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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: October 09, 2023, 02:14:59 pm »
I... I'm not sure you'd actually survive an asbestos towel wedgie? As a material it has a pretty shreddy texture, it probably would be possible to bleed out from something like that, nevermind the amount that would splinter off. Sounds like a horrible way to die, really.

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General Discussion / Re: Non-EU europe thread (with Russia, Israel and Australia included)
« on: October 09, 2023, 02:11:05 pm »
Quote from: Great Order on October 09, 2023, 01:53:39 pm
This whole conflict is very "Turd vs poop". Seems there's only one good side and that's the civilians just trying to live their lives who are caught in the middle.

What I find bizarre is that nobody seems capable of any nuance - Either you're for Israel or you're for Hamas. Trying to condemn one side gets you "Oh, so you think the other side are good then?!" and trying to condemn both gets you ire from both aisles.
One of the things I keep circling back to mentally is the reason the IDF was so out of place, the primary cause from the israeli side the attack was as bad as it was?

They were over around the west bank due to unrest caused by israeli settlers going around fucking lynching people, that was encouraged by genocidal bastards like ben-gvir.

None of the civilians involved deserve what's happening, but so far as hamas and most of the israeli leadership goes, a pox on both their damned houses, at this point.

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General Discussion / Re: Non-EU europe thread (with Russia, Israel and Australia included)
« on: October 09, 2023, 01:21:10 pm »
They've been deliberately targeting civilian structures already, and have a history of doing so with little to no regard as to actual military impact, as well.

I've seen it brought up a number of times elsewhere when questions about the bombings come up, but the shin bet/IDF didn't even know the main attack was coming, how the hell do they know what's in those buildings? It strains credulity more than a little, and an obvious answer is they don't.

Fuck hamas and all it stands for, but try not to forget the IDF's history in the process.

Any case, it's peanuts compared to cutting off food, water, and power, so far as the civilian impact is concerned. Also don't think anyone that matters really cares, and probably won't until the gaza body count hits at least five digits. Maybe not even then.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: October 09, 2023, 12:14:17 pm »
Is... that something that qualifies for medical leave, or. How does HR even react to that? "Arm broke in duel at wedding" is presumably something they're not used to dealing with...

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General Discussion / Re: Post whatever you want
« on: October 08, 2023, 10:25:29 pm »
cannot tell if joke or actual history, please advise

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Other Games / Re: The "Recommend me a game" thread
« on: October 08, 2023, 02:03:46 pm »
Quote from: Micro102 on October 08, 2023, 04:15:37 am
Recommend me games with the most grotesque amount of content you can think of. I'd like to see a game that has too much stuff to do.
Heavily modded terraria's pretty packed. Not the weaksauce "oh, I'm running calamity" nonsense, the modstrosities that have so much packed in most computers have trouble loading. At least three major content mods, preferably a half dozen or more. Apachai's new class mod requires 100 bosses by default to max out its progression. That's your minimum goal.

Heavily modded elder scrolls games probably land in about the same region of design. Just pack crap into it until it breaks and then spend a week figuring out how little you can remove and have it run.

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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: October 07, 2023, 01:01:19 pm »
Quote from: Flying Dice on October 07, 2023, 12:41:57 pm
Can't (legally) put much detail, but an abusive manager in my chain of command got the "resign before we fire you" touch of death from higher up after an ethics investigation.
Hopefully that'll mean things get better in the workplace, and they don't get replaced with someone even worse :V

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: October 06, 2023, 05:44:15 pm »
Quote from: McTraveller on October 06, 2023, 03:48:38 pm
I’m reminded of those classic youth books in the Bunnicula series. Could probably re-imagine that with “adult” content.

Sorry I have now tainted all your memories, heh.
You're late to that, the bunnicula show has outright porn, at the minimum of mina, and I'm not sure how many years ago I first encountered it. There's no "probably" to that one :V

There's a remarkable amount of old youth book characters that have gotten the r34 treatment at one point or another, often even more or less in the exact style they originated as. It's a hell of a thing.

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Other Games / Re: What are you currently playing?
« on: October 06, 2023, 12:51:47 pm »
Quote from: Sirus on October 06, 2023, 04:35:16 am
It's not perfect. He won't tell you how to acquire those other materials, and if the resulting item is also a material he won't tell you what can be done with that (not until it is in his hands, anyway). But short of tabbing over to a browser with the wiki open it's the best source of crafting information in the game.
Second best :P

Recipe browser is like the guide in your pocket, except with even more functionality. There's still occasionally times you probably end up going to a wiki to find stuff out (some mods in particular have odd spawning or drop conditions), but mostly the browser is all you need.

E: The real hot shit with crafting is turning on magic storage's recursion, though. Trying to make a bottle but don't have glass? Turn that on and if you got the sand and the furnace it'll make the glass for you when you hit craft. It's a seriously helpful quality of life feature, especially if you're doing other crazy mod stuff that adds more involved recipes than vanilla sees. Even without the recursion on, you can right click on a recipe component you don't have, and if it's makeable, it'll take you to the crafting prompt for that item. It's just, so, so much more user friendly than the vanilla system, heh.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: October 06, 2023, 08:37:58 am »
had to check to see if that actually existed

somewhat disappointed they do not appear to

... that said, searching amazon for vampire motor bike books pulls up a remarkable amount of smut. It's, like. 1/41/10th kids books and 3/49/10ths vampire smut. Hell of a thing.

e: actually went to page two of the amazon search results, observed ratios adjusted

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Other Games / Re: What are you currently playing?
« on: October 05, 2023, 09:06:58 pm »
I still fire it up and run through the boss list of some mod pile monstrosity every month or two. Burned through most of a cataclysm/redemption (plus pile of other things) just last week or so. Got distracted from actually finishing the fargo soul's ultimate item for the second time, but cleared out most of the rest of it.

