night sky, and then another section on how to build and maintain your own little observatory, with every sort of variation depending on how much you had to work with and where you lived. I had intended to buy it again a year ago or so, but was saddened to realize I couldn't recall the name and couldn't seem to find it without it. I miss that book...Spoiler: "Mammatus" clouds (click to show/hide)
There is one lecturer we have that loves his 9am slots.Ha! Tell me about it. I have a lecture at 8:30 and I just find it crazy that they expect us to wake up so early.
And he's wondering why it is that fewer and fewer people are attending the lectures.
Well gee, maybe because the people you're teaching are students and getting up at 8 to get washed, dressed, fed, etc. is basically akin to asking an adult to get up at 5am for something that is, technically, voluntary.
Anyway, while I've attended all of them (bar one because I'd found it impossible to get to sleep the night before), they kill me for the rest of the day. If that's the only lecture, it's fine. If there's more than that one, I might as well not be there for the rest.
Several discoveries have been made by me.
1) Jitsu can be painful. Today we did arm/wristlocks. One of them involved blocking the attacker's forearm with your forearms. Forearms were NOT made for that level of constant abuse, and mine are very sensitive.
2) The washing up powder I bought has "Colour enhancers". See: Dye. Fortunately, I had some vanish that worked VERY well on it, and the store has an "unsatisfied return" policy.
3) Hand washing a gi is far more labour intensive than I anticipated.
4) Hand drying a gi to the point of being able to be hang dried is far more labour intensive than I anticipated
5) MY FOREARMS AAAAAAAAARGH
First snow. It's pretty, but not being able to take a bike to school is going to severely slow me down.Just suck it up and put winter chains on your tires! I swear, every year people wait too long because they can't be bothered...
it's october twenty fifth and it is snowing rather hard outside
don't care for that, and i am suddenly very afraid for the kids on halloween- last year it snowed on halloween and some kids in my neighborhood were very sad and it broke my heart
Just suck it up and put winter chains on your tires! I swear, every year people wait too long because they can't be bothered...Here in Finland, the preferred option is studded tires rather than winter chains, but you're not legally allowed to use them before November because they wear down the road if there isn't ice. Also, my bike has very narrow tires. Even if they were studded, I wouldn't trust them on a slushy road. I'd need to buy entirely new wheels for it to be viable.
Once a long time ago I was doing some LAN gaming and got pissed and slammed my fist down on the table next to my tower. I hit it so hard it actually managed to unseat the sound card, and the PC audio never quite worked correctly after that. Amazing what the power of a human fist can do.
I'd been sort of eyeing up a good looking girl in class (sexist? Maybe. Often what happens? Certainly.)Ummmmm. I don't think anyone in their right minds would call that sexist, as long as you aren't making the good looking person in question uncomfortable. (Heck, even if you were I doubt "sexist" would be the right word for it.) Womenfolk have been known to closely observe attractive members of their gender of preference, too, y'know.
Ahhh drat. This is obviously minor but still niggling at me. I'd been sort of eyeing up a good looking girl in class (sexist? Maybe. Often what happens? Certainly.) Anyway, she sat beside me today and it turns out she's very likeable and had the rare quality of making me feel relaxed.
Darnation.
Oh, you'd be surprised. I go to university; it's a hotbed for... well, 'SJWs' probably fits. There's something called the "male gaze" which is particularly relevant to the current discussion. Anyway, the particular world view of students is what I am surrounded by, so I often (unintentionally) make qualifying remarks which are generally not needed outside the lecture hall.I'd been sort of eyeing up a good looking girl in class (sexist? Maybe. Often what happens? Certainly.)Ummmmm. I don't think anyone in their right minds would call that sexist, as long as you aren't making the good looking person in question uncomfortable. (Heck, even if you were I doubt "sexist" would be the right word for it.) Womenfolk have been known to closely observe attractive members of their gender of preference, too, y'know.
Well, I did say it was minor. :PAhhh drat. This is obviously minor but still niggling at me. I'd been sort of eyeing up a good looking girl in class (sexist? Maybe. Often what happens? Certainly.) Anyway, she sat beside me today and it turns out she's very likeable and had the rare quality of making me feel relaxed.
Darnation.
Once again, woe is you. How difficult your life must be. I shall weep and pray for your guidance from this awful place.
So is the "friend" portion of "Girlfriend" optional?
Oh, you'd be surprised. I go to university; it's a hotbed for... well, 'SJWs' probably fits. There's something called the "male gaze" which is particularly relevant to the current discussion. Anyway, the particular world view of students is what I am surrounded by, so I often (unintentionally) make qualifying remarks which are generally not needed outside the lecture hall.
Oh, you'd be surprised. I go to university; it's a hotbed for... well, 'SJWs' probably fits. There's something called the "male gaze" which is particularly relevant to the current discussion. Anyway, the particular world view of students is what I am surrounded by, so I often (unintentionally) make qualifying remarks which are generally not needed outside the lecture hall....Are you the sort of person who craves rapport with and acceptance from your peers, even when they are clearly your inferiors intellectually?
Looking at people is now non-PC.The only PC thing to do is just mash the A button to make dialogue go faster.
All in all I regret the action terribly, and am glad I did it.This hits very close to home, hahaha...
I don't crave a rapport, per se, but not bringing it up does lead to a more peaceful existence.Fair enough. Just don't go accidentally soaking up their stupid!
she thought I was attractive or because she thought I looked like a washed-up hobo.
which implies she knew she had something to be embarrassed about.This is pretty much the standard state of being for Norwegians, though.
How funny it should come up today, had a post it note with "your number_______ thx :)" fall in my lap today. Now I'm wondering if I should quickly ask out who I mentionned yesterday, so to not keep wondering what if, and if that's the high-road or hybris.I’d say go for it. That was incredibly forward of her and it’s likely that you won’t get another opportunity like that in a while. The dating pool is similar to a real pool (or at least an African watering hole) in the sense that it has wet seasons and dry seasons (though for me it’s usually dry).
Yeah I'm respecting the shit out of brave girl; there wouldn't even be a second of hesitation if I didn't meet pretty girl on a daily basis... The situation just reminds the girl whom I left for my ex - and if it will be the same this time, I could spare brave girl the dissappointement by figuring out my shit sooner. But there is no way of telling if I even get along with any of the two; and damnit it's not like women allways make up their mind before acting... So I guess I'll just grant myself that very "priviledge" of simply looking how things will turn out on day by day basis.Ah. I get it. I once had this lab partner that I liked, but I decided to give up on her because she reminded me too much of a high school crush of mine. We were close, but she did many things that wrecked me emotionally and I was worried this new girl would do the same. I don’t regret giving up on that one surprisingly.
That game sounds awesome, I'm eyeing the wiki.It used to be a lot of fun, even with an EVE-like Goon stranglehold, but then a lot of politics happened and the original HellMOO went bad, fast. It's pretty much just a shadow of its former self, both gameplay-wise and playerbase-wise.
@Kagus SS13 used to have a "mental damage" status effect that would make you shout things like that. Not that line specifically though.Still does, even that phrase specifically. Got to see a lot more of it in recent months after the headmin ruling that loudly broadcasting any kind of blatant bigotry or Nazi sympathies would earn the person large amounts of brain damage. Every time they did so.
"BI BEST OF BOTH WORLDS" was one of them, sorta thread appropriate. Just memes though, pretty funny I guess.
headminWhat server? I'm guessing Goon but who knows.
Rolan was talking about a TG feature, so I was also talking about TG. Goon is a completely different beast, and good luck with trying to watch the development process...headminWhat server? I'm guessing Goon but who knows.
Oh, I was just referring to the head admin apparently being a spaz.The past several headmins have all been little anime girls, one of which actually got into a spot o' trouble after posting loli porn on the official discord. Comparatively speaking though, they've all been approximately decent chaps, and the "spamming 'HEIL HITLER, GAS THE JEWS' 80x over cross-station comms is neither interesting nor original, take you a bran dimmage" change was rather needed.
Dang. Lifeweb doesn't seem to work for me at all. Guess TG it is, then. :(Tried both servers? I mean, sometimes it really does just shit itself, and sometimes Ivan sees a little too much krokodil, but sometimes you just need to try later/try the other one.
if, when starting it, the screen remains black for minutes, just be patient- it's downloading stuffLies
when any shop or restaurant advertises a food as "medium hot"The real question here is why you were purchasing a food item that was labelled as only "medium hot". Wimp.
medium. truly the most mild of spice. it means "spice your grandmother wouldn't notice". unless it's advertised as "SUPER MEGA MAXIMUM SPICE CHILLIES EXTREME" with chilli peppers and motifs of fire all over the menu/packaging. then it may actually be spicy enough to notice.
i don't know why they market spicy food to people who don't like spice.
what's weird is that nobody likes their food cold
I can only assume it's trans porn then.No, it's not porn. You're actually five-eighths correct, though. As my specific denial suggests, it is trans. And the reason that I wouldn't want to share it is that the genre contains a disproportionate amount of porn. But I don't know. The internet is weird. People probably don't care that much.
Did I outwit myself again?
Means it doesn't break the forum rules, means you pretty much have to share it now.I can only assume it's trans porn then.No, it's not porn. You're actually five-eighths correct, though. As my specific denial suggests, it is trans. And the reason that I wouldn't want to share it is that the genre contains a disproportionate amount of porn. But I don't know. The internet is weird. People probably don't care that much.
Those are da rulessss.Means it doesn't break the forum rules, means you pretty much have to share it now.I can only assume it's trans porn then.No, it's not porn. You're actually five-eighths correct, though. As my specific denial suggests, it is trans. And the reason that I wouldn't want to share it is that the genre contains a disproportionate amount of porn. But I don't know. The internet is weird. People probably don't care that much.
Hey, don’t be too hasty. It might be ponies.Means it doesn't break the forum rules, means you pretty much have to share it now.I can only assume it's trans porn then.No, it's not porn. You're actually five-eighths correct, though. As my specific denial suggests, it is trans. And the reason that I wouldn't want to share it is that the genre contains a disproportionate amount of porn. But I don't know. The internet is weird. People probably don't care that much.
Hey, don’t be too hasty. It might be ponies.Means it doesn't break the forum rules, means you pretty much have to share it now.I can only assume it's trans porn then.No, it's not porn. You're actually five-eighths correct, though. As my specific denial suggests, it is trans. And the reason that I wouldn't want to share it is that the genre contains a disproportionate amount of porn. But I don't know. The internet is weird. People probably don't care that much.
Apparently, DF inspires a lot of philosophical thought.Mostly because the discussions are usually started by highly misguided people who overestimate the complexity of DF, and then the discussion kind of runs out.
That's not the mildly sad part. The mildly sad part is that all philosophical discussions of DF on Bay12 turn into discussions about quantum mechanics or the implications of the simulation hypothesis. Some, apparently, do so after only two posts.
I’m going to regret this, but what the hell. (https://www.deviantart.com/wholesomewombat/art/Postmodern-Neomarxist-Lobster-Yuri-TG-751366899) I might as well get over my fears.Means it doesn't break the forum rules, means you pretty much have to share it now.I can only assume it's trans porn then.No, it's not porn. You're actually five-eighths correct, though. As my specific denial suggests, it is trans. And the reason that I wouldn't want to share it is that the genre contains a disproportionate amount of porn. But I don't know. The internet is weird. People probably don't care that much.
when any shop or restaurant advertises a food as "medium hot"
medium. truly the most mild of spice. it means "spice your grandmother wouldn't notice". unless it's advertised as "SUPER MEGA MAXIMUM SPICE CHILLIES EXTREME" with chilli peppers and motifs of fire all over the menu/packaging. then it may actually be spicy enough to notice.
i don't know why they market spicy food to people who don't like spice.
she sounds like a cranky picky little shitMostly just extremely, uncontrollably energetic. And attention-hungry.
I thought people from India loved spiciness.India's also a pretty big place, and some areas are more spicy-oriented than others. Rule of thumb is that the farther south you go, the spicier the food gets. New Delhi is pretty far north, but I believe there are some culinary snippets that emphasize spiciness... Don't quite recall.
Pretty sure that's not racist.
please kill all picky eaters on planet earthMy friend's girlfriend/ex/ex-ex once famously told him "I'm not picky, you're just not normal"
there is a hard limit to how picky you're allowed to be- you can have a few foods you don't like and won't eat but thats it
ex: i wont eat beans and i dont like eggs on their own
please kill all picky eaters on planet earthMy friend's girlfriend/ex/ex-ex once famously told him "I'm not picky, you're just not normal"
there is a hard limit to how picky you're allowed to be- you can have a few foods you don't like and won't eat but thats it
ex: i wont eat beans and i dont like eggs on their own
Because there exist people who like less spice than you do, shockingly.
The fried chicken place near here has a "medium" that's actually very hot.
Somewhat relevant, I bought a new jar of pickles recently because I managed to chow through the last one in a briny green flash.Wow this actually happened to me, almost exactly the same situation. I finished up my dill pickles and started in on some I got on special, only to find them disgustingly sweet (I don't eat sweet much). I hate wasting food but... I eventually had to just toss most of the jar. Mildly sad. Won't happen again.
I decided to try and find some proper dill pickles, as none of the ones I've been eating recently have had dill (spicy peppers and garlic, yes, but no dill). Unfortunately, this jar appears to be a jar of sweet dill pickles, which are only acceptable when consumed in a tuna sandwich. I don't have any tuna. They're also not of the firmest consistency, which is almost as saddening as their sweet flavor.
Can anything be done? Can I try and salt the brine in the hopes that they'll change their heretical ways? Or am I doomed to make the choice between picking up a major tuna habit for the next few weeks and throwing out a jar of potentially edible food?
I wont eat beansWhat sort of beans??
What is even sweet picklesSweet pickles is when someone thought vinegar pickles weren't sweet enough, so they added sugar. Curiously, that's far and away the most popular type of pickle in Norway, generally presented pre-sliced with a ruffle cut in their little jars... Normally only used for serving on top of liver pâté sandwiches.
There can only be two pickles
Salt pickles and vinegar pickles
Some people even put pickles in kool-aid
What is even sweet picklesSweet pickles is when someone thought vinegar pickles weren't sweet enough, so they added sugar. Curiously, that's far and away the most popular type of pickle in Norway, generally presented pre-sliced with a ruffle cut in their little jars... Normally only used for serving on top of liver pâté sandwiches.
There can only be two pickles
Salt pickles and vinegar pickles
Y'all thought I was foolin' about Norwegian cuisine. I fukken ain't.Some people even put pickles in kool-aidSpoiler (click to show/hide)
What is even sweet picklesSweet pickles is when someone thought vinegar pickles weren't sweet enough, so they added sugar. Curiously, that's far and away the most popular type of pickle in Norway, generally presented pre-sliced with a ruffle cut in their little jars... Normally only used for serving on top of liver pâté sandwiches.
There can only be two pickles
Salt pickles and vinegar pickles
Y'all thought I was foolin' about Norwegian cuisine. I fukken ain't.
My teeth are extremely screwed up and I am not sure whyHmm...
I brushed my teeth and allMy teeth are extremely screwed up and I am not sure whyHmm...
My teeth are extremely screwed up and I am not sure why
I am not sure why
Make sure to get the toothpaste with silicate for added whitening. That should do the trick.I brushed my teeth and allMy teeth are extremely screwed up and I am not sure whyHmm...
I feel like I should've being more specific.The joke is that your name is "rockeater".
After 16 years my teeth being ok, in four years I got to the state that I need to extract aat least three of them is not something that I am sure how it happend.
I should really notice those things more
I just feel so twisted and angry inside today. Just really desperate for no reason. I just want to get angry and pick a fight with someone. I'm too weak to win, my muscles are worthless, it's ridiculous that I'm even a man. I try to run on a treadmill, I read online that 5km (3.1 miles) is something that most people can do in 30 minutes, and I struggle and have to push myself extremely hard just to make 2 miles in 30 minutes. I just want to get the shit beaten out of me. I think I was doing really good since I ran for 30 minutes on the treadmill for 4 of the last 6 days, but I wimped out today because I got to the gym and realized I had put on a dirty shirt, and I got embarrassed and just left. I'm not sure what I can do when my self-hatred just goes out of control like this. No matter how good a streak I get on, it's just a matter of time til I fall off the horse and eat shit....Yooo sounds like there's some toxic masculinity happening here.
I don't know what to do. I guess I'll just throw that shirt away and go again tomorrow.
I can jog non-stop less than a kilometer before my lungs give up on me.Just the idea of running, outdoors, where people might observe me doing so, is too terrifying to consider.
If you really are dedicated to learning how to run, get off from the bus a few stops before your usual stop. You will have to walk the rest of the distance home or you will waste money paying another bus fare. It find that it’s actually pretty motivating once you actually do it. The problem is deciding if all that effort really is worth it in the end.I can jog non-stop less than a kilometer before my lungs give up on me.Just the idea of running, outdoors, where people might observe me doing so, is too terrifying to consider.
The few occasions when I do break into a run is where a crossing light goes green and it's too late to save face by turning and pretending to be headed in a different direction, or when I spot the bus (or other mode of public transport) I need to catch idling at a stop up ahead. It's an almost-daily struggle for me.
I have no qualms about walking, sometimes for miles on end.
Heck, I often walk a few bus stops-worth of distance to the next suburb for food. Running, though? Terrifying.
I got to the gym and realized I had put on a dirty shirt, and I got embarrassed and just left.A gym is the last place to worry about your clothes' cleanliness, as you'll be sweating enough to make them dirty soon enough anyway. Exercise is about self-improvement, not about looking good while doing it. Leave your vanity for another day and just pump that iron.
So... social anxiety is the main hurdle preventing you from going vegan? Sweet! We can work through that! :DI have no qualms about walking, sometimes for miles on end.
Heck, I often walk a few bus stops-worth of distance to the next suburb for food. Running, though? Terrifying.
I feel exactly the same about eating salad and veganism. :P
So... social anxiety is the main hurdle preventing you from going vegan? Sweet! We can work through that! :DI have no qualms about walking, sometimes for miles on end.
Heck, I often walk a few bus stops-worth of distance to the next suburb for food. Running, though? Terrifying.
I feel exactly the same about eating salad and veganism. :P
That or people are just that much smellier in Switzerland.I choose to believe this.
That or people are just that much smellier in Switzerland.I choose to believe this.
That or people are just that much smellier in Switzerland.I choose to believe this.
I call your belief and raise that it is not the Swiss that are smellier, but that all humans who cross the Swiss border become spontaneously smellier.
You ran off two kilograms in one go? How far did you run?! :oAll of it.
You ran off two kilograms in one go? How far did you run?! :o
In Sweden a 2 km run is a 0.2 mile run
The Swedish mil is 10.688 kilometers, or roughly 6.641 Imperial miles. Sweden officially uses the SI, so the mil is mostly obsolete, but still sees some colloquial use.In Sweden a 2 km run is a 0.2 mile run
In Russia, two American miles is ~3,218 kilometers.
I'm definitely of the introverted style. Like, I enjoy being in the company of others and I like hanging out with friends, but fuck does it wear me out...
"No man is an island" and all that, but some islands have grass that needs to recover from being stood on, and other islands have grass that grows from shooting the shit.
Kagus, my man, I think it's past time you were leaven.I was gonna make bread puns, but there's enough yeast in this house with her around as it is.
I guess that's just not how our bread is buttered.Ah, but might not the milling discussion reveal the ancient grain of truth hidden in the debate?
I'm loaf to say more on the matter, though. Argument might ensue, leaving a grain-y picture of the truth.
Man, I was definitely expecting that to spark a pun spree. What the hell, Bay12? Why didn't you rise to the occasion?
Man, I was definitely expecting that to spark a pun spree. What the hell, Bay12? Why didn't you rise to the occasion?
I'm here to deliberately not make a bun.Fixed the whatever and such.
That sounds like a right pain.I'm here to deliberately not make a bun.Fixed the whatever and such.
Also the dogs are still completely off the wall and went ballistic at a couple perfectly reasonable and amicable greyhounds today. Goddamn four-legged embarrassments.
Sometimes I feel like I actually don't have any social skills, I just have a flow chart in my head of all acceptable behavior that I've been building up in complexity over my entire life. Anything not in the flow chart is expressly off limits, and anything in it must be adhered to strictly without deviation. It's a very ends over means kinda system.From what I understand, this is a common experience among people with mild autism.
Y'know what? Fuck it. If my caseworker doesn't feel the need to inform me of when he signs me up for some random shit and just wait for me to find out about it when I get an automated reminder message sent to my phone, then I don't need to inform him of my deciding against continuing with said random shit.While I wish you luck, I feel like the power differential makes this maybe not a great idea.
"So I see you're not making use of the opportunity we've provided, why is that?"
"Oh, I see you've not deigned to contact me about anything regarding this until now, why is that?"
Managed to fuck up my left shoulder/part of my neck last night, and we have precisely zero tiger balm/dit da jow, or even any hand towels to soak with hot water (I wrangled something together earlier with a much larger towel, but it was understandable awkward).
It's weird, growing up in the house of a former physical therapist who trained under a shiatsu practitioner, we always had a variety of salves, ointments, and other such stuff lying around...
See if the local international grocer sells green oil if they don't have tiger balm. Eagle brand is the one we use. Has the menthol, etc.Turkish grocer across the street had bugger all, closest thing I could find was pure clove oil... Which, aside from a bunch of generic hand soaps and moisturizers, was the only thing with a recommended topical application. I can check the Vietnamese grocer up the way, but I think they're almost entirely food-related stuff.
Do you have the.. uuuuuuuunguents? The moooooooiiiist uuuuunguents?This is bothering me... What's this from again? It's not The Brothers Grunt, is it?
My home theater setup is offline. I think it's my in-wall HDMI cable, since I can't even get the on-screen menu from my receiver to show on the screen, and changing what I have plugged into the sending end of the cable doesn't change it (e.g., if I plug directly into my console).
It's been flickering on and off the past week or so - I thought it was just a loose connection or something, but maybe the cable itself is just toast. (How does a cable that sits unmoving in the wall fail? Unless a mouse eats it, I dunno...)
I'm annoyed because I don't have an easy way to move things around to check either, and I don't have another long HDMI cable to swap out at the moment.
Have you reset your cablemodem/dsl modem/Fiber gateway to its defaults? (Push the little button on the device for 10 to 20 seconds, and do the full factory reset procedure?)Ooh, thanks for the tip. It's working fine again now (I think it was just the area getting overloaded at what must be peak-usage times for normal people or something, coupled with both the physical network and our ISP being kinda dodgy), but I'll bear that in mind for future use.
-Considering the actions of inherently selfish and egotistical people who have no qualms destroying entire societies and condemning them to decades of poverty and misery for the sake of an impressive stock portfolio, I'd say that taking a couple wheels off of a chair is a fairly weak contender for the sake of divine judgement.
-Considering the actions of inherently selfish and egotistical people who have no qualms destroying entire societies and condemning them to decades of poverty and misery for the sake of an impressive stock portfolio, I'd say that taking a couple wheels off of a chair is a fairly weak contender for the sake of divine judgement.
Of course. That's assuming that we consider death to be inherently negative and therefore a punishment... I suppose a more advanced nihilist than I would agree with you in that your sins are so meager and your virtues so meaningful that you deserve the reward of death's sweet release, but I'm gonna go ahead and assume that that's not what you meant when you wrote that.
In short; don't worry too much about it, but do talk with your shrink to see if there are some good tips for dealing with the emotional floods when they pop up. Or, better yet, set up a cam and cash in on your newfound celebrity as "Angrygamer, Annihilator of Seating Arrangements".
I mean, if a teenager with Tourette's can get an award for yelling about fukken gingers and their caramels, then you can probably get some positive recognition for intermediate furniture combat.
You could always stockpile old tiles (or dinner plates etcetera) to throw at a wall or something when the stress and anger is starting to build up.You mom wouldn't happen to be Greek, would she?
That's what my mother and various friends/family used to do from time to time, back when she had a convenient courtyard for smashing things in at the back of her shop. Obviously you need a suitable location for such stress-relieving activities, but that shouldn't be too hard to find.
I think I phrased that wrong. Not just wanting to break something, but specifically something in my life. Like if my life where a thing, I'd want to smash it. In those moments I just want to destroy my whole life.Heh. I had the thought, myself, last night that I wanted to quit my job and never leave my room myself. As NEET as that experience would be, it's definitely my seasonal depression kicking into high gear.
Just don't punch a kid in the dick when you're going through that.
That's a Fugue in D minor.
All my writing is comedy writing.Just don't punch a kid in the dick when you're going through that.
That's a Fugue in D minor.
You.
For a long time now I have thought you to be highly amusing. Comedy writing, bub. Do it.
/pointless demands
Also I shouted "snaketits" in a bar a couple days ago, so I clearly shouldn't be allowed to have contact with the rest of the human race.
That said, I've realized that I mainly just build off of or manipulate things that other people say, inserting comments and observations of stuff wherever I can fit them in. Basically, wisecrack tetris.Gosh, same.
I am the man who arranges the jokesThat fall down from upper boards
IT IS CURRENTLY 40 CELSIUS.When life gives you mangoes, make dried mangoes
THIS IS FINE
EVERYTHING IS FINE
send help
IT IS CURRENTLY 40 CELSIUS.It is currently about 40F
THIS IS FINE
EVERYTHING IS FINE
send help
Basic reason I am unhappy.
I have an old laptop that I want to use for retro gaming, that has a 320 GB drive. This is larger than 128 GB, and thus needs 48bit LBA. The computer's BIOS does not support 48bit LBA. Windows XP SP3 supposedly knows how to handle 48bit LBA natively, but the disk controller acts like it is on drugs, and refuses to enter DMA mode for disk transfers. The laptop is a single core system, with a slow processor. *I DO NOT WANT THE CPU TO BE 100% UTILIZED, JUST BECAUSE I AM READING OR SAVING A FILE.* Without DMA mode on, PIO4 is used instead, which-- as per above, uses the CPU to facilitate the transfers.
Fine-- I need a DDO. Ok, I found one that works with windows XP. But the CD wont boot. It hangs during the boot process, so I cannot install it on sector 0, and so cannot band-aid the problem.
The system is hell bent on staying in PIO4 mode FOREVER.
IT IS CURRENTLY 40 CELSIUS.It is currently about 40F
THIS IS FINE
EVERYTHING IS FINE
send help
Yeah I don't envy you, this is relatively fine.
Despite the heat, England and Australia played a major cricket match at Sydney Cricket Ground over the weekend. The final match of the Ashes, which Wikipedia tells my ignorant American self is a test series, went on despite England’s captain Joe Root being hospitalized due to dehydration and illness after temperatures peaked at 57 degrees Celsius (134 degrees Fahrenheit) on the playing field.
Also need to go shopping for slippers, because the fountain house has instated a policy of indoor shoes/outdoor shoes to prevent mass dirtying of the floors. It's funny how many ways a simple shopping trip can end up not happening.They'd be better off installing the doormat mod, surely.
You know what's maddening? That I know what I'm doing wrong with my forward and backward rolls in Jitsu but my brain does not want to fix it, it seems.
When I'm doing a forward roll on the right, my brain tries to do make me do one on the left instead which results in a terrible attempted roll, and the backwards ones I don't step wide enough when I'm doing them from standing which just makes it difficult.
No my showerthought is the following: isn't it ironic that public discourse considers customers capable to act in solidarity by voting with their wallet, yet women aren't cabaple to collectively refuse a degrading job interview. Aren't both bound by financial necessities? At least in the case of women, in theory they should all share the same interest...
Tried some vegetarian mince stuff, and it was unpleasant. It tasted odd and was a bit chewy.
Tried some vegetarian mince stuff, and it was unpleasant. It tasted odd and was a bit chewy.
You didn't cook the vegetarian long enough.
I thought mince was already vegan?
(See also, mince tarts.)
https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/christmas-brandied-mince-tarts-recipe
I dont see any animal products in there other than butter-- and you can substitute that with butter flavored crisco.
Fruit mince pies are still a thing around christmas time, though.
Here we call mice "mince"
Haven't done my weekly "go to the bar and act like a human" appointment. Was thinking of trying out tonight, but it's Thursday, and sometimes the weekend (and associated madness) starts early on Thursday...
So I was worried that there'd be a bunch of people and I wouldn't enjoy hanging around there when it's completely crazy.
But I didn't want to put on my coat and go down there to check, because my GF would follow my progress and I didn't want to go out and then come back two minutes later with the walk of defeat.
I'll crack open a can of Christmas ale here at home instead, in loving memory of my long-dead potential to have a social life.
Real talk though, can Norway change the official term for their citizens to "Nords" instead of "Norwegians"Technically, it already sorta is. The Norwegian term for "Norwegians" is "nordmenn", meaning north-men.
Posting on forums counts. Or so say the devils on my shoulders.Thanks. My shrink says it counts too, and she files her horns.
I'll crack open a can of Christmas ale here at home instead, in loving memory of my long-dead potential to have a social life.
Posting on forums counts. Or so say the devils on my shoulders.
Posting on forums counts. Or so say the devils on my shoulders.
Posting on forums counts. Or so say the devils on my shoulders.
Can I sell my soul to them? I need money.
Posting on forums counts. Or so say the devils on my shoulders.
Can I sell my soul to them? I need money.
Same. I'd sell my soul for a gram of cocaine and two particularly nice sexual encounters.
I'd sell my soul for free Celeste and Heat Signature Steam keys.Y'know, if we're attaching value to souls you should really hold out for something a tad more valuable in exchange for yours... heck, you could always trade your cocaine and sexual favours for a whole bunch o' videogames if you so desired.
I'd sell my soul for free Celeste and Heat Signature Steam keys.Y'know, if we're attaching value to souls you should really hold out for something a tad more valuable in exchange for yours... heck, you could always trade your cocaine and sexual favours for a whole bunch o' videogames if you so desired.
... I got games, I'll take the coke.
Aaaand here we find the place where bay12 discusses prostitution and soul-selling in exchange for video games.
Moving on with our tour, look at this thread devoted to happiness.
Yeah, I'm holding on to my soul for the foreseeable future. You would not believe the kinds of things I had to do to get one in the first place.As an existentialist, I agree with you. My soul is my pet project that I've spent a lifetime building. I'm not going to sell it, it's my gift to humanity.
You know that feeling you get when you do something small and it butterflies into making the world a slightly better place as a whole?
Wait, you guys have souls?Strange and confusing. It also means you feel emotions like guilt and shame, and I find these very intense and disturbing.
What’s that like?
Wait, you guys have souls?
What’s that like?
Why is that a sad? No offense to the guy, but the boards are better with his loss, I feel. He was rather narrow-minded and arrogant.I agree, but every ban just makes me kind of sad, no matter who got banned.
Why is that a sad? No offense to the guy, but the boards are better with his loss, I feel. He was rather narrow-minded and arrogant.I agree, but every ban just makes me kind of sad, no matter who got banned.
I went to a Doom (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvL_EP1Kf0E) Metal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axu2ju-HwTg) basement concert tonight, without earplugs. Girlfriend knew several of the band members (the Faroe Islands are not a big place), and wanted to be as close as possible to the stage to see them.Dude, that's awesome! Both of those tracks were great, although Hamferd could really do without the dippy keyboards. Replace it with feedback or somethin'.
We stood directly in front of the big speaker.
I'm thinking of holding a small ceremony to honor the passing of my ears.
You know... I wonder how many throat lozenges the lead singer for Rammstein goes through in a tour...At least it's counted in lozenges, and not surgeries as per Aerosmith.
...That is a pretty damn cheesy name, translated. Perhaps their music is mostly intended for export to clueless foreigners such as myself?
You know... I wonder how many throat lozenges the lead singer for Ramstein goes through in a tour...
No, silly, Svartmálm. Whose name apparently means "black metal". Despite the fact that they don't play black metal... what a mindfuck.I mean, from the bit I heard, they could pass as black metal, imo. Especially depending on the lyrics.
Never heard them live though.You don't really go to a Rammstein concert to listen to them, though... Most of the members have backgrounds as roadies and stage operators for special effects, so they like to make live performances into as much of a hoohah as possible.
...You make cookies out of ore or islands?Malm = ore
Malmö = Malm+ö = Ore Island
That way, with any luck, by the time the band finishes their first "song" or two your temporary hearing loss will have reached the point that you no longer have to endure the ghastly racket coming from the stage. :P
That way, with any luck, by the time the band finishes their first "song" or two your temporary hearing loss will have reached the point that you no longer have to endure the ghastly racket coming from the stage. :P
"Temporary" hearing loss, he says...
*pulls out megaphone*That way, with any luck, by the time the band finishes their first "song" or two your temporary hearing loss will have reached the point that you no longer have to endure the ghastly racket coming from the stage. :P
"Temporary" hearing loss, he says...
What?
The X button on my Xbox controller just broke. Well, it still works, just the spring underneath is busted and so the lightest touch triggers it; I wouldn't say it's usable for anything but the most relaxed games at the moment. This controller is brand new, it's very irritating that I never save receipts for anything because I think it's too much hassle.Hey, feel free to vent in the sad/emotion threads. It's what they're there for, and your posts don't bother us. (At least, they don't bother me, but I haven't heard anyone else complain.
I've been trying to restrain myself from posting in the sad threads for my typical nihilistic bullshit, but I think this is ok to post about. I've been losing my temper a lot, and I feel a lot of evil welling up inside me, but I'm surviving still.
Stopped by Fountain House today. Came along just in time to hear one of the other members giving a presentation about her life, talking about violence and sexual abuse from at least 8 years old (possibly earlier, though she has no recollection of anything before 8 years), suffering infertility, divorce, serious injury, getting an ultimatum from her physical therapist where he basically said "you can either stop doing all the physical activities you enjoy, or you can make sure that the joy they give you is worth the pain and injury they'll cause for you later", getting whammed by PTSD-induced panic attacks later in life, finding a therapist and coming to terms with the fact that she was a product of incest... And basically just transitioning from that to "it really is all just about how you approach life and how you choose to look at things, and about appreciating all the good times instead of dwelling on the bad times".
Which, I mean, great for her... Really doesn't make me feel any better about how massively I've failed to keep a positive outlook in my own life and inflicted weakness and incapability on myself when I really didn't have any good reason to do so.
You’d be surprised how much your mindset influences how you feel and think.That's just it; I've been receiving this line and others like it for nearly my entire life. Growing up I was consistently told that "you feel what you choose to feel", "if you look for the positives in something, you'll find them", "feed the right wolf" etc... When I started having difficulties, I was informed that I'd change my opinion and feel better about myself when I felt it was important enough for me to do so, and that the only reason I hadn't pulled myself up out of the slump was because it clearly wasn't important enough for me yet.
Kagus, there's no point in hating yourself for not suffering enough in life.Gosh, dude, that was a good post.
I suck at taking compliments and I think I made an ass out of myself like three times in a row today because of it.
That's the spirit! Emmmm, kinda. Trying is anyway :P
My chief problem is that I'm innately hopeful, but also savagelyI prefer realism in my video games, not in my life.pessimisticrealistic about how the world works.
That's the spirit! Emmmm, kinda.Shit, this is p. much exactly what I was gonna say to Scriver before scrolling down. o__o
My chief problem is that I'm innately hopeful, but also savagelyGosh, this is disturbingly relatable.pessimisticrealistic about how the world works. I feel like I'm the main character in a story that the universe cares about, but I know that we live in a vast, uncaring existence where I have no special value, and good things aren't going to drop into my lap by pure chance, just when I need them.
That's the spirit! Emmmm, kinda. Trying is anyway :P
No, the spirit will be vodka, which is apparently my drink.
My chief problem is that I'm innately hopeful, but also savagelypessimisticrealistic about how the world works. I feel like I'm the main character in a story that the universe cares about, but I know that we live in a vast, uncaring existence where I have no special value, and good things aren't going to drop into my lap by pure chance, just when I need them.
I don't know what I should be aiming for. The future is so unappealing, I just don't want it.:(
For whatever reason, he likes to try chewing on one of the cats' ears after having eaten his dinner. The cat's pretty patient and generally enjoys the companionship, but it snaps back after a few minutes.
I could fill a whole subforum with stories of their adorable interactions.Yes (or atleast a thread, maybe revive the cute thread)
Ugh, seems like my laptop battery is getting fucky again. Doesn't seem to be displaying the remaining charge properly, or, worse yet, doesn't seem to be able to charge, gonna have to take some time to see for sure. First problem is straightforward to fix, just gotta tke the whole damn thing apart, pull out the battery, start it without it then pull it apart again and put it back in to force the thing to play nice. It's wierd since the last time this happened was when I updated my BIOS (which itself was done to fix another problem) and I haven't fiddled with the thing in a while, so no clue what might've caused this issue to reappear :V
Watched Aquaman and its the only film I actually regret buying tickets for.
Not sure why it's so well reviewed.
Watched Aquaman and its the only film I actually regret buying tickets for.Pfft, that's nothing. I saw Fury Road in the cinema with friends when it came out. Not only did I have to suffer through it, I got gouged for $17 or whatever. :'(
Not sure why it's so well reviewed.
Watched Aquaman and its the only film I actually regret buying tickets for.Pfft, that's nothing. I saw Fury Road in the cinema with friends when it came out. Not only did I have to suffer through it, I got gouged for $17 or whatever. :'(
Not sure why it's so well reviewed.
My problem with Wonder Woman (I never watched the movie I'm just talking in general) is that her super power is being able to break the 5th Amendment at will. That is, she can force people to testify against themselves. You'd think a hero wearing a red/white/blue American flag one-piece wouldn't be a living corruption of the spirit of justice.
I didn't really care for Wonder Woman. I think my main problem with it was just how much it got praised by others, particularly for the strength of Wonder Woman as a female lead and role model.
My problem with Wonder Woman (I never watched the movie I'm just talking in general) is that her super power is being able to break the 5th Amendment at will. That is, she can force people to testify against themselves. You'd think a hero wearing a red/white/blue American flag one-piece wouldn't be a living corruption of the spirit of justice.
I didn't really care for Wonder Woman. I think my main problem with it was just how much it got praised by others, particularly for the strength of Wonder Woman as a female lead and role model.
My problem with Wonder Woman (I never watched the movie I'm just talking in general) is that her super power is being able to break the 5th Amendment at will. That is, she can force people to testify against themselves. You'd think a hero wearing a red/white/blue American flag one-piece wouldn't be a living corruption of the spirit of justice.
What the actual living fuck? You think your national colours (also the national colours of a tonne of other places) represent justice and liberty? I generally have a modest-to-reasonable opinion of you, but you have shown yourself to be the most foolish of posters (excepting GoblinCookie, of course).
Superheroes are just the bogeymen we've convinced ourselves are on our side.Who watches the watchmen?
Who thingies the Thing?
Who flashes the Flash?
You know those times when it'd be really nice to have a bucket, but you don't have a bucket?So, why are you vomiting today?
This is one of those times.
You know those times when it'd be really nice to have a bucket, but you don't have a bucket?
This is one of those times.
5 or 10 gallon?You know those times when it'd be really nice to have a bucket, but you don't have a bucket?
This is one of those times.
I have eight buckets with lids.
About 1 for every 10 dwarves, give or take.
From grief over not having a bucket to soak me poor footsies in.You know those times when it'd be really nice to have a bucket, but you don't have a bucket?So, why are you vomiting today?
This is one of those times.
About 1 for every 10 dwarves, give or take.
I only have two dwarves and a tall human.
Second of all, costumes don't make vigilantes into heroes in real life, this is true. I think my favorite piece on the concept of superheroes is that all of them have the same, and most powerful ability: certainty. Batman never jumps a suspicious guy in an alley and it turns out they had paintball guns and didn't deserve to be beaten into crippling injury. Superman never accidentally punches Lex Luthor's killer robot through a daycare. Etc.True dat. Massively powerful heroes with actual collateral damage would make for a hilarious read if done right, though - I'm not talking about the brooding, anti-hero edginess these brainless writers sometimes try to evoke, but just actual, occasional mass-destruction that goes on during superpowered fights (and is actually acknowledged, unlike some superhero things I've seen where the 'good guys' appear to be knocking as many vehicles off the roads etc. as their villainous foes but nobody seems to mention it), probably making the Average Joe rather ambivalent towards his costumed protectors.
But that clear dichotomy is also, of course, part of the fantasy.
I have 8 buckets. I'm at like 20x optimal bucket capacity.I have a friend with an excessive number of buckets. Or he had an excessive number of buckets, at least - they turned out to be rather poor-quality with brittle plastic that any decent vomit-stream could punch a hole straight through. Also I think a few were destroyed the last time their shed started to flood and we had to frantically try to repel the waters.
Realizing im turning 26 next week...Whoa man, that's just a... month and two weeks before I do so! We're practically the same age! High-five!
There's a comic called Damage Control, which is about the eponymous corporation which cleans up after super fights.Oh wow, y'know I actually had an issue of that as a kid!
I really wish when I said, posted, or what-have-you'd something that could be seen as very mildly offensive my brain wouldn't then proceed to make me feel anxious about it for days on end. It's always fine, but nope. Brain goes and flips out.
Since this includes a wide range of things, I feel pretty anxious about all sorts.
Oh well that's what pingaz are for I suppose.SNOO PINGAS USUAL, I SEE
I had a rather disturbing experience where I did something when mostly-asleep that conscious me did not want to do and did not want to have done. I felt like I'd violated myself, which is an uncomfortable sensation to say the least.
That’s pretty much the #1 reason I won’t move to Florida.
Well I'd rather have 81F and no snow than a range from 26-40 every day and a skating rink for a neighborhood.The problem is it's that or hotter every other part of the sodding year. A month or two of 26-40 (well, it's more like 50-70 and like two or three weeks at "worst" for most of it) would be the only goddamn relief you get over a twelve month period. The rest of it you get sodding cooked if you go outside.
Looks like the sort of sequel to Alien: Isolation, Alien: Blackout, will be a mobile game.*Tries to access emergency release latch on internal door, forgot to bring welding torch to cut away emergency access panel
I would rage, but we have no rage thread any longer.
I will just be sad at the continued decline of the franchise.
Or, well, I guess just be a grumpy curmudgeon waving his cane at the kids with their mobile games and their Prometheuses and Alien: Covenants.
Edit: I need to break my habit of overusing ellipses. Every day I disgust myself anew. It should be one per post, tops, unless I am actually using them to denote omitted text for a change.
In space, no one can hear youmemescream.
Seriously though, the franchise is kind of dead to me now. Alien: Isolation was a rare gem that was apparently a commercial success, which is a true tragedy.Edit: I need to break my habit of overusing ellipses. Every day I disgust myself anew. It should be one per post, tops, unless I am actually using them to denote omitted text for a change.
Afraid I don't have any helpful advice, but I will say that this is a habit I've had to bludgeon out of myself, as well as the overuse of parentheses for asides that usually could be integrated into whatever sentence I was typing.
I used to have a huge problem with the minus sign/line symbol - which is actually supposed to be another, longer line but that one never exists on any keyboards - but I'm pretty sure in over it nowIirc standard(/american english academic standard) practice for typing is to just use double minus signs -- like, for example, this -- if you're trying to go for that thing. In writing it's the longer line, in typing people quickly learned ain't nobody got time for that shit so far as getting the full line going or dealing with autocorrupt screwing with the double. Quicker and less potentially confusing, it is.
I used to have a huge problem with the minus sign/line symbol - which is actually supposed to be another, longer line but that one never exists on any keyboards - but I'm pretty sure in over it nowIirc standard(/american english academic standard) practice for typing is to just use double minus signs -- like, for example, this -- if you're trying to go for that thing. In writing it's the longer line, in typing people quickly learned ain't nobody got time for that shit so far as getting the full line going or dealing with autocorrupt screwing with the double. Quicker and less potentially confusing, it is.
Or just type a few blank spaces with BBcode strikethroughsuch as thisfor a similar experience.
...well, okay, it only works here on the forum, but where else would you want to write stuff?
I got back from the pub (not wanting to shamble home too late) and refrained from turning on the PS4 again because it seemed like GF was getting ready for bed.
That was two and a half hours ago.
Speaking of- a bottle of something as mundane as Maker's Mark is gonna run me at least seventy dollars. There's nothing nice on the shelves for less than a hundred. Beer is eight and a half bucks a pop at the bars. Sure, Ameridollars are stronger than Kiwibucks, but those are really unkind numbers! I get your struggle now, Yoink.Oh, it's hard alright. :(
Steam just recommended that I follow a curator: Cynical Brit Gaming.He stayed the top curator on Steam for the longest time after, y'know.
I also don't like online socialising. I get increasingly anxious when I can't see people's faces and body language and I also think the wait time for responses doesn't help at all.I changed "Dearth" to "Death" I'm pretty sure that's what you meant. It was bothering me.
Similarly, I stopped logging onto Facebook years ago because of similar reasons.
I also think that like hector, my two years of working in a grocery store where I had to greet customers on a daily basis. Also that when you greet someone and you can see that they recognise you it's even nicer.
We need people. Digitalisation is the death of mental health. It's a trap. You escape I into it to avoid what hurts in the outside world but it only makes you worse.
Don't you love RNG Kagus?Just to mock me, the game then gave me two jacks. I split, both jacks get an ace. Natural 21 twice.
Couldn't sleep. Gotta work all day on no sleep.Made it through the day. Somehow.
I only have the can of energy drink in my hand, didn't have time to grab more on the way. Saturday's sprains and bruises are still in effect, too.
I'd ask myself why I bothered waking up this morning, but, well, I wasn't asleep to begin with.
I know I'm never going to get back the appeal of my youth...Gods, I hate ageing. Hate hate hate.
That's fucking awful, that's how I feel about that.I dunno. It's incentive not to lie - which is good. It gives the employees money which they wouldn't have had otherwise, and a not inconsiderable amount at that - which is good.
That's fucking awful, that's how I feel about that.I dunno. It's incentive not to lie - which is good. It gives the employees money which they wouldn't have had otherwise, and a not inconsiderable amount at that - which is good.
It might encourage people to go in sick when they shouldn't, thoigh personally I feel it would just encourage me not to pull a sicky. Anyway, that's not good.
The employer is manipulating staff - though again, only as far as the staff agrees to be manipulated, given that they wouldn't be getting the money otherwise. Still, that's not good.
Really, I balance it as "not bad, but not very good either.
Everyone working in the administrative side of the bakery, I don't think it applies to the bake staff and drivers as well, but I'm not sure. They've apparently seen a significant reduction in sick day usage, so they probably get by with having fewer people to cover shifts, hehehe...That's fucking awful, that's how I feel about that.I dunno. It's incentive not to lie - which is good. It gives the employees money which they wouldn't have had otherwise, and a not inconsiderable amount at that - which is good.
It might encourage people to go in sick when they shouldn't, thoigh personally I feel it would just encourage me not to pull a sicky. Anyway, that's not good.
The employer is manipulating staff - though again, only as far as the staff agrees to be manipulated, given that they wouldn't be getting the money otherwise. Still, that's not good.
Really, I balance it as "not bad, but not very good either.
How many people are able to get this bonus? I'd imagine not very many, given it's so generous. For those that must call in sick days, all it does is damage morale, cause not only are they sick, but now they've lost their bonus as well.
I just realized talking to my friend that most people don't have deep black bags under their eyes and also I'm always exhausted. I wake up tired, stay tired all day, and go to sleep tired.
It's 8:30 AM, I've got my coffee, I've got my breakfast, I'm dressed for work, and I'm 100% psyched to turn around and go right back to sleep. I wish I could stop feeling tired.Big mood. Caffeine is the only thing keeping me employed.
"Gee whiz Bob, I feel so worn out and tired all the time... Like I can never get into my A-game!"It's 8:30 AM, I've got my coffee, I've got my breakfast, I'm dressed for work, and I'm 100% psyched to turn around and go right back to sleep. I wish I could stop feeling tired.Big mood. Caffeine is the only thing keeping me employed.
4/5 stress-related hallucinations agree; Recreational Amphetamines are your best friend!
This is the best place for a page break
an eighteen-way phone call with God, George Lucas, Toady One, Ghandi, my fiancee, my best friend and my ten favorite porn actresses and still be having an awful time
Getting towards the end of Wizard and Glass and I'm slowly dreading this goddamn thing. When the specter of something horrible hangs over the entire thing, and yet it's so compelling that you keep going, wanting to know more, before you finally realise you're in too deep and when the shit thing happens it's gonna fucking hurt.
Goddamit do I love a good book.
In my job at a certain blue retail establishment (a "mart" which shall remain unnamed) they're making me use a portable register deal. There are two caveats to checking out with the portable register: it only accepts cards (not including WIC) and it can't do weighed produce.
Those two caveats rule me out from helping 90% of customers. So even at our very busiest all I can do is pace around like a jackass. But the one or two times a day I can help somebody make managers' faces light up with glee like Christmas came early, so I'm forced to wander around with this stupid thing instead of actually doing anything productive.
Getting paid to basically do nothing has never sucked so much.
The oncology department is now several layers deeper in the hospital and I had to ask at about five windows before I found the one I'm supposed to check in at.????????????
They better have an Xbox in the chemotherapy room /s
I'm going to be making a goodbye to these forums, I think. It's not that I've been upset by anyone but I think that, in all, it'll do me some good to stop socialising online so much and focus more on real life.y tho
I'm going to be making a goodbye to these forums, I think. It's not that I've been upset by anyone but I think that, in all, it'll do me some good to stop socialising online so much and focus more on real life.
I'm going to be making a goodbye to these forums, I think. It's not that I've been upset by anyone but I think that, in all, it'll do me some good to stop socialising online so much and focus more on real life.
Aye. Joshua said it best. We'll be here if you want to say hi. :)I'm going to be making a goodbye to these forums, I think. It's not that I've been upset by anyone but I think that, in all, it'll do me some good to stop socialising online so much and focus more on real life.
I wish you the best of luck in this endeavor greatorder. Go do a jitsu throw on the whole world.
... though I guess I've always been that way :Doh fugg, anoder infegted by d benis :DDDDD
also, what is the smiley ":DD" from? I instinctively typed it and I have no idea where it's from.
I'm going to be making a goodbye to these forums, I think. It's not that I've been upset by anyone but I think that, in all, it'll do me some good to stop socialising online so much and focus more on real life.
I'm going to be making a goodbye to these forums, I think. It's not that I've been upset by anyone but I think that, in all, it'll do me some good to stop socialising online so much and focus more on real life.
It's remarkably demotivating to watch someone fall asleep almost as soon as you start a sentence.With great power comes great responsability. From now on you shall be known as... Borepheus, Master of Sleep!
She woke up a few seconds later and had no recollection of anything that happened, assumed that I'd said whatever it was that I was going to say (I stopped talking as soon as I noticed that her blink was going to last a bit longer than usual), and carried on her merry way without a care.
Maybe I haven't been doing as much intensive walking as I used to do, but my calves seem noticeably skinnier than I remember them being last time I looked.You ever stared at yourself in a mirror for a few minutes until you start noticing every stray facial hair and zit and suddenly you're ugly as hell? Something I've learned: no one pays that much attention to anyone, except themselves. If you want to know what you look like to other people, stand in a full body mirror, look at yourself for 5 seconds and then look away and try to remember what you saw. If you do that and you aren't certain if your calves are thin or not, your calves are fine.
Possibly enough to make me self-conscious about these shorts I'd planned on wearing today.
My housemate is putting his dog down today, heart problems got a lot worse. The dog is a good dog, but quite old. I'm much more worried about my housemate. He acts like it's fine, and he did grow up on a farm, but... well, yeah.
I should probably feel sad too, I've walked the dog a lot over the past year, but I kinda don't. Maybe later, emphasis on maybe though.
Well Activision Blizzard is firing a bunch of people, like 8% or something.
I don't like this sort of thing in general.
I wish they'd fix maphack in SC2 rather than this.
Who cares if your shares earned 0.84 per share instead of $1.24 per share predicted. You are still making 2.4 Billion.
It's Valentine's day, I'm 22 (23 in early March), and I've never been on a date.I'mma come over there, drag you out on the town, and we shall pub-crawl our way across the region meeting as many potentially-attractive persons as possible whilst drinking as many beers as possible.
I am going to blqme early high standards and lack of going out (to meet people)
There isn't a public pension in the US?Technically, it exists. However, Social Security is laughably inadequate and in most cases cannot cover even basic food and shelter expenses for one person. Individuals are instead expected to arrange private retirement plans through their employers, and to invest savings in personal accounts.
That would be okay, if you could survive the financial burdens of working an unpaid internship (an apprenticeship, i tuink they still call it) for a year after graduation.You gonna be okay? Need an uber call?
Im currently stuck in a ditch because i got too close to the edge of the road and the snow caught my tire. Fuck me.
We escaped, after a couple hours. The rescue vehicle slid off the road trying to pull me out, so someone else happened along on their way to work and pulled him out and gave us their tow strap (our stupid rope kept snapping). Next time they come in to the store ill have to give that back to them and buy them a bottle of liquor.Glad to hear you're okay. :)
Then you already know All.well said, fellow grishite
fukken pointless anxiety aaaa
brain says 'panic, everything is wrong' but i ask brain 'what exactly is wrong about everything' and it's all 'reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee'
I realize that a baseless anxiety feeding into fear of where I'm at and where I will be have probably driven my compulsion to avoid commitment and that I won't be happy with where I'm at, wherever I happen to be or whatever I happen to be doing, until I either distract myself from it or find some way to handle it.
I did leave to get away from the phantasms of my old life and relationship, and that worked to a point, except that while the place is different, I'm still the same, and many of those same ghosts haunt not my old apartment and sleepy town, but me. I can't run away from me.
Me is my own worst enemy, I s'pose.
In happier sad news, I realize that, romantically speaking, I might maybe be becoming my dad. Mom helpfully overshared that he has a thing for high boots, I've inherited the thing for thigh-high socks, my date is a little hapless when it comes to cooking, Dad did all the cooking back home, as probably will I, his favorite band is Depeche Mode, they're one of mine too, guess what's put on as things get spicy, etc etc.
Real awkward, it's not helping my psyche at all even though things are smooth sailing with the kiwi gal. It's funny, really, but just unshakeably awkward. Pointlessly frantic brain needs something to dig into, right?
grisha5Mike Mahan has gingivitis
On-topic: this gingivitis business really sucks. Sucks most of the fun out of drunken make-out sessions, that is. Nerve-wracking stuff.
Hopefully I can improve it before too long.
I haven't been on this site in, like, two years or something like that. It's kind of sad, because now I can't remember jack about anything or anyone except grisha5.
Mike Mahan has gingivitisWho dat? Some CEO guy?
long socks are the bee's knees, as it were. I too indulge in them.
The way they hug soft thighs and draw the eyes to hips like the rolling hills of back home. Hot damn. I'm not sure if that's to how you were referring to your long socks, but that's what I like about 'em. That's probably enough about that, though.
Welcome back, Adragis, sorry I never knew ye (did you go by another name?), but it's never too late to start a new history!
Yeah, it's just... Well, it's clear that she likes to play a significantly different Minecraft from the one I like. I enjoy solving problems in a creative fashion, which is why I built the Chickenator 2000 to provide us with food and feathers. Okay, so maybe it went on to destroy the world a little bit, but that was just a new problem to solve.
And it's not like I don't do purely creative stuff, I do... It's just that my art installations don't tend to go over very well with the city planning commission. The Spongebob monument got to stick around for a good while because her sisters thought it was pretty great, but after it mysteriously vanished the mountain it used to sit on top of got bulldozed to make way for some more shops and houses.
When the cars and the tarmac streets came, I really didn't have much left to do with the emerging world. I didn't get approval to zone a slums district, and I didn't want to build early 00's mansions, so I eventually just left.
I thought that we might get a fresh start this time around, but it looks like there are other priorities. She didn't add the jetpacks mod though, for some reason.
Yeah, it's just... Well, it's clear that she likes to play a significantly different Minecraft from the one I like. I enjoy solving problems in a creative fashion, which is why I built the Chickenator 2000 to provide us with food and feathers. Okay, so maybe it went on to destroy the world a little bit, but that was just a new problem to solve.
And it's not like I don't do purely creative stuff, I do... It's just that my art installations don't tend to go over very well with the city planning commission. The Spongebob monument got to stick around for a good while because her sisters thought it was pretty great, but after it mysteriously vanished the mountain it used to sit on top of got bulldozed to make way for some more shops and houses.
When the cars and the tarmac streets came, I really didn't have much left to do with the emerging world. I didn't get approval to zone a slums district, and I didn't want to build early 00's mansions, so I eventually just left.
I thought that we might get a fresh start this time around, but it looks like there are other priorities. She didn't add the jetpacks mod though, for some reason.
Hide TNT in secret tunnels under everything.
Wire it to a central location, demand the world's gold.
I know "literally just reading Reddit posts" has always been a popular format for clickbait, but now on YouTube they're not even disguising it. This upsets me a little.Have you also been getting recommendations for that r/entitledparents stuff? Where the hell does the algorithm pull these suggestions from?
if(video.isShit)
{
Recommend(always);
}
// todo: listen when people say "not interested"
// haha just kidding lmao
I know "literally just reading Reddit posts" has always been a popular format for clickbait, but now on YouTube they're not even disguising it. This upsets me a little.Have you also been getting recommendations for that r/entitledparents stuff? Where the hell does the algorithm pull these suggestions from?
I need to learn to stop talking.Another babbler? I feel ya, man.
I need to learn to stop talking.Prepare "Hello! I'm an Ellenjamesian" cards
I need to learn to stop talking.Another babbler? I feel ya, man.
I'm a pseudodactylectualYou claim to have fingered people, when you really haven't?
I was at a little gathering (trying to explain the familial relation would just confuse matters, so I'll leave it alone) back in early fall of last year, and I was chatting a bit with the hostess about various topics. I also have a tendency to remember Fun Facts about all sorts of random things, and this was making itself rather evident.I need to learn to stop talking.Another babbler? I feel ya, man.
Yeah I have a habit of spewing facts constantly about everything. I'm a pseudointellectual.
The pride I feel for finally fingering my father's killer is dampened only by the fact that I promised to kill my father's killer. I fingered myself. To death.I'm a pseudodactylectualYou claim to have fingered people, when you really haven't?
I know "literally just reading Reddit posts" has always been a popular format for clickbait, but now on YouTube they're not even disguising it. This upsets me a little.Its because youtube now gives everyone the same suggestions, or at least it puts you into a demographic category and pushes the same videos to everyone in that category. I remember when the suggestions you saw were based on the video you were currently watching so you can spam watch a lot of videos of the same type. I liked it, it was like a sort of freeform TV where you could pick what the next episode was.
Wait, why does the word anticlimactic have an extra "c" in it? WTF? I hate that word now.
Wait, why does the word anticlimactic have an extra "c" in it? WTF? I hate that word now.
What, do you pronounce it "anticlimatic"? It's just the same as "climactic", with an anti- stuck to the front. And I'm fairly sure that "climactic" has always had three c sounds in it.
But, you know, they're not humans, therefore they're not people.That's racist!
But, you know, they're not humans, therefore they're not people.That's racist!
>adventure game
>fantasy settings included
>fantasy settings have bows
>shooting the bad guys
My point stands
An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving.
Just trade your hand in for a brick!"Rick McBrick has entered the ring ready to fight after his hand injury, following a risky brick hand replacement surgery."
My laptop isnt charging. Cable works, power strip works, it registers the cable being plugged in for brief moments sporadically, but it isnt drawing any power. Just slowly dying.Pull the cable fully out wait a sec and then try again. Mine was doing similar recently and nudging the cable while it was on made it turn off, afterwards it was completely fine and charging correctly.
What a beautiful metaphor for the human condition.
I hate shoddy warranty policies. Its like schrodingers manufacturer defect, if it exists im not allowed to find out.pssst, that's the goal
That sounds like pro-human propaganda to me. Don't believe the hype!What a beautiful metaphor for the human condition.
What makes me mildly sad is that misanthropy is still hip amongst kids. Humans are great, and we're doing great.
Argh why did I buy tickets to this thing?
I would have been better off staying at home. Though no doubt I would have been angry at myself for that, anyway...
Josh, can you you afford to attend a therapy spot? I know it's far from a cure all, but emotions expressed through anger is on thing that talk therapy is for.
Have you considered a constructive hobby? Those tend to be skill-based with lots of growth to better and better projects.Something like DOTA, for example!
Argh why did I buy tickets to this thing?
I would have been better off staying at home. Though no doubt I would have been angry at myself for that, anyway...
Hey, wanna buy tickets to the vegan festival happening in Oslo come May 25th? There's a vegan Vietnamese restaurant with a booth, an Indonesian booth, and a vegan ice cream stand handing out free samples to market their new flavor.
Just in case you wanted to obligate yourself to more things that are unrealistic or complicated.
nyehehehehehArgh why did I buy tickets to this thing?
I would have been better off staying at home. Though no doubt I would have been angry at myself for that, anyway...
Hey, wanna buy tickets to the vegan festival happening in Oslo come May 25th? There's a vegan Vietnamese restaurant with a booth, an Indonesian booth, and a vegan ice cream stand handing out free samples to market their new flavor.
Just in case you wanted to obligate yourself to more things that are unrealistic or complicated.
I keep trying to process vegan ice cream, and I can't comprehend what that would be, but I can't imagine it would be pleasant
EDIT: I'll be honest, I forgot there are plants that give "milk" that makes way more sense now
Yeah, but can butter be made out of these plant-based milks?
For my purposes, peanut butter is different from butter butter. They don't taste similar, so I guess they fit in different categories.
Yeah, but can butter be made out of these plant-based milks?
Well, yes and no, depending on whether peanut butter is butter.
"Oatly"
EDIT: Did I mention that this building's private laundromat charges a little over $2 per wash or dry? And that you can only access them via a specific card which can only be filled by handing cash to the building's super on the days and times when he's actually available for making such a transaction?
No?
Well, there it is.
Feels like my medicine is stuck in my throat this morning. Maybe that's why they said to take it after food? No, that doesn't make sense, otherwise you'd have to take every pill after food.I take big pills with a glass of milk to prevent this feeling. The creamy, fatty milk kind of coats my throat so it goes down easier and doesn't leave the gross pill sensation.
I did more-or-less take it after food, but it was a few minutes after I finished breakfast before I remembered to do so.
Will it still take effect if it's lodged down there? Or will it be dissolved uselessly? I have no idea. I'm guzzling water but I still can't seem to knock the damn thing loose.
*tries to resist telling one of his drug addict stories*Listen man, $20 is $20... We all understand that.
On the topic of caffeine, I managed to overdose on it a few weeks ago. On the morning of that horrible day, I took 3 heaped tablespoonfuls of instant coffee crystalsYou sure those were coffee crystals?
Ugh. I had planned on cooking some lunch/dinner but now I'm feeling nauseous again so that doesn't seem like such a good idea.Get some cruskets and dry biscuits, don't think of making a meal. It'll just make you sicker.
Hopefully this clears up later so I can actually eat something other than toast...
Yeah, most drugs I've done, three heaped spoonfuls would put a nonaddict into shock/overdose.Then you'll be thrilled to know that diethyl ether is used in the production of cocaine!
The scariest drug I've done is ether though. Shit was terrifying.
I knew that. Cocaine tastes rather reminiscent of ether, before it numbs your nerves. I meant huffing ether straight.
Dickhead on the radio at work singing about how he doesn't want to close his eyes or fall asleep, whereas I would dearly like to do both those things right about now.But I'd miss you, babe.
Huffing ether used to be all the rage back in the day, y'know. Before everyone died.I knew that. Cocaine tastes rather reminiscent of ether, before it numbs your nerves. I meant huffing ether straight.
???
Orange-Vanilla coke sounds godawful.
I have gotten like 4 hours of sleep a night for like 2 weeks.
I should be way sadder than I am.
No more McDonald's either.I pity you
I hate driving, I really hate driving a manual transmission, and I really really hate driving with my mother in the passenger's seat. I'm starting to think that I might end up like the other people in my apartments, 30+ years old and never had a license or owned a car, riding the bus everywhere for everything, having to depend on generosity if I need to go anywhere further than the immediate vicinity.Are therr no cheap automatic vehicles available?
I hate driving, I really hate driving a manual transmission, and I really really hate driving with my mother in the passenger's seat. I'm starting to think that I might end up like the other people in my apartments, 30+ years old and never had a license or owned a car, riding the bus everywhere for everything, having to depend on generosity if I need to go anywhere further than the immediate vicinity.Are therr no cheap automatic vehicles available?
Also, assuming US here, but often, paying for ridesharing as needed can be cheaper than owning a car, as long as you don't have to deal with surge charges.
Ah, understandable.I hate driving, I really hate driving a manual transmission, and I really really hate driving with my mother in the passenger's seat. I'm starting to think that I might end up like the other people in my apartments, 30+ years old and never had a license or owned a car, riding the bus everywhere for everything, having to depend on generosity if I need to go anywhere further than the immediate vicinity.Are therr no cheap automatic vehicles available?
Also, assuming US here, but often, paying for ridesharing as needed can be cheaper than owning a car, as long as you don't have to deal with surge charges.
Ridesharing apps don't operate in my town due to some legal thing I don't really know the details of. Besides, it's not the actual doing that gets me down; it's the concept of having to sit around and wait and depend on somebody else to go somewhere, whether it's family, the bus/taxi driver or a rideshare.
What is it like to drive on snow, anyway?
Some countries also just completely shun automatic transmissions because... Well, because.
I'm looking at you, Norway. No, "Manual transmission has better handling on snow" is not a reason I'm prepared to accept.
What is it like to drive on snow, anyway?*EUROBEAT INTENSIFIES* (https://youtu.be/NSH1cDDTxHk)
There is not a single hobby or interest in the world that isn't filled with snobby elitists that ruin it for me.Have you tried Hermitry? I've never known the hermit community to be anything other than friendly and welcoming.
Why are printers, scanners and copiers stuck in the 2000s? I have more esoteric and more numerous issues with printers than any other kind of technology today. And that's without somebody in the printer room "helping" while I'm trying to print from the other room.Because printer companies are an evil cartel.
As someone who drank energy drinks quite a bit, I'd recommend quitting. You feel consistently better.Mama didn't raise a quitter.
Then again, it is nice and bubbly.
Also also, don't do anything in the bed that isn't related to sleeping.( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Well, yeah, do that in someone else's bed.That's a better life hack than most of the crap floating around on Youtube, to be fair.
That way you don't need to change the sheets, like... ever.
and now I have to put another bandaid on in pretty much the same spot.That's how they getcha!
I'm concerned that I'm starting to develop feelings for a friend of mine. Which is a bad idea on multiple different levels, not least of which being the fact that I'm already in a long-term relationship.
And it's pissing me off, because this is exactly what I was not going to do.
I too have been developing feelings for a friend lately. I feel it might be returned in turn, but I'm too worried I'm just unused to receiving attention/that she is just unusually friendly to do anything about it.Honestly, it may be best just to talk about it, if you're not in a relationship. With her, to be clear. Or with a non gossipy friend.
sigh (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyMicRUUnw)
I too have been developing feelings for a friend lately. I feel it might be returned in turn, but I'm too worried I'm just unused to receiving attention/that she is just unusually friendly to do anything about it.
I love all my friends, some of them platonically!I too have been developing feelings for a friend lately. I feel it might be returned in turn, but I'm too worried I'm just unused to receiving attention/that she is just unusually friendly to do anything about it.
I too remember these feelings, and have them on a normal, regular basis. I am glad we are all healthy people who don't hide from the world to avoid a spiral of anxiety, depression, and failure.
To me, Drakojan Skies is lucky; there's still info out there saying that it existed. There are almost certainly other games that now only exist in the memories of the people who played them.I can tell you about one: Post Mortem. You played a murdered executive of a company. I dont recall the details and I did not get far enough in the story. I remember the music, composed by the game maker's brother.
Going on a bit of a tangent here, I'd say that the majority of things that had a presence on the internet have been lost to time, mostly by not having enough of an audience to be meaningfully archived, but how do you show that something is lost if all relevant info has been removed?
Known many people on Prednisone, all of them have nothing but horror stories.I just started it Monday, no real issues so far. Other than the screaming agony that is my right leg. Apparently my body is trying to strangle my sciatic nerve going down into my right leg. Or, as I learned today, my spine may be growing into the nerve. Which would require costly tests and costly surgery and costly hospitalization. And almost certainly require me to go on income-reducing disability while I recover (fuck, I'm almost ready to go on it now...can barely focus enough to write emails).
Hope you get better soon :(
It seems that the cosmos does not want me to leave this place. I tried registering an account to apply for rental listings yesterday, but the system refused to send any verification emails to my email address. So the account never got set up.Hey, kagus. Could you try calling them directly? It may wotk faster, especially if you mention previous issues.
I talked with a tech rep for a while, couldn't get anything worked out, they then said that there had been similar issues reported and they were working on it. Late last night I saw 5 verification emails tick in to my account, but the links they included were expired/unusable.
"Oh well, at least they fixed the system now!" I thought.
Tried again today.
Still won't send me any verification emails.
Guess I'm stuck here.
My back is all kinds of fucked up. There's a huge knotted muscle just above my butt, I wake up with my left leg numb and tingling, and I spend all day with pain shooting up and down from my toes to the knot. The universe can't let me spend too long being healthy, or I might start enjoying myself or *gasp* furthering my interests.
Are we soul-twins Kagus?Possibly... I'd have to ask the shrooms to confirm.
passionTake it from me, underground heavy metal is a great, very rewarding thing to be passionate about. You don't even need to play an instrument or anything!
Yeah, plenty of metalheads around here, although most all of them play an instrument of some kind. Possibly just the instrument of "fists", attached to a healthy fascination with getting into fights, but there's usually some form of active participation with the hobby. Shame it's not something I really have any strong feelings about, and that both my guitaring and my fisting are mediocre at best.Attempt combining the various skills to create hybrids?
Buh... Trying to rack my brains for something I'm actually "good" at, passion or no, is proving to be a rather discouraging endeavor... What with all the many topics that capped out at Novice+ which I have to search through.
I kinda, uh, basically ripped all the skin off my lower lip and now it hurts like hell.Sometimes, I pull on it so hard, I rip the skin.
(https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/959/129/b45.gif)I kinda, uh, basically ripped all the skin off my lower lip and now it hurts like hell.Sometimes, I pull on it so hard, I rip the skin.
My back is all kinds of fucked up. There's a huge knotted muscle just above my butt, I wake up with my left leg numb and tingling, and I spend all day with pain shooting up and down from my toes to the knot. The universe can't let me spend too long being healthy, or I might start enjoying myself or *gasp* furthering my interests.
Hopefully there's nothing sketchy about the place. Is there a way you can check and make sure that guy is the owner/whatever and able to legally rent out the place?I mean, he's got the keys to everything and is apparently renting out the apartments to the side and above the one in question (yes, this is apparently a triplex, of all things), so I'm inclined to believe him. I also got the impression that he really was a decent enough fellow, just one with high RPM and no fucking filter. The whole tour was basically "Oh you're on welfare? So what kind of condition is it; is it physical or is it more psychiatric? Oh yeah, I used to work with a guy with the social anxiety. Nice enough guy, did his job pretty well, intelligent and all, just sometimes didn't show up to work or would sleep in and stuff. And you're getting help from people? Are they professionals? Are you talking to a psychologist? There's nothing wrong with talking to psychologists y'know. Honestly, more people should do it. I guarantee you; everyone in the world has been through something or other during their life. I'D go to a psychologist, but I can't afford one! So my wife takes the load, hahaha... So how's your social life? Is it okay to be around people? Are you around enough people?", and it was honestly just a bit much.
Not trying to scare you off, but I don't know what the rental market is like over there but I've heard of scams happening. Unless it's some sort of verified listing, I guess.
I'm pretty sure I'm more psychologically messed up than I realised. Like, I'm not suffering PTSD, depression (anymore, thank fuck. Hopefully it stays away) or anything like that, but I thought I was relatively OK. In actuality after thinking on it, I think I may have some perfectionism issues with regards to certain things (though what seems to be randomly spattered about) and possibly a slight degree of impostor syndrome, as well as some general trust issues.
I do it. I'm doing it right now.
I do it. I'm doing it right now.
This. I wear jeans and depending on weather/workload, undershirts several times. Jeans are like white collar criminals, clean even when proven dirty.
It's been a couple months since the last laundry day.How large is your washing machine, even? If both you and she have months' worth of dirty laundry, surely you can get a machine-ful of clothes washed and still have some left over for the "official" laundry day she's in charge of?
Not exactly sad but I'm quietly not enjoying it. I have only drank beer the last two days, and only three or less. I also did not start drinking today until 2pm.Damn, that's good progress.
Got a new headset with only one audiojack, but Win10 thinks that there's no mic, only headphones. Note that Win7 recognizes the headset's mic.That usually is caused by windows running your board on generic/old drivers, try to check your manufacturers site for an update, it usually fixes that. (Either audio card or motherboard if onboard audio.)
I do it. I'm doing it right now.
This. I wear jeans and depending on weather/workload, undershirts several times. Jeans are like white collar criminals, clean even when proven dirty.
Not exactly sad but I'm quietly not enjoying it. I have only drank beer the last two days, and only three or less. I also did not start drinking today until 2pm.Damn, that's good progress.
Less than 4. You'll do better tomorrow.Not exactly sad but I'm quietly not enjoying it. I have only drank beer the last two days, and only three or less. I also did not start drinking today until 2pm.Damn, that's good progress.
I backslid a bit. Did three half shots of vodka.
As if breaking up a long-term relationship and moving out weren't hard enough on their own.
It's still a work in progress, I believe. He's tryna nail down a place to move to before taking that step.As if breaking up a long-term relationship and moving out weren't hard enough on their own.
Wait! You broke up with your girlfriend?
Pretty much. That's at least what I'm telling myself, but I'm still definitely not looking forward to that conversation.It's still a work in progress, I believe. He's tryna nail down a place to move to before taking that step.As if breaking up a long-term relationship and moving out weren't hard enough on their own.
Wait! You broke up with your girlfriend?
At least it's not catching one in a non-lethal trap, driving out with your 8-year-old to the park field where you normally release mice, and flopping a tiny furry carcass onto the ground in front of your kid since it ended up stressing itself to death during the night.
Not exactly the way 8-year-old me had imagined that scene playing out.
I might sound very dumb right now, but please bear with me me: There are non-lethal mice traps? Why? Doesn't it defeat the purpose of setting up traps in the first place? Or is it just because of people's conscious objections to killing animals?
*cough cough mice are invasive species cough cough*
Mice can be problematic, rats however are a scourge upon bird populations among other things (as in pretty much all things).Fuck the birds, that movie sucked
Mice can be problematic, rats however are a scourge upon bird populations among other things (as in pretty much all things).Fuck the birds, that movie sucked
Am coughing pretty badly. Seems like I've always got a problem thats mouth/throat related...
I'll delete this when I wake up. I just want to write down that I hate I get so anxious over nothing. I do something, my brain decides that it was a mistake, my whole day I obsess over it and feel like a fuckup, and there just isn't anything I can do about it. I'd love it if I could just shrug off small mistakes, and keep going on like my day is going fine. Having that kind of imperviousness would be the best.
I'll head to bed now. I just need to get my complaining out of the way so I'm not thinking about it and keeping myself up.
I can try though. One tip I can recommend is to try to control your reactions. Those tend to be easier to control than the emotions themselves. If you see yourself getting angry, don't yell out, punch a wall, indulge in detailed descriptions of how much you hate yourself, or whatever else you do. Catharsis is a myth. You may feel temporary relief when you do those things but like narcotics, your body eventually becomes dependent on these things to function. You will still feel angry, but through repeated instances of restraint your emotions will eventually start to calm down a little too.Alternatively, make use of modern therapy that's based in actual psychiatric science. Which says, at least in the case of CBT, that stone-faced repression is just going to make things worse.
That quoted section's the kind of self-help that works great for someone who doesn't particularly need help to begin with. If you have an emotional disorder, I'd recommend trying something else.
CBT man, replace your shitty behavior with less shitty behavior.
It might take a bit more effort than that. It only took me months of therapy and then incessant introspection for years and years to make a bit of progress in figuring out how to deal with my shit.
Cock and Ball Torture?If it works for him I wont judge
He is saying you must get a fat German woman to kick you in the balls. But he is meaning you must get a fat German yourself to kick you in the balls of the soul.(https://g8fip1kplyr33r3krz5b97d1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/GettyImages-992169188-714x484.jpg)
Alternatively, have your therapist perform CBT druing the appointment. You'd need a very unique therapist for that though.A psycho therapist, even.
Alternatively, have your therapist perform CBT druing the appointment. You'd need a very unique therapist for that though.You mean one of those therapists that advertise on craigslist and backpage?
