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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O

« on: November 23, 2020, 09:26:39 pm »

nah we ain't talking drum circles we talking drum militias walk a hundred times around the suburbs and drum jerkicho to dust badabadabada

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O

« on: November 23, 2020, 02:12:42 pm »

Quote from: Jopax on November 23, 2020, 08:42:30 am

Some people are apparently shocked by the fact that RATM are not only a political band but also an extremely left-leaning one

How the fuck does one listen to literally any of their songs and not realize this, are these people not english speakers? Do they not know that lyrics carry meanings?

I've found quite a lot of people just don't really listen to lyrics to begin with, tbh. They're less words with meanings to plenty of folks and more just sorta' sounds, often background ones the listeners don't really engage with much or at all.

It's a weird mindset for me, like half the reason I listen to mostly non-vocal stuff (and a good chunk of the reason I kinda' fucking hate TV) is because filtering vocals out like that is behavior that does not come naturally to me; if I'm hearing voices making distinct words I'm trying to figure out what they're saying, and there's not much of an off switch. Some people's default state is with that switch off, tho'.

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Other Games / Re: Noita

« on: November 22, 2020, 04:51:44 pm »

They seem to, at least! I've seen folks run through... I'unno, several dozen temples in newer versions without seeing any worm tunnels in them with the crystal still intact? So situations where they malfunction should at least be pretty rare now.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O

« on: November 22, 2020, 02:03:08 pm »

Eh, not so much decor as just... bedding. It's not about the look it's about the comfort. Pillow nests tend to not look great, in all honesty.

Any case, as someone that's generally been pretty lonely and has actually had a body pillow, I'd probably say it doesn't actually help on that front, like. At all. They're just pillows. Nice pillows with extra functionality from being as large as they are, but still just pillows.

Better bet that actually sort of works is just a pet. Cat or dog that'll cuddle up and whatnot. Isn't perfect and it has its problems vis a vis housing and taking care of said pet, but it helps a fair bit more than a pillow, even a big one.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O

« on: November 22, 2020, 01:27:20 pm »

I don't think I've ever seen in come up in actual conversation, really. At any point in real life in the last 20-30 years. I'd be 90+% sure no one would care because no one would know

... that said, I was mostly just commenting on body pillows being pretty nice pillows. You don't have to spoon them or whatever, just use them for normal pillow things. They're not particularly good for staving off loneliness, they're just pretty alright at being big pillows.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O

« on: November 22, 2020, 12:39:26 pm »

I don't know of many people that have been proud to own any sort of pillow, tbh. It's just... a pillow. You enjoy your bedding, not invest your self worth into it

Body pillow can be pretty nice, though. Not one of those overpriced fetish ones, just a plain probably-monocolor giant sized pillow you can easily use to prop up legs or heads or whatever. I had pilfered one from family for years... gave it back eventually, I think, but it enhanced my pillow piles notably. They're pretty good stuff as pillows go.

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General Discussion / Re: ♪ The Great Music Thread ♫

« on: November 22, 2020, 11:55:35 am »

Have a lil' Billie Holiday in yo life: Yankee Doodle Never Went to Town

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O

« on: November 22, 2020, 07:30:09 am »

Quote from: delphonso on November 22, 2020, 07:25:10 am

I like turtles

People tell me they're tasty.

Don't know myself, I don't think I ever got around to eating any. Helped cook it before, but didn't eat it.

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General Discussion / Re: Railgun and Spirituality Discussion

« on: November 21, 2020, 09:24:44 pm »

Eh, I've been pretty appreciative of some of the older gnostic or whatever beliefs for a while now, the stuff that posits that a lot of the biblical works are in fact a sort of test. Much of what they describe isn't just mean, it's outright sadistic or flatly evil, and heavily contradictory with the general message of love and whatnot. It makes a sort of sense if it's not just wrong, but intentionally wrong, there to teach folks that when given a choice between a message of goodness and message of cruelty, the latter should be discarded.*

It's kinda' Wittgensteinian in a sense, the bible being a ladder to use to reach the truth of a loving god, and then discarded when no longer necessary or helpful. There's a similar sentiment in the whole "if you meet buddha on the road, cut them down" dealio.

*I mean, it's obviously an astoundingly piss-poor way of going about it in practice, but I appreciate the metaphorical hustle there more than most understandings of abrahamic holy texts, heh. Incompetent is at least an upgrade from malicious, yeh.

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Other Games / Re: Amazing Cultivation Simulator

« on: November 21, 2020, 01:46:23 am »

... speaking of cursed wells, is there anything special you can do if you go about just absolutely ruining the general area's feng shui? Actually make like a cursed sect or somethin'?

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