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A question for the ages, Mergula.

...Is it too late for me to join that name changing fad we had a while ago?

...I think my conversational skills may have atrophied a bit lately. This is kind of a revelation to me, since I was never one of those people who are always very put out by not being able to connect. It's just that my ability to maintain a conversation has gone somewhere over the previous few years. I'm sort of afraid to carry too much of it, but then I am afraid to carry too little. I don't want to be bored, but then I am afraid of learning new things. I both want a connection and don't want to reveal anything about myself.

I'm still good at listening, and I understand what I'm told, but it just feels like having to walk or breathe manually. This is more distressing than sad. Maybe there's a bit of happy too: I've noticed that something's been wrong during these past few years by suddenly having several normal, effortless and enjoyable conversations a few times. I might have passed a low point without even noticing it. I hope so, at least. It's still a bit terrifying in retrospect.

What is the term for when meat goes stale?

You know... like if you cook pork... put it in the fridge... wait a day or two... Then even if you heat it up again you can tell it was made a few days ago easily.

Like, not rotten but already kinda eh? I would say "off" or "starting to turn/go", I guess.

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on November 24, 2016, 12:36:59 pm

Wow, looks like the internet free speech types will have a legitimate complaint for once.

Why do the admins even have the power to silently edit things... I guess if you're the CEO and you want to do it you can just ask someone to implement it :/  This is why professional PR is a thing.

It's... fairly obvious why? Being able to deal with infringing material is important (particularly on stuff as free ranging as reddit and its ilk), and sometimes doing it without bringing attention to the issue is as well. Can be abused, obviously enough, but that doesn't mean the tool itself is the problem.

If the material is infringing or against the rules, why would one want to avoid attention while removing it? You break the rules, you get busted, this is normal. Why is there a need to do it all sneaky-like, or enable doing it all sneaky-like as a moderation tool?

See, I was trying to carve some meat and goodies off a flesh earlier. And I saw a bloodsucker show up right near me. But I was facing it and I panicked and I ended up pressing altfire. Knife goes into bloodsucker face and he dies like a bitch. So next time I run into them I decide I'm gonna try it again. So I pull out my knife, goad him into running right at me and... Stab him in the face. He dies. THEN ANOTHER ONE comes out and I ninjastab it in the face.

My reflexes or aim improved at some point, I don't know which!

Knifing bloodsuckers is actually a pretty legit technique, especially if you can see them coming from tracks in the water/sound/the ripples they make as they move.
I think it's actually so legit that one of the better published STALKER fanfics had a guy who used to close his eyes and just listen until it came close, and then stab the shit out of it.

Yeah, anyway, we were talking about sweatpants in the beginning? If you've got butt, those will usually do something to show it off even without junk-supporting underwear. Not full-on yoga pants - tier, but it's something, I guess.

In ballet, male dancers wear special underwear to support their junk, when putting on tight trousers to show off their muscles and/or bottoms. It works! I'd imagine it'd work for yoga pants too. Buttpants, for everyone!

Is the special underwear basically a jockstrap? Or more like the crotch armor you use when doing fighty-type sports?
...I know jack shit about ballet, and all I know comes from the first two episodes of Princess Tutu.

Quote from: Avis-Mergulus on November 22, 2016, 08:52:09 am

Quote from: Mephisto on November 22, 2016, 08:48:50 am

Not actually a suggestion. I just dropped in to be sad about the fact that there are some foods I'll probably never prepare (like the aforementioned lentils) because they're sold in somewhat large bags and I don't want to buy that much of something if I end up disliking it.

You got a freezer? Buy everything, then throw everything you don't like into it. You will be glad you did it once civilization inevitably collapses.

But wouldn't the power die when civilization collapses?

This is why you also have reserve generators.

I'm pretty sure that was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Litvinenko assassination and not a serious assertion that somebody would waste their time with killing Kanye West.