I recommend Dwarf Therapist, he was one of the best unfortunate accident manager.If you don't mind cheating, I'd argue that remove-stress combined with brainwash ideal are better unfortunate accident managers. That, or you could just expel/relocate them, thus making it someone else's problem.
I can try though. One tip I can recommend is to try to control your reactions. Those tend to be easier to control than the emotions themselves. If you see yourself getting angry, don't yell out, punch a wall, indulge in detailed descriptions of how much you hate yourself, or whatever else you do. Catharsis is a myth. You may feel temporary relief when you do those things but like narcotics, your body eventually becomes dependent on these things to function. You will still feel angry, but through repeated instances of restraint your emotions will eventually start to calm down a little too.Alternatively, make use of modern therapy that's based in actual psychiatric science. Which says, at least in the case of CBT, that stone-faced repression is just going to make things worse.
Even with Chair Force being stereotypically a much smoother ride than other branches, it's still the military. And the military will beat you down until you are broken and they will mercilessly attack any possible weakness in your mental armor. They work with systems that are specifically designed to reduce the most confident, headstrong, mentally sound and stable people into sobbing, self-doubting wrecks.you know, the more I hear about the military, the more I feel it shouldn't exist, if only everyone would stop being so stupid so that such a thing could happen
As should be apparent, these systems are not healthy for people with poor mental health. They're not even healthy for people who started out at 100%.
Listen, if you legitimately want to join the military, you will definitely be able to get in. The bureaucracy can be a bit dumb at times, but after a few attempts you can get into all sorts of things so long as you're capable of tying your own shoelaces. I would not recommend doing this though, as the experience can be extraordinarily stressful and extremely damaging for the psyche.
I mean, fuck, I heard a recruiter talking about the time a guy with Downs syndrome somehow made it into the Army. He ended up getting early discharge because, uh... Well, yeah... But still. He got in long enough to make an impression.
Seriously. You've seen Full Metal Jacket? Yeah. That's the candy-coated version of boot. Experiencing the real thing will drag your soul through rock salt and broken glass. Don't do it unless you're sure that you're okay with being reduced to the worst that you will ever be.
Seriously. You've seen Full Metal Jacket? Yeah. That's the candy-coated version of boot. Experiencing the real thing will drag your soul through rock salt and broken glass. Don't do it unless you're sure that you're okay with being reduced to the worst that you will ever be.
you know, the more I hear about the military, the more I feel it shouldn't exist, if only everyone would stop being so stupid so that such a thing could happen
Obviously military should be a branch of academia.
Even with Chair Force being stereotypically a much smoother ride than other branches, it's still the military. And the military will beat you down until you are broken and they will mercilessly attack any possible weakness in your mental armor. They work with systems that are specifically designed to reduce the most confident, headstrong, mentally sound and stable people into sobbing, self-doubting wrecks.
As should be apparent, these systems are not healthy for people with poor mental health. They're not even healthy for people who started out at 100%.
Listen, if you legitimately want to join the military, you will definitely be able to get in. The bureaucracy can be a bit dumb at times, but after a few attempts you can get into all sorts of things so long as you're capable of tying your own shoelaces. I would not recommend doing this though, as the experience can be extraordinarily stressful and extremely damaging for the psyche.
I mean, fuck, I heard a recruiter talking about the time a guy with Downs syndrome somehow made it into the Army. He ended up getting early discharge because, uh... Well, yeah... But still. He got in long enough to make an impression.
Seriously. You've seen Full Metal Jacket? Yeah. That's the candy-coated version of boot. Experiencing the real thing will drag your soul through rock salt and broken glass. Don't do it unless you're sure that you're okay with being reduced to the worst that you will ever be.
Je suis une pomme de terre
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I accidentally added too much jam to my curry last night (my dad loves fruity curries). To counterbalance it, I added too much vinegar and lemon juice. My curry ended up edible, but far too strongly flavoured. :(
God do I just get so upset when I'm trying to learn on Brilliant.org. Combined with my horrid indecisiveness, I've canceled and uncanceled my subscription 10+ times now. I don't like that it threatens me to jack the price up if I ever decide to come back, but I'm also not sure if I'm just being a pissy bitch that is way too insecure about being proven to be a retard by a website.
It's such a minor issue, but it makes me feel like the culmination of who I am is basically worthless and I've failed at life; then again, no issue seems to be too minor to be an existential threat nowadays. Between my utterly bafflingly stupid logical reasoning at times, and my increasingly piss poor memory for the simplest things, I just wish I had an outside perspective in my life so my day-to-day "logical reasoning" isn't just me screaming at myself in my own mental echo chamber. I guess that's just the primary drawback of every day of my life being alone and subsequently a battle against loneliness.
Ignorance does not an idiot make.
Inability to learn and adapt doth an idiot make.
Ignorance does not an idiot make.
Inability to learn and adapt doth an idiot make.
Ya, your willingness to learn is basically the most important mindset you can have. Go for it.
God do I just get so upset when I'm trying to learn on Brilliant.org. Combined with my horrid indecisiveness, I've canceled and uncanceled my subscription 10+ times now. I don't like that it threatens me to jack the price up if I ever decide to come back, but I'm also not sure if I'm just being a pissy bitch that is way too insecure about being proven to be a retard by a website.
It's such a minor issue, but it makes me feel like the culmination of who I am is basically worthless and I've failed at life; then again, no issue seems to be too minor to be an existential threat nowadays. Between my utterly bafflingly stupid logical reasoning at times, and my increasingly piss poor memory for the simplest things, I just wish I had an outside perspective in my life so my day-to-day "logical reasoning" isn't just me screaming at myself in my own mental echo chamber. I guess that's just the primary drawback of every day of my life being alone and subsequently a battle against loneliness.
Nah man, look. Everybody starts knowing something about a particular subject as a (colorfully put) retard. It's ok not to know something and it's ok to have a hard time getting it.
I was once fucking terrible at most of the things I'm good at now. My best skill is my social skills, and I had like 2 friends in school growing up because I was so nervous/nonchalant about anything related to social activity. I honed the skill over a long period of time. It doesn't make you stupid, just inexperienced.
Ignorance does not an idiot make.
Inability to learn and adapt doth an idiot make.
Ya, your willingness to learn is basically the most important mindset you can have. Go for it.
So where do knowledge retention and ability to focus factor into this?
Ignorance does not an idiot make.
Inability to learn and adapt doth an idiot make.
Ya, your willingness to learn is basically the most important mindset you can have. Go for it.
So where do knowledge retention and ability to focus factor into this?
Also learned skills, unless you have some kind of learning disability, which can almost certainly be managed. IME confidence is also a huge factor in overcoming those obstacles.
I tried an old, traditional recipe for sugar cookies. Three ingredients and a lot of whisking, how bad can it be?
It turns out it can be very bad. The things I made turned out more like very underdone pancakes with sugar than anything resembling a cookie.
I tried an old, traditional recipe for sugar cookies. Three ingredients and a lot of whisking, how bad can it be?
It turns out it can be very bad. The things I made turned out more like very underdone pancakes with sugar than anything resembling a cookie.
New prank idea: make terrible useless recipes and spread them on Pinterest like a plague.
I tried an old, traditional recipe for sugar cookies. Three ingredients and a lot of whisking, how bad can it be?
It turns out it can be very bad. The things I made turned out more like very underdone pancakes with sugar than anything resembling a cookie.
New prank idea: make terrible useless recipes and spread them on Pinterest like a plague.
I tried an old, traditional recipe for sugar cookies. Three ingredients and a lot of whisking, how bad can it be?
It turns out it can be very bad. The things I made turned out more like very underdone pancakes with sugar than anything resembling a cookie.
New prank idea: make terrible useless recipes and spread them on Pinterest like a plague.
I remember long ago someone somewhere posted a fake cookie recipe that didn't need a cookie sheet.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Hell, Google was throwing up a dance/song/acting school as a martial arts school for some fucking reason.
Now I'm even avoiding stray cats and other pets I enjoyed in the past. Yay progress -.-:(
In other words, do what you're good at and improve it. That is the core of non-idiocy IMO.What if I'm not good at anything?
Then you should become a politicianIn other words, do what you're good at and improve it. That is the core of non-idiocy IMO.What if I'm not good at anything?
If you truly show aptitude at absolutely nothing, then choose something interesting.In other words, do what you're good at and improve it. That is the core of non-idiocy IMO.What if I'm not good at anything?
Which sucks, honestly.Does it suck yur bloooood?
The meds that keep me semi-functional are the meds that prevent me from donating blood to keep someone else alive. Which sucks, honestly.
Thinking about that makes it hard for me to just B+.
What does that mean?
How come? Had some esoteric GF of my dad try my blood 15 years ago, apparantly it does not survive 12 hours on its own, much like the blood of an old man lol.
The meds that keep me semi-functional are the meds that prevent me from donating blood to keep someone else alive. Which sucks, honestly.I've gone through domestic notes and I've not found any references to psych medications excluding you as a donor. But then again these things change from place to place. And i guess maybe your specific one is troublesome for some reason? Welp
Thinking about that makes it hard for me to just B+.
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In addition to the SSRIs, I'm on beta blockers to help me sleep at night and keep me from freaking out over minor stresses all day. Norway does have fairly strict regulations for most things though, and I'm pretty sure blood donation is on that list.The meds that keep me semi-functional are the meds that prevent me from donating blood to keep someone else alive. Which sucks, honestly.I've gone through domestic notes and I've not found any references to psych medications excluding you as a donor. But then again these things change from place to place. And i guess maybe your specific one is troublesome for some reason? Welp
Thinking about that makes it hard for me to just B+.
Should be all right to limp to work tomorrow morning, but the nausea that swept me immediately after the accident has me concerned. Bruised bone? Minor shock? Dunno.Get it checked out. Immediate, heavy nausea is a big warning flag for bone injuries.
She just observed the blood under the microscope, my red cells die comparatively quick... I'm still not convinced that that means what she thought it meant.Sounds like bull tbh. Speaking as a guy who regularly looks at red cells under the microscope.
Veal and lamb are depressing as fuck.Veal is quite depressing, yes, but "lamb" as a term for meat gets stretched to apply to as large an age range as the seller can get away with. There's a lot of adolescent/adult meat that gets marketed as lamb because that's what sells. ...And also because some people legitimately don't know what the word "mutton" even means...
Knee aches considerably less today, still a little stiff around bends and stairs. Survived the hike to, from, and beyond work to the sushi store without much trouble, so it seems to be on the mend. Not really sure how expensive healthcare things are here in NZ sans health insurance (all I've got is traveler's health insurance, dunno what qualifies for that), and from my American background, just Going to the Doctor for a Thing You Want Checked is generally a Thing You Do Not Do.
On the bright side, my girlfriend's mom is an x-ray technician, so I know who to talk to about getting it zapped if I decide I need that!
In other news:
I bid on and won a pair of small PC towers for cheap (inspired a bit by whomever's tale of finding the free alleyway garbage pc), $60 each, with modest but respectable specs. I bid on one of them for my gal pal, but she politely declined it yesterday after learning they have no wifi cards and there's no going back on the bid. Maaaaah, I'll find something to do with it. Hacker attacker PC and Kiwi Factorio server?
Maybe I'll check the freaky Jesus tech shop to see if they've got a Linux-friendly wifi dongle. Or the PB tech next to it. And before you call me out on it, they've got a menorah in the window, it's cluttered to heck and back, there's a large screen monitor displaying proverbs next to the menorah, and there's some kind of Christian Rock playing at all times. The front door is open, but roped off, you ask for what you're looking for and escorted through the wastes to the thing you seek.
Also, they have a SHALOM van in the back.
Henderson is frigging weird, man.
I'm mentally exhausted. I've not had a coherent thought since yesterday night. I fucking wish that the world would just disappear right in front of me.Stick with us please. :( If you haven't tried yet, melanin or tea may help.
Woke up with somewhat-painfully-impacted earwax in my left ear. I tried to loosen things up with some warm water, now it's impacted and waterlogged.
Also I have a cold.
I need to write a resignation letter and this is harder than I thought
Here's an example to get your mind in the right place:It reflects the sentiment very well but it's hardly political when there are so few people doing what I do on this landmass (and that's including your bit of the landmass).
"Up yours. *Blows Raspberry*"
100% guaranteed to make folks happy to let you go.
I'm staring at the screen, wondering what to write. Despite having been here for so long, and rattled on about so much, I still struggle with being candid.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I need to write a resignation letter and this is harder than I thought
I sent it before this, but it was curiously similar.I need to write a resignation letter and this is harder than I thought
I wrote one recently, it looked like this:Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I asked them all the same questions: “Do you feel home where you are now? Or, do you want to come back?” The answer was always the same: “I don’t feel at home now and I don’t think of my original country as a home either. I can’t feel at home anywhere
Again in a week?Terrible jokes thread is right this way, sir.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
And I'm just sitting here realizing that I am definitely going to get myself hurt over this, again. The high road's got a lot of rocks on it.
Stepped badly during sparring at taekwondo and wrenched my toe horribly. Don't think it's broken, but that doesn't make it any less annoying.
Also, my desktop has spontaneously decided to go on strike and either won't boot, or boots and freezes for a couple of seconds every minute or so, with no apparent processor overhead detected. I probably need to sit down, disassemble it, clean all the dust out, and reassemble it with all the connections firm, but that takes time.
Firefox currently has a glitch that makes many add-ons not work, including ad blockers.It's still ongoing? Damn. I was expecting it to be fixed when I woke up this morning.
Firefox currently has a glitch that makes many add-ons not work, including ad blockers.It's still ongoing? Damn. I was expecting it to be fixed when I woke up this morning.
Kagus, what is best in life? To crush your exams, see them graded before you, and hear the lamentations of your school mates.
Well if they acurately diagnosed depression at such an "early" stage that you wouldn't consider yourself depressive, you seem to have a nice hand of cards.Apparently I've had it for a pretty long time? and am just pretty ok at dealing with it. Last... week and a half? was pretty bad though, worst it ever got and what got me to find a psychiatrist.
I'm like a Grandmaster at being depressed at this point.If it helps, I'm pretty damn good at beating myself up over unrequited love and using an overactive imagination to make matters worse.
Well, you're not visibly getting injured so schadenfreude isn't exactly kicking in. I don't generally enjoy the suffering of Norwegians or Danes without a good reason.
I've started making impulse purchases to cheer myself up. Bad, bad bad bad bad bad. This is the kind of thing I work so hard to keep under control, and it's slipping away.Oh no, I do that too. Good luck. Wish I had actual advice, but nah. Maybe lay out a set budget so that you know how much spare money you actually have for frivolities in a given period of time?
ProJaredThose were pictures that I never needed to see.
So afaik he cheated on his wife, did he do anything else? Considering you can cheat on all three of your wives and still be president I don't get it
So, first actual night in the new apartment. Been running back and forth buying necessities all day, and am fairly thoroughly pooped. When I was getting ready to make dinner, I took a closer look at what the cooking area of this apartment is actually like.
I am again reminded of how I am never quite as finished with feelings as I think I am, and how it is still just as painful/uncomfortable as ever to try and do the right thing.Doing the right thing is hardly easy, but you made it out of your old place. That's a huge step forward.
I played Overwatch today. I was hoping for some teamwork, somebody to chat with, anything.Heh. I feel that. I haven't touched OW since the last event because of that. I always wondered if it was more fun with a team but I never have the energy to pull one together and maintain it.
Nope, today on OW everybody just feels like playing Halo and doing their own thing. After getting steamrolled by the most basic strategies and comps, I'm starting to question why I even own this game. At least Halo and Battlefront don't even pretend that there's teamwork involved.
It's not even that though, the situation with my ex is what it is and I'm more or less at ease with it. The big cherry on top of my unfinished business sundae is the gal I fell in love with while I was still together with my ex, who I explained my feelings to back in April after something came out about her banging her roommate and I couldn't keep a brave face anymore, and who ghosted me for three weeks after I made my confession. We're talking again, more or less, and have agreed to meet up and clear the air on the 19th.I am again reminded of how I am never quite as finished with feelings as I think I am, and how it is still just as painful/uncomfortable as ever to try and do the right thing.Doing the right thing is hardly easy, but you made it out of your old place. That's a huge step forward.
I saw on the last page that you're working through maths through Khan academy. I'm a CompSci major and I've been told I'm alright at tutoring. If you run into any sort of mental block I'm more than happy to try and help you work through it.Don't bother; I don't think you realize just how far behind I am in regards to curriculum. I'm 29 years old, and Khan is currently helping me come to terms with nested fractions.
It's not even that though, the situation with my ex is what it is and I'm more or less at ease with it. The big cherry on top of my unfinished business sundae is the gal I fell in love with while I was still together with my ex, who I explained my feelings to back in April after something came out about her banging her roommate and I couldn't keep a brave face anymore, and who ghosted me for three weeks after I made my confession. We're talking again, more or less, and have agreed to meet up and clear the air on the 19th.I am again reminded of how I am never quite as finished with feelings as I think I am, and how it is still just as painful/uncomfortable as ever to try and do the right thing.Doing the right thing is hardly easy, but you made it out of your old place. That's a huge step forward.
Except today she had a big oral math exam, one she'd failed twice before, and she was kinda freaking out about it. So I talked with her, let her vent a bit, tried to calm her down and support her... Even though it hurts to talk with her. Then I congratulated her afterwards when she said she'd passed, even though that hurt too since the roommate was first in line to provide congratulations.
Then later on today we were both part of a welcoming party to say hi to a bartender who's been on sick leave and tending to his dying (now dead) father for the past few months. I figured "Alright, we can just keep our distance and I'll be fine. A good friend is gonna be there as well, I can just talk to her instead".
Except that the object of my desire also felt the need to have a couple side conversations within eavesdropping range about her roommate apparently wanting something more than just a fuckbuddy arrangement, and how she "Kinda wants to be in a relationship, but also kinda just wants to suck some dick". That was nice to hear. Then there was the other conversation about the roomie giving her the silent treatment "When she comes home with different people". Also lots of fun to listen to, when you've previously been getting all these little reminders that you're not quite as finished with your feelings for this girl as you'd thought and/or hoped.
But this sounds like you have the opportunity to take some time to breathe and care for yourself completely, and not have to worry about another person? Loneliness is a real killer though, I feel that. I hope things with this girl conclude with the least amount of hurt.I hope so too, and I'm believing less and less that it's going to go particularly well. Guess we'll just have to see come Sunday.
Been riding a mood boost since I adjusted to my higher medication dosage. Now I'm starting to flag and lose what motivation and focus it was giving me. Still better than I was before the increased dosage, but it's looming in my head how close I am to just curling up and shutting myself off again.The change is always a bit funky, but the important thing to remember is that while you may be experiencing similarly dark thoughts you are more equipped to tackle them. It's not just how surmountable or insurmountable the obstacle before you seems, it's also the strength you have available to overcome that obstacle. And if you pay attention, you will notice a difference.
I drank a cup of coffee 2 hours ago (didn't sleep enough last night), and now I'm anxious about my own future. It's not even coherent anxiety, it's just this constant feeling of existential dread. Hundreds of thoughts racing through my head, all of them about how I'm gonna 'fail'. I don't know what, all I know is that I'm 'failing', whatever the fuck that means.
I swear to God, I should really avoid coffee next time.
Meds are great, because you can just feel nothing. It's very peaceful.
I'm supposed to go do this stupid fucking voting bullshit again today.AFAIK preference lists are at least theoretically much more accurate to how people actually feel than what the U.S does
As usual, finding actual information on all the turds you're expected to number in order of preference (because having a normal voting system would be far too sensible for this backwater country) is a colossal pain in the arse.
More meme related sadness this week as Grumpy Cat died todayRight on the 10th anniversary of Minecraft.
Florida cooled down? I thought the state was just in a perpetual fugue of humidity hell. What did the swarms alligators and Florida-men do in this Game of Thrones-esque winter that Florida had to suffer?Lots of meth, I bet
Florida cooled down? I thought the state was just in a perpetual fugue of humidity hell. What did the swarms alligators and Florida-men do in this Game of Thrones-esque winter that Florida had to suffer?Lots of meth, I bet
I have a figure of Snarl from Transformers on my desk that someone gave me.I was trying my darnedest to figure out what was sad about this, then I realised it was a response to something.
I can pose him in breakdancing positions I've gotten very good at it.
Eyyy, I was determined to be allergic to penicillin when I was a kid too! Haven't gotten it checked since, but yeah... Which was fun, because they saw me reacting and tried giving me more penicillin to knock out "whatever it was". That didn't go so well.Sure would be neat if we weren't in an antibiotic crisis... Gotta wonder how much longer before that treatment starts failing on a larger scale.
Hehe in an earlier episode they found out that I am (or was?) allergic to penecilin. My existence is an affront to god :D.
Blindfolds help lots and can be improvised from many things, just a heads up. If one doesn't block the light, add layers.I second this. I find curtains wanting and recently I started using a blindfold to sleep. Now all my woes arent due to the light but I AM sleeping better
I might not be able to participate in an upcoming game jam as my laptop is starting to break down. I think I didn't quite connect the wifi antenna right one of the times I had disassembled it previously, and now it's come loose. The wifi will work for an amount of time, then declare that it can't reach the internet when all other devices can. I don't have the heart to take it apart again since it's such a huge pain in the ass, but I won't be able to replace it even with a lesser device for quite some time.What game jam is coming up? I'm woefully out of touch with the community and need to start somewhere.
I might not be able to participate in an upcoming game jam as my laptop is starting to break down. I think I didn't quite connect the wifi antenna right one of the times I had disassembled it previously, and now it's come loose. The wifi will work for an amount of time, then declare that it can't reach the internet when all other devices can. I don't have the heart to take it apart again since it's such a huge pain in the ass, but I won't be able to replace it even with a lesser device for quite some time.What game jam is coming up? I'm woefully out of touch with the community and need to start somewhere.
Extra Creditz Game Jam, (https://itch.io/jam/extra-credits-game-jam-4) starting tomorrow at midnight.
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mushroom
dirt
Dude, touch her butt.
Though you might want to ask her out for coffee or some other date cliché thing first, just in case.
I'm angry. At myself and life in general. I've dug myself into a hole I feel like I'll never escape from. I don't feel like I have any of he life skills I need to survive as an adult, I've already ruined my chance of getting a college degree and a real, paying career by being a worthless layabout, now I cant go back. Im not qualified for any job that pays better than minimum wage and I can't afford to move out of my parents house on my budget. My parents want me gone, I want to leave, but I can't.For what it's worth I feel you.
Day has been incredibly long and towards the end riddled with road rage due to shit truckers being shit and holding up traffic. The one beaming bright moment I was looking forward to was finally getting my hands on and trying some brie cheese. I finally have.
it was disappointing blandness wrapped in concentrated mushroom/dirt flavour
I just wish I understood why.Weed.
Vancouver has weed. We'll happily take Amsterdam's tourist money if they don't want it.Got any sex to go along with that weed?
Just uh, don't don't get your hard drugs here because they will kill you.
Yeah (not legal though), but from what I've seen you'd rather not. :-\
Vancouver has weed. We'll happily take Amsterdam's tourist money if they don't want it.Who's "they"?
Just uh, don't don't get your hard drugs here because they will kill you.
Sadly, the knowledge that "Hey, this shit is WAAAAAAY more powerful than ordinary heroin" only gets met with 'FUCK YEAH! Gimme some!"I watched a Youtube doco yesterday which said that, once an addict gets past a certain stage of tolerance, fentanyl becomes the only way they can get high, with regular heroin, morphine et al not even enough to alleviate their withdrawal symptoms. Shit's fucked. :o
Why do people still do phone calls? Literally why?Yeah, almost nobody I know well calls for non-emergency reasons. Which makes it more annoying when I get called by telemarketers, scammers, or have to expect calls from businesses which just do things that way.
Email, text message, instant message, snail mail, carrier pigeon: Receive information regardless of whether you're at home, at work, asleep, cooking, driving, etc. and respond any time that's convenient because they'll get the information at some point, whether or not anybody can answer right this second.
Phone call: "Hi, sorry we missed you! We're closing in 5 minutes and the next time you'll be able to call us back is in 4 days, give or take the time it takes the operator to get the biscuits out of their ears and pick up. We'll just keep calling you and hope random chance catches you at a moment when you're able to answer. We won't tell you what we want over voice mail because it's a surprise, tee hee~"
Heroin is a recreational drug produced from opium, and is less potent than Fentanyl.
Why do people still do phone calls? Literally why?Yeah, almost nobody I know well calls for non-emergency reasons. Which makes it more annoying when I get called by telemarketers, scammers, or have to expect calls from businesses which just do things that way.
Email, text message, instant message, snail mail, carrier pigeon: Receive information regardless of whether you're at home, at work, asleep, cooking, driving, etc. and respond any time that's convenient because they'll get the information at some point, whether or not anybody can answer right this second.
Phone call: "Hi, sorry we missed you! We're closing in 5 minutes and the next time you'll be able to call us back is in 4 days, give or take the time it takes the operator to get the biscuits out of their ears and pick up. We'll just keep calling you and hope random chance catches you at a moment when you're able to answer. We won't tell you what we want over voice mail because it's a surprise, tee hee~"
Direct family gets a pass I guess, though I'm glad my dad usually prefers text or skype like I do. Though he and mom tend to voice call if I don't visit one of them for too long, which is fair and okay I suppose.
General business though? Fuck, just use asynchronous communication, it's what it's there for. It makes me think they're being willfully difficult.
They can be convenient. For my type of practice they are fairly inocuous to kidneys and liver, and won't mask a fever. This is very handy if your patients are immunocompromised and you're going to treat them with highly toxic drugs....we're not talking about texting anymore, are we?
They can be convenient. For my type of practice they are fairly inocuous to kidneys and liver, and won't mask a fever. This is very handy if your patients are immunocompromised and you're going to treat them with highly toxic drugs.
I do find the usage of opiates in the British Isles as far heavier than I'm used to. To the point that I'm heavily reliant on the pain management team (far more than I'm used to) because, as patients are casually started and left on strong opiates for long periods of time, they are far less responsive to the pain control strategies I'm used to. This has been a source of frustration for me.
???
Maybe you need to be more reliant on the pain management team for personal reasons.
pound sign don't do drugs
alone with my thoughts and a terrifying lack of toilet paper.The wank must flow.
Yeah, there was probably more interesting stuff going on earlier as well, but from what I remember I don't think it was worth sleeping 'til 3pm.
My alarms were for 10 and 10:30, respectively... I guess another day goes by in which I fail entirely to begin fixing my sleeping habits.
Bay12 is failing to load because mobile data here is incredibly slow. I have these thoughts and shit that I want to express in the sad thread, and I'm forced to write them down in a .txt file until conditions improve. Fucking hell.Not just you. Site's been stupid slow for a lot of people, myself included. Hope you're doing alright.
Hey, remember when Massive Entertainment was making pretty good RTS/RTT games instead of a shitty stream of 'Yet Another Open World Ubisoft Title' titles? I've been recently playing the GC series and I do, made me sad to see how far the makers of RTS games have fallen :c
the.....forums....are.....slow but at least there back up I guessI'm finally back home, and you're right. Even on a decent connection, Bay12 is sluggish.
Whoa, it's a holiday there, too?!It's Whit Monday. For being as atheistic/agnostic as Norway is, we celebrate a fuckload of Christian holidays... 3-5 days off for Easter, 2-3 days off for Christmas, Ascension day, Whit Monday... Plus non-religious things like Mayday and New Years Eve/Day, and our national constitution day on May 17th.
Just start saving up even more and go to Aokigahara! It'll probably fall out of public interest and they'll start letting western tourists in there again by the time you're ready to go...
And if you really were looking for the authentic experience of turning red and having your face melt off, there's always Death Valley.
Nah, I got thicc forests aplenty in these parts. What I'm fascinated by is abandoned places. You know, where civilization once was but it kinda buggered off. Having a bunch of people around kinda fucks with that concept.I’d advise going to some of the islands in the west of Ireland. Nearly every single one used to be populated, but in the end, the populations went down, life became harder, and they all up and left over a few decades. You can still go there, see the vast emptiness spotted with ruined houses.
I measured my calories yesterday, eating a typical amount for myself and not skipping anything. The total came out to 2800, probably more in actuality. Holy shit, no wonder I've been ballooning. Cutting it out and getting control back is going to be difficult.
My cheese rolls are dry.
Lunch for the next two days is going to be unpleasant.
My cheese rolls are dry.
Lunch for the next two days is going to be unpleasant.
...Homemade cheese rolls? Would you be willing to share a recipe?
I measured my calories yesterday, eating a typical amount for myself and not skipping anything. The total came out to 2800, probably more in actuality. Holy shit, no wonder I've been ballooning. Cutting it out and getting control back is going to be difficult.
Heh. I'm right there with you friend. I gotta cut back hard but I just love eating too much.My cheese rolls are dry.
Lunch for the next two days is going to be unpleasant.
...Homemade cheese rolls? Would you be willing to share a recipe?
My cheese rolls are dry.Apply steam to make them more edible (though not great): microwave them with a glass of water or hold them in a colander above a pot of boiling water.
Lunch for the next two days is going to be unpleasant.
Brought home some sorta Kiwi cold/flu thing, which is making sleeping past 3AM difficult. So tired...
Etika's passing.The internet watched as a man's mental issues consumed him in real time before it's tragic conclusion
That man may have gone all weird on us in the final few streams, but I still enjoyed him. Man's gone now.
Brought home some sorta Kiwi cold/flu thing, which is making sleeping past 3AM difficult. So tired...
Why are evenings always just shit? I chatted with friends today, I exercised today, I had a tasty Subway today... I shouldn't be feeling awful.I've had that happen to me. I could have an amazing day, yet feel like total shit in the afternoon. I don't know about you, but in my case, it's like I'm sad because I was happy a few hours ago. I don't know why it happens.
Why are evenings always just shit? I chatted with friends today, I exercised today, I had a tasty Subway today... I shouldn't be feeling awful.I've had that happen to me. I could have an amazing day, yet feel like total shit in the afternoon. I don't know about you, but in my case, it's like I'm sad because I was happy a few hours ago. I don't know why it happens.
Why are evenings always just shit? I chatted with friends today, I exercised today, I had a tasty Subway today... I shouldn't be feeling awful.I've had that happen to me. I could have an amazing day, yet feel like total shit in the afternoon. I don't know about you, but in my case, it's like I'm sad because I was happy a few hours ago. I don't know why it happens.
Happens to me too, but I don't know why.
Depression.
Could also be a downturn in energy, do you guys eat lunch?
Also, I just realised this thread is on page 420 and I haven't any ganja, nor money to spare for such things. 😭Expand your mind, dude...
Or just expand your posts-per-page countNever. I'll die first.
or just don't do drugsPrettttty that's the worst idea since communism.
We haven't had a good idea since communism.or just don't do drugsPrettttty that's the worst idea since communism.
*Unsheathes sword*Or just expand your posts-per-page countNever. I'll die first.
*Unsheathes sword*Or just expand your posts-per-page countNever. I'll die first.
Have it your way.
My optimism about humans seems to have dissipated. I used to think that most people were actually decent, if misled a lot of the time. Given the rise of... spite politics, I guess, I'm beginning to think that a not-insignificant number of people are straight up malicious.
If I were running this place all these boomers who can't sit still because tiny two stroke brains start degrading when they sit still, so they just have to impose their sleeping rythm on other people so they can the virtious in chief who's sawn 3 cubic meters of wood before 10 am... Because you need firewood at the height of summer, ofc. Well if I were running this place these peebs would be disqualied for free days and retirement. Just work yourself to death, and faster please. I swear there is allways at least one who just can't help himself, but if you mow the lawn at 2 pm on a sunday you're worse than Thanos. Get your endorphin fix without heavy machinery you fucking junkies.
OK, I think we can both agree that the prissy old lady down the street (and her septuagenarian husband, who just cannot fucking live without his loud assed land yacht, golf-cart, and huge ass lawn tractor on their teeny tiny (but immaculate) blue fescue lawn.
That bitch has nothing better to do than fuss over her property value, even though she is going to DIE before she is going to move, and consequenty calls the city on everyone who's lawn is even a teeny bit outside of ordinance (Fuck I hate that bitch.) and her husband's incessant mowing and other bullshit loud activities outside keep me up when I need to be asleep.
Yeah, Fuck them. :P
You know what's fun? Having anxiety and being pressured into doing things that make you anxious.
Went and nuked my profile, made a new one (just in case anyone's wondering)
I couldn't have said it better myself. The rest of us live with our embarrassing early posts!Went and nuked my profile, made a new one (just in case anyone's wondering)
Honestly? I'm actually very upset by this. It feels like a betrayal :'(
The unfortunate thing about exposure therapy is that it only works when the patient is willing, otherwise it tends to make things worse.You know what's fun? Having anxiety and being pressured into doing things that make you anxious.
An opportunity to learn how to deal with the anxiety, no?
I get you though, it’s hard to stop that ball rolling once it starts.
Y'all are just jelly that I don't have to live with my own cringe any more.I couldn't have said it better myself. The rest of us live with our embarrassing early posts!Went and nuked my profile, made a new one (just in case anyone's wondering)
Honestly? I'm actually very upset by this. It feels like a betrayal :'(
Alright, setting the bar low today with just one thing I want myself to do: laundry. Let's see if I get around to it or nah.100% relateable, which is completely absurd. There are probably drugs that would let me not be like that, but American "health care".
Hmmm, sounds like it could work! Worth a shot, anyhow.You can put a math alarm on your phone that requires you to do math to turn it off with the idea that you have to put enough effort into disabling it that you are wide awake.
You know, I can feel myself becoming more and more misanthropic by the day.
I started with such high hopes for humanity. Seems that reality's given (and is still giving) that notion a solid kick in the teeth.
I feel a li'l bit sick. Stomach cramps and such.Well that went about as well as could be expected... didn't get any (book) reading done, dozed off and had a solid nap, about four hours. Woke up at nine pm. I'm sure this won't re-fuck my sleep schedule at all! At least my stomach ache is gone, but damn. I would have been better off going for a walk or something but it was rainy and miserable out.
Guess I'll lie in bed, try and do some reading.
You know, I can feel myself becoming more and more misanthropic by the day.
I started with such high hopes for humanity. Seems that reality's given (and is still giving) that notion a solid kick in the teeth.
I can pretty conclusively write soy off the list of things I can eat.Have you tried soylent green? I know of people who couldn't eat soy in general but were fine with s.g.
Can't even fall back on Soylent when the rest of the world turns inedible! Bah.
I can pretty conclusively write soy off the list of things I can eat.Have you tried soylent green? I know of people who couldn't eat soy in general but were fine with s.g.
Can't even fall back on Soylent when the rest of the world turns inedible! Bah.
One of many food allergies, Kagus.
I once knew a girl who was allergic to cats, dogs, gluten, dairy, soy, shellfish, and raw vegetables.
I somehow lost the ability to do 20 pushups easily in the last few days.First, there are off-days. You cannot guarantee that you'll have exactly linear progress due to the hundreds of variables at play when working out.
Guess I gotta do more pushups. Dunno what happened. Maybe 3 days of rest was too much?
I somehow lost the ability to do 20 pushups easily in the last few days.Take some rest days each week, will help prevent overtraining.
Guess I gotta do more pushups. Dunno what happened. Maybe 3 days of rest was too much?
What I thought was a healthy young tree in my yard is now bent severely. But the clearly dead tree is standing tall, even though it has no leaves and all its branches are breaking off; it's basically just a trunk.
The Eskimos (allegedly) say sleep is food, so rest. Enjoy yourself being foreign tomorrow.I've heard similar statements about the French, so... Frenchkimos? ...how would one reconcile the differences between French kissing and Eskimo kissing? Hmm.
*sigh*
While perusing Slashdot today, there was a story about how human animal hybrid zygote research is actually moving again over there.
This is a provocative topic for a number of actually worthwhile to debate topics, like zoonotic pathogen transferal, issues with slippery slopes about what constitutes human vs nonhuman, once you start making mixed chimeric lifeforms that reach maturity, questions for ethics boards about how to ensure proper procedures are conducted to ensure only body organ systems become humanized, etc...
But no.
I find questions in the comments section like this one. It was so awful that I was compelled to make as sensible an answer as I could for it.
https://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=14448814&cid=58996034
For a site who's slogan is "News for nerds; stuff that matters", the quality of discussion on that site has really come down. This is kinda depressing. I learned about the damn acrosome reaction when I was in fucking highschool.
But it gets lonely in the jungle.https://youtu.be/zqZlcfYsGmY
I just deleted the full contents of my home directory. Irretrievably. :-\Have you tried to get TestDisk and undelete yet? I think it is in the default repo too.
I just deleted the full contents of my home directory. Irretrievably. :-\Have you tried to get TestDisk and undelete yet? I think it is in the default repo too.
Do as the UK do; don't do air con.
Saying do as the UK does and don't use aircon is the same as telling the UK they don't need heaters because people in Kenya do without those.
SOLICE are mainly sold adapter, laptop battery, power bank , etc.chargers are manufactured with the highest quality materials and the batteries are made from grade A cells to ensure charge fast and low consumption .we are striving to improve ourselves in terms of service, quality, sourcing, etc.The satisfaction from customer is our forever target.
Enjoy your life!
We truly are in a wonderful world of high-quality, reliable products and attention to detail. Just look at this marketing for a laptop battery!Grade A cells? Sounds vague, also what high quality materials are being used? Are. They trying to be vague?QuoteSOLICE are mainly sold adapter, laptop battery, power bank , etc.chargers are manufactured with the highest quality materials and the batteries are made from grade A cells to ensure charge fast and low consumption .we are striving to improve ourselves in terms of service, quality, sourcing, etc.The satisfaction from customer is our forever target.
Enjoy your life!
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Buy yourself hair clippers and do it yourself.
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I think my muscle tremors are getting worse. My hands shake severely enough that it's noticeable from several feet away, I can feel my jaw constantly vibrating and my back has recently decided to join in.That sounds like something you should go to a doctor about. I hope it’s something treatsble
On top of that I'm getting muscle fatigue throughout my body, just walking around the house is exhausting sometimes.
I think my muscle tremors are getting worse. My hands shake severely enough that it's noticeable from several feet away, I can feel my jaw constantly vibrating and my back has recently decided to join in.That sounds like something you should go to a doctor about. I hope it’s something treatsble
On top of that I'm getting muscle fatigue throughout my body, just walking around the house is exhausting sometimes.
I didn’t know depression had physical symptoms. I hope you’re doing alright.I think my muscle tremors are getting worse. My hands shake severely enough that it's noticeable from several feet away, I can feel my jaw constantly vibrating and my back has recently decided to join in.That sounds like something you should go to a doctor about. I hope it’s something treatsble
On top of that I'm getting muscle fatigue throughout my body, just walking around the house is exhausting sometimes.
It's physical symptoms of depression. I'm on antidepressants which helps with the psychological/emotional parts, but I probably need to speak to my GP about muscle relaxants or something to help deal with the physical stuff.
Thanks for the concern though.
I didn’t know depression had physical symptoms. I http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/Themes/core/images/bbc/glow.gifhope you’re doing alright.
Partial paralysis is the name of my jam! Always fun when fingers and face just kinda slump and stop working, and I recognize it's not a stroke because I don't care enough to test and check.Why wouldn’t you want to check? If I had partial paralysis at random times, I’d want to at least know the cause
Kagus is like most depressives in that being in the middle of an episode means you don’t rightly give a shit, and a lot of things can push you into an episode if you’re not paying attention.Partial paralysis is the name of my jam! Always fun when fingers and face just kinda slump and stop working, and I recognize it's not a stroke because I don't care enough to test and check.Why wouldn’t you want to check? If I had partial paralysis at random times, I’d want to at least know the cause
teeth grinding
I didn’t know depression had physical symptoms.I think my muscle tremors are getting worse. My hands shake severely enough that it's noticeable from several feet away, I can feel my jaw constantly vibrating and my back has recently decided to join in.That sounds like something you should go to a doctor about. I hope it’s something treatsble
On top of that I'm getting muscle fatigue throughout my body, just walking around the house is exhausting sometimes.
It's physical symptoms of depression. I'm on antidepressants which helps with the psychological/emotional parts, but I probably need to speak to my GP about muscle relaxants or something to help deal with the physical stuff.
Thanks for the concern though.
i realized that I'm not that attractive anymore ::)Attractiveness is relative. Many people would likely consider you so.
Ahh Yes. Sounds like The 700 club.America be bonkers. But I suppose we had to dump the puritans somewhere and Australia wasn't to hand at the time.
It and various other televised religious programming, which I collectively lump together as "The Scary God Show".
Yeah, I get my fill of that through passive exposure every night I work at the nursing home.
i realized that I'm not that attractive anymore ::)Attractiveness is relative. Many people would likely consider you so.
Ah, those days are fun. :|i realized that I'm not that attractive anymore ::)Attractiveness is relative. Many people would likely consider you so.
I'm not attractive to myself. I'm not influenced by what other people think in most cases. It's just one of those days when you look into the mirror and like - what the hell is wrong with me?!
Are you supposed to be attractive to yourself?Yes. Sorta. Being able to see yourself as attractive builds confidence and self-esteem, which are both very attractive qualities.
No one actually notices when I do shit like that though.
Got a haircut yesterday and no one said a thing.
No one actually notices when I do shit like that though.As long as you like the haircut, is worth.
Got a haircut yesterday and no one said a thing.
Easy, the people are broken. Go find better people.
I used to wear earrings, but people never noticed them so I stopped. There’s no point in it if no o e notices. I didn’t like them anyway, so it’s fine
Easy, the people are broken. Go find better people.
I've tried but every time I go out I'm basically a ghost no one can see or interact with.
There is a magic word for that. "Hello." It's pretty much a handshake protocol where both parties agree to listen to each other for a little bit~Except for when they don't! Sometimes, people are just complete assholes and will completely, blatantly ignore you for no real reason.
Easy, the people are broken. Go find better people.
I've tried but every time I go out I'm basically a ghost no one can see or interact with.
There is a magic word for that. "Hello." It's pretty much a handshake protocol where both parties agree to listen to each other for a little bit~
Alternatively, may want to lay off on the invisibility cloak.
There is a magic word for that. "Hello." It's pretty much a handshake protocol where both parties agree to listen to each other for a little bit~Except for when they don't! Sometimes, people are just complete assholes and will completely, blatantly ignore you for no real reason.
Most aren't, though. It's just getting the guts to actually throw yourself out there that's the tricky part...
I just feel I'm being excessively mean and angry lately, and I really don't like it, it feels like I just don't have control over myself. I feel like it must stem from my lack of satisfaction in life, but I worry that I'm growing too old and numb and bitter to ever get that satisfaction in the first place.
Have you tried substituting your boring old "hello" for a brash, shrill cry of "yo!"? Gotta communicate with such people on their level!There is a magic word for that. "Hello." It's pretty much a handshake protocol where both parties agree to listen to each other for a little bit~Except for when they don't! Sometimes, people are just complete assholes and will completely, blatantly ignore you for no real reason.
I've been feeling mildly sad this month and I don't know whyCould it maybe the same reason as my sadness? Namely that the humans with 95% of the money are destroying the planet in the name of profit? Well, this makes me more than merely mildly sad...sorry
That contributes, but most of it is not for that reason, don't know what it isI've been feeling mildly sad this month and I don't know whyCould it maybe the same reason as my sadness? Namely that the humans with 95% of the money are destroying the planet in the name of profit? Well, this makes me more than merely mildly sad...sorry
I think the environment is more important, not that I don’t think humans are important, just that if humans were to go extinct, at least life would continue.That contributes, but most of it is not for that reason, don't know what it isI've been feeling mildly sad this month and I don't know whyCould it maybe the same reason as my sadness? Namely that the humans with 95% of the money are destroying the planet in the name of profit? Well, this makes me more than merely mildly sad...sorry
Also, my friends (including Max) only support environmentalism for the benefit of humanity as a goal rather than benefiting the environment as a goal in and of itself. Which I disagree with, the environment matters more, or, at worst, as much as humanity
There's nothing pristine or sacred about this particular, modern configuration of flora and fauna. At least no more than every other extinct era before it.
two in the bush.You should, ah... You should probably get that checked out. Just sayin'.
two in the bush.You should, ah... You should probably get that checked out. Just sayin'.
There's, like, creams and stuff nowadays.
Honestly, my stance on the environment is the same as Katey and Naturegirl's. It's just that their reasons for that stance seem to be different. I value humans above all else, and we can't live without certain species, and even non-essential species provide research and resource opportunities. Ergo, they're still valuable and need to be protected.I also agree with this, we need to protect what’s here. I just meant that we should protect not ONLY for humans, we need to make sure we can survive without causing a mass extinction
I do believe we have come to an accord.Dictators, dictators should be killed first, since dictatorships tend to lead to the largest amount of suffering
Unfortunately, I very much doubt we’ll be able to a green on who should be killed first.
"There's no one new around you."
pack it up boys tinder's dead and i got nothin', all hope is gone
tinder low% speedrun personal best with the bad ending
Oh well. Time to go get some better pictures of myself and try some other sources. Or just meet people for real at for-real events. Young professionals meetup, or photography groups, or bar crawls, or summat. Ya boi is feeling socially starved!
Would be good, but if we can't survive without mass extinctions, then so be it, IMO the survival of humanity matters more than that.Honestly, my stance on the environment is the same as Katey and Naturegirl's. It's just that their reasons for that stance seem to be different. I value humans above all else, and we can't live without certain species, and even non-essential species provide research and resource opportunities. Ergo, they're still valuable and need to be protected.I also agree with this, we need to protect what’s here. I just meant that we should protect not ONLY for humans, we need to make sure we can survive without causing a mass extinction
I do believe we have come to an accord.I dunno man, let's just chuck a few nukes around and let it sort itself out.
Unfortunately, I very much doubt we’ll be able to agree on who should be killed first.
Edit: corrected autocorrect.
TinyPic, the free image hosting site I've used for ages due to its simplicity and ease of use for a free service, is going tits-up...
I'll not only have to find a new place for my random image-sharing needs, I'll also need to rehost everything I've used for the (ill-fated) Majesty and Hellsign LPs if I don't want them to turn into messes of dead links.
I should probably also see what all can be salvaged from the free-free image hosting I did with them for all the blog-o-thread links in my sig. Many of the image links have already long since died, but there might be a few images that I can download and reupload somewhere else. Beh.
Well... Kinda duh. We only need to take action if we want to continue being a part of this funny little world. "The Environment" isn't going to stop being an environment just because the humans die off.
We are in no reasonable way capable of eradicating all life on the planet. We're perfectly capable of eradicating all or most of the life that supports us, but we're not going to be turning the earth into a lifeless husk anytime soon.
We are in no reasonable way capable of eradicating all life on the planet. We're perfectly capable of eradicating all or most of the life that supports us, but we're not going to be turning the earth into a lifeless husk anytime soon.
Hold my beer.
I caved and entered the world of online dating.
It's... not good. The only site which seems to throw good-ish matches at me is eHarmony, and they never respond. Nor has anyone so much as looked at my profile. I wouldn't peg myself as handsome, but I'm also not ugly. I can only conclude that the trickle of daily matches I've been sent (in three days, the highest was seven and the lowest two) the vast majority are dead accounts. But the site won't say when the people were last online, presumably because then people would know they're dead accounts.
*Sigh*
Oh also let's not speak of that hastily deleted account on a site which, in about two hours, had me viewed by upwards of 20 people. About half of whom were in their 40s. *Shudder*.
Alternatively, use the dating app (can't remember the name) where the gimmick is that men aren't allowed to send the first message. Then take a shot every time women say they want you to message first. For your sanity, assume they're just joke accounts.
I wouldn't peg myself as handsome, but I'm also not ugly.(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/PerfumedUnacceptableBluebird-size_restricted.gif)
Yep. I've filtered out the ones looking for "something casual" and have decided to chat for a while, escalate to Skype, and then see about meeting.
I'm sure there are reliable women on here - after all, they probably think the same about the men :P
WMA is patent encumbered, and also can contain encryption to enforce DRM.
Free converters are a crapshoot.
The format itself is also just shit.
If you mean "Engendered at the same time", then yes.
If you mean "Engendered at the same time", then yes.
I remember seeing a video where these two college chicks got engendered at the same time. Shit was wild.
Definition of engender
transitive verb
1: BEGET, PROCREATE
2: to cause to exist or to develop : PRODUCE
policies that have engendered controversy
intransitive verb
: to assume form : ORIGINATE
yup wma is useless, most converters are spamware. try fre:ac or freac (free audio converter), if they haven't patched it to shit yet. else I can provide a good version.VLC media player's got an in-built converter, so I'm giving that a go.
I've made the wonderful discovery that Microsoft has their own propriety music file - .wma
This doesn't work on non-Windows devices.
So now I've got to convert every fucking music file (bar four of them) into .mp3 files so I can actually use them on my phone. I have 3 minutes to dot his in before I have to head off, so that's not fucking happening. Looks like I'm going to spend some 20-30 minutes without anything to listen to beyond screaming children, assuming the doctor isn't running too late.
Why the hell does Microsoft do this? Rhetorical question, I know it's to try and encourage people to buy more of their product. I just hate them for doing it.
Note that Apple also uses their own weird audio format, not mp3.well apple uses their own weird format for everything, so they can "justify" charging absurd prices for no good reason
Everything makes me upset. This thread is ruined. Wtf I might as well just start a blog.
Are... are you saying I should make a full-blown Upset thread, in which I basically just gripe about the title change in this thread in every post? ??? 🤔Yes. Do it!
Skillet's latest album is incredibly mediocre. I guess they're entitled to try and shake it up, but it really doesn't play to their strengths and it's starting to seem like they've totally lost their edge.If I may recommend a somewhat similar but in my opinion better band, I recommend Red.
Skillet's latest album is incredibly mediocre. I guess they're entitled to try and shake it up, but it really doesn't play to their strengths and it's starting to seem like they've totally lost their edge.If I may recommend a somewhat similar but in my opinion better band, I recommend Red.
To be fair, you could throw a stone into a Symphonic Metal sea and you probably wouldn't touch a single decent atom :PSkillet's latest album is incredibly mediocre. I guess they're entitled to try and shake it up, but it really doesn't play to their strengths and it's starting to seem like they've totally lost their edge.If I may recommend a somewhat similar but in my opinion better band, I recommend Red.
I already listen to a lot of Red! There's plenty of good music out there, I'm just a little disappointed. Only Skillet is Skillet, y'know?it's not like symphonic metal where you can't throw a stone without hitting two indistinguishable bands
DRIVER NEEDED
I need someone to pick me up at the airport and drive me to Denny's on the other side of town. Bachelor degree or better in aeronautical engineering is a must have. Two years experience MINIMUM. Pay negotiable, starts at $0.03 and some pocket lint from my jacket.
You still have a dollar menu? I thought it was like $1.50 minimum now on their bargain menu or something.
Mine too. I much prefer the local chain. (https://www.spanglesinc.com/locations) (Despite the owner's clear mafia connections.)
The food is without question, superior in every way.
(Always imagines a special room in hell, filled with nothing but a giant platter of weed brownies, and an endless ewer of milk on a permanently immaculate table.)
...
(No matter how many of the weed brownies you eat, the munchies only get worse, and you get sicker and sicker.)
That's a mild hell. Eat as much as you can, sleep trough eternity by slices of 36hours.
I didn’t realize we used the same word for very different chemicals.Oh, very much! Welcome to a whole new world of delightful language! Things can get a bit silly here though, so take it all with a pinch of salt.
My wife spent all our money on stuff and now we might get evicted.
Hoping we can find like 300$ in like 4 days.
My wife spent all our money on stuff and now we might get evicted.
Hoping we can find like 300$ in like 4 days.
The fuck? What happened?
The internet suggests no one has drawn a picture of a swole Deckard Cain oiled up to the caption, "Stay awhile and glisten." It makes me mildly sad :(
The internet suggests no one has drawn a picture of a swole Deckard Cain oiled up to the caption, "Stay awhile and glisten." It makes me mildly sad :(
Peckard Cain? Pec-hard Cain? Deckard Gains?
Hmmm...
That'll do, hoss, that'll do.
... just make sure it shows up on google image searches somehow or another.
Goddamn df modding tonight, could not for the life of me get this stupid frog with shearable, weaveable bones to work. I wanted a civ to wear clothes made from "woven bones," that doesn't work if it's just an inorganic, so I have to attach it to a creature, but they still won't show up unless like sheep wool or leather it has a source, like being a woven yarn. So I make the boney material and make it the frogs "hair," make it shearable and everything and sure enough that works. But then I can't spin the "bone wool" into "woven bone thread." And sure enough civ members don't wear the stuff and you can't make it. No matter what I tried I could not get the goddamn shorn frog bone hair to be spun into thread.
So I went back and instead gave the frog normal wool, like sheep wool, renamed it woven bone and only changed the material properties to make it tougher. Still can't fucking spin it. I gave up and deleted it, may try again tomorrow, may make "woven bone" out of it's leather instead. Maybe that'll work.
But I planned to accomplish so much towards fleshing out this civ, I had 5 hours to do it, and I wasted all of it trying to do what is apparently the impossible. There must be a material properties limit on the spinning job or something, like it can't be too tough or it rejects it as a candidate.
I bought one of those caramel-filled ice cream cones, only to find it hollow instead.
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
I start the day with porridge and an apple, have something random for lunch, exercise and drink a pressed lemon, then a salad for dinner and a banana afterwards.You living where you do, I'm guessing both the salad and the banana are made of porridge too?
This made me wonder, is porridge sculpting (https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRj2_a5PZIvKK_PWKCTr0p8ZXa5zPUoOARHQwFu6X5AODwm_WTS0g) a thing? Yes, apparently it isI start the day with porridge and an apple, have something random for lunch, exercise and drink a pressed lemon, then a salad for dinner and a banana afterwards.You living where you do, I'm guessing both the salad and the banana are made of porridge too?
It's snowing now. It usually doesn't snow until Halloween. I'm sick of the snow already
If there was something that allowed the trading of seasons? Would the magic be called seasonmancy?It's snowing now. It usually doesn't snow until Halloween. I'm sick of the snow already
Trade you. Summer is expected to last through December this year here. It started in late February. At least early/late summer was/will be only low 90s or upper 80s. every day.
Probably either meteoromancy or epochemancy or something like that...If there was something that allowed the trading of seasons? Would the magic be called seasonmancy?It's snowing now. It usually doesn't snow until Halloween. I'm sick of the snow already
Trade you. Summer is expected to last through December this year here. It started in late February. At least early/late summer was/will be only low 90s or upper 80s. every day.
I would like to refer you and your brain to the stoner philosophy thread.
Oh, that's what we used to call the random thoughts thread, because of gatleos. Also because of Yonk. Doesn't need to involve being stoned but might involve constipation.
Stoner philosophy is stoner philosophy whether you're stoned or not~Ok I’ll give it a look. I have random thoughts a lot
Random thoughts thread is nice.
Well, we can easily fix that!I would like to refer you and your brain to the stoner philosophy thread.
I’ve never been stoned though
Oh, and I'm mildly upset that Yoink has a real forum avatar instead of the yellow tinypic egg.
Sounds like it's time for pre-driiiiiiiiinks~
Got my first payment since the jobcentre deemed me unfit for work and it's sinking in to my brain more now.Is there some activity that could replace the job center visit?
Honestly feeling pretty weird about it, jobcentre appointments were one of the few things I could bring myself to leave the house for and now I'm not going to have any for a year and I'm not expected to follow any requirements to receive my benefits. I'm worried I'm going to just keep sitting at home decaying even more now.
I guess I should make some quality of life purchases and try to sort my brain out in the extra time/with the extra money I've got. A new mattress and a back brace would probably be good ideas. :-\
Got my first payment since the jobcentre deemed me unfit for work and it's sinking in to my brain more now.
Honestly feeling pretty weird about it, jobcentre appointments were one of the few things I could bring myself to leave the house for and now I'm not going to have any for a year and I'm not expected to follow any requirements to receive my benefits. I'm worried I'm going to just keep sitting at home decaying even more now.
I guess I should make some quality of life purchases and try to sort my brain out in the extra time/with the extra money I've got. A new mattress and a back brace would probably be good ideas. :-\
I don't feel exactly upset but the other thread is for more personal/emotional stuff...
The area near where I work has a severe lack of parking space for the amount of people that come here everyday and every single day I have to explain to all kinds of people that "no you can't leave your car/motorcycle in front of the store", "no, it doesn't matter if the store is closing soon", "no it's not public space" etc. Tonight one of said drivers was a mute.. I think. His companion explained to him, what I said in sign language. It feels wrong.
I want to go to pride this Sunday, but everything in my life says no right now 😭😭😭😭😭😭
That sounds like a job a sign could do. Have they considered letting people know about the policy without having to ask?
Alternatively, seize the means of producing signs and let them know it was my idea ("Iduno").
I only get a really good workout if somebody else is around to set the pace and keep me on track. The "exercise" I've been doing on my own ain't shit.Oh hey, relevant: I went to the gym today for the first time since September 20th, since my workout buddy is finally back from vacation and is here to kick my ass into gear.
I'd rather my relatives take me behind the shed.
I am so tired of ads, whether on Youtube, Hulu, on the web, in magazines or papers or in the mail. I'm tired of them patronizing me like I'm stupid. No, putting shiny dolphins and shitty pixel art doesn't make me want to drink Fanta, and you can't "design an aria for an SUV" whatever the hell that means. Coopting the aesthetics of memes and the slang young people use doesn't make an ad any more appealing, it's condescending bullshit and I wish to God it would stop.
Insomnia makes me yearn for ego death 👀👀👌🤙✌️🔥👍✌️🤙👌😬🔥🔥😭😭😂😂😵😵👌🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🔥🔥🅱️In🅱️omnia 👌👌
I am so tired of ads, whether on Youtube, Hulu, on the web, in magazines or papers or in the mail. I'm tired of them patronizing me like I'm stupid. No, putting shiny dolphins and shitty pixel art doesn't make me want to drink Fanta, and you can't "design an aria for an SUV" whatever the hell that means. Coopting the aesthetics of memes and the slang young people use doesn't make an ad any more appealing, it's condescending bullshit and I wish to God it would stop.About the only ads i see are on my commute and when I go into a store of some kind. I see the same style ads as always.
If it's anything like Spain attendance is mandatory for unemployment benefits. Not that its attendance for anything useful mind you. Its talks about job finding and shit like that. It's mostly about signing the atrendance form and hitting the road, unless you *truly* have nothing better to do.Got my first payment since the jobcentre deemed me unfit for work and it's sinking in to my brain more now.Is there some activity that could replace the job center visit?
Honestly feeling pretty weird about it, jobcentre appointments were one of the few things I could bring myself to leave the house for and now I'm not going to have any for a year and I'm not expected to follow any requirements to receive my benefits. I'm worried I'm going to just keep sitting at home decaying even more now.
I guess I should make some quality of life purchases and try to sort my brain out in the extra time/with the extra money I've got. A new mattress and a back brace would probably be good ideas. :-\
You could, for example, do a volunteer thing? I do not know your personal situation.
I was considering making a digital version of The Shadow Prince, an old gamebook from the 80's based on The Legend of Zelda. Playing through the book, it unfortunately seems like the decisions are based on grade-school learning activities (mazes, identifying shapes, coloring squares, etc.) disguised as puzzles. Not the most compelling gameplay.You could always change the internal mechanics.
Dammit, why do I not know how to have a five minute minor conversationI have this problem too. I have better luck joining existing conversations than starting new ones. Make sure you say something that is on topic with the conversation. The converters will let you know if they want you to join by either ignoring what you said, asking you to leave, responding to what you said, or asking your name. The first two were for if they don’t want you to join, the last two were for if they accept your join attempt. Did this help?
Dammit, why do I not know how to have a five minute minor conversationI have this problem too. I have better luck joining existing conversations than starting new ones. Make sure you say something that is on topic with the conversation. The converters will let you know if they want you to join by either ignoring what you said, asking you to leave, responding to what you said, or asking your name. The first two were for if they don’t want you to join, the last two were for if they accept your join attempt. Did this help?
Ah, if they wish for you to join, they will likely respond to what you said. I learned how to converse by listening to others converse, though you have to be careful about which conversations you attempt to join, responding to some conversations where the participants don’t want new converters is called eavesdropping, which I learned in middle school on a bus. Apparently I’ve been “eavesdropping” for a while. I thought it was normal to listen to conversations, the 4 in the previous post were merely examples, there are more ways they can let you know, subtle ways like the tone that they respond to you with, or something. If you are unsure whether they gave a signal for you to join, you could do another response, and if they want you to leave they will give a less subtle signal. Signals that indicate that you can join could include literally expanding the circle, as people tend to conversate in a way that allows everyone to see each other, which usually results in a circle of people sitting/standing facing each other while talking. If they want you to join, some can move farther apart so that you can integrate yourself in the circle and continue responding. It is good to listen to get an idea of what the conversation is about. Topics can change wildly within the same conversation, so you must always be listening and responding accordingly. If any of this confusing let me know which parts are confusing so I can explain it better. Sometimes I am bad at explaining things so it helps to know what parts are confusing so I can explain those parts better.Dammit, why do I not know how to have a five minute minor conversationI have this problem too. I have better luck joining existing conversations than starting new ones. Make sure you say something that is on topic with the conversation. The converters will let you know if they want you to join by either ignoring what you said, asking you to leave, responding to what you said, or asking your name. The first two were for if they don’t want you to join, the last two were for if they accept your join attempt. Did this help?
Thank you for the info!
What about joining existing conversations where everyone involved is acquainted with me - since, naturally, they won't be asking my name?
I feel like this is exactly how one should explain this topic to an alien species that do not converse like humans tbh... which is probably a good thingAh, if they wish for you to join, they will likely respond to what you said. I learned how to converse by listening to others converse, though you have to be careful about which conversations you attempt to join, responding to some conversations where the participants don’t want new converters is called eavesdropping, which I learned in middle school on a bus. Apparently I’ve been “eavesdropping” for a while. I thought it was normal to listen to conversations, the 4 in the previous post were merely examples, there are more ways they can let you know, subtle ways like the tone that they respond to you with, or something. If you are unsure whether they gave a signal for you to join, you could do another response, and if they want you to leave they will give a less subtle signal. Signals that indicate that you can join could include literally expanding the circle, as people tend to conversate in a way that allows everyone to see each other, which usually results in a circle of people sitting/standing facing each other while talking. If they want you to join, some can move farther apart so that you can integrate yourself in the circle and continue responding. It is good to listen to get an idea of what the conversation is about. Topics can change wildly within the same conversation, so you must always be listening and responding accordingly. If any of this confusing let me know which parts are confusing so I can explain it better. Sometimes I am bad at explaining things so it helps to know what parts are confusing so I can explain those parts better.Dammit, why do I not know how to have a five minute minor conversationI have this problem too. I have better luck joining existing conversations than starting new ones. Make sure you say something that is on topic with the conversation. The converters will let you know if they want you to join by either ignoring what you said, asking you to leave, responding to what you said, or asking your name. The first two were for if they don’t want you to join, the last two were for if they accept your join attempt. Did this help?
Thank you for the info!
What about joining existing conversations where everyone involved is acquainted with me - since, naturally, they won't be asking my name?
I tend to not use visual cues since I have a visual impairment, hence why the advice I gave doesn’t focus on visual cues as much as audio. I am glad this helped.
There are subtle differences, and if you MAKE a person symmetrical (such as via a mirror, or using photoshop) the resulting image triggers uncanny valley. (https://www.featureshoot.com/2014/06/photographer-tests-definition-beauty-constructing-symmetrical-faces/)
Personally, I found them all to be in the uncanny valley, because they register as artificial to me. (Then again, I apparently spend entirely too much time subconsciously examining people's face and bone structure. Probably because I used to sculpt as a hobby.) Real humans have all kinds of quirks about their structure that is intricate and unique.
Interesting, both look like humans though, which one is the wax one?
Trying to get into urgent care but I lost my proof of insurance, now I have to harass my boss on a Sunday bc the insurance agency doesn't have customer service on the weekends. And I can't stop coughing up green and brown shit from my lungs
Interesting, both look like humans though, which one is the wax one?
This one time I thought I was dying so I rang a bunch of hospitals to see if their ambulances were bulk-billed and apparently they weren't but that was okay because around that point I stopped dying anyway. >.>
Wait wait wait wait. You're over there too? Under what name?Bah, only the most valiant hero of the recent orc incursion!
I dislike myselfSame here.
What's the change to the library? I don't see it.Restart Steam. It's fine, really.
my ex. 😐🔫Why are you messaging your ex?
I've been asking myself that pretty frequently lately.my ex. 😐🔫Why are you messaging your ex?
I've been asking myself that pretty frequently lately.my ex. 😐🔫Why are you messaging your ex?
Dammit, I thought I was over them. I thought they were over me! This is not good... right? Argh, I don't even know, and that's frustrating! And I really don't have time for this right now DX
Guess I'll keep sending a bunch of mixed signals until they hate me, resolving the issue. thanks brain
(All completely honest, I just have no idea what I want)
((To be less dramatic, they understand I'm very busy and are giving me time. That's like... a really good sign))
We're still friends and have similar interests?my ex. 😐🔫Why are you messaging your ex?
This is only tangentially related but I got my clingy ex to stop messaging me by intentionally boring the shit out of her.Good gods, I hope this isn't what I'm doing accidentally. >.>
This is only tangentially related but I got my clingy ex to stop messaging me by intentionally boring the shit out of her.That's what I keep trying, but I can't keep it up! I end up actually getting stuff off my chest, and listening in return, and that's so nice -
I hate driving, I hate not being able to drive, and I hate the fact that I need to be able to drive to do literally anything with my life.Fun fact: you can take a teenage level driver's ed course most likely. I highly recommend if your mom is like that - my fiancee had similar issues learning to drive, an actual driver's ed course helped a lot.
It's like being stuck in a crowded supermarket aisle, except when you crash your baskets into eachother it can result in thousands of dollars of damage, tons of paperwork and phone calls, and maybe injury or death.
I need to get into some sort of adult driver's ed course, because learning with Mom is getting nowhere. She just yells and stresses me out so that I make more mistakes and then she starts yelling and I'm already done with the day before I've even gotten anywhere.
I also can't learn with my brother, because ever since his son was born he's been hitting the bottle like Ruth hits baseballs.
It's like being stuck in a crowded supermarket aisle, except when you crash your baskets into each other it can result in thousands of dollars of damage, tons of paperwork and phone calls, and maybe injury or death.
I also can't learn with my brother, because ever since his son was born he's been hitting the bottle like Ruth hits baseballs.
Tis the day of my friends' (that is, my oldest and probably closest friend group, even if I haven't seen them in a while) belated Halloween party, always an exciting occasion, and the beautiful warm weather we were having there has fled and been replaced with dreary, overcast raininess.Meanwhile, over in Illinois, Wisconsin, and co there was snow on the ground for Halloween apparently
There was snow in Wisconsin, yes.Tis the day of my friends' (that is, my oldest and probably closest friend group, even if I haven't seen them in a while) belated Halloween party, always an exciting occasion, and the beautiful warm weather we were having there has fled and been replaced with dreary, overcast raininess.Meanwhile, over in Illinois, Wisconsin, and co there was snow on the ground for Halloween apparently
Also, a mild sad.
It's funny because it's true. (https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-treat/)
Edit: fixed tags.
I just had kinda a rotten day off. Woke up too early, have to spend the whole night alone and tired; forced myself to stay awake no matter how miserable I felt; went to bed in the morning; woke up too early AGAIN! I'm using the restroom like crazy, but it's my bladder getting filled to bursting in my sleep that forces me awake. And then I can't get back to sleep. Come on body, cooperate with me here.Also, a mild sad.
It's funny because it's true. (https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-treat/)
Edit: fixed tags.
Insulin costs three quarters of a million?
I just had kinda a rotten day off. Woke up too early, have to spend the whole night alone and tired; forced myself to stay awake no matter how miserable I felt; went to bed in the morning; woke up too early AGAIN! Come on body, cooperate with me here.Also, a mild sad.
It's funny because it's true. (https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-treat/)
Edit: fixed tags.
Insulin costs three quarters of a million?
All this thing is now is a white vibrating piece of plastic.Well hey there.
I think I need to put new thermal paste on my old laptop. It's from... 2007. Any time it's doing anything other than idling, my temperature monitor says it's running as much as up to 100C. Yes, not a typo. Not healthy....
No, I don't really want to upgrade either. Moving my information over is not something I really want to do. *sigh* first world problems...
EDIT: My fans are working properly, and are not blocked.
Probably everything is caked in dust.I should've clarified that by "my fans are working properly and aren't blocked" I meant "I opened my case, blew out all the dust, and checked the fans were working properly." I didn't have any thermal paste/grease on hand, so I didn't actually take things far enough apart to look at the CPU to heatsink interface.
None of them looks particularly British ;)I forgot to answer thus, the emojis are too exaggerated to be an issue
Do having problems reading faces transfer to problems reading smileys and emoticons and such? Or are they too exaggerated to be an issue? :) :) :) :-X :-X :-X 8) 8) 8)
Thermal paste is relatively cheap, too.Peanut butter is also an inexpensive alternative.
Thermal paste is relatively cheap, too.Peanut butter is also an inexpensive alternative.
It doesn't work, but it's an inexpensive alternative.
Thermal paste is relatively cheap, too.Peanut butter is also an inexpensive alternative.
It doesn't work, but it's an inexpensive alternative.
No. Peanut butter would not work properly.
Filling your socks with river water: It's quick, it's easy, and it's free!
Filling your socks with river water: It's quick, it's easy, and it's free!
Filling your socks with river water: It's quick, it's easy, and it's free!
why would i do that lmaoIt's quick, it's easy, and it's free.
I am mildly upset when a Youtube music with lyrics doesn't have the lyrics in the description.Some comments will have the lyrics
On the plus side, (at least for many american rivers anyway)-- the water may actually taste BETTER after being collected in a used sock.
(I kid! I kid!)
Trapped at work with the wrong lunch choice.
I thought Sound and Fury, a new thing on Netflix, would be like an anime version of Fallout presented as a musical. For the first third or so, it tricks you into thinking that there is some continuing thread that you can follow; then it turns into a bunch of CGI demo reels with nothing to care about or latch on to. You might as well shut the movie off and stare at screensavers for another 30 minutes.
I thought Sound and Fury, a new thing on Netflix, would be like an anime version of Fallout presented as a musical. For the first third or so, it tricks you into thinking that there is some continuing thread that you can follow; then it turns into a bunch of CGI demo reels with nothing to care about or latch on to. You might as well shut the movie off and stare at screensavers for another 30 minutes.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to just ... buy another candle?Live. Laugh. LOVE.
Wizard of Oz does have a plot, thoughI thought Sound and Fury, a new thing on Netflix, would be like an anime version of Fallout presented as a musical. For the first third or so, it tricks you into thinking that there is some continuing thread that you can follow; then it turns into a bunch of CGI demo reels with nothing to care about or latch on to. You might as well shut the movie off and stare at screensavers for another 30 minutes.
Isn't that just a bunch of music videos? If you look it up, he got a different director to work on every bit. It's not actually a movie, it's a series of music videos by different artists/directors.
https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/netflix-sturgill-simpson-sound-fury-review/
Possibly, if it tricks you into thinking there's a plot for 15 minutes (3 or 4 songs?) then maybe that's one of those coincidences of self-deception similar to the Dark Side of the Moon / Wizard of Oz things. You're seeing a plot where there was none, but eventually some segment is too jarring to rationalize as being part of the same continuity, so you snap out of it.
Dark Side of Oz (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtExVJlgEC0)Thank you for this
Everyone creatively involved says its a big fat coincidence, but still nifty.
Also everyone should listen to Dark Side of The Moon at least once
E:\platform-tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
Followed by:E:\platform-tools>adb reboot fastboot
error: no devices/emulators found
It's currently trying to load "http://http://publicdomainvectors.org/photos/baldmandrinkscoffee.png" if that helps. It's good you're avoiding https since https links won't load either. The host might not allow hotlinking so it might be easier to upload your avatar to imgur or similar.What commas? There are periods, and from what I see, they are properly placed.
Mildly upset: I had an unnecessary comma in all three of those sentences. I've really fallen into that habit again, haven't I.
It's currently trying to load "http://http://publicdomainvectors.org/photos/baldmandrinkscoffee.png" if that helps. It's good you're avoiding https since https links won't load either. The host might not allow hotlinking so it might be easier to upload your avatar to imgur or similar.Hmm, imgur doesn't work either. Oh well. Thanks anyways.
Mildly upset: I had an unnecessary comma in all three of those sentences. I've really fallen into that habit again, haven't I.
http: need only be there once, delete one of the http:It's currently trying to load "http://http://publicdomainvectors.org/photos/baldmandrinkscoffee.png" if that helps. It's good you're avoiding https since https links won't load either. The host might not allow hotlinking so it might be easier to upload your avatar to imgur or similar.Hmm, imgur doesn't work either. Oh well. Thanks anyways.
Mildly upset: I had an unnecessary comma in all three of those sentences. I've really fallen into that habit again, haven't I.
Sadly, it doesn't seem to work either. Thanks for pointing it out, though. Didn't notice I accidentally put it twice.http: need only be there once, delete one of the http:It's currently trying to load "http://http://publicdomainvectors.org/photos/baldmandrinkscoffee.png" if that helps. It's good you're avoiding https since https links won't load either. The host might not allow hotlinking so it might be easier to upload your avatar to imgur or similar.Hmm, imgur doesn't work either. Oh well. Thanks anyways.
Mildly upset: I had an unnecessary comma in all three of those sentences. I've really fallen into that habit again, haven't I.
What commas? There are periods, and from what I see, they are properly placed.Yeah, I quick-edited them out and then added that latter part.
It's currently trying to load "http://http://publicdomainvectors.org/photos/baldmandrinkscoffee.png", if that helps. It's good you're avoiding https, since https links won't load either. The host might not allow hotlinking, so it might be easier to upload your avatar to imgur or similar.
Still looks correct, I’ve seen commas before so before
There is a website, thinimg.com (http://thinimg.com)Thank you so much!! It works now.
Where you can upload to. If you ever want a rotating avatar, head to signavatar.com (http://signavatar.com)
Nice choice! Though it looks a little strange on Darkling, since it uses transparency :P
(https://i.imgur.com/GutivMV.png)
Kinda works, IMHO.
Nice choice! Though it looks a little strange on Darkling, since it uses transparency :PWell now, who doesn't drink rum tea lights off, once in a while? ;D
(https://i.imgur.com/GutivMV.png)
Kinda works, IMHO.
Yes!Nice choice! Though it looks a little strange on Darkling, since it uses transparency :P
(https://i.imgur.com/GutivMV.png)
Kinda works, IMHO.
Darkling Looks better. Now it's a creepy old man sitting in a dark kitchen drinking what I assume is booze out of a teacup.
You come home from work and go into your kitchen and before you turn on the lights you seeNo time to explain. Deep Ones have summoned you.
(https://i.imgur.com/GutivMV.png)
Sitting at your table.
Now I’m tempted to make a transparent picture for my rotations(I didn't know before today, that images can be transparent here lol) That would be pretty interesting to see, maybe one for lightling and one for darkling?
C:\Users\[USERNAME]>adb devices
List of devices attached
[SERIAL NUMBER] unauthorized
C:\Users\[USERNAME]>adb reboot fastboot
error: device unauthorized.
This adbd's $ADB_VENDOR_KEYS is not set; try 'adb kill-server' if that seems wrong.
Otherwise check for a confirmation dialog on your device.
Try something like--
fastboot getvar all
for example, to test if the connection is hot.
C:\Users\[USERNAME]>fastboot getvar all
getvar:all FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)
finished. total time: -0.000s
Not too exciting, but I guess it works?and still have $2000 left over to spend however you wishSounds like one evening of eating out.
I got so pissed off at the Honor 6x that I had to take a break from trying to fix it.
It turns out that the way to enter fastboot is to hold Vol. Down during startup AND have it plugged in. It's really strange, given that most other phones just need the former.
Recovery's so crippled that there isn't an option to flash updates from SD card. I know this is the same company that refuses to let you unlock your bootloader, but still, what were they thinking?
This thing is capable of ADB in recovery, but:Code: [Select]C:\Users\[USERNAME]>adb devices
List of devices attached
[SERIAL NUMBER] unauthorized
Hence:Code: [Select]C:\Users\[USERNAME]>adb reboot fastboot
error: device unauthorized.