I can't see myself ever playing terraria again without magic storage, though, or at least one of the other storage managing mods. The vanilla experience regarding inventory management and crafting is kinda' miserable in comparison, heh. Tmodloader being integrated into steam makes it mostly super painless to mod, happily, which is nice.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: October 05, 2023, 07:52:00 pm »
Quote from: da_nang on October 05, 2023, 12:25:56 pm
I guess you guys are building a wall after all.

* da_nang raises his shield at the incoming hemming and hawing.
Ain't no hemming to haw; biden's admin's probably been its shittiest when it comes to immigration. Still better than trump's, that among every literally-goddamned other thing was trying to functionally destroy asylum as a thing, but that's a bar you need a boring machine to fail to clear.

There's some degree of indication trying to stop that would have ended up in lawsuits without actually doing anything but delay -- the actual construction and funding was allocated by congress in 2019, and there's not actually a huge amount the executive can, like... do... when congress has done a shitstupid that official -- but, like.

Dude could have said fuckit and delayed instead of expediting ecological collapse in chunks of the south in the process of fulfilling republican horseshit put through by the last administration. It wouldn't have been legal, but it was an option. So far as timing goes, the dumbfuck legislation that ordered it apparently had a deadline for this year, because approximately nothing the GOP authors is worth a damn, so it getting pushed along like this is probably due to that.

Hopefully the general incompetence of the border nuts and texas in general means the project runs out of time and money without actually doing much of anything but grifting millions of dollars. That's very much a possibility, ha.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: October 04, 2023, 09:10:13 pm »
Quote from: hector13 on October 04, 2023, 08:48:28 pm
If people wanted to vote for a third party, they would. Money being spent can’t prevent them doing that.

People don’t vote third party because it is basically wasting a vote. That’s a consequence of the system, that needs change to come from within, and people in power won’t vote to reduce that power.
It's also substantially due to both major parties being pretty big tents; they're effectively coalition groups in a trench coat, in a lot of ways. Third parties that actually do stuff people want... end up caucusing with, or joining outright, the two big ones, because they're already pushing for some or all of what that smaller group wants, and it's the best way to get the weight to maybe actually do something.

The ones that don't do that, are largely so incompatible with what people want they end up being a non-thing so far as political impact goes. It's a pretty consistent pattern in the US.

... that said, I'm not entirely sure there is a lot of support for a third option, unless by third option you mean "stop friggin' bothering me". A great deal of the voting population largely just seems to not want to engage with the political process at all. Good bit of that's structural due to difficulties in engaging (fuck you, GOP), but not all of it.

Not even sure how much I can blame them, exactly. It'd be nice if things just... worked, and you didn't have to worry about it. Shame the state of things hasn't been like that since at least the southern strategy, more probably since before the bloody civil war :-\

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: October 04, 2023, 08:06:27 pm »
Technically more or less anyone can be speaker... I'm not actually sure if you even have to be a citizen. You definitely don't have to be a sitting member of the house.

The chances the orange shitgibbon would willingly put himself in a position subordinate to biden are vanishingly small, though, nevermind it'd take a rules change to go through (one of existent restrictions on speakership is not being under federal investigation for a felony that could end up with jail time, and, well...). It's definitely being proposed (it was proposed when mccarthy was being repeatedly voted on, too), but it'd be a bit of a surprise if it actually happened. Our timeline is pretty bloody dumb at this point, though, so who knows.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: October 04, 2023, 07:54:42 pm »
Quote from: Nirur Torir on October 04, 2023, 07:35:53 pm
What's not worth a few minutes of thought is why they would vote for something in-line with their agenda, when it was brought to the floor by someone of an opposed agenda. Dems and Reps are allowed to have shared goals. The idea that they have to oppose each other on every point is as new as it is ew.
For what it's worth, that sentiment is also pretty damn localized to the GOP. Dems have shown, repeatedly, over the years they're perfectly willing to vote for bills that actually do something they want done, even if it's proposed by the GOP. There is pretty deep distrust of GOP propositions due to their constant attempts to poison pill shit, extreme lack of trustworthiness, and general incompetence, but if they're not playing fuckfuck games or accidentally screwing stuff up the dems are fine with supporting GOP bills.

GOP, on the other hand, is known for nuking their own proposals if a dem brings it to the table. As with most crap these days, the balance on that issue isn't even a little equitable, heh.

Lot of it's just what happens when you stop having any actual goals besides seeing the majority of the country suffer, I guess. We saw a slice of that in the commentary prior to the ouster, where a great deal of energy was spent extolling McCarthy's history at either frustrating democratic goals, or not doing so enough. Hard to find common ground when you've pinned your entire platform on "whatever those people don't like".

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