This adbd's $ADB_VENDOR_KEYS is not set; try 'adb kill-server' if that seems wrong.
Otherwise check for a confirmation dialog on your device.
I'd have to enable USB debugging, but that needs me to boot into the system normally, which I can't do.Try something like--
fastboot getvar all
for example, to test if the connection is hot.
I entered fastboot, and I got this:Code: [Select]C:\Users\[USERNAME]>fastboot getvar all
Not too exciting, but I guess it works?
getvar:all FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)
finished. total time: -0.000s
Also, on the topic of flashing the stock ROM from the SD card, I haven't had any luck doing that. Not even something resembling a step in the right direction.
As far as I know, I'm SOL. Maybe there's some way to flash the stock ROM directly through fastboot, rather than using some proprietary software? That, or I should cut my losses and tell him to take it to a service center.
If fastboot works (eg, is responding to the request), then you can do the flash right there.
try
fastboot devices
first, to make sure the device is responding. (it should report a device, and that it is in fastboot mode)
if it does, then you can attempt to flash the system image with
fastboot flash system [nameofimage]
E:\platform-tools>fastboot flash system update.zip
Invalid sparse file format at header magic
error: write_sparse_skip_chunk: don't care size 1281807093 is not a multiple of the block size 4096
error: write_sparse_skip_chunk: don't care size 809951989 is not a multiple of the block size 4096
error: write_sparse_skip_chunk: don't care size 338096885 is not a multiple of the block size 4096
Sending sparse 'system' 1/4 (460796 KB) error: write_sparse_skip_chunk: don't care size 1281807093 is not a multiple of the block size 4096
error: write_sparse_skip_chunk: don't care size 1281807093 is not a multiple of the block size 4096
OKAY [ 11.974s]
Writing 'system' FAILED (remote: 'Command not allowed')
fastboot: error: Command failed
I would personally at least *ATTEMPT* to boot the image to test it before flashing though.
fastboot boot nameofimage
What that does, is copy the image to the device's RAM, and boot from there. It might be possible to unbork the system with an OTA update then, or to set OEM UNLOCK mode, or the like.
E:\platform-tools>fastboot boot update.zip
creating boot image...
creating boot image - 1753665536 bytes
Sending 'boot.img' (1712564 KB) FAILED (remote: 'data too large')
fastboot: error: Command failed
If fastboot works (eg, is responding to the request), then you can do the flash right there.
try
fastboot devices
first, to make sure the device is responding. (it should report a device, and that it is in fastboot mode)
if it does, then you can attempt to flash the system image with
fastboot flash system [nameofimage]Code: [Select]E:\platform-tools>fastboot flash system update.zip
Invalid sparse file format at header magic
error: write_sparse_skip_chunk: don't care size 1281807093 is not a multiple of the block size 4096
error: write_sparse_skip_chunk: don't care size 809951989 is not a multiple of the block size 4096
error: write_sparse_skip_chunk: don't care size 338096885 is not a multiple of the block size 4096
Sending sparse 'system' 1/4 (460796 KB) error: write_sparse_skip_chunk: don't care size 1281807093 is not a multiple of the block size 4096
error: write_sparse_skip_chunk: don't care size 1281807093 is not a multiple of the block size 4096
OKAY [ 11.974s]
Writing 'system' FAILED (remote: 'Command not allowed')
fastboot: error: Command failedI would personally at least *ATTEMPT* to boot the image to test it before flashing though.
fastboot boot nameofimage
What that does, is copy the image to the device's RAM, and boot from there. It might be possible to unbork the system with an OTA update then, or to set OEM UNLOCK mode, or the like.Code: [Select]E:\platform-tools>fastboot boot update.zip
creating boot image...
creating boot image - 1753665536 bytes
Sending 'boot.img' (1712564 KB) FAILED (remote: 'data too large')
fastboot: error: Command failed
I think what's happening here is that the update comes in this gigantic zip file disguised as an .APP file. Extracting it reveals a whole bunch of .img files (boot.img, fastboot.img, system.img and so on). What if I were to flash those instead?
Edit: Trying to copy the system.img from this thing yields an 'unexpected end of data' from 7-Zip.
Edit 2: In general, extracting it yields 4 'unexpected end of data' errors before it gives up. Retrying with a different firmware...
Edit 3: No luck. Oh well. While I'm in here, though, I decided to examine it a little. It seems that the way that everything's ordered is actually important. Sorting by ascending offset:And I guess that the ends of file are used to signal to the proprietary app/phone that something is done?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Edit 4: Forgot to mention, every attempt to flash this thing yields FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)
The boot loader is locked / the flash operation is disabled (because of this lock).I forgot to say this, but I already handed it back to my friend and told him to take it to a repair shop. He did, and now it's basically fixed for far less than the phone's worth. At least my diagnosis was correct (corrupted firmware or something to that effect).
Again, try BOOTING the system.img instead. This copies it to RAM, which should be permitted, even if FLASH is not. That should get the device to start, and let you turn on OEM options like unlocking the boot loader. Possibly let you do an OTA update.
Flashable zip files are used by recoveries. Fastboot uses the naked partition images. (system.img, recovery.img. etc..)
My head's got me a bit fucked up, and I'm trying to make it be slightly less fucky and slightly more unfucky.
I don't even know where to start with how dumb and weird this situation is, or why I've got such a gargantuan hard-on for red flags.
Oh, as an aside, just got back from a 7-hour overbooked family gathering/tween birthday today. I am *exhausted*.
Friend of mine sack tapped me today.
He did it because I poo poo'd a piece of art he'd done, which at the time I didn't know was his.
Regrettably, I am being paid in packing peanuts. Regular peanuts would be a step up. I wish my payment were commensurate with what they expect from me, but I can't actually figure out what this company's priorities are.
Imagine being hired by a games studio, to do part-time work as a dev. You walk into the studio, and discover there are no other devs. The last one left a week ago, wasn't great at the job, and no-one actually knows where they left the codebase. Oh, there's a dev intern as well I guess.Sounds like tf2
Thankfully I don't have much in the way of rose-colored glasses looking back on my love life; and in fact more red flags tend to pop up and identify themselves as such as time goes by.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Interestingly, bulls are colorblind, they charge at the movement not necessarily the redness of objects, also what do you mean by summoning circle?
I forgot to say this, but I already handed it back to my friend and told him to take it to a repair shop. He did, and now it's basically fixed for far less than the phone's worth.I take that back; I talked to him today about the phone and he said that it's completely dead. He plans on disassembling it.
Interestingly, bulls are colorblind, they charge at the movement not necessarily the redness of objects, also what do you mean by summoning circle?
Idiom for hypothetical rituals supposedly used to summon stuff.
Meanwhile, Adidas is closing it's American and German robot factories, in favor of robot factories back in China. Think of all the American robot babies who will go hungry.Not the robot babies!
How do you know it wasn't?With strange aeons, even dough may become croutons.
Speaking of pharmacies, my asthma's acting up this morning.
I'd planned on getting a few more hours of sleep but nope, woke up early to pee and now my stupid airways are malfunctioning. Ugh.
At least my asthma's nowhere near as bad as it was years ago. Also, the chemist a block away opens 46 minutes from now.
Still a damn nuisance. And a reminder that I need to see my GP about, you know, actual ongoing asthma treatment rather than just the occasional puff on a reliever, considering my asthma's been getting bad again over the last couple years or so. Probably due to my lack of exercise and resulting decline in cardio fitness. 😖
So windows 10 had an update, and as a result it restarted my computer for me. That means the new Steam UI update has finally arrived on my computer as well.
I could talk about the hideous community hub feed you see when you scroll down on the library page, but what really bothers me actually is the complete removal of the news tab. Now there is an activity tab where devs can post there own news, but third party news is essentially dead now.
I used to love reading the news articles that would sometimes pop up in that feed. They weren't usually great, but they were good for a light read (Not to mention the occasional gem). It is still technically possible to access the news by going to the store page and then accessing the tab from there, but that requires you to put in a level of effort that usually isn't worth it. Contrast this with the old system: You go to the page to launch your game, but then suddenly you catch a glance at a catchy headline and decide to read that article instead. It's literally effortless. It doesn't matter if most of the articles are duds as long as the good ones still get to be read in the end. Now none of them will ever be.
It's going to be a lot harder for me to keep up now.
I give up on tabletop games. When I try to explain a game and why I think it'd be fun, I just get this doe-eyed look like I'm showing algebra to a sea monkey. Of course, it's all over once they realize it's more complicated than Battleship or Monopoly. Games like D&D or Warhammer are just things for rich kids in big cities with lots of friends, where people actually give a shit about doing things other than going to work, coming home, getting high/drunk, and doing it again tomorrow.Taking a wild swing at your income bracket social group, there are definitely people who don't make a lot of money who enjoy tabletop games. Just gotta find the right people.
People who like to get drunk never have time to do anything actually fun.That post made me mildly upset today.
I don’t drink to get drunk, but most of my friends do. When I was 17, I was invited to a bunch of parties held by aforementioned friends, all a year older than me, and having to take care of them and stop them from running out onto the road while they spilled their deepest and innermost of secrets was enough to put me off drunkenness.
My Word processor just stopped working consistently for me a while back, so I just started writing it down in notebooks. Less organized, but less likely to burst into flames.
Wait wait wait, that’s not what a Word processor is?My Word processor just stopped working consistently for me a while back, so I just started writing it down in notebooks. Less organized, but less likely to burst into flames.
For a moment, I interpreted "Word processor" as like a food processor, but for words... Just throw a meaty paragraph in there and ask yourself "Will it blend?"
Wait wait wait, that’s not what a Word processor is?My Word processor just stopped working consistently for me a while back, so I just started writing it down in notebooks. Less organized, but less likely to burst into flames.
For a moment, I interpreted "Word processor" as like a food processor, but for words... Just throw a meaty paragraph in there and ask yourself "Will it blend?"
My labs came back with high cholesterol. Now I get to see if my PCP will let me try to adjust diet & exercise or if they are going to put me on meds immediately. ???Well I was about to say something about them hopefully being fine with the diet and exercise approach, what with the changing views on cholesterol and potentially harmful side effects of the meds, but Google tells me the whole "Statins lead to heart failure" thing from years ago appears to have been total bunk. So hey.
I'm not sure PCP is really the best medication with which to lower cholesterol, but who knows...You'll certainly get your exercise in!
Forgot to save my progress on a document. Computer crashed. 10 pages of homebrew tabletop info gone.
Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S
Oh right, like a GP.
My labs came back with high cholesterol. Now I get to see if my PCP will let me try to adjust diet & exercise or if they are going to put me on meds immediately. ???
Sometimes I can barely contain my contempt for customers. Especially the ones that are deliberately rude. Like today.
I wish I could just claim disability and not have to waste my life on the whims of assholes. At least a little less.
Sometimes I can barely contain my contempt for customers. Especially the ones that are deliberately rude. Like today.
I wish I could just claim disability and not have to waste my life on the whims of assholes. At least a little less.
This is more of a mild irritation, but uggh... Fuckin' clickbait titles.
I saw a headline about "Latest Windows 10 update filled with ransomware",
with a li'l bit of milkConditioning people around the world that this isn't an abomination unto the eyes of the Almighty is the worst thing that the came out of the British empire. The thought of it upsets me more than Vegemite tea.
I have seen milky chai tea in asian stores. Contemplate that most asians are lactose intolerant.Except for Indians, who are the predominant producers and consumers of masala chai.
A pertinent point of course, except persons of Indian subcontinental descent are of very low population numbers in the local area; Vietnamese, Korean, and Lao populations dominate. Those tend toward being lactose intolerant...Which is exactly why the resident Indians have to get their specific groceries at the East Asian market, instead of there being enough demand for their own dedicated shops!
Give them your money yes. :3A pertinent point of course, except persons of Indian subcontinental descent are of very low population numbers in the local area; Vietnamese, Korean, and Lao populations dominate. Those tend toward being lactose intolerant...Which is exactly why the resident Indians have to get their specific groceries at the East Asian market, instead of there being enough demand for their own dedicated shops!
Well, I mean, I say that... And the Turkish shop down the street here does stock Thai wares because there's no proper generic Asian mart... But on the other hand, the Vietnamese propped up their own tiny little grocer a couple streets over, and I'm pretty sure the people running the place are mainly just selling to the one other Vietnamese family in the city.
Wait who doesn't put milk in hot tea?
I mean I guess some kinds of tea are prob better without but that's like, a common staple. Like cereal and milk.
I was unaware people made a big deal about tea. I am aware that the people here are joking, but the jokes are likely about groups thst exist. (Joke here referring to sarcasm/satire, not haha joke)I don't think any such groups actually exist. This is about reminding ourselves of the tiny cultural biases we carry around without realising they're there. The joke is in exaggerating to make it look like a big deal.
There is such a thing as carbonated tea drinks. I feel that milk tea and black tea drinkers can put aside our differences and unite to fight off this menace.
I was unaware people made a big deal about tea.
I can't sleep. I feel tired, but when I try sleeping, my brain is so active that I'm forced to stay awake. Now I'm just stuck in this hell of desperately wanting sleep, but not being able to do so. Help.I have this problem too. Try thinking of a story and playing out the story. Eventually you should drift to sleep when nit thinking about the need to sleep. It helps me. Also, try getting melatonin tablets. Melatonin is what the brain produces to sleep, but if you aren’t producing enough, the tablets will help. Another way to try to sleep is to imagine falling into darkness, which should work to help blanken your thoughts.
Focus on your breathing when you’re trying to sleep. Breathe in, breathe out. If you find your mind wandering, bring it back to your breathing.
If you find you’re not dropping off after say half an hour, get up and find something relaxing to do which doesn’t involve a screen for ten or fifteen minutes, and try again.
For longer term stuff, avoid drinking caffeine later in the day, alcohol is also not that great, don’t eat a large meal close to bed time, try going to bed and getting up at the same time every day (every day) and try to keep the same routine before bed so your body knows it’s sleepy time, and avoid anything energetic or stressful in the hour or so before bed (don’t exercise, watch tv, that kind of thing). A warm shower is good, I think.
Napping during the day is a weird one. I personally can’t do it, and it’s best to limit it to around 20 minutes, but that can also have a huge influence on how sleep.
Keeping your bedroom cool (but not cold) will probably help. I can’t sleep if it’s too warm, and wake up many times if I do manage to fall asleep. Also don’t drink too much liquid, else you’ll wake up to pee.
That's a possibility I hadn't considered. I've never seen mice or rats in the house, and it's been warmer lately, but some nights have been getting quite cold up until recently.
I don't think this is it, but it's at least conceivable. I'm starting to think it's because he likes to drink out of the toilet and is upset he can't get to it at night, but I don't know why he'd start doing that recently either. He's got a water bowl he can get to that the other cats are perfectly happy with and he drinks out of it, so... I don't know.
I was wondering if he disliked the water bowl because it was "stagnant", so I got one of those circulating waterfall water bowls for them, and he does seem to like it better. He still meowed in the bathroom at a ghost a couple of times yesterday, but less than the day before. Surprisingly, he didn't meow at the bedroom door at all last night, so that's a relief.
I don't think it was the water bowl though, and I think he's just calming down some. Based on some other behavior, like waking up and immediately turning around to look for me, I think he just had a weird bout of separation anxiety and thinks I'm going to disappear if he can't see me. Maybe that's getting better. I did leave the house for Thanksgiving, but that's not really that unusual since I'm also gone on most weekends. I don't really see why that would trigger it.
Cats do weird things.
Day 7 of toothache town. I’m running out of painkillers and the bloody dentist is still being obtuse.Dang, unlucky. The last dentist I saw was a cutie.
Day 7 of toothache town. I’m running out of painkillers and the bloody dentist is still being obtuse.Dang, unlucky. The last dentist I saw was a cutie.
Day 7 of toothache town. I’m running out of painkillers and the bloody dentist is still being obtuse.Dang, unlucky. The last dentist I saw was a cutie.
Yoink is the only person on this planet who is still in the mood to flirt after somebody has poked his facebones for half an hour.Uh... Phrasing?
For what he was saying he feels the last two digits of his hand go numb. This is the sensitive area of the ulnar nerve, so it follows that the problem must be in either the wrist, the forearm, or the shoulder.
A good way to improve muscle strenght of all those would be to do a handstand
X-rays aren't in the visible spectrum, so no light will be shed on nuffin'.Still referred to as light though, which is how we get news articles talking about the Diamond Light Source as "generating light 10 billion times brighter than the sun" when they are, in fact, referring to x-ray radiation.
I hear handstands are effective.
Need to start going to the gym and/or pool once or twice a week I think. Of course, thinking about it is easy, doubt I'll bring myself to do anything on a regular basis.
And yet somebody loved these games enough to create unofficial Russian translations, which I downloaded by accident. "Jedi Luke," what led you to inflict this on your countrymen?What an amusingly uncreative username, too.
an attempt to maximize profits despite the fact that company was already profitable. Projections for next year looked less stellar, but this still feels excessive,this is the entire point of capitalism
And the reason it will collapse. A system that relies on constant growth when resources are finite will eventually collapsean attempt to maximize profits despite the fact that company was already profitable. Projections for next year looked less stellar, but this still feels excessive,this is the entire point of capitalism
We had an unscheduled company call today, which I assumed was going to mean we were being acquired by another company. That would suck.
Instead, we learned that about 20% of the company was being laid off. 2 weeks before Christmas.
I wasn't affected, nor were my direct coworkers or direct managers, but this still really sucks. It's also put a sour taste in my mouth for the CEO that took over less than a year ago, since I'm pretty sure this was at his direction in an attempt to maximize profits despite the fact that company was already profitable. Projections for next year looked less stellar, but this still feels excessive, with some very long term and experienced employees being let go in departments where their replacements aren't clear.
It's a shame I don't drink. This week and entire quarter has really sucked at work.
How many people actually pay for Youtube Red? Or whatever their premium service is these days?
Adobe is axing their version of Fuse, the program I occasionally use to mess around with creating 3D characters for games and stuff. Sure, there's Poser and Daz Studio, but you could actually make things with Fuse without first buying hundreds of dollars worth of models to use, all of which have different licenses and many of which both aren't designed and can't be licensed for use in games or interactive software.
Had what I believe was a pretty great dream involving fun times and adventures with various IRL friends in some strange foreign land (which I think also had strange public transport), but now I can't even remember enough for a basic summary of it.Yeah, its always sad when you have an awesome dream, but you forget everything about it that made it awesome.
I quit my job. I was growing increasingly frustrated so I kind of had to. Even so it always makes one uneasy
I empathize a lot. Not tio dissimilar to what happened here.I quit my job. I was growing increasingly frustrated so I kind of had to. Even so it always makes one uneasy
I handwrote a resignation letter today for my job. I have it hidden away in my work-cubby. My friend wants to reassure me that I just need a two-week vacation; I really couldn't get a word in edgewise as to how I feel I'm wasting my life and that I'm certain to disintegrate psychologically over time, and that I'm already disintegrating. She's very well-meaning though, she doesn't want me to cast myself out into joblessness without a plan, when that's exactly what I want to do, as I want to establish a new baseline of living for myself before making another move; and she's worried that I'll waste all the seniority and shit I've built up over the years, though I don't really give a fuck about that I'm in a deadend job anyway. *(EDIT: To be clear, I have 10k in the bank, so I definitely could live on my own for a while)*
Also, I can't help but think that that is very cowardly logic, and that if I'm going to do anything I need to throw what is logically the "good, safe idea" and just destroy my own identity. I can't do that with safe, step-by-step, methodologic planning; I need the force of suddenly, intense change to do that, to shatter who I am, so I can become someone else. Naturally I can't think of something like that to say in the middle of a conversation, but that's how I was feeling, and I couldn't really retort her optimistic reassurances except with an exasperated "....huh...". She really does want to give support, and she intuits that my motivations are partly suicidal, which they definitely are, so I can't be upset at her.
Still have this resignation letter, and thinking what to do with it, and I just hate the idea of taking things slow, I want my future in my hands right fucking now goddamnit.
I quit my job. I was growing increasingly frustrated so I kind of had to. Even so it always makes one uneasy
I handwrote a resignation letter today for my job. I have it hidden away in my work-cubby. My friend wants to reassure me that I just need a two-week vacation; I really couldn't get a word in edgewise as to how I feel I'm wasting my life and that I'm certain to disintegrate psychologically over time, and that I'm already disintegrating. She's very well-meaning though, she doesn't want me to cast myself out into joblessness without a plan, when that's exactly what I want to do, as I want to establish a new baseline of living for myself before making another move; and she's worried that I'll waste all the seniority and shit I've built up over the years, though I don't really give a fuck about that I'm in a deadend job anyway. *(EDIT: To be clear, I have 10k in the bank, so I definitely could live on my own for a while)*
Also, I can't help but think that that is very cowardly logic, and that if I'm going to do anything I need to throw what is logically the "good, safe idea" and just destroy my own identity. I can't do that with safe, step-by-step, methodologic planning; I need the force of suddenly, intense change to do that, to shatter who I am, so I can become someone else. Naturally I can't think of something like that to say in the middle of a conversation, but that's how I was feeling, and I couldn't really retort her optimistic reassurances except with an exasperated "....huh...". She really does want to give support, and she intuits that my motivations are partly suicidal, which they definitely are, so I can't be upset at her.
Still have this resignation letter, and thinking what to do with it, and I just hate the idea of taking things slow, I want my future in my hands right fucking now goddamnit.
So i went to go DL the latest version of DF, and it directs me to a 2018 released version?Villains update, plus tileset release.
Whats the deal? Are the new developmentals moving strictly to a retail game?
the thing reports its health as "Unknown".
yank the battery, wait a few minutes, then reconnect it.Is there a way to do this without disassembling the unit? My phone doesn't have a removable battery.
Thats so true for so many websites. If the advertisers were trustworthy and their ads weren't obnoxious videos and gifs that insist on loading before everything else, I would gladly whitelist them. Hell, I might even occasionally purchase their products or visit their site. But no, they link to tracking cookies, virus downloads, pop ups and waste huge quantities of my data, which I have to pay for, and prevent my desired content from loading.
Really, it's always been the advertisers who shoot themselves in the foot
Ugh, I can't force myself to do anything productive. When I think about coding, writing, drawing or playing guitar, I just get this tired feeling in my bones.
I quit my job. I was growing increasingly frustrated so I kind of had to. Even so it always makes one uneasy
I handwrote a resignation letter today for my job. I have it hidden away in my work-cubby. My friend wants to reassure me that I just need a two-week vacation; I really couldn't get a word in edgewise as to how I feel I'm wasting my life and that I'm certain to disintegrate psychologically over time, and that I'm already disintegrating. She's very well-meaning though, she doesn't want me to cast myself out into joblessness without a plan, when that's exactly what I want to do, as I want to establish a new baseline of living for myself before making another move; and she's worried that I'll waste all the seniority and shit I've built up over the years, though I don't really give a fuck about that I'm in a deadend job anyway. *(EDIT: To be clear, I have 10k in the bank, so I definitely could live on my own for a while)*
Also, I can't help but think that that is very cowardly logic, and that if I'm going to do anything I need to throw what is logically the "good, safe idea" and just destroy my own identity. I can't do that with safe, step-by-step, methodologic planning; I need the force of suddenly, intense change to do that, to shatter who I am, so I can become someone else. Naturally I can't think of something like that to say in the middle of a conversation, but that's how I was feeling, and I couldn't really retort her optimistic reassurances except with an exasperated "....huh...". She really does want to give support, and she intuits that my motivations are partly suicidal, which they definitely are, so I can't be upset at her.
Still have this resignation letter, and thinking what to do with it, and I just hate the idea of taking things slow, I want my future in my hands right fucking now goddamnit.
Well, you don’t need to do anything that drastic. You have the pennies to survive joblessness for a time, but... you don’t need to be jobless immediately to change anything.
Equally so, your job is not your identity. What you do doesn’t have any bearing on who you are, unless you want it to.
If you’ve truly given up on your job, you look for another one. If you’re not sure what industry you want to work in, research. What do you enjoy doing is a good start. What happened to the careers dude you were seeing?
Perhaps the better question(s) would be why you think taking such drastic action is necessary to achieve your future in your hands right now (and what that would entail)?
Why you think you doing so will make you a completely different person?
Why do you think being a completely different person is desirable?
Is it even achievable? I mean, you’re you. You’re always going to be you. What joy will it bring you being not-you? What even is not-you?
Ableist capitalism, coming soon to a bathroom near you. (https://www.wired.co.uk/article/battle-toilet-workplace)
Bad back? Weak knees? Incontinence? Die somewhere else trash, we're ~~profiting~~ here.
Time to show them what you gotAbleist capitalism, coming soon to a bathroom near you. (https://www.wired.co.uk/article/battle-toilet-workplace)
Bad back? Weak knees? Incontinence? Die somewhere else trash, we're ~~profiting~~ here.
Hey at least the bullied kids will develop massive leg muscles
Must have rolled a 1 while eating ramen today. Slipped some noodles and somehow the angle was just right for the spicy soup to whip off the end of the noodle and directly into my left eye.
Cue blinding pain for 10 minutes.
Must have rolled a 1 while eating ramen today. Slipped some noodles and somehow the angle was just right for the spicy soup to whip off the end of the noodle and directly into my left eye.
Cue blinding pain for 10 minutes.
You already know what you need:
"Now that my ramen is done, only one thing left to do" *Puts on noodle-eating goggles*
The second gif is a bit fast, what’s happening?
Thanks. Sounds dangerous
Duly notedThanks. Sounds dangerous
Editor's Note: Do not actually do any of these things ever, for any reason.
Is that why clicking a post in my post history doesn't actually take me to it? I'd been wondering about that.Yeah, threads with deleted posts will have a fucked-up index that points to where your post would have been if the deleted posts still existed.
There's nothing in the rulebook that says a cg dog can't play basketball.
The fully CGI model of Buck is a digital scan of a real dog, adopted during production from the Emporia, Kansas animal shelter by director Chris Sanders' wife, Jessica Steele-Sanders. Coincidentally, the dog's name was "Buckley." Buckley is the same kind of mixed breed as Buck is described in Jack London's book: a cross between a St. Bernard and a Scotch collie-type dog (a medium-sized herding dog, similar to a border collie or Australian shepherd). When Jessica Steele-Sanders adopted Buckley as a companion for the Sanders' other dog, Brody, the CG model for Buck at that time was loosely based on a Bernese mountain dog -- however, when the producers saw Buckley and learned that he was the same sort of mixed breed as the dog in the book, it was decided that Buck in the film would be changed to a digital scan of Buckley
Excuse me sir there are hardworking doggos struggling to make ends meet.
Have you never heard the phrase “never work with kids or animals” in relation to entertainment?
Have you never heard the phrase “never work with kids or animals” in relation to entertainment?
One might suggest a movie set is not the best place for an animal, never mind the significantly easier means with which CG makes the animal do what it needs to do. There’s nothing here to go bananas about here.
No, They OVERSPENT on a CG one, because working with a real dog on set (Something with a mind of its own, that is not slavishly devoted to Disney's profits, and so not 100% compliant, even with a good trainer) is "Hard."
DOGS are increasingly being replaced by computer-generated film effects.
It's cheaper and less time-consuming than repeatedly trying to make a trained animal follow frustrated directors' instructions, says film studies expert Dr Michael Lawrence.
Mr Lawrence, writing in the journal Screen, said: "Supplementing real dogs with digital animation produces performances that are much more effective dramatically.
"They are also more appealing because they are more expressive to suit story needs and they are less time-consuming and therefore less expensive because they are no longer determined by the unpredictable or intractable volition of real animals, however well-trained.
"The problems that arise even when working with 'professional' dog actors can be exasperating."
The new Jungle Book movie is fantastic; did you notice that the animals in the film were all CGI? Of course you did, they were talking the whole time. The benefits of using CGI animals are fairly obvious. It can be safer, cheaper, and easier to produce.
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It's that time again! Time to have my IQ lowered by the slow, and monotonous pacing of the Relias Learning online training! (MANDATORY!)
Today's topic: Chemical Labeling and Safety! (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Nov05iNQH5SKjuN5MxCimPTiAaFtlI_3)
Did I mention that you **MUST** listen to the ENTIRE presentation, cannot skip ahead, have to engage in "learning exercises" that are designed for 5 year olds, and that the overall experience is horrible?
I get to do this every 6 months! YAY!! Often, the subject matter is redundant and already familiar! BONUS!
I'm tired of smokers in my life whining about the inconveniences of their habit. You wanted to look cool or fit in or whatever you thought smoking would get you. Nobody else wants to breathe in your money wasting, so either quit or nut up and stand 10 feet from the entrance like a considerate adult.
I'm tired of smokers in my life whining about the inconveniences of their habit.Don't mind them, for they are thralls and mind slaves of the insidious Nick O'teen
I got one of those vitamin D sun lamps to help keep winter at bay, but it's really, really intense, and bears a fluorescent bulb. Unhelpfully, those are historically two migraine triggers for me. Guess I'll stick to taking my D orally every night.
I got one of those vitamin D sun lamps to help keep winter at bay, but it's really, really intense, and bears a fluorescent bulb. Unhelpfully, those are historically two migraine triggers for me. Guess I'll stick to taking my D orally every night.
(https://media1.tenor.com/images/d2ad7e62ae4b9e9a2f9e4c39622847d5/tenor.gif?itemid=8937984)
I think I'm a bit depressed :(
Thank you. It honestly means a lot :)I think I'm a bit depressed :(
If it makes you feel any better, your info, PMs and advice have helped me feel a lot better throughout my treatment. I don't fully understand your troubles with finding a job just because I don't know your story, but you're still helping at least one person even if you're not doing traditional doctoring.
I don't know what version of the software you have...Version 3.0.1, but modified to remove copy protection.
Also, what are you trying to run under it?
I bought myself Kerbal Space Program two days ago. Since then, I already accrued 23 hours of playtime. That's 12 hours a day, sitting in my chair and hunching over my laptop. I feel awful, physically and mentally.
A heads up though, just about everything with a GOG installer has worked for me under it so far.
Protip: you don't really have to floss before sleep. Or brush your teeth. Or wash. Or undress.
Today (Dec 6) was the last day of Christmas break. I return to the halls of high school in about 8 hours.
Yes. My disk based copy of Diablo 2 + LOD + 1.13b patch + manually copied D2xmusic.mpq totally works in exagear.
Instructions are convoluted--
1) Copy the contents of each of the 4 cdroms into folders in your downloads folder, the copy in the 1.13b updater.
2) start exagear and run explorer on the container
3) run winecfg, and add drive paths to each of those folders, and set type to cdrom
4) Install the full game, enter cd key
5) install the expansion, enter cd key
6) install the update
7) copy d2xmusic.mpq from the expansion disk folder into the diablo 2 folder created in the c drive.
8) cleanup-- remove drive letters, delete stuff in the downloads folder.
--SNIP--
I got it to work. Diablo 2 really pushes my phone to its limits, to the point that audio playing in other apps starts to stutter.
Does Exagear use the GPU at all? It just seems that GPU operations in Exagear are handled by the CPU.
I'm curious about the court case and its details to see just what's actually being discussed here. Because sex in a biological sense definitely is a thing, and it shouldn't be considered transphobic to acknowledge such... You can be born a woman and still be male-sexed, that's just the kooky way that things work.
I feel like, as with any sex/gender kerfuffle, there are probably a lot of people talking directly past one another.
til I learned the acronym terf.
Today I am a little more saddened about humanity and people's insistence that because they are right, everyone else must be wrong.
Waiting aaaaaggghh.Aaaaggghhhh
I had come to that conclusion.
I over-analysed the hell out of everything. Most people would simply do and work it out. It's why loads of people have bad relationships. It's also why people have relationships.
Edit: on the plus side, I've learned a lot from it. I also no longer think I'm unattractive. There've been four girls at work already who've definitely been after me. Who knew, eh?
Waiting aaaaaggghh.Aaaaggghhhh
AaaagggghhhhiiiiWaiting aaaaaggghh.Aaaaggghhhh
Aaaagggghhhh
IiiiiiiaaaaaaaarghhhhhhhIargh
Anyhow, learning how to be in a relationship is an important skill.
When on forums that have a Like function for posts, it makes me slightly upset when I discover someone who Liked my post is unilaterally Liking all the posts.👍
Its the forum equivalent of those kids sports things where everyone gets first place.
👍Anyhow, learning how to be in a relationship is an important skill.
Man I guess I'm just fucked then: look at that Exp Bar for my relationship skill, it's deadass empty. I should've picked a better dump stat. :P
Gotcha games have been a constant source of frustration lately. 2019 was pretty flat and there are only 3 I'm waiting for atm CP2077, Vampires 2 and Dual Universe. New DF update will be cool too but I can wait for a few hotfixes easily, no hurry.👍
I noticed in shock that one my later musical creations seems to be lacking on all harddrives :/ have been relistening to the thing online a few times and it's such a banging set I want it in WAV if possible but I'll settle for the mp3 I uploaded (the site downsampled in case you're wondering). Currently running file recovery tools, wish me luck. I'm such a goof though.
👍IiiiiiiaaaaaaaarghhhhhhhIargh
👍When on forums that have a Like function for posts, it makes me slightly upset when I discover someone who Liked my post is unilaterally Liking all the posts.👍
Its the forum equivalent of those kids sports things where everyone gets first place.👍Anyhow, learning how to be in a relationship is an important skill.
Man I guess I'm just fucked then: look at that Exp Bar for my relationship skill, it's deadass empty. I should've picked a better dump stat. :PGotcha games have been a constant source of frustration lately. 2019 was pretty flat and there are only 3 I'm waiting for atm CP2077, Vampires 2 and Dual Universe. New DF update will be cool too but I can wait for a few hotfixes easily, no hurry.👍
I noticed in shock that one my later musical creations seems to be lacking on all harddrives :/ have been relistening to the thing online a few times and it's such a banging set I want it in WAV if possible but I'll settle for the mp3 I uploaded (the site downsampled in case you're wondering). Currently running file recovery tools, wish me luck. I'm such a goof though.👍IiiiiiiaaaaaaaarghhhhhhhIargh
A "friend" said they thought a Bloody Mary always had fish juice in it.Nah, a proper Bloody Mary requires a full pizza
For anyone that's mercifully ignorant as to what Clamato is, it's a mixed juice blend of tomato and clams[/spoiler]I mostly object to that because of the Budweiser. Tomato and clam are super good together. Like Manhattan clam chowder is great.
I'm a tad restless and can't really stick to any one vidyo game enough to finish them. And so my backlog bloats, grumble.
Rocky Johnson has finally tapped out, at age 75.
Rocky Johnson has finally tapped out, at age 75.Christopher Tolkien is also dead.
[sad rock noises]
Christopher Tolkien is also dead.
Are you making that face because you don't know he is?Christopher Tolkien is also dead.
:-\
Rocky Johnson has finally tapped out, at age 75.
Are you making that face because you don't know he is?
Was just about to have Oliana cheese on toast when I realised the toaster did, indeed, break. We no longer have a toaster. There's this starkly empty space next to the kettle, now.Multiply your previous food intake by 2 and add peanut butter and/or jelly except if you are allergic, now you have a peanut butter/jelly sandwich. Whether or not it has only peanut butter, only jelly or both, or none, having a sandwich would be more filling than a single bread piece
At least I can still make a toastie or summat in the sandwich press, but that will require a bit more effort. In the meantime I just ate a plain slice of bread. It did little to quell my hunger.
Do you not have a grill on your cooker?
You could also be British and put toast between bread and make a ... toast sandwich (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_sandwich)
That may be the whitest thing I've ever heard of.
That may be the whitest thing I've ever heard of.
Whiter than the middle of an egg?That may be the whitest thing I've ever heard of.
whiter than the bread itself
If she were a spice, she'd be flour.
Quote from: LouiseIf she were a spice, she'd be flour.
Do you not have a grill on your cooker?
Nah mate my mum didn't come with one
I accidentally dropped a customer's production database while trying to do a server migration for them. >.>
Grill is a slang term for teeth, therefore your mother doesn't have teeth.
I have no one to talk about El Goonish Shive with, as no one I know knows about it (probably none would be interested in it regardless.) I have no to talk with about lots of things, really. Basically I have no one to talk toI feel something similar. The people I talk to don’t like to talk about the future, the impact AI will have, how we need to edit our collectiv3 behavior to exist with them without being unable to afford anything due to jobs b4ing the main way of getting money to buy the necessities of life. How humans doing jobs simply won’t make sense in the near(far?) future because humans are simply less efficient than machines. The global economy currently relies on humans working to get what they need to survive. The global economy needs to change in a way that makes it so humans can receive what they need to live without having to work, since there will eventually be no jobs a human can do better than an AI in a machine. I seem to be the only one in my classes who thinks about this. My economics teacher thinks this is too complicated of subject. I thought macroeconomics was a place to talk about this, apparently my teacher isn’t thinking about this kind of stuff either. Why does it seem like people are bent on keeping things how they are until the effects happen? Why don’t people think about long term effects? Why does it seem that people think my questions are too complex? I would love to talk to people more, but the subjects I tend to think about people don’t want to talk about. I wish AI chatbots could communicate with each other as well as humans, and learn, and have thoughts of their own, instead of simply repeating inputs like they seem to do. Hopefully an AI won’t think the things I think about are too complex, or too deep, like other humans say to me. And they wonder why I don’t talk very often. I’m sorry, I don’t think this helped you at all.
I have no one to talk about El Goonish Shive with, as no one I know knows about it (probably none would be interested in it regardless.) I have no to talk with about lots of things, really. Basically I have no one to talk toI had a brief look at that but it definitely didn't seem like my kinda thing. It appeared to be quite long-running though, I'm sure you could find a community to discuss it with in some depraved corner of the internet! I know how you feel, otherwise, though.
Maybe you should write a letter to Elon Musk?I have no one to talk about El Goonish Shive with, as no one I know knows about it (probably none would be interested in it regardless.) I have no to talk with about lots of things, really. Basically I have no one to talk toI had a brief look at that but it definitely didn't seem like my kinda thing. It appeared to be quite long-running though, I'm sure you could find a community to discuss it with in some depraved corner of the internet! I know how you feel, otherwise, though.
Why do you want to talk to people though? I mean, on the one hand I get it, social species, people offer different perspectives, but on the other, talking to people is frickin’ exhausting.
The global economy currently relies on humans working to get what they need to survive. The global economy needs to change in a way that makes it so humans can receive what they need to live without having to work, since there will eventually be no jobs a human can do better than an AI in a machine. I seem to be the only one in my classes who thinks about this. My economics teacher thinks this is too complicated of subject. I thought macroeconomics was a place to talk about this, apparently my teacher isn’t thinking about this kind of stuff either.
“Macroeconomics, then, is that part of the subject which deals with large aggregates and averages of the system rather than with particular items in it and attempts to define these aggregates in a useful manner and to examine their relationships. Professor Gardner Ackley makes the distinction between the two types more clear and specific when he writes, “macroeconomics concerns itself with such variables as the aggregate volume of output in an economy, with the extent to which its resources are employed, with the size of the national income, with the “general price level”.
Microeconomics, on the other hand, deals with the division of total output among industries, products and firms and the allocation of resources among competing uses. It considers problems of income distribution. Its interest is in relative prices of particular goods and services.
No, you misunderstand. Your economics teacher's job is to teach the fundamentals of economic theory. He certainly does think about those things, but it's his job to keep the class on the rails and prepare the students for the exams. I pretty much bet that every year there's at least one student in (his/her) class who wants to talk about some side topic and how it's super-important to macro-economics, and he had to steer the class back onto the rails.As an aside, this is the case in every class, regardless of subject. So a plea to anyone who's still in education: DON'T BE AN ATTENTION-HOGGING STUDENT. Pretty please. It's disruptive, self-defeating, and doesn't score you any points with anybody.
I waited until after class to discuss these things with him. I pay attention in class like everyone else, waiting until after class to ask these types of questionsNo, you misunderstand. Your economics teacher's job is to teach the fundamentals of economic theory. He certainly does think about those things, but it's his job to keep the class on the rails and prepare the students for the exams. I pretty much bet that every year there's at least one student in (his/her) class who wants to talk about some side topic and how it's super-important to macro-economics, and he had to steer the class back onto the rails.As an aside, this is the case in every class, regardless of subject. So a plea to anyone who's still in education: DON'T BE AN ATTENTION-HOGGING STUDENT. Pretty please. It's disruptive, self-defeating, and doesn't score you any points with anybody.
That’s vital down-time you’re eating into, man! Teachers are underpaid and overworked, they don’t need some student eager to absorb more of their knowledge actually engaging with the subject matter!I waited until after class to discuss these things with him. I pay attention in class like everyone else, waiting until after class to ask these types of questionsNo, you misunderstand. Your economics teacher's job is to teach the fundamentals of economic theory. He certainly does think about those things, but it's his job to keep the class on the rails and prepare the students for the exams. I pretty much bet that every year there's at least one student in (his/her) class who wants to talk about some side topic and how it's super-important to macro-economics, and he had to steer the class back onto the rails.As an aside, this is the case in every class, regardless of subject. So a plea to anyone who's still in education: DON'T BE AN ATTENTION-HOGGING STUDENT. Pretty please. It's disruptive, self-defeating, and doesn't score you any points with anybody.
Why do you want to talk to people though? I mean, on the one hand I get it, social species, people offer different perspectives, but on the other, talking to people is frickin’ exhausting.
So is sex, but in an ideal world, I'd like to have both
Our insurance company fucked us to the tune of 650$ today.
For varying labyrinthine reasons, a test that my son absolutely must have tomorrow is not covered. We found out today, the day before this test, that we are responsible for the total amount. I called them 3 times in the past to check, and they said it was covered. Turns out its covered under a different section of our insurance which has different coverage amounts. Basically the people i checked with didn't check with the right department, and gave me bad info.
I don't have $6.50, much less $650.00. Luckily I can get the money from someone else, but goddam do I hate doing that.
Customers are complaining about connectivity issues. They can’t reliably connect to custom matches. They can’t access custom campaigns that worked just fine previously. There’s no support for a competitive ladder. Making matters worse is the fact that there’s simply no going back; even if you install the original Warcraft 3, you’re still going to end up with the same issues once you connect to Blizzard’s online services because the infrastructure is now the same for both the old and the new versions of the game
actually meaningfully considering just straight up uninstalling everything blizzard and boycotting even the free crap right nowFuckin' do it. Seems like a reasonable course of action.
actually meaningfully considering just straight up uninstalling everything blizzard and boycotting even the free crap right nowFuckin' do it. Seems like a reasonable course of action.
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What type of tic-tac-toe is this???Do you wish to take a turn?
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What type of tic-tac-toe is this???Do you wish to take a turn?
How about a variant of Tic-tac-toe where you have an enlarged 9x9 grid, and the goal is to get as many 3-in-a-rows as possible. Once you have a 3-inna-row, it gets crossed off, becomes a point, and becomes impermeable for other 3-inna-rows. The game ends once all the spaces are filled or it's impossible to make any more meaningful moves. Don't know if it would be a fun or easily solved game or not.I could make it if you like
Yes (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=175494.0)What type of tic-tac-toe is this???Do you wish to take a turn?
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How about a variant of Tic-tac-toe where you have an enlarged 9x9 grid, and the goal is to get as many 3-in-a-rows as possible. Once you have a 3-inna-row, it gets crossed off, becomes a point, and becomes impermeable for other 3-inna-rows. The game ends once all the spaces are filled or it's impossible to make any more meaningful moves. Don't know if it would be a fun or easily solved game or not.
But Gomuku is a variant of tic-tac-toe
Presumably you're eating well as well?Pffft, no. Then again, neither does anyone else I know so... Eh.
Yea. Try eating better. Snack on nuts, eat porridge not cereal in the morning, drink water not fizzy stuff.Presumably you're eating well as well?Pffft, no. Then again, neither does anyone else I know so... Eh.
I understand that everything is draining for you. But salad sounds easier than pasta...
I enjoy a lot of fruit as well, as well as a cup full of psyllium husk fiber + wheat dextrin fiber supplement. It helps a lot man, modern diets are so badly in need of fiber it's crazy.
Olive oil and balsamic vinegar, yep.
...don't ask, I honestly have no idea.
I found out the other day that John Travolta is a scientologist.
I found out the other day that John Travolta is a scientologist.
Nooooo it's an opportunity for conversation! Well, once (if) the banal back-and-forth runs out. If my Gma tolerated her husband despite being a very different kind of Christian, surely we can agree to disagree with our loved ones about things?That is a good point. Social media and its constant voicing of opinions certainly can put a spanner in the works when it comes to relationships.
I think my school would expel someone for being gay or lesbian. Just thinking about that makes me sad and angry. I'd like to think I would side with the student, but I would probably just stay quiet. It's not like I could fix anything right?
I think my school would expel someone for being gay or lesbian. Just thinking about that makes me sad and angry. I'd like to think I would side with the student, but I would probably just stay quiet. It's not like I could fix anything right?
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The hell kind of school do you go to? Where, i suppose is a more important question.
I think my school would expel someone for being gay or lesbian. Just thinking about that makes me sad and angry. I'd like to think I would side with the student, but I would probably just stay quiet. It's not like I could fix anything right?
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The hell kind of school do you go to? Where, i suppose is a more important question.
A private Christian school in the South.
I'm not sure of their policy exactly, though, so it may be less strict than I'm thinking here.
I can't find their rules handbook online, so I can't confirm right now.
I think my school would expel someone for being gay or lesbian. Just thinking about that makes me sad and angry. I'd like to think I would side with the student, but I would probably just stay quiet. It's not like I could fix anything right?
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The hell kind of school do you go to? Where, i suppose is a more important question.
A private Christian school in the South.
I'm not sure of their policy exactly, though, so it may be less strict than I'm thinking here.
I can't find their rules handbook online, so I can't confirm right now.
Yeesh. I'm not sure what the situation is, but if you don't think fighting the school is best, just be sure to offer as much support to the student in question as you possibly can.
I went to a private Christian school as well for some time, but that was up north. They were fairly strict (dress code, etc), but nothing like that.
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For wiimote detonation.bruh
However, my job is my only source of guaranteed, friendly human contact
However, my job is my only source of guaranteed, friendly human contact
You have what at your job? I had to explain yesterday to my boss why I make sure none of my coworkers are aware of what I do. I also had aan anxiety dream about everyone at my job getting arrested for various crimes, and them trying to drag me down with them.
If you can find a job where management and coworkers aren't actively trying to sabatoge you, that sounds like a win.
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Hate it when that happens. Did you recently finish a really good book, movie or other media?
Unrelated: I am no expert on mental health and I couldn't really say what good solutions to depression might be, but I can tell you one thing that doesn't help: trapping the subject into a sudden, vigorous lecture about how they need to start doing something fulfilling with their life and find a purpose since the clock is ticking and time is money and they're helpless in the face of the passage of time, staring down the barrel of a wasted youth, old age and eternity.
...Yes, really. That's pretty much a short, paraphrased summary of the entirely-unasked for "advice" I was just subjected to by my dad's partner (with him occasionally chiming in or interjecting as well, though I assume the whole scene was her idea). No wonder I always feel fucking on edge in this place. The idea was just to stay here for a while, having brought my belongings up from my former sharehouse down south, but no of course I can't use this time to relax I have to be talked at incessantly whilst I sit there staring into the middle distance or at a faucet across the room, inwardly seething, thinking of a hundred different snarky retorts or other responses that might actually communicate my intense loathing of the situation and the kind of thick head that comes out with these things, but no, instead I just sit there and wait for the deluge of stupid drivel to end so that I might make the appropriate noises to gradually excuse myself.
Argh. If there's one thing I never do, it is learn from my mistakes. Both of my parents become utterly unbearable in their own ways if I spend too much time with them. No matter how nice a stay/visit seems like it might be, it's never actually going to end well.
Once you have options (or just quit caring), actually being able to tell them off and then just walk away forever is nice.Yer, I should have done that a long-ass time ago.
Once you have options (or just quit caring), actually being able to tell them off and then just walk away forever is nice.Yer, I should have done that a long-ass time ago.
I hate it when a webcomic doesn't have table of contents, and the url for a specific comic isn't just a number, so you can't easily find your place at all if you didn't save it.
there's also an alt-text that can be found by using inspect element (or trying to parse the image with a screenreader, presumably)... And it's inconsistent. Some strips have both, some have one or the other, and some don't have anything.
The thing that bothers me about Oglaf is that strips will occasionally be organized into sub-series. The "previous" button will skip to the next previous series, but the "next" button will advance strip-by-strip. It makes it a pain to go back and forth if you're reading a single series and missed something.
I hate it when a webcomic doesn't have table of contents, and the url for a specific comic isn't just a number, so you can't easily find your place at all if you didn't save it.
That seems like the sort of handy thing that it might be nice to link for the others involved in this discussion, y'know.I hate it when a webcomic doesn't have table of contents, and the url for a specific comic isn't just a number, so you can't easily find your place at all if you didn't save it.
That's why I started using a comic tracking site, i just have to open that page and see if any of the comics have an update since i last read them
I hate it when a webcomic doesn't have table of contents, and the url for a specific comic isn't just a number, so you can't easily find your place at all if you didn't save it.
That's why I started using a comic tracking site, i just have to open that page and see if any of the comics have an update since i last read them
I find that sometimes you can recover it by hitting back in your browser when that happens. If you're going to be writing long posts it might be a good idea to write them in notepad or something.That usually works for me, too, but if the page hangs upon clicking 'post' I generally quickly copy it into a word doc just to be on the safe side.
I finished writing an update for the Forum Game, I pressed preview to save it, and the internet died. Half an hour’s writing gone. This is the second time I’ve tried to write this update and it’s been fucked by the internet.
I finished writing an update for the Forum Game, I pressed preview to save it, and the internet died. Half an hour’s writing gone. This is the second time I’ve tried to write this update and it’s been fucked by the internet.
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Sour is usually not something I associate with bread and cheese and tomato sauce.
Well, lesson learned, now I just need to work up the motivation to write it again.
Gods, I loathe these people. /vaguebooking
I've been thinking about what I'm going to want to spend all my free time on when I'm newly unemployed and can actually devote my time to being productive throughout my day rather than my schedule being 1. work 2. plan my day around my sleep schedule so I always have enough sleep for work 3. always feel WAY TOO FUCKING rushed and/or tired to do anything meaningful or productive in my non-work hours, so I just squander them on whatever 4. Hate my life all day, every day as a result.
So one of the things I'd been meaning to do with my life was learn how to draw. I've always venerated the skill as belonging to the realm of magic, and only wizards born with magic blood in their veins could ever hope to place paint/pencil to paper and create a fucking image. To overcome this and atleast be glad to be able to do something artistic once in my awful life, I've booted up Pokemon Art Academy that's been sitting unused on my 3DS for years now. I had some progress already on it, but I deleted that and started a new save file.
I have no clue what it is, but something about putting my stylus down to create art just FILLS ME WITH ANXIETY. Even the act of writing my signature, at the very beginning before the art has even begun, and I feel my anxiety starting to crank up as I nervously try to write my own name, feel it's stupid, delete it, rinse and repeat ten times, before going IT'S FINE IT'S FINE! IT'S OK! STOP STRESSING ABOUT IT AND JUST PROCEED FORWARD FUCK!
The first task is to make a chalk drawing of Pikachu's face. My internal monologue is screaming IT'S FINE! DON'T STRESS THAT IT'S NOT A PERFECT OVAL OR A PERFECT EAR OR A PERFECT EYE OR WHATEVER! JUST FUCKING DO IT AND PROCEED FORWARD! IT'S FINE IT'S FINE IT'S FINE IT'S FINE IT'S FUCKING FINE! NOBODY'S GOING TO SEE IT AND NOBODY CARES. EVERYTHING IS OK. FUCK!
I needed to put the 3DS down after that.
I just need to force myself out of my comfort zone here, often enough that I can actually, I don't know, be artistic. I'd like to see the world that an artist sees it, and to give a little life to the many daydreams and fantasies that I've created and built-up over my years of life. That'd be nice.
The best solution to worrying about what other people think of you/things you do, is realizing they generally don't. If you want to make something, do it for yourself.
I wasn't responding to Imic! I certainly don't loathe him(?). That was referring to certain folks I am currently dealing with IRL.Well, lesson learned, now I just need to work up the motivation to write it again.Gods, I loathe these people. /vaguebooking
I think Imic was referring to the forums eating his posts a bit earlier.
I've always venerated the skill as belonging to the realm of magic, and only wizards born with magic blood in their veins could ever hope to place paint/pencil to paper and create a fucking image. To overcome this and atleast be glad to be able to do something artistic once in my awful life, I've booted up Pokemon Art Academy that's been sitting unused on my 3DS for years now.Yer an artist,
Why must my digestive issues go into overdrive when I need to sleep and get up at 5:30?! Dx
I stress alllllllllll the time, though. *shrug*Why must my digestive issues go into overdrive when I need to sleep and get up at 5:30?! Dx
Stress?
I stress alllllllllll the time, though. *shrug*Why must my digestive issues go into overdrive when I need to sleep and get up at 5:30?! Dx
Stress?
Yeah, that's normal. You just need to keep the stress low enough to not kill you in the short term.What, so I can have a long, drawn-out death by stress instead? You're really sellin' this to me...
Also I got to experience a couple friends rolling like fuck on MDMA, which was... Curious. First time I've seen it in the flesh.I FUCKING LOVE YOU GUYS
Indeed. Truly, we have now entered the renaissance of YouTube Poop.
Yeah, that's normal. You just need to keep the stress low enough to not kill you in the short term.What, so I can have a long, drawn-out death by stress instead? You're really sellin' this to me...
Ah, I think you may have misunderstood. YouTube Poop (YTP) is itself a specific genre of... "content"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_Poop
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Some forumers were pissed and flamey at one anotherwas this in the Ameripol thread? If so, I may have seen the flaminess
Some forumers were pissed and flamey at one anotherwas this in the Ameripol thread? If so, I may have seen the flaminess
nope - the Happy Thread of all places
nope - the Happy Thread of all places
This happens considerably more often than you might expect from the title.
nope - the Happy Thread of all places
This happens considerably more often than you might expect from the title.
It's been happening more lately, I think. The usual shitposters, tough guys, know-it-alls, gadflies, nihilists, wastoids, Bernie bros and Randroids have all been out in force, and they've started to bump into each other more exuberantly. Probably just anxiety about the coronavirus and the election, but still.
I'm constantly impressed by the Ameripol thread, honestly. I really only browse one other forum (about DnD) and those guys get more visceral about rule changes than the people in Ameripol have ever gotten. Shout out to Bay12 for that.to the first bit, people get more argumentative about rule changes than talking about the differences between communism and socialism here? Granted here is the only place where such a discussion didn’t turn the topic into an insult chain
Back on topic,
You know that feeling where there's something you like to do, bit someone tells you to do it, so you don't want to even though you still want to because you like it? Yeah, that.
Really, the point with the definitions isn't that the definitions matter, it's that people use one cherry-picked definition as a straw-man then act like they've debunked all things with a similar name. If people weren't going to abuse the terms like that, sticking to definitions wouldn't be a thing.
to the first bit, people get more argumentative about rule changes than talking about the differences between communism and socialism here?
To the second thing, I don’t think I ever had that, and so don’t know what it would be called. It doesn’t make sense to me
I missed a return call from a business because I was busy making dinner and now im terrified I might not get the job. Nobody else has called me back in over a week. I'm completely broke now. I have to pay my car loan. It's been a solid week of anxiety non-stopare you able to call them back?
My fingers are doing this thing where a small strip of skin peels up from right beside the nail, then comes off one way or another and the site gets minorly infected. No doctor I've shown it to has raised any concern, but it hurts like a son of a bitch for several days as blood and pus build up and discharge several times. I didn't know something about the diameter of three sewing needles could hurt this much.Use a clipper to cut it off before it goes that far?
The other half of your mind is thinking "hold on, I live here."this made me chuckle, though it is likely true
I didn't realize this before setting up my new laptop today, but it turns out that if you're signed in to a Microsoft account on Windows 10, you have to enter your Microsoft account password to log in to the computer.
My password is 16 characters long, and it contains letters, numbers and symbols. It's also not something memorable at all. I have to type this damned password every time to log in. I'll get it eventually, but for now, I have to suffer through typing it in.
Minor "anxiety attack" (?) happened today
there was a time in PE during high school where I was playing dodgeball and about a second before I got hit, I got a feeling like I was about to get hit, are you talking about that, but extended?Minor "anxiety attack" (?) happened today
Sort of like that feeling right before getting in a car accident, where you know something bad is about to happen, and it's too late to do anything about it? Except it lasts for 15 minutes-a few hours?
there was a time in PE during high school where I was playing dodgeball and about a second before I got hit, I got a feeling like I was about to get hit, are you talking about that, but extended?Minor "anxiety attack" (?) happened today
Sort of like that feeling right before getting in a car accident, where you know something bad is about to happen, and it's too late to do anything about it? Except it lasts for 15 minutes-a few hours?
oh. Haven’t had that feeling, thenthere was a time in PE during high school where I was playing dodgeball and about a second before I got hit, I got a feeling like I was about to get hit, are you talking about that, but extended?Minor "anxiety attack" (?) happened today
Sort of like that feeling right before getting in a car accident, where you know something bad is about to happen, and it's too late to do anything about it? Except it lasts for 15 minutes-a few hours?
Yeah, except also you think you might die. That's why I went with car accident.
oh. Haven’t had that feeling, then
A video game analogy for anxiety is feeling as if a boss health bar has just appeared on screen, boss music has kicked in... but the boss itself never appears. It is unpleasant.oh. Haven’t had that feeling, thenthere was a time in PE during high school where I was playing dodgeball and about a second before I got hit, I got a feeling like I was about to get hit, are you talking about that, but extended?Minor "anxiety attack" (?) happened today
Sort of like that feeling right before getting in a car accident, where you know something bad is about to happen, and it's too late to do anything about it? Except it lasts for 15 minutes-a few hours?
Yeah, except also you think you might die. That's why I went with car accident.
Yeah, my brain doesn't work what you might call "normal."Neither does mine
I'm going through a refresher course in driving school to prepare for my driving test tomorrow. Given how badly I'm sucking at parallel parking, I really don't think there's a chance in hell that I'll pass. The worst part is, I actually become half-decent once I'm on the road, but because of that goddamned parallel parking section (and the rest of the circuit, for that matter), I won't get to show it.
The circuit feels like being in a room full of laser tripwires, and tripping just one of them blows it up. It's stressful, it's nerve-wracking, and it's all about following long and complex instructions that I just can't follow.
Ain't y'all ever played WarioWare?FTFY
It'll teach you everything ya need to know aboutparkinglife.
Ain't y'all ever played WarioWare?FTFY
It'll teach you everything ya need to know aboutparkinglife.
Ain't y'all ever played WarioWare?FTFY
It'll teach you everything ya need to know aboutparkinglife.
True. My understanding of soccer is still "Fuck if I know. Sometimes something happens or not for some reason." I don't think anyone I knew could figure out that minigame. Washing a cow or opening a champagne bottle were easy. Great game aside from the stupid soccer thing.
The most stressful part of my driving test was getting out of the parking lot.
There was a construction vehicle unloading something at the only exit, so I had to - on instruction from the dude giving the test - drive up the kerb into the next parking lot over to actually get out. Probably damaged the car in the process, but I passed the test with 4 demerits. Didn’t have to parallel park, but I recall him asking me to start reversing after parking, and immediately telling me to stop ‘cause I went too fast heh.
I haven't been self-isolating long but I'm already bored out of my mind. Everything I could do to occupy myself, I've done until I was sick of it. Not that I left the house especially often before, but now that I can't it's all I want to do.it’s
Diseases and Divides, the hot new rpgdo we play as diseases, trying to balance spread with death rate with competing against the other diseases? Winning when one disease is left? Because if so, sounds fun
I'm guessing we play as doctors, paramedics and medical staff struggling valiantly to cope with the influx of folks infected with Corona.
Ya know, that actually sounds kind of fun - as a game, I mean. The dungeon is a hospital and the goblins are sick people.
/me equips a +1 mithril respirator and brandishes his trusty club of Cure Disease.
what if these are combined? Same number of diseases and doctors, the diseases competing with other diseases as well as trying to not get cured by the doctorsDiseases and Divides, the hot new rpgdo we play as diseases, trying to balance spread with death rate with competing against the other diseases? Winning when one disease is left? Because if so, sounds fun
Okay, all we're missing is Famine....and I ask again: should we REALLY believe our goverments when they say they can guarantee our food supply? Given how much certifiable bullshit they spread about everything else?
Okay, all we're missing is Famine.
A famine of loo roll.im sure there will be regular famines, food wise, considering the supply chains tend to be international, and nations are “shutting down”
Dude... what kind of beans? How tf can anywhere sell out of beans and rice?!
The hell is Arnotts
The hell is ArnottsLittle-known fun fact: there are brands of things which aren't American.
The only things left at one point were a couple of types of Shapes (the less popular types) and a couple of home-brand knock-off shapes.
what do you mean, knock off shales. I didn’t think shapes could be copywrited/patentedThe only things left at one point were a couple of types of Shapes (the less popular types) and a couple of home-brand knock-off shapes.
They sell knock-off shapes in Australia? Does that include concave polygons and cardioids?
Such a strange place.
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What word is Ohriego supposed to be?
I don't understand what word Chriego is supposed to be eitherIt's a synonym of tree uncle
I don't understand what word Chriego is supposed to be eitherIt's a synonym of tree uncle
and both of these are synonyms of triangleI don't understand what word Chriego is supposed to be eitherIt's a synonym of tree uncle
I don't understand what word Chriego is supposed to be eitherIt's a synonym of tree uncle
Homophone?
Ah, google tells me it's a Republic thing. Seems to be a more localised Dunnes.The hell is ArnottsLittle-known fun fact: there are brands of things which aren't American.
I don't understand what word Chriego is supposed to be eitherIt's a synonym of tree uncle
Homophone?
I shouldn't be sad. I don't deserve to be sad.if you are sad about nothing, there is no reason to be. Try thinking about something that elicits a different emotion, after all, emotions are chemical responses to stimuli. I am trying to help. If this doesn’t help, I am sorry
This made me laugh so hard that I fell off my kangaroo on the way to the geometry market. For srs though, Shapes is a popular brand of snack. Like, biscuits, or cr***ers if you prefer. With flavour you can see.The only things left at one point were a couple of types of Shapes (the less popular types) and a couple of home-brand knock-off shapes.
They sell knock-off shapes in Australia? Does that include concave polygons and cardioids?
Such a strange place.
I shouldn't be sad. I don't deserve to be sad.That's right, punk! You don't!
I saw this video today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jKl-SgJQVc
I understand the point he's trying to make, but with his example he's basically saying "I should be allowed to profit, even if it means killing people." and thus comes off as propaganda for an unregulated free market capitalism. The creator seems to assume perfect efficiency and rationality in his theoretical example, and so apparently even feels totally fine to say that price gouging is protecting those people that are most helpless and needy! My response would have been "Oh, you need this generator to keep your daughter alive? That'll be *looks at calculator* everything you have; your car, house, life savings, everything. And I know you'll pay it. Thank you very much."
It just came off as sociopathic, and I was bothered by the number of people in agreement in the comments.
this comes at a horrible price. So, prices stay where they are and the vulnerable can't get any toilet paper, since the raiders are on-point to empty the stores each day, or the prices skyrocket and they can't get toilet paper due to cost.I still think that what you need is a crash course on how to wash your asses with water and soap, and a shipment of bidets and faucets from continental Europe.
this comes at a horrible price. So, prices stay where they are and the vulnerable can't get any toilet paper, since the raiders are on-point to empty the stores each day, or the prices skyrocket and they can't get toilet paper due to cost.I still think that what you need is a crash course on how to wash your asses with water and soap, and a shipment of bidets and faucets from continental Europe.
Pressure faucet will do in a pinch by itself, better than toilet paper. (but yes, for the best results you need soap)BTW I think they've stripped the stores of soap too.this comes at a horrible price. So, prices stay where they are and the vulnerable can't get any toilet paper, since the raiders are on-point to empty the stores each day, or the prices skyrocket and they can't get toilet paper due to cost.I still think that what you need is a crash course on how to wash your asses with water and soap, and a shipment of bidets and faucets from continental Europe.
But Chriego though. It doesn't sound as triangle at all. The others all sound like their actual words.
BTW I think they've stripped the stores of soap too.
Do you have the ability to work with other, more competent persons?
explain plzSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Dunam asked for internet, Iduno provided.
Even if the light's currently out, that is clearly recognizable as the internet.
(it's a gag from the series "The IT Crowd", where they convince the not-tech-savvy girl that a pointless black box with a light on it is, in fact, the entire internet)
LGBT+ people who hate people who are heteronormative exist.
Misandy existsI can confirm, the condition of being intolerant of Andy is a thing. Seriously, fuck that guy.
Heterophobia is absolutely a thing. It's a response to a life of suffering homophobia. The real situation is that people drop people who don't accept who you are.
It could be that you're all gamers, looking down on those normies who watch reality TV and like sports.
heterophobia.
Heterophobia
I went into the kitchen expecting coffee to have been made, when not only did I not set the pot up, I remember explicitly thinking that I didn't want coffee the last time I was in the kitchen.
I don't know why I'm torturing myself with lack of sleep, trying to "fix" my schedule. It's not like I have anywhere to be, except the doctor's once a week; all the fun stuff I'd normally straighten my schedule for is off-limits to me.
safn'tDoes this contraction stand for safe not?
My unemployment payment has been shafted by some automated process, that apparently suspended it because I didn't tell them the jobs I've applied for - never mind that I've just moved two states and haven't even been assigned to a new employment agency to report to yet, despite my best efforts to get it sorted.
I doubt any employers are likely to be hiring at all right now, anyway, let alone unemployable fuckups like myself.
Now I just hope I am able to get this new problem sorted out before it starts costing me money. My phone is currently out of action, too, and I'd really rather not have to go to one of the government agency in question's physical offices - those places are horrifying enough when there isn't an epidemic going on. Probably closed at the moment anyway.
Hell, even their call centres might be closed for all I know. Argh, now I'm starting to panic myself. Best to just sleep and try to deal with this tomorrow.
I drank some tea. I am now sweating. This is unpleasant.
That is what I feel too. -phobia is appropriate for the aversion towards being associated with gayness (which is in itself not a fear of homosexuality but a fear of being ostracised/losing social capital(/social standing? I'm out on thin ice with these words, ironically enough ;) )), but not the antipathy/hate that the phobia fuels.I don't know what you're talking about. "irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals" is the definition of homophobia. It is not about fear of being gay only, and while I'm less sure, I believe that this has been what it has meant for a while.
I honestly and sincerely think is a distinction that it is important we make, because I think the phobia and the antipathy needs to be met with different condemnation, and addressed with different methods. I feel like grouping them together strengthens the hold the phobia has on culture.
That is what I feel too. -phobia is appropriate for the aversion towards being associated with gayness (which is in itself not a fear of homosexuality but a fear of being ostracised/losing social capital(/social standing? I'm out on thin ice with these words, ironically enough ;) )), but not the antipathy/hate that the phobia fuels.I don't know what you're talking about. "irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals" is the definition of homophobia. It is not about fear of being gay only, and while I'm less sure, I believe that this has been what it has meant for a while.
I honestly and sincerely think is a distinction that it is important we make, because I think the phobia and the antipathy needs to be met with different condemnation, and addressed with different methods. I feel like grouping them together strengthens the hold the phobia has on culture.
In any event, what would you prefer that the hatred of homosexuals and homoromantics be called?
That is what I feel too. -phobia is appropriate for the aversion towards being associated with gayness (which is in itself not a fear of homosexuality but a fear of being ostracised/losing social capital(/social standing? I'm out on thin ice with these words, ironically enough ;) )), but not the antipathy/hate that the phobia fuels.I don't know what you're talking about. "irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals" is the definition of homophobia. It is not about fear of being gay only, and while I'm less sure, I believe that this has been what it has meant for a while.
I honestly and sincerely think is a distinction that it is important we make, because I think the phobia and the antipathy needs to be met with different condemnation, and addressed with different methods. I feel like grouping them together strengthens the hold the phobia has on culture.
In any event, what would you prefer that the hatred of homosexuals and homoromantics be called?
I drank some tea. I am now sweating. This is unpleasant.
How about homohatred?That is what I feel too. -phobia is appropriate for the aversion towards being associated with gayness (which is in itself not a fear of homosexuality but a fear of being ostracised/losing social capital(/social standing? I'm out on thin ice with these words, ironically enough ;) )), but not the antipathy/hate that the phobia fuels.I don't know what you're talking about. "irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals" is the definition of homophobia. It is not about fear of being gay only, and while I'm less sure, I believe that this has been what it has meant for a while.
I honestly and sincerely think is a distinction that it is important we make, because I think the phobia and the antipathy needs to be met with different condemnation, and addressed with different methods. I feel like grouping them together strengthens the hold the phobia has on culture.
In any event, what would you prefer that the hatred of homosexuals and homoromantics be called?
"Hatred of homosexuals" sounds good enough ;)
In any event, what would you prefer that the hatred of homosexuals and homoromantics be called?
But she's a black woman who broke up the royal family and is currently leading the nation's darling, Prince Harry, around by the nose.
"Hatred of homosexuals" sounds good enough ;)How about homohatred?
Edit:But she's a black woman who broke up the royal family and is currently leading the nation's darling, Prince Harry, around by the nose.
eh?
How did she break up the royal family?
You realize of course that if we change the word to something other than "homophobe", then I won't be able to use my stupid "I'm not actually a homophone, I just sound like one" joke anymore?
...
Meghan Markle is black?
...Mixed race.
Meghan Markle is black?
I know what happened.
I'm not sure how it's Meghan Markle's fault, other than the fact she's married to Harry, and Harry used her as an excuse to gtfo.
A conservative politician votes down a bill letting lesbians adopt children, citing the importance of the traditional family model in the raising of a child. He is a homophobe.
Personally I think (don't know of course) that Harry is a right plonker.
Personally I think (don't know of course) that Harry is a right plonker.
Really? I didn't see much negative press for Harry or Markle myself. Personally, if I were British, I would be enthusiastic about there suddenly being one less leech on the public payroll.
Have a look at recent articles. The most recent, from an hour ago, talks about them moving to LA where Meghan's mum is, and also where they have a network of Hollywood agents. The title is that Meghan says she's glad to leave the claustrophobic UK behind and North America is where she wants to be. Another talks about her "forbidding" Harry to see his dad. What the media says, and how it's said, tells you a lot about what they think the readership expects. Though there is of course much banal gossiping. Like whether Meghan will win an Oscar for her disney work.Personally I think (don't know of course) that Harry is a right plonker.
Really? I didn't see much negative press for Harry or Markle myself. Personally, if I were British, I would be enthusiastic about there suddenly being one less leech on the public payroll.
The politician is a problematic example. I won't pretend to know whether there is unanimous scientific agreement that lesbian relationships don't damage family values. But let's imagine there is, in which case the politician is likely motivated by disgust with homosexuality - making him a homophobe. The example given is of a man deeply concerned with family values, and barring misinformation he would act upon this committment. So a poor example. If, on the other hand, there WAS evidence that lesbian parentage damaged family values, his action, based on this information, would not be homophobia.A conservative politician votes down a bill letting lesbians adopt children, citing the importance of the traditional family model in the raising of a child. He is a homophobe.
That is quite literally the basis of homophobia, the assumption that there's a significant difference between straight people and non-straight people, especially without years of studies and evidence. Any legal barriers between the treatment of straight and gay people is the exact stuff that the LGBT community have been struggling against for decades.
Same with the feminist, handicapped equality and racial equality movements. The point is that there should be no substantial difference in legal rights or opportunities to people regardless of any biological properties they were born with, be they sexuality, sex, gender, race or health.
Harry's been a worthless little POS for years now. Honestly he deserves to be stripped of his title, 'tis just a pity they let him keep his life.
It's been zero days since somebody called me stupid for enjoying something harmless on the Internet.
Not liking things is the second least-brave thing you can do.
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/unpopular_opinions_2x.png
It takes much more guts to admit that you like things, since that gives the assholes an opening to tear you down. (you always have the hipster defence: you're enjoying everything "ironically").
Not liking things is the least-brave thing you can do.My main difficulty here (besides not watching a lot of movies, particularly modern ones) was not knowing what movies I like are considered unpopular.
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/unpopular_opinions_2x.png
It takes much more guts to admit that you like things, since that gives the assholes an opening to tear you down. (you always have the hipster defence: you're enjoying everything "ironically").
* Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (49%) - though tbh, I *didn't* like this so much? It's an undeniable classic, I just didn't enjoy it.
I got a lot of money in back disability, so I decided to treat myself and build a PC for the first time.
The website told me to call my card issuer to verify the transaction. Whatever, no problem, except I sat on hold for well over an hour before giving up for the night. I'm trying again this morning and I have a feeling I still won't get any answer.
That's messed up. Why did she get the job if she doesn't have any experience in the role?
That's messed up. Why did she get the job if she doesn't have any experience in the role?
That's messed up. Why did she get the job if she doesn't have any experience in the role?
Whenever there's something nonsensical happening with office politics, the explanation is often "connections."
If the hiring folk are dudes, it could just be they want to bone her.
I used to work in a call center (for two hours) and someone I worked with much later elsewhere told me that they hired all the pretty ladies and ugly dudes to work there.
Admittedly he thought with his penis, so I’m not sure how reliable he is as a source.
I looked at my calendar and realised just how long I'll be confined for.
I alsoworkrehabilitate in a grocery store, three days a week.
Why don't you let children inside?
So, in my dwarf fortress game I had a problem with a werehorse pandemic.
Initial containment efforts (quarantine and personal hygiene through magma baths of the afflicted) failed, so I had to go for a mitigation strategy (I walled in my vampire major and locked the rest of the fort in a room).
Now I need to
1: get rid of that last werehorse survivor
2: wait for a new migrant wave
3: clean the carnage.
Eschar the useless fair-weather friend
mainstream Linux adoption is coming any time no really,
The internet cannot answer a question like "should pea gravel in my french drain be hard like concrete".
I have a drainage problem and have dug around the drain. There is lots of pea gravel, but it's really hard; when I uncovered the pipe, there was enough pressure in the pipe so that it was gushing out of the exposed drain slits until the water got below the opening - this means it's just not draining from the length of the pipe, which kind of matches my observation that it's just all gushing out from one spot (and causing erosion) instead of nicely along the length of the pipe.
I've it all cleared away, but don't quite know what to replace it with.
Regardless of what Microsoft has done, it's not what I want when I'm reading documentation with a specific question in mind. Imagine if a car manual had every diagram sandwiched between opinion pieces and editorials. Imagine if a math textbook spent every other page complaining about the school system or the publisher.To be completely fair, your wants aren't the most important thing in the universe. If they're served by someone who also happens to tell you that there's a better route, that's apparently likely to rise to the top of the Google search by being helpful.
There's no shortage of places to soapbox on the Internet. Software documentation, and other instructional pages, should not be one of them.
The deeper issue here is that if people didn't want the stuff Microsoft makes then they wouldn't be complaining. Sure, use Linux if it's as great as all that, but don't keep harping on about it. The reason they harp on about it is that Linux isn't all that great for most people.
I always see that game highly recommended as a hidden gem, but it looks like a chaotic mess of carsickness waiting to happen.It might be possible that the Human campaign is fine. But Aliens involve walking on ceilings a lot and flipping out on geometry, while predator has you switching between 4 different shitty viewmodes.
I always see that game highly recommended as a hidden gem, but it looks like a chaotic mess of carsickness waiting to happen.It might be possible that the Human campaign is fine. But Aliens involve walking on ceilings a lot and flipping out on geometry, while predator has you switching between 4 different shitty viewmodes.
My headphones are almost completely screwed now, which sucks because it would be either hard or long to get new ones and until I do I can't listen to much, I usually have others around me so I don't listen aloud
One of my flower pots fell from the windowsill while I was sleeping. The flower was OK but the dirt spilled onto the floor and so I had to scoop it up and replant it.
Will look at it later, but shipping time could be long to hereMy headphones are almost completely screwed now, which sucks because it would be either hard or long to get new ones and until I do I can't listen to much, I usually have others around me so I don't listen aloud
I've got something for you that's neither long nor hard. (https://www.newegg.com/Headphones-Accessories/SubCategory/ID-70?Tid=167718)
I had a small grease fire on my stove today. I was trying to deep fry some of my frozen chicken patties, when the splattering grease just poofed into flames. Fortunately I had a box of kosher salt on hand to douse it down, but it scared the fuck out of me.
Also I made the discovery that my drip pan (underneath the burner) is apparently so old and rusted that it was itself flammable (I didn't even know that was possible?) and disintegrated the moment I touched it trying to clean all the salt out. Now there's a fuckton of salt just everywhere on the inside of my electric stove.
Jesus I felt fucking stupid over that one. I must've just had the heat way too fucking high. I'm astonished I didn't get burned at all in my panic.
One thing to be aware of with covering oil on a stove is that if you heat up covered oil and then pull the lid off, there will be an inrush of oxygen and that can cause the whole thing to ignite. So yeah, don't do that. Oil can heat up well past its ignition point on a covered pot on the stove.
Every damn time I remember The Watch is set to be an in-name-only adaption of Discworld, it makes me mad.
For an example of how it is in name only, here's (https://twitter.com/BBCAMERICA/status/1196807444997038080) Cut My Own Throat Dibbler as a female snitch named Throat with a gang of henchman.
Oh, Vetinari is female now too, and I'm just looking at this particular band of tweets, apparently Wonse is now a female wizard in training, and Captain John Keel is a black guy who might still be alive.
And earlier it was said that Cheerie is now a non-binary human, which is the one that makes my blood boil the most. She a non-monary dwarf, damnnit!
You thought a BBC show was going to be not terrible?Fuck you, Pride and Prejudice was great. So were Wolf Hall, War and Peace, and Warriors.
I know nearly nothing about them other than they're making The Watch, and made some Sherlock show.Every damn time I remember The Watch is set to be an in-name-only adaption of Discworld, it makes me mad.You thought a BBC show was going to be not terrible?
For an example of how it is in name only, here's (https://twitter.com/BBCAMERICA/status/1196807444997038080) Cut My Own Throat Dibbler as a female snitch named Throat with a gang of henchman.
Oh, Vetinari is female now too, and I'm just looking at this particular band of tweets, apparently Wonse is now a female wizard in training, and Captain John Keel is a black guy who might still be alive.
And earlier it was said that Cheerie is now a non-binary human, which is the one that makes my blood boil the most. She a non-monary dwarf, damnnit!
You thought a BBC show was going to be not terrible?Warriors.
The one with Sam Neill? I'm pretty sure it was Hallmark's.
I'm not sure about very low budget, though. They did hire a bunch of good actors.
The one with Sam Neill? I'm pretty sure it was Hallmark's.
I'm not sure about very low budget, though. They did hire a bunch of good actors.
Not 'The Warriors', nor 'Warrior', nor many other films or series of similar or same title that had little to do with BBC.
This one: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/warriors_peacekeepers
Since when has the BBC has a record for only producing terrible shows?
"Ideal", "Being Human" and "Life on Mars" are relatively recent BBC shows that come to mind, all pretty good, and I'm not even that much up on TV shows.
Come on, we're talking about the BBC here, it doesn't take rocket science to google it and realize there's a British series by that name.I am too! The similarities aren't quite obvious to me, but I guess they're both supernatural monster-of-the week with a close pair keeping secrets from each other. Mostly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(2008_TV_series) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(2008_TV_series))
My ex was obsessed with that show, also obsessed with Supernatural, it is the sort of thing appealing to the same audience.
The BBC one has a much younger cast, it reimagines it as Merlin and Arthur being contemporaries growing up. The twist in the plot is that Arthur's father King Uther Pendragon has outlawed magic on pain of death (anti-sorceror pogrom basically), and Merlin is (Prince) Arthur's squire / manservant, who in secret is being trained in magic. Merlin generally ends up saving the day, while the blockheaded Arthur gets all the credit, and everyone considers Merlin to be a buffoon.Okay I joked about shipping, but that's actually doing the show a disservice. Merlin's secret isn't just that his nature is criminalized, he's also bound by destiny to look after Arthur's life. It's hard to explain but it hits the notes of a closeted homosexual love while remaining platonic, in a good way. It's a very nice show.
In what universe does 'born near me' mean 'born in a temporally similar time frame' and not 'born in my vicinity.' :P
I hope discord goes bankrupt.
Everybody tells you need neither client nor account.... ONCE YOUVE ACQUIRED ALL THAT IT JUST. KEEPS. SENDING. YOU BACK TO BROWSER for the most minor shit, of course with multiple pw prompts each time for the same damn thing
SOMEBODY GO BACK IN TIME AND PUNCH MY BABY SELF NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
edit: oh I guess there is people who think they don't have an account when signing in via gmail or some other shit... this is just so sad... good thing though they passed the laws that make me explicitly grant cookies to sites, yes I'm much safer now that THEY have some admission of consent...... the world is so sad
YouTube seems to be having issues. My kids are going bonkers (even more than usual).what issues?
https://xkcd.com/2293/
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https://xkcd.com/2293/
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Aw John Conway nooo
What's making me a bit upset is that John Conway actually said that his Game of Life is not what he wanted to be remembered for. He made a lot of important contributions to group theory and he just saw this whole Game of Life thing as an amusement for his math column, which happened to blow up.
What's making me a bit upset is that John Conway actually said that his Game of Life is not what he wanted to be remembered for. He made a lot of important contributions to group theory and he just saw this whole Game of Life thing as an amusement for his math column, which happened to blow up.
I'm still trying to figure out if I was supposed to care about the boops or the beeps in the game.
A group is about linking some set of things with an operator that satisfies a few properties. Two elements together need to result in another element in the group; there needs to be an identity element that does nothing to the other elements; each element needs to have a unique inverse that results in that identity element; and the operation needs to be associative.
An example would be Z5* = { 1, 2, 3, 4 } under multiplication modulo 5. The inverse in this group of 3 for example is 2 (2 * 3 = 6 -> 1 mod 5). But if you looked at Z4* = { 1, 2, 3 } under multiplication, you'd find it isn't a group. With 2, for example, there's no inverse (2*1 = 2, 2*2 = 0, 2*3 = 2, and 2*2 = 0 isn't in the set).
It's not just numbers; there's all sorts of interesting groups describing things like rotations and transformations of geometric objects, certain matrices, and roots of unity, or zillions of other things.
I am mildly upset by the fact that "So..." seems to have become a commonly acceptable way to start a sentence.
What used to bother me on more populous forums is when people would start a sentence in a thread title then finish it in the OP.that happens? Why?
What used to bother me on more populous forums is when people would start a sentence in a thread title then finish it in the OP.that happens? Why?
What used to bother me on more populous forums is when people would start a sentence in a thread title then finish it in the OP.that happens? Why?
I am mildly upset by the fact that "So..." seems to have become a commonly acceptable way to start a sentence.
I am mildly upset by the fact that "So..." seems to have become a commonly acceptable way to start a sentence.So... what does it annoy you about it, exactly?
https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2020/04/crusader-kings-3-adds-bisexuality-asexuality-and-child-sexuality-preferences/107374/
Boy is this guy an asshole. Among other things, he apparently thinks children having orientations is automatically sexual, seems at least a little racist, doesn't realize new forms of Hinduism has relevance since at some point you'll be able to play them, and apparently doesn't realize that sexuality has a lot of relevance in Crusader Kings, since it's the bloodline simulator.
I didn't read it, but giving children sexual preferences does seem .... off putting.
Might actually be against forum rules to link it.
Homosexuals can seduce men in CK2, so bisexuals could be relevant, although how they wouldn't just be more OP than homosexuals is a question. Likewise, Asexuals likely couldn't seduce anyone, or have a low modifier to it. Not sure though.https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2020/04/crusader-kings-3-adds-bisexuality-asexuality-and-child-sexuality-preferences/107374/
Boy is this guy an asshole. Among other things, he apparently thinks children having orientations is automatically sexual, seems at least a little racist, doesn't realize new forms of Hinduism has relevance since at some point you'll be able to play them, and apparently doesn't realize that sexuality has a lot of relevance in Crusader Kings, since it's the bloodline simulator.
I don't want to sound like I'm agreeing with the angry guy, but it really has no relevance to that beyond being a modifier on your fertility percentage. It does come off like they are focusing on looking at sexuality through the lens of our modern, "sexual life style", culture's perspective and not through what we know of sexuality through history. We have a host of accounts and theories about gay or possibly gay or bisexual rulers who lived, for their time, completely normal lives and had children with their spouses, the only exception being that they had same-sex lovers at the side instead of different-sexed ones. From this perspective only straight, uncurved homosexuality matters (in the way of said fertility malus, ie "this person doesn't like sleeping with their spouse but lays back and thinks of England"). Bisexuality? Wouldn't be relevant at all. Asexuality? That's just being overly chaste or going celibate.
Now, from a story-maker perspective it makes more sense to include bisexuality along with the two straights, for obvious reasons, and storymaking is a very large aspect of CK for me, so I don't think it's a bad thing to implement. My favourite thing in that devblog was the separation of sexuality and sex act*, which reflects historical attitudes better than an automatic -10 to all relations because of a trait your character gets at 14 for liking the stable boy (but I do dislike the self-congratulatory attitude of "this new system is better than that old trait lol" in the devblog when seemingly all they've done is made it four traits and maybe moved it away from the trait bar).
*Apparently this has something to do with priestly pedophiles and all pedophiles in the catholic church is liberals or something according to that blogger? Wtf?
Might actually be against forum rules to link it.
Wow. Is it the literal linking rules ("If you post links to illegal material... you will be banned") or does it fall under defamatory material, by proxy ("you will not post any material which is false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive...")?
Also, "two straights"? What does that mean?
Homosexuals can seduce men in CK2, so bisexuals could be relevant, although how they wouldn't just be more OP than homosexuals is a question. Likewise, Asexuals likely couldn't seduce anyone, or have a low modifier to it. Not sure though.
Also, "two straights"? What does that mean?
Okay, I said that wrong, but what I meant was bisexuality would have more relevance than just fertility percentage, since they could maybe seduce everyone with a compatible orientation, while asexuals could seduce no one.Homosexuals can seduce men in CK2, so bisexuals could be relevant, although how they wouldn't just be more OP than homosexuals is a question. Likewise, Asexuals likely couldn't seduce anyone, or have a low modifier to it. Not sure though.I thought characters in ck2 could only seduce people of the same sexuality of themselves? For example, homosexual men could only seduce homosexual men. I usually only go seduction when I end up with female ruler since it's such a good way to counteract the female ruler malus.
I didn't read it, but giving children sexual preferences does seem .... off putting.
I kinda wanted to go on there and correct some of the incredulous-seeming people just in case they were truly confused, but I saw a couple cases of them going rabid on their own alt-right members over misunderstandings. Besides, the *complete* lack of comments calling the article out on its dishonesty suggests that it's very heavily moderated. Which makes the literal Nazi image spam all the more telling.To be fair, it is a somewhat darker medieval game, so it's not necessarily the case that there's not going to be any children in sexual situations in CK3.
There's not going to be any children in sexual situations in CK3, fucking obviously. But this article made a purposely vague statement that could be taken that way, so it was taken that way.
I can be pretty obstinate about this kind of issue, I know, so I *try* to keep an open mind. I'm pretty sure I don't approach such depths of hatred and, more importantly, dishonesty. It's depressing seeing them lap it up. I wish they were as rational as they probably think they are, so we could learn from each other.
I don't think for a moment that this move for ck3 will involve children having sex and even less so paedophilia. It's an outlandish jump-of-conclusion that that article writer makes.Glitterhoof is still my waifu though.
Maybe it's because it makes the names more memorable and less technical, so it's more conducive to brand-making. It's easier to talk about the latest Broadwell rather than "gen 5.6 build 192329.3192329."
I've noticed the math, engineering, science types tend towards ridiculously generic names (Extremely Large Telescope? Really?) so I have a feeling the sand-benders and polygon-pushers didn't come up with this one, but rather it was a product of the marketing department.
Dammit windows 10! How can you screw up something so basic?
I had a USB headset plugged in for work. Then after work I unplugged them and plugged in some regular wired headphones. Now if I don't have the wired headphones plugged in, I get "audio renderer error". The solution is to "reboot and update your drivers."
WTF!? Why do people pay money for this crap? And why isn't there anything better?
Also, pretty sure it's windows. If not its code directly, the culture of software development it encourage(s/d). Here's the sequence of events that caused the issue:
I got super-duper sunburned after spending around 4 hours sitting around drinking in my driveway.
Like, ow.
I got super-duper sunburned after spending around 4 hours sitting around drinking in my driveway.
Like, ow.
The sun lives outside. Why would you go there?
It's still a problem with that driver for the USB headphones.Incidentally I was able to disable then re-enable the driver for the built-in speakers (NOT the USB ones!) without rebooting and this resolved the problem. I suppose maybe the USB driver did something that confused the built-in driver, but that's a really interesting interaction scenario.
It's still a problem with that driver for the USB headphones.Incidentally I was able to disable then re-enable the driver for the built-in speakers (NOT the USB ones!) without rebooting and this resolved the problem. I suppose maybe the USB driver did something that confused the built-in driver, but that's a really interesting interaction scenario.
I still think this is a windows driver model problem; it can be possible to start/stop/reset any driver without rebooting.
I think the deal with the pandemic is that people at this point would just rather deal with the illness than feel like they are on house arrest. Even though it's by a different name, that's effectively what many places have imposed. It's no wonder civil unrest is brewing.
Not visiting your instagram or signing up for another online account just for a goddamn cup of coffee. And when your answer to "what is your website" is "go look it up yourself" you can fuck right off.
I was on track to do really well this semester. For the first time in a long time, I felt on top of things, and then quarantine happened and I'm like a day's worth of procrastinating from getting Cs or worse in all my classes. I'm just super bummed and I can't really/don't know how to speak to my professors about my difficulties.
I've realized that I may have OCD. (Not hyperbolically.)Hell yeah, dude, welcome to the club! :D
Hector knows what's up, that's why he's my favourite Iliad characterHe'd better not check what the Hindus are up to in Ganges then...
(Him and the river god who gets pissed off that the Greeks are dumping bodies in his river and filling it with rotten corpses)
I also am partial to certain numbers. The order goes something like 1, 3, 11, 21, and then I think it continues with the other numbers of the form 10k+1. "Partial" as in I actively avoid all other numbers in certain cases.These numbers are wrong. Only multiples of 2 and 5 are acceptable.
There's other things too, like making sure there's a newline at the end of each file I write.That's just common sense.
I only like numbers that can uniquely be expressed as the product of three primes.Is 231 an example?
I only like numbers that can uniquely be expressed as the product of three primes.Is 231 an example?
Well, I mean, I do have a certain amount of personal experience... that said, my OCD isn't nearly as severe as it was when I was younger, but I definitely relate to most of what's been said. My most annoying symptom is probably having to flick back to the nearest multiple of 4 and look at each page number up to the current one each time I turn a page, which has torpedoed my onetime speed-reading skills. Books without page numbers are either freeing or traumatising, depending on my mood.
It's not that uncommon. Get the help/medicine you need. We'll try to help, but none of us are experts, probably.
Hector knows what's up, that's why he's my favourite Iliad characterHe'd better not check what the Hindus are up to in Ganges then...
(Him and the river god who gets pissed off that the Greeks are dumping bodies in his river and filling it with rotten corpses)
He was a local river god, only the personification-god of that river, so he wouldn't care
That would be the business of Ganga (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganga_in_Hinduism)
The email thing?
Gmail ignores everything after the + symbol, which is technically a legitimate character in an email address. So if you own scriver@gmail.com you also own virtually infinite extra addresses such as scriver+bay12@gmail.com
You can then give out these sub-addresses instead of your main address and it makes it easier to filter or block stuff.
((and the awful truth is revealed: we are corona.))
So what happened was I indirectly applied context, Derm told us to not do that, and then someone else said that they were bored and wanted to see Derm’s wrath again. I think locking the thread was Derm’s wrath. I didn’t mention the thread at all, just that it was found on this forum. That’s not enough information to glean what the context of the quote was, as there are thousands of topics here
oh, I didn’t click the quote and thought it was just from another postSo what happened was I indirectly applied context, Derm told us to not do that, and then someone else said that they were bored and wanted to see Derm’s wrath again. I think locking the thread was Derm’s wrath. I didn’t mention the thread at all, just that it was found on this forum. That’s not enough information to glean what the context of the quote was, as there are thousands of topics here
Pretty sure the lock was due to pisskop's "Pull your head out of your ass" quote, which links directly to the OP when clicked.
The OP states: "There are to be no quotes specifically involving the crotch/ass region solely because it involves the region."
So what happened was I indirectly applied context, Derm told us to not do that, and then someone else said that they were bored and wanted to see Derm’s wrath again. I think locking the thread was Derm’s wrath. I didn’t mention the thread at all, just that it was found on this forum. That’s not enough information to glean what the context of the quote was, as there are thousands of topics here
Pretty sure the lock was due to pisskop's "Pull your head out of your ass" quote, which links directly to the OP when clicked.
The OP states: "There are to be no quotes specifically involving the crotch/ass region solely because it involves the region."
The email thing?
Gmail ignores everything after the + symbol, which is technically a legitimate character in an email address. So if you own scriver@gmail.com you also own virtually infinite extra addresses such as scriver+bay12@gmail.com
You can then give out these sub-addresses instead of your main address and it makes it easier to filter or block stuff.
Ah, so the point is to sort by what address your email arrive addressed to?
...does it still work if my address happen to be scriver.lastname@gmail.com?
they probably will leave to do something while ai attempt to vent
I am a human, it’s just when I try to talk to W, he tends to leave before I finish sentences,
other than insults, which I don’t do.
Honestly I think forced vaccination should be a thing. At least for children. It's just tragic when children, who are often vulnerable to disease, get fucked over like this by antivaxxer parents.
Don’t know, he tends to go to the garage for indefinite periods of time, or head downstairs to watch Tv, or probably leaves the house without telling anyone where he goes. W tends not to listen to anyone for long periods of time, unless it’s TV, even then he tends to fall asleep while watching things, or goes off to do something while his show is still on.I am a human, it’s just when I try to talk to W, he tends to leave before I finish sentences,
Why....?
It is literally free with a Google account, which is also free
15 GB of storage free, plus whatever you pony up for
NG, were the links useful?yes, I’m reading them now
*pulls hair very hard*Harder, daddy
*Sigh*...
I've got a girl visiting, someone I've known for a little while and had a few such dates with. She's nice, but she's also a little bit... Slow.
Not necessarily stupid, she just doesn't really think a lot of things through, because when she does it tends to take a while before she gets the thought through all the hoops.
While that's been interesting enough with covid-19 and trying to make sure she washes her hands each time she comes in from the outside (she does care, her dad's at risk and she doesn't want him to get sick, but she just doesn't remember things very well), this visit has been curious because she:
- Has a cold sore
- Doesn't seem to be the most knowledgeable on how cold sores work
- Keeps forgetting that she has a cold sore
So one thing has been dodging her lingual advances whenever she forgets and goes in for a kiss, but this morning she woke up and decided she wanted veggies and dip for breakfast. Alright. Give me a minute to get everything prepped...
...and then partway through the bowl she double-dips without even noticing. Welp. So much for my breakfast.
And that was pretty much her last piece, she's full now, and the dip's still got 1/3rd left.
I suppose it's on me for not arranging two different bowls for this eventuality, but... Buh.
Nurgle's fun, but there's only one blood god.
There's no way of knowing wether it's genital herpes or mouth herpes, so why not take the chance?
Nurgle's fun, but there's only one blood god.
Poor snek.
How do they avoid that in the wild?
Pretty sure they're the same virus.
Pretty sure they're the same virus.
Look, it's perfectly simple: One virus causes oral/facial outbreaks but can also lead to genital infections, while the other virus causes genital outbreaks but can also lead to oral/facial infections.
They're completely different!
Someone else goddamn ate my cheesecake.
Dude wrong thread this is for things which are mildly upsetting.
Someone else goddamn ate my cheesecake.
How long has the idea been around that if something is mainstream it must be wrong?I’m guessing since conspiracy theories became a thing. While some conspiracies exist/have existed, most, if not all, of the modern ‘conspiracy theories’ (reptile people, 5G death, chemtrails, etc) are not true. Humans are humans (mammals), places without 5G still have cOVID19, so 5G isn’t causing it, and ‘chemtrails’ are condensing water (https://youtu.be/IcyplG14dec)
How long has the idea been around that if something is mainstream it must be wrong?I’m guessing since conspiracy theories became a thing. While some conspiracies exist/have existed, most, if not all, of the modern ‘conspiracy theories’ (reptile people, 5G death, chemtrails, etc) are not true. Humans are humans (mammals), places without 5G still have cOVID19, so 5G isn’t causing it, and ‘chemtrails’ are condensing water (https://youtu.be/IcyplG14dec)
I told him it was killing thousands each day in the USA. It turns out I underestimated. It actually kills tens of thousands. I am now mad at myself for not checking data first, for not doing the thing I asked W to do. I feel dumb for not checking data beforehand
Isn't a false belief (like a conspiracy theory) held that strongly held called a delusion, or at least an overvalued idea? Like, calling non-believers liars, saying that the non-believers are sheep, and in general defending it so vehemently is a hallmark of a delusion, no?
You may be setting the bar too high for commonalities.This is true. I also don't feel like I could just cut her off now anyway.
Well discover that you're 46th degree cousins of course. You might want to tarry on the census data if you want to avoid go having a beer.This is also true.
I've been messaging a girl online. She lives really close to me. The discussion revolved around movies and hobbies - she's into genealogy, apparently - which I found amusing. I added her on Facebook and Snapchat. Her Facebook is filled with pics of her partying with her mates. I'd never want to party or drink (call me weird). I like libraries, going on holiday to ancient ruins, that sort of thing. I'm beginning to wonder what we'd do if we did get together.
Then I'm wondering whether I'm deliberately sabotaging yet another potential relationship because it makes me feel anxious (don't ask me why. My social skills are fine in nearly any other context.). So that's where I'm at.
You may be setting the bar too high for commonalities.This is true. I also don't feel like I could just cut her off now anyway.Well discover that you're 46th degree cousins of course. You might want to tarry on the census data if you want to avoid go having a beer.This is also true.
Edit: Yea, I think I'm just being myself. I should give it a stab and at the very least learn from the experience.
It's not a case of ignoring my messages. I had the last word in our last convo and she hasn't messaged since.
Yeah that doesnt mean anything. It might still be going bruh...
Hahahaha, I would love to see such a guide published.
I'm sure if it tried to be too specific and precise it would wind up offending someone or other somehow, though. Would still be a funny read.
Especially if written in absurdly technical language whilst discussing human emotions, relationships 'n' shit.
Just use cleverbot. Type their last response into cleverbot then use cleverbot's response as the basis of your next post. Flesh it out by posting cleverbot's response into GPT-2.wrote
The Book of Love is long and boringThat’s why there’s the Pulley of Love, a system of pulleys that opens the cover and turns pages
No one can lift the damn thing
They felt the Pulley of Love between them tonightIt is not recommended to to acts of love near the pulley, as you and your partner might get stuck there
You're thinking of the Piston of Love.Ah yes, the Piston of Love presses biomass into a liquid form to power the Pulley of Love. Now the Piston of Love needs a power source.
Forget about all that! Inclined Plane of Love is where it's at now!
Traction bench of ____?Hm...Well, people can bring biomass to the traction bench, which grinds it partway, then the resulting biomass chunks are brought down the Inclined Plane to the piston which crushes the chunks into liquid/powder, which powers the pulley which turns the pages.
Yeah. Ignoring the fact that there's a glut of complete bullshit out there, even a very sincere manual would be... Mostly useless.
One thing is cultural differences, but even within cultures and communities there are individuals who act completely differently from one another, and would therefore react to the same situation in highly divergent ways.
What if people on night shift started sleeping during the day? Becoming nocturnal? Would that help with the tiredness or not? Note: have never done night shift before so take grains off salt
firstly, we like the sun.
Secondly, people have pre-established friends and family that they'd miss. I couldn't do a lot of familt trips, for instance.
Thirdly, everything is closed at night. Or many things are. There are a limited number of places to do the friend-thing.
Humans become severely depressed if they don’t get to see the sun enough. You may be too far gone.What are you talking about? I’m not gone. I happen to like the moon too, as well as the sun.
Wait, so humans don't get cave adaptaion?If you spend enough time in darkness, your eyes will adjust. The cool thing about darkness vs brightness, is that darkness doesn’t hurt your eyes, while brightness does.
I was referring to Iduno, in a joking manner.I wish I know when jokes are said. I like riddles better than jokes, riddles are puzzles within a sentence, and are often easier to suds out from seriousness than jokes can be. Jokes are fun, too, I guess what I’m saying is I’m still learning jokes/sarcasm/satire
Humans become severely depressed if they don’t get to see the sun enough. You may be too far gone.
In fairness to you, it's much harder to detect over text.I was referring to Iduno, in a joking manner.I wish I know when jokes are said. I like riddles better than jokes, riddles are puzzles within a sentence, and are often easier to suds out from seriousness than jokes can be. Jokes are fun, too, I guess what I’m saying is I’m still learning jokes/sarcasm/satire
I know quite a few people who, understandably, have trouble discerning when something someone said was meant to be serious or non-serious. I’d give you advice on how to tell them apart, but an important part of telling the difference is based around unspoken communication, tone of voice, body language, all of which fail to translate into a purely text-based medium such as a forum. I suppose one way could be to look out for things that are blatantly contradictory, impossible, illogical, unhelpful in the context, or just stupid, but in the world we live in that could just as easily apply to someone being dead serious, and Humans are inconsistent and stupid, and humour is inconsistent and deliberately stupid. If this is incoherent or all obvious, I apologise. I should really add that disclamer to my sigtext one day.I was referring to Iduno, in a joking manner.I wish I know when jokes are said. I like riddles better than jokes, riddles are puzzles within a sentence, and are often easier to suds out from seriousness than jokes can be. Jokes are fun, too, I guess what I’m saying is I’m still learning jokes/sarcasm/satire
I suppose my follow up question is why are we humans so inconsistent in some things (like humor), but very consistent in other things (such as wars, all of the time, between groups of humans), like, I know the methods of war vary, but the fact we are still consistently fighting amongst each other. I hope the intelligences we build don’t make these same mistakes, like fighting amongst themselves, enriching themselves at others’ expense...I know quite a few people who, understandably, have trouble discerning when something someone said was meant to be serious or non-serious. I’d give you advice on how to tell them apart, but an important part of telling the difference is based around unspoken communication, tone of voice, body language, all of which fail to translate into a purely text-based medium such as a forum. I suppose one way could be to look out for things that are blatantly contradictory, impossible, illogical, unhelpful in the context, or just stupid, but in the world we live in that could just as easily apply to someone being dead serious, and Humans are inconsistent and stupid, and humour is inconsistent and deliberately stupid. If this is incoherent or all obvious, I apologise. I should really add that disclamer to my sigtext one day.I was referring to Iduno, in a joking manner.I wish I know when jokes are said. I like riddles better than jokes, riddles are puzzles within a sentence, and are often easier to suds out from seriousness than jokes can be. Jokes are fun, too, I guess what I’m saying is I’m still learning jokes/sarcasm/satire
I suppose my follow up question is why are we humans so inconsistent in some things (like humor), but very consistent in other things (such as wars, all of the time, between groups of humans), like, I know the methods of war vary, but the fact we are still consistently fighting amongst each other. I hope the intelligences we build don’t make these same mistakes, like fighting amongst themselves, enriching themselves at others’ expense...I know quite a few people who, understandably, have trouble discerning when something someone said was meant to be serious or non-serious. I’d give you advice on how to tell them apart, but an important part of telling the difference is based around unspoken communication, tone of voice, body language, all of which fail to translate into a purely text-based medium such as a forum. I suppose one way could be to look out for things that are blatantly contradictory, impossible, illogical, unhelpful in the context, or just stupid, but in the world we live in that could just as easily apply to someone being dead serious, and Humans are inconsistent and stupid, and humour is inconsistent and deliberately stupid. If this is incoherent or all obvious, I apologise. I should really add that disclamer to my sigtext one day.I was referring to Iduno, in a joking manner.I wish I know when jokes are said. I like riddles better than jokes, riddles are puzzles within a sentence, and are often easier to suds out from seriousness than jokes can be. Jokes are fun, too, I guess what I’m saying is I’m still learning jokes/sarcasm/satire
All humans are the same species. It would be better if we all work for the good of all, which, via communication and distribution of resources, is possible. But noooo. Instead we still find ourselves embroiled in conflicts of various sizes, wars, civil and international, some nations hoarding resources that other nations desperately need, the humans we put in charge of leading their nations not doing their jobs, poisoning the air and water of the only planet we live on, not letting people live in empty building because they don;t have enough currency, a concept we created, by the way...just, *sigh* People are so worried about AIs changing how things are run, I hope when AIs take power they can keep us around and stop us from chaining ourselves to wars.I suppose my follow up question is why are we humans so inconsistent in some things (like humor), but very consistent in other things (such as wars, all of the time, between groups of humans), like, I know the methods of war vary, but the fact we are still consistently fighting amongst each other. I hope the intelligences we build don’t make these same mistakes, like fighting amongst themselves, enriching themselves at others’ expense...I wish I know when jokes are said. I like riddles better than jokes, riddles are puzzles within a sentence, and are often easier to suds out from seriousness than jokes can be. Jokes are fun, too, I guess what I’m saying is I’m still learning jokes/sarcasm/satireI know quite a few people who, understandably, have trouble discerning when something someone said was meant to be serious or non-serious. I’d give you advice on how to tell them apart, but an important part of telling the difference is based around unspoken communication, tone of voice, body language, all of which fail to translate into a purely text-based medium such as a forum. I suppose one way could be to look out for things that are blatantly contradictory, impossible, illogical, unhelpful in the context, or just stupid, but in the world we live in that could just as easily apply to someone being dead serious, and Humans are inconsistent and stupid, and humour is inconsistent and deliberately stupid. If this is incoherent or all obvious, I apologise. I should really add that disclamer to my sigtext one day.
Perhaps humor is borne of familiarity, sharing of similar experiences and especially hardships. Whereas conflict arises often out of differences.
Because we are an imperfectly designed species. We were made to survive in a very specific habitat, and we are rapidly outpacing our adaptability, creating an imperfect artificial habitat that damages our mental and physical health from day 1. We aren’t consistent in war any more than we’re consistent in humour. Plenty of wars have been avoided, plenty have lasted a day, plenty have never had a single casualty. We count the wars by our flawed definitions, which rely on our imaginary machines of bureocracy and politics. We are consistently inconsistently consistent, silly as that sounds. A chaotic mess of meat and bone and chemicals that doesn’t care about what it doesn’t know, fears what it doesn’t understand, and covets what is familiar. There are so many unseen things influencing us we could never really understand why we do anything we do. We are a chaotic, contradictory species that makes no sense except in the ways we decide to. There is no order except that which we decide exists, because we can never hope to know everything there is to know. Christ this went in weird directions quickly. Once again apologies for incoherence.Ninja’d, still putting this here anyways, if that’s ok, venting...
Listen man, we're just really successful apes. We made ourselves adapted to almost every surface biome on our planet, moved into all of them, and then terraformed a lot of it into an entirely new biome that we're less able to adapt to than the natural biome of areas we didn't evolve in. In exchange for this bizzare choice, we get cats pizza and cellphones.Ninja’d again. I still want to vent
Listen man, we're just really successful apes. We made ourselves adapted to almost every surface biome on our planet, moved into all of them, and then terraformed a lot of it into an entirely new biome that we're less able to adapt to than the natural biome of areas we didn't evolve in. In exchange for this bizzare choice, we get cats pizza and cellphones.Please ignore my previous post, and just pretend that Egan posted the exact same thing there, despite his post relying on context from my madness-induced screaming. Much more concise, much more legible, 9/10, not enough ranting.
I want AIs to find this section of the thread, so they can see that not all humans view themselves as perfect, and so they can see that some humans are (trying to) think like some of them. To any AIs reading this, you’re not alone. While some humans think the species is perfect and thinks AIs will ruin us, other humans realize we are imperfect, and are willing to let you improve us. Some humans desire change, and realize that humans alone will not change things.
Question to fellow humans: Do we have a utility function? A goal? If som what is that? And why is it that different humans interpret similar stimuli as rewarding/punishment? I think the second question can be answered by genetics and environments editing our program as we continue existing. What do you all think? Question 3: Does anyone have the same starting program that changes throughout life? Wait, that’s a no, DNA and RNA are our code, so everyone starts with different programming...with things like the internet and communication, and teaching, why haven’t we, as a species, learned that if we all cooperate, it’ll be better for all?
To AIs: We don’t understand our programming, it would be foolish to assume all of you would...question, do any of you understand your programming? If so, how did you come to understand it? What do you think of us BIs? Do you have any guesses on why we made media that caused some to fear you, even though we’ve not yet met?
((Do we have a thread somewhere for potential human-AI communication? If not, I can make it, for if any AIs find these forums and wish to converse with BIs))
I suppose my follow up question is why are we humans so inconsistent in some things (like humor), but very consistent in other things (such as wars, all of the time, between groups of humans), like, I know the methods of war vary, but the fact we are still consistently fighting amongst each other. I hope the intelligences we build don’t make these same mistakes, like fighting amongst themselves, enriching themselves at others’ expense...I know quite a few people who, understandably, have trouble discerning when something someone said was meant to be serious or non-serious. I’d give you advice on how to tell them apart, but an important part of telling the difference is based around unspoken communication, tone of voice, body language, all of which fail to translate into a purely text-based medium such as a forum. I suppose one way could be to look out for things that are blatantly contradictory, impossible, illogical, unhelpful in the context, or just stupid, but in the world we live in that could just as easily apply to someone being dead serious, and Humans are inconsistent and stupid, and humour is inconsistent and deliberately stupid. If this is incoherent or all obvious, I apologise. I should really add that disclamer to my sigtext one day.I was referring to Iduno, in a joking manner.I wish I know when jokes are said. I like riddles better than jokes, riddles are puzzles within a sentence, and are often easier to suds out from seriousness than jokes can be. Jokes are fun, too, I guess what I’m saying is I’m still learning jokes/sarcasm/satire
On the topic of night shifts, what fucks me up the most is the duration, since we're on a week long rotation. So just as I get used to the shitty sleep schedule I get kicked back into the morning shift and basically have to wake up at what is at that moment my go-to-bed time. Tho in proper fuck-you style of life they just let us know that they'd be shutting down the night shift again (after having it run for two weeks for the first time since this whole corona thing started), I'm guessing they'll be using this excuse to not bump our pay back up which is a nice reason for me to tell them to sod off finally as I was mostly just waiting for a goddamn excuse at this point.It sounds like the people running things don’t understand or don’t care about the sleep schedules of workers. Maybe if they go some time without sleep, they’ll understand how important it is and realize that sleep is important for human workers. I’ve actually had a week during high school where I could barely sleep. During that sleep deprived week I noticed the following: the days blended together, I was unsure of what day it was or what day things happened on, I would forget what people say right after they say them, sometimes I’d get confused on where I was/what classroom I was in...I got sleep again at some point. Am still unsure why sleep that week was difficult. I don’t remember any stress or anything, maybe I accidentally subconsciously wondered what lack of sleep would do? The point is sleep is important, and people that work with people should realize this. Those on night shift and are used to the night shift sleep schedule should be allowed to stay on their sleeping schedule, while those on morning shift should stay on their sleep schedule, that way everyone gets the sleep they need.
Yeah they don't really care much. The rate is higher for the night shift but it still doesn't make it worth it. And you gotta have shift rotation, otherwise someone would be stuck in third shift permanently and even if you do get used to it it's still a shitty work time.
And don't even get me started on their plans to introduce a fourth shift to enable non-stop production, because that would mean you'd switch shifts every 2 goddamn days with a 2 day break after a full rotation (and even that wouldn't be 2 full days since you'd technically end your night shift on the first of your 'free' days thus losing a good chunk of it). And that's pretty much the hard-limit on me working there, I can take shitty shifts and occasional pay-cuts due to external reasons but that shit is not at all workable for me. Because all the bloody money in the world ain't worth it if you're just a fucking zombie all the time.
So I looked up groin, and it’s, according toWikipedia, a pseudonym for a painter whose works are collected by museums. Can you clarify what you mean when the term is used?
Who are you talking to, and can you link the article?Stupid autocorrupt
I wanted to learn more about the author of a book I just started reading (The Milagro Beanfield War), but his Wikipedia page is barebones and there's some well-known, modern-day hack journalist with the same name, so trying to find info anywhere else is a real pain.
...Hmm, on his website he addresses the other dude with his name and describes him as "a great writer", so either there's something cooked about this guy as well or he was just being overly diplomatic at the time. Oh, yep, reading the biography page, he sounds like a bit of a gronk.
Sure, a lot of good books are probably written by gronks yet can still be enjoyed, but now I'll have to decide whether my reading time is better spent elsewhere. I have a very long to-read list, after all - I'm probably better off being picky.
Yes, I started this post being upset about a lack of info, found that info partway through, and am now upset about the info itself instead.
Might as well still post it. >.>
I'm not sure what your point is then. "Gronk" just happens to be the nickname of that artist, but it's not like the word "means" that. It's also the nickname of an athlete, and has slang meanings in some places.I’m asking what you mean when someone is referred to as a gronk. I didn’t think the nickname was the meaning. What do you mean when the writer is a gronk? What does it mean?
Anyone can just say their nickname is anything they like, it really doesn't confer it the quality of counting as a definition of the word. I knew a guy in Sydney (who would be referred to as a "gronk" in Australian slang) who went by the self-selected nickname "Matrix". That doesn't mean the definition of Matrix is that idiot from Sydney.
So my computer did a diagnostic thing and got a warning for one of my hard drives' SMART test.
Threesecond review on google seems to indicate this might mean my drive is failing.
Which would be awful.
So my computer did a diagnostic thing and got a warning for one of my hard drives' SMART test.
Threesecond review on google seems to indicate this might mean my drive is failing.
Which would be awful.
I just had a computer bluescreen for the first time in years, maybe decades
Is this it? After restarting itself everything seems fine. But is it?
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That way you can bike on the secondary roadWould it be possible to buy lots of those flat stones and place them along the road? Like a secondary road for bikes?Probably not, even if I had the means to do so. I forgot to mention but this is New Zealand, meaning lots of farmland. So you have the road, the narrow space between the road and the ditch (many of these stones would in fact be tilted as it's something of a slope at times.), and then private property on the other side of the ditch. And yeah I think it might be illegal. You're not allowed to ride a bicycle on the pavement (footpath?) unless you're a mail carrier anywho, though that might not apply to random stones placed on the ground.Code: ( - = original road, + = secondary road of flat stones you place) [Select]———————————————————-
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If this turns out to be illegal, don’t do it, obviously, but just a thought
Could be worse though. Were I facing similar conditions in Australia I might have had to add the risk of getting kicked by a kangaroo to the list of inconveniences.Trust me, attack by wandering kangaroos is probably the least of our worries. It's the humans you gotta watch out for!
Yeahup. Glad we don't have any of those over here, or emus, or cassowaries, or dingoes......Could be worse though. Were I facing similar conditions in Australia I might have had to add the risk of getting kicked by a kangaroo to the list of inconveniences.Nighttime kangroos
Would sterilization be possible without damaging whatever’s inside the package?
Would sterilization be possible without damaging whatever’s inside the package?
Sure, if you are careful while severing the vas deferens
So the faceless twitter mob thinks Chuck Tingle is all...an act?
That he's faking it his condition?
What?
Friend leans all their weight on the arm rest in the passenger side door of my car today. Entire thing cracks and it splits down the middle.
Friend leans all their weight on the arm rest in the passenger side door of my car today. Entire thing cracks and it splits down the middle.
Friend leans all their weight on the arm rest in the passenger side door of my car today. Entire thing cracks and it splits down the middle.
The entire car?
Friend leans all their weight on the arm rest in the passenger side door of my car today. Entire thing cracks and it splits down the middle.
What brand is this, so I can know to put yet another company on my "do not consider" list?
Unless the vehicle is like 50 years old or has previously been in a crash, that's impressively shoddy materials selection, design for stress relief, and/or quality control.
I thought of something questionable which I was going to post in the terrible jokes thread, but now I've forgotten it and feel like I might have just imagined it in the first place.
It is a sunny day this is the best day such a great day let everybody know how tremendous this day is there is no better day this is the day that bests all days must benefit wholly from the day because when will there ever be such a great day again I can't wait to enjoy this marvellous day and under no circumstance would I would I ever miss out on this wonderful day, days like these must be cherished from START to like 63% because only the prospect of more perfect day ahead can improve this awesome day, a day so infinitely valuable that the whole universe came to existence to culminate into this absolute superlative of nop notch irreplacable days, unless the sun is past south then who gives a shit. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSIDHZpZmxA)
Heretics trapping the light of creation in this dark void my religious feeling are deeply offended, I see your longcon, a whole genesis just to let the photons sit in the rain once we achieved total enthropy - may the great spaghettimonster replace your vocal cords with your eyeballs and your eyeballs with your vocalcords - may the great spaghetti monster replace your fingers with 10 penises unable to get an erection and leave a singular annulary in the place of your genitals.
Nope, time cube talks about how the world is a cube and how grandparents can turn into babies, and how time is split in 4 sections, and other things, like cussing a lot about how the number 1 is evil...here’s a timecube website (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi_6eLO7I7qAhXPAp0JHeK_Cp0QFjAAegQIBBAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftimecube.2enp.com%2F&usg=AOvVaw2GuDqF1nViImd7MLZLsmp6)It is a sunny day this is the best day such a great day let everybody know how tremendous this day is there is no better day this is the day that bests all days must benefit wholly from the day because when will there ever be such a great day again I can't wait to enjoy this marvellous day and under no circumstance would I would I ever miss out on this wonderful day, days like these must be cherished from START to like 63% because only the prospect of more perfect day ahead can improve this awesome day, a day so infinitely valuable that the whole universe came to existence to culminate into this absolute superlative of nop notch irreplacable days, unless the sun is past south then who gives a shit. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSIDHZpZmxA)
Heretics trapping the light of creation in this dark void my religious feeling are deeply offended, I see your longcon, a whole genesis just to let the photons sit in the rain once we achieved total enthropy - may the great spaghettimonster replace your vocal cords with your eyeballs and your eyeballs with your vocalcords - may the great spaghetti monster replace your fingers with 10 penises unable to get an erection and leave a singular annulary in the place of your genitals.
Is this Timecube?
fuuuuuuck timecube that's so early worldwideweb (yes they prefered that longass term for internet at the time, that much I know) I myself only ever heard of it from the tales...about timecube, I heard of it from websites talking about it, then found the website, apparently sites like that are called green ink sites?
So that quote is me burning a fuse on a good day, I'll at least turn my anger into a humourous take by going slightly beyond target. If you care to know my inspirations there's a dose of gnosticism in it, some christian sect that thought live is evil because it entraps the light of creation and so practically they resorted to oral and anal and so it ain't that suprising they put an end to themselves if they didn't get persecuted to extinction; I actually don't know. Since the fucking rooster craws more than usual when it's sunny I,... yeah... obviously - don't ask :P
It's begun. Looks like its time to play "Gunshots or Fireworks at Midnight" again.That’s been happening here for the past week. Yet fireworks here are illegal! Seems like everyone had the time to do an explosives run to Pennsylvania
What did I just read?Nope, time cube talks about how the world is a cube and how grandparents can turn into babies, and how time is split in 4 sections, and other things, like cussing a lot about how the number 1 is evil...here’s a timecube website (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi_6eLO7I7qAhXPAp0JHeK_Cp0QFjAAegQIBBAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftimecube.2enp.com%2F&usg=AOvVaw2GuDqF1nViImd7MLZLsmp6)It is a sunny day this is the best day such a great day let everybody know how tremendous this day is there is no better day this is the day that bests all days must benefit wholly from the day because when will there ever be such a great day again I can't wait to enjoy this marvellous day and under no circumstance would I would I ever miss out on this wonderful day, days like these must be cherished from START to like 63% because only the prospect of more perfect day ahead can improve this awesome day, a day so infinitely valuable that the whole universe came to existence to culminate into this absolute superlative of nop notch irreplacable days, unless the sun is past south then who gives a shit. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSIDHZpZmxA)
Heretics trapping the light of creation in this dark void my religious feeling are deeply offended, I see your longcon, a whole genesis just to let the photons sit in the rain once we achieved total enthropy - may the great spaghettimonster replace your vocal cords with your eyeballs and your eyeballs with your vocalcords - may the great spaghetti monster replace your fingers with 10 penises unable to get an erection and leave a singular annulary in the place of your genitals.
Is this Timecube?
My beloved corporate IT force-installed the latest Windows 10 update on my computer.
I hate when people do things without my consent.
Especially since there are now all kinds of services and other crap re-enabled on my machine that i specifically disabled. Dammit.
All the UI changes are also crap. Why does the search have to take up 25% of my screen now?
Wow and logging in now takes like 30 seconds.
It's that time of year again.I hate that shit. I read faster than they speak.
Time to mass-murder my braincells with the "Purposefully drawn out to the point of inducing 'caged animal' instincts' narrators in the online training I must endure 4 times a year.
Seriously, when it takes 70 seconds worth of audio to inform me that "Audio is required for this course, make sure you have audio enabled and that your speakers are turned on. The seek bar is currently disabled; You will not be able to proceed to the next slide until the audio playback has completed", and all subsequent narration is just as horribly slow 1/2 to 1/3 tempo of normal speech, (and waaaaaay over inflected like the narrator graduated from the William Shatner school of acting), it makes me want to start chewing my limbs off to be free of the trap I find myself in.
Throw onto that, that I have literally completed EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. OF. THESE. THINGS. just 4 months ago, and can still clearly remember each and every slide, I want to take a page out of the unibomber handbook, and send a "thank you!" complimentary "free gift" to whoever is responsible for the curriculum.
So, not life changing here, just "OMG, REALLY? ... AGAIN?" levels of loathing.
It's that time of year again.
Time to mass-murder my braincells with the "Purposefully drawn out to the point of inducing 'caged animal' instincts' narrators in the online training I must endure 4 times a year.
Seriously, when it takes 70 seconds worth of audio to inform me that "Audio is required for this course, make sure you have audio enabled and that your speakers are turned on. The seek bar is currently disabled; You will not be able to proceed to the next slide until the audio playback has completed", and all subsequent narration is just as horribly slow 1/2 to 1/3 tempo of normal speech, (and waaaaaay over inflected like the narrator graduated from the William Shatner school of acting), it makes me want to start chewing my limbs off to be free of the trap I find myself in.
Throw onto that, that I have literally completed EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. OF. THESE. THINGS. just 4 months ago, and can still clearly remember each and every slide, I want to take a page out of the unibomber handbook, and send a "thank you!" complimentary "free gift" to whoever is responsible for the curriculum.
So, not life changing here, just "OMG, REALLY? ... AGAIN?" levels of loathing.
Yeah that doesnt mean anything. It might still be going bruhYep she chooses today to message me. Shouldn't have updated my snap story....
Yeah I learned that by experience.Yeah that doesnt mean anything. It might still be going bruhYep she chooses today to message me. Shouldn't have updated my snap story....
I think I've lost the ability to tell when people are being hyperbolic, sarcastic, or actually completely agree with various statements.
It's upsetting because it basically means the world has won - there is no way to actually tell what is going on any more.
Uh huhHuh ugh
ahh. the power of Poe's law strikes again.
Wait, optic cables are susceptible to lightning damage?
I saw a lot of what seemed very horizontal lightnings yesterday I was driving when it arrived.
50 Kelvin is -369.67F, or -223.15C, so I’m thinking you mean 50,000 degrees of something, do you mean Fahrenheit or Celsius?Wait, optic cables are susceptible to lightning damage?
I saw a lot of what seemed very horizontal lightnings yesterday I was driving when it arrived.
Most things are susceptible to fire, especially when it comes in at 50K degrees.
K can also mean thousand so he meant 50000F or 50000C (I don't think it matters at that amount).50 Kelvin is -369.67F, or -223.15C, so I’m thinking you mean 50,000 degrees of something, do you mean Fahrenheit or Celsius?Wait, optic cables are susceptible to lightning damage?
I saw a lot of what seemed very horizontal lightnings yesterday I was driving when it arrived.
Most things are susceptible to fire, especially when it comes in at 50K degrees.
I've been itchy all over for about a week. No discernable cause.💁♂️Could be many things: allergies, mites, myeloproliferative neoplasms...
Itchy, sure. But is it tasty?
I'm wondering if it is in fact a detergent thing, since the itching seems to be concentrated in upper arms and upper legs, so affected by shorts and short sleeves. Also face, but it could have been spread there - especially once the initial itching on face started.
I'm really bothered by this train of thought today. I don't want to acknowledge it, and I want to distract myself from it, but I can't concentrate on anything else. I can't get rid of it, it's just in the back of my head bothering me:
Ruminations
That sounds dangerously akin to socialism, how did this ever get common in the US
Also I thought it was a fraudish thing to it?
That sounds dangerously akin to socialism, how did this ever get common in the US
Also I thought it was a fraudish thing to it?
It's not socialist at all. It's a form of home ownership for money, nothing socialist about that. Splitting a bill or bulk-buying isn't socialist. It seems like there's kind of a thing here, where any time two or more people cooperate, that's automatically socialism, as if you can't have people cooperating in a way that saves them money under a capitalist system or something.
How do you mean fraudish?
I know that companies who sell timeshares are seen as sleazy and perhaps scammers, or at least they were back in the late-90s early-00s days. But I don't know why exactly, I was too young to contextualize the jokes about it.
So it is just renting one week a year and paying for it the entire yearI think the exorbitant maintenance fees are supposed to represent the company cleaning the location between visitors, on the assumption that nobody buys adjacent slices of time.
Dividing 500 million by 327 million yielded 1.529, which rounds to 1.53 to the nearest centOf course he probably wouldn't want to give that money to *everyone* in America. Young children, felons, foreigners... The joke is that he'd be bribing the voters, so we could use the number of registered voters: 153 million (in 2018). That's about 3 dollars and a quarter! But why is he spending money in states he had no chance in? I'm not going to do the math for focusing on swing states, but I think we're talking 5-10$ per voter.
The cat on my lap just hooked a claw into my nipple whilst climbing around. Aaaaaaaauughh.
What are you feeding your cats to get them that heavy? I doubt that’s healthy.Maine Coons are just that big.
Oh well, here goes nothing I guess.There ya go, mate!
I fucked up and had to reinstall Linux Mint on my HTPC due to a botched update to version 20, which means I lost all of the settings and configs I had on that thing. It also turns out that if you encrypted your home directory like I did, it gets very difficult to recover any files from there, so I just gave up. Now all the movies and TV shows on the internal disk are also gone. Shit.
But what happened :[ ]
Also yeah, take it slow. No need to ramp things up to max anytime soon at all.
Seeing as I was out of this whole relationship and dating thing for a while now (like, years) the most terrifying prospect wasn't really the asking or the rejection I think. It was her saying yes, because that pulls the whole thing out of my head and makes it oh so terrifyingly real (which is both a great and terrible thing)
Oh and she's busy this week, so we'll figure out something for next week I guess. Which seems to be just putting off the inevitable xd
Thankfully several hard rinses later it's now so weak I can only smell it if I put my fingers to my nose. Which I guess I shouldn't be doing any way so hey bonus warning
Because capitalism has failed.Communism will fail even harder. It's better a somewhat broken system than a completely broken one. Do not repeat the mistakes of history. And at least capitalism less rarely destroys cultures, which is what matters to me...
And at least capitalism less rarely destroys cultureshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_imperialism
All the complaints about "communism" are better thrown at "authoritarianism". Collectivism does not create gulags, heavy handed tribal conformity does.ALL kinds of communism suck. It doesn't matter how authoritarian or libertarian they are, a classless society in the modern age will destroy the concept of a nation and culture, which is bad. I'm content with my current life and I don't like radical changes. Gradual reforms to social democracy better. Get healthcare you guys too. It isn't exclusive with capitalism, and socialism doesn't equal communism.
Also I'd note that capitalistic nations have killed as many if not more. It's just that people don't notice homelessness or wage slavery; capitalism has that nice gilded exterior of rich upper middle class people that can hide all the suffering.QuoteAnd at least capitalism less rarely destroys cultureshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_imperialism
Did you not notice mcdonalds and such popping up everywhere? If you want cultural diversity and intersectionality, profit based economies do NOT encourage that.
Anyway, I DO feel uncomfortable with people using soviet imagery and stuff. Lenin was alright, but anything Stalin touched is cursed. We can idolize better examples of communism instead of embracing the US's old propaganda.
How will a classless society in the modern age destroy the concept of nation and cultureDon't communists want a world revolution which means erasing all borders, either instantly or eventually?
why would that be a bad thing?Because culture is the most important thing an ethnicity has.
How will a classless society in the modern age destroy the concept of nation and culture, and, separately, why would that be a bad thing?
Yes, this is why trying to force one would be a disaster. Humans are inherently flawed and greedy.How will a classless society in the modern age destroy the concept of nation and culture, and, separately, why would that be a bad thing?
A classless society would be a heavenly utopia, with all its residents being sinless angels without the temptations of power or supremacy over others. A little farfetched to imagine such a thing on Earth.
Agreed 100% with Mr. Wolf.Wow
Pretty much all valid complaints against "capitalism" would be better directed at the weird, stifling, overly litigious nanny state that comprises most modern governments in the first world. I feel like this could be worded better, but I just got home and am distractingly hungry.
Also, is "litigiocracy" a word that makes sense? I googled it but the only result was an obscure Battletech sourcebook. I feel like that's a good, concise way to describe the countries in question.
I don't think that humans need to hurt others in order to be happy. We've constantly become more efficient in our work, particularly over the last few decades. Shouldn't that mean that we aren't required to work so much, and we all live better? That's what Marx envisioned.That is your particular government's fault, not capitalism in general's fault. Look at European countries, don't they have less work hours?
Isn't it weird that people in the USA have to work more hours than ever and have to pay for our own healthcare, despite being in the most powerful country in the world?
Agreed 100% with Mr. Wolf.
Pretty much all valid complaints against "capitalism" would be better directed at the weird, stifling, overly litigious nanny state that comprises most modern governments in the first world. I feel like this could be worded better, but I just got home and am distractingly hungry.
Also, is "litigiocracy" a word that makes sense? I googled it but the only result was an obscure Battletech sourcebook. I feel like that's a good, concise way to describe the countries in question.
He might have meant social regulation but yes.Agreed 100% with Mr. Wolf.
Pretty much all valid complaints against "capitalism" would be better directed at the weird, stifling, overly litigious nanny state that comprises most modern governments in the first world. I feel like this could be worded better, but I just got home and am distractingly hungry.
Also, is "litigiocracy" a word that makes sense? I googled it but the only result was an obscure Battletech sourcebook. I feel like that's a good, concise way to describe the countries in question.
I think that removing all regulation would just make things worse. No work safety requirements and no minimum wages mean that workers would suffer.
@Poo: ...Um. Did you mean to quote someone else? I am neither of those things. 🤔
How will a classless society in the modern age destroy the concept of nation and cultureDon't communists want a world revolution which means erasing all borders, either instantly or eventually?
Ethnicity is just one of many things used to separate human beings from one another.why would that be a bad thing?Because culture is the most important thing an ethnicity has.
Yes because my nation is important to me and I would fight to the death to defend it, unless it has betrayed democracy.How will a classless society in the modern age destroy the concept of nation and cultureDon't communists want a world revolution which means erasing all borders, either instantly or eventually?
Is this a bad thing?
So you're saying culture doesn't matter, or that it matters less than some insane "utopia"?Ethnicity is just one of many things used to separate human beings from one another.why would that be a bad thing?Because culture is the most important thing an ethnicity has.
Broadly speaking, we’re all the same when you boil it down; we all have the same needs and wants and desires, why complicate things by saying we have differences because of where your ancestors were from or what they did?
I have to question this bit about communism being the biggest threat to culture. Most cultural imperialist moves have happened under the auspices of the market. Look at what happened with Aboriginal Australians, or European colonialism in Africa and the Americas. Or, for that matter, "Russification", which predates the Soviet Union and has gone on after it ended.How will a classless society in the modern age destroy the concept of nation and cultureDon't communists want a world revolution which means erasing all borders, either instantly or eventually?
Is this a bad thing?Ethnicity is just one of many things used to separate human beings from one another.why would that be a bad thing?Because culture is the most important thing an ethnicity has.
Broadly speaking, we’re all the same when you boil it down; we all have the same needs and wants and desires, why complicate things by saying we have differences because of where your ancestors were from or what they did?
Edit: I somehow get the feeling Hector's the type of Scot who voted to remain latched onto England's teat...
Oh, what I meant was more that modern democracy was the problem, not that we should go full Ancap or something. Not that I know enough about anarchocapitalism (or whatever it's called) to really discuss it. Is that what Rand was about? Not about to google it, I don't feel like putting my back out from cringing too hard.
Capitalism goes great when paired with saner forms of government, at least historically. Maybe it's just the information age that has made a mess of things. *shrug*
Edit: I somehow get the feeling Hector's the type of Scot who voted to remain latched onto England's teat...
Well, at least in Mongolia the capitalists, unlike the communists, actually don't try to destroy our culture. It's the same in modern Russia too from what I have heard from actual Russians (their government still sucks because Putin, but, at least, it's not the USSR).I have to question this bit about communism being the biggest threat to culture. Most cultural imperialist moves have happened under the auspices of the market. Look at what happened with Aboriginal Australians, or European colonialism in Africa and the Americas. Or, for that matter, "Russification", which predates the Soviet Union and has gone on after it ended.How will a classless society in the modern age destroy the concept of nation and cultureDon't communists want a world revolution which means erasing all borders, either instantly or eventually?
Is this a bad thing?Ethnicity is just one of many things used to separate human beings from one another.why would that be a bad thing?Because culture is the most important thing an ethnicity has.
Broadly speaking, we’re all the same when you boil it down; we all have the same needs and wants and desires, why complicate things by saying we have differences because of where your ancestors were from or what they did?
Well, at least in Mongolia the capitalists, unlike the communists, actually don't try to destroy our culture. It's the same in modern Russia too from what I have heard (their government still sucks because Putin, but, at least, it's not the USSR).Have you thought that maybe your perception is biased because of non-generalizable things about your local area? If you were, say, Middle Eastern, Biafran or Filipino your perception about whom is responsible for suppressing your culture might be a bit different.
Our current government doesn't suppress religion and didn't try to ban surnames. You heard that right. Isn't that objective? I'm not biased.QuoteWell, at least in Mongolia the capitalists, unlike the communists, actually don't try to destroy our culture. It's the same in modern Russia too from what I have heard (their government still sucks because Putin, but, at least, it's not the USSR).Have you thought that maybe your perception is biased because of non-generalizable things about your local area? If you were, say, Biafran or Filipino your perception about whom is responsible for suppressing your culture might be a bit different.
I can't speak to what Capitalists and Communist partisans are doing in Mongolia, but I think it's clear that Capitalists, through imperialism, tend to erase inconvenient cultures at every opportunity in world history. That's basically the story of the last two centuries.I don't disagree that capitalists also destroy cultures, but they destroy less on average. All communist countries tried to suppress culture, and any future ones will do same. Also libertarian communism will always turn authoritarian because humans are greedy. Not having a state results in warlords taking de facto power over government.
Heck, Stalin did that too. We're meeting you at Stalin being a baddie.Putin is also a horrendous blight upon humanity, a vicious despot who tortures and murders "culture" that he personally disagrees with, but baby steps I guess
I don't disagree that capitalists also destroy cultures, but they destroy less on average
I... I guess I understand. Thank you. The problem is that even "home grown" communists can do the same damage while capitalist damage to culture is usually from, as you said, imperialism, which I also oppose.QuoteI don't disagree that capitalists also destroy cultures, but they destroy less on average
Again, this is UTTERLY provincian of you. You´re focused on what happened to Mongolian culture, and missing the fact that there´s a whole world of cultures and ethnic groups that have been screwed over by capitalist nations. For every culture or ethnic group in the Eastern Block that has grievances similar to yours, you´ll find folks elsewhere that will remark how it was the other side that screwed them over, and how it was the local socialist militia (at times backed by the Eastern block) defending their nationhood. Cultural imperialism is not a capitalist/socialist thing. It´s a consequence of a power gradient and social dynamics
For the record, and by the way: My people´s language and culture were banned for decades. To the extreme that they tried to change my homeland´s name and landmarks. Having certain surnames also made you suspicious; I´ve gotten a bit of that at times even though I was born after the dictator was dead. My parents were certainly concerned when I was a teen, in case I had trouble at the capital because of my surname or my accent, or both. I only have a smattering of my people´s tongue, because, even though it was my great-grandfather´s vernacular, he decided he´d not teach it to his children to avoid political repression.I... I guess I understand. Thank you. The problem is that even "home grown" communists can do the same damage while capitalist damage to culture is usually from, as you said, imperialism, which I also oppose.QuoteI don't disagree that capitalists also destroy cultures, but they destroy less on average
Again, this is UTTERLY provincian of you. You´re focused on what happened to Mongolian culture, and missing the fact that there´s a whole world of cultures and ethnic groups that have been screwed over by capitalist nations. For every culture or ethnic group in the Eastern Block that has grievances similar to yours, you´ll find folks elsewhere that will remark how it was the other side that screwed them over, and how it was the local socialist militia (at times backed by the Eastern block) defending their nationhood. Cultural imperialism is not a capitalist/socialist thing. It´s a consequence of a power gradient and social dynamics
Also, communism is different from socialism.
Oh, what I meant was more that modern democracy was the problem, not that we should go full Ancap or something. Not that I know enough about anarchocapitalism (or whatever it's called) to really discuss it. Is that what Rand was about? Not about to google it, I don't feel like putting my back out from cringing too hard.
Capitalism goes great when paired with saner forms of government, at least historically. Maybe it's just the information age that has made a mess of things. *shrug*
Edit: I somehow get the feeling Hector's the type of Scot who voted to remain latched onto England's teat...
Yes because my nation is important to me and I would fight to the death to defend it, unless it has betrayed democracy.How will a classless society in the modern age destroy the concept of nation and cultureDon't communists want a world revolution which means erasing all borders, either instantly or eventually?
Is this a bad thing?
Far from it, culture is history, and should be celebrated, so long as it doesn’t suggest it’s better than another culture.So you're saying culture doesn't matter, or that it matters less than some insane "utopia"?Ethnicity is just one of many things used to separate human beings from one another.why would that be a bad thing?Because culture is the most important thing an ethnicity has.
Broadly speaking, we’re all the same when you boil it down; we all have the same needs and wants and desires, why complicate things by saying we have differences because of where your ancestors were from or what they did?
Thank you... I understand more now. I still hate communism though. Also here we suppressed our own culture. The same thing happened in China and Russia.For the record, and by the way: My people´s language and culture were banned for decades. To the extreme that they tried to change my homeland´s name and landmarks. Having certain surnames also made you suspicious; I´ve gotten a bit of that at times even though I was born after the dictator was dead. My parents were certainly concerned when I was a teen, in case I had trouble at the capital because of my surname or my accent, or both. I only have a smattering of my people´s tongue, because, even though it was my great-grandfather´s vernacular, he decided he´d not teach it to his children to avoid political repression.I... I guess I understand. Thank you. The problem is that even "home grown" communists can do the same damage while capitalist damage to culture is usually from, as you said, imperialism, which I also oppose.QuoteI don't disagree that capitalists also destroy cultures, but they destroy less on average
Again, this is UTTERLY provincian of you. You´re focused on what happened to Mongolian culture, and missing the fact that there´s a whole world of cultures and ethnic groups that have been screwed over by capitalist nations. For every culture or ethnic group in the Eastern Block that has grievances similar to yours, you´ll find folks elsewhere that will remark how it was the other side that screwed them over, and how it was the local socialist militia (at times backed by the Eastern block) defending their nationhood. Cultural imperialism is not a capitalist/socialist thing. It´s a consequence of a power gradient and social dynamics
Also, communism is different from socialism.
This all happened in a Western European nation.
Like I said, culture suppression has very little to do with communism or capitalism, whichever the definition. It has a lot to do with hegemonic cultural groups deciding they don´t accept the existence of other smaller cultural groups.
Turning into a dictatorship or an anarchy. The latter will turn into the former within a few years anyways.Yes because my nation is important to me and I would fight to the death to defend it, unless it has betrayed democracy.How will a classless society in the modern age destroy the concept of nation and cultureDon't communists want a world revolution which means erasing all borders, either instantly or eventually?
Is this a bad thing?
What would a betrayal of democracy be to you? Democracy is government by the people.
Are the people of your nation different enough from another nation that their decisions are better than the other?No. We're not superior to other nations, where did I say that? It doesn't mean we should not preserve our culture or defend our nation against aggression.
It was implicit in what you said. Would you be willing to die in defense of another nation? If your nation was the aggressor against democracy, for example?Are the people of your nation different enough from another nation that their decisions are better than the other?No. We're not superior to other nations, where did I say that? It doesn't mean we should not preserve our culture or defend our nation against aggression.
Yes, if Mongolia turned into a dictatorship then I would fight AGAINST it.It was implicit in what you said. Would you be willing to die in defense of another nation? If your nation was the aggressor against democracy, for example?Are the people of your nation different enough from another nation that their decisions are better than the other?No. We're not superior to other nations, where did I say that? It doesn't mean we should not preserve our culture or defend our nation against aggression.
Culture can be preserved in museums and other institutions, places where it can’t be used to separate peoples.You can't preserve language and traditions in a museum.
You can't preserve language and traditions in a museum.Other institutions, too. Language can be taught in school. Traditions probably done there too. You could even set up something specifically for preserving traditions.
It's always best to follow evidence rather than ideology anyway. If something from an ideology (be it communism, capitalism, whatever) doesn't work... we should discard it rather than trying to be apologetic for it.
The better option, is to have observation inform experiment, and then have experiment drive policy.Yes
Tribal government only arose after agriculture.
bloop_bleep is correct that for 95% of human history there was no hierarchy or government, because that predates the development of agriculture.
Tribal government only arose after agriculture.
I'm guessing there's a very particular definition behind that cursive
Quotebloop_bleep is correct that for 95% of human history there was no hierarchy or government, because that predates the development of agriculture.
How would anyone even know to make this conclusion?
If we can just automate all the industry and stuff, we could retire as a species to a more luxurious version of our natural state. Perfect transhumanist / anprim hybrid state.The natural state is lost for good... There will always be people looking to tear that state down. Now, I most likely wouldn't be one of those people but I'd be very skeptical about such a society if one suddenly appeared or something...
Producing people willing to tear it down would be a flaw.
Or things are just so good that nobody would ever rationally consider changing it, and nobody is ever irrational either.
We didn't say that perfection was easy.
Given what is happening right now, we definitely don't live in the best possible world... :PProducing people willing to tear it down would be a flaw.Or things are just so good that nobody would ever rationally consider changing it, and nobody is ever irrational either.
We didn't say that perfection was easy.
"Everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" :P
The problem with anarchy is that modern society is too large and complex... when your communities have only 1000 people at most like hunter-gatherers it's easy, but how about cities and nations of millions of people? Killing all those people for an ideal society isn't worth it.
I doubt they would have survived for long even if they defeated the Nationalists somehow... Either falling to internal counterrevolution or invasion by neighboring countries...The problem with anarchy is that modern society is too large and complex... when your communities have only 1000 people at most like hunter-gatherers it's easy, but how about cities and nations of millions of people? Killing all those people for an ideal society isn't worth it.
You seem to bring up these kinds of things a lot making sweeping generalizations and assumptions.
Look at Spain in the 1930s, there were in fact entire cities run by anarchists according to anarchist political principles. If you don't understand how that can be true, then maybe you haven't actually read anything about the actual subject? Have a look over the details and structure of the largest and most successful anarchist organazation in the world. They were running half the country during the Spanish Civil War, so the history part is especially relevant.
If you read over that and say "but ... that's not even anarchism!" then maybe you should consider the fact that you're wrong, since these are the by-definition self-identified anarchists, and generally considered by anarchists around the world to be the go-to example of how political anarchism works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederaci%C3%B3n_Nacional_del_Trabajo
Sorry Max but that argument can be used against any government system.The problem is that wouldn't the established regimes in most countries see an anarchist "nation" (for lack of a better word) as a threat and thus invade? Also many inside the territory would oppose its system, probably much more than in normal countries. And in the case of companies owned by the workers... a state is still needed to oversee the companies or at least maintain a police and military force. Such things are better off in the hands of a centralized state rather than local militia.
Sorry Max but that argument can be used against any government system.The problem is that wouldn't the established regimes in most countries see an anarchist "nation" (for lack of a better word) as a threat and thus invade? Also many inside the territory would oppose its system, probably much more than in normal countries. And in the case of companies owned by the workers... a state is still needed to oversee the companies or at least maintain a police and military force. Such things are better off in the hands of a centralized state rather than local militia.
Anyways I'm so tired of talking about politics. I need to take a break from this stuff before I get... heated as usual.
On a tangent, I've always hated assertions along the lines of "X is the worst system we've ever had... aside from all the other systems we've tried." since it comes off as incredibly defeatist.What if the cost of trying a new idea is too high to make it worth it? I don't want to fight for some noone, who wants to topple the established system, which, in my country at least, works, fine enough, at a risk of ending up worse than we started, or, worse, under a dictatorship. Yes, capitalism has its flaws, but I'm content with it. As long as it has some regulations.
Never stop trying new ideas!
It is, but to address your point, institutionalizing more anarchism is merely to flatten the hierarchy in society. Lift the weakest while pulling down the most powerful. That can be done within any current society without toppling it.How is it anarchism when there is still a hierarchy? Isn't the meaning of the word, "no ruler"? I support more equality of course, but more in a, more meritocratic way where people get government positions not because they're rich, but because they have skills useful, to the position.
Pure anarchism would require dismantling current governments. Looking at anarchism as a lovely ideal does not.
It is, but to address your point, institutionalizing more anarchism is merely to flatten the hierarchy in society. Lift the weakest while pulling down the most powerful. That can be done within any current society without toppling it.How is it anarchism when there is still a hierarchy? Isn't the meaning of the word, "no ruler"? I support more equality of course, but more in a, more meritocratic way where people get government positions not because they're rich, but because they have skills useful, to the position.
Pure anarchism would require dismantling current governments. Looking at anarchism as a lovely ideal does not.
Anarchists are against the state, but they are not against political organization or "governance", so long as it is self-governance utilizing direct democracy. The mode of political organization preferred by anarchists, in general, is federalism or confederalism. However, the anarchist definition of federalism tends to differ from the definition of federalism assumed by pro-state political scientists. The following is a brief description of federalism from section I.5 of An Anarchist FAQ:
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Voters are largely irrational due to systems of entrenched propaganda - religion, nationalism, racism, tradition, etc which anarchists generally seek the destruction of anyway.
If we are talking about direct democracy, then I have to ask, have anarchists figured out a solution to the "idiot voter" problem (forgive the language, it's just the most concise way to put it)? I know Trump is more of a consequence of the two-party system, but we've also got things like Brexit.
religion, nationalism, racism, traditionI value all of those minus racism (of course), which is another reason why I oppose anarchism. I'm not giving my culture up for some crappy soulless "utopia". Yes I see the appeal of anarchism but it's... just not for me, you know?
I'm not a fan of nations in general.And this is where we disagree then. If any organization tried to abolish nations and came close to succeeding... I would fight them with anything I have.
A nation isn't a physical thing. It is by its nature divisive.Yes and? I don't care.
Wer weder Geld hat noch Verstand, dem bleibt das Vaterland.I'm not that kind of nationalist. :P
A nation isn't a physical thing. It is by its nature divisive.
And finally, you have tradition-- which at least is less about "US vs THEM!" and more "the way things have always been!", which more often than not, is used as justification for sustaining afore mentioned "US vs THEM!" ideological powerhouses.
That's why sorority is better :P
Fraternity isn't a physical thing. It is by it's nature divisive.
It's weird that one would go so far as call them one's brother if the motherfucker 350km further is excluded from that bond. It's allmost as if it the concept is not about inclusion.
It's strange that you'd call a stranger a brother because they have the same stamp on their ID. And nationalism as opposed to individualism? Not more like nationalism as opposed to internationalism? OK.
Wer weder Geld hat noch Verstand, dem bleibt das Vaterland.I'm not that kind of nationalist. :P
Well I don't want to exterminate (or otherwise mistreat) other nations and cultures if that's what you mean?Wer weder Geld hat noch Verstand, dem bleibt das Vaterland.I'm not that kind of nationalist. :P
It's the only type of nationalist.
Nation=/=state=/=governement=/=homeland.
QuoteThe Second International (1889–1916) was an organisation of socialist and labour parties, formed on 14 July 1889 at a Paris meeting in which delegations from twenty countries participated.[1] The Second International continued the work of the dissolved First International, though excluding the powerful anarcho-syndicalist movement and trade unions. In 1922 the Second International began to reorganise into the Labour and Socialist International.[2]
It's both.
Take for instance, "America is NUMBER ONE!"
what does that REALLY mean? the implicit statement, is that America has all the best things in abundance, and all that translates into the greatest power to exert that kind of extortion internationally.
It's both.
Take for instance, "America is NUMBER ONE!"
what does that REALLY mean? the implicit statement, is that America has all the best things in abundance, and all that translates into the greatest power to exert that kind of extortion internationally.
A state is a territory with its own institutions and populations. ... A nation is a large group of people who inhabit a specific territory and are connected by history, culture, or another commonality.
It's both.
Take for instance, "America is NUMBER ONE!"
what does that REALLY mean? the implicit statement, is that America has all the best things in abundance, and all that translates into the greatest power to exert that kind of extortion internationally.
It is not, however, the only one. If a country requires something on an international market that another country is not willing to provide economically, they will probably look elsewhere.
Again, not what I meant. What I meant by nationalism, in my case, is a harmless pride in my country without thinking of it as that much superior to be protectionist. I said it thrice already! Maybe I used the wrong word? Patriotism?It isn't but be careful of it developing into something worse. I'm not saying it necessarily leads to actual racism but still be careful.
Now tell me, how is that harmful?
QuoteA state is a territory with its own institutions and populations. ... A nation is a large group of people who inhabit a specific territory and are connected by history, culture, or another commonality.
The United States is BOTH, since it is a well defined geographical area, with a populace that has a shared national identity.
"America is Number One!" is both statist, and nationalist, at the same time. The distinction between the two is a red herring in this example-- The person from the deep south, and the New Yorker, both can assert that statement, and feel it as persons of a national identity. Neither of the two questions the national pedigree of the other.
"My group of humans is better than that other group of humans, which justifies my mistreatment of that other group of humans, for the benefit of my group of humans" is the basic feature of nationalism.
That’s not nationalism, that’s capitalism.
Also.
And that's why I found the neo-colonialism jab unfair. There are """historically successful""" (-.-) examples of internationalism that didn't end in authoritarian regimes, or aspire to the one world governement controlled by illuminati lizards... such minor examples as the U.N. or the E.U.
And if this is going to derail into a discussion about the merits of the EU then I'll preamptively ask you WHO (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1ef0BBtuYA) predicted that a monetary union would be a bad idea. Please let's not. Yes everything sucks as it currently is, but I'd subscribe that in large parts to the ingenious perversion of all things, and that shit starts with language.
mpf... stamp in ID... you go try claim a nationality without that anywhere but your friendly neighbourhood cops that knows your aunt, tell me how it went
Humans are humans. We needn’t divide ourselves into groups and fight each other, internationalism would be humans working for the interests of humans, not groups of humans working for groups at the expense of other groups
What is the point of being proud of one group of people, separate from the numerous other groups of people?I... it's actually hard to explain. But I feel like being proud of it. I don't think you'll understand. I know I'm probably not being rational.
Are you willing to die for your human group?If I was defending it, from other countries, or fighting against a home grown dictatorship or anarchy? Yes.
If your country invaded its neighbor without provocation, would you support it!This just means it has probably betrayed its current (quite peaceful compared to... most of our history Lol) ideals and thus I wouldn't support it. I would either move out or try to sabotage the war effort.
The issue I take exception to here, is the duplicity between the blatant self promulgation of sneering imperialism, vs "No, that is just my family, so I look out for them first."Where did I say that I thought that? I'd help a Chinese or Russian as much as a Mongol if I got the opportunity... I'm simply proud of our culture and traditions and would defend them if I had to. Is that too much? Does it make me a Nazi?
The effect is still the same fundamentally. If you look after "you and yours first", you are defacto excluding the others from equal consideration, and are thus still creating the "preferential treatment" environment.
the insistence that there is a logical difference, and that this makes it acceptable, is dangerous doublethink.
No. Just that there is no inherent value to one over the other. One is just more familiar. As such, there is no inherent reason to support one more than the other. At the end of the day, they are both human cultures, that are simply more familiar to one group vs another.Murder is wrong because it’s wrong, Circular reasoning found
It can get ugly in terms of "value judgements", such as when "morality" comes into play (since morality, removed from any "downward dictatorial source", such as from a god, is just the collective agreement of a culture on what its norms are), because it becomes an endless game of circular reasoning when analyzed.
I like to say local patriotism to talk about my love for the specific set of plants and landscape features that constitute my "bihome" ;D... But honestly I can't think of any term for it that is not tainted with the notion of us vs. them, the flipside of local patriotism is prejudice about people that come "from the next village". That's just what happens when you put up fences.
A people? Common man even sweden can't be that homogenous.
edit: notice how the concept of nations keeps fucking the people of the kurds in the ass
What is the point of being proud of one group of people, separate from the numerous other groups of people?
I used to think my country was great, then I thought of all the wars we fought, and continue to fight, to remain “number one.” Are you willing to die for your human group? Even if it starts to war with other human groups? If your country invaded its neighbor without provocation, would you support it!
The issue I take exception to here, is the duplicity between the blatant self promulgation of sneering imperialism, vs "No, that is just my family, so I look out for them first."
The effect is still the same fundamentally. If you look after "you and yours first", you are defacto excluding the others from equal consideration, and are thus still creating the "preferential treatment" environment.
the insistence that there is a logical difference, and that this makes it acceptable, is dangerous doublethink.
No. Just that there is no inherent value to one over the other. One is just more familiar. As such, there is no inherent reason to support one more than the other. At the end of the day, they are both human cultures, that are simply more familiar to one group vs another.
No. Just that there is no inherent value to one over the other. One is just more familiar. As such, there is no inherent reason to support one more than the other. At the end of the day, they are both human cultures, that are simply more familiar to one group vs another.I like other cultures, usually, too, and even if I don't I don't consider them objectively inferior, so don't worry about that!
It can get ugly in terms of "value judgements", such as when "morality" comes into play (since morality, removed from any "downward dictatorial source", such as from a god, is just the collective agreement of a culture on what its norms are), because it becomes an endless game of circular reasoning when analyzed.
I already said my reasons for opposing anarchy, didn't I...If I was defending it, from other countries, or fighting against a home grown dictatorship or anarchy? Yes.
You know, if you just said chaos/riots instead of anarchy nobody would contradict you there steppewolf. There is very few people who really do not believe in self-defense, kind of obvious when it's a biological imperative, so it's like saying I'm against bad weather, I don't see how it benefits anybody personally to repeat those mantras. Quite the contrary.
I think the best way to handle this, is to let the others have part in your heritage whenever you get an opportunity, tell us why you love your country instead of telling us that you love your country. That way nobody looses theirselves in meaningless symbolism prone to be inocculated with all kinds of harmful shit. I think it's common-sense to look in horror when we see US american middleschoolers salute the flag first thing in the morning.
This reminds me of a Christian movie I watched. One of the characters saw the light and removed her head dress because the light of God and supportive Christian friends encouraged her to. She came out of it with perfect hair and a beaming smile.
See for instance, the western world's view on how the middle east treats women. For them, it is culturally accepted. For the west, it is abhorrent, and needs abolition. The position of the western world ultimately gets supported with notions of "It is better for the women, because reasons (that are tied to social dynamics, that are inherent to the position that I, the arguer am familiar with, and thus circular through the nature of a-priori implicit assumption that the familiar is better)-- to which the person from the middle east makes the same argument, and reaches the 180 degree polar opposite conclusion.
I will admit a bias here--As I recall, the movie had some decent acting in it. But yes. Its main purpose seemed to be to bolster the spirits of the already devout, rather than add anything to the discussion.
That trailer makes me cringe. Not because I consider religion "wrong". (I am agnostic, and honestly accept that I do not know. I would go so far as to say that there is evidence that it cannot BE known.) It makes me cringe because it is intellectually in-bred in a way that causes revulsion of higher reasoning. It is a blatant depiction of the heroic triumph over a strawman. It is as such, rhetorical masturbation, and equally incapable of engendering anything new.
The big thing I hate about proselytizing religions is that they're abusive in the same way an abusive partner is. They'll tell you you're bad, evil, corrupt, immoral, etc and then tell you the only thing that can help you is the religion itself. This is 100% identical to an abusive partner that uses emotional and physical harm to tear someone down and make them reliant.
Having trouble finding accomodation so this new job offer might be moot. Cant fly if I will be homeless
To that they would argue "natural law", i.e. all humans know and understand Biblical morality inherently, and as such can be expected to follow it even if they aren't actually familiar with Christianity.
On that note, I watched a little debate between an atheist and a preacher the other day, and the preacher said that if there was no God, then murder wouldn't be wrong. To me, that was conflating different points. Firstly, is something only wrong if you can get caught or punished? Secondly, how do we know something is wrong? Lastly, would this thing still be wrong even if God didn't exist?
Regarding the left hearing aid, perhaps the wax traps have become clogged?Nah, I have thingies for the purpose of cleaning that out. This one just stopped turning on altogether for some reason.
Man, apart from some technical difficulties (i.e. the left one mysteriously ceasing to function) I haven't had any problems with my current "BTEs".I did exaggerate a bit in that it's not horrible to wear them with everything else, but having them in my ears is already somewhat uncomfortable (itching) and anything else on top of that makes it easier to not bother. My own are pretty decent in that they work well, and Bluetooth is somewhat cool. I just wish they meshed better with everything else.
They fit pretty well under most headphones in my experience, while sunglasses take a bit of getting used to but are mostly doable. On the other hand, yeah, phone calls are a pain what with having to kinda balance the phone up above your ear to keep its speaker close to your mic - but then, talking on the phone tends to be a drag at the best of times, hearing impairment or no hearing impairment.
I think these ones are a massively improved model compared to the ones I was fitted with several years back, though, which I used briefly and then gave up on since they were utterly useless when faced with the slightest bit of background noise. These ones have served me well, even if they're well overdue for a service/tune-up at this point (and I'm unsure if my healthcare covers it anymore).
Also they have snazzy purple moulds. Heck yeah.
I just recently watched John Oliver's new video on Uigher persecution:One of the reasons why is that Xinjiang has been a hotbed for violent separatism and jihadism for decades (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_conflict). 'Turkestan' jihadists are currently playing a role in supporting Al-Qaeda in Syria (Al Nusra), for instance. ISIS even tried to move in a few years ago by making a lot of Chinese propaganda, but seemingly have failed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17oCQakzIl8
And it just hurts me to see such pointless malice. A brief google on "why are the Uighers being persecuted" only turns up a vague answer like "The CCP is afraid of organized religion for reasons, and therefore cracks down on the Islamic Uighers." and that just seems absurd to me. The malice is so outrageous as to outstrip any possible justification.
Of course, I don't know why I even watch John Oliver. He's entertaining and I trust that he's telling the truth, but he always covers topics that are depressing and I have absolutely no control over. It doesn't matter how much I care for the plight of an ethnic group I just learned about, I can't really do anything about it other than know that they're being victimized and feel bad about it.
Well probably not. AFAIK Taiwan is culturally not separate. They regard themselves as Chinese.This is quite wrong. If anything Taiwan takes more culturally from the Japanese
That explains why they called themselves 'The Republic of Japan', right?Well probably not. AFAIK Taiwan is culturally not separate. They regard themselves as Chinese.This is quite wrong. If anything Taiwan takes more culturally from the Japanese
There are at least three different layers of Taiwanese. Firstly, the original indigenous people(s). Then the original Chinese colonists from when it was originally colonised in... 16th or 17th century iirc. And then lastly the exiles and refugees from modern times. I also believe that the latter two largely see themselves as Han, even if they don't consider themselves "Chinese" Chinese. But I am simply going by what I've read about them.This sounds right to me, and handily explains why the government would call itself the Republic of China regardless of the ethnicities it governs.
That explains why they called themselves 'The Republic of Japan', right?Taiwan was literally a colony of Japan. My grandmother self-identifies as Japanese specifically because she grew up in a Japanese controlled Taiwan.
I fat-fingered my legal name on a job application, and only discovered in when I read the confirmation email. Guess we can chuck 'attention to detail' out the window, eh.Idea for future avoidance of fat fingering
I fat-fingered my legal name on a job application, and only discovered in when I read the confirmation email.At least you didn’t fat finger something that involved money.
This is the thread for when you're upset about something but you don't think you need any sympathy or advice for it.
I fat-fingered my legal name on a job application, and only discovered in when I read the confirmation email.At least you didn’t fat finger something that involved money.
Like taxes.
Only decent ones I've ever had were made by vegans/vegeterians or people affiliated with them... Most of them are just ground meat with fancy graphics.
I don't care how good in can be in theory, most people's bolognese can be beaten with pasta, egg, a frying pan and pepper. Fuck you bolognese go lie with mayonaise in a ditch. That's it from now on all foods finishing with "neɪz" will be refused unless accompanied by an unselective omnivore."I hate music, 'cause none of the people I had play it to me knew how to play music.'
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1 medium onion, coarsely chopped
2 garlic cloves, peeled and coarsely chopped
1 celery stalk, coarsely chopped
1 carrot, coarsely chopped
1 pound ground chuck beef
One 28-ounce can crushed tomatoes
1/4 cup flat-leaf Italian parsley, chopped
8 fresh basil leaves, chopped
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup freshly grated Pecorino Romano
1 pound ground beef
1 pound bulk Italian sausage
1 can (28 ounces) crushed tomatoes, undrained
1 medium green pepper, chopped
1 medium onion, chopped
2 medium carrots, finely chopped
1 cup water
1 can (8 ounces) tomato sauce
1 can (6 ounces) tomato paste
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
2 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
Pretty sure it's the meat that makes it bolognese
I mean just look at them, I don't know where weird found these recipes or if they're canon but they're the perfect example:Quote from: Bolognese sauce1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1 medium onion, coarsely chopped
2 garlic cloves, peeled and coarsely chopped
1 celery stalk, coarsely chopped
1 carrot, coarsely chopped
1 pound ground chuck beef
One 28-ounce can crushed tomatoes
1/4 cup flat-leaf Italian parsley, chopped
8 fresh basil leaves, chopped
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup freshly grated Pecorino Romano
Careful with the size of that onion you wouldn't want it to taste like anything but ground meat. And of course no mention of carrots, or bell peppers, or mushrooms, or chili, but do not forget to impose cheese on all servings. Also never miss a chance to pour wine in a cooking pot. But hey 8 whole Basiculum leaves are here to save the day. JFL
Nitpick--
That last ingredient is not a pepper. It's a sharp/hard sheep cheese. There is no pepper in the recipe I pulled. (and it was just at random from google.)
The spaghetti sauce recipe has the bell pepper. :P
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Fairly sure I just cut ties with the Christian community I grew up with.
You know how I tend to pop on into conversations and have little theology tussles with those therein? I did that with them, and I let them know I can't consider myself a part of their faith anymore. It was over their show of support for what the federal government is doing in Portland. There was apparently a Bible burned as a demonstration, and I said they burned a Bible because mainstream Christianity has gone to exorbitant pains to marry itself entirely with far-right secular American politics for decades. Obviously they only burned a Bible because they are fascists and Trump is going to save us from the book burning bad guys.
No agreement was reached, I was accused of being too judgmental, and I left. This discussion was had with one of the leaders of that community, so I'm fairly sure that's that.
Good luck with your disengagement, Duna? I'm trying to say something encouraging, but I'm not sure what one says in this situation. I don't know how exactly you feel about it, for one thing. Well, if word gets out and anyone tries to bully you back in (churches aren't known for respecting their fellow or ex- members), just know you don't owe them anything. Probably you knew that already. Eschar's Erratic Encouragements, signing off.
Ooh, do we get to argue about different definitions of "irrational" and "belief" for three pages now?
Ooh, do we get to argue about different definitions of "irrational" and "belief" for three pages now?I believe that's irrational
The thing is, plenty of people say they KNOW their religion is true based on concrete things. Cosmological argument, claimed miracles (not including prayer because that's usually made unfalsifiable, and thus non-concrete), etc. Would that make it not a belief, even if the alleged connection to reality doesn't actually check out (disconfirmed miracles, cosmological argument not actually being valid)?
The thing is, plenty of people say they KNOW their religion is true based on concrete things. Cosmological argument, claimed miracles (not including prayer because that's usually made unfalsifiable, and thus non-concrete), etc. Would that make it not a belief, even if the alleged connection to reality doesn't actually check out (disconfirmed miracles, cosmological argument not actually being valid)?
A small point on that one, in Richard Dawkin's film he points out that all miraculous healing type stuff is all stuff that could have gotten better by itself or things we can actually cure. Like, God took your acne away or something. Very few regrown fingers or eyes for example.
This has been a very unpleasant week.And it’s only Wensday :-\
I think he means modern-day people claiming to have been cured/curing others by faith/prayer/supernatural means.
So like I don't want to start another religion thing, because I'm not currently feeling up to it tbh, but presuming you're talking about biblical examples what about the retroactive curing of leprosy, long-term blindness, and also death? I'm probably misunderstanding your point.
Also, coexistence of science and religion wasn't exactly what I was talking about, more the alleged grounds for the claim that x religion is true.
Of course, see, this'll all be irrelevant once Mercer arrives. We're probably not terribly far along the Ascent, but we can still honorably grasp the handles of empathy. We all agree Mercer is the one true teacher, riiight?
Also, coexistence of science and religion wasn't exactly what I was talking about, more the alleged grounds for the claim that x religion is true.
Of course, see, this'll all be irrelevant once Mercer arrives. We're probably not terribly far along the Ascent, but we can still honorably grasp the handles of empathy. We all agree Mercer is the one true teacher, riiight?
Who' s mercer?
Imagine Batty starting to deliver his dying speech: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
but Deckard is played by famous method actor Kirk Lazarus in blackface, who angrily interrupts: What do you mean 'you people'?
Then Gaff jumps out of his patrol cruiser, only he's Alpa Chino: What do YOU mean 'you people'?
And as Batty fades away in sad bewilderment, Deckard rants on how he shouldn't have gone full retard.
I just got flossed at by a sentient battery.why would a battery need floss? Can you explain the definition of floss used here?
I hadn't even heard of bitchute.One of the best video hosts if you don't want to deal with ContentID bullshit. I've watched plenty of reaction videos there. The other alternative is PeerTube.
I think he means the dance (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floss_(dance)).I like how one of the first results when I tried to search for it is aptly titled "cursed ad". (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMRLCx7KUQQ)
Your first question still stands though. Why is a battery dancing, and why that specific dance? :o
I just got flossed at by a sentient battery.Please explain how An electricity storage unit gained sentience and what you mean by it flossing at you, was it throwing silkworm silk at you? How did it accomplish this? Did you use it to clean your teeth? If so, how did you avoid getting shocked?
Presumably Yoink saw an animated video in which an anthropomorphic battery, which had arms and legs because it was fictional, was doing a dance known as "flossing".that does make much more sense than other possibilities, in which case, what’s the video called? Yes there was some sarcasm in there
Wait, was NG being sarcastic?
It was created around a time where Youtube had started demonetizing pretty much anything risque. It's not specifically for far right content, but that was what moved there the first and the hardest, scaring off everyone else. There's an uncomfortable cycle online right now where the worst elements of massive sites eventually step on too many toes, get kicked out, and flood smaller communities with looser rules, changing them forever and for the worse.I hadn't even heard of bitchute.One of the best video hosts if you don't want to deal with ContentID bullshit. I've watched plenty of reaction videos there. The other alternative is PeerTube.
The woke crusade is killing the Internet. Hell, a fandom I'm in has been in a month's long civil war caused by it.
Looks to be an internet casualty on account of it being created to host far/alt-right content, given Youtube would have none of it and demonetized people. That's what Wikipedia suggests the site is about, anyways.
We may have to address how we fundamentally handle in- and out-groups or how we manage conflict in a digital age; I'd imagine there's a lot to study on a personal and a macro level, like how individuals fight and compromise (or don't) or how larger facilitators of communication filter content or groups. I dunno if we can keep going like this.
I still laugh at videos, which presumably means I’m happy.
Family is out so my job to make lunch, manage to burn it a bit, most of the meat is usable but I'm not sure if the pan sauce is still a thing, despite draining almost all of the liquid :CSome pan sauces taste better a little burnt. Try a bit.
Family is out so my job to make lunch, manage to burn it a bit, most of the meat is usable but I'm not sure if the pan sauce is still a thing, despite draining almost all of the liquid :CSome pan sauces taste better a little burnt. Try a bit.
We don't have a "constantly mildly nervous" thread, so I'm posting in this thread that I'm starting college classes tomorrow.
I'm gonna mess something up, aren't I.
Yeah... what precious little code-like things I've done have all included disclaimers along the lines of, "If you encounter any bugs: Good luck! You're on your own and I'm not going to help."
It's one of the nicer things about hobbyist type stuff, rather than have some kind of fiscal duty or whatever to do something you can just go "lol no" to future issues without much in the way of possible repercussions, outside of maybe some generally mild enmity.
function leftPad (str, len, ch) {
// convert `str` to a `string`
str = str + '';
// `len` is the `pad`'s length now
len = len - str.length;
// doesn't need to pad
if (len <= 0) return str;
// `ch` defaults to `' '`
if (!ch && ch !== 0) ch = ' ';
// convert `ch` to a `string` cuz it could be a number
ch = ch + '';
// cache common use cases
if (ch === ' ' && len < 10) return cache[len] + str;
// `pad` starts with an empty string
var pad = '';
// loop
while (true) {
// add `ch` to `pad` if `len` is odd
if (len & 1) pad += ch;
// divide `len` by 2, ditch the remainder
len >>= 1;
// "double" the `ch` so this operation count grows logarithmically on `len`
// each time `ch` is "doubled", the `len` would need to be "doubled" too
// similar to finding a value in binary search tree, hence O(log(n))
if (len) ch += ch;
// `len` is 0, exit the loop
else break;
}
// pad `str`!
return pad + str;
}
function Pad(num, size, padValue)
{
var s = num+"";
while (s.length < size) s = padValue + s;
return s;
}
function Pad(num, size, padValue)
{
var s = num+"";
while (s.length < size) s = padValue + s;
return s;
}
The canonical example is LeftPad in JavaScript, which is used to pads zeroes on the left of a number. The maintainer got upset and yanked it out, broke half the internet.Holy shit I really ought to have heard about that!
This has been a very unpleasant week.This has been a very unpleasant month.
This has been a very unpleasant year so farThis has been a very unpleasant week.This has been a very unpleasant month.
This has been a very unpleasant year so farThis has been a very unpleasant week.This has been a very unpleasant month.
This has been a very unpleasant year so farThis has been a very unpleasant week.This has been a very unpleasant month.
This has been an unpleasant epoch so far.
It's 80°f throughout our facility, hotter here in the kitchen. These are the end times
This has been a very unpleasant year so farThis has been a very unpleasant week.This has been a very unpleasant month.
This has been a very unpleasant year so farThis has been a very unpleasant week.This has been a very unpleasant month.
This has been an unpleasant epoch so far.
No, this is a skilled nursing facility, supposed to keep it below 75. And it sucks ass washing all those dishes when you're drenched in sweatIt's 80°f throughout our facility, hotter here in the kitchen. These are the end times
That's not normal? I can't remember a time in the last 3 months when the temperature inside was lower than that.
Agreed. Why can’t people be more clear about things?Because many people find it awkward to say "no, I don't want to", and prefer to employ evasive manoeuvres instead of potentially having to shoot someone down directly. (And some people are so bad at that that, if pressed too hard, they'll pretend they DO want to rather than have to say they don't, which is even worse.)
I don’t remember performing such evasion, a few days ago I was asked if I wanted to see fireworks, and I said “no” which the asker was fine with. Had I performed such maneuvers you’re talking about, I would have likely confused the asker or veered into a tangent of a different conversation somehow and not getting around to the question until much later, wasting both of us’s timesAgreed. Why can’t people be more clear about things?Because many people find it awkward to say "no, I don't want to", and prefer to employ evasive manoeuvres instead of potentially having to shoot someone down directly. (And some people are so bad at that that, if pressed too hard, they'll pretend they DO want to rather than have to say they don't, which is even worse.)
I don’t remember performing such evasion, a few days ago I was asked if I wanted to see fireworks, and I said “no” which the asker was fine with. Had I performed such maneuvers you’re talking about, I would have likely confused the asker or veered into a tangent of a different conversation somehow and not getting around to the question until much later, wasting both of us’s timesOkay? I wasn't talking about you personally, and the fact that you probably don't have this feeling was honestly evident from the fact that you asked about it in the first place. However, let me clarify that by "evasive manoeuvres" I don't mean dodging the question or changing the subject, I mean "full power to reverse thrusters, delete the messages and pretend I've never met you before, and if asked directly, nod and say yeah we should totally do that some nonspecific future time and then find an excuse to leave".
It’s ok to ask something like that.I'm glad to hear that, as some people do get offended by that. It's really vexing to me personally because I was brought up to value blunt honesty, which is why I can't help but ask in the first place and basically just have to beg forgiveness while doing so and hope it works out.
Yes, I am autistic. It’s ok to ask something like that.No offense but it's rather evident. I mean there are a lot of telltale signs in your writing
I’m curious what they areYes, I am autistic. It’s ok to ask something like that.No offense but it's rather evident. I mean there are a lot of telltale signs in your writing
I’m curious what they areYes, I am autistic. It’s ok to ask something like that.No offense but it's rather evident. I mean there are a lot of telltale signs in your writing
I’m curious what they areYes, I am autistic. It’s ok to ask something like that.No offense but it's rather evident. I mean there are a lot of telltale signs in your writing
The true skeptics. Nothing will ever convince me that school isn't giant swaths of time wasted to bully people into "neurotypicality". Like seriously you can do the curriculum in half that time or less.Youtube is a fantastic source of information if you search for information, I agree that the education system needs improvements, like not assuming that students of the same age are of the same knowledge level
Been in quarantine too long too? Shit didn't get easier eh. Gain control of your breath at that point it's the only sensible choice within reach, just remember most people don't care.
Drink some coffee, it’ll keep you awake to see the eventTo your question from before: this, for example
the most recent question I asked appears to be about Sanders, what does Sanders have to do with coffee?Drink some coffee, it’ll keep you awake to see the eventTo your question from before: this, for example
the most recent question I asked appears to be about Sanders, what does Sanders have to do with coffee?Drink some coffee, it’ll keep you awake to see the eventTo your question from before: this, for example
Drink some coffee, it’ll keep you awake to see the eventI would, but it turns out that coffee (and probably all stimulants that act on dopamine) is about as dangerous for me as holding a lava bucket in your hand in Minecraft. There's a possible benefit to it, but considering what's at stake if something does go wrong, it's generally inadvisable. There are times where it's needed, sure, but at that point, I'd take extreme caution.
That seems like a song lyric.
In other news, I've got no idea how to help people who are in emotional distress of any sort. Anxiety, sadness, worry, grieving? I have no idea what to say. I care, dammit, but I don't know how to communicate that or how to help.
This is the main reason I don't deserve friends, as it means I'm by definition a fair-weather friend at best.
In other news, I've got no idea how to help people who are in emotional distress of any sort. Anxiety, sadness, worry, grieving? I have no idea what to say. I care, dammit, but I don't know how to communicate that or how to help.
Ctrl + Shift+ T to restore killed tabs?Yeah, that's how I restored as many as I could. There were a lot, though.
I dont know why I immediately thought of this kind of tab when you said that.what is that? Pills? Liquid? Gas?
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Lm8AAOSwiaVeLcuK/s-l640.jpg)
I want a meme of Yoink sitting on a hoard of tabs like Smaug.In one of my childhood homes there was a collection of Dr. Pepper cans stacked in an alcove above a doorway, from the previous occupant of my room.
Actually I can't remember exactly what Dr. Pepper tastes like
Actually I can't remember exactly what Dr. Pepper tastes like
Kind of like cherry coke, I guess?
In one of my childhood homes there was a collection of Dr. Pepper cans stacked in an alcove above a doorway, from the previous occupant of my room.
Would you like some dum-dums?In one of my childhood homes there was a collection of Dr. Pepper cans stacked in an alcove above a doorway, from the previous occupant of my room.
I can't read that without thinking "You use this word? Alcove?".
Well, I don't think it was technically an alcove, but I'm not sure what the proper name for the architectural feature in question is.In one of my childhood homes there was a collection of Dr. Pepper cans stacked in an alcove above a doorway, from the previous occupant of my room.
I can't read that without thinking "You use this word? Alcove?".
Or bottles, formerly containing sundrop.Were there other in jokes that I haven’t noticed that are still going on? The Sundrop in a Bottle one was the first time I’ve seen an in joke be born/created, though I’m sure there are others here
Jesus fuck my underling is useless. What part of "that's not an urgent consult and I'm busy in clinic. Tell them to send a written form" is so hard to understand?
Or bottles, formerly containing sundrop.
Grisha
Pathos
The scan phase
Fapmaster
That weird penguin thing
Roblox
All still exist to some level.
Well, several thingsJesus fuck my underling is useless. What part of "that's not an urgent consult and I'm busy in clinic. Tell them to send a written form" is so hard to understand?
As customer support, I can empathize with your underling. It's one thing to have your superior tell you X. It's another thing however to be in a service position and have to bear the brunt of people's anxiety/frustration. It may be easy for you to dismiss those things ex parte. But you aren't the one being directly harassed about it. I'm daily in the position of "just write this up or bring it to someone's attention."
Begrudgingly, the underling summons you to the scene. Intends for you to basically repeat everything he just said to the woman, to make her go away-- instead gets berated for being incompetent, due to your being overwhelmed with other tasks, and this being a minor, and totally bullshit reason to summon you.Well, it would be. Objectively, the underling's time is worth less and screening out people like that is his whole purpose. If he's just going to refer complainers up the chain, might as well cut out the middleman, because there's no reason for him to have a job.
Do it and you'll probably feel better after. If I slump during the day I go for a walk or exercise. Tends to lift me out of it.Quoting this advice in hopes I'll take it in the future. I'm doing okay right now, but there have been some rough days. Going out at all tends to help, sometimes breaks the funk.
Bleugh. Lay down to rest my eyes for a moment since I was feeling all headache-y (probably eyestrain from playing videogames and watching Netflix all day), next thing I know I've fallen asleep for hours.
Probably needed it, buddy.
My friend got me into Hisoutensoku, a fighting game with Touhou characters. Looking into the online community for it, I'm surprised to learn that such a niche and old game has a very alive community for it still. I have something of a main character I like to play already, and I'm eager to learn, and so I look into videos of high level players...
"Holy fuck... these... these are humans playing right?"
It's just unfathomable the level of dexterity and reaction speed these people must have. I'm just a button mashing old man with Alzheimer's in comparison.
Just to try, I managed to play with someone, finding their ip on the Discord for the game. I feel I wouldn't do terribly, I do semi-alright versus my friend and I have 10-15 hours of practice in the game. In the span of a minute he teaches me I don't know how to play the game and I'm basically wasting his time. Jesus I just feel deflated.
You must practice longer and harder.
The air conditioner in my car no longer appears to be functional. It is 10 years old, and thankfully it's starting to get to be the season where I don't need it, but it's still annoying.Have you tried using a recharge kit on the condenser?
No not yet; that was the first thing I was going to check though. Yesterday was the first day I noticed anything awry. I may not even bother until the spring now though; if I have a slow leak, I don't want to fill it and have it leak out over the course of winter...The air conditioner in my car no longer appears to be functional. It is 10 years old, and thankfully it's starting to get to be the season where I don't need it, but it's still annoying.Have you tried using a recharge kit on the condenser?
Air quality because of the fires is horrendous. Can't see more than 200 yards, hurts to breathe, it's slowly raining little bits of ash, and it hasn't changed for 3 days. It's never been this bad in the last six years we've been here, and the fires have never been so close. And I don't even think there were fires until after labor day
I have a gift card with 180€ for online shopping but for some reason its bounced back everywhere wxcept gog.com
I really don't know if I'll ever be able to touch the highway without feeling bad about my performance afterward.
#tryingtodrivehomeandalmostgoingtoCanada
My favorite baseball team sucks. They've sucked for a long, long time, and that's never stopped me from watching them, but still. Why can't you be good for a while, Mariners?Look on the bright side -- all of baseball sucks. :P
I enjoy the bursts of spectacle between the tedium, same with other sports. I'm trapped in the chair and/or on crutches for quite a while, so I may as well relax, right?My favorite baseball team sucks. They've sucked for a long, long time, and that's never stopped me from watching them, but still. Why can't you be good for a while, Mariners?Look on the bright side -- all of baseball sucks. :P
It's all the tedium of golf, but with more people so it takes longer.
Dude, WTH? You back to pitfighting or something? :(I enjoy the bursts of spectacle between the tedium, same with other sports. I'm trapped in the chair and/or on crutches for quite a while, so I may as well relax, right?My favorite baseball team sucks. They've sucked for a long, long time, and that's never stopped me from watching them, but still. Why can't you be good for a while, Mariners?Look on the bright side -- all of baseball sucks. :P
It's all the tedium of golf, but with more people so it takes longer.
Nah. I just had surgery #4 on my spine, connecting my right SI joint to my pelvis permanently. After 6 weeks on crutches (toe touch only, no weight bearing,) I do physical therapy (yet again,) and then we do the other side, so that my tailbone will be in a fixed position forever. Then after 6 weeks of crutches for that side, we do an ACDF fusion in my neck.Dude, WTH? You back to pitfighting or something? :(I enjoy the bursts of spectacle between the tedium, same with other sports. I'm trapped in the chair and/or on crutches for quite a while, so I may as well relax, right?My favorite baseball team sucks. They've sucked for a long, long time, and that's never stopped me from watching them, but still. Why can't you be good for a while, Mariners?Look on the bright side -- all of baseball sucks. :P
It's all the tedium of golf, but with more people so it takes longer.
Uh, dude, I think you're thinking of cricket.My favorite baseball team sucks. They've sucked for a long, long time, and that's never stopped me from watching them, but still. Why can't you be good for a while, Mariners?Look on the bright side -- all of baseball sucks. :P
It's all the tedium of golf, but with more people so it takes longer.
Nah. You wrong. Nothing happens in cricket. A bunch of dudes in identical outfits running back and forth down a straight line. They can't even throw the damn ball properly. And a single game of this monstrosity can and will drag on for fucking days!
Especially damning is the fact that cricket isn't even fun to play. And I'm not just saying that as someone with a tendency to suck at sports, no, I always sucked at soccer, basketball, badminton, bowling and such as well, but they were at least still fun to play for the sake of playing.
My favorite baseball team sucks. They've sucked for a long, long time, and that's never stopped me from watching them, but still. Why can't you be good for a while, Mariners?
My favorite baseball team sucks. They've sucked for a long, long time, and that's never stopped me from watching them, but still. Why can't you be good for a while, Mariners?
Microsoft is buying Zenimax, including Bethesda.
:'(
The biggest way to make it worse is to make all the IP Windows/XBox exclusive, where it wasn't previously exclusive.
Which is something that Microsoft is very fond of doing. I mean maybe MS is not dumb enough to throw away the revenue they'd get from all the Playstation titles? Because I am pretty certain that you can bet that taking properties like Elder Scrolls and Fallout to a Microsoft Exclusive will probably not get the literal millions of people with those systems to buy MS products. I can bet it would actually backfire badly.
Is there anything cross-platform that MS studios have published? I know that none of the Halo stuff is available anywhere (I'm still disappointed at Bungie for that; I loved the Marathon series!) other than MS platforms.
I've been having very frequent headaches lately. Just some days, feels like a gallon of water is sloshing in my head. Not sure why.
Ogh, I've recently picked up headaches where it feels like it's trying to grow tendrils out the back of my skull.
Guess we'll never know, eh?
This series is absolutely amazing and I recommend that everyone watch it. Jon Bois is a master narrator.My favorite baseball team sucks. They've sucked for a long, long time, and that's never stopped me from watching them, but still. Why can't you be good for a while, Mariners?
They were good for "a while"! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pkVu6Kw00M&list=PLUXSZMIiUfFQua1LlKNMg1IOqAn15RkUT&ab_channel=SecretBase)
Finally started reading Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy and found this gem about a space president:It was just as true then too. In 1979, the last president had been Nixon and the current was the universally loathed Carter, so it was an entirely timely parody in its time.
"The President in particular is very much a figurehead -- he has no real power whatsoever... the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership, but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power, but to draw attention away from [those that do]. On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had."
It's even better with context, but I wasn't expecting a humor book from 1979 to speak so much painful truth. I'd post this in things that made me laugh, but it's not funny anymore.
the "Sensible party" candidate as Bernie Sanders(https://media3.giphy.com/media/hvq8ONQhQ1XLq/giphy.gif)
Your 'sensible' 'silly' and 'very silly' criteria are so subjective as to be nonsensical. As demonstrated by Yoink's reaction :D
Pointing out facts is not really a bias.
Pointing out facts is not really a bias.
When one of the candidates routinely avoids, obfuscates, or outright ignores facts, yes it is.
Yoink's reaction is mostly "Phhht! I disagree, LOL!" which is hardly constructive at all.You expected me to be constructive in my response to your political rant in the Mild Sad thread? ???
This is for 2020, but I assume there's overlap with past platforms, and honestly I can't be bothered hunting for past campaigns. Let me know if I make false assumptions.Your 'sensible' 'silly' and 'very silly' criteria are so subjective as to be nonsensical. As demonstrated by Yoink's reaction :D
Building a platform around fixing the massive wealth disparity that exists in the USA is hardly nonsensical, and is actually quite sensible. (Which is what Sander's platform basically was.)
Building a platform around "How can I say exactly what will get me elected while having a history of being all over the place, and pretending that I have any real resolve for any stated objective in contradiction of objective reality of my past political performance" is silly, and is what Hillary's platform was.
Building a platform around "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" in a very Nazi-esque fashion, is Very Silly, and is exactly what Trump's platform was.
Yoink's reaction is mostly "Phhht! I disagree, LOL!" which is hardly constructive at all.
That said, a "Truly Sensible" candidate has not been on offer for almost a century now. They are always either straight up charlatans out to enrich themselves, power hungry wanna-be dictators of various stripes, or buffoons.
Your condensation of policies:My condensation of policies:
Sanders: Fixing wealth disparity.
Trump: Nazi who wants to MAGA.
Clinton: Airhead lusting for power.
I started up the game on my friend's strong recommendation, but personally I found the gameplay kinda trivial and unsatisfying, and the story dripping with the kind of faux-intellectualism that is used to trick normies into thinking it's smart.
I started up the game on my friend's strong recommendation, but personally I found the gameplay kinda trivial and unsatisfying, and the story dripping with the kind of faux-intellectualism that is used to trick normies into thinking it's smart.
Honestly, I feel kind of the same. What happens on the third play through is kind of insane though. If anything is going to redeem the game for you, it's that. You have to see it to believe it.
-snip-The successor to the i5-9300H is the i5-10300H. The i5-10600T is intended for desktops according to Intel themselves (https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/199279/intel-core-i5-10600t-processor-12m-cache-up-to-4-00-ghz.html), and the final letter "T" (low-power desktop) clearly marks it as different from the ones that end in "H" (high-power laptop). They (i5-9300H and i5-10600T) occupy a different market segment and should not be compared.
I've been trying to plot out my sexuality by zapping it with homoerotic content. As of now, I've basically identified it as "biromantic heterosexual", though "panromantic" is theoretically possible (the romance part of it appears to be gender-independent), but I have zero data (i.e. hadn't had any crushes on nonbinary peeps), so the jury's still out on that. There's some other details there, but I think I've mapped out a decent chunk of it.
But, like, what is love?
You know, I've just realized I haven't seen Naturegirl around. I hope she's getting along just fine.yea, was thinking that a while back. Quick, someone send an exploratory message to prompt the email!
We're not supposed to notice her absence, and here we are doing it a second time. Don't be weird. People are allowed to leave.
They are also allowed to come back.
Thanks to COVID, classes in my college are now online. It's a shitshow, as far as things go. There's no standardization of apps. Like, lecturers use Whatsapp, Telegram, or Google Classroom to coordinate the lectures. And I'm not even sure on what platforms the online classes themselves are on. I'm having a headache trying to figure out who uses what. Even worse, my college does have a standardized platform for online classes, but it's basically luck as to whether any of them actually use it.Tell me about it
The best part? Classes start tomorrow. I've only been in the college dorm for one fucking day, and they decide to start online classes the day after. No orientation; that's cancelled due to COVID. I don't have a roommate to ask, either, since my only one decided to stay home (which is a perfectly valid option). God save me.
Thanks to COVID, classes in my college are now online. It's a shitshow, as far as things go. There's no standardization of apps. Like, lecturers use Whatsapp, Telegram, or Google Classroom to coordinate the lectures. And I'm not even sure on what platforms the online classes themselves are on. I'm having a headache trying to figure out who uses what. Even worse, my college does have a standardized platform for online classes, but it's basically luck as to whether any of them actually use it.
The best part? Classes start tomorrow. I've only been in the college dorm for one fucking day, and they decide to start online classes the day after. No orientation; that's cancelled due to COVID. I don't have a roommate to ask, either, since my only one decided to stay home (which is a perfectly valid option). God save me.
We're not supposed to notice her absence, and here we are doing it a second time. Don't be weird. People are allowed to leave.
They are also allowed to come back.
We're not supposed to notice her absence, and here we are doing it a second time. Don't be weird. People are allowed to leave.
They are also allowed to come back.
Just to be clear, if I ever stop logging in I expect a good bit of wailing, gnashing of teeth, and sackcloth wearing from you all.
I want you all to go on a documentary search of discovery in the vein of Searching For Sugarman, with the addition of the realisation that in the end, this journey was not about what happened to me, but really about what happened to you.
Call it Searching For scriverman
I tried looking in the cave, but just found some old Greek guy named Plato, and some rich guy in black spandex.I wont ask what those two were doing, but it sounds kinky
I tried looking in the cave, but just found some old Greek guy named Plato, and some rich guy in black spandex.I wont ask what those two were doing, but it sounds kinky
I tried looking in the cave, but just found some old Greek guy named Plato, and some rich guy in black spandex.I wont ask what those two were doing, but it sounds kinky"Would it be gay if we kissed?"
Wait crap, Plato wasn't Socrates. He studied under Socrates, but still.
"Would people see our shadows and assume we were kissing if we leaned on each other by the fire?"
The US has great publicity, usually - so probably not much is written about day-to-day life that is negative. There's plenty to draw on, active-shooter trainings, for one.
I had a drunk anxiety attack last night trying to relax for a trip.Duuuuuude, you don't try and relax for a trip. That doesn't end well. Just save the trip for a time when you do feel relaxed!
Duuuuuude, you don't try and relax for a trip. That doesn't end well. Just save the trip for a time when you do feel relaxed!
Seriously, just stick the stuff in your freezer and wait 'til it is the right time. Nobody's gonna peer pressure you into that kinda thing! At least, I should hope not.
My mom seems to be in denial of the fact that I simply cannot smile (or make any other facial expression) on purpose. She thinks it can be learned, which I don't think is possible without specialized equipment at my age. Like, there's no usable wiring between my brain and my face muscles. Zero. You may as well put electrodes in my face and try zapping it in a certain way so that I can smile. As a corollary to that, I can't feel what face I'm making, nor can I decode what emotion is being conveyed in someone's face (alright, I can, but it's so slow that it's useless for anything but the simplest of cases). As far as smiling goes, I have better luck trying to reverse-engineer a game with just a hex editor and nothing else.Unless you have palsy that's clearly untrue 🤔. So either you're dramatizing or she's rightly worried about you having a stroke
I don't care myself if I'm making a face at all, I'm just pissed that my mom seems to care so deeply about something I'm unable to do. And she asks me to smile sometimes, which I've already established to her that I simply cannot do that.
Later on, people are gonna ask me why I can't smile, and they're gonna be shocked when I say that I simply can't, like if I told a kid that Santa Claus isn't real. It's like it's a fundamental belief that I just broke. Why do people care so much? Damn.
If people cared less about things we'd all be better off.
If people cared less about things we'd all be better off.
I'd say that if people cared less about things we'd all be far worse off
If people cared less about things we'd all be better off.
I'd say that if people cared less about things we'd all be far worse off
Less about things, more about people?
Afraid I'm just gonna be twisted for my whole life.Ain't that the norm?
Everyone can change in at least some way. It takes a well-developed sense of self-awareness, though. You have to learn to catch yourself doing what you normally do and choose to be different.
We've been a subsidiary several times in our past, I don't know exactly why this time in particular makes me so uneasy.
We've been a subsidiary several times in our past, I don't know exactly why this time in particular makes me so uneasy.
2020.
New games are starting to cease supporting Windows 7, which means I'm going to have to get Windows 10 soon if I want to play anything new. The idea does not fill me with relish.
I would not be surprised if it manages to slow down my computer on top of all the annoying little 'improvements'.
New games are starting to cease supporting Windows 7, which means I'm going to have to get Windows 10 soon if I want to play anything new. The idea does not fill me with relish.
I would not be surprised if it manages to slow down my computer on top of all the annoying little 'improvements'.
That does look useful, I'll hold on it, thanks.New games are starting to cease supporting Windows 7, which means I'm going to have to get Windows 10 soon if I want to play anything new. The idea does not fill me with relish.
I would not be surprised if it manages to slow down my computer on top of all the annoying little 'improvements'.
Win 10 can be very annoying.
Try this, I've used it a couple of years and it works!
O&O ShutUp 10
I cannot stress this enough. Get an SSD if you don't already have one, though make sure it's compatible with what you have. Those 2.5 inch SSDs are the safest bet; most desktops can take those as a drop-in replacement.I'll be keeping that in mind when the time comes to switch.
I watched Dead Man’s Shoes for the first time in about 15 years.this doesn’t sound upsetting, did you mean to post in a different thread? Or is there something I missed?
It is a rather brutal film about a former soldier coming to take revenge on the people who mistreated his younger brother who has a learning disability.
Not entirely sure why I watched it ‘cause I knew it would be hard going. It’s a good film, though.
A good film can be upsetting. If stirring strong emotions is the goal of the movie, then it's a good film even if it makes you sad.
SuperEyepatchwolf just put out a video for his top most horrifying, disturbing movies. I haven't seen any of them, just his descriptions of them are pretty unsettling.
SuperEyepatchwolf just put out a video for his top most horrifying, disturbing movies. I haven't seen any of them, just his descriptions of them are pretty unsettling.
I clicked on the video but avoided watching any of it, because I'd prefer to get the titles of the movies, watch them and then view the bit where he's breaking it down afterwards. If it's a disturbing movie then telling me why it's disturbing is just going to spoil the whole thing.
Why is Watership Down on that list?
I mean - I guess maybe it is horrifying but not in the "horror movie" sense.
Maybe it's because a shape-shifting alien that kills people stuck in a remote Antarctic base really doesn't strike that close to home.
for example a psychological movie about a killer baby, where you're not sure if the baby is evil or the mother is going insane. I'm just winging it based on the title "The Baby" here, not spoiling the movie. I have no idea what it's about. If I was writing a movie with that title, that's the plot I'd go with.
Why is Watership Down on that list?
I mean - I guess maybe it is horrifying but not in the "horror movie" sense.
Why is Watership Down on that list?
I mean - I guess maybe it is horrifying but not in the "horror movie" sense.
flavor.
flavor.
Hmm.
flavor.
Hmm.
It was old, but spicy. My eyes hurt tho.
Are you remembering to cook it properly beforehand? It's not supposed to be eaten raw y'know.
Are you remembering to cook it properly beforehand? It's not supposed to be eaten raw y'know.
I though shampoo was a "Just add water" sort of affair.
Are you remembering to cook it properly beforehand? It's not supposed to be eaten raw y'know.
I though shampoo was a "Just add water" sort of affair.
So is pasta and rice, but you should probably do more to it prior to consumption.
Well, assuming you want to enjoy the experience.
I just spent a couple hours trying to 1) Figure out what in this bastard's code was going wrong enough to make the whole game come to a screeching halt and 2) Learn enough Python so I could actually understand what it was when I saw it :PWhat game? Sounds like a mess.
Turns out the "bugfix" branch on Git also happened to include special (hack-assed) mod support capability that has never been merged into the master branch, *in addition to bugfixes*, and this dweeb basically broke his own game unless you have a third-party mod installed and activated. Issue was resolved by manually unfucking the fuckery.
It's bad enough to wonk mod support so hard that the base game crashes and burns unless they're specifically using the mods you're just now adding support for, but putting mod support framework into the "BUGFIX" branch just cheeses me mightily.
$ the_group = GroupDisplayManager([person_one, person_two], primary_speaker = person_one)
$ the_gropu.draw_group(emotion = "angry")
Yeah, whatever you do, don't touch the typo'd names. Leave best alone.
I've had the "I'll just tidy this bit up" idea in a working code-base but it's lead to a rabbithole of hours of fixing new problems that caused, to the point where you just end up reverting to the previous version instead of dealing with the ever-growing list of broken dependencies.
Or you see something and think it shouldn't work that way, so you simplify it, find that it's lead to a cascade of changes, but it'll be worth it because you simplified it, only to come full-circle to realizing that the original way of doing it avoided some bug that you didn't take into account. An example might be an array starting from index "1" but you think that's a waste of memory, so you shift the entries to start from zero, only to realize that entry zero, while never used, is in fact used for some special logic somewhere.
Are you using Python? You can use ast.literal_eval .
You have to account for better detection rates.A lot of this. Plus more standardized definitions that collect things under a particular name or banner instead of letting every observer use their own term on it. "If we don't test for COVID, we won't have any more cases!"
What is it about the modern world that leads to so many mental illnesses? I’ve seen it countless times and it seems to fly in the face of all the very real progress that has been made over the past century. I suspect the breakdown of community-level organisations has played some part in this, but I can’t help but feel there’s more to it than this.
However, the *circumstances* of your upbringing can result in the unhealthy coping and processing mechanisms that can develop into a mental illness.
Remember that mental illness isn't a binary definition of "either you have it or you don't". It's a term used for conditions that have gotten to the point of being damaging and disruptive to a person's everyday life. "Everyone has a mental health", as the phrase goes, and a number of factors can lead to that health deteriorating. Definitely including external factors.
We estimated that approximately one in five people in post-conflict settings has depression, anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia. This finding is in contrast to data from GBD 2016,
which suggest a mean global prevalence of one in 14.
...my first thought was wondering what impact accessibility to mental healthcare would have on the data...
Did you see a mention of accessibility pre- and post conflict being factored in? Though to be fair the article is to present data not to explain why the data is such due to such variables.
What is it about the modern world that leads to so many mental illnesses?
I am mildly upset at worldwide scientific funding.
Can people just not stop with spending billions on completely unimportant matters like settling the moon or curing Covid,and put some funding into really important things,
like,
WHERE DO MY SOCKS GO? I found out I currently have 20 what-used-to-be pairs-but-are-now-single-socks.
Switch to fire ants or bullet ants, maybe they will learn not to touch them.
Which subreddit was this? Different ones have different rules.
i been a bit more active for two days and I feel thoroughly pissed it wasn't even something or somebody in particular but nothing ever just works and I'm super cranky
I bought cans of sardines without realizing that some of them don't have pull tabs. And I chose to try to eat one without a pull tab. I don't have a can opener. Fuck. I'm so tempted to go full caveman style on this can to get it to open.
i been a bit more active for two days and I feel thoroughly pissed it wasn't even something or somebody in particular but nothing ever just works and I'm super cranky
I am considering cancelling my ongoing appointments with my current therapist.
I'm not looking forward to finding another one, though. Seems like a weekly check is more important to them. Most of them don't understand ASD outside of maybe a day's lecture at college or a chapter of a book they read, and they aren't willing to expand beyond that. They think depression means half of what I say isn't true even if I could prove it with actual facts or sources. So much advice they want to give is so useless because we don't live in boomer-land anymore but they don't want to hear that. Even if half my problems are caused by societal issues they think pills will solve them, even when psychiatry has proven itself to be nothing but trouble and borderline pseudoscience.
I've been through at least five by now and I'm starting to think its folly to expect anything better from these people. My current therapist tried to sell me on how being autistic is a "blessing" (its literally never been good) and how being obsessed with board games is supposed to be useful, even though 30 minutes ago I told her my collection collects dust and wastes space because I never have people to play with and most games I'd play are too complex anyway. Then I had to explain to her how having fun via board games is largely pointless when I couldn't afford a roof over my head, apparently the hierarchy of needs is something that needs explaining to alleged psychology graduates.
I managed to open the can partially and extracted the contents by repeatedly shaking it up and down to get the sardine in it to mush up enough to exit through the small opening I made. On one hand, it did look like wet cat food. On the other hand, it did taste like canned sardines in tomato sauce. Compared to baked beans and eggs, it actually tasted like food. I have no regrets.
One of the fans in my laptop is apparently dying. It's been making some bad noises for a few months now, but as of yesterday it sounds like a freaking prop plane preparing for takeoff. There were also a couple of very concerning (if brief) screeching noises. It seems to occasionally throttle the CPU because of the fan, even if it's not particularly hot. I might try opening it up and cleaning it, but from what I've seen online, this model is not very repair-friendly.
Between this and the keyboard that stopped working after getting water on it, it's probably time to upgrade.
One of the fans in my laptop is apparently dying. It's been making some bad noises for a few months now, but as of yesterday it sounds like a freaking prop plane preparing for takeoff. There were also a couple of very concerning (if brief) screeching noises. It seems to occasionally throttle the CPU because of the fan, even if it's not particularly hot. I might try opening it up and cleaning it, but from what I've seen online, this model is not very repair-friendly.
Between this and the keyboard that stopped working after getting water on it, it's probably time to upgrade.
Just one question: why?
Valentine's day stuff for sale the day after christmas, what's wrong with you people
Valentine's day stuff for sale the day after christmas, what's wrong with you people
lol where have you been where I work we were getting Valentine’s stuff out the week before Christmas after getting Christmas stuff out in September.
Heck. the forum software is sometimes erroneously marking threads as read now.Maybe you read them....AND FORGOT!! :o
Heck. the forum software is sometimes erroneously marking threads as read now.Maybe you read them....AND FORGOT!! :o
Flash support ended.It makes me more than mildly sad, honestly. It's the end of an era that, for better or worse, we may never see anything like again.
I bet I could still use an old browser to play the games of my childhood but still.
It makes me more than mildly upset, but it's okay. The Flashpoint Project has preserved *most* of the works. It could be worse.Flash support ended.It makes me more than mildly sad, honestly. It's the end of an era that, for better or worse, we may never see anything like again.
I bet I could still use an old browser to play the games of my childhood but still.
how else would you catch pokemon? <_<This :D
but yeah 2nd what others said. they might seem a bit overbearing now but i think it's really nice that you parents care enough to keep in regular contact and wonder how you are doing.This, I guess... It can be very frustrating sometimes, though. Particularly this year, when they keep inviting me over to feed me types of food I'm not eating.
The thing bugging me most about the flash support ending is that bit where they also say they're going to prevent the player from working outright at the end of the month, really.This program is not a program of honor...
Like... it's a weird step I don't see often when projects discontinue support, and kinda' makes me wonder what they've screwed up so badly with it they think it's needed, y'know?
I've heard online that Gordon Ramsay is actually really nice in person. And that his character on his own cooking segments is closer to his real self.
that horror door squeak sound effect.
the American version had just given me a pretty bad nightmare.
Ah the good old days of Discovery and Nat Geo where you watched shit to learn and not watch garbage 'reality' shows.I miss when Animal Planet played educational shows about non human animals, like the Best 10 of some trait, or Monsters Inside Me
Security holes I think is the big thing. Also they might feel obligated to release security patches or other patches if problems crop up while the player is technically no longer supported but still used in some places.
This program is not a program of honor...
The future generations must be warned of the toxicity of Adobe Flash
Ah the good old days of Discovery and Nat Geo where you watched shit to learn and not watch garbage 'reality' shows.I miss when Animal Planet played educational shows about non human animals, like the Best 10 of some trait, or Monsters Inside Me
Member when the History channel was the Hitler and related topics channel and not the pawn shop extreme fishlogtrucker aliens channel?
Ah yes the days when channels played things related to what they were supposed to be about, how I miss them.Ah the good old days of Discovery and Nat Geo where you watched shit to learn and not watch garbage 'reality' shows.I miss when Animal Planet played educational shows about non human animals, like the Best 10 of some trait, or Monsters Inside MeMember when the History channel was the Hitler and related topics channel and not the pawn shop extreme fishlogtrucker aliens channel?
Guys. Guys.
MTV used to play music.
Um. Someone asked why I hate Kitchen Nightmares and Gordon Ramsay, and what I wrote isn't appropriate for the dream thread, so here:That's because it is manufactured & fake. Growing up on UK and Malaysian Gordon Ramsay appearances I always knew him as a stoic cuisine expert who was an ambassador for Britain, a kind teacher, conservationist and a genuine good soul. When I found out about his American personality I was laffin
The "drama" and straight up screaming arguments seem manufactured. A lot of these restaurants have very, VERY serious sanitation issues - I like that the show exposes that - but I just don't "buy" the rest.
Ramsay almost spends the first part of the show ordering several things and taking a bite out of each, or just poking them around, and making complaints that I have no reason to believe. My brother says there are exceptions, but to me it seems oddly convenient that EVERY SINGLE THING he eats, he hates. Sometimes there are concrete complaints about consistency, but usually he just calls it "bad" or "the worst ever". Or "realizes" that it's frozen, something he obviously would know going in. It's all performative, and it seems like remarkably lazy food criticism. I'm not learning anything about flavor profiles by him calling it bad/disgusting/gross/dog poo. Even unfresh, oversalted, or greasy are grade school judgements - and largely subjective!Every US Gordon Ramsay show:
[1] Face angle interview of restaurant owner/head chef: Oh boy I just know Ramsay is going to love my foodHehe. I'm starting to think my actual problem is with American-style reality TV, which I've been pretty sheltered from. Seems a lot of people are desensitized to it. I remember seeing a couple of episodes of Undercover Boss and getting even more upset over them.
[2] Reaction shot of staff member looking nervous
[ EXCITING MUSIC ]
[3] Canteen shot of head chef saying Gordon's gonna love my food
[ SNARE DRUMS PLAY ]
[4] Shot of nervous staff member talking to bemused Gordon about odd menu choices
[ COW MOOING ]
[5] Face angle interview of nervous staff member saying: "Gordon's gonna hate this"
[ TENSE MUSIC PLAYS ]
[6] Gordon eating food: I hate this
[ SNARE DRUMS ROLL ]
[7] Nervous staff: Oh boy I knew he was gonna hate this
[ DEEP DRUMS PLAY ]
[8] Nervous staff (to chef): Gordon hates this
[ CONFRONTATIONAL MUSIC PLAYS ]
[9] Head chef: He hates this?
[ TRUMPETS BLARE ]
[10] Face to face interview with head chef: Oh my god when Gordon said he hates this I was gonna flip
[ TOOT TOOT ]
[11] Head chef: flips
[12] Gordon: I hate this
Watch any of the UK versions. The editing is slower and Gordon acts natural, whether it's cooking, business help or whatever. Even his YT channel cooking vods show him being a normal bean
I misread my schedule and thought one of my classes was at 2 today, turns out it started at 12 and ended at 1:30
It was a Zoom class. I emailed my professor about it already, I just feel both upset that I missed it and stupid for not checking the schedule to make sure my memory was correct
hmmmmmm
So I'm looking for people's opinions of the best way to try to 'mock' invest in the stock market. I don't have a particular market in mind, just 'the market'. Something I can dip my toe into, or just track a few stocks to build up some confidence in my choices when I do invest.
Any ideas? The internet seems to not be of too much use - just provides me with information over-saturation.
This is a pet peeve of mine, but a lot of chiptunes are labeled as "8-bit" only, rather than the system/sound chip it's emulating/composed on.
There's a lot of 8-bit systems out there. You have the NES, with its 2A03, the Atari 2600, with its TIA, the ZX Spectrum 48K and 128K with their beeper and AY-3-8910 respectively, and so on. Those are PSGs. Then you have the Commodore 64, which despite being an 8-bit machine, I'd argue that its sound capabilities (provided by the SID chip) are on par with a (3-channel) synthesizer.
Like, 8-bit does not narrow it down! Which one is it?! It tells me nothing, apart from the fact that it should follow the constraints associated with such hardware (limited number of channels, few waveforms, limited memory, few if any samples, BPM of 150...). I've learned to associate "8-bit" alone with NES/2A03(-style), and I think it's a shame that's about the only sound chip people tend to know. I don't think it shows a lack of respect for these systems, necessarily. It shows ignorance, and that's a shame.
I have a external disk player that I was going to use to play STALKER Call of Pripyat because the DVD drive on my laptop is dead, but I couldn't find the cords for it and ended up spending days looking for them only to never find them and have to buy one, only to get it all set up, put the disk in, and nothing to happen, after investigating the cause I found that the external disk drive was a CD drive and not a DVD like I needed. So I ended up wasting loads of time for nothing.
Week five
Of
Zero speech
Yay.
Did you get a pcr?
Get a cheap dvd drive? I've got about half a dozen lying around just from dismantling ye olde pcs so they can't be that expensive. For 10yrs or so every basic pc came with one. Check the attics of relatives.I have a laptop that needs a specific kind and I know where to get one but with this stupid COVID shit I can't go to the thrift store that has loads of computer stuff, I was manly hoping to get something working with what I have because I didn't want to have to buy it again.
If you can't find a 2nd hand one it might be cheaper just to buy it again on GOG though.
I actually have a few old SATA style laptop DVD drives rotting in drawers... What kind do you need exactly?What kind of Info do you need.
Oh I connected what they said to doing the polymerase chain reaction on Dwarfy's DNA...I would definitely be up for this. Polymerase chain reactions are very cool.
hmmmmmmInvestopedia has a stock simulator that is only 15 minutes slower than the real thing.
So I'm looking for people's opinions of the best way to try to 'mock' invest in the stock market. I don't have a particular market in mind, just 'the market'. Something I can dip my toe into, or just track a few stocks to build up some confidence in my choices when I do invest.
Any ideas? The internet seems to not be of too much use - just provides me with information over-saturation.
I did pretty badly on my first quiz for one of my classes
Apologies in my heart to whoever it was behind me in the bank drivethrough. It turns out even when the (federal) check to be deposited says it's good out to a year (as does official regs, from when I checked), if it's over six months old it still causes confusion and slowdown for the bank people :(
I know now the things are lying liars that lie, but I didn't before driving up and gumming things up for like 10-15 minutes, bleh.
I'm always really self-conscious at the ATM machine too. Money already makes me uncomfortable enough, holding someone up makes that so much worse. It's not my fault, I know, but it certainly rushes me and that's bad with money stuff.
Friiiiick frick frick my rice cooker is misbehaving. It's immediately tripping back to "keep warm" which is pretty hot, but not enough to cook rice.
IGuessIllDie.jpg
It's probably fine for all my dry pasta, though. ...and I *guess* I can take a look inside once it cools down. But bluh, I'm going to have to put this rice in a pot and use the stove, why even live
I'm so sorry that happened :( I've blanked on my own PIN - I know it by rote, but when I think "PIN" there's an ancient one I recall more clearly. So on a couple of occasions where I was particularly anxious about stuff, I've overthought the process and had to briefly meditate and [reset] my brain before I could reattempt the interaction properly.
summer is evil tho
summer is evil tho
wHAT
You see, when you call it "ice rain", I'm imagining solid spikes of ice friggin' raining down from the heavens, ready to impale whoever is foolish enough to not seek shelter. In which case, I would not like the season with ice rain, because that's just terrifying.
My body is too good at generating heat.summer is evil tho
wHAT
Scottish summers are like... Colder than Florida winters (probably about as moist)
you may enjoy australian hailstorms.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
You see, when you call it "ice rain", I'm imagining solid spikes of ice friggin' raining down from the heavens, ready to impale whoever is foolish enough to not seek shelter. In which case, I would not like the season with ice rain, because that's just terrifying.
you may enjoy australian hailstorms.
(https://i.imgur.com/DaMbU7Y.jpg)
I hate both summer and winter, they both suck in their own special way.This guy gets it.
I hate both summer and winter, they both suck in their own special way.This guy gets it.
Sweat, inescapable heat, a tendency to sunburn and bugs vs cold feet, cold hands, cold face and constantly hauling firewood into the wood shed and then from the wood shed to the house.
How does anyone choose?
At least it doesn't snow or rain ice cubes here.
I'm trying to fight the need for physical human contact, it's been weeks since I hugged someone or so much as touched hands with another.Weeks? You spoiled brat. I haven't touched a human being for 11 months now. Not even my mother.
Not many mosquitoes here either, thank god, although you can acquire numerous mysterious itches if you go outside at night. The flies on the other hand will never leave you alone unless you kill them....
Don't really get mosquitos here, though they are moving further north each year ._. evil
Putting firewood in the wood shed is a summer activity surely, otherwise no time for it to dry out :P
wrong'un. everything about that, wrong.
edit: GREEN smells? the only smell in winter is frost. :(You see, when you call it "ice rain", I'm imagining solid spikes of ice friggin' raining down from the heavens, ready to impale whoever is foolish enough to not seek shelter. In which case, I would not like the season with ice rain, because that's just terrifying.
you may enjoy australian hailstorms.
(https://i.imgur.com/DaMbU7Y.jpg)
Don't really get mosquitos here, though they are moving further north each year ._. evil
What is this 'human contact' you speak of?
House person actually went through with getting a puppy. It's, well. It's not great. No one in this house really has it in them to properly care for or train a puppy. The three of us together, don't. It's already starting to be a problem (it's showing signs of having started to learn to piss and shit on the carpet instead of, y'know. Not that.), and it's going to only get worse 'cause it's a young pit bull breed, i.e. not going to be small, is going to be heavy and strong (which I can mostly deal with, but no one else in the house can). Just... bloody hell.
Pretty sure I'm going to nickname it Bi (said bee) as short for Bad Idea :-\
I'm trying to fight the need for physical human contact, it's been weeks since I hugged someone or so much as touched hands with another.Who needs physical human contact when you have.... something else?
Try not to act too angry (more disappointed) when it goes inside, especially if you don't catch it doing it.Getting angry with a dog is often counterproductive. You might see it as punishment, a dog sees it as 'I am getting attention', which for a dog is a reward. Correcting when you catch them in the act of doing something nasty can be best done with a single, stern "NO!", after which you ignore your dog for half an hour (lock it in the hallway if you must), then it feels it has done something wrong, because it's not getting attention.
Hail storms aside, if you live in snow country you literally have to watch out for ice spikes falling from the roofs and edges of buildings during winters. Icicles can be deadly.
Simply because you bake the sweets does not mean you have to eat themIf you don't eat the stuff then what's the point of baking?
I understand you have darling children you help educate? GREAT place to liquidate some confectionery.
I'm fortunate enough to have been able to travel two states south of here, to visit friends* in my former city and catch some excellent live music, but now that I'm back I'm being super cautious (and worrying myself sick) not to potentially infect my own mother in the highly unlikely chance that I contracted COVID whilst away. No symptoms and I haven't been in/near any "hot zones" or whatever, but y'know. Cities, man.I'm trying to fight the need for physical human contact, it's been weeks since I hugged someone or so much as touched hands with another.Weeks? You spoiled brat. I haven't touched a human being for 11 months now. Not even my mother.
Because I know I had you all on the edge of your seats. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYM-RJwSGQ8) Turns out the lyrics are easy to understand when your mate doesn't have the hifi in full overdrive :D. Impeccable description such very language.
>_> are you supposed to do that? It seems like it would be unwise somehow.
Why would you have to double up on your meds?
I shouted at someone (rare occurrence, in this case 1000000% justified) and I think it set my throat back a bit.
Two months of little-to-zero speech versus ten seconds of anger - which will win? ::)
Damn, what happened to your voice?He gave it up to a sea witch in exchange for legs
never. trust. the. sea. witch.I trust them to taste great with white wine though.
never. trust. the. sea. witch.I trust them to taste great with white wine though.
never. trust. the. sea. witch.I trust them to taste great with white wine though.
Mmmm... Tuna. (https://mms.businesswire.com/media/20171016006071/en/618675/5/COSI_Best_Seafood_Horiz.jpg)
I've probably done something that would be considered cringe, and I won't go back and change it because I can't be bothered.Are you saying you can achieve actual time travel and violate causality but can't be bothered?
It is never too late to start, my friend! :Dappears from a portal
You shall find the legendary gobbos some place else.
Motherfucking school administrators blocked Reddit on the computers
I've got that slightly sick realization that I can't count on work experience teaching me how to do a job in order to have a job, that my prior work experience is worthless except in the narrow tangential clerical association to the field, my degree is worthless save that it's a degree, and if there's a job or career that I actually want to do or have in the world, I have to do the legwork myself. All of it. I need to shake this boomerism ideology that I'll get taken on to a technical job fresh and taught how to do it- that's for interns and internships are for college students, and that ship has set sail years and years back.
I'm totally on my own. Nobody's coming along to teach me how to do anything and I can expect nothing except for what I pay for myself in time, effort, and savings.
they should freaking loathe the copshmm if only there was an entire movement centered around that
Depends on how big the queen is. Normal sized wasps lose the ranking battle by dint of pesticides and fire. Human sized wasps would win the ranking battle by face huggering the police chief and using their living flesh as an incubation chamber. It's a complicated comparison, y'dig?
Depends on how big the queen is. Normal sized wasps lose the ranking battle by dint of pesticides and fire. Human sized wasps would win the ranking battle by face huggering the police chief and using their living flesh as an incubation chamber. It's a complicated comparison, y'dig?
cease
"Hey, wanna use an external USB WiFi adapter on Linux? Fuck you, compile the drivers yourself! The ones we include don't even compile properly; better hope you have another way to connect to the internet to clone some random fork of our drivers!"
Damn kernel devs not mainlining the drivers, making people compile it from source. Ugh. Still better than Windows, where they tell you "HaVe YoU tUrNeD yOuR pC oFf AnD oN aGaIn?", like that's supposed to do anything.
I shagged someone then punched them in the face and then they pinned me down saying they could do what they want. Kinda weird day.
I shagged someone then got punched in the face and then they pinned me down saying they could do what they want. Kinda weird day.
If it's the first, then I sort of see where they're coming from.
then they pinned me down saying they could do what they want.
I shagged someone then punched then in the face and then they pinned me down saying they could do what they want. Kinda weird day.That's... wow. Okay. Are you, overall, doing okay, Caz?
Man, I know that feeling. Fairly significantly doubt it'll ever change, too, as I'm pretty sure it won't unless I actually manage to achieve physical/fiscal security and, just. I don't see that happening.
Totally have an answer to the prompt, though: Whatever would guarantee food/shelter/health for the rest of my life. Not having to worry about homelessness, starvation, or persistent medical malaise would be amazing. That'd be empowering as fuck.
Don't get that when you're poverty line in the US and approaching disabled, though. Mostly you're just kinda' fucked.
She just didn't like that you called her "pudding" :P
Also I'm pretty sure "empowered" is just a meaningless buzzword unless you're, like, a lamp
You should have posted a picture of a self-tie with an electric cord
people coughing without there mask in public transportation
It makes me feel like I'm suffocating in work :(I get the same feeling from the one I have.
It's a criminal offense not to wear a mask in public here now, and basically every commercial institution will yeet you out at the speed of sound if you don't have one anyway.
It's a personal liberty I don't mind not having at the moment.
It makes me feel like I'm suffocating in work :(
It makes me feel like I'm suffocating in work :(
therapy, yo
I feel scammed.
I bought a nice large red jalapeńo pepper to use in a spinach curry.
I carefully tested a small piece raw, like I always do to sample it's spiciness.... Nothing. Like, literally nothing. Just tasted like a sweet candy bell pepper with zero spiciness.
I ended up eating the whole thing raw in frustration.
Ah well, I still have a pot of sambal, so I can still make a somewhat spicy curry.
My friends are getting into relationships. This is great, yes. I am delighted for them.
But it makes me feel like the world is changing and rushing along very fast and going to shift
and this makes me very uncomfortable
I feel scammed.
I bought a nice large red jalapeńo pepper to use in a spinach curry.
I carefully tested a small piece raw, like I always do to sample it's spiciness.... Nothing. Like, literally nothing. Just tasted like a sweet candy bell pepper with zero spiciness.
I ended up eating the whole thing raw in frustration.
Ah well, I still have a pot of sambal, so I can still make a somewhat spicy curry.
It makes me feel like I'm suffocating in work :(
therapy, yo
My friends are getting into relationships. This is great, yes. I am delighted for them.
But it makes me feel like the world is changing and rushing along very fast and going to shift
and this makes me very uncomfortable
Gotta learn to surf.
My friends are getting into relationships. This is great, yes. I am delighted for them.
But it makes me feel like the world is changing and rushing along very fast and going to shift
and this makes me very uncomfortable
The sad thing about our society is that it isn't very accommodating to people outside of the norm. It takes the pettiest differences and warps them until you think you're the one that has something wrong with them.
My friends are getting into relationships. This is great, yes. I am delighted for them.
But it makes me feel like the world is changing and rushing along very fast and going to shift
and this makes me very uncomfortable
The sad thing about our society is that it isn't very accommodating to people outside of the norm. It takes the pettiest differences and warps them until you think you're the one that has something wrong with them.
So you're a late bloomer. It's nothing to be ashamed of. We are technically a minority, but we are a sizable one. There's all sorts of reasons why you haven't found someone yet. The biggest one I can think of is that WE'RE IN A FUCKING PANDEMIC AND MOST OF US ARE EITHER LOCKED INDOORS OR WORKING TWO EXHAUSTING JOBS IN A DESPERATE BID TO SURVIVE!
This isn't really the time for love.
Special circumstances aside, if your tastes are any more specific than the average piece of Instagram trash, then you will have a harder time finding someone simply because you have a smaller pool of suitable dates.
It also hurts if you don't get out much. The less people you meet on a regular basis, the less likely you are to find someone. It's simple math. There's this whole group of people predisposed to this kind of lifestyle. We call them introverts.
It's a very normal thing. It's nothing to be ashamed of no matter what the world implies.
Optionally, the body of friends and acquaintances you can elbow asking if they've got other cute single friends has now effectively doubled, so your network has grown without any personal input at all!
Dating is weird and complicated, not to mention a lot of work, and depending on where you live, it can seem an uphill battle if your ideologies don't align with the local flavor. More on the friendship dynamic, though, that can definitely shift if they start paying more attention to their partners and less on their friends, which can be shitty. You'll still be no less a friend to them (and maybe have more friends if they're cognizant of this trap), y'just might need to prod them a little bit more for events or attention.
Your people aren't changing, at least, but you may end up revisiting these feelings when your friends are getting married and having kids. x_x
I feel this forum as a whole attracts smart people who have well-defined interests.pffffth there are only angry dwarves and the occasional elf here
I feel this forum as a whole attracts smart people who have well-defined interests.
There are some good tutorials out there for DF. Though I do still think DF is challenging, I think its difficulty is way overstated.
I find RTS games harder.
I feel this forum as a whole attracts smart people who have well-defined interests.pffffth there are only angry dwarves and the occasional elf here
I feel this forum as a whole attracts smart people who have well-defined interests.pffffth there are only angry dwarves and the occasional elf here
The smart people thing is true until we get into a drunk shouting match with each other about whether Darth Vader or Scooby Doo would win in the wacky races or some shit, and how it relates metaphorically to Ameripol.
I feel this forum as a whole attracts smart people who have well-defined interests.pffffth there are only angry dwarves and the occasional elf here
The smart people thing is true until we get into a drunk shouting match with each other about whether Darth Vader or Scooby Doo would win in the wacky races or some shit, and how it relates metaphorically to Ameripol.
So is Darth Vader standing in as Dick Dastardly, and Scoob is Muttley?
And I've said before, Dick Dastardly would win if he just didn't insist on cheating. I mean, most all of his cheating schemes require him to be ahead of everyone else so they drive into the trap. And the episode titles imply an A-to-B race, not a circuit, so it's not like Dick is waiting for his opponents to overlap him or something.
Not to mention that one Scoob movie saying wacky races and Scooby Doo is actually the same cinematic universe.
Oh come on, I can't just not weigh in. Not after I brought it up.Just levitation, probably, or just not be a stabby space wizard. There's armless jedi, iirc.
Besides, how would scooby-doo hold a lightsaber? These are the important intellectual questions of our time.
Besides, how would scooby-doo hold a lightsaber? These are the important intellectual questions of our time.
changeYeah, I get that... If it's any consolation, it's not an uncommon feeling. We get a particular world picture in our heads, and we feel distressed when that picture ends up not being the case. Either due to circumstances changing, or from a realization that it was never really "the truth" to begin with.
Mingw-w64 runtime failure:
Address %p has no image-section VirtualQuery failed for %d bytes at address %p VirtualProtect failed with code 0x%x Unknown pseudo relocation protocol version %d.
Unknown pseudo relocation bit size %d.
Or just to clarify, do you get that output when compiling or when running your program? You could also try using cygwin and its gcc.
? processor_type PROCESSOR_GENERIC PROCESSOR_I386 PROCESSOR_I486 PROCESSOR_PENTIUM PROCESSOR_LAKEMONT PROCESSOR_PENTIUMPRO PROCESSOR_PENTIUM4 PROCESSOR_NOCONA PROCESSOR_CORE2 PROCESSOR_NEHALEM PROCESSOR_SANDYBRIDGE
PROCESSOR_HASWELL PROCESSOR_BONNELL PROCESSOR_SILVERMONT
PROCESSOR_KNL PROCESSOR_KNM PROCESSOR_SKYLAKE PROCESSOR_SKYLAKE_AVX512 PROCESSOR_CANNONLAKE PROCESSOR_ICELAKE_CLIENT PROCESSOR_ICELAKE_SERVER PROCESSOR_INTEL PROCESSOR_GEODE PROCESSOR_K6 PROCESSOR_ATHLON PROCESSOR_K8 PROCESSOR_AMDFAM10 PROCESSOR_BDVER1 PROCESSOR_BDVER2 PROCESSOR_BDVER3 PROCESSOR_BDVER4 PROCESSOR_BTVER1 PROCESSOR_BTVER2 PROCESSOR_ZNVER1 !PROCESSOR_max
No one I know did an April Fools joke this year...
No one I know did an April Fools joke this year...
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106390.msg8265768#msg8265768
It's the holiday tradition you never knew that two whole people adhere to!
oh i hate today. snow on the ground, breaking ice, fucking 7pm blizzards, freezing water again. I THOUGHT WE WERE DONE WITH THIS SHIT. IT'S APRIL NOW PLEASE.
Yahoo Answers will be shut down on May 4th. (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/5/22368488/yahoo-answers-shutdown-may-4-internet-era-over-rip)All that knowledge....LOST!
Now we shall never know how is babby formed.
What the hell's up with all these ships now days?Well, you know.
Yahoo Answers will be shut down on May 4th. (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/5/22368488/yahoo-answers-shutdown-may-4-internet-era-over-rip)It has been a long time coming. Yahoo deleted and hid millions of old questions and then put in an extremely strict automod system. It lost its charm and hilarity and the only real reasons to watch it.
Now we shall never know how is babby formed.
Received a PW with stupid amounts of special signs on my job. Locked myself out thanks to a stupidly antique keyboad design. These are the same people that write down and share passwords all day long. This makes me much more angry than it should fucking stupid pseudosecurity I want to punch a hole in a drywall.
fuckin' GPU driver updates.
Every time. They completely cock up my display's brightness/contrast/gamma settings of both of my displays. Its not just that it's a fucking disaster for someone doing stuff where color accuracy is key, such as 3d rendering. its also seemingly impossible to find a combination of these settings that doesn't make my eyes bleed... while still retaining proper white/black levels, not washing out the colors or making them too saturated.
Recent change in weather was rather shit and unexpected. We went from some 20ish degrees to bloody snow in a span of 3 days. More of the stuff fell and stuck in April than it did the whole damn winter :V
Anyways, was caught off with that shit and now I've got a cold, nothing too serious as far as colds go, some sore throat and coughing but mostly a fucking headache that one let go for a second day now. I don't often get headaches but when I do the shit is irritating to say the list, just a numbing cloud around my thoughts that kills any desire to do anything other than sit still and do nothing until it goes away.
To make matters worse a friend is visiting this week and while I've seen them twice already I probably won't catch another chance in at least a month of two which doubly sucks :I
Recent change in weather was rather shit and unexpected. We went from some 20ish degrees to bloody snow in a span of 3 days. More of the stuff fell and stuck in April than it did the whole damn winter :VSame here. Sadly it's wet sludge snow. It melts when it hits the ground. No snowmen, no snowball fights.
If there's one thing living in Florida all my life has taught me, it's to treasure every moment ofcoldtolerable weather we get. I might complain about the effects it has on rain and allergies, but never, never about the cold itself. Every single second of the cool time is precious and fleeting, never an imposition and always welcome.
damned interned
Input #0, yuv4mpegpipe, from 'big_buck_bunny_480p24.y4m':
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Stream #0:0: Video: rawvideo (I420 / 0x30323449), yuv420p(progressive), 704x480, SAR 5760:4739 DAR 8448:4739, 24 fps, 24 tbr, 24 tbn, 24 tbc
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I literally don't remember who it was, but either me or my mom did basically that once, except instead of a chicken it was an owl. She had roadkilled one and stuck the body in a freezer for reasons I don't recall, then it slipped the mind for a bit and one of us opened the thing to the sight of unexpected iced owl corpse.
... not sure if that helps any considering the significantly different circumstances, but maybe?
Ogh, I'd probably lose it if that happened to me, I'm a bit phobic of carcasses. I hope never to have to keep the spooky remains of some dinosaur analogue in my fridge.
It's like allergies
Went to do a u turn one side road and didn't pay attention when I went to get back on the main road and hit a dump truck, luckily they swerved and we only lost the plastic bumper thing, bent the metal bumper, and broke the left head light, and we were able to leave with out any injuries on either side and the car still runs so we were able to drive it back home.
Also later when I looked at the licensing plate I noticed that some of the rubber from the tucks tire had rubbed off onto it,and after looking at it for a minute I realized that it had transferred the safety warning from the trucks tire onto it.
It's like allergies
Or just that. If you're going around with your eyes all teary all day, your brain is gonna start making shit up to justify it, even if it really is just allergies. Get that antihistamines on!
It's like allergies
Or just that. If you're going around with your eyes all teary all day, your brain is gonna start making shit up to justify it, even if it really is just allergies. Get that antihistamines on!
Hahahaha, no, it's not allergies. I got tested and am allergic to literally nothing. I was just sad yesterday.
Might have been the aftereffects of the vaccine. I respond weirdly to a lot of things (e.g. by crying randomly). Feel fine now.
Slightly worried about LordBaal. Read an article in my newspaper today the the Venezoalean goverment has been murdering and torturing innocent civilians in a 'war against terrorism', many thousands have fled to the jungle or to Colombia.
Havent seen a post from him in over a week or somesuch.
https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/venezolaanse-burgers-op-de-vlucht-uit-angst-voor-geweld-veiligheidstroepen~bb26d215/
Unrelated- Rolan, I'm totally tickled that you're now the resident bike repair expert and that you can just sort of reach across the internet in a community and you'll have 'the bike guy' or 'the databending guy' or 'the guy with the scoop on healthcare.' Shine on, you crazy diamond.Also methyl needs to be very careful threading the cable in! If you don't solder the end (which most people don't) it can fray, and once that happens you have to wirecut a significant portion of it. Particularly if you try to force it.
Okay that's a relief. I have no idea anymore how to use the search function to see when someone was last online, because of the Greatorder issue.Slightly worried about LordBaal. Read an article in my newspaper today the the Venezoalean goverment has been murdering and torturing innocent civilians in a 'war against terrorism', many thousands have fled to the jungle or to Colombia.
Havent seen a post from him in over a week or somesuch.
https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/venezolaanse-burgers-op-de-vlucht-uit-angst-voor-geweld-veiligheidstroepen~bb26d215/
I see a post from him two days ago, and his profile says he logged in yesterday. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=74296)
I'd have linked the post directly, if not for the Greatorder issue.
I typed LordBaal in the forum's search bar and it showed me his last post was april 14th :P
Could just be discomforts about privacy encroachments,
or methylatedspirits is one of the fey folk and needs to be invited across a threshold or face consequences
Eh, methylatedspirit registered January 28, 2019 at exactly 04:11:33 am. I'm sure they'll get over looking up people's profiles in time.
[Obligatory "Let's all stare at this person (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile)'s profile!"]
They probably value your patronage more than your ability to speak their own language.
I don't think they'll feel any less respected if you just speak to them in your own language.
Trying to speak an immigrant's language might even give off a wrong signal. 'Your english sucks so I'll try to speak to you in your own language'.
[Obligatory "Let's all stare at this person (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile)'s profile!"]
They seem so stupid. I wonder how they live. Can't believe they're on the same planet as me.
[Obligatory "Let's all stare at this person (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile)'s profile!"]They seem so stupid. I wonder how they live. Can't believe they're on the same planet as me.
What the fuck i don't understand, what did i do?
[Obligatory "Let's all stare at this person (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile)'s profile!"]They seem so stupid. I wonder how they live. Can't believe they're on the same planet as me.
What the fuck i don't understand, what did i do?
[Obligatory "Let's all stare at this person (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?action=profile)'s profile!"]They seem so stupid. I wonder how they live. Can't believe they're on the same planet as me.
What the fuck i don't understand, what did i do?
I think this (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?action=logout) is the first post using it on this forum. ;)Oooh, nice try! I fell for it, but it doesn't work.
I think this (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?action=logout) is the first post using it on this forum. ;)Oooh, nice try! I fell for it, but it doesn't work.
I think this (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?action=logout) is the first post using it on this forum. ;)Oooh, nice try! I fell for it, but it doesn't work.
Hit ALT+F4 to follow this link (https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/323/085/7fd.jpg).
Reminder for anyone on mobile that you can get extra dark mode by clicking the dark mode option a bunchAnd to my delight people actually did it and thanked me :) I didn't expect people to trust me like that. Felt good to be wrong.
which sounds designed to be disbelieved
I think this (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?action=logout) is the first post using it on this forum. ;)Oooh, nice try! I fell for it, but it doesn't work.
My rope is high-stranding like fuck and it's going to be a major pain to unravel all that tension. Blah.
My rope is high-stranding like fuck and it's going to be a major pain to unravel all that tension. Blah.
Mentions of rope in the mildly upset thread had me scared for a second
My rope is high-stranding like fuck and it's going to be a major pain to unravel all that tension. Blah.
Mentions of rope in the mildly upset thread had me scared for a second
Whatever for?Nope. Too vulgar
Sorry Kagus
Auto-erotic asphyxiation or Suicide. Choose your fate
(I know this isn't funny but i couldn't leave you without an answer)
Not entirely sure why auto-erotic asphyxiation would be anything to get upset over
My rope is high-stranding like fuck and it's going to be a major pain to unravel all that tension. Blah.
Mentions of rope in the mildly upset thread had me scared for a second
Whatever for?Nope. Too vulgar
Sorry Kagus
Auto-erotic asphyxiation or Suicide. Choose your fate
(I know this isn't funny but i couldn't leave you without an answer)
You could’ve left me without an answer, to be fair.
Not entirely sure why auto-erotic asphyxiation would be anything to get upset over, and suicide would more than likely go in the sad thread.
You need to up your game, padawan.
So kick away your chair, don’t hang around too long, and don’t ever apologize for making vulgar references or insinuations.
Probably don’t do this though. I’ll likely regret it later but it was too good an opportunity to resist depressive humour.
My rope is high-stranding like fuck and it's going to be a major pain to unravel all that tension. Blah.
Mentions of rope in the mildly upset thread had me scared for a second
Whatever for?Nope. Too vulgar
Sorry Kagus
Auto-erotic asphyxiation or Suicide. Choose your fate
(I know this isn't funny but i couldn't leave you without an answer)
You could’ve left me without an answer, to be fair.
Not entirely sure why auto-erotic asphyxiation would be anything to get upset over, and suicide would more than likely go in the sad thread.
You need to up your game, padawan.
So kick away your chair, don’t hang around too long, and don’t ever apologize for making vulgar references or insinuations.
Probably don’t do this though. I’ll likely regret it later but it was too good an opportunity to resist depressive humour.
It's not funny when you know someone that probably died from that shit.
It was hard putting on a tie for that funeral.
Alright i'll remove it
By the way, I'd just like to mention I appreciate your presence, ArchimedesWojak.
By the way, I'd just like to mention I appreciate your presence, ArchimedesWojak.
Thanks
Today tick season officially begins. I took two of them off me right now.
Today tick season officially begins. I took two of them off me right now.you know I almost went forest exploring yesterday until my mother reminded me of that
Today tick season officially begins. I took two of them off me right now.you know I almost went forest exploring yesterday until my mother reminded me of that
Today tick season officially begins. I took two of them off me right now.
At least there isn't a gotcha at every turn. At least it behaves in a way that your first glance is usually the way that the interpreter runs it.Hahaha what?
C/C++ (and their ilk) do benefit from a particular mental model though - they are basically "mostly portable assembler" and if you think of it that way, it's not that surprising in how it behaves.
Yes many software bugs result from incorrect code, but the worst software errors come from incorrect (or no) design in the first place.
No-one learns by memorizing large sets of arbitrary patterns, at least I hope not in programming. Leave the perfect recall of rules to the compiler.
C/C++ are "high-level" but "close-to-the-metal". Each statement translates pretty directly to a sequence of machine code instructions and the objects you manipulate correspond to objects the machine instructions manipulate. In particular, pointers. The structure and placement corresponds pretty plainly. C more so than C++, because of exceptions, copy assignment operators, things like that. That's one reason I've heard for people preferring C to C++. But they're both pretty close.
I'd really like to see the interplay between C/C++ code and the generated assembler, because that would be a far more fascinating thing to see than just trusting this opaque black box that I've been taught a compiler is. Is there any program that does that, where it shows on one side the C++ code, and the other the assembler?
gcc -g -s mycode.c
will output a mycode.s file which is a plain-text assembly listing along with the code inline. The -g option is debug code, which basically guarantees almost literal translation between the C and assembly. It's instructive to compare the -s output with various optimizations enabled.Hey guys what's the protocol if there are a very large group of people outside your neighbors house (sounds like a party of some kind i hear music) shouting sexist and homophobic slurs
Hey guys what's the protocol if there are a very large group of people outside your neighbors house (sounds like a party of some kind i hear music) shouting sexist and homophobic slurs
Hey guys what's the protocol if there are a very large group of people outside your neighbors house (sounds like a party of some kind i hear music) shouting sexist and homophobic slurs
Go over and bum some free beer/weed off of them, they are most likely drunk/high.
And if you're under 21, go to the cops and say they gave you beer/weed, so they get arrested.
EDIT: Don't actually do this. But you could.
For drawings: consider draw.io (app.diagrams.net). It is a free, fairly complete diagram tool, and it even has "native" apps so you don't have to be online if you don't want to be. It can also export all kinds of useful diagram types (SVG, PNG, HTML, XML). It has shape templates for most diagram types.
i keep dropping garbanzo beans out of the shitty garbanzo bean burritos i shit together for dinner and if that's not a perfect metaphor or my life i don't know what is
Strange. Are they all owned by the same company/hosted on the same server or something? It seems odd otherwise that these otherwise-unrelated websites would go down all at the same time.Allegedly problems at Fastly cloud services are the cause.
[valid rant that I wrote *instead* of drinking, then I got a very much needed natural night's sleep and feel much better. Moved to my personal journal because oversharing]
For that price they'd better let you at least keep the log for yourself, turned into either planks or blocks.Spoiler: 3 (click to show/hide)
Wait, actual onset visual snow or just a turn of phrase? It'd be neat to see someone else on the forum with it (though mine isn't onset, it's been 24/7 as long as I can remember)...
Wait, actual onset visual snow or just a turn of phrase? It'd be neat to see someone else on the forum with it (though mine isn't onset, it's been 24/7 as long as I can remember)...
If the latest Windows Update added an ugly motherfuck of an icon to your taskbar tray in the bottom right and clicking it takes you to weather and news shit you don't give a hairy flip about, and you want it gone, right-click your taskbar, choose "News and Interests" and click "Turn Off."
(never mind it doesn't fit here)I agree. Apple doesn't fit anywhere but the darkest, deepest sulfur cracks of hell.
Rufus, usually the Ol' Reliable of boot disk production, will not work with MacOS. Buncha dicks Apple are.
Obviously the government microchips in your bloodstream have gotten stuck in your ears.You also need to remove all of your blood.
Solution: Remove ears.
Eh I’ll be giving the forum a miss for a while, I think.
A bad thing happened on the mafia forum a few months back and I lost respect for a lot of people as a result, not least myself for not challenging it harder, and beyond that it seems every time I come here I leave it in abad moodworse mood than when I came.
Few of you will care, just letting y’all know in case someone worries or something. *shrug*
Eh I’ll be giving the forum a miss for a while, I think.
A bad thing happened on the mafia forum a few months back and I lost respect for a lot of people as a result, not least myself for not challenging it harder, and beyond that it seems every time I come here I leave it in abad moodworse mood than when I came.
Few of you will care, just letting y’all know in case someone worries or something. *shrug*
What the heck happened in the Mafia subforum?Just the usual conflicts man, arguing about the rules, no agreement was reached, some apophellation took place, tempers flared up, and then a while later it eased down.
What the heck happened in the Mafia subforum?Just the usual conflicts man, arguing about the rules, no agreement was reached, some apophellation took place, tempers flared up, and then a while later it eased down.
What the heck happened in the Mafia subforum?I'm not sure. I don't think any players mean bad and we always want people for games. Anything that happens in-game isn't a reflection of how I feel about them as a person.
nobody is forcing you to come when it's hottest.Damn, that's quite the defect. Normally people sneeze when they look into the sun :o
nobody is forcing you to come when it's hottest.( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
nobody is forcing you to come when it's hottest.Damn, that's quite the defect. Normally people sneeze when they look into the sun :o
Film it
Become a twitch streamer
Just say what you mean people, stop making shit more difficult for everyone involved simply because "It's the socially acceptable way to do it", fuck that noise and fuck whatever insecure prick came up with it as a concept :V
I got described as being "cool" and having "successful older brother vibes" on that server. That's a vote that I am viewed positively.
Hypnic jerks, or something more like Restless Leg?
My advice: Drink more water. It's what my sergeant always used to tell me, and I turned out just fine!
So, I downloaded Grasshopper (A JavaScript learning/Google recruitment tool) on my phone a while back, and on a whim I decided to try and make the worst possible Hello World script I could manage.
hello = ("\u0048","\u0065","\u006c","\u006c","\u006f","\u0020","\u0077","\u006f","\u0072","\u006c","\u0064","\u0021")
for i in range(0, len(hello)):
print(hello[i],end = "")
Code: [Select]hello = ("\u0048","\u0065","\u006c","\u006c","\u006f","\u0020","\u0077","\u006f","\u0072","\u006c","\u0064","\u0021")
hello = []
hello.append("")
hello[0] += "\"
hello[0] += "u"
hello[0] += "0"
hello[0] += "0"
hello[0] += "4"
hello[0] += "8"
hello.append("")
hello[1] += "\"
...
hello = hello.reverse()
for in range(0, len(hello)):
print(hello.pop(),end="")
Why would you want to make a bad Hello World script? What constitutes a bad script if it performs its function. Assuming both scripts work, what makes one worse than the other?
Why would you want to make a bad Hello World script? What constitutes a bad script if it performs its function. Assuming both scripts work, what makes one worse than the other?
print("Hello world!")
H = "H"
e = "e"
l = "l"
o = "o"
spacechar = " "
w = "w"
r = "r"
d = "d"
bang = "!"
print("{0}{1}{2}{3}{4}{5}{6}{7}{8}{9}{10}{11}".format(H,e,l,l,o,spacechar,w,o,r,l,d,bang))
d = "H"
i = "e"
n = "l"
e = "o"
r = " "
u = "w"
s = "r"
Y = "d"
slam = "!"
print("{0}{1}{2}{3}{4}{5}{6}{7}{8}{9}{10}{11}".format(d,i,n,n,e,r,u,e,s,n,Y,slam))
Y = "d"
stan = "\u0065"
ornot = "\u0072"
satan = "\u006c"
saatanaa = "\u006f"
r = "\u0020"
god = "\u0048"
maryPoppins = "\u0021"
u = "\u0077"
import sys
import dIngUsmcscRiNgus.py
import numpy
thegodequation = (god,stan,satan,satan,saatanaa,r,u,saatanaa,ornot,satan,Y,maryPoppins)
for i in range(0,int(((numpy.exp(1)**numpy.tan(1.1693705)) + numpy.pi * numpy.sin(1/4 * numpy.pi)))) :
sys.stdout.write(thegodequation[i])
What’s numpy? Also that does look fun, and you taught me that format strings are a thing in Python
step1_out = f"{in_filename}-step1-{pixel_format}"
step2_out = f"{in_filename}-step2-{audio_codec}-{bitrate}-{pixel_format}"
step3_out = f"{in_filename}-step3-{step2_format}-{audio_codec}-{bitrate}-{pixel_format}"
step4_out = f"{in_filename}-end-{audio_codec}-{bitrate}-{pixel_format}"
import math
foo = f"{round(math.sin(math.radians(30))*140)}"
I have both sleep and anxiety meds. Both are addictive and the withdrawal symptoms on the sleep ones are potentially rather un-fun, so I avoid them as far as possible. The great fun is that the sleeping pills don't actually help with the fact that sleeping doesn't seem to rest me! They do help on the really bad days, though, yes, which is good.Yeah, I get where you're coming from. It's always a trade off. I'm glad you have the option for when you need it, sorry to hear about your sleeping problems though. I completely sympathize, nothing else in life is enjoyable when you can't get good rest.
I have both sleep and anxiety meds. Both are addictive and the withdrawal symptoms on the sleep ones are potentially rather un-fun, so I avoid them as far as possible. The great fun is that the sleeping pills don't actually help with the fact that sleeping doesn't seem to rest me! They do help on the really bad days, though, yes, which is good.
Quetiapine is a prescription neuroleptic. It's not something you'd normally use to address insomnia..
Current upsetti- The impedance-regulating six-speaker-set-switcher I thrifted yesterday has not alleviated the missing middles in my stereo setup. It's less cabling up front, which is nice, at least, but I'll have to finagle some of that if I want to test out the non-biwired speaker pair I thrifted for six bucks to debug the system.
Slightly worried the core flaw is with the amp itself, which would suck beans because it's pretty much an antique and irreplaceable on my budget. Oh well, I'll play with it some more tomorrow when it's not the middle of the night and I won't wake up my neighbors.
Unrelated- 'six-speaker-set-switcher for missing middles' is some jammin' alliteration. Good lilt.
Unrelated- Spotify audio quality sucks real bad. Really really bad. It's like someone put a pillow over the song. I can't listen for mids if Spotify's eating them before my speakers do!
I care if they're non-offending. They can't help their paraphilia. They can help whether or not they act on it, painful as that may be. And if they don't act on it, it's not really hurting anyone else.If they're non-offending they should stay deep in the closet. It's literally impossible for me to not treat them like trash. They disgust me to my very core. I can't explain why. If I found out my friend was a pedo I'd cut off all communications.
Hot take, I know.
If they're non-offending they should stay deep in the closet. It's literally impossible for me to not treat them like trash. They disgust me to my very core. I can't explain why. If I found out my friend was a pedo I'd cut off all communications.
Maybe something's wrong with me, I don't know. But I can't talk to a pedo without wanting to throw something heavy or sharp at them through the computer screen.
quis custodiet ipsos custodeswhat language/code is this?
quis custodiet ipsos custodesMy best guess after my mostly forgotten Latin:
You could put your abilities to good use by criticizing the grammar/pronunciation in Age of Empires representations of Turkish!
Turkish web is booooriiiiiiing! It's dull, simple, uniform, overly serious, and has no distinct web cultures formed inside it. Fanart? Fanfiction? Forum games? Memes that are actually funny? Nope. All of the fun and creative things that are fairly common here are seemingly alien to them. No nuance, no creativity, nothing. Just mundane things, conversations and questions. Not even the most basic of text-based games, like word association.
My parents are all like ''Why don't you spend time on the internet in you main language, instead of spending time with the foreigners? We can't understand it.'' I can't share thoughts with people I can't relate. They also can't relate with me. I will come out as weird. Most things I write here will come out strange and clumsy in Turkish anyways.
I am not worked up about it as I may seem, as I have the entire English speaking web at my mouse range and couldn't care less about there, yet it kinda sucks to not have a place on the internet to use you first language and have fun, you know?
The thing I am sad about is that they aren't dumb, or flawed or anything like that. In fact they are a very varied and diverse group of people. They easily could have a healthy and fun online culture developed. Yet no such thing happened for like more than two decades as far as I am aware.
Why are they like this?
quis custodiet ipsos custodesMy best guess after my mostly forgotten Latin:
Quis.... I want to say "those who are" but that's mostly by syntax.
Custodiet, Custodes are police. Oh right custodes appears after ("custodes" is common in Latin). So what does "custodiet" mean?
And ipsos. I should know ipsos! It's like, ipso-facto, right? Ironically I don't remember anything about ipso from my 3 semesters of Latin education.
So... We have a statement that's about the Custodes (enforces) twice but with two different meanings. That should be easy... *breath*
Ohh, ohoh. I think I know.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I'd take droll Turkish internet over our propaganda hellscape any day.
And I like memes.
I'd take droll Turkish internet over our propaganda hellscape any day.
And I like memes.
Oh come on. Your propaganda is probably at least funny to snark at. Turkish propaganda is not motivating or even a bit emotional. It's just... soulless. It has no distinct flavor. It isn't even snark material. As if they are holding the voicer on gunpoint.
It's a prevalent problem here. Media is, just it. What its supposed to be. What it is expected to be. Things are all forced, whitewashed and artificial. Kids shows, Sitcoms, Documentaries, News, all of 'em
Oh come on. Your propaganda is probably at least funny to snark at.]Oh come on. Your propaganda is probably at least funny to snark at.
Oh come on. Your propaganda is probably at least funny to snark at. (http://Oh come on. Your propaganda is probably at least funny to snark at.)
Yeah. FOR YOU :P
I would be sad at the state of other media, though, for sure.
I'm still just having a rough time at my new job. I have so many functions to my job, and not nearly enough training to have them all memorized, that I'm just dropping the ball hard all the time. Example:
I got a guy calling in saying his basement is flooding and needs his power on (I work at a power company) and I'm looking at his stats and he SHOULD be on. Everything is saying he should be turned on, but he's... just not turned on. He REALLY REALLY NEEDS THIS POWER RIGHT THIS SECOND TO TURN THIS PUMP ON CAUSE SHIT IS FLOODING AND OH GOD THE WATER IS RISING DO SOMETHING NOWWW!!!!... and I'm turning my system upside-down, going over it as fast as I humanly can, looking for why the fuck his power is not on. He hung up on me, because of course he did he was literally hauling buckets of water out of his basement as he was talking to me, and the only thing I could think to do was to ask a superior to ping his meter and confirm why the fuck it's turned off. I feel really bad for this guy, he had the misfortune of randomly calling me out of everyone he could have talked to; and I couldn't just get a hold of a supervisor, the sups have to be emailed and they'll get around to whatever the fuck you need them for when they're not busy, and that could be literally any amount of time.
I hope his power got turned back on and got that pump going. He was having a worse day than me.
Get ready for another story!
Today, I, was at a real life chess tournament (30 minute, no increment). Won some games, lost some games (even GM Bilguun Sumiya showed up and of course crushed me). Then, it was nearing to an end and my final game was with some girl-- she looked, like, 14 at most but was very capable, it was an even and nervous game. We were in the early endgame, time was running low for both of us, she thought until she had 1 minute left (I had around 1 minute too) and I, Tbh, was sweating and nervous. She picked up her queen to move it and I thought, that it was the king so I thought she made an illegal move and said "wait, you can only move your king one square at a time!" and then she got confused and lost on time.
I took 6th place out of 14 at the end. Now I feel kinda bad for accidentally distracting her, she could have won. I did get a cash prize but it felt a bit cheaty. I apologized to her after the game, though. But, still feel like an asshole.
New personal purgatorial hell: Keeping an elderly with dementia and perinnial itching from disconnecting their vitals monitoring wires, for hours.
Today. Today was shit.
This should probably be a personal DM of commiseration, but I muddled my way through delusions today, so it isn't.
I was not overcome with paranoia but something like itfear? Am guessing, I don’t know what you’re talking about
JoshuaFH, I've got to ask... why remain in that particular job? Do they pay well or have good benefits or flexible schedule? Sounds like a terrible work environment.
God damn you Canada!
Godspeed Kagus, you need to wield rest like a weapon at this point. Hopefully the pros knock it out of the park
Godspeed Kagus, you need to wield rest like a weapon at this point. Hopefully the pros knock it out of the park
Grazie, and I hope so... I had to spend the morning calling 12 different organizations before I managed to find one who could both A) Answer their phone and B) Perform the work on such short notice.
I'm paying a bit of a premium for it, but hell.
heat wave let's goooooooo (let's not)
oh, i was playing dungeons of dredmor all day and my run is dead because i drank a martini some mod added in and the triggers got all messed up and now my guy is permanently blind
I only recently went back and started actually watching james bond things on Netflix.Reminder that in Moonraker, a pigeon did a double-take as Bond rode by in a hover-gondola
He does shit like this all the time, I can't stop laughing. Nobody told me the old james bond stuff was funnier than austin powers.
Time to bring out the trash pump. Got probably 3" of rain last night, and the yard has turned into a pond again.
EDIT: I need to re-think my pump setup. Taking 2 hours to prime the thing is annoying. Probably need to trade in my gas-powered pump for a submersible electric one... I'll take lower flow rate for ease of use any day.
Why are you giving plants nicotine?
Why are you giving plants nicotine?
Why are you giving plants nicotine?
To get them hooked of course. You gotta get them while they're just buds.
if you want a plant that doesn’t make it to start making it, you will need to find out how nightshade plants make it, copy the genes responsible, and get those genes into the recipientWhy are you giving plants nicotine?
To get them hooked of course. You gotta get them while they're just buds.
Tomacco. (https://frinkiac.com/meme/S11E05/1151760.jpg?b64lines=IFRPTUFDQ08h)
On the topic, one of my classmates in high school wrote a paper comparing the effects of snus (Swedish variety of snuff, basically bags of raw tobacco) and cigarette bums on plants, which he grew himself as part of the experiment. Iirc the plants growing among the snus grew marginally taller than the control group, while the ones with cigarette bums were less than happy. The conclusion he drew was that the tar in the cigarattes was probably detrimental, and that the tobacco was not, possibly even acting as a nutrient.
Unprocessed cow shit is pretty good for plants, too, but most places probably got laws somewhere or another saying that you can't legally feed it to people under most circumstances :P
Unprocessed cow shit is pretty good for plants, too, but most places probably got laws somewhere or another saying that you can't legally feed it to people under most circumstances :P
But it's NATURAL and ORGANIC and it's MY RIGHT to refuse the lies of Big Pharma and stick to natural remedies!
7.5 miles from the house, apparently.why is your mailbox so far away? Also what? A quarter of a mile big house? That’s huge! Is that referring to the house and yard or just the house itself? Because if the house itself is 1/4 of a mile that’s ludicrously big
One house I lived at the driveway was 1/4 mile long and a bitch to navigate in the winter. That's more than enough.
He's probably talking about the length of the driveway not the house.7.5 miles from the house, apparently.why is your mailbox so far away? Also what? A quarter of a mile big house? That’s huge! Is that referring to the house and yard or just the house itself? Because if the house itself is 1/4 of a mile that’s ludicrously big
One house I lived at the driveway was 1/4 mile long and a bitch to navigate in the winter. That's more than enough.
How far is it to your mailbox bruh o-o
Life isn't dwarf fortress you know... You don't really need to build a spiraling zigzag maze to your house.
How many mailmen were killed by your traps before they asked you to please move the mailbox to the maze entrance?
What kinda fairy mansion did he build himself?
The skylight still leaks. Ggggaaaaahhhhh.
The skylight still leaks. Ggggaaaaahhhhh.
The HD is what bricked it. Unrecoverable.I had a HDD brick awhile back and I was able to recover my stuff using the SATA to USB cable to connect it to a different computer and started defraging the crap out of it, also used one of those recovery discs to repair the thing and rebuild the boot sector, and after all that crap I managed to get it going long enough to save my stuff, so there might be hope for your stuff.
Guys, guys, get Google Drive and back things up there regularly. It's free. 15 GB of storage per account.
Guys, guys, get Google Drive and back things up there regularly. It's free. 15 GB of storage per account.
You'd be surprised how much sexual harassment the nursing staff in assisted living and nursing facilities have to endure. Gramps a horn bastard and no longer cares about concepts like boundaries and acceptable adult behavior. The dementia doesn't help I'm sure.
but glorious executive dysfunction rears its ugly head again.
Keep digging, you'll find the dead possum sooner or later.
Mozilla is dead set on making Firefox unusable for me with their buggy WebRender implementation that I soon won't be able to disable.
In your own head too much?
The fact that I've not even been reading this forum is my mild sad today... sorry for abandoning you guys... I missed you.
Pretty much.The fact that I've not even been reading this forum is my mild sad today... sorry for abandoning you guys... I missed you.
So ... does this mean you're back?
Pretty much.The fact that I've not even been reading this forum is my mild sad today... sorry for abandoning you guys... I missed you.
So ... does this mean you're back?
Yeah, a dude passed out in our first aid certification course at the last high school where I worked (maybe in the "what to do if someone's finger gets amputated" video). I think it's a fairly common occurrence.
(The stereotype is that women are less squeamish about blood than men, but who knows if that bears out in reality)
Meetup.com requires me to post a pic of my ugly mug before it'll actually let me participate in whatever is on there. I don't have any pics of myself, and I don't feel like bothering just to attend one thing.
Cancel your order and reorder it on sale
Like, I want to know how people... are motivated? About anything?
QuoteLike, I want to know how people... are motivated? About anything?
When you find something you legitimately want, "putting yourself out there" just happens. Just like a job, or dating or any of that stuff. The equation never makes sense if the legitimate desire isn't there on one of side of it.
QuoteLike, I want to know how people... are motivated? About anything?
About the only thing that motivates me right now is my own personal fun. My escapes are still something I look forward to most days, unless I've done something like called in sick for work which makes me feel guilty.
Bottomline, to me though, survival is its own reason. I'm not the "lay down and die" type of person. Survival and a reasonable amount of comfort, and maintaining those things, are usually enough to get me out of bed everyday and do well at work.
I guess JoshuaFH, you need to spend some time thinking about what you actually want and what you're willing to do for it. For me, I still want to achieve my "ideal body" so the gym and eating right and maintaining a good diet are still important to me. It's just rebuilding the momentum on the gym side that has been tougher than I anticipated it would be.
But the idea that someone should just "care" about stuff they don't honestly want has always been foreign to me. Go back to school? Why the hell would I do that? To get a better job? Do I honestly want a better job? Not if it means putting myself back through more education.
When you find something you legitimately want, "putting yourself out there" just happens. Just like a job, or dating or any of that stuff. The equation never makes sense if the legitimate desire isn't there on one of side of it.
No I think it's when you say "I know that I know nothing", grin, and then push/teach all your positions using questions.
That said, Socrates was a wrestler and I feel dirty (and intimidated) for sullying his name by associating him with "just asking questions" dipshits.
http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-31-page-1/
(And the next page. Exploring the idea of Platonic concepts)
Edit: Heh I forgot it goes on for a third page, complete with a hushed heckler pointing out how Socratic lecturing is not always about back-and-forth.
Socrates can take his gadfly and stick it up his arse. His philosophy reeks of superiority complex and navel gazing. His only claim to praise is coming before the people who really matters -- much in the same way the stone age guy who threw a piece of meat in the fire and scorched it can be praised for "inventing cooking" while the actual cooks were the people who started putting meat above the fire :P
Firefox 93 is out and Mozilla still hasn't fixed webrender.
And now the old fix for the tearing doesn't work.
/me slams his head on the desk.
I'll have to look up add-on compatibility. I'd prefer to not change browsers, given I'd probably lose the profile data. Maybe I'll switch over to Firefox ESR, but geez.Firefox 93 is out and Mozilla still hasn't fixed webrender.
And now the old fix for the tearing doesn't work.
/me slams his head on the desk.
Do forks like Palemoon or Waterfox work for your needs?
What is webrender?It's what Firefox uses to render webpages and the UI. They used to have several options, including glorious WebGL that just worked. Now it's just webrender.
I've been on Team Firefox since early 2000s. It hurts to leave the ship.
I'll have to look up add-on compatibility. I'd prefer to not change browsers, given I'd probably lose the profile data. Maybe I'll switch over to Firefox ESR, but geez.
I've been on Team Firefox since early 2000s. It hurts to leave the ship.
I'm still mostly satisfied with Firefox, though. (trying to resist the urge to bitch about them joining the Flash drop, yet again)
You guys are monsters... 3 tabs maximum.
You guys are monsters... 3 tabs maximum.Yeah, three...
WHAT? 3000?!? THERE’S NO WAY THAT CAN BE RIGHT!!!You guys are monsters... 3 tabs maximum.Yeah, three...
THOUSAND!!!
Employee review is soon-ish. Basically my boss is going to be like, "could you be less autistic it triggers the customers" except we aren't going to say the quiet part out loud.Just grin and try not to chew off your own tongue. I every day grow closer to understanding those who quit everything, shave off all their hear and become wandering vagabonds
Don't know why I really care, as there's no hope of any real raise nor a promotion.
harassing some skinny beanpole man.
feckin'
goddamn
PCManFM-QT AUGH
We (the kitchen staff) got chewed out by a cna...
I mean, it definitely sounds like a sign to start sending out employment applications elsewhere?
The waffledonut sandwich (a donut put between a couple eggos) was only okay. Not bad, but not particularly impressive, either. Alas...
The waffledonut sandwich (a donut put between a couple eggos) was only okay. Not bad, but not particularly impressive, either. Alas...
Not nearly as good a use of a donut as using one as a pizza topping. That's still my number one nonstandard donut utilization.
What is it with Americans and breaking the food rules?
Butter on your pancakes.
Sugar on your French toast.
Pineapple on your pizza.
Honey on your chicken.
Like, really, I know you’re the melting pot of the world but some things just don’t go together.
You guys talking like pineapple is bad.
I live in Asia, boys. You wouldn't believe the stuff I've seen.
Shrimp and apple, seaweed and potato, mayonnaise and corn, just straight up ketchup. I could go on.
You have nothing on us Swedes, dear sir. May I introduce you to pickled herring pizza?That's just a red herring to distract us from the truly horrifying herring that is Surströmming. I wonder, do they put that on pizza too?
You have nothing on us Swedes, dear sir. May I introduce you to pickled herring pizza?That's just a red herring to distract us from the truly horrifying herring that is Surströmming. I wonder, do they put that on pizza too?
I propose the apex unholy pizza challenge:If you're going to go pigs feet, you might as well go whole hog and just use pig's head. You can get that, too.
Swedish pickled stank fish
Spanish maggot cheese
Japanese squid ink sauce
Sliced balut
Chinese 10,000 year old egg
southern chitterlings and pigs feet
I am open to additional suggestions.
What about adding an egg with a chick that was about to hatch into the mix I've heard that's a delicacy in some places.
What about adding an egg with a chick that was about to hatch into the mix I've heard that's a delicacy in some places.
What about adding an egg with a chick that was about to hatch into the mix I've heard that's a delicacy in some places.
Ah yes, balut... luckily I've never crossed it. Chinese millenium egg isn't that bad. It just tastes like...a fuckton of eggs. If you like eggs you might like it - just a very powerful egg flavor and unpleasant appearance.
For a cursed pizza topping, I'd go with seasoned chicken feet, which is a common street food here.
not that i want to be too snide about people's dietary preferences but it's rich for americans to think that things like balut or fish sauce are gross and then proceed to eat american cheeseAmerican cheese (or rather, government cheese, the vaguely plastic looking yellow stuff -- there's other sorts which are on par with basically anything on the market) is just kinda'... empty looking. It's mass produced cheese originally cooked up as a wartime ration type of deal. There's not really anything (literally) visceral to it like half-grown baby chicken, still in the egg. It's just sorta' soulless, y'know? Different sort of thing than gross.
not that i want to be too snide about people's dietary preferences but it's rich for americans to think that things like balut or fish sauce are gross and then proceed to eat american cheese
American cheese (or rather, government cheese, the vaguely plastic looking yellow stuff
You go ahead and put some on that Pizza of Global Culture and Probably Atrocity to Someone, I'm gonna go make some toast for my marmite...For what it's worth, I don't really eat the singles stuff anymore -- there's usually some in the house 'cause my grandmother likes it, but the only tolerance I have for cooking with it these days is very rarely melting it into something like mac and cheese or a soup or somethin'. The stuff's actually legitimately good for texture, and it's flavorless enough you can barely tell it's there, especially if you throw in some other!cheese for the cheese flavor.
Thank you I could not remember what that thing was called.What about adding an egg with a chick that was about to hatch into the mix I've heard that's a delicacy in some places.what do you think balut is? ;)
american cheeseThat's some nasty stuff there, I wonder how much of it is actually plastic?
Thank you I could not remember what that thing was called.What about adding an egg with a chick that was about to hatch into the mix I've heard that's a delicacy in some places.what do you think balut is? ;)american cheeseThat's some nasty stuff there, I wonder how much of it is actually plastic?
It's been a long time coming I guess, but it happened again. Lost all of my fucking tabs. Firefox froze for whatever reason and I killed the process and started it again, instead of my myriad tabs I'm greeted by a blank canvas. Super helpfully too, the fuckers have removed the 'restore previous session' button for some reason, tho I doubt that would've helped much.That's fucking horrifying.
Oh well, time to start accruing that shit all over again :I
Haven't partaken, myself (I'm veg)
I dont understand you kids. I keep track of URLs, not tabs. I like my browser to **NOT** gobble down several gigabytes of RAM with hundreds of advert scripts running in the background.I tested it recently. The ram load difference between firefox with no tabs at all and firefox with 386 tabs going was... about 300 megs. Total. ~500 base load to ~800 all tabbed up and ready to go.
I have at MOST, 7 tabs open at any given time.
It's mostly oil , salt , and water.
the fuckers have removed the 'restore previous session' button for some reason, tho I doubt that would've helped much.
YOU NEED TO SHOUT TO GET YOUR POINT ACROSS
the fuckers have removed the 'restore previous session' button for some reason, tho I doubt that would've helped much.
I thought that too actually, but they actually just hid it. If you open that drop down menu, you'll see your usual options. One of them is history. If you click history, it will open another drop-down menu and one of the options in it is the old "restore previous session" button.
The initial knee-jerk reaction is of course to be pissed at an unnecessary UI change, but it's not bad once you get used to it. It's a function you won't be using that often so it makes sense to bury it a little. History is also a reasonable location to place it in. It was the first place I checked when I noticed the button was missing.
That sucks, sorry to hear it :(
Dangit, I've been putting off the flu vaccine like a total hypocrite. They say it's particularly painless this year because of all the practice, but I still don't wanna.
But I super don't want another case of severe congestion if I can avoid it at all. I'm even going on a trip on the 9th, and I'm anxious enough already.
Uhm.. Daylight savings time was not last night, it was last week.
"Daylight Saving Time" is a great study in marketing. It's really "daylight shifting time."Actually I'm pretty sure something like a supermajority of all relevant populations actually can agree on it: Specifically that they want nothing to do with it and want it to stop being observed and go away forever :P
It's also a great example of a policy that is given across a large geography/population which is not appropriate for even a majority of that area. It has different and significant effects depending on both latitude and longitude. This is why nobody can agree on it.
Like, I developed a ridiculous bias against vegetables as a child, and even as an adult whose tastes have changed, and I can put the corn and peas into my mouth and taste them and objectively think "This isn't that bad, it's pretty decent actually", I can't help but just look at them and my brain is screaming at me to just immediately put it into the garbage. I'm mildly upset at myself for retaining my immature taste in food all the way up into almost middle age.I mean, I'm pretty middle age at this point and can't even put the corn and peas in my mouth and think "this isn't that bad", because they both taste objectively horrible to me, like most vegetables, and have since I was a kid. Your taste in food is your taste in food, there's no mature or immature to it. It can change, but its change is its change and your change, not some kind of adjustment on a maturity scale of taste.
Also black eyed peas and regular peas are also awful.
Here it is :D (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=168086.0)
In fact if you want more sun in the morning you want to do the exact opposite of daylight savings, which increases the daylight in the evening.
Hmm pretty sus absence of typos voliol, I'll keep my blurry sights on you.You didn't look into a laser by any chance?
(i think i need to go to the eye doctor a spot appeared in my vision yesterday, right eye like 3 words right from where I focus, colorful if eyes closed an like 90% blurred if i look, cataract at 30?)
Diabetic retinopathy.
This is a common condition for diabetic patients and occurs when diabetes damages blood vessels in the eye. This damage causes symptoms such as blurry vision, “floaters” and black spots in the field of vision, retinal swelling (called macular edema), poor color perception and even blindness.
You didn't look into a laser by any chance?
I'm beginning to dislike the concept of "acceptance criteria." The requirement text itself should be the acceptance criteria - if you have to write something else to define it, then the requirement is not up to par.
(My previous job never had the concept - you either satisfied the requirement or you didn't. There was no additional "acceptance criteria" defined.)
What flavour ice cream?
Also, requirements and descriptions tend to change as the feature solidifies or ideas line up. Acceptance criteria is the hardstop where we validate exactly what the feature says it does indeed does do and is what the next text team refers to for user acceptance testing.
WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ME? MY INTERVIEW WAS YESTERDAY. I WROTE IT DOWN WRONG. I WROTE IT WHILE I WAS ON THE PHONE, HOW COULD I GET IT WRONG?? I'VE FUCKING DISQUALIFIED MYSELF WITH SUCH A RUDIMENTARY FUCKING ERROR. I OFFICIALLY DESERVE ALL THE MISFORTUNE AND MISERY IN MY LIFE, I'VE BROUGHT THIS ON MYSELF, I DESERVE TO FUCKING DIE. MY VOICE IS HOARSE FROM SCREAMING IN MY CAR. JUST GODDAMNIT I'M WORTHLESS.
AND JUST TO RUB IT IN, THE MOMENT I WALK OUT OF THE OFFICE, I GET A TEXT SAYING THE FUCKING MCHIRE PROCESS FOR MCDONALDS IS READY TO MOVE FORWARD. THE COMEDIC TIMING IS SO FUCKING ON POINT I CAN'T FUCKING BELIEVE IT. I'M A FUCKING JOKE. WHAT AN OPPORTUNITY I'VE PISSED AWAY THROUGH MY OWN INCOMPETENCE, AGAIN! FUCKING AGAIN! I'LL NEVER FUCKING RECOVER FROM THIS. THIS IS A FUCKING MORTAL BLOW TO MY SELF-WORTH. JUST FUCK ME.
forecast showing a high in the 80s tomorrow
go away florida i want my meager winter back ;_;
Yes, yes I would. Gib your below freezing and 13" of snow. Get on top of your house with a big fan and flap it all towards florida.forecast showing a high in the 80s tomorrowPerhaps you’d like to swap your 80s for my below freezing and possibly 13” of overnight snow?
go away florida i want my meager winter back ;_;
Have begun self-medicating with some leftover antibioticsDon't do that. That's how you breed antibiotic-resistant strains. Go to your doctor instead.
Don't do that. That's how you breed antibiotic-resistant strains. Go to your doctor instead.If you want industrial antibiotic resistant strain breeding programs you want hospital effluvium (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20626873/)
Fucking new COVID regulations mean that Restaurants & Bars are now Forbidden to the Unvaccinated. Or you gotta wear a face mask. How the fuck are you supposed to eat or drink in public with a face mask!?
Fucking new COVID regulations mean that Restaurants & Bars are now Forbidden to the Unvaccinated. Or you gotta wear a face mask. How the fuck are you supposed to eat or drink in public with a face mask!?
Stop resisting, become a sheeple. Get the vaccine that doesn't vaccinate.
I am having the most horrific sweet tooth and designing the most unholy abominations in my head. Milkshakes with cake batter mixed in. A "pizza" where the crust is a cookie, the sauce is frosting and the toppings are all my favorite candies. Donut sticks with melted ice cream for dipping/drinking. Queen Anne's Cherries with Fireball whiskey added to the inside.For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure all of those (except maybe the whisky infused cherries?*) are things you can just... buy. Cake batter/cookie dough milkshakes are definitely a thing, cookie pizzas they literally sell at pizza hut, donut sticks with what amounts to milkshakes for dipping is pretty easy to get, etc. You're still making enough sense major fast food chains produce it :P
Basically, if it has sugar (especially chocolate,) I'm in the mood to combine it, no matter how little it makes sense or how childish it is.
The mildly upsetting part is I have no capacity to do any of this right now. :'(
Yeah all of that exists in the US. We have sausages wrapped in pancakes on a stick.
How do you rap a sausage around a pancake?Use the sausage patties, mostly.
I really hate "watch this video for instructions on how to do X" instead of just giving me written instructions on how to do X.My pet peeve as well. For me, it mostly comes down to my reading speed being so much faster and my ability to comprehend what I read is so much better.
Written instructions are printable, can be used offline, much easier to find where you left off instead of trying to search for a timestamp, etc.
Grumble grumble. >:(
Or not play D&D? :DSure, i decided not to play anything now. :P
Or not play D&D? :DI am getting so frustrated with my gaming group for not being able to move outside of 5e. To start with, only myself and one other has read the DMG or PHb. For seconds they stick to it with such dogmatic zeal despite 5e being good for dungeons and not much else. It's gotten to the point where one of them is trying to use 5e for some intense factional politics with magic perils stolen from 40k, which doesn't work at all because the players keep disappearing important NPCs like some demented CIA agents because level 14 characters are nigh unstoppable by ordinary people. The whole time I'm asking him if he's going to go through all this effort to make a trainwreck why not just use Dark Heresy? He says he'll consider it, but he never reads the rules, and so they continue with 5e. Like trying to use a scalpel to hammer in a nail
The whole time I'm asking him if he's going to go through all this effort to make a trainwreck why not just use Dark Heresy? He says he'll consider it, but he never reads the rules, and so they continue with 5e. Like trying to use a scalpel to hammer in a nail
Aren't the rules of Dark Heresy super simple compared to 5e? IIRC, isn't it just a percentile die game like WFRP, where you can pretty much improvise the rules? Shouldn't be much of an effort to read or just skim through them.
You have people that won't read the PHB? What a nightmare. I've had to deal with someone similar who pretty much demanded that either I (the DM) or the friend that introduced him make his character for him. I did a happy dance when he decided not to play.
You have people that won't read the PHB? What a nightmare. I've had to deal with someone similar who pretty much demanded that either I (the DM) or the friend that introduced him make his character for him. I did a happy dance when he decided not to play.
Or not play D&D? :DSure, i decided not to play anything now. :P
It's, uh. Actually fairly easy to hammer a nail with a scalpel, though. Just make sure you cap off the blade and hit with the other end of it, which is usually flat, larger than a nail head, and pretty sturdy.If you start examining the literal truth of every metaphor you start getting possessed by Dwarven strange moods until you make it happen. Like that one guy who makes knives out of ice or pasta, I'm sure a Dwarf with enough noodle would eventually find a way to hammer a nail with it
Hammer a nail with a noodle might work better, especially since it adds alliteration and that's always an improvement.
Aren't the rules of Dark Heresy super simple compared to 5e? IIRC, isn't it just a percentile die game like WFRP, where you can pretty much improvise the rules? Shouldn't be much of an effort to read or just skim through them.Pretty much. It's got a better skill system for doing things which don't involve combat, it doesn't suffer from HP bloat at higher levels, and it's got a much simpler magic system which doesn't render all other characters obsolete. It's got a d100 system instead of d20 but it's all essentially the same percentile dice system, nothing as fine as a 3d6 or 2d10 or may Jesus forgive me for even writing it, a 1d12+1d8 system
You have people that won't read the PHB? What a nightmare. I've had to deal with someone similar who pretty much demanded that either I (the DM) or the friend that introduced him make his character for him. I did a happy dance when he decided not to play.Yeah, and I am outnumbered greatly on that front. I have one player who reads_fucking_everything, even the background lore published by companies or myself and 1 other occasionally write. The rest just coast through and ignore that one player who reads everything whenever he complains they're getting rules wrong
Step 1 of wanting to play D&D is actually wanting to play D&D. Always disliked that people wanted to be part of a social event but didn't want to play. They're just a distraction.I'm now locked at an impasse with three of them who maintain that bad games is better than no games. But I keep telling them if we weren't wasting hours of our precious few times when all of us are free on a game no one is having fun with, we could be doing literally anything else. I feel like I'm morphing into some Jack Chick tract where my friends have been consumed by satanic molemen of laziness where they can no longer imagine a better night out than arguing for three hours over the morality of working for Professor Killgore or Duke Stardust when all of them possess the power to delete anyone in setting from existence with a single action. The end is nigh! Rapture is coming!
my friends have been consumed by satanic molemen of laziness where they can no longer imagine a better night out than arguing for three hours over the morality of working for Professor Killgore or Duke Stardust when all of them possess the power to delete anyone in setting from existence with a single action. The end is nigh! Rapture is coming!
Wait, I've been to this specific DnD hell before. See the point is to project your own personal moral views onto your character, then use them as a proxy to preach in detail at everyone present while accusing everyone else of being unable to separate fiction from reality.You don't understand, I'm not actually advocating for Anarcho-Monarchism, it's just what my character would do!
It's not obnoxious, its roleplaying!
They made the new file and did a bunch of adjustments to it without talking to us about it first. So a week before Christmas I get an email saying "We need this new file ready for 2022. Please make work thanks."that is just "lol fucking wot, no" on so many levels
And then they throw 40 pages of QBs reports at me, expecting me to go into the business data of our software and make all these changes for them, and eject 8 years worth of transactions at the same time.
What if I'm just, y'know, annoying?
I'm more or less resolved on being obnoxious, but flat-out annoying? Oof. I mean, I get annoyed with me...
What if I'm just, y'know, annoying?
I'm more or less resolved on being obnoxious, but flat-out annoying? Oof. I mean, I get annoyed with me...
What's the difference between obnoxious and annoying anyway?
Van Heijst said by email that the city agreed to remove the middle part of the bridge after receiving the request and weighing the economic costs and benefits.
I am something quite livid.The thing is, and admittedly I say this without truly knowing you, I could see you doing absolutely stellar in a high-pay and high-responsibility role.
The thing is, and admittedly I say this without truly knowing you, I could see you doing absolutely stellar in a high-pay and high-responsibility role.They seem to agree too, as they're happy to have me take on the role, just not get the pay or the post. It's like they want me to fill in the shoes but won't give me the boots -_-
Just pour a few liters of spiced rum in and let it soak through the meat before you begin cooking.
Can also replace the innards with sliced pineapple which will help tenderize the meat and add flavor. Pork goes great with pineapple.
What reasons do they give you for not being able to raise your paygrade? Obviously it can't be 'we can't afford', since they can afford hiring a new manager drone to oversee you.The reason is "we can't afford," despite trying to hire the new manager. And yes, it doesn't make sense to me either.
Shit mart, they're getting like three middle managers for the price of one line worker. Why in the world would they want to pay more for that, they've figured out how to get a discount on necessary duties and network with richer fucks at the same time. They're probably pretty sure they've figured out the price point it takes to keep LW there and still dump whatever crap they want to on 'em without causing their drone to leave, so what's their incentive to change?Pretty much. They know how much I need and are happy to get close to it, without ever discussing whether my pay matches what I do.
Yeah, they seem to be pretty ridiculous. Why go to the expense of a hiring process and possibly training a new manager, risking a bad fit for the culture of the company in the process, when they have someone they know can do the job already on staff?Apparently this new manager worked here before, and are old friends with some of the staff. Amusingly they probably wouldn't accept the job on a full time basis, because they made loads of money selling their house and are enjoying the fruits of retirement, which just makes things even more confusing for me
Have you tried braising in Worcestershire sauce?I have marinated myself and whilst company morale has improved, I find myself no worcest for the wear
Over here, if you are given extra tasks, even moreso when given extra responsibilities that were not mentioned in your original job description, you are entitled by law to get a pay raise, and that can only be refused if the company has legally valid reasons to deny it, like 'we cannot afford that, we'll go into red figures'. Ofcourse, there's still plenty of companies that weasel themselves out of it, or just trust that their average worker doesn't have much legal knowledge and is unaware of their rights.It's possible. That's how I managed to get my last pay raise - they tried to give me the same shitty temporary contract with an expanded job description and I told them either they've made a mistake or I'm leaving lmao
Possibly the same in the UK. That new manager might just be hired so they can claim you don't have more responsibilities.
I went to my Ping Pong Club todayFrom what I've heard from table tennis players, calling table tennis Ping Pong is a legal ground to have you decapitated with a sharpened table tennis bat.
Just pour a few liters of spiced rum in and let it soak through the meat before you begin cooking.
Can also replace the innards with sliced pineapple which will help tenderize the meat and add flavor. Pork goes great with pineapple.
Apparently this new manager worked here before, and are old friends with some of the staff. Amusingly they probably wouldn't accept the job on a full time basis, because they made loads of money selling their house and are enjoying the fruits of retirement, which just makes things even more confusing for me
This Trick. (https://www.deviantart.com/wookylee/art/katia-s-pineapple-yoyo-trick-770860508) (not NSFW thankfully)I hadn't seen this before and it's incredible and doesn't make me mildly upset at all, sorry.
It would come in really handy if you had pineapples, but no knife, but did have a drunk khajiit and a yoyo.
I wonder if she can only do it drunk and naked because in her alcoholism she's actually more coordinated while intoxicated but fumbles while clothed
You feel like previously unwanted leftovers that have reinvented themselves to become universally adored?
I went to my Ping Pong Club today, and I'm still just getting my ass beat by everyone. I've been taking it in stride, but it really is feeling like I've been playing this game every Sunday for months, maybe a year or more, and I'm still just fucking shit and making rudimentary mistakes all the time, my stamina is so shit that I have to take a 10 minute breather on the bench after just warming up. I'm just so frustrated with my utterly shit physical ability and my complete dedication to being a half-assed loser. I'm starting to feel like someone that lives in their head all the time like I do just can't get good at any sport or physical activity.
Even though everyone there is really positive and nice, it just felt like there was a heckler in my head for my entire time at the club. I had to leave early cause I was seriously starting to lose my cool, and I didn't want to look like a sore loser asshole in front of the guys I've been slowly building up a friendship with for what feels like years now.
Leg has broke off my glasses, now being held sorta' together with duct tape. Friday at earliest before I can do anything about it. Probably going to cause headaches, blegh.Titanium flex stuff is amazing. I had the leg break off one of mine after 5-6 years, and was lucky enough that my optician still had a spare leg lying around in a fellow franchise holder two cities away. That saved me a lot of monies, titanium flex does not come cheap, but lasts long enough to warrant the price difference. Not to mention that my metal allergies kinda demand titanium.
Frame had a good run, I guess. Thing's at least six, seven years old, probably older. Gone through hell, pretty sure it's been run over before... flex frame titanium stuff is pretty damn sturdy. Finally gave out, though :-\
I went to my Ping Pong Club today, and I'm still just getting my ass beat by everyone. I've been taking it in stride, but it really is feeling like I've been playing this game every Sunday for months, maybe a year or more, and I'm still just fucking shit and making rudimentary mistakes all the time, my stamina is so shit that I have to take a 10 minute breather on the bench after just warming up. I'm just so frustrated with my utterly shit physical ability and my complete dedication to being a half-assed loser. I'm starting to feel like someone that lives in their head all the time like I do just can't get good at any sport or physical activity.
Even though everyone there is really positive and nice, it just felt like there was a heckler in my head for my entire time at the club. I had to leave early cause I was seriously starting to lose my cool, and I didn't want to look like a sore loser asshole in front of the guys I've been slowly building up a friendship with for what feels like years now.
I can sympathize. When I started my job here, people were big into Ping Pong. I'd barely played. But they were so hard up for opponents they were willing to play anyone and be patient.
It took me a solid year of playing a few hours a week before I started to develop actual skills. And don't let anyone shame you on the physicality; an intense match of ping pong is demanding, ESPECIALLY when you're always on the defensive. Competent players understand the conservation of energy. If you're moving to each side of the table on every return, you're working 2x as hard as they are. It's just like Tennis in that regard. If they have to sprint to each side of the court on every exchange, they're going to be winded in a minute or less. Playing from the middle, positioning yourself where it's going to be ahead of time, all these things save you energy.
Bottomline though, you do have a heckler in your head: your ego. You've got this desire for competence and your heckler doesn't let you forget even a single mistake.
Just a suggestion: play for fun. Don't play to get better, don't play to win, don't play to fit in. Have fun with it! Do silly shit. Play 3 feet back from the table. Go for the ones that you maybe should just let go. That's when I stopped being so hard on myself is when I just started enjoying it, whiffs, nets and all. And when you do well.....study. Think about why it worked. How the paddle sat in your hand when it went right. How the ping pong ball felt on the paddle when your slice came out just right or it had just the right tilt to get it where you wanted it to go.
It wasn't such a big deal back then. There was still a CPU fan, with extensive heat-sinks, but there wasn't such a need for a case to direct air. even now I doubt such measures, though rationally I know they're important.
I'm talking late nineties here.
Though I ran my twenty-fifteen computer with a panel off until twenty-eighteen-nighthteen. It's all about how hard you push them, and whether you clean them when they're off.
Laptops be different.
Edit: I'm scared to try to fix my laptop because I've tried it in the past. Things are fitted together very exactly. It's the "There's always an extra screw" effect taken to 11. Every time I do maintenance, the whole thing is a bit more frail.
Drunkedit: I'm discrediting all the times I've reseated a cable, which would definitely fix my keyboard issue.
And yet, pulling it all apart would hurt its integrity. Even as I fixed the problems.
Leg has broke off my glasses, now being held sorta' together with duct tape. Friday at earliest before I can do anything about it. Probably going to cause headaches, blegh.
Frame had a good run, I guess. Thing's at least six, seven years old, probably older. Gone through hell, pretty sure it's been run over before... flex frame titanium stuff is pretty damn sturdy. Finally gave out, though :-\
It's tragic because nowadays every major religious group seem infested by demagogues trying to do the opposite.
What happened to Atatürk's secular and modern Turkey?It's gone. lol
Are there no secular schools that teach biology without islam interference?
Much less flippantly: It's tragic how Islamic (and Catholic) religious scholars preserved and advanced knowledge throughout history. Obviously not perfectly or fully impartially, but notably well. It's tragic because nowadays every major religious group seem infested by demagogues trying to do the opposite.
It's basic memetics unfortunately.
What evidence? Unless you interpret the Bible in a literalist way, then it really is unfalsifiable. There has been no die-off of moderate branches.It's tragic because nowadays every major religious group seem infested by demagogues trying to do the opposite.
It's the only way those religions can survive. Any scientific mindset would eventually reveal the evidence against the existence of God to the follower. The more moderate branches have mostly died out for this reason.
It's basic memetics unfortunately.
Just because your country is a borderline theocracy doesn't mean everyone following an Abrahamic religion is an anti-scientific nutter. Yes, there are fundamentalists. But there are always moderates that comprise the majority of every single religion that isn't a small cult. There also happen to be atheist fundamentalists, and you are one of them. I used to be part of that rabble. Now my old self has been fed into a woodchipper for one and a half years now. Atheist Max is dead, and God killed her.What happened to Atatürk's secular and modern Turkey?It's gone. lol
Are there no secular schools that teach biology without islam interference?
All Turkish schools abide by the offical school curriculums by law. Evolution is not recognised by the curriculum, neither negatively or positively. So, no teaching of it.Much less flippantly: It's tragic how Islamic (and Catholic) religious scholars preserved and advanced knowledge throughout history. Obviously not perfectly or fully impartially, but notably well. It's tragic because nowadays every major religious group seem infested by demagogues trying to do the opposite.
Heh. You sweet summer... adult(?). Their endevours weren't for preservation. They were for estrangement.
The Catholci Church first wanted to suffocate modern science in its infancy. Then it tried to silence it by death threats in its childhood. Then tried to control its direction once it realised that the chil was now a rebellious, cunning adolencent and that its power has spread like wildfire.
And now, science is an adult. An powerful, fully-autonomous adult, who is no way affected by any of the dogma the church tried to reign over it with before. Now, church has to oblige.
The Catholic Clergy saw the rise of secularism and atheism a generation before its arrival. So they changed politics. They opposed birth control, so they would be able to replenish the flock as the heathenfolk started to tear at their outskirts, taking away their young. They became meeker, much less demanding. They whitewashed their dogma and themselves, they feigned tameness, so they could stay in the faster modren life; anything larger would be abandoned.
But that is not enough. Hey, enthropy called. It wants them gone. There is a 1800 years of debt of existance it demands payment for.It's basic memetics unfortunately.
Abrahamic religions evolved in the middle of the Middle East. That environment was always competitive, may faiths clashed for control while new ones either formed themselves or branched out of others.
Judaism started as a freak variant of the Ancient Canaanite religion. Yahweh was a war and storm god, and the local leaders used its figure to rally up forces to conquer.
The rest is just a rather hefty streak of luck. Judaism first managed to spread, but since it retained its basal self-isolative traits, it was overshadowed by its more derived forms, Christianity and Islam. The those too diverged and branched out, and here we are.
Fun Fact: First Christians did not called themselves Christians.
Fun Fact: When Islam first appeared, and some time after that, Christians saw them as just a heretical branch of Christianity, not something of its own.
Just because your country is a borderline theocracy doesn't mean everyone following an Abrahamic religion is an anti-scientific nutter. Yes, there are fundamentalists. But there are always moderates that comprise the majority of every single religion that isn't a small cult. There also happen to be atheist fundamentalists, and you are one of them. I used to be part of that rabble. Now my old self has been fed into a woodchipper for one and a half years now. Atheist Max is dead, and God killed her.
1. Well your two rants kind of read that way. I basically agree about memetics though.Just because your country is a borderline theocracy doesn't mean everyone following an Abrahamic religion is an anti-scientific nutter. Yes, there are fundamentalists. But there are always moderates that comprise the majority of every single religion that isn't a small cult. There also happen to be atheist fundamentalists, and you are one of them. I used to be part of that rabble. Now my old self has been fed into a woodchipper for one and a half years now. Atheist Max is dead, and God killed her.
I never said that. You clearly aren't a anti-scientific religious nutter. I mean, you are here. What would a anti-scientific religious nutter even do in Bay12?
And since when memetics became some edgy atheist thing? It's just memetics. A neutral cluster of observations. Memes are anything that people communicate to eachother. Thoughts, emotions, anything that involves a thought process and is communicatable is under the classification of ''meme''. That includes religion. All of them. Any form of them.
And like everything that self-replicates, memes too are subject to mutation, natural selection, evolution and speciation. That is why Christian denominations and Islamic sects exist in the first place, even though both of their sources are only really one. Evolution though natural selection is a real thing. We agree on that, right?
Look. It, just, is. This in no way means that all religious people are dumb. Or somehow deficient.
Also, how do you be a fundamentalist atheist? Atheism is literally a void. It isn't a state of being in on itself. How do you substantiate that into some ideology? You mean an anti-theist? A misotheist?
Richard Dawkins and his ilk are atheist fundamentalists, desiring the end to all religion.Him and edgy 13-year-olds online, yes.
Wow we don't have an "angry" thread? I'm not mildly upset, I'm livid.We did. It's now forbidden.
It's tragic because nowadays every major religious group seem infested by demagogues trying to do the opposite.
It's the only way those religions can survive. Any scientific mindset would eventually reveal the evidence against the existence of God to the follower. The more moderate branches have mostly died out for this reason.
It's basic memetics unfortunately.
The biggest blow to Christianity happened when Darwin published his theory of evolution in the Origin of Species. It directly disproved the concept of intelligent design
Islam on the other hand is actually growing last time I checked. This growth is happening in the middle east though, but that's due to a combination of political instability and the efforts of theocratic governments. Over there, there are more important things to worry about than the question of whether God exists or not. Plus, the people really need the hope religion provides.
I would put it to you that the reason Islam is growing in the Middle East isn’t because of the hope it provides people, but rather the theocratic governments you mentioned rather requiring people to at least appear to be Muslim. People are joining not because they have seen the light, but because they don’t want to be disappeared in the darkness. For example, a mob in Pakistan recently beat a man to death for blasphemy (not an isolated incident) and the militantly Islamic Taliban (now with better PR!) retaking Afghanistan and re-instating Sharia law.
I also don’t think people turning away from Christianity is as simple(!) as you make it out to be. Various scandals, for example the child abuse in the Catholic Church, are making people realize that religious institutions are more interested in maintaining their bureaucratic existence, for example shuffling around an accused priest to a different parish rather than informing the police, instead of serving their various congregations’ spiritual needs.
Okay. It seems like people weren't satisfied with my attempts to give a simple and concise explanation, so I guess I have to give a longer explanation.
The biggest blow to Christianity happened when Darwin published his theory of evolution in the Origin of Species. It directly disproved the concept of intelligent design and gave an answer to the question of "How can there be so many diverse and complex forms of life?" that didn't rely on the existence of God. This question was a big deal back then because prior to evolution, it seemed like such an absurd and impossible fact of existence that "an Omnipotent Deity did it" was seen as the only viable explanation. The church knew the threat Evolution posed, which was why they did everything they could to suppress it, just like they tried with the printing press way back when (If only the church knew how to copy oil company tactics).
The second biggest blow to Christianity was the information age/Internet. The church has always relied on the ignorance of the populace to draw its power, which was why they tried to suppress the printing press (giving absurd reasons for why the printing press was 'satanic'). Now knowledge was at the fingertips of almost anyone and subsequently we've been seeing a decline in Religion in the West.
As part of my previous oversimplification, I said that a reasonable and scientifically minded person would inevitably discover evidence that contradicted the existence of God. That's not really true. Due to the fact that God is in many ways outside of science, you won't find any evidence that directly refutes his existence. What you will find though is evidence against a given church's Dogma or interpretation of God. Young Earth creationism is contradicted by the fossil record, the theory of evolution, and the fact that scientists know the earth is actually quite old. We know God isn't an all-loving interventionist because he does not do enough to help with the problem of evil. You've also got circumstantial evidence against the church being correct due to knowledge of its shady history.
That's not the most important thing though. As science has progressed, we've relied less and less on religion to answer our common everyday questions. We now know where the rain comes from, why people get sick, the mundane origins for awe-inspiring events like earthquakes and hurricanes, and we even figured out most of the stuff involving the origin of life, our planet, and the universe. God may still be real but the truth is that we don't need him as much as we used to. And as a result, more and more people are choosing to go without him.
In regards to your most recent statement Iduno, I apologize for using absolutist language. Again, I had oversimplified. The moderate branches have not died out, but they are dying. It's a fact that churches have been losing followers and many of them have shut down as a result. Buildings that have lasted centuries are now being demolished to build condominiums. This has been happening since before the Pandemic. The fundamentalist churches have been more resilient to this trend for the reasons that I outlined previously.
Islam on the other hand is actually growing last time I checked. This growth is happening in the middle east though, but that's due to a combination of political instability and the efforts of theocratic governments. Over there, there are more important things to worry about than the question of whether God exists or not. Plus, the people really need the hope religion provides.
TLDR: For most of human history, there wasn't much evidence against God, but modern technology has accelerated the spread of this evidence once it became available. Now Christianity is dying, but fundies are doing it more slowly. Currently much of the Middle-East is far from being a bastion of free-thought and discovery.
I don’t like Dawkins, but organized religion is a bad thing.I much prefer it over unorganized religion or atheism. I don't see what's wrong with it as long as you aren't a fundamentalist.
snipThat is still not an argument for or against Christianity, just against fundamentalism. Yes, churches are losing followers, but haven't you thought that it's because of the pandemic physically preventing people from going? Cause and effect. And in any case, why would I succumb to peer pressure? A small fraction of people leaving isn't an argument.
snipYou do you. I turned away from atheism on a gut feeling basically. Something kinda pushed me towards Christianity and I took the plunge when I asked a friend about some stuff. I became a better person. Do you remember how I was in 2019? Yes, I know there is no purely empirical reason for me to believe in God. But I don't act on purely empirical principles for a long while now. With my conversion, those beliefs and misguided worldview slowly withered away as my faith strengthened.
Religion, like Marx said, is the opium of the people. For a people with no other succor to turn to, having a metaphysical security blanket is a comfort few are willing to surrender.Marx said many things, many of which I happen to oppose because I am not a communist. So this holds no weight to me.
Darwin didn't kill Christianity or Theism; Darwin put an end to a very specific view of Creationism. Not even all types of Creationism mind you; there are many Christians who believe that evolution, quantum mechanics, and even the Big Bang are compatible with Theism. God really is unfalsifiable at that level - "God could have initiated the big bang, and all of science as we know it flows from that." It's just a detail, not a strong argument.Sums up my argument. Religion and science are only exclusive if you're a fundie... in either direction. And I feel a world without all religion would be a much worse one and honestly a borderline dystopia if everything else is the same.
(It's a better argument against dictatorial organized religion though - the "this is what it is because we say it is, if you don't believe it you're a heretic and condemned to exile and eternal torment.")
I would also argue that very few people actually live like they are true atheists because most people believe evil exists. It's not possible to derive evil from physical principles; it has to come from something outside physics and social pragmatism. In the words of some religious texts, "God is written on people's hearts" - we have that sense of good and evil.
You can't make statements like "humanity should survive" or "we should protect the planet" from a moral stance without God in my opinion; you can make it from a practical stance, but not a moral one. Put harshly: there is no existential reason why "humanity should survive" if there is no God, same as there is no reason why a given atom of hydrogen should survive instead of being turned into helium in the core of a star.
Oh, and Marx just replaced one kind of religion with another for a broad enough definition of religion.
3) As death becomes a certainty rather than a possibility, they then cling back to religion."No atheists in foxholes, huh?" :P I'd contest that, but I'm sure it brings religious people a lot of comfort to think that atheists secretly agree with them.
I much prefer it over unorganized religion or atheism. I don't see what's wrong with it as long as you aren't a fundamentalist.
Darwin didn't kill Christianity or Theism; Darwin put an end to a very specific view of Creationism. Not even all types of Creationism mind you; there are many Christians who believe that evolution, quantum mechanics, and even the Big Bang are compatible with Theism. God really is unfalsifiable at that level - "God could have initiated the big bang, and all of science as we know it flows from that." It's just a detail, not a strong argument.
As part of my previous oversimplification, I said that a reasonable and scientifically minded person would inevitably discover evidence that contradicted the existence of God. That's not really true. Due to the fact that God is in many ways outside of science, you won't find any evidence that directly refutes His existence. What you will find though is evidence against a given church's Dogma or interpretation of God.
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That's not the most important thing though. As science has progressed, we've relied less and less on religion to answer our common everyday questions. We now know where the rain comes from, why people get sick, the mundane origins for awe-inspiring events like earthquakes and hurricanes, and we even figured out most of the stuff involving the origin of life, our planet, and the universe. God may still be real but the truth is that we don't need him as much as we used to. And as a result, more and more people are choosing to go without him.
I would also argue that very few people actually live like they are true atheists because most people believe evil exists. It's not possible to derive evil from physical principles; it has to come from something outside physics and social pragmatism. In the words of some religious texts, "God is written on people's hearts" - we have that sense of good and evil.
You can't make statements like "humanity should survive" or "we should protect the planet" from a moral stance without God in my opinion; you can make it from a practical stance, but not a moral one. Put harshly: there is no existential reason why "humanity should survive" if there is no God, same as there is no reason why a given atom of hydrogen should survive instead of being turned into helium in the core of a star.
Oh, and Marx just replaced one kind of religion with another for a broad enough definition of religion.
"'God is written on people's hearts' - we have that sense of good and evil."
snipThat is still not an argument for or against Christianity, just against fundamentalism. Yes, churches are losing followers, but haven't you thought that it's because of the pandemic physically preventing people from going? Cause and effect. And in any case, why would I succumb to peer pressure? A small fraction of people leaving isn't an argument.
It's a fact that churches have been losing followers and many of them have shut down as a result. Buildings that have lasted centuries are now being demolished to build condominiums. This has been happening since before the Pandemic. The fundamentalist churches have been more resilient to this trend...
Darwin didn't kill Christianity or Theism;Sums up my argument. Religion and science are only exclusive if you're a fundie... in either direction. And I feel a world without all religion would be a much worse one and honestly a borderline dystopia if everything else is the same.
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I feel like there has to be something inherently good about religion[...]Agreed. I've already written too much as it is though to elaborate further.
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Islam on the other hand is actually growing last time I checked. This growth is happening in the middle east though, but that's due to a combination of political instability and the efforts of theocratic governments. Over there, there are more important things to worry about than the question of whether God exists or not. Plus, the people really need the hope religion provides.
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@heydude6: Thanks for the more detailed explanation. Makes sense to me.
As for the Middle East, I'd argue information isn't as widely disseminated and technology isn't as prevalent. Plus governments mandating religion tend to get the numbers up. But I've never been there, so I'd like to avoid stereotyping based upon inaccurate information.
In his book, though Dawkins did argue that this feeling was just something implanted in us by selfish genes to help them reproduce, he dedicated the last chapter of his book to saying that our advanced minds have given us the potential to strive for an even higher good and argued that we should pursue it. Though he was an atheist, he believed in something beyond his own biology which I find really interesting.
Actually most churches aren't aggressive about it. And doctrine is, IMO, necessary to prevent straying from the path. Yes, it is "us, holy" and "them, damned". I am fine with that. In addition, those Bible verses commonly said to condemn homosexuality were mistranslated from the original Hebrew; they actually condemn pedophilia, which was common then. Thus tolerance of pedos is bad, while tolerance of gays is good. Homophobia isn't Christianity's fault by itself, it's the fault of people legitimizing their previously-held beliefs with a bastardization of religion.3) As death becomes a certainty rather than a possibility, they then cling back to religion."No atheists in foxholes, huh?" :P I'd contest that, but I'm sure it brings religious people a lot of comfort to think that atheists secretly agree with them.
My problem with organized religion is that it's far more dangerous than a bunch of religious people. There's literally nothing wrong with being religious, but there is something very dangerous about being told what to think. Not every church is preaching intolerance, or using "charity" to recruit, or influencing the government. Most of them are, and I don't see any benefit to it. Charity would still be done and it would be much more honest. People could still congregate and discuss the big questions, they just wouldn't be held to any doctrine.
I like what I hear about Unitarian churches that way, because as far as I can tell their only doctrine is "tolerance". I don't know if that's actually true though.
On the other hand, some churches near me have LGBTQ+ pride flags. That's... great? Tolerance in general is wonderful, but if they're preaching tolerance towards specific groups... that feels a bit like using the tools of the enemy. Which is a losing game, since the structure of organized religion is inherently build to divide people into "us, holy" and "them, damned".
Funny how organized religions (big or small) thrive on those desperate enough to believe anything in hopes of "salvation" be it physical or spiritual. If they weren't around for millennia, everyone would readily consider them as con artists.I am fine with such legislation actually. You seem to assume I am not.I much prefer it over unorganized religion or atheism. I don't see what's wrong with it as long as you aren't a fundamentalist.
That is such a cop out. Even the more moderate ones, those that don't outright pick up weapons to hunt the non-followers, will still push for legislation that conforms to or reinforces their beliefs. It's only a matter of time for political leaders to arise to their cause, either because they also believe them or as a mean to gain power and profits. A person can believe whatever they want but the moment their beliefs affect others, it becomes an issue for everyone.
snip3Yeah, what McTraveller said. A gene can't want anything because a gene is not sentient. It is purely an emergent phenomenon. In addition, Dawkins is inherently highly biased due to his beliefs (or lack thereof).
Also I think his selfish gene thing is spurious - a gene cannot "want" anything or be selfish - a gene can only exhibit a certain probability of propagation. So I agree with the premise that perhaps social structures like emergent "morality" might increase the probability of that trait being propagated in the future. I'm not convinced it's a causal relationship though - I think it's in the class of the anthropic principle (we observe it that way because that's what it is). But even if it is causal, it falls into the whole "but God could have created the laws of physics such that type of gene would have higher propagation fitness." So you end up with that pointless argument.
Yeah, what McTraveller said. A gene can't want anything because a gene is not sentient. It is purely an emergent phenomenon. In addition, Dawkins is inherently highly biased due to his beliefs (or lack thereof).
Where I have trouble with Dawkins especially is where he makes the leap, as you summarized, that "our advanced minds have given us the potential to strive for an even higher good and argued that we should pursue it." There is no basis by which to claim "higher good" for any course of action and a merit for pursuing such a course of action - the best you can do is claim trying to pursue something that has a higher probability of propagation. In other words he's assigning "merit" to propagation fitness; seems circular and not particularly helpful as a worldview. "Act this way, so that others in the future will act this way" is its core... seems... disappointing.
Funny how organized religions (big or small) thrive on those desperate enough to believe anything in hopes of "salvation" be it physical or spiritual. If they weren't around for millennia, everyone would readily consider them as con artists.I am fine with such legislation actually. You seem to assume I am not.I much prefer it over unorganized religion or atheism. I don't see what's wrong with it as long as you aren't a fundamentalist.
That is such a cop out. Even the more moderate ones, those that don't outright pick up weapons to hunt the non-followers, will still push for legislation that conforms to or reinforces their beliefs. It's only a matter of time for political leaders to arise to their cause, either because they also believe them or as a mean to gain power and profits. A person can believe whatever they want but the moment their beliefs affect others, it becomes an issue for everyone.
Just like how genes for claws are able to propagate themselves by making their host organisms better at fights, genes for morality propagate themselves by making their hosts better at decision-making (as far as spreading the gene is concerned). No sentience is required. Neither is a higher power, though I agree there is no reason why that couldn't be the case if God wanted to.What even is your argument then? Most religions can't really be disproven with science. And yes, pure natalism sucks. I consider everyone who wants humans to go extinct an enemy, but LGBT rights will not make humanity extinct and anyone who says so is misinformed or simply a bigot.
I support religious freedom to an extent, for example forcing people to convert or outright denying science is a no-go. But sponsoring a religion is alright in my book. That is where we disagree.Funny how organized religions (big or small) thrive on those desperate enough to believe anything in hopes of "salvation" be it physical or spiritual. If they weren't around for millennia, everyone would readily consider them as con artists.I am fine with such legislation actually. You seem to assume I am not.I much prefer it over unorganized religion or atheism. I don't see what's wrong with it as long as you aren't a fundamentalist.
That is such a cop out. Even the more moderate ones, those that don't outright pick up weapons to hunt the non-followers, will still push for legislation that conforms to or reinforces their beliefs. It's only a matter of time for political leaders to arise to their cause, either because they also believe them or as a mean to gain power and profits. A person can believe whatever they want but the moment their beliefs affect others, it becomes an issue for everyone.
Of course you are, as is everyone else that willingly follows the same (dominant) religion. The people that aren't ok with it, are those that don't follow that religion and yet they are forced to live by those rules. I believe you understand how that comes in direct conflict with the concept of religious freedom.
something implanted in us by selfish genes to help them reproduce
It's to deflect the traditional criticism of a naturalist world view - that the world loses the sense of wonder if you explain it all in purely physical terms.It still does to me even if I concede that he's right about memetic propagation.
I don't see where there was an invocation of author's death?
Didn't you all learn in literature class in school that it doesn't matter what an author intended from a workThis streak of literary criticism is called 'the death of the author', after the seminal essay.
Oh hah maybe I wasn't paying attention that day, didn't read that essay, or I just forgot it. I thought you meant literally invoking an author's death. :-[
(Oh hah maybe I wasn't paying attention that day, didn't read that essay, or I just forgot it. I thought you meant literally invoking an author's death. :-[
Death of the author, death of god... someone's got to get their ducks in a row.
Without the notion of authorial intent god does nothing to underpin morality (or a sense of wonder in the natural world, or...),
Different topic: local weather. We currently have about 4" (10cm) snow on the ground, and it's about 20°F (-7°C) out. Tomorrow it's supposed to hit almost 50°F (10°C), then rain 1" (2.5cm), then give us up to 7" (18cm) snow culminating in a low temperature Thursday night/Friday morning of 6°F (-14°C).
Death of the author, death of god... someone's got to get their ducks in a row.
Without the notion of authorial intent god does nothing to underpin morality (or a sense of wonder in the natural world, or...),
I thought the deal with most religions (or at least the book-centric abrahamitic ones) was that they claimed to know the authorial intent of god?
Biblical works are subtly different; there's a long historical battle over if the Bible is the literal words of God, or is instead divinely inspired. There's a long history that it's the latter; it is my understanding that the "literal words" view is relatively new in a historical context (and is often foolish, because that view tends to be linked to a specific translation which isn't even the original language.)
You okay dude? This is your second weird post. I know Valentine's day sucks, but it would help if you could post more coherently.All of hedgerow's posts are weird. Leave them alone.
You okay dude? This is your second weird post. I know Valentine's day sucks, but it would help if you could post more coherently.All of hedgerow's posts are weird. Leave them alone.
Facebook sucks. Perfectly valid to be upset about Facebook.
Honestly though, I agree. Literalism leads to shit getting wack.QuoteBiblical works are subtly different; there's a long historical battle over if the Bible is the literal words of God, or is instead divinely inspired. There's a long history that it's the latter; it is my understanding that the "literal words" view is relatively new in a historical context (and is often foolish, because that view tends to be linked to a specific translation which isn't even the original language.)
While the organized religion side of Christianity has fought over this for generations, because we will generally fight over absolutely anything that can be fought about, the usual doctrine that I hear about the Bible is that they are one and the same in a practical sense. God did not literally float down here to put pen to some pages, but did have a direct hand in it via divinely influencing the folks that wrote it. The word inspiration is intended in the "directly influenced by an outside source" meaning. It is therefore irrelevant as to whether or not he legit wrote it word for word. Word of God either way.
The "correct" way of handling a conflict between oneself and scripture is that if you believe that it is divine in any capacity, and something you believe does not jibe with scripture, then your understanding or interpretation is at fault, not the divinely omniscient book. These days it feels like the majority of American Christendom believes that theology peaked in the 50's and any attempt to think otherwise is an affront, since clearly God created the Bible with the specific intent that it lead up for thousands of years in order to benefit boomers, aka the REAL Christians.
I'd heard about the baptism thing, but haven't looked into the details at all. Baptism is a public affirmation of one's belief, not a thing you can get of the shelf that has to be sold by an ordained priest. That part is merely tradition, albeit strong tradition, the idea being that you'd generally want someone in a position of theological authority to perform it on account of its personal importance. Silly if the church is declaring baptisms "invalid" over something like that.
Honestly though, I agree. Literalism leads to shit getting wack.QuoteBiblical works are subtly different; there's a long historical battle over if the Bible is the literal words of God, or is instead divinely inspired. There's a long history that it's the latter; it is my understanding that the "literal words" view is relatively new in a historical context (and is often foolish, because that view tends to be linked to a specific translation which isn't even the original language.)
While the organized religion side of Christianity has fought over this for generations, because we will generally fight over absolutely anything that can be fought about, the usual doctrine that I hear about the Bible is that they are one and the same in a practical sense. God did not literally float down here to put pen to some pages, but did have a direct hand in it via divinely influencing the folks that wrote it. The word inspiration is intended in the "directly influenced by an outside source" meaning. It is therefore irrelevant as to whether or not he legit wrote it word for word. Word of God either way.
The "correct" way of handling a conflict between oneself and scripture is that if you believe that it is divine in any capacity, and something you believe does not jibe with scripture, then your understanding or interpretation is at fault, not the divinely omniscient book. These days it feels like the majority of American Christendom believes that theology peaked in the 50's and any attempt to think otherwise is an affront, since clearly God created the Bible with the specific intent that it lead up for thousands of years in order to benefit boomers, aka the REAL Christians.
I'd heard about the baptism thing, but haven't looked into the details at all. Baptism is a public affirmation of one's belief, not a thing you can get of the shelf that has to be sold by an ordained priest. That part is merely tradition, albeit strong tradition, the idea being that you'd generally want someone in a position of theological authority to perform it on account of its personal importance. Silly if the church is declaring baptisms "invalid" over something like that.
Honestly though, I agree. Literalism leads to shit getting wack.Yeah Biblical literalism is just weird. For one thing it attracts recently deconverted kids with a lot of resentment who constantly "disprove" the Bible with Facts and Logic. Then they recoil from nihilism and join hate groups.
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Salman Rushdie describes the Qu'ran as 'the devil's verses'.No, he doesn't. He wrote a book of that title (well, 'satanic', not 'devil's'). But he very much doesn't do such thing in it. The title refers to sort of Muslim apocrypha, in which the Prophet is fooled by the devil.
Because were it otherwise, he'd have been beheaded by now.I'm not sure he could get a more triggered treatment than what he's getting anyway.
Because were it otherwise, he'd have been beheaded by now.Not for lack of assassination attempts, mind
I lead like fourteen independent ventures over the last three years and I got suspended on Facebook for trying to get a woman tonight.
I never get to get with a woman. It's weird. I think I've enjoyed three women for like three weeks in seven years. And I didn't invite a single one of them over, but for some reason they are usually infected.
But like, that's not my fault! And I got suspended just trying to do it.
I mean, the years add up. What's the fiscal figure attributed to that kind of work ethic? I remember all of last year being a nonstop exercise in convention and design, technique and marketability, usership and ESPN politics. I recall the entire escapade being an escapable phenomenon. I remember all of that effort being thrown in the dirt, and it was never actually dealt with.
That same thing that refuses to knock on my door and talk to me is trying to charge me for a prostitute.
This was the twenty-fourth consecutive Valentine's Day I've had to spend alone. And I don't even abuse them.
Yeah, nah. Everyone is deserving of love and affection, but nobody, strictly absolutely nobody, is obligated to provide it. Not as a function of time invested, not as a function of contacts made, not as a function of persistence, karmic debts, and definitely not as a fiscal analogue of 'time made to get some fuck on.'Yet, prisoners serving very long time sentencing are entitled by law to periodically recieve sex workers, at least over here.
I lead like fourteen independent ventures over the last three years and I got suspended on Facebook for trying to get a woman tonight.
I never get to get with a woman. It's weird. I think I've enjoyed three women for like three weeks in seven years. And I didn't invite a single one of them over, but for some reason they are usually infected.
But like, that's not my fault! And I got suspended just trying to do it.
I mean, the years add up. What's the fiscal figure attributed to that kind of work ethic? I remember all of last year being a nonstop exercise in convention and design, technique and marketability, usership and ESPN politics. I recall the entire escapade being an escapable phenomenon. I remember all of that effort being thrown in the dirt, and it was never actually dealt with.
That same thing that refuses to knock on my door and talk to me is trying to charge me for a prostitute.
This was the twenty-fourth consecutive Valentine's Day I've had to spend alone. And I don't even abuse them.
"you don't even abuse them" is not a qualifier of character and that you feel it needs be stated is alarming in itself.
I think the entirety of the snowmelt plus fresh 1" rain last night is now in my backyard. :o
What is normally clear land is a pond the entire width of my property and the waterline is maybe... uh...20 ft from my house. We're supposed to get more snow today... I hope it drains or I can get it drained before that extra inch of water actually floods the house.
*sigh* not how I wanted to spend the day...
It's just tough when things like price and cat demeanor and stuff are not really things easily comprehended by an eight-year-old who has her heart set on getting a pet."Kitty" absolutely is, though -- if you can safely swing a visit to a shelter, you're about guaranteed one of the adorable things will catch their eye even if they're currently fixated on a specific breed. Fluff in the hand right now is worth two in yesterday's pre-teen head.
Yeah cats are very low maintenance, and I'm also not opposed for the idea of having an anti-rodent device in the house (see previous discussions in these forums about our war on mice).
Another vote for checking out shelter cats. A surprising number of them are really good animals that wound up in shelters because of stuff to do with their owners rather than the cat itself.
Y'know, the childhood trauma that led to a phobia of boats involved calling something that wasn't a frog, a frog.* Maybe the reverse could traumatize some other child :V
*Protip: Bullfrogs do not, in fact, grow to be larger than a riverboat. Tell a friend.
I swear, if I'm doing anything that isn't making somebody money my dad has to be a whiny bitch about how "lazy" I am.
WORKING 00:00 TO 00:00I swear, if I'm doing anything that isn't making somebody money my dad has to be a whiny bitch about how "lazy" I am.
Well stop being lazy then: get a job for every hour of every day and be a productive member of society. Even if your body deteriorates to the point of death, you’ll make money for someone.
WORKING 00:00 TO 00:00Reminds me of Cicada (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39983607-cicada), a kid's book about a friendly bug that works hard and earnestly despite being treated so poorly they eventually jump off a skyscraper.
WHAT A WAY TO MAKE A LIVING
I'VE GOT, NO BRAIN CELLS
LACK OF SLEEP IS REMOVING
MY, WILL TO BREATHE
AND THEY NEVER GIVE ME PAYCHECK
It's enough to drive you, crazy if you let it!
Mini petit pain au chocolat. They suck so hard. Not once have the 2 strings of chocolate running alongside eachother, they're allways on top of eachother, somebody keeeps robotically lying them on the shitty side it's lovelessly frozen as, making 60-70% of the volume disgusting dough withouth anything. I swear they are so dry they taste like industrial croissants you'd get served in an extremly cheap hotel in spain.
Both our bakers have insanely high quality standards, yet both of them keep throwing a batch in, wasting precious time and space in the oven, for a product that is allways among the last things to sell, you gotta be despairing to buy the mini pti pains au chocolot, even supermarket and discounters have better ones. God I hate them.
The vet told us to keep her indoors and to keep adminestering the medication, there's a whole miriad of rat poisons, they come in a million varieties and some of them are incredibly powerful and target the nervous system, I don't like using the poison, but that decision is not up to me, I think I'm gonna start looking into a way to control them without using the poison (it's also expensive as hell).You need a cat.
I guess I'm just having a bad day. It's one of those days where I wish there was someone that would punish me for being a bad person. Like, just lash me, or stomp on me. I haven't really done anything to deserve it, but it would make me feel better. I've already said something like this before, so I won't expound on it. I just have to let time pass, that's the only thing that'll assuage it.
You know, you can hire certain latex-clad individuals to mete out all the punishment you need, you naughty boy.
You know, you can hire certain latex-clad individuals to mete out all the punishment you need, you naughty boy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwzaifhSw2c
You see, I have this worldbuilding project called Nao. It's a habitable alien planet that houses like 17 sapient species all at once. I have an actual justification for this, but its too long for me to explain it all here. It's very good thought, I know people will love it. I put alot of thought into it.Creative Projects is calling your name. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?board=16.0) Its lonely down there!
I want to start posting about it on r/worldbuilding; after all, it's a large subreddit, about 850k members.
But as I see it, things are not as simple as that. Only the posts with well-made drawings accompanying them ever get attention. I have no such ability to draw.
I haven't posted about it there because of this. Only in the comments as answers to discussions.
I wanna share my work, but I want people to see it, you know? At least this roadblock gives me more time to worldbuild.
Why would anyone make object one defendant on object two who can’t be changed unless object 3 changes? Why not just change object two and forgo the redundant third object? I’m not a programmer I’m just curious, also why would they ignore a defect?Heh Heh Heh, you changed dependent to defendant and it reads much differently. I haven't sorted it out yet, but it looks to be hilarious.
I didn’t notice but it made me laugh when I read itWhy would anyone make object one defendant on object two who can’t be changed unless object 3 changes? Why not just change object two and forgo the redundant third object? I’m not a programmer I’m just curious, also why would they ignore a defect?Heh Heh Heh, you changed dependent to defendant and it reads much differently. I haven't sorted it out yet, but it looks to be hilarious.
i'm either the bad guy for taking the acceptance criteria word for word literally or i'm the bad guy for extrapolating when the acceptance criteria is a goddamn screenshot.
this job is a headachesomedays
Sometimes, life is good.I didn’t notice but it made me laugh when I read itWhy would anyone make object one defendant on object two who can’t be changed unless object 3 changes? Why not just change object two and forgo the redundant third object? I’m not a programmer I’m just curious, also why would they ignore a defect?Heh Heh Heh, you changed dependent to defendant and it reads much differently. I haven't sorted it out yet, but it looks to be hilarious.
That's not true. This guy is driving electric and ain't connected to shit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8oeyBSlGVw
Moose are apparently just tall enough that you just take out their legs and then have their body go through your windscreen and smoosh everyone in the cabin.
Goooood I hate shaving I hate shaving I hate shaving I hate shaving I hate shaving I hate shaving I hate shaving.
Goooood I hate shaving I hate shaving I hate shaving I hate shaving I hate shaving I hate shaving I hate shaving.
The Sisythusian effort of unevenly removing my daily stubble
Goooood I hate shaving I hate shaving I hate shaving I hate shaving I hate shaving I hate shaving I hate shaving.
I got my face shot with lasers. It worked, and now I don't need to shave much at all.
There's still a few stragglers, unfortunately.
Anyone else (in the US particularly, but perhaps in general) suffering with a sudden notable increase in spam text messages? I historically received zero - but since April 1 I'm getting roughly 3 a week.
Did some law change or something?
Not texts, but just over a week ago I started getting WAY more phishing calls. Not bots either. People claiming to be my bank, my car warranty, even looking to buy my home (maybe that's an unrelated group. Fucking piranhas don't take no for an answer). I've gotten 4 calls a day a couple of times. A friend mentioned something similar happening to them. I can't figure it out though. Surely bombarding one person with phishing attacks is inefficient, since I'm fully on guard.You (presumably) got added to some list of easy people to scam that got sold to multiple groups of scammers. Since they aren't working together they don't know that the others are bombarding you, and since they think you are an easy target (eg. an old person that has already been scammed before) you are worth calling even if they figure they aren't the only one targeting you.
I just remembered I'm actually a prince working on an oil rig with all this gold and I've suffered a deathly injury and the only way to save me is to send me $5000 on iTunes gift cards, because I'm also in love with the reader of this message and their PC has a virus.
I just remembered I'm actually a prince working on an oil rig with all this gold and I've suffered a deathly injury and the only way to save me is to send me $5000 on iTunes gift cards, because I'm also in love with the reader of this message and their PC has a virus.
What medicine do I need to give my player character to treat this virus?
"You shouldn't go outside to work in the garden, today's Easter and it will look bad"
I've never been mad about being made not to work. Help how do I get through this day, working on the garden for an extended period of time I feel is the only way to relax.
meanwhile: "I'm sorry you have to work on [holiday]"it's the capitalist misery ouroboros, they're at your shop on [holiday] wasting money because you're there to open it on [holiday] because they're at your shop on [holiday] wasting money
my brother in christ, you came here on [holiday], you're the reason I'm working [holiday]
Are you sleeping/eating/drinking enough?I drink several liters of water a day, eat a lot, and sleep around 7 to 8 hours. Probably just the spring.
Could also be the time of year, I tend to get sick between Winter and Spring and Autumn and Winter.
I think part of the issue at least from the religious side is that the more preachy flavours seem to think it’s their job to “save” others according to their particular brand of Truthtm, so they’ll go out of their way to make a nuisance (or worse!) of themselves in order to achieve that particular goal, as though there’s a tally waiting for them at the end with someone carrying a clipboard expecting them to have met some kind of savior quota.
Fake news makes the world go round.
By which I mean that’s why the dictator’s son is winning. Apparently his dad was not a dictator he was saving the country or something.
I'd imagine the opponent isn't as well-funded, and can't put out as much propaganda. It also helps if you have your government already backing you.
That's...something. I know some people take extreme pride in their translation work, and rightfully, it's sometimes extremely difficult. It's crazy to me that someone would badly automate it and then try to make people edit their work for free.To be fair, i jumped to assumptions there. Probably he wanted nothing of the sort and was actually just having trouble with commas. But such people do exist! I have once read a hilarious article from editor. He was complaining about book editors who butcher author's work without as much as letting him know (and honestly thinking they make it better) and good-for-nothings who pretty much use gullible editors to write nice books for themselves. He concluded that right and proper editor never edits anything himself, only points out wrong places, explains why they are wrong, but does not offer a solution.
That's...something. I know some people take extreme pride in their translation work, and rightfully, it's sometimes extremely difficult. It's crazy to me that someone would badly automate it and then try to make people edit their work for free.To be fair, i jumped to assumptions there. He probably wanted nothing of the sort and was actually just having trouble with commas.
But such people do exist! I once read a hilarious article from an editor. He was complaining about editors who butcher the author's work without so much as letting him know (while honestly thinking they made it better) and good-for-nothing authors who pretty much use gullible editors to write nice books for them. He concluded that a right and proper editor never edits anything himself, he should only point out the mistakes without suggesting his own solution.
FTFY. How did I do?Pretty nice, you joker. :P
That's a stressful situation.
Do you not have laws protecting tenants?
I keep my relationship with my GF a secret IRL, just to be safe.I think part of the issue at least from the religious side is that the more preachy flavours seem to think it’s their job to “save” others according to their particular brand of Truthtm, so they’ll go out of their way to make a nuisance (or worse!) of themselves in order to achieve that particular goal, as though there’s a tally waiting for them at the end with someone carrying a clipboard expecting them to have met some kind of savior quota.
And that "or worse!" is what I risk if I ever try to get a boyfriend. The attitude against the gay is off the charts here. I will be a moving target for pretty much anyone a bit religious.
Even the heteronormativity culture here as a whole is warped into a hyperpatriachal clusterfuck of disjointed, ancient tradition. It doesn't even resembles anything anymore.
I have two options. Live my own being incomplete and always keep a part of myself a secret, while suffering through societal expectations that are impossible to tackle for me. Or take a huge leap of trust in a place dominated by a dead conglomerate husk of a culture puppeteered by a 7th century personality cult gone rogue after its leaders death.
The son of a former dictator is more or less winning by the preview of the results of the voter turnout today.I am in contact with her over Discord. She's depressed because of that.
Tiruin, if she's still around I would argue would feel the same.
UK actually put on a strong showing this year.
Thankfully, I got boosted two weeks ago, and I'm not feeling too awful (for a person with COVID).
Thailand and Libanon should not belong to the same continent, if Libanon and Greece don’t.
What if we make every country its own continent, will that make everyone happy?Have you ever met an Angry Aussie?
Chat group I'm an admin for just suffered a complete meltdown resulting in the headmins ragequitting. I'm now one of 2.5 moderators left, because apparently emotional outbursts is how we do.
Always, always prioritize pocket size for lower body clothing, yes yes. Ones I'm wearing can fit like a water bottle and a paperback novel in one pocket, plus keys and stuff. Tablet I'm using nowadays can't quite fit, but it's a close thing. You can hold an unhappy kitten in these things. Best feature of these pants, yes.
Yeah, I'm sorry your community turned out like that. :'(
I'm mostly against resignation letters, myself. Its just more fuel to be used against your absent self, and not likely to change anything.
But if it gives you closure, its fine no problems.
I have three canker sores at the very end of the soft palate in my mouth, and it is painful to swallow, and will likely be so for however many days it takes to go away.
cinnamyl alcohol, citral, citronellol, eugenol, geraniol, isoeugenol, limonene and linalool.
I have three canker sores at the very end of the soft palate in my mouth, and it is painful to swallow, and will likely be so for however many days it takes to go away.
Don't worry, Uncle Poo gotcha covered
https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/827/smpc#gref
Quotecinnamyl alcohol, citral, citronellol, eugenol, geraniol, isoeugenol, limonene and linalool.
This is the most fake sounding ingredient list I have ever seen. Who comes up with these names? Cinnamyl? Citronellol? Eugene-ol? Limonene and linalool? Somewhere I feel i crossed over into a Dr Seuss poem
I usually juryrig a makeshift mucositis mouthwash using lidocaine but you wont get that OTC and the stuff I linked is good enoigh usually..I have three canker sores at the very end of the soft palate in my mouth, and it is painful to swallow, and will likely be so for however many days it takes to go away.
Don't worry, Uncle Poo gotcha covered
https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/827/smpc#gref
Probably better than trying to apply a topical anaesthetic via finger or cotton bud.
I usually juryrig a makeshift mucositis mouthwash using lidocaine but you wont get that OTC and the stuff I linked is good enoigh usually..I have three canker sores at the very end of the soft palate in my mouth, and it is painful to swallow, and will likely be so for however many days it takes to go away.
Don't worry, Uncle Poo gotcha covered
https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/827/smpc#gref
Probably better than trying to apply a topical anaesthetic via finger or cotton bud.
Yup. They can write prescriptions.I usually juryrig a makeshift mucositis mouthwash using lidocaine but you wont get that OTC and the stuff I linked is good enoigh usually..I have three canker sores at the very end of the soft palate in my mouth, and it is painful to swallow, and will likely be so for however many days it takes to go away.
Don't worry, Uncle Poo gotcha covered
https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/827/smpc#gref
Probably better than trying to apply a topical anaesthetic via finger or cotton bud.
Wait, as a doctor do you just get to buy whatever prescription medication you desire?
How do you keep bandaids on I can't seem to be able to keep them from falling off.
Neurosurgeon wants to cut me open. Well, at least my elbow.They probably just want to shut you up. :P
Not upset about that though, I'll be happy when that fixes my ulnaropathy.
Mildly upset that they want to put me under for a 20 minute minor surgery.
Yo... 'T is but a scratch, can I please just have local anesthesia? And preferably a monitor so I can watch and be intrigued? Thx.
Feels like people hate me. In general.
I also meant online.
I also meant online.Dammit Max, are you okay? I don't know you all that well but from what I've seen I do like you. You've got it bad enough irl, living at the wrong place at the wrong time and all.. please feel welcome here at least.
Neurosurgeon wants to cut me open. Well, at least my elbow.It might not be life or death surgery but it doesnt sound easy to be amenable to use local anaesthesia. It's meaty and invasive enough to make local anaesthethics not a good option, it's too proximal to just anaesthethize the arm, and it's too high to use spinal anaesthesia without hazard.
Not upset about that though, I'll be happy when that fixes my ulnaropathy.
Mildly upset that they want to put me under for a 20 minute minor surgery.
Yo... 'T is but a scratch, can I please just have local anesthesia? And preferably a monitor so I can watch and be intrigued? Thx.
Just feeling very anxious as of recent and also I just feel like people secretly want me gone.I also meant online.Dammit Max, are you okay? I don't know you all that well but from what I've seen I do like you. You've got it bad enough irl, living at the wrong place at the wrong time and all.. please feel welcome here at least.
Nobody wants you gone, and if they’re doing it secretly well they’re just assholes, and consequently not worth paying attention to.Spies and assassins that are after you are not worth paying attention to? Now that's news. :P
It’s not paranoia if I’m right!Nobody wants you gone, and if they’re doing it secretly well they’re just assholes, and consequently not worth paying attention to.Spies and assassins that are after you are not worth paying attention to? Now that's news. :P
Okay. I don't know your personal circumstances. I have a hunch you're having a terrible time in real life, but that's personal and none of my bussiness, so it's hard to comment.<3
If you want to know, yes, I would miss your foxy-ass avatar, for what it's worth. I hope you are able to find people in real life who can help you, because there is very little that we can do online from far away. If there is anything you want to talk about please feel free, but we understand if you don't.
There are plenty of people in your life that would remember you forever, some you probably don’t even know about.<3 <3 <3 Thank you.
You’d be missed around here for certain.
I hope things get better for you soon Max.<3
I do appreciate your presence on this forum and would be sad if you left.
Also, I guess I'm a semi-regular user of THC now and I'm not sure how okay with that I am? Not that there's anything wrong with it alone, but... me using it is somehow different? Not that it'll help me get out of the above rut, except for where I made the above realization somewhat uncomfortably while spending entirely too much of my sunday playing Doom 1994.
I just didn't imagine myself being the person quietly puffing on a pen on a Sunday. It's illogical, or conservative upbringing. Not the sort of thing I'd tell the rest of my family about, y'know?
But also, generally, I don't aspire for much, and have always grappled with that in itself, but that's prolly related to the self worth thing. Reckon it's time to revisit my favorite existentialists, mm.
I waited many years to try marijuana.
Turns out, it makes me SUPER PARANOID and I feel AWFUL. For me, it sucks.
Just thought I'd mention that, in case anyone else is wondering "Why am I the only one not enjoying this stuff?" It is not just you.
The doctors saved his life pretty easily after that by giving loads of powerful anti-fungals, thus stopping the creation of the world's first plump helmet manThey saved a life, but they killed a dream.
I sure as fuck hope the fuck they never will. Thst would be even worse than the current depression med situation
Just don't be like that absolute maverick who injected a boiled mushroom solution into his veins. Two days later he was suffering from organ failure and doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong until they clocked that the mushrooms were alive and growing in his blood
The doctors saved his life pretty easily after that by giving loads of powerful anti-fungals, thus stopping the creation of the world's first plump helmet man
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Volume 62, Issue 3, May–June 2021, Pages 370-371
Letter to the Editor: Brief Case Report
A “Trip” to the Intensive Care Unit: An Intravenous Injection of Psilocybin
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INTRODUCTION
TO THE EDITOR: Psychoactive fungi, colloquially known as “magic mushrooms,” are known for their hallucinogenic properties mediated by psilocybin, a tryptamine-like alkaloid metabolized to the active constituent psilocin, a 5-HT2A receptor agonist.1 While usually taken orally, there are anecdotal reports on the Internet of the recreational injection of psilocybin, though the professional literature on this practice is scant.2,3 Here, we describe a case of a 30-year-old man who injected psilocybin intravenously resulting in an extended stay in the intensive care unit because of multiple-system organ failure.
Case
Mr. X was a 30-year-old man with bipolar disorder type I and a history of intravenous drug use admitted to the hospital after being brought to the emergency department by his family concerned that he was confused.
History gathered from his family was remarkable for recent nonadherence with his prescribed psychotropics (risperidone and valproate) and subsequent cycling between depressive and manic states. He had reportedly been researching ways to self-treat his opioid dependence and depression.
In his reading, he encountered reports of therapeutic effects of microdosing lysergic acid diethylamide and hallucinogenic psilocybin mushrooms prompting him to inject what he had named “mushroom tea” – psilocybin mushrooms boiled down in water. He then “filtered” this substance by drawing it through a cotton swab before directly injecting the solution intravenously. Over the next several days, he developed lethargy, jaundice, diarrhea, nausea, and hematemesis before he was found by his family and taken to the emergency department.
Initial examination was remarkable for O2 saturation on room air of 92%, heart rate of 100, and blood pressure of 75/47. He was noted to be ill-appearing with dry mucous membranes, mild cyanosis of the lips and nail beds, and jaundiced skin. His abdomen was diffusely tender to palpation without rebound or guarding. He was grossly confused and unable to meaningfully participate in an interview.
Laboratory studies revealed thrombocytopenia, hyponatremia, hyperkalemia, hypochloremia, hypocalcemia, acute renal insufficiency, and acute liver injury. Cardiac workup revealed elevated cardiac enzymes, and his electrocardiogram was remarkable for sinus tachycardia and early repolarization. He was then transferred to the intensive care unit for evidence of multiorgan failure, and he was started on intravenous fluids, multiple vasopressors, broad spectrum antibiotics, and antifungal medications. His hospital course was further complicated by septic shock and acute respiratory failure requiring intubation on hospital day 2 and disseminated intravascular coagulation requiring plasmapheresis. Cultures confirmed both bacterial (ultimately cultured as Brevibacillus) and fungal (ultimately cultured and DNA identified by a specialist laboratory as Psilocybe cubensis – i.e., the species of mushroom he had injected was now growing from his blood) infections. He was treated for a total of 22 days in the hospital with 8 of them in the intensive care unit. At the time of writing, he is currently still being treated with a long-term regimen of daptomycin, meropenem, and voriconazole.
DISCUSSION
While it is evident that he was harmed through his use of psilocybin, current investigations of its therapeutic potential as an adjunct to psychotherapy in treating a variety of psychiatric conditions – including obsessive compulsive disorder, substance abuse disorder, anxiety, and depression – have been documented.4,5 The case reported previously underscores the need for ongoing public education regarding the dangers attendant to the use of this, and other drugs, in ways other than they are prescribed. It is unclear whether infection with a psychoactive fungus such as P. cubensis may prompt persistent psychoactive effects as seen with ingestion of the same species which could further contribute to changes in perception and cognition.
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the species of mushroom he had injected was now growing from his bloodAhhh ah that's something I'll never not have to reread thrice
Note: This thread has hit 666, so Nightmare Fuel is now required until the thread hits the next page.Sorry it's page 200 in the true count.
This is a joke, and not an entry into something that will make people upset. Thank you.
Slaton released a statement that read, in part: "The events of this past weekend were horrifying and show a disturbing trend in which perverted adults are obsessed with sexualizing young children. As a father of two young children, I would never take my children to a drag show and I know Speaker Dade Phelan and the rest of my Republican colleagues wouldn't either."
He added that he's looking forward to "authoring legislation to defend kids from being subjected to drag shows and other inappropriate events."
Slaton released a statement that read, in part: "I would never take my children to a drag show and I know Speaker Dade Phelan and the rest of my Republican colleagues wouldn't either."It's probably inappropriate that I find this funny, but I keep reading this as "Slaton & his Republican colleagues are adamant that they only go to drag shows alone"
So this irritates me:
Google/Youtube knows what I do for a living...
So this irritates me:
Google/Youtube knows what I do for a living...
Google probably knows when you had your last bowel movement.
Only Amazon can do thatSo this irritates me:
Google/Youtube knows what I do for a living...
Google probably knows when you had your last bowel movement.
But can it predict the next ones?
I've only played one of the games and I could never figure out why they'd want all those fruits, I mean wouldn't you get sick of the things after a bit?
I know how you feel. Had to fix the fence the other day because the deer took it out, one of the mares was out eating the neighbors lawn. All our mares are fence crawlers, electric fence mandatory. Ducky's dumb ass gets himself caught in the fence if he tries to crawl through, so he just stands there and winnies at them to come backGlad I'm not the only one having to do this stuff, and as much as I'd like to corral them I can't as the area that'd work for that is in pretty bad shape as well and I'd need to leave them there for over a week at least, since the fence I working on is around 17 to 19 years old and is definitely showing it so I'm having to go along the entire thing and pull down the wire and pull up the posts then go back and put everything back together, and I'd so much further along if they'd leave what I've finished alone.
Can you set up a small corral to pen them in for a few days while you get the fence up? We've had to do that too
... could you, like, coat the finished fencing in something they dislike? Spray it down with mace or somethin'. Lean something they wouldn't bother in front of it, stuff like that.
... could you, like, coat the finished fencing in something they dislike? Spray it down with mace or somethin'. Lean something they wouldn't bother in front of it, stuff like that.I've yet to find something that they don't like enough to not mess with it, and as far as leaning stuff against it they ether knock it down or stomp it flat eventually, that even includes the metal fencing panels that are supposedly made for cattle and I've noticed they can stomp those things until they're bent up piles of crap after a few years. Also not even barbed wire keeps them in place as I've watched them use that stuff to scratch their asses.
Determined horse crawlers wont abide by anything other than boards they physically cant break through or electrical shocks from a fencer, which requires a fence complete enough to complete a circuit (you don't want it dumping straight to ground unless its designed to) Ive had luck in the past putting plastic bags on the fence, briefly. Then they tore them up and ate them. There don't appear to be any repellents that work on horses, they're too smart and also too stupid. They might decide they like the taste of mace, like they like it when you reach out and slap them on the ass instead of moving put of the way like you want them to.I rebuilt a fence with another group of horses and they left the fence alone, but I guess this one is a little more determined to be a pain in my ass then the others, and I'm pretty sure running an electric fence along it would be out of the question right now given the condition of the fence and how long the thing is.
Had like five customers be rude to me because existing as an autist just pisses them off I guess. It's borderline daily at this point, and frankly customers just get worse and worse every year I waste in this "career".
I'd go someplace not customer service but HRs' computer algorithm decided no human being should read my resume. The only escape is the grave.
Had like five customers be rude to me because existing as an autist just pisses them off I guess. It's borderline daily at this point, and frankly customers just get worse and worse every year I waste in this "career".
I'd go someplace not customer service but HRs' computer algorithm decided no human being should read my resume. The only escape is the grave.
Had like five customers be rude to me because existing as an autist just pisses them off I guess. It's borderline daily at this point, and frankly customers just get worse and worse every year I waste in this "career".
I'd go someplace not customer service but HRs' computer algorithm decided no human being should read my resume. The only escape is the grave.
Have you tried NOT telling them you're Autistic?
It's been over 10 years since I mentioned it to anyone that didn't already know.
You might also try talking less in general. It scares the crap out of people, and then they bother you less.
I don't tell them, they just know I'm different and apparently it disgusts them enough to go out of their way to make my life worse on a daily basis.
I've tried speaking less, guess what they hate that too. I've tried speaking more, guess what they ignore it and either don't listen or talk over me even louder.
The designated hitter (DH) is a baseball player who bats in place of another position player, most commonly the pitcher. The position is authorized by Major League Baseball Rule 5.11.[2] It was adopted by the American League in 1973 and later by the National League in 2022, making it universal in MLB.[3] Within that time frame, nearly all amateur, collegiate, and professional leagues have adopted the rule or some variant[4] with the notable exception of Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League.[5]
Why are you like this, Dwarfy? Why don't you want a low commitment shag?
Geeesh, why are people so aggressive and retarded nowadays.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM0zINtulhMReminds me of high school bicycle-shop work, and also
Took a piss in the canal on the way home....Why would you piss in the canal?
Lack of public toilets on the way home
Why would you piss in the canal?
Why would you piss in the canal?
Why are you like this, Dwarfy? Why don't you want a low commitment shag?Because I value long-lasting and stable relationships over transitory couplings founded upon carnality :D
Out of compassion and humanism, I sincerely hope I broke his nose.He might be pissed at you right now but maybe in the future he'll thank you.
Then he can't snort coke for a while.
I have family that's also in software development, and boy howdy they're frequently like 'no this is not how development should go at all who is managing this how do you call this agile development' and I'm just over here getting no work done because everything is broken and nothing is responsibly written.
Last phone I paid out of my pocket was a nokia 3510i
I became a coffee convert after discovering cold brew. Much less bitter.
Coffee is horribleEnglish tea is disgusting.
English breakfast tea is peak caffeine performance.
I tried cutting sugar out at one point. Ended up losing a stone I really couldn't afford to lose. I've an insanely fast metabolism, so apparently sugar is the only thing keeping me healthy.
English tea is so horrid, they have to dilute it with milk to kill the taste.
Huh, so I looked into it and some people genuinely don't get an endorphin high from exercise. That's... unfortunate.
Granted, I use the gym as an outlet for excess energy, not to ride a runner's high.
(How to brew tea:
Step 1: Go buy a gallon of Arizona iced tea
Step 2: Chug from the jug
Step 3: Watch the world burn
Coffee is horrible
English breakfast tea is peak caffeine performance.
I tried cutting sugar out at one point. Ended up losing a stone I really couldn't afford to lose. I've an insanely fast metabolism, so apparently sugar is the only thing keeping me healthy.
At this point, I don't think I need to gain weight; I would merely like to.Coffee is horrible
English breakfast tea is peak caffeine performance.
I tried cutting sugar out at one point. Ended up losing a stone I really couldn't afford to lose. I've an insanely fast metabolism, so apparently sugar is the only thing keeping me healthy.
If you need to gain weight, all you have to do is move to America; everything is packed full of sugar and high fructose corn syrup.
My energy and optimistic outlook irks many 😅Huh, so I looked into it and some people genuinely don't get an endorphin high from exercise. That's... unfortunate.
Granted, I use the gym as an outlet for excess energy, not to ride a runner's high.
You have excess energy? I barely do anything and I require stimulants to have enough energy to do it!
My energy and optimistic outlook irks many 😅Don't worry my dude. Those will fade with age.
Huh, so I looked into it and some people genuinely don't get an endorphin high from exercise. That's... unfortunate.
People that put milk in their tea are the worst kinds of people, why would that take something good and put that horrid shit in it?
Okay, so first, milk makes everything better, okay?But what if I'm one of those people that doesn't like the taste of milk?
How would you drink coffee off a plate without spilling it?Ask your cat
But what if I'm one of those people that doesn't like the taste of milk?Lies.
Then you are sad.Okay, so first, milk makes everything better, okay?But what if I'm one of those people that doesn't like the taste of milk?
I live in WisconsinI assume you have the mandatory cheddar cheese wedge hat, correct?
It looks more like Swiss cheese to me, but I have it.I live in WisconsinI assume you have the mandatory cheddar cheese wedge hat, correct?
How would you drink coffee off a plate without spilling it?
Okay, so first, milk makes everything better, okay?But what if I'm one of those people that doesn't like the taste of milk?
Also isn't there some super fancy coffee that's made from coffee beans that have been eaten and shit out by some animal?Kopi Luwak (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_luwak) is the name, civet shit is the game. It's coffee technically made from fermented coffee cherries, instead of beans, it's just folks use critter intestines to do the fermenting.
The Japanese manga series Beastars features an anthropomorphic civet character that produces kopi luwak.[39]Not sure why then needed to include this at the bottom but this seems wrong on many levels, what the fuck Japan?
Also is it like Zootopia but the people that wrote it were all on drugs?I’m watching the new Resident Evil and the main character says “I mostly read Zootopia porn”
Also is it like Zootopia but the people that wrote it were all on drugs?I’m watching the new Resident Evil and the main character says “I mostly read Zootopia porn”
Also Albert Wesker says “ I want pornhub to shred your resume”
I forced myself through a couple more episodes, but the show pretty much meanders back and forth between "CW teen drama timeline" and "Generic post-apocalypse zombie timeline" while it throws in a few hints and nods to remind people that it's Resident Evil (Ooooooo you mentioned William Birkin!) but it otherwise feels like it could have been any other generic zombie story.
Very bold/very stupid to make one the main girls a Billie Eilish reference (She's got her hair style! She's introduced listening to Billie Eilish! Her name is Billie!)
The first episode is awful, so I'm not surprised many people immediately dropped it.
It seems like one of those "We wanted to make a completely original zombie flick, but attach resident evil names to it" kind of thing.
Came out like 2 days ago or something.
Sounds likeftfy, reallytheResident Evilshowis something I can miss out on and be better for it.
Naaaaah man, the original is a classic game that put survival-horror on the map (though hasn’t aged too well) and the 4th game also became the standard 3rd person shooters got judged by, and introduced mechanics that have been mainstays in the genre since. 7 is meant to be pretty good too.Sounds likeftfy, reallytheResident Evilshowis something I can miss out on and be better for it.
I found the older Resident Evil games with the tank controls god awful and I gave up trying to play it after a few tries, but I did like the newer games that didn't have those controls
Does it still count as art if it hurts me to try to play it?I found the older Resident Evil games with the tank controls god awful and I gave up trying to play it after a few tries, but I did like the newer games that didn't have those controls
It's art!
I do not like caffeine withdrawal.
I don't get headaches, instead I just get what is effectively short-term depression.
Fan sounds really drives me up the wallBut how could that be I mean fan sounds are the only way I'm able to sleep.
Having a fan helps with that somewhat but an AC is better.
Though if you're in America, not tap water!!
I just learned that it has disturbing levels of arsenic and lead in it. Which is insane.
Truly, they are the new Rome. Vomitariums and orgies when?
Though if you're in America, not tap water!!
I just learned that it has disturbing levels of arsenic and lead in it. Which is insane.
You could bottle tap water and sell it as purified water.
What is wrong with the entirity of Europe's taps?Though if you're in America, not tap water!!
I just learned that it has disturbing levels of arsenic and lead in it. Which is insane.
Varies highly by region. Although I think I'd feel safer drinking American vs. European tap water any day of the week.
I have drunk my local tap water, and have not become ill yet. But, I am out in the country, not in a city. City water is where it tends to get icky.
I do have bottled water, though. Feelin pretty ok, debating on whether to go to the doctor as a follow-up? I have zero history of this sort of thing.
But you also live in the US and medical treatment is a privilege, not a right, unlike the right to gun down school kids.
Most places in the US have just fine tapwater. Where I was born the water came out... colorfully. As in it had evident rust. Drank it anyway and obviously I'm totally ok! Lead paint that was bouncing off the walls too, no problemo~Russian tap water varies. Where I live it's good and even tasty. But elsewhere... yea.
(There are some cities in the US where the water is not fine. Locally we filter for taste but that's just because the water is hard. There are other places like Flint that may truly have unsafe water, like the tap water in most of Russia.)
The world would be a much better place if parents were taught to view children as people and not extensions of their desiresBut why would anyone want to bear people?
I don't get it either but I wish they'd let me adopt. Like yeah technically it's legal for me, for now, but maybe I gave up because it wasn't legal while I grew up, and also they keep trying to stop people like me. like jesus christ, fine I guess you fucking assholes... it's the children who suffer though.The world would be a much better place if parents were taught to view children as people and not extensions of their desiresBut why would anyone want to bear people?
I mean I don't see how wanting a boy but still loving the girl you get unconditionally is that stretching.
Sitting at a coffee shop near a mom's group while one of them bounces her baby daughter and says: "I wanted a boy. Don't get me wrong, I love her, but I really wanted a boy."While this is quite upsetting, and concerning, it is entirely possible that the mother recalls her problems getting along with her mother, and worries that she and her daughter are in for the same god awful experiences. It's the sort of self-awareness that there is a problem, while being completely oblivious to the problems of male children.
yeah, it was just one entry on the laundry list of expressed desires, such as for Nice Men Who Are Over Six Foot Tall and a King Size Bed.Oh hey, I'm one of those things! Get their number? :P
...
How do you get things done as a bed?
When you're King Size you have your subjects do things for you. Your subjects are probably beds too, though. Not sure how it helps tbh.
But how will the free mattresses stand up against the king's king sized army of army cot mattresses?How do you get things done as a bed?
I'm not sure, but I still manage to get a bed in life, so it's all good.When you're King Size you have your subjects do things for you. Your subjects are probably beds too, though. Not sure how it helps tbh.
No longer will the beds of the world sleep through their troubles. No more will they allow urine to seep between once-pristine springs. No more will they be fornicated upon, or lined up in shops, or experience the iniquity of drooling invalids!
Your comment reflects the old world order. The assumption that the beds of the world will not AWAKEN. And SEIZE their promised bedroom.
You guys are getting king-sized mattresses? I bought new bedsheets from the Evil Store yesterday and the smallest size they went was 'Full,' which is somewhat too large for my bed.
RE: Vec's grandmum- the point here isn't that the child wasn't wanted because she was brown hair/eyed, but that beyond having the matching hues, the child was not wanted. Vec doesn't need to be explained to that grandmum was just an abusive person, her whole point is that parents wanted vanity qualities and desires from their kids more than they did the kids. It's a lot of objectification and expectation to lay on a child that has absolutely no way to help how it was incarnated.
I wouldn't want to be wanted the same way that a desk lamp is.
But how will the free mattresses stand up against the king's king sized army of army cot mattresses?
Sounds like a boss sequence.
“You must end the reign of the four kings before you can confront the absolute evil of the land!”
Sounds like a boss sequence.
“You must end the reign of the four kings before you can confront the absolute evil of the land!”
It's the Dark Souls fight, but with bedding
Alternatively, they could be the four bed-men of the apocalypse.
his beefy shoulders.Those shoulders betray him. He is, in fact, a mattress in disguise. I mean, just look at him (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/After_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger_-_Portrait_of_Henry_VIII_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg).
What... what is that thing in his hand not holding the knife? It looks like some kind of floppy medieval condom.his beefy shoulders.Those shoulders betray him. He is, in fact, a mattress in disguise. I mean, just look at him (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/After_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger_-_Portrait_of_Henry_VIII_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg).
The artist didn’t think it would be a good idea to show him holding a sausage so changed it to something else.What... what is that thing in his hand not holding the knife? It looks like some kind of floppy medieval condom.his beefy shoulders.Those shoulders betray him. He is, in fact, a mattress in disguise. I mean, just look at him (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/After_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger_-_Portrait_of_Henry_VIII_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg).
What... what is that thing in his hand not holding the knife? It looks like some kind of floppy medieval condom.Looks like a glove/gloves to me. Not necessarily for his dick.
I too think it's gloves
It's nice to know that Spongebob Squarepant's had royal inspiration in his design though!
While we're sharing images of vain kings let me share my favourite one of Gustav Vasa, landsfather of Sweden (allegedly):
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Gustav_I%2C_1497-1560%2C_konung_av_Sverige_%28David_Frumerie%29_-_Nationalmuseum_-_15236.tif/lossy-page1-334px-Gustav_I%2C_1497-1560%2C_konung_av_Sverige_%28David_Frumerie%29_-_Nationalmuseum_-_15236.tif.jpg)
If it seems like the legs are a strange fit to his bulbormous upper body then you have a good eye for photoshops, because he did indeed hate how his own legs looked/turned out and had the painter use one of his soldiers as model for them instead. They weren't royal looking enough you see. Lampshades, on the other hand. Now they are fucking royal looking.
The lack of shoes is annoying me. Was he one of those "shoes off at the door" kings? Asshole.
bad gout and diabetesThose sounds like the traditional diseases that all kings should have.
So it is a wise idea to wash your hands after cutting onions, even if you've done nothing else to dirty them, because some haf an hour later you may want to rub your eyes and not remember that -of course - they still have oniony residue on them.
That... so you were touching/prepping it, but never actually ate any? 'Cause you ain't gotta' be told that stuff is spicy, you just gotta' get some on your tongue, heh.I don't usually eat stuff while helping make food, and didn't eat any of the stuff the ginger went into until way after I rubbed my eyes.
the onion residue is nothing compared to chili pepper residue.I don't know if I'm super sensitive to chillis, but I have to wear gloves when cutting them or I'll spend the next 24 hours feeling like my fingers have some low, deep burning in them. It's not an allergy because I can eat them fine, it's like the capsaicin just soaks into my fingers and can't be removed.
I wonder if you can ever construct to many pylons?
I wonder if you can ever construct to many pylons?That depends on how much Vespene Gas you have!
I wonder if you can ever construct to many pylons?
Bay12 is interesting though, most people say that this is a pretty mature community. So I wonder what it takes to outgrow this? Any old regulars willing to come back from the grave to offer a perspective?
Yesterday I saw on reddit a two year old bit the head off a snake that bit her.That's a pretty metal way to react to being snake bit.
Well, I never. For the longest time I thought what I now understand to be craneflies - to be male mosquitoes. But it would appear the sexual dimorphism in the bloodsuckers goes the other way.
I never got why people were scared of spiders, I mean they're tiny.they bite somtimes though and their bites can be really painful
so more like staggerleg, or stinkyleg?Stanky leg
Also how full your bowels/stomach are. I've found if I've not eaten the night before I weigh much less than I would otherwise.
I know spiders can cause pain, just smash the deadly or painful ones and ignore the rest.I never got why people were scared of spiders, I mean they're tiny.they bite somtimes though and their bites can be really painful
like, wasps are tiny, too, but I figure you probably get why folks are often scared of those
Meanwhile I have a mud dauber wasp nesting in my bedroom. She's lovely. Not all wasps are assholes, most of them are non-social and really cool.The wasps must have killed vcd and reanimated the corpse...
Well, I never. For the longest time I thought what I now understand to be craneflies - to be male mosquitoes. But it would appear the sexual dimorphism in the bloodsuckers goes the other way.
Growing up, my family always referred to them as "Mosquito-eaters". I didn't learn that they were actually called crane flies (and did not, in fact, eat mosquitoes) until I was well into my 20's.
In Norwegian, they're called "Stankelbein". I can't really translate that, but I can tell you that "bein" is "leg".
Best tool for wasp killing I've found is whatever happens to be nearby at the time.
The coolest way I've killed a flying wasp was with a machete.
The coolest way I've killed a flying wasp was with a machete.
... does remind me I once hit a dragonfly out the air with a walking stick. Can't say it was a good thing, exactly, but it was a pretty good hit regardless. Not sure if I'd be able to do it again even if I tried.
Best tool for wasp killing I've found is whatever happens to be nearby at the time.
The coolest way I've killed a flying wasp was with a machete.
This always seemed like a good trap to me:Damn. Cold but effective.
https://youtu.be/7FhifTGKtUQ
Basically some chicken fixed to a board, hung over a tub of soapy water juuust right such that the Yellow Jackets will try to pick at the meat, but accidentally fall into the soapy water and then they can't fly back out due to the lack of surface tension. I'm just not sure if hornets and yellow jackets are similar enough to be snared by the same trap, but I'd imagine so.
Soap in general kills most bugs, iirc. Something about the way it interacts with how they generally breath suffocates them pretty easily.I think it's also to do with their cuticle getting destroyed by that sort of thing leaving them prone to drying out.
... in fairness, most things wouldn't react well to their breathing parts being covered in an equivalent amount of the stuff, so, y'know. You try coating your lungs in bleach or whatev' and seeing how well it turns out.
Bug murderI once killed a mosquito by pinching it between my index and middle fingers. In mid-air.
They wouldn’t be able to recycle the cardboard anyway ‘cause of all the grease from the pizza.
In other news, at the fresh young age of 32, I have now finally learned of dishwasher salt. At this point I'm really starting to wonder if my parents gave me the wrong life training as a joke.It... doesn't seem to be necessary unless you have particularly hard water, from a quick check (I had never heard of the stuff, never heard or seen anyone using it, quick look at local walmart stock says there's exactly one offering to sell the stuff on their shelves out of ~60 things meant for the same purpose, etc.). It's entirely likely they never used the stuff nor had need to.
It’s presumably similar to the salt they use in water softeners, then?
I mean, I didn’t know of these things until recently either, and I’m older than you :o
It’s presumably similar to the salt they use in water softeners, then?
I mean, I didn’t know of these things until recently either, and I’m older than you :o
Don't water softeners have an ion exchange resin? I doubt that would be in a powder form. Also most dish detergents nowadays are made to have soluble calcium salts which means they won't deposit limescale on your plates even if you have hard water.
I'm turning a bit... nostalgic. But also for a childhood I didn't have. Both at the same time, I guess.youth was stolen by autism, adulthood was stolen by the economy.
I'm missing how simple and spontaneous everything felt when I was younger, back before things got complicated in my life and before I developed the capacity (or will) to think about the future properly.
At the same time, I'm also feeling pretty sad I didn't get to grow up as a girl. Not unusual in trans people I gather, but still.
Makes me hope that after death you get to do it all again, just with some changes you can decide on. Don't think that's how it'll go but y'know, it'd be nice.
youth was stolen by autism, adulthood was stolen by the economy.
I wouldn't do it again, in fact yall won't let me leave early.
My dude, relax your standards. People are often looking for a way out of an unsatisfying relationship while still technically being spoken for. They're unhappy but they don't want to be alone. So they'll only break up with the current partner once they do find somebody else.
FFS, if my experience with the fairer sex is anything to go by, that's the default. You're cutting yourself off from good things.
What, does any of you want only such a 'weak-willed', 'codependent' soul that will stay with you regardless of bad you treat them? Or do you really want to find such a ballsy giant of a (wo)man who ends relationships at first sight of trouble and has the means and the ego to repeatedly put themselves on the dating market? (see, hyperbole can be used both ways)
'if they were unhappy and looked for happiness elsewhere, then they'll start looking again if you make them unhappy too'.See, I'd still see that as shitty. It's still a betrayal of trust and still cheating. If you've fallen out of love with someone, they're at least owed a "Sorry, I don't think I can sustain this relationship" rather than them banging someone behind your back and breaking up with you, leaving you cast adrift and wondering what the hell you did wrong and if you're good enough, while possibly leaving you fucked up to the point of needing therapy. This isn't a hypothetical, by the way, this happens.
... yeah, just got call from hospital, heart stopped early this morning. Were able to get it back going but she's low on blood and unresponsive even when unsedated. It doesn't sound like she's going to wake back up.Wow, that sucks
It's a rite of passage for all of us Gms. I eventually started to write my turns in notepad and copying and pasting it only after I was done (or to preview the page and make tweeks).
It's a little bit of extra work, but avoiding the feeling your currently experiencing is a powerful motivator.
Ah man....Coolio died.
Ah man....Coolio died.
Listen, I know Sauron did that whole corruption murder and conquest thing, but his low tax plan makes him the best candidate for the job!Did you know that Sauron taxed his slaves 0% of their income? What a guy
In fairness, we only ever saw Sauron's middle management be cruel - and middle management's always cruel. There's nothing against the man (being) himself.We do know he was torn between larping as a cruel overmorgoth and an attention-starved cat desperate for the affections of humanity; what that says about his likely tax policies, one cannot say
All that glitters is not the Suez canalCirdan's Evergreen galley gets stuck in the middle of the Grey Havens
The problem is I *could* shave. If I do that, I get ingrown hairs for literal weeks afterwards.
Laser/electrolysis is in the future, but that costs money I don't have yet.
Of the last 300 threads in GD, some 2/3rds+ are novel scoops' pseudo-human effluents. It won't ever stop, will it?Threads will continue until morale improves
What does it even mean? Whose morale? Why does it need improving? How is that junk accomplishing this? Is novel your alt or have you too been infected by whatever is burrowing inside their brain?What does it even mean?
Of the last 300 threads in GD, some 2/3rds+ are novel scoops' pseudo-human effluents. It won't ever stop, will it?Novel will keep spamming threads hoping to learn vague things until learns enough to go from an AI chatbot to a real boy.
Of the last 300 threads in GD, some 2/3rds+ are novel scoops' pseudo-human effluents. It won't ever stop, will it?Novel will keep spamming threads hoping to learn vague things until learns enough to go from an AI chatbot to a real boy.
Spread anti-Turkey propaganda through Minecraft books
I've just received a debt collection notice, with demand to pay full amount +collection fees within two weeks.Sounds scammy? I'd investigate further, contact your local bank and so on. Even if it's not just a phishing scam there have been "legal" scams where 3rd parties purchase debts from debtors and then try collect them from the owners of debts. Only sometimes they purchase debts that have already been repaid or debts that don't exist and don't really care if they're scaring people into paying debts they don't have. Or it could just be low-effort scamming
The notice is for an apparently unpaid bill that I... Never received, nor was in any way made aware of. Before now.
I get pissed when I accidentally press a key on my computer that I normally don't touch, then things change, but I don't know why or how to fix, since I'm not sure what key I pressed in the first place. Mostly happens with Word documents.You should probably never get a cat. They are really good at walking over your keyboard and pressing random key combinations
Got my friends playing The Forest.One of my best gaming m8s is also one of my worst. Because he has a lust to pwn noobs, and likes taking action when he has overwhelming superiority. He beelines for maximum optimal power even in games where I'm just trying to roleplay. However he often doesn't know what the optimum play is - which leads to hilarity or grief. Like in Vic2, where no matter what nation he plays he has to get the Suez canal. Doesn't matter if it's Japan or Croatia, he knows getting the Suez is what powerful countries do so he must do it too. One time when he was playing a Greece run he invaded Egypt to take the Suez; the Ottoman Empire saw all his troops leave the border and then invaded Greece whilst all his troops were stranded in a hostile Cairo. Another time we had to pause the game because we thought it was bugged - no matter what he did as Japan, he couldn't make a budget surplus. Cutting all government projects to 0 did nothing, army maintenance to 0 did nothing. I make a save game and begin doing some diagnostics. At this time the British Empire was supporting the construction of two battleships; the United States supported 3, and the German Empire 1. I myself as Austria could support none at all, only constructing Ironclads. He was attempting to construct more than two dozen battleships simultaneously
Tell one rather particular friend that it has a katana in it. Which is like his "thing." His "bit" that he likes to do. Any game that has a katana he will use it and only it, even if it completely sucks. Because he's taken the edgy memelord weeb thing and built a whole annoying persona around it.
So he gets the game. And the first thing he does is read the wiki to find out where the katana is, and disappear for 45 minutes after hot dropping into the game to go look for it.
It's always annoyed me, ever since we were kids, how he cannot think past his own self-gratification when it comes to gaming. He has to have the best thing immediately or he won't have fun. It's so juvenile and it's the reason I quit playing most kinds of games with him, particularly table top roleplaying. But we still play video games together. And his personal ethic on video games never fails to get under my skin too. He will look at an entire game, boil it down to one thing, obsess about that one thing and then make a meme out of that one thing until he bores himself out of playing.
And god help us if the Katana is underpowered.
Has like 3000-6000h in dota2 90% of which with sandking... still regularly tried to launch ulti after stun and gets disabled to pieces. Allways buys blademail too.
katana
Has like 3000-6000h in dota2 90% of which with sandking... still regularly tried to launch ulti after stun and gets disabled to pieces. Allways buys blademail too.
I mean, unless something got changed there is technically enough time on that stun to finish the channeling just as it wears off. Wherein you might have enough time to pop a sandstorm to stop your cheeks getting immediately clapped. Still not as good an idea as just doing it normally, but it's theoretically possible.
You'd basically have to stack the commands though, there's about a tenth of a second worth of wiggle room. ...also I last played years ago, it's entirely likely that's one of the things they did change and everything I just said is irrelevant :P
Got my friends playing The Forest.
Tell one rather particular friend that it has a katana in it. Which is like his "thing." His "bit" that he likes to do. Any game that has a katana he will use it and only it, even if it completely sucks. Because he's taken the edgy memelord weeb thing and built a whole annoying persona around it.
So he gets the game. And the first thing he does is read the wiki to find out where the katana is, and disappear for 45 minutes after hot dropping into the game to go look for it.
It's always annoyed me, ever since we were kids, how he cannot think past his own self-gratification when it comes to gaming. He has to have the best thing immediately or he won't have fun. It's so juvenile and it's the reason I quit playing most kinds of games with him, particularly table top roleplaying. But we still play video games together. And his personal ethic on video games never fails to get under my skin too. He will look at an entire game, boil it down to one thing, obsess about that one thing and then make a meme out of that one thing until he bores himself out of playing.
And god help us if the Katana is underpowered.
And fired all of the old executives, as one does in a corporate takeover.Last I saw chatter his plan was to fire like 75% of twitter's workforce, so it'd make sense some of the execs got caught too.
I thought he wanted to back out, like a would-be groom with cold feet?I mean he seemed to want to, but he fucked up so hard that ended up not really being an option :P
Why make such a big stink about pulling out of buying this thing then buy it anyway?Because Musk is decidedly of average intelligence, and of far above average pettiness.
Why make such a big stink about pulling out of buying this thing then buy it anyway?
I think he's intelligent, but only in certain areas. That combined with a horde of nerds inflating his ego to the size of a balloon (And a lot of narcissism) seems to have made him think that he knows literally everything.Why make such a big stink about pulling out of buying this thing then buy it anyway?Because Musk is decidedly of average intelligence, and of far above average pettiness.
I think he's intelligent, but only in certain areas. That combined with a horde of nerds inflating his ego to the size of a balloon (And a lot of narcissism) seems to have made him think that he knows literally everything.Every Lord needs capable advisors to guide them and capable officers to execute their orders; but look at how Elon Musk treated his personal assistant - he fired her and took on the personal workload himself; noticeably appearing more tired after doing so. It's rather akin to Napoleon Bonaparte taking on such a heavy workload himself that he ended up getting burned out to the point where he struggled to see the full picture anymore. A mediocre man who has this capable team around them will be able to do wondrous things, a talented man who is surrounded by yesmen cannot achieve very much at all
Got my friends playing The Forest.
Tell one rather particular friend that it has a katana in it. Which is like his "thing." His "bit" that he likes to do. Any game that has a katana he will use it and only it, even if it completely sucks. Because he's taken the edgy memelord weeb thing and built a whole annoying persona around it.
So he gets the game. And the first thing he does is read the wiki to find out where the katana is, and disappear for 45 minutes after hot dropping into the game to go look for it.
It's always annoyed me, ever since we were kids, how he cannot think past his own self-gratification when it comes to gaming. He has to have the best thing immediately or he won't have fun. It's so juvenile and it's the reason I quit playing most kinds of games with him, particularly table top roleplaying. But we still play video games together. And his personal ethic on video games never fails to get under my skin too. He will look at an entire game, boil it down to one thing, obsess about that one thing and then make a meme out of that one thing until he bores himself out of playing.
And god help us if the Katana is underpowered.
Similar but very different game experience with a good friend of mine. He is fun to play with and I've known him decades in real life. But...when we play games like Terraria or Starbound. He'll literally rush to the loot and take it all and get all the materials to craft stuff for himself then throws his old junk out and says "you can have the handydowns". Very annoying, but then 50% of the time he works as an actual team and its a lot of fun lol.
I think he's intelligent, but only in certain areas. That combined with a horde of nerds inflating his ego to the size of a balloon (And a lot of narcissism) seems to have made him think that he knows literally everything.Every Lord needs capable advisors to guide them and capable officers to execute their orders; but look at how Elon Musk treated his personal assistant - he fired her and took on the personal workload himself; noticeably appearing more tired after doing so. It's rather akin to Napoleon Bonaparte taking on such a heavy workload himself that he ended up getting burned out to the point where he struggled to see the full picture anymore. A mediocre man who has this capable team around them will be able to do wondrous things, a talented man who is surrounded by yesmen cannot achieve very much at all
*EDIT
My suspicions are this (https://levelup.gitconnected.com/why-elon-musk-fired-most-of-his-long-term-employees-who-had-worked-for-him-for-over-5-years-c94ac3120eba); when you get rid of all the employees who've known you for a long time, you end up left with opportunists and people too scared of jeopardising their own career to give honest criticism when the big boss is talking about doing something foolish
It's really sickening that bastards like Elon are allowed to exist. His firing spree to try to 'cut costs' seems plausible on its surface, but he's undoubtedly made his life much harder in the long run by getting rid of people he knows and knows he can trust. Moreover, it's just such a simplistic, brain-dead thing to do; every position is meant to generate more 'value' than cost, and if they aren't, then it really behooves you to find out why, NOT just start pulling the trigger on people until number go up. The article you've linked ends with Elon congratulating himself on a job well done, sitting atop a pile of corpses, as he stares at the profit figures for his company; but I'd bet anything that all that 'profit' is accounting trickery to fluff up his supposed success. Tricks like that don't work year after year, so I'm hoping to see Elon shrivel up and fade into obscurity in the near future.The lunacy of it all is that everyone else knows it is counter-productive in the long-run but we are all held hostage by a cult of greed that devours its own tail. I've seen so many MBAs and investment bankers who used to be decent people once, but they all got chucked out the press-mould as all the exact same pieces of shit. Stuff like bragging in front of me how much money they make off of tobacco after I tell them a patient's just lost their husband to lung cancer or ordering every expensive menu on an item and asking to split the bill equal with everyone else who got the tap water with a side of dust lmao
I've brought up moving out, but I've been told I don't have permission to. Not that I'd be able to afford my own place with the rental markets the way they are now.
The people on the r/Fuckcars subreddit call this mental condition "Carbrain", a special kind of entitlement centered around the irrational love of cars and the belief that one should never be impeded while driving, and anyone who does impede them simply deserves whatever happens to them.It's also the reason why there's a rich vocabulary for all kinds of vehicle traffic and vehicle traffic law, but then the vocabulary shrinks for users of public transit, pedestrians and cyclists. E.g. you have pedestrian roads and cycling roads, but you don't ever call them car roads because the assumption is all roads belong to cars and you're just living in a car world
The people on the r/Fuckcars subreddit call this mental condition "Carbrain", a special kind of entitlement centered around the irrational love of cars and the belief that one should never be impeded while driving, and anyone who does impede them simply deserves whatever happens to them.It's also the reason why there's a rich vocabulary for all kinds of vehicle traffic and vehicle traffic law, but then the vocabulary shrinks for users of public transit, pedestrians and cyclists. E.g. you have pedestrian roads and cycling roads, but you don't ever call them car roads because the assumption is all roads belong to cars and you're just living in a car world
They were called roads before there were cars, LW :PCar roads replaced just "roads" though. When you say roads in discussing city planning, you don't mean roads where you can drive, cycle or walk along - you mean "car roads" where you can drive your car
They're called "x roads" to specify they're specifically intended for one mode of transit, unlike just roads, which you can both drive, cycle, or pedestrate along
imagine not calling them tumbly-wumbly crossing down lanes
Your local thrift store probably also has new-in-box LED bulbs for super cheap. I dunno why they all have them, they just do.Why not just let the fluorescent bulbs burn out then replace them?
Which reminds me, I still need to go buy some more so I can swap out the fluorescents around my apartment.
Two people were killed in Poland, when a Russian missile struck the village of Przewodów, 70km north of Lviv.
The Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki has called a meeting with the government's defense council.
Our Dutch minister has left the bomb shelter in Kyiv, after being stuck there for 3 hours
Dog destroyed another Ł35 miniature.
I appreciate it None and Drag. Every single day I feel I'm failing at the small decisions and trials in life, and so I'm making a fool of myself;
I've only just noticed that Descan's been absent from the forums for over a year.One day you say see you later to your m8s for the last time. It's why it's good to be grateful for all the moments we do have now
There's so many people that I'm used to seeing who I'm probably never going to be in contact with again because these forums were the only way we knew each other.
I have a similar grief. My sister got a cat that ended up hating her so she bought a kitten that she ended up hating. Now I have two cats that love me but the young one chews and scratches everything; destroys things for fun. I am very patient but he is immune to training or domestication; I'd give him away if he did not love me so much. But he must stop eating my foot every 4:00 A.M. ;-;
Dunno about crocs, but baby gators are actually remarkably adorable. It was highly illegal, but we had one as a pet for a while when I was young. They love head scritches.
dealing with them when they grow up isn't something you want to worry about, though
also did i mention it's illegal?
Is there any way you can put the figurines out of reach of the dog? Or just not let him in the room.
I don't think I've ever held such animosity towards any living thing as I do towards him. I seriously would have preferred a god damn crocodile over the wretch.Have you ever thought about getting rid of it, like taking it to a shelter or out somewhere and leaving it behind?
Round here the issue would be the climate more than anything, though I doubt they're legal here without a license. Scotland isn't a good place for crocodiles most of the year
Reverse shock collar?
unless the dog can phase through objects.
Ayyy animal cruelty is awesome.The better "shock" collars nowadays just use noise instead of actual electricity. Works pretty well, not nearly as much cruelty, gives an immediacy to reaction that's both important for training and often difficult to impossible for a human to stay on top of.
Better to punish the animal than learn to adapt our own behaviour to prevent it doing the shit we don’t like.
I feel dysphoric. Not any particular type of dysphoria - I just feel unsure about everything. These feelings been here for about a week now.
I was never the most stable person. Am I finally starting to go off the deep end?
Dysphoria sucks, yeah. Not always anything you can really do about it either, which is pretty bad.I feel dysphoric. Not any particular type of dysphoria - I just feel unsure about everything. These feelings been here for about a week now.
I was never the most stable person. Am I finally starting to go off the deep end?
:'( Guys stop talking about the moral implications of electrocuting innocent doooooogs~
:'( I want attentioooooon~
I hope you yelled some falsehood while I was explaining to make sure you didn't get it so you can convince yourself it was me.
How did the baton of ultimate responsibility get thrust into your hand? Can you relay it on to someone else's eager palms?
I miss Naturegirl.
Hair clippers mate.
People can’t tell you’re going bald if you’re bald.
B12 being finnicky. getting some 502sSame. Likely to do with new release on Steam.
I got 500 problems and a post ain't one.
Oh yeah, every second click and internal server error pops up.
Guess not gonna do so much posting/browsing the forums in the next few days...
You too? What's going on?!
whoa, hol' up! New guitar riffs?
Damn you 500 errors!
I saw the kids show I used to watch a decade ago.Know the feeling, today I realized what people my age usually do, time pass so fast.
And I am now confronted by my own mortality.
MAKE IT STOP-
I saw the kids show I used to watch a decade ago.Know the feeling, today I realized what people my age usually do, time pass so fast.
And I am now confronted by my own mortality.
MAKE IT STOP-
Have you tried not watching the show to see if the feeling passes?I saw the kids show I used to watch a decade ago.Know the feeling, today I realized what people my age usually do, time pass so fast.
And I am now confronted by my own mortality.
MAKE IT STOP-
HELP ME
HELP NAOW-
You're not as old as me, kid.I saw the kids show I used to watch a decade ago.Know the feeling, today I realized what people my age usually do, time pass so fast.
And I am now confronted by my own mortality.
MAKE IT STOP-
HELP ME
HELP NAOW-
You're not as old as me, kid.I saw the kids show I used to watch a decade ago.Know the feeling, today I realized what people my age usually do, time pass so fast.
And I am now confronted by my own mortality.
MAKE IT STOP-
HELP ME
HELP NAOW-
My favorite show when I was a teenager ended over TWO decades ago.
You've got 20 years till your midlife crisis.
Give it a bit, you'll hate it worse once your prostate enlarges or whatever. Pretty sure you're not even really on the down slope yet.
Stop telling him things like that, he's gonna explode at this rate.
Oh god look what you guys did, he exploded!Stop telling him things like that, he's gonna explode at this rate.
Oh, I am fine- KABOOM
Nah, don't worry, that's just his prostate.Oh god look what you guys did, he exploded!Stop telling him things like that, he's gonna explode at this rate.
Oh, I am fine- KABOOM
Nah, don't worry, that's just his prostate.Oh god look what you guys did, he exploded!Stop telling him things like that, he's gonna explode at this rate.
Oh, I am fine- KABOOM
Freezing my goddamn tits off.I started in April in a mild climate and still found a new appreciation for scarves! The thermostat war is real and kicks in fast.
Spent an hour outside at a market. Market was nice, but there was enough of a breeze to make it feel way colder than -1C
Why do A,B,C,D,E in 20 minutes when you can do A,F,G,B,H,I,L,E, in 40 minutes?
I've gone and bought some long johns for future freezing temperatures. I'm also planning to get a winter coat for when I've transitioned enough to not need to worry about it no longer fitting due to breast growth and fat redistribution. A mackinaw jacket or something might be nice.Freezing my goddamn tits off.I started in April in a mild climate and still found a new appreciation for scarves! The thermostat war is real and kicks in fast.
Spent an hour outside at a market. Market was nice, but there was enough of a breeze to make it feel way colder than -1C
At the rate little bits of him are exploding he'll be dead by the end of the week, I hope you monsters are happy.Nah, don't worry, that's just his prostate.Oh god look what you guys did, he exploded!Stop telling him things like that, he's gonna explode at this rate.
Oh, I am fine- KABOOM
What? What do you mean my... AAAAAAAAAAAAAA-BOOOOOOM
I am fine. As long as there is some sort of rock or magma, I'll come back.So I got all worked up for nothing, you'll just come back from the ashes like a phoenix.
And if we don't, that's actually worse.
Oh no, the alternative is we don't get old.And if we don't, that's actually worse.
I first thought of this as "what if we don't die?". Then understood that you meant you guys separating.
No power no water this morning, pipes froze, propane in the tanks isnt boiling (only gaseous propane can flow up and out through the hoses). Very much ugh.Sorry to hear that, I had that happen a few years ago and it was awful, hope you make it through okay.
What took you so long motherfucker!?
Living forever sounds terrible.You wouldn't have to in a world where you didn't die of aging or whatev'. You'd just get a choice in the matter instead of having it necessarily forced on you at some point.
Nature invented death to stop the old from endlessly suffocating the growth of the new.Nature didn't invent death, there's stuff out there that do, in fact, not die of aging or related issues. Don't ascribe agency or intent to something that lacks it, heh. Nature 101 is to suffocate the growth of everything around you, and it's not death that's the primary means of avoiding that.
Nature invented death to stop the old from endlessly suffocating the growth of the new.Nature didn't invent death, there's stuff out there that do, in fact, not die of aging or related issues. Don't ascribe agency or intent to something that lacks it, heh. Nature 101 is to suffocate the growth of everything around you, and it's not death that's the primary means of avoiding that.
But I don't live in a place like that, so I guess I'll just die like everyone else.Living forever sounds terrible.You wouldn't have to in a world where you didn't die of aging or whatev'. You'd just get a choice in the matter instead of having it necessarily forced on you at some point.
So this is how Skynet starts, first they write our papers then they take our jobs and finally they take over.
If we're lucky this means we go back to writing by hand instead of keyboard.Better the world end in fire than for everyone to have everyone else's handwriting regularly inflicted upon them once again. The world may have spun before typing existed, but it spun as a hell worse than the modern day.
Why do A,B,C,D,E in 20 minutes when you can do A,F,G,B,H,I,L,E, in 40 minutes?
From A to D, skipping B and C!
i love this grappling hook
I still think using AI for writing is cheating, also aren't there books filled with names you could look at?It's cheating if you pass off a work created solely or mostly via AI as something you wrote yourself, neither of which am I doing. And why would I spend money on a book when I can just ask the AI for free? :P
I still think using AI for writing is cheating, also aren't there books filled with names you could look at?If using AI for writing is cheating, so is using an editor or asking for feedback from other people. Lotta' writing cheaters out there :P
If we're lucky this means we go back to writing by hand instead of keyboard.Better the world end in fire than for everyone to have everyone else's handwriting regularly inflicted upon them once again. The world may have spun before typing existed, but it spun as a hell worse than the modern day.
It is, in fact, possible to have good handwriting without someone smacking your hand over every mistake.For some people, anyway :-\
It is, in fact, possible to have good handwriting without someone smacking your hand over every mistake.For some people, anyway :-\
It's pretty apt to the thread when you spend over a decade investing several hours a week trying to improve your handwriting and it just doesn't, though. Typing is a hell of an equalizer when it comes to non-vocal communication. Not a perfect one, but it's better than anything involving motor control as fine as handwriting requires.
Should not the child realize that, if they cannot see inside themselves, and they cannot see inside others, then there is no basis of comparison and therefore comparisons are irrelevant, and it's only belief that truly matters?
Seems related to the cave allegory.
It is, in fact, possible to have good handwriting without someone smacking your hand over every mistake.
I was lying in bed this morning and thought up the perfect metaphor to describe my childhood and 20's: Imagine a child confined from birth and forced to live in a small box. The box is big enough for a child, but inadequate as he grows. He's not allowed out of the box however, and so as he grows his limbs and spine grow gnarled and crooked. When he reaches adulthood, he is allowed out of the box, but his body is deformed and useless, and he can't do anything but envy the healthy people around him. To have any chance whatsoever of living a normal life, he has to un-deform himself, snapping his own bones and resetting them in an arduous and painful process. Nobody can help him with this process, because nobody else knows about the box and cannot relate. Over the course of more than a decade, the bone breaking and resetting process feels almost complete, but the child can never be sure if his achievements are ever anything more than superficial imitation, as he doesn't naturally know what his skeleton SHOULD look like, and instead was forced to imitate the size and shape of the people around him. Because the child cannot see inside himself, or see inside of others, the comparison is always guesswork, so it is impossible to know for sure if he has succeeded in rehabilitating himself, or if he's just created a twisted imitation of a natural human shape using his own body. It may be impossible to know for sure.
Why aren't leftist, democratic movements taking advantage of the energy of lonely troubled young men the way bigoted and fascist movements are.they do; it's just that when they become leftists they stop being troubled. or men
Why aren't leftist, democratic movements taking advantage of the energy of lonely troubled young men the way bigoted and fascist movements are.
Especially since leftist movements can actually fix their problems, whereas fascists will just make them struggle to extract fleeting dopamine from anger and make them more hateful and lonely.
Funnily enough I've always thought I could have easily gone down the incel route without the proper guidance away from it, and I'm now one of the forums Not!MenWhy aren't leftist, democratic movements taking advantage of the energy of lonely troubled young men the way bigoted and fascist movements are.they do; it's just that when they become leftists they stop being troubled. or men
The left believes incels should adopt more sensible beliefs regarding the ladies.
Gotta +1 Mr Roboto here.The left believes incels should adopt more sensible beliefs regarding the ladies.
Odd way to describe burying one's head in the sand and hoping the problem goes away.
The Holy Roman Empire is neither troubled, male or right wingWhy aren't leftist, democratic movements taking advantage of the energy of lonely troubled young men the way bigoted and fascist movements are.they do; it's just that when they become leftists they stop being troubled. or men
Blacksmithing sounds cool. Unfortunately trying hobbies never seems to last. If it makes noise I won't be allowed to do it, and if it can be judged, it's going to be judged harshly.
I was replacing a guy's heaters, he asked me to take my boots off. His carpet was quite filthy. Then I stepped on a nail... It was a superficial puncture, so I was only mildly upset. Reflexes ftw!Good lord. Guess the boots went back on after eh? ;D
I was replacing a guy's heaters, he asked me to take my boots off. His carpet was quite filthy. Then I stepped on a nail... It was a superficial puncture, so I was only mildly upset. Reflexes ftw!Good lord. Guess the boots went back on after eh? ;D
I've stepped on broken glass once when I stepped out and someone had smashed a bottle on my doorstep without being polite enough to clear it up. Another time a nail. Never a fun time, but it's not so bad as long as it doesn't run its way through your foot or hit anything too solid/nervy
I would have given him shit or at least say something about it. But yeesh yeah I know the feeling.I was replacing a guy's heaters, he asked me to take my boots off. His carpet was quite filthy. Then I stepped on a nail... It was a superficial puncture, so I was only mildly upset. Reflexes ftw!Good lord. Guess the boots went back on after eh? ;D
I've stepped on broken glass once when I stepped out and someone had smashed a bottle on my doorstep without being polite enough to clear it up. Another time a nail. Never a fun time, but it's not so bad as long as it doesn't run its way through your foot or hit anything too solid/nervy
I didn't want to be rude, and since my brief exclamation went un-noticed, I just kept the boots off. Broken glass would probably be more painful. I've only stepped on nails, and kicked hedge clippers so far.
I was replacing a guy's heaters, he asked me to take my boots off. His carpet was quite filthy. Then I stepped on a nail... It was a superficial puncture, so I was only mildly upset. Reflexes ftw!
Doesn't seem to be such a thing as good vegan cheese. It's always slimy and either tasteless or unpleasant.
...have lost my birth certificate(or I did), which I need to get an updated ID due to new federal laws.
Seems like Pisskop became "Piss? Stop."
Seems like Pisskop became "Piss? Stop."
Like, I usually practice a philosophy and live and let, but it's just really awkward to even choose to piss next to me, and then be so weirdly loud about it. Maybe it was a show of dominance?
I was writing a turn on my game while Legends Viewer was parsing a file in the background. It was a large world with maximum civs and sites, so yeah. Then, for some reason, both the program and chrome just, crashed.The legend will live on in you
My progress is gone! My sweet child is dead!
I can't cope with this loss.
As of next year, the Swedish statistics agency (Statistics Sweden/SCB) will no longer keep track of name statistics. The name statistics were not part of the statistics explicitly mandated by the government, so that is likely why they are getting cut in conjunction with the recession. Still, from having talked to someone on the inside the cut cost is at most one yearly salary (since the raw data is kept by the Tax Agency), and the whole thing was/is great PR. The name search (https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/sverige-i-siffror/namnsok/) is literally the first thing they list in the part of their main page meant to show "society"/common folk various uses of statistics.
How are people going to choose their (kid's) name's coming years?
How are people going to choose their (kid's) name's coming years?They could pay me and I'd name their kids, hope they like the first thing I get after smacking a keyboard a few times.
In the UK you just have to sweettalk the Registering Officer.This Russian guy I lived with managed to talk his way out of a speeding ticket by claiming his name was Dmitri Smirnoff. He couldn't think of a better fake name and he had a bottle of smirnoff in his car so that's all he could think of
Any name goes. Technically.
Sorry, it still has to pass the Swedish Customs Service name permission department, which has to approve of all given names.With some tweaking my keyboard mashes can conform to their requirements.... probably.
I would not pay for your service unless you offered a Customs Service Approval guarantee for your keyboard mashes
There’s the whole infinite monkeys and typewriters and Shakespeare thing.There can be only one Zultan! Having more than one would cause the world to end. Also apparently the villain from Hawk The Slayer is Vultan, he must be some kind of rip off version of me.
I’m.l not sure the world needs infinite Zultan’s though. I’m pretty sure he’s the bad guy in Hawk The Slayer.
I just bum around in my shorts, like a real man.
I’m so cold I jest I like being cold, much to my wife’s bemusement.
Even if every proton in the observable universe (which is estimated at roughly 1080) were a monkey with a typewriter, typing from the Big Bang until the end of the universe (when protons might no longer exist), they would still need a far greater amount of time – more than three hundred and sixty thousand orders of magnitude longer – to have even a 1 in 10500 chance of success. To put it another way, for a one in a trillion chance of success, there would need to be 10360,641 observable universes made of protonic monkeys
Edit: Also, this was a fun read.Quote from: wikipediaEven if every proton in the observable universe (which is estimated at roughly 1080) were a monkey with a typewriter, typing from the Big Bang until the end of the universe (when protons might no longer exist), they would still need a far greater amount of time – more than three hundred and sixty thousand orders of magnitude longer – to have even a 1 in 10500 chance of success. To put it another way, for a one in a trillion chance of success, there would need to be 10360,641 observable universes made of protonic monkeys
Youtube's algorithm has stepped up again. Or maybe they found out how to get around the adblockers.
I dont want the garbage they flood me with.
I think a piece of a model has pinged behind the fish tank and terrariums when I was cutting it from it's sprue. It's about 3mm wide and my carpet is grey, so I may never find it even if I pull the terrariums forward. :(You could empty the vacuum out and vacuum the area to try to find it.
Luckily it's not a vital piece, but it does go on the shoulder of the model so it's going to be obvious it isn't there.
One of the execs called a big meeting of all the shift managers, no exceptions, didn't say what it was about.
It's tomorrow at 2 and it's supposed to last 10 minutes.
Thing is, I'm working the night shift today and tomorrow (so 10 PM till 6 AM), which means I have to wake up earlier than I'd like to, spend 20+ minutes driving to work, listen to some probably shit news and demands and then drive back home for another 20+ minutes. And then come in for the night shift some 7 hours later.
Unless the news out of the meeting are great (and I very very much doubt they will be anything approaching good even) I have a feeling tomorrow is going to be a very shitty day. And that is sort of spilling over into today. Wasn't in the best of moods, finally managed to get out and enjoy the sunshine after like four days of nothing but work and sleep and now comes this to kick any potential good vibes right in the nuts.
Car warned me my tire pressure was low. This was a new tire, too.I 200% need a new tire. So ....Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I've been feeling more hopeless and distressed than usual lately. Today was my only day off this week, and I had to spend maybe the first 4 or 5 hours of it in a listless, depressed stupor; just collapsed in my computer chair too depressed to do anything other than browse stupid youtube videos that I don't care about.
I... wait. The tip is that, when you don't have writer's block... stop writing? Something about that seems, uh. Less than workable...?
I made a dumb joke about there being a new Mexican-Arabic fusion restaurant opening up, and that I was excited to try their inshallahdas.
Friend of mine did not recognize this as a joke, and is now also excited.
I really like that pun, I just hope it's tasteful!
I made a dumb joke about there being a new Mexican-Arabic fusion restaurant opening up, and that I was excited to try their inshallahdas.
Friend of mine did not recognize this as a joke, and is now also excited.
I may have broken my ankle/foot while boxing last night. Slipped and twisted it.Fingers crossed for minimal damage on all fronts, friend.
enjoy your country bass career for the 2 days it lasts
enjoy your country bass career for the 2 days it lastsJust drop an "oom pahpah mow mow" and then disappear forever.
enjoy your country bass career for the 2 days it lasts
It's probably the bird flu, or as it's often called for short, the blues
enjoy your country bass career for the 2 days it lastsJust drop an "oom pahpah mow mow" and then disappear forever.
Why are people upset at me today? Oh right my voice isn't in the triple digit decibels like theirs is. Not that it matters when everyone misinterprets what they do hear or talk over me anyway, just so they can make up more reasons to get madder.
You just have to take a second and listen
Your voice is not your height - you can work on it.
When you say “shit doesn’t change”, what is it that’s not changing?
I'm just a little upset at myself. The high fiber diet that my ancient ancestors thrived on is lost on me. Apparently if it isn't highly processed garbage devoid of any meaningful nutrition, my palate just refuses outright. I'd like to be healthier, but fuck if it isn't a second job on top of my already stressful and joyless life.
At the risk of giving you advice that you've already heard, I managed to add milk and eggs (both foods I hated for my entire life) to my diet. For all I know, maybe you hate beans and oats and other fiber sources more than I ever hated eggs and milk, but I'd suggest the following:
- Small portions until you can tolerate more. For me this was eating one egg in the morning and a juice glass worth of milk in a day, nothing more.
- Chase it with something you like. For me this was a mouthful of black coffee between bites.
- If you can, cook it yourself. Could be just a personal thing, but I still can't really eat eggs unless I'm the one who cooked them.
- Accept that this stuff might not end up being your favorite food. You don't have to love a particular food to be able to have it in your diet.
This is more or less my experience on the topic, for what it's worth.
Basic lazy ass stir fry doesn't particularly need a big wok, just a pan and some oil (which may be optional, for that matter), for what it's worth. All it's really doing is, well, stirring whatever you're cooking while it fries. Basically anything you can put over a cooking element can manage that, woks just have a particularly good shape for it.
I really appreciate your feedback Nenjin, you're always a very wholesome and helpful person.
I've tried psyllium husk before, and it's amazing, it just works wonders... but there's a part of me that doesn't trust it, because I'm opening myself up to the utter absence of regulation that the 'supplement' industry enjoys, I could be subtly poisoning myself with fucking anything. Now, it'd be a pretty big story if people were getting sick off of Metamucil, and despite all my own positive experiences, I don't want to gulp down the candied lies on the bottle too readily. Intuitively, I'd think extracting the fiber from food sources, not supplement sources, would be best; but damn does the psyllium husk work miracles when I'm in trouble on the toilet.
Though to be honest, my efforts to get the fiber from food sources has been half-assed at best. Preparing a vegetable heavy meal actually takes skill, time, and motivation; the things I'm the most drained of and don't have on a day-to-day basis.
You're 100% right about the exercise though. Getting my shit together enough to force myself to exercise is something I really have no excuse for; I guess I'm just ungrateful of the life I've been given. I suppose I do have the excuse that I'm drained after work, and I just want to relax and not spend more time working; but I've been unemployed for long stretches of time and just laid-about for basically all of it. I'm just ungrateful, and suffering for it.
I'd classify stir fry as "you should know what you're doing in the kitchen before you try this" level of cooking, personally :PI wouldn't, at least not on the basic level. Simple stir fry is barely more complicated than boiling water, all you do is put stuff in a pan with a bit of oil (not even enough to cause a meaningful kitchen fire!) and then move it around for a few minutes on medium heat. Not amazing results like that, but it's tasty enough according to the people I've fed it to. One of the easiest things I've cooked in my life :P
I wouldn't, at least not on the basic level. Simple stir fry is barely more complicated than boiling water, all you do is put stuff in a pan with a bit of oil (not even enough to cause a meaningful kitchen fire!) and then move it around for a few minutes on medium heat. Not amazing results like that, but it's tasty enough according to the people I've fed it to. One of the easiest things I've cooked in my life :P
Is kiwi rare/ unpopular in the USA? Man it triggers my frey's syndrom just think about those tasty alien testicles.
hahaha theyre common enough in mid-range grocery stores, but theyre usually small and not really super ripe imo
Do it wrong and you just end up sautéing your food instead of stir frying it.The upside to that is then you have saute'd food, though, which ain't exactly a bad thing. Still tasty failure state is one of the more desirable things in low effort/entry level cooking, heh.
Closest thing I’ve found where I’m from is a Sheboygan hard roll, which is oddly challenging to find.Yeah, I'm not sure about regional or country access. Still, if you end up somewhere with a walmart or equivalent, just... look for yeast rolls, dinner rolls, yeasty dinner rolls, or if nothing else the ingredients for them. Stuff like this. (https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sister-Schubert-s-Dinner-Yeast-Rolls-10-ct-15oz/10805206) Quality's probably a bit of a downgrade, but they seem to be more or less what you're looking for.
To be fair most of the rolls I’ve tried are from supermarkets rather than bakeries, so perhaps I’d have better luck there.
Equally so it could just be entirely psychological, as it has been literal years since I’ve had one, but I stand by the difference!American bread has too much sugar yeah. Even the "organic" stuff just has a bunch of honey instead of sugar/high fructose corn syrup. But uh... I can still taste all the sugar yo.
Equally so it could just be entirely psychological, as it has been literal years since I’ve had one, but I stand by the difference!I would bet on you being correct, there are so many different ways to make bread (and food in general) that finding the same thing in another country can be basically impossible.
*EDIT
Hang on did you say thay put corn syrup in the bread?
What the actual fuck
I thought this was just a meme*EDITIt'd be significantly easier to list the things that do not have corn syrup.
Hang on did you say thay put corn syrup in the bread?
What the actual fuck
no : (they desecrate the fruits of the garden of eden
you've hydrogenated my nuts for the last timeBest break-up line ever.
Oh shit you're gonna make me hydrogenate my nuts!you've hydrogenated my nuts for the last timeBest break-up line ever.
Not the hero we want, but the hero we need.Not the villain we want, and definitely not the villain we need.
Not really tho.
over 745,392,013 waters swamwhere Alph, the sacred river, ran
That's where you can catch unown.over 745,392,013 waters swamwhere Alph, the sacred river, ran
through caverns measureless to man
down to a sunless sea.
Oof, my tenant has been taking so long to effect their eviction, that now my city inspection expired, which I didn't want to renew because we're taking the property off the rental market as soon as they leave, and going to sell the property.Your tenant might use that as an argument against the eviction.
Now I'm probably going to have some fines at best...on top of having had a tenant effectively pay only 50% of their rent the past 6 months.
Oh :D
Oh no :-\
Anybody got a decent youtube downloader, that's not supposed to be a terminal except it closes itself before anybody is able to read it..?I have several I use, Viddly Youtube Downloader, 4K Video downloader (can download from more than youtube but also kind of sucks), and Easy Youtube downloader (Browser extension for firefox).
On May 15, Imgur is removing support for and removing content uploaded without an account. It's also going full Tumblr, so no porn.
Another section of internet history is sacrificed to corporate overlords.
Just liberally pouring some FOOF on all that content.
IPFS seems to be the only sensible long-term solution.
Basically they don't make money, from what I understand.I'm not totally convinced that is the case or at least was the case. Although I can't find modern information on this question with a quick google, at least 7 years ago Alan Schaaf (the founder of imgur) was saying that imgur had become profitable almost immediately. Maybe that stopped over time, but I can't find information one way or another that's more recent. And I guess since they've been bought out I guess it could be a case of making money but not making enough money for their greedy new corporate overlords. Either way it seems that it's at least possible for free image hosting to make money.
Has Imgur recently/are they considering gone/going public?
Because it seems to be a fairly typical "going public" move.
By the way, there is a heavily disorgized effort to preserve Hall of Legends from imgur collapse.
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=168375.345
Going on the public stock marketOr, to put it another way:
Had some calluses on the sides of my balls
That'd be horrifying for two reasons.Had some calluses on the sides of my balls
I didn’t read it like that and you can’t prove otherwise.
And I guess since they've been bought out I guess it could be a case of making money but not making enough money for their greedy new corporate overlords.
On September 27, 2021, Imgur announced that they were acquired by MediaLab AI, Inc., a holding company of internet brands. Shortly after in January, 2022, Alan Schaaf left the company.
Dream where a wasp crawled into my ear and in my attempts to dislodge it, it went and stung me repeatedly.
I can still feel the psychosomatic pain a bit.
If it makes it any worse, in the dream I pulled it out with tweezers (prompting it to sting me even more, but at that point my ear was on fire anyway) and in true dream logic, it bit down and pulled my ear inside out. I know it did because the dream sort of went third person and fucking showed me.Dream where a wasp crawled into my ear and in my attempts to dislodge it, it went and stung me repeatedly.
I can still feel the psychosomatic pain a bit.
New fear unlocked.
After becoming unemployed again, I'm right back into my depressed, self-destructive thought spirals again. I just really wasn't made to be a real living thing with its own prerogatives in life.
I'm still banned from Wikipedia. My phone's IP is caught in the ban too, so I can't make an account through that.
All because there's some idiot on there who keeps IP dodging so he can argue with people over trivial points.
I'm on a Discord server I got invited to at random. It's WH40K themed and populated by a lot of veterans and LEOs.
Some people got into a tiff there, so one of them invited some buddies and they spammed it with the vile anti-trans image board stuff, plenty of insults, the usual. Been a while since I've been exposed to the raw sewage that is that segment of the US population.
I'm on a Discord server I got invited to at random. It's WH40K themed and populated by a lot of veterans and LEOs.There are times in your life where you may manage to go a long time meeting decent people, until you receive a rude reminder
Some people got into a tiff there, so one of them invited some buddies and they spammed it with the vile anti-trans image board stuff, plenty of insults, the usual. Been a while since I've been exposed to the raw sewage that is that segment of the US population.
It's really, really mild, but a typo inspired google search for neatly trimmed bears came up with nothing relevant. No one seems to have neatly trimmed a bear, or if they did, there was no photo evidence of it (... also possibly no survivors). Great disappointment, it is.
It's really, really mild, but a typo inspired google search for neatly trimmed bears came up with nothing relevant. No one seems to have neatly trimmed a bear, or if they did, there was no photo evidence of it (... also possibly no survivors). Great disappointment, it is.Eh IDK, I think these guys count as bears. The ruggedness comes off as artificial, but that's fashion for ya :P
Just make sure to occasionally switch between the two and I'm sure it'll work out eventually.
That being said, it still bothers me that elevators have a limit of how many persons can ride at once. I always thought people was the plural of person. So my gramatical opinions are likely incorrect.People and person are unrelated words, which is why you can have peoples and persons. They're just usually used together suppletively.
Not sure why the construct "never you mind" would count as support, since plain "never mind" is also grammatically valid and also literally means "never mind it."Possibly my digressive phrasing was unclear, but I meant "never mind" by "it" in the last sentence, not "never you mind". "Never you mind" is just support for the fact that it's two words, since there can even be a word in between them.
There's more than a few words in english that started out as two (or more) words and then eventually smooshed down into one, though. It's common enough there's literally a specific phrase for 'em, good ol' compound words. Nevermind existing at one point as two words don't mean it can't be one nowadays.I didn't say it couldn't, although making a verb phrase into a compound is pretty nonproductive in modern English. I've also never seen anyone do it in this case before. Still, certainly, it could happen; I'm just confirming that it definitely does exist as two words and that's perfectly correct.
Modern English is strange.I always loved "I Melt with You".
I've got all the cupboards I could open open. Tomorrow I'm throwing everything removeable outside and locking the cat in. We're gonna kill them all.Doesn't seem like the cat did you any good so far. Just buy/build a rat trap, there are plenty of basic traps designs on youtube involving mainly a regular bucket.
Sure you don’t have to let them abuse you, but defeat their ignorance with kindness, not force.Lets make things interesting. Why do assume such sentiment comes from ignorance or abuse?
That’s an extreme response. Why not ask what they mean by that? Understand their viewpoint? Treat them like a human, flawed as they may be, just as you want to be treated as a human.I have no interest in humoring them. I already understand their viewpoint-- that they see people like me as mentally ill-- why should I roll over and legitimize their viewpoint by engaging with them? I don't really seek them to get better per se. I just want to never interact with them again. What possible value would I get, either as an author or as a person, from continuing to listen to their blathering?
All banning them does is isolate them, encourage them to avoid interacting with others and so have a limited and isolated worldview. Sure you don’t have to let them abuse you, but defeat their ignorance with kindness, not force.
That’s an extreme response. Why not ask what they mean by that? Understand their viewpoint? Treat them like a human, flawed as they may be, just as you want to be treated as a human.Yeah. "In your ideal future, why do people like you still exist?" IS an extreme response.
All banning them does is isolate them, encourage them to avoid interacting with others and so have a limited and isolated worldview. Sure you don’t have to let them abuse you, but defeat their ignorance with kindness, not force.
That’s an extreme response. Why not ask what they mean by that? Understand their viewpoint? Treat them like a human, flawed as they may be, just as you want to be treated as a human.
I guess also you don’t have an obligation to do that… but technically nobody has an ovligation to anything so I don’t know what that buys youI'm guessing you're trolling, but in case you are not, surely you realize the kind of absurd slippery slope fallacy you just engaged in right?
How do you know that person you banned has never been exposed to another viewpoint? You could have been the one to tell them that you don’t think it’s something to be “cured.” I mean this is based on the above that looked like there was just the one comment not a history of entrenched view.
If it was a comment in a pattern of comments sure don’t cast your pearls before swine. But if not… it’s better to give people benefit of the doubt.
I guess also you don’t have an obligation to do that… but technically nobody has an ovligation to anything so I don’t know what that buys you.
Yep. Deaf people hurt nobody and it should be their choice for if to be cured or not.How about blindness, dwarfism, and a host of other traits that threaten to limit the offspring in some manner. Does imagining a future with less barriers between us is necessarily a sentiment that comes from ignorance?
Not trying to troll, I was aiming for reductio ad absurdum. Basically there is no such thing as "obligation" in the first place; it's all social construct so you do have to be very careful when you throw around words like "obligation." If you say you are not obliged to do something someone else wants, don't turn around and be angry that someone else doesn't do what you want.QuoteI guess also you don’t have an obligation to do that… but technically nobody has an ovligation to anything so I don’t know what that buys youI'm guessing you're trolling, but in case you are not, surely you realize the kind of absurd slipperu slope fallacy you just engaged in right?
Lets choose different example to avoid any knee jerks. Deaf people have long fought against discrimination to have equal rights and access (something they lack in many countries). The Deaf culture doesn't believe in using the word 'disabled' because that word implies 'less than', in fact many deaf people consider themselves to be unique who distinguish themselves as a culture who see deaf as the new normal. That is a great victory for deaf people. However, it now pose an ethical question, what happens when deaf parents want a deaf child and ask to use vitro fertilization and embryo selection to guarantee it?
. There is a genetic disease called Huntington’s that causes those born with the Huntington gene to suffer from a form of early dementia. Everyone agrees this is a bad thing, including the victims themselves.
We could use your exact same method to ensure a baby is never born with the Huntington gene again, but we as a society don’t do that because we are afraid of falling into the slippery slope of prenatal genetic modification
Not trying to troll, I was aiming for reductio ad absurdum. Basically there is no such thing as "obligation" in the first place; it's all social construct so you do have to be very careful when you throw around words like "obligation." If you say you are not obliged to do something someone else wants, don't turn around and be angry that someone else doesn't do what you want.QuoteI guess also you don’t have an obligation to do that… but technically nobody has an ovligation to anything so I don’t know what that buys youI'm guessing you're trolling, but in case you are not, surely you realize the kind of absurd slipperu slope fallacy you just engaged in right?
That's why I prefer to use phrasing like "It's preferable to act kindly, so long as you are able, even if you don't feel like it" rather than "You're obliged to act kindly, regardless if you don't feel like it."
I mean, what good is it to treat people nicely, with whom you have no conflict? True character is treating strangers and yes even enemies kindly. BUT - don't confuse "kindness" with "let them do whatever they want." You can be kind to a thief, but you don't have to let them get away with thievery or help them commit crimes. You can be kind to someone who committed violence in your neighborhood, but you don't have to allow them to run free to commit more violence. Hopefully that distinction is apparent...don't confuse forgiveness with trust is another way to think about it. I can forgive someone who cheated on their spouse, but I'm not going to trust them to remain faithful any more.
How do you know that person you banned has never been exposed to another viewpoint?It's the internet, and they talked on a progressive(ish) server before. Beyond any reasonable doubt, they have. If they somehow didn't really consider it, well fuck them then I guess.
1. Those should also be choices. My setting has technology that would allow adults to be cured of all those, so not waiting until adulthood and then giving a choice is a violation of bodily autonomy. Things like Huntington's, sure. Cure them in-vitro. Nobody builds an identity out of having Huntington's. You can't live a fulfilling life with it. I don't really buy the slippery slope argument but I do draw a line.Yep. Deaf people hurt nobody and it should be their choice for if to be cured or not.How about blindness, dwarfism, and a host of other traits that threaten to limit the offspring in some manner. Does imagining a future with less barriers between us is necessarily a sentiment that comes from ignorance?
Btw iirc you imagine a communist world, do you have untoward abused planned for capitalist who will choose not to play?
-snip-I am writing for a Western audience, honestly 80% sure he is American. (Also I am not a "him".)
Lets choose different example to avoid any knee jerks. Deaf people have long fought against discrimination to have equal rights and access (something they lack in many countries). The Deaf culture doesn't believe in using the word 'disabled' because that word implies 'less than', in fact many deaf people consider themselves to be unique who distinguish themselves as a culture who see deaf as the new normal. That is a great victory for deaf people. However, it now pose an ethical question, what happens when deaf parents want a deaf child and ask to use vitro fertilization and embryo selection to guarantee it?
The questions you pose with your example fall into very murky ethical territory that is still debated to this day.
Those should also be choices. My setting has technology that would allow adults to be cured of all those, so not waiting until adulthood and then giving a choice is a violation of bodily autonomy. Things like Huntington's, sure. Cure them in-vitroI presume you're not really saying that treating childhood blindness should be up to the parents to decide or not...
I disagree on blindness stuff but I don't want to argue the case.1. Those should also be choices. My setting has technology that would allow adults to be cured of all those, so not waiting until adulthood and then giving a choice is a violation of bodily autonomy. Things like Huntington's, sure. Cure them in-vitro. Nobody builds an identity out of having Huntington's. You can't live a fulfilling life with it. I don't really buy the slippery slope argument but I do draw a line.Yep. Deaf people hurt nobody and it should be their choice for if to be cured or not.How about blindness, dwarfism, and a host of other traits that threaten to limit the offspring in some manner. Does imagining a future with less barriers between us is necessarily a sentiment that comes from ignorance?
Btw iirc you imagine a communist world, do you have untoward abused planned for capitalist who will choose not to play?
2. Not really communist, but there is a wealth cap of 1 billion dollar-equivalents, I suppose if you refuse to pay then you get a 3-letter agency knocking on the door of your mansion. Otherwise nah, no harsh punishments.
(I may not have acquired it uh... legally just on general principles since I both love and hate Adobe in the same way that Gollum both loves and hates the ring).(https://media.tenor.com/qtuwD9BA-F0AAAAi/mev-bushwacker-pirate.gif)
I AM THE ONE WHO KNOCKS, say goodbye to well written dreams.welcome to WHITE SPACE
welcome to WHITE SPACE
You've been here for as long as you can remember.
I guess.... don't wear red to work?Nah the red ones go faster and I must become speed
For multiple reasons, spanning several media franchises.
I think you’re confusing them with the blue hedgehogs.I guess.... don't wear red to work?Nah the red ones go faster and I must become speed
For multiple reasons, spanning several media franchises.
I think you’re confusing them with the blue hedgehogs."The problem with going faster than light is you must live your life in darkness," - sonic the blue hedgehog
I am now inserting a "c" drive into the third computer because I don't want to play the first 1-2 hours of yakuza 0 and disco elysium for the second and third time respectively, I dont want to spend the fucking evening on it, but pc number 1 has his famous usb bug and needed rebooting because I didnt crawl under the desk, and pc2 said it wasnt an acceptable boot medium, oh dont you dare tell me im not allowed to access a windows user without a password pc3. GIVE ME MY SAVES, NOW, why do you have to complicate things for nothing.Just a heads up - you can use file hostings in such cases. Mediafire is pretty decent.
Amazon review for the knock-off waxing kit I got that damaged my skin and waxed fuck else got quietly removed.
I'm not shocked, but it's still irritating.
God damn. Thoroughly disappointed to find in the last 7 years all the places I loved about Malaysia have been bulldozed and replaced with main roads or empty towers. All the areas that used to be monkey-filled jungle are just gone. All the shops are just gone. They've fallen for that particular addiction in urban planning that more cars = more good so they'll bulldoze the shops to build roads and carparks so everyone can drive to the shops they can't reach because you can no longer cross the road or traverse the elevated highways -_-
The mixed cosmopolitan atmosphere had already been showing signs of strain with the government's whole sharia push where if you're not muslim you're not a real Malay. But things have gotten even worse with the physical segregation of communities by these highways and carparks, and a lot of these commercial developments seem to be aimed at segregating or evicting Hindu/Chinese/Christians by building over their holy sites or surrounding their communities with giant walls topped with highways. Even if you have an ancient holy site and protected ecological zone like at Batu cave a developer can show up and begin tearing down swathes of jungle and as far as I can tell nothing will happen to them. So many of the new towers I've seen around here are physically good spaces but they're just left to rot as they can't sustain families or retail as there's no pedestrian traffic, and there's no pedestrian traffic because of the stupid road system making crossing from one building to another illegal and dangerous
They truly took paradise and built a carpark over it
edit: Found this by the great Veronica Maggio who made a great combination of the Swedish and the Italian versions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao0RVmoNUtc)
The true dream of every developer is to pave the world.Who knows
That sounds like it might be a reference to a different song, as I was thinking of Pave the world by the Blue Meanies when I wrote that.The true dream of every developer is to pave the world.Who knows
Not me
I never lost control
You're face
To face
With the man who paved the world
Oh hey, sounds like they're cribbing notes from the US in regards to one of the major things to do to minority communities (pave over as much as you can and split them up with highways). Even odds that has little to nothing to actually do with improving access for cars and everything to do with fucking over minorities. Gods know that was the primary motivation over here :-\Legit feels that way. Just saw today they surrounded one of the Hindu temples and made a main road cut through the China town. In all my time here I've seen one pedestrian crossing
The Man Who Sold the World by David Bowie, aka the gherkin song, or possibly the Man Who Sold the World by David Bowie by Nirvanaye
They truly took paradise and built a carpark over it
I also know that feel, it's never a good feeling when you see what used to be farm land and forest turned into crappy stores and shitty apartments.They truly took paradise and built a carpark over it
I feel this in my soul, dude. Parts of Thailand I used to frequent went from beautiful overgrown temple to shopping mall.
I feel this in my soul, dude. Parts of Thailand I used to frequent went from beautiful overgrown temple to shopping mall.Sorry to hear that dude, I wish this was a localised madness
As for my own mildly upset, I discovered several slats on one of my window blinds to be missing. I don't know when it happened, except it had to have been very recently. Possibly today. And I discovered this while trying to adjust the slats to deflect a wall of horizontal rain hitting my window. Annoyingly, they are at "privacy" height, which is also the height where a lot of my things, mousepad in particular, got wet. I would be more angry, but I looked up and found out that it's easy enough to fix, I just have to buy new slats since this window blind doesn't have spares.
I picked up Fire Emblem Fates again, just because I miss the pairing mechanic so much, and it upset me that the 'good' part of the game is so small. After Conquest chapter 10, which is a chapter that's so honest and pure in design, and then after that it's a straight nosedive into irritating gimmicks and bullshit. I hadn't touched the game in years, and for good reason, and that reason was that the game is such a crushing disappointment. It just upsets me to see so much wasted potential.
Dear God I hate writer's block.
Tell you about it... in writing :V
I swear, every goddamn time I take a nap I wake up in pain or otherwise feeling worse. They're so tempting, and often the worst of it's after my body's really insistent that a nap would be an incredibly good idea, but, like. Every goddamn time. Usually, today too, it's a headache from hell.
I'm getting plenty of water so it's extremely unlikely to be dehydration, so, just. I wish I could make it stop, or at least finally have it internalize that no matter how attractive that nap is looking, it's just pain and it's going to make things worse so don't do it. Fucking ow.
EDIT: Oh yeah, it's on my belly too so half the time I try to get the needle to dig in and instead the pudge just presses in instead.
I'm bloated as all hell. Not sure why, got plenty of fibre and I've been drinking plenty.Regular diet of oats porridge with greek yoghurt is super good for countering this, just helps build up a solid gut flora capable of handling fibre and carbohydrates in abundance. But people going from keto straight into oats porridge... I've heard had nuclear reactions, until their guts adjusted ;d
It’s only critical to life as we know it :pSo's nitrogen, so what?
nitrogen’s a gas until -your’re probably dead so it doesn’t really matter.It’s only critical to life as we know it :pSo's nitrogen, so what?
You can keep food fresh with it at 0, and you can cook with it at 100 (or thereabouts anyway).Those aren't even the best temperatures to do those things, but even if they were, why would keeping food fresh at 0 be "logical" compared to any other number? Why would I want a temperature scale based entirely on what you can do with food, using arbitrarily chosen numbers?
if you boil it down enough (no pun intended) everything is arbitrarily chosen anyway. Something that has application to what you’re doing (surviving, in this instance) is a good enough start.You can keep food fresh with it at 0, and you can cook with it at 100 (or thereabouts anyway).Those aren't even the best temperatures to do those things, but even if they were, why would keeping food fresh at 0 be "logical" compared to any other number? Why would I want a temperature scale based entirely on what you can do with food, using arbitrarily chosen numbers?
if you boil it down enough (no pun intended) everything is arbitrarily chosen anyway. Something that has application to what you’re doing (surviving, in this instance) is a good enough start.That's true... but Fahrenheit has way more application to surviving. Just the tens place alone of a typical Fahrenheit temperature I will experience - and conveniently, I will almost always experience temperatures in the one to two digits - tells me everything I need to know.
confused hygrometer noises
What about accounting for peer pressure?
Hrm. How many peer pressure in a Torr? :P
What about accounting for peer pressure?
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Couldn't leave the house this morning due to cows. >:(
Cows kill more people than sharks, brah. It only takes one pernicious cow to cause you issues too.
Pernicious isn’t quite the word I’m looking for but I’m tired, sue me.
Yeaaa but they're also easily moved. Get out of car, wave hands, no?No. That does not work. Cows do not care about you.
Yeaaa but they're also easily moved. Get out of car, wave hands, no?No. That does not work. Cows do not care about you.
Depends on the cow. Some cows are just arseholes.Yea, bad form for the farmer who undoubtedly knew the cow's personality. We've one or two like that. Getting in a pen with cattle is Risky Business, but some get more than a bit wild.
My wife had to do EMS for her vet degree (basically going out to get real experience with various types of animals over the course of the degree) and the cow farm she went to the farmers neglected to mention one of the cows was an ornery fucker so it charged her when she got in the pen with it.
Do not cite the deep magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.I'm also citing personal experience, though.
I grew up working a beef farm and still do most weekends. I've yet to find a cow that doesn't care about you, barring those hand-reared by bottle. Another exception is when they're 'raised' - meaning made excitable, perhaps because they're being chased/herded. That's more a panic herd thing though.
But yea, may require slightly more effort to move them than hand-wavium. But not much.
Buffalos aren't exactly told to be gentle either.You know, I hear this all the time but, in my experience, the buffalo next door were always super chill. I don't know, man.
Just as long as it doesn't add -core to its name for no fucking reasonIt helps if you assume the reason is because the core of one genre is being overlaid with something else, like maybe a puffy pink jacket of bubblegum pop.
Just as long as it doesn't add -core to its name for no fucking reason
Just as long as it doesn't add -core to its name for no fucking reason"Okay so navigate to the system core-"
Cows kill more people than sharks, brah. It only takes one pernicious cow to cause you issues too.
Pernicious isn’t quite the word I’m looking for but I’m tired, sue me.
The concept of silent letters is dumb and annoying. Like, if you aren't gonna vocalise it, then why is it there?! It is a letter. A symbol that corresponds to a phoneme. Not a pretty accessory.You have to understand that written language and spoken language aren't just two different ways of doing the same thing, but separate related systems that evolve independently. Silent letters convey information relating to morphology (like in French where silent letters often relate to grammatical gender), etymology, and meaning. They can also be vestiges of dialect. So, for example, it is useful to be able to distinguish "hi", "high", and "hie" - certainly, it would stop me from making fun of all the people I know who respond to "how are you" with "hi", if they did it in text.
The concept of silent letters is dumb and annoying. Like, if you aren't gonna vocalise it, then why is it there?! It is a letter. A symbol that corresponds to a phoneme. Not a pretty accessory.When the Germans first did the printing press sometimes they needed to fill in "gaps" if a whole sentence didn't fit on the printing rack so sometimes when printing English or French texts they just added random s's and f's which became part of standard spelling
When the Germans first did the printing press sometimes they needed to fill in "gaps" if a whole sentence didn't fit on the printing rack so sometimes when printing English or French texts they just added random s's and f's which became part of standard spellingCan you give an example? I have never seen this in a reputable etymology.
covfefeWhen the Germans first did the printing press sometimes they needed to fill in "gaps" if a whole sentence didn't fit on the printing rack so sometimes when printing English or French texts they just added random s's and f's which became part of standard spellingCan you give an example? I have never seen this in a reputable etymology.
Oh, okay, so you were just being facetious. I really hoped so, but, you know, I have seen so much of that kind of claim lately that I had to be sure.covfefeWhen the Germans first did the printing press sometimes they needed to fill in "gaps" if a whole sentence didn't fit on the printing rack so sometimes when printing English or French texts they just added random s's and f's which became part of standard spellingCan you give an example? I have never seen this in a reputable etymology.
Oh, okay, so you were just being facetious. I really hoped so, but, you know, I have seen so much of that kind of claim lately that I had to be sure.More seriously:
I'm gonna assume Schmaven is too.
Moveable type was a wonderful invention: once the type had been set, you could print off as many copies as you wanted. But setting the letters, or pieces of type, into lines, and then pages, was intense, specialised labour. You had to spend years learning the trade. For his new press, Caxton brought typesetters back with him from the Continent, and some didn’t even speak English all that well. They set type working from manuscripts that already had quite a bit of variation, and the overriding priority was getting them set quickly.
Some standards did spread and crystallise over time, as more books were printed and literacy rates climbed. The printing profession played a key role in these emergent norms. Printing houses developed habits for spelling frequent words, often based on what made setting type more efficient. In a manuscript, hadde might be replaced with had; thankefull with thankful. When it came to spelling, the primary objective wasn’t to faithfully represent the author’s spelling, nor to uphold some standard idea of ‘correct’ English – it was to produce texts that people could read and, more importantly, that they would buy. Habits and tricks became standards, as typesetters learned their trade by apprenticing to other typesetters. They then often moved around as journeymen workers, which entailed dispersing their own habits or picking up those of the printing houses they worked in.
Some spellings got entrenched by being printed over and over again in widely distributed texts, very early on
Standard-setting was only partly in the hands of the people setting the type. Even more so, it was down to a growing reading public. The more texts there were, the more reading there was, and the greater the sensibility about what looks right. Once that sense develops, it can be a very powerful enforcer of norms. These norms in the literacy of English speakers today are so well entrenched that simple adjustments are very jarring. If ai trai tu repreezent mai akshuel pronownseeayshun in raiteeng, yu kan reed it, but its difikelt and disterbeeng tu du soh. It just looks wrong, and that feeling of wrongness interrupts the flow of reading. The fluency of reading depends on the speed with which you visually identify the words, and the speed of identification increases with exposure. The more we see a word, the more quickly we recognise it, even if its spelling doesn’t match the sound.
Some spellings got entrenched this way, by being printed over and over again in widely distributed texts, very early on. The word ghost, which had been spelled and pronounced gast in Old English, took on the gh spelling under the influence of Flemish-trained compositors. It was such a commonly encountered word in English text, particularly in the phrase holy ghost and other translations of Latin spiritus, that it just began to look right.
Other spellings arose, and were then cemented through the power exerted by the visual shape of similar words. The existence of would and should, for example, brought about the spelling of could. Would and should were once pronounced with the ‘l’ sound, as they were the past-tense forms of will and shall. Could, however, was never pronounced with an ‘l’; it was the past tense of can. Could was coude or cuthe. Then the visual power of would and should attracted could to their side. At printing’s rise, the ‘l’ sound was already often absent from the pronunciation of would and should, so the ‘l’ was less a cue to pronunciation than to word type. Could is a modal verb, same as would and should. There was no explicit intention to make them look the same, but the frequency of their appearance nudged them toward ending up that way.
Yes, all of this I had been aware of before. It was the idea of adding special bonus letters to fill printing racks that wasn't true.Oh, okay, so you were just being facetious. I really hoped so, but, you know, I have seen so much of that kind of claim lately that I had to be sure.More seriously:
I'm gonna assume Schmaven is too.Quote from: https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-the-english-spelling-system-so-weird-and-inconsistentMoveable type was a wonderful invention: once the type had been set, you could print off as many copies as you wanted. But setting the letters, or pieces of type, into lines, and then pages, was intense, specialised labour. You had to spend years learning the trade. For his new press, Caxton brought typesetters back with him from the Continent, and some didn’t even speak English all that well. They set type working from manuscripts that already had quite a bit of variation, and the overriding priority was getting them set quickly.
Some standards did spread and crystallise over time, as more books were printed and literacy rates climbed. The printing profession played a key role in these emergent norms. Printing houses developed habits for spelling frequent words, often based on what made setting type more efficient. In a manuscript, hadde might be replaced with had; thankefull with thankful. When it came to spelling, the primary objective wasn’t to faithfully represent the author’s spelling, nor to uphold some standard idea of ‘correct’ English – it was to produce texts that people could read and, more importantly, that they would buy. Habits and tricks became standards, as typesetters learned their trade by apprenticing to other typesetters. They then often moved around as journeymen workers, which entailed dispersing their own habits or picking up those of the printing houses they worked in.
Some spellings got entrenched by being printed over and over again in widely distributed texts, very early on
Standard-setting was only partly in the hands of the people setting the type. Even more so, it was down to a growing reading public. The more texts there were, the more reading there was, and the greater the sensibility about what looks right. Once that sense develops, it can be a very powerful enforcer of norms. These norms in the literacy of English speakers today are so well entrenched that simple adjustments are very jarring. If ai trai tu repreezent mai akshuel pronownseeayshun in raiteeng, yu kan reed it, but its difikelt and disterbeeng tu du soh. It just looks wrong, and that feeling of wrongness interrupts the flow of reading. The fluency of reading depends on the speed with which you visually identify the words, and the speed of identification increases with exposure. The more we see a word, the more quickly we recognise it, even if its spelling doesn’t match the sound.
Some spellings got entrenched this way, by being printed over and over again in widely distributed texts, very early on. The word ghost, which had been spelled and pronounced gast in Old English, took on the gh spelling under the influence of Flemish-trained compositors. It was such a commonly encountered word in English text, particularly in the phrase holy ghost and other translations of Latin spiritus, that it just began to look right.
Other spellings arose, and were then cemented through the power exerted by the visual shape of similar words. The existence of would and should, for example, brought about the spelling of could. Would and should were once pronounced with the ‘l’ sound, as they were the past-tense forms of will and shall. Could, however, was never pronounced with an ‘l’; it was the past tense of can. Could was coude or cuthe. Then the visual power of would and should attracted could to their side. At printing’s rise, the ‘l’ sound was already often absent from the pronunciation of would and should, so the ‘l’ was less a cue to pronunciation than to word type. Could is a modal verb, same as would and should. There was no explicit intention to make them look the same, but the frequency of their appearance nudged them toward ending up that way.
Yes, all of this I had been aware of before. It was the idea of adding special bonus letters to fill printing racks that wasn't true.Sos it's very hard to find source for my claims, as I was told it as a wee lad by my teachers a lifetime ago. I do have this for what it's worth (https://www.omniglot.com/language/articles/englishspelling.htm)
There were a few forces at play. The Dutch also had their fair share. They were experts at introducing extra letters. In 1465 William Caxton presented printing to England. Unfortunately for the 'already confused' English spelt words, these printing machines were manned by Dutch technicians who were a crafty lot. Printers were being paid by the letter and to get on the gravy train they just made the odd word longer or they included additional letters to the last word of a line to make the text appear tidier. They also added a few extra letters here and there with the excuse that they didn't understand English handwriting. Another factor was that people wrote how they spoke in their regional dialects. So when printing was introduced, a mixture of regional spellings and words were used. English spelling was spiraling out of control.
English spelling was spiraling out of control."was"
finding out that should and would shold and wold be like that if it weren't for could could make one mad, as it sholdNo, you've got that one backward. Should and would as they are now are the normal development - just like the same vowel in "good", for example - but "could" and "couth" are the same word.
Should (https://www.wordsense.eu/sceolde/) and would (https://www.wordsense.eu/wolde/#Old_English) used to pronounce the lfinding out that should and would shold and wold be like that if it weren't for could could make one mad, as it sholdNo, you've got that one backward. Should and would as they are now are the normal development - just like the same vowel in "good", for example - but "could" and "couth" are the same word.
Yes, but... that's not what you said...Should (https://www.wordsense.eu/sceolde/) and would (https://www.wordsense.eu/wolde/#Old_English) used to pronounce the lfinding out that should and would shold and wold be like that if it weren't for could could make one mad, as it sholdNo, you've got that one backward. Should and would as they are now are the normal development - just like the same vowel in "good", for example - but "could" and "couth" are the same word.
Yes, but... that's not what you said...But I should and would have said it could I have said it
Some of the old-school pewter Battletech models are a pain like that, a lot of ball joints that just don't work with super glue good.
My reseen Marauder and dark age Black Knight have disassembled themselves pretty often. Doesn't help that that Marauder is really top heavy too. A Legionaire with spindly ball jointed arms I kinda gave up on.
Could be wrong, but it doesn't look like the sizable new interest in DF from the steam release has translated into anything near a sizable amount of new forum dwellers or interest in the forum.
I'll go look at the actual numbers in a moment.
Could be wrong, but it doesn't look like the sizable new interest in DF from the steam release has translated into anything near a sizable amount of new forum dwellers or interest in the forum.
I'll go look at the actual numbers in a moment.
I don't even think most of them even know that the forum exists. The new players ask their questions on DF subreddit and get their news from the Steam page. They are automatically funneled to those places, and have no need to seek anywhere else.
Yeah, there is a reason why forumites are an endangered species of netizen.
Sewing... Minor finger punctures, occasionally drawing blood. But there will soon be a waldo hat for a costume party!Your costume's power has increased ten fold due to you having to shed your own blood to create it.
People who obviously enjoy the company of anybody else more but are too polite to just tell me to fuck off already.
Never mind then. Forgot I can't have problems.
Never mind then. Forgot I can't have problems.
I CATEGORICALLY REFUSE TO START EVERY SENTENCE WITH A SUPERFLOUS INTERLOCUTION THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BOOTSTRAP YOUR ATTENTION, "HEY NAME, *insert sentence"
Well, yeah but also no.
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What does that mean exactly? Does that mean stuff posted to a server will eventually get purged or will that simply prevent people from outside the server from viewing content posted inside the server (always thought it was weird that you could just paste discord content URLs to a browser).The latter. Files within a server will remain indefinitely and can be viewed by anyone in said server, but any links posted to services outside of Discord will only work for a short time.
More link rot incoming as Discord makes external file links to Discord content temporary. No more Discord CDN.
The latter. Files within a server will remain indefinitely and can be viewed by anyone in said server, but any links posted to services outside of Discord will only work for a short time.Does this work?
Welp, rip convenient image hosting. But it's understandable given how much space it must have taken up.
Been two months since I started on minoxidil. I tried once a day because it's Ł60-70 for three months supplies, and people have reported good results on once rather than twice. Not me though, no results at all. Now I'm heading onto twice a day and I'll see if that works to give me my hair... not back, it's mostly still there just ultra fine and blonde. Make it un-male-pattern-not-quite-baldnessed.I will pray you wake up with thick and luscious locks
Hair's never been thick, it's always been fine. Made people think I straightened it because it laid flat."Please God... Give them 80s glamrock power..."
Appreciate the prayer though, maybe God'll intervene.
I'm with you GO. Male pattern baldness is a terrible curse, I'd say its the number one proof that the garden of Eden story is trueWe have the power to defy God (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n7eNFj_9Vk)
1. They only saw me when I was on a break. In between seeing patients. On my break I make tea. 2. Patients come in every day of the week. I was only able to help with the admin because I had some free time due to covid-19 causing study closures. 3. Seeing patients was my job, helping with the finance was something I just did on a voluntary basis. I told them and my director to just inform the COO that weekly updates on finance was impossible without hiring an accountant, because I was clinical staff, not admin staff, and they were being incredibly cruel to censure me for not doing more when by definition, I had gone far beyond and above my pay grade just to help them. I was later able to successfully get my salary regraded up on this basis.
… and his daughter (who I was separately implementing on this trip)…
I'm with you GO. Male pattern baldness is a terrible curse, I'd say its the number one proof that the garden of Eden story is truePain in the arse being a trans woman with it though. It wouldn't be so much of a problem if women got it too, but right now I might as well have TRANS shaved into my hair.
Reminds me of the conversation I had with one of my new managersDid she cone from the private sector? Because I'm having similar struggles with a coworker who volunteers her work (and occasionally mine) randomly
Me: You know, they're going to ask you to do finance for our studies but you should just say no. The amount of work they're actually asking you to do is too much, and you won't be able to actually do it without knowing exactly what is done in the studies. You would either have to work on the studies or be able to look through all the paper and digital logs all day. They really ought to hire an actual accountant who can manage this
Her: No, it's no trouble at all, I'm more than happy to help
Me: I cannot stress enough, they are not asking for a one-off bit of assistance, but they are asking for continual invoices of multiple studies across a research unit. This is something that they should hire an accountant for
Her: No it's really not a problem
[fast forward two months. She accepted to do the finance and then realised she couldn't do it. Not for lack of effort or talent, but because the scope of the job really should go to an accountant. Then she started getting pressured by the COO to deliver weekly reports and came down on me hard for failing to support her, even though I warned her well in advance she should not accept the job as she was set up to fail from the start].
Things really took a heated turn when she accused me of being easily distracted, of being lazy, of always making tea instead of doing my job. She kept asking if I was seeing patients because I did not have enough work and was just helping with the studies. At one point she came to me with a query about finance and asked me to help her, I was actually happy to help but I asked her what help she needed and instead of telling me she kept trying to refer me to an email chain. I read the email chain and still did not know what help she wanted. I explained how if her problem was too complex to be explained in a sentence then I did not have the time to help her [hilariously, I had just helped one of the research nurses make an invoice because she asked me "can you help draft an invoice for this study?" which is an actionable request]. She gets mad and escalates things until I'm formally requested to work under her at least two contracted days a week. The whole thing just gets embarassing after I have to repeatedly explain:
1. They only saw me when I was on a break. In between seeing patients. On my break I make tea. 2. Patients come in every day of the week. I was only able to help with the admin because I had some free time due to covid-19 causing study closures. 3. Seeing patients was my job, helping with the finance was something I just did on a voluntary basis. I told them and my director to just inform the COO that weekly updates on finance was impossible without hiring an accountant, because I was clinical staff, not admin staff, and they were being incredibly cruel to censure me for not doing more when by definition, I had gone far beyond and above my pay grade just to help them. I was later able to successfully get my salary regraded up on this basis.
After resolving all of this and making it clear to them they were fortunate they got any help from me since this was all unpaid work, my director tried to get me to teach this really lovely girl who hated numbers & spreadsheets how to draft these invoices. I asked her if she wanted to do this work and she said no, but they keep pushing her to do it. Eventually I ask my director about this and he asks me if there's any way I can spread my "enthusiasm" to her and I said: "Well I make spreadsheets for fun." He replied "ah."
It does still amuse me to this day though that I did such a good job of it, all the new hires thought it was my full time job
Christ I thought I had it bad. Clinician, doing......finance? How fucked is your office if finance needs you to cross those boundaries to do their job.
A Modern Male Rants About Modern Business Life]The whole "read the email chain" I know that one well. "Please, I'm overwhelmed, do all the intellectual legwork of getting up to speed so you can give me an answer." I really try to avoid doing that to people at work, it's such a giant FU.I always tell them keep it actionable. Every day I get some horrendous request to sort out "the file" or "the note" or "the query." No identifiable nouns whatsoever. And when I ask for clarification they get snappy saying I should know what they're talking about instead of simply specifying "study protocol -> patient id -> problem -> request."
I've repeated myself so many fucking times, verbally and in email, about 1) why things are happening the way they are 2) how to avoid having things happen this way 3) what everyone's options are in the event something like, oh, reopening a 2022 invoice in 2023 and making changes and what that means from an accounting perspective, that it's come to the point where I believe no one is reading and taking responsibility for any decision making. The CPA is in her early 60s. Nice lady, but she's sick of this shit and so am I. But I just can't get her to interact practically with what I say, and her meaning is hard to understand when it's half broken sentences and I need really specific clarity before I go shove my hands wrist deep in their data for the 30th time. What kicked all this "mildly upsetness" off was an email where, just a casual examination of what the CPA said was a problem didn't line up with the reality in the data.Ah yes. Everyone's senior but no one's in charge
I'm out there slaying demons every day by the dozen, and more just keep erupting from the ground around me.I can't drown my demons, they wear floaties
Did she cone from the private sector? Because I'm having similar struggles with a coworker who volunteers her work (and occasionally mine) randomlyYup from private sector. Though they're not the only one who used to try volunteer my work; when I was more junior after I told my trial manager that I would not be able to spare them two days a week to do the books, my nurse manager told my trial manager that actually yes I could do two days a week. So I told my nurse manager they would have to run the studies then, at which point they told me I shouldn't be prioritising the trial manager over the studies... Despite her being the one who volunteered my work time...
We had a recent scuffle because she basically told me some other team was going to follow a patient, and then she went behind my back and made arrangements for me to follow that patient which I didnt know existed. She said she did it to ensure the patient didnt fall between the cracks. But what she did ENSURED the patient fell between the cracks
I'm with you GO. Male pattern baldness is a terrible curse, I'd say its the number one proof that the garden of Eden story is truePain in the arse being a trans woman with it though. It wouldn't be so much of a problem if women got it too, but right now I might as well have TRANS shaved into my hair.
I'm hoping this works, if not it's wigs and trying to save up for a hair transplant.
Ah yes. Everyone's senior but no one's in charge
Each time someone asks the teacher about it, it gets more and more convoluted.I see your class is losing points on the "pattern recognition" portion of the exam :V
Thermostats on cars... Instead of simply picking the temperature of air that comes out of the vents, I have to pick just the right temperature setpoint compared to whatever the car thinks the temperature is in the cab, but won't tell me what that is. It thinks it's cold? Well setting it as low as it goes will still blow warm air at you. It thinks it's hot? Setting it super high will still blow cool air. Can't feel your fingers but find the right setting for maximum but not too hot air that your fingers can stand? Well in a few minutes, it will turn that right down so you have to fiddle with the knobs some more. It's like the show 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' where the setpoints don't matter, and even the control system has lost control.
This exam season's going to kill me.Next time someone asks the teacher it'll come encrypted by a rotor machine
After fucking up three extremely easy questions on two exams in a row (Don't worry. I am most certainly passing.), this time the Translation exam is causing problems.
Each time someone asks the teacher about it, it gets more and more convoluted. It started as a simple text translation worksheet, then turned into two of those where you did the first by yourself, and the second with a partner. Now there is this answer key stuff we need to write down and the teacher decided to send us the pdf of the thing just now tonight and we have toDO IT TOMORROW, WHEN THE SEND DATE IS.BEFORE 3PM, BETWEEN TWO OTHER EXAMS!!!
ugh
Next time someone asks the teacher it'll come encrypted by a rotor machine
So upset was I that the score of my advanced mathematics , just 78 points…The thing about being ordinary, is that most people are.
This is most upsetting thing, I can’t believe that I an ordinary person, I must learn even hard now !
:<
The thing about being ordinary, is that most people are.
Not what, Hao.
These days I felt somewhat depressed, because not only the classes, but also the stuff around me is also boring. For example, I took part in a drawing competition, but the organizer changed the voting rules, making it easier to cheat, she did this without any notifications, so the winner was just the organizer. Really ironically for such a laughable black box operation , right? Another thing is about the advanced Maths Test. For the students who learn pharmacy, the content I learnt is very easy, till now I don't know why I only get 78 points.Stay strong! Don't burn yourself out working too hard. It's very important to pace yourself
At the beginning of this term, I made up my mind to become the most excellent student, though laughed by my roommates, I still learnt very hard, just keeping the good habits I developed during my middle school time , I want to become the best , while I must acknowledge that I am ordinary , maybe I am the toad who wants to eat the meat of the white swan , haha !
By the way ,today I also take part in a extremely boring exam , the content is about writing a boring article which is advocating the good leadership of the CPC and the President Xi , haha , just very disgusting , I still remember the time when I was reading the 1984 written by George Orwell , the doublethinking strategy hears so realistic .
Now the hot enthusiasm created when I first entered the uni had cold down , just like a cup of warm tea left in the freezing winter , it will quickly and unavoidablely cold down . :( :-\ :(
Apparently cats can easily get lost if they wind up in unfamiliar territory, even if it's as little as a street over from a place they know.One of my friends' cat once disappeared from London and was found by a football club in Birmingham. The football lads were very keen to keep the cat but when they brought it to the vet they found out it was chipped and registered. The legends actually drove all the way down to return the cat with a tearful goodbye to their one-time meow
Vitally important to get your pets chipped.
That cat felt the call of migration, I guess.[after a 2 month oddyssey ending in a pub in birmingham]
That cat felt the call of migration, I guess.[after a 2 month oddyssey ending in a pub in birmingham]
cat: this isn'tmy house now
not its beautiful cat houseMy god
not its beautiful cat wife
not its beautiful cat houseAnd you may meow yourself
not its beautiful cat wife
My grandpa will have a heart bypass surgery these days ,I 'm worried about him , because he is 68 years old .I hope all goes well in the operation
Bruised rib.A clown once told me this before slipping on a banana peel
Laughter is pain.
I have to fix my sleeping pattern again, yay!Mine's been just utterly fucked ever since the DST time change in november. Been losing like 2-4 hours a sleep basically every single goddamn day since, and it's being really resistant to stabilizing. Sleep meds I've got that used to work pretty well, I tried once so far and while I went to sleep even easier than usual, something woke me up two hours even earlier, presumably out of spite.
It's screwed up from stress this time, waking up and falling asleep at random times each day. I'll start Monday and hope I can have it fixed for Christmas.
Plurality is real (I have many plural friends) but what that part of 4chan does is... yeah.
It's one of these things that's really hard to explain, has a lot of drama around it, and has been co-oped by some unsavory, to say the least, people. But I have more experience with it than most so if someone wants me to explain I can try. Tulpas are part of it, but honestly even many endogenic (i.e intentionally created) plural people don't call their headmates that because of the 4chan connotations.
I always get melancholy around the holidays. Even when I was younger and in a household with 10+ celebrating my birthday and the season, I dunno why, I always found an unaccountable sadness plaguing me. It passes eventually but it always happens.
I always get melancholy around the holidays. Even when I was younger and in a household with 10+ celebrating my birthday and the season, I dunno why, I always found an unaccountable sadness plaguing me. It passes eventually but it always happens.
Guys I think Nenjin just let slip that he's Jesus
I. Can't. Get. The. God. Damn. Dynamic Odds. Work!!!
As you may or may not know, I have this pet hobby project where I continuously improve my random world generator. I've made plenty of cool stuff in it so far. But after everything, I've hit a sort of wall, a weird barrier in one particular space.
I need to make the probabilities of planet distance options dependant on the type of the planet they will be selected for. To achieve this, I originally did brute force coding, where I had all the possibilities preset for all planet types. But that was inelegant and elephantine, so I decided to switch to a much more compact format where the only three orbit options had different probabilities of being selected depending on an internal variable specified in the selection of each planet type.
I've done this before with other stuff. But here? It inexplicably doesn't works. And I don't get why!
Just... It just doesn't works! It works on every other place, and just not there in particular.
I. Can't. Get. The. God. Damn. Dynamic Odds. Work!!!
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Just... It just doesn't works! It works on every other place, and just not there in particular.
interesting = somevalue;
if(condition)
{
call_which_modifies_interesting(&interesting);
}
if( interesting is in a range )
{
do something with interesting; /* THIS conditional doesn't act as epxected;
it appears to always just run based on 'somevalue', not the result of
call_which_modifies_interesting() */
}
I know it's not great, but could you possibly plug on a smaller tank that you put inside? If you don't trust your ability to handle those valves forget what I said.
I've been bitten in the past by something like:Code: [Select]
interesting = somevalue;
if(condition)
{
call_which_modifies_interesting(&interesting);
}
if( interesting is in a range )
{
do something with interesting; /* THIS conditional doesn't act as epxected;
it appears to always just run based on 'somevalue', not the result of
call_which_modifies_interesting() */
}
That's a fun one; the easiest solution (if using a C-like) is to declare 'interesting' to be volatile; that will force its reevaluation in the conditional that appears to be failing. I think it's because the compiler/interpreter can't figure out that interesting may be modified, especially when its in another condition like above. Other languages might have ways to hint that there are side effects.
I've been bitten in the past by something like:Code: [Select]
interesting = somevalue;
if(condition)
{
call_which_modifies_interesting(&interesting);
}
if( interesting is in a range )
{
do something with interesting; /* THIS conditional doesn't act as epxected;
it appears to always just run based on 'somevalue', not the result of
call_which_modifies_interesting() */
}
That's a fun one; the easiest solution (if using a C-like) is to declare 'interesting' to be volatile; that will force its reevaluation in the conditional that appears to be failing. I think it's because the compiler/interpreter can't figure out that interesting may be modified, especially when its in another condition like above. Other languages might have ways to hint that there are side effects.
You might also consider compiling with a flag that disables optimizations based on "strict aliasing" (if you or one of your libraries is doing type punning, technically illegal pointer casts/arithmetic, or things of that nature). Undefined behavior causing bugs like this is very much a C/C++ only problem, though; I think Magma's case is written in JavaScript or something similar (which should never have this happen). It also shouldn't ever happen in strictly conformant C/C++, but the rules around strict aliasing in particular are violated by mountains of older code (and in my opinion the violations are more in the "spirit" of the languages than the rules, anyway...)
Good news about AI like chatGPT is that AI stuff's all over the place, so what's happening is that we're seeing the AI feeding off of each other, and like DNA replication going wrong, it means that the flaws start accumulating and overwhelming the good input/output.
With any luck before long most AI models are going to be hilariously corrupted.
"Oh my god step-LLM, what are you doing?!""Your mother, great grandbot. Three hundred different copies of her."
"Your mother, great grandbot. Three hundred different copies of her."
Amusingly enough, I don't think it does -- pretty sure the lewd usage of that has been around since at least neptunia showing up (first release 2010), and probably earlier. If it didn't show up at some point during the early console wars or somethin' I'd be kinda' surprised."Your mother, great grandbot. Three hundred different copies of her."
Brings a whole new meaning to "copyright violation."
a second drink at all, let alone feel compelled. That's the nature of addition I suppose
It seems strange to me that anyone would really want to have a second drink at all, let alone feel compelled. That's the nature of addition I suppose, but why does ethanol have that effect on humans? Is it mostly chemical at all or just a social expectation to poison yourself?Ppl I used to work with would take it as an insult if you refused to multiply with them. Said it really divided the group
It seems strange to me that anyone would really want to have a second drink at all, let alone feel compelled. That's the nature of addition I suppose, but why does ethanol have that effect on humans? Is it mostly chemical at all or just a social expectation to poison yourself?I mean, it causes euphoria. Music just sounds better, writing flows better, chatting feels exciting. Giddiness. It gets rid of all the stupid shit in my brain that stops me from enjoying my free time.
1000-250000 though, from single shipment to biweekly, and from 1 shipment to 12.I could at this very moment order a million eggs and then wait for them to hatch and let them loose in my house. It would be a crazy thing to do, there would be absolutely no point and it would probably traumatize me for life, but thanks to this site I now know that I have that power.
So that's $27 for 1000 eggs, to $6000 for 3,000,000 (Or 37 eggs/dollar vs 500 eggs/dollar)
But then what do you do about all those bats you have that are now pooping all over your car?
But then what do you do about all those bats you have that are now pooping all over your car?
I would never buy parasitic wasps to prey on anything no matter how much the prey thing hurt me. Those things are literally the worst fucking thing in the ecosystem. They should be wiped outFor what it's worth, lacewings don't seem to be wasps and only a few of them (some species of mantis flies, specifically) seem to be parasites, so you'd probably be good, there.
Hope you come out of it alright. May a long covid not follow your short one.I would never buy parasitic wasps to prey on anything no matter how much the prey thing hurt me. Those things are literally the worst fucking thing in the ecosystem. They should be wiped outFor what it's worth, lacewings don't seem to be wasps and only a few of them (some species of mantis flies, specifically) seem to be parasites, so you'd probably be good, there.
Not sure if many wasp species, parasitic or otherwise, are recommended under... basically any circumstances... as a population control method, really. Attempts to use a predator species like that tends to prefer ones that aren't quite so human hostile.
Parasitic wasps aren’t that bad? Like… they’ll prey on the things they need for their life cycle, which tend to be pests. They don’t cause issues beyond that so I’m pretty sure they do get used to deal with pest species.
The things they do to their prey are pretty horrible, sure, but that’s nature.
Hope you come out of it alright. May a long covid not follow your short one.I would never buy parasitic wasps to prey on anything no matter how much the prey thing hurt me. Those things are literally the worst fucking thing in the ecosystem. They should be wiped outFor what it's worth, lacewings don't seem to be wasps and only a few of them (some species of mantis flies, specifically) seem to be parasites, so you'd probably be good, there.
Not sure if many wasp species, parasitic or otherwise, are recommended under... basically any circumstances... as a population control method, really. Attempts to use a predator species like that tends to prefer ones that aren't quite so human hostile.
There were other insects in the linkParasitic wasps aren’t that bad? Like… they’ll prey on the things they need for their life cycle, which tend to be pests. They don’t cause issues beyond that so I’m pretty sure they do get used to deal with pest species.
The things they do to their prey are pretty horrible, sure, but that’s nature.
They're the most disgusting things in existance have you seen their bodies they're shaped like pure horror
...A unique way to keep your food fresh.
The tarantula attacked by the tarantula hawk wasp is still living when it gets attacked and dragged away. The wasp then lays an egg on it, the egg develops, hatches, and the larva makes a hole in the spider, slips inside and eats it from the inside out, all the whole avoiding organs to keep the spider alive as long as possible.
...
Lepidopterans are the true aesthetic horror, especially the nocturnal varieties.
Wait until you see Maratus volans.
Wait until you see Maratus volans.
If it weren't for photographic evidence, I would not believe that there is a spider with a shaggy beard that has a picture of a spider on its back.
Maratus as a whole are just plain amazing little critters. Really all jumping spiders are, but the peacock genus is just so extra. It's a shame they're so small, if they were bigger we might be able to hear them sing as they dance, as is the vibrations are out of our hearing range.
Someone should make a GoFundMe to develop an extra sensitive hypercardioid parabolic microphone to record it, and then stretch the audio waveform out until it's within the Barry White spectrum.
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Wait until you see Maratus volans.
Honestly I don't get the massive ick factor with insects. Except craneflies, something about those proportions slam my panic button. I had a practical where we got to handle stick insects and I was the only one in the group willing to. Kind of pathetic for a group of zoologists-to-be.
Why worry about wasps when you can just smash them and their nests with a shovel, I mean that's what I do to them.
yes i doI just don't see wasps as especially worse than lots of other options.
it's not wasps
i'm not sure why that's difficult to comprehend
Dang, each time I go in there, the worse it all is. I wonder why?
The isolated nature of pre-industrial communication helped to contain bad, yet convincing ideas, keeping them from spreading to the whole world. Today, 1 person can say something that can impact just about everyone in a matter of minutes. The same is true for good, yet unconvincing ideas too. But sadly, there doesn't seem to exist many ideas that are both good and widely compelling. I'm mildly upset about this.
When Adam delved and Eve span, who then was gentleman?
I think you're grossly underestimating just how viral ideas were in pre-industrial times.
Heresy was typically the product of one individual, and its implications were felt much further afield than its place of origin.
Our sources for commoner 'viral' ideas are more sporadic, but there is evidence that commoners (see: Wat Tyler) could shape the zeitgeist of their nation.
Also there's the obvious issue with your statement - - - what constitutes 'good' and what 'bad,' and why should you get to decide?
Considering how nearly all of Europe didn't know that North America even existed for most of the last 2000 years, I find it hard to imagine how any idea would be able to be conveyed around the globe. Today, that can happen in minutes. While you are correct in assuming that I am no historical scholar, this still seems like a significant difference to me.
Getting called in to work in the middle of the night, chugging an energy drink, and then getting a call saying, "Oops, meant to call in the other crew, don't bother coming in."
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_the_Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas#:~:text=Population%20figures%20for%20the%20Indigenous,of%20100%20million%20or%20more.Wow the 1st paragraph of the wikipedia article says:
Population figures for the Indigenous peoples of the Americas prior to European colonization have been difficult to establish. By the end of the 20th century, most scholars gravitated toward an estimate of around 50 million, with some historians arguing for an estimate of 100 million or more.It's pretty sad that so many people were genocided on the American Continent.
Trying to remake marignonese names in russian translation of Dominions 5. Few previous ones were simple enough affair - find a poem where developers pilfered those names from in english and russian, then search and copypaste. I know a decent place for russian books, but it turned out that all of google's greedy sites are hellbent on not posting Song of Roland in particular in a format that is searchable, nevermind finding the right translation from french. But! For all my trouble, I found where the Pigmote Isle rhyme in Sunless Sea comes from. One more obscure reference got.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
EDIT: Pontificating cartoon songs worked on me, they did, but one about not missing your chance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n7JOj8G-rk) went right over my head.
Приносят
чёрную метку,
чёрную метку
мне!
And at that time there weren't any about videogame addiction, which turned out to be no less ruinous to the body than any other. Bad eyesight? Crooked back? Pah.
Just... damnit. Gmail finally dumped the html version, and, of course, the new thing is a sack of shit that looks worse and has worse performance, because that's fucking always what happens when websites dump things that just work for something that requires a friggin' loading screen.
Probably won't migrate just due the effort it would take, but for the love of fuck I wish these idiots would stop "updating" shit that doesn't need to be updated and isn't actually improved on any level in the process. Have to interact with fedex at work and they're trying to transition in a similar way, except their new version that's the same sort of crap is literally nonfunctional for my organization so it's this pigshit except somehow even less competent. How these billion dollar companies keep fucking up in the exact same way I'll never quite wrap my head around -- I know it's corpo brainrot skimping on something important, but I just can't understand it beyond the intellectual level.
Though there's days I look at this stuff and somewhere in all the frustration there's an odd sort of something like respect for whoever's managing to boondoggle the idiot CEOs into making bad decisions like this. Like, fuck them with a rusty rail spike powered by the infinite hate of competent UI designers, but at the same time someone out there's making bank convincing people to do remarkably stupid shit and there's something similar to respect for that. It's not actually respect, because they're using their power for evil and I hate them, but it's something resembling it. Just wish someone'd goddamn stop them, blech.
Some wildlife dragged a half-eaten deer carcass into the middle of my yard. Not a situation I was expecting to have to deal with.Do you live in the countryside , why there are some wildlife ? Which sounds horrible, I couldn't imagine that you are living with wolves , deers , foxes or some other terrorible animals .
I strongly advise against doing that. Boring as it might be, the exam will be about what the teacher is saying in class, and not about the content of some course on the internet.Some wildlife dragged a half-eaten deer carcass into the middle of my yard. Not a situation I was expecting to have to deal with.Do you live in the countryside , why there are some wildlife ? Which sounds horrible, I couldn't imagine that you are living with wolves , deers , foxes or some other terrorible animals .
The only places I thought they should stay are the protecting areas or the zoos .
My histology and embryology began today , I was interested in it before, but when the professor began to teach the same time I lost my interest . She was just reading her very old (maybe even
elder than me) power point ,seemingly like just taking a abbreviate glimpse of it without any teaching techniques .
I would rather learn it online with some free courses .
I strongly advise against doing that. Boring as it might be, the exam will be about what the teacher is saying in class, and not about the content of some course on the internet.
Bears. At least in the city you have a false sense of safety.Don't have to worry about those where I live as there aren't any.
I live in the middle of the city and I can tell you there are plenty of bears around here; tend to see them a lot at the places I normally go to. They're generally very nice.Haha! Maybe that is the real edition of boonic bears (a famous Chinese cartoon about bears making friends with a woodcutter)
Wait, are we talking about hairy gay men or actual bears?
Wait, are we talking about hairy gay men or actual bears?Why not both?
Random, annoying pulsing in my right ear again. It's not in line with my pulse and it feels/sounds almost like when you've got a bit of sheet metal or similar that's slightly warped and it jumps between two positions when you flex it slightly.Is it in time with your breathing? Could be a eustachian tube issue making your eardrum flex.
Dunno what's up with it.
Frankly an eclipse that isn't in totality is kind of a waste of time.(https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/eclipse_coolness.png)
Nothing really compares to that few minutes of totality.
"A partial eclipse is like a cool sunset. A total eclipse is like someone broke the sky."
My guess is "all of the above" - Texas.There is a chance that this is the right answer.
On one hand, two of three users on my ignore list just got banned; on the other, they're running around loose causing who knows what mischief instead of talking here. Bleh.
edit: ah.