zarkanian
@zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on X-Files '90s promo shoot 1 week ago:
These look so much better than what the show actually was.
- Comment on X-Files '90s promo shoot 1 week ago:
You misspelled “hysterical”.
- Comment on Just opened a new jar of jam, only to find mold in it. 1 week ago:
Good luck proving what made you sick, though. A foodborne illness can sometimes take days before you develop symptoms. At that time, you might think it was that sketchy chicken salad that made you sick, and you might be right…but it could also be any number of other things that you ate before you got sick.
- Comment on A true friend understands that carcinization is real, natural and not at all shameful 2 weeks ago:
Me too. More licking than nibbling, though.
- Comment on You are not prepared 2 weeks ago:
They didn’t use the Roman alphabet. They used hieroglyphs. The Spanish were the ones who came up with that spelling.
Now, why did the Spanish decide that X should make a “sh” sound? I don’t know, but I can guess. I don’t think that the “sh” sound is present in Spanish, so they decided to use a letter that they didn’t use much (or at all) to represent it: X. But in English, X inside of a word makes a “ks” sound, so when the word was read by English speakers, they said “acks-oh-lawtl”.
I just pulled that out of my ass, though.
- Comment on You are not prepared 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes when a word gets borrowed from another language, the pronunciation comes along, too. Sometimes not. Every dictionary here says we aren’t using the Nahuatl pronunciation. It isn’t a thing, no matter what some guy on YouTube is saying.
- Comment on You are not prepared 2 weeks ago:
Not in English it ain’t.
- Comment on Totally 2 weeks ago:
Who is the threadiverse’s first?
- Comment on Get over yourself 3 weeks ago:
This is all subconscious shit that marketers have to deal with. There’s a good article about it here. What bothers me is not knowing what unconscious biases like this that I have.
- Comment on Get over yourself 3 weeks ago:
The whole “long hair = gay” thing is such weird boomer shit. It’s right up there with believing that gay men wear dresses and makeup.
It’s not even 21st century homophobia. It’s like something out of the 1950s.
- Comment on Easy choice 3 weeks ago:
It says “rain”, not “petrichor”, though. Petrichor is the smell you get when rain hits dry earth.
- Comment on Easy choice 3 weeks ago:
That’s not funny! My brother died that way!
- Comment on Easy choice 3 weeks ago:
Aw yisss
Also the sound the campfire makes when the rain hits it.
- Comment on Easy choice 3 weeks ago:
Enjoying your own farts is normal. Enjoying other people’s farts is perverted, you sick fuck!
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Try using hummus and you get added protein.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Just because it tastes good doesn’t mean you want to eat it on crackers. I like ketchup with french fries, but I’m not going to spread ketchup on a cracker.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Very small amounts of mayo to moisturize bread in a sandwich is about all the mayo I like.
Have you tried hummus? Squirting olive oil and vinegar on a sandwich is good, too.
Maybe also a reason mayo messes with me.
Vegan mayo doesn’t contain any eggs, and it tastes the same.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
wtf why
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
They called it salad dressing because it is salad dressing. It goes in potato salad, tuna salad, etc. It’s just that most people use it as a sandwich spread today.
- Comment on But why 4 weeks ago:
Sounds likely. I don’t have any reason to doubt him. I’m aware of the themes in Hellraiser. Seen the movies, read the book. (The first one, anyway.) It’s pretty obvious. It’s not subtle. The whole “person seeks out extremes of sensation and winds up with much more than they bargained for” is a recurring trope.
That doesn’t change the fact that the bad guys are dressed kinky, and no, they don’t use safe words. It’s supposed to freak you out. In fact, I would even say that Hellraiser is one of the worst in that regard.
- Comment on Woman 4 weeks ago:
They aren’t?
- Comment on But why 4 weeks ago:
I like King, but I still have to admit that a lot of his characters sound like what a space alien would come up with after studying humans for a few months.
“Hello, fellow human! I also enjoy eating Big Macs from McDonald’s, drinking Coca-Cola, and listening to Bruce Springsteen music!”
- Comment on But why 4 weeks ago:
Misrepresent, you mean? Yeah, the Cenobites are dressed up as kinksters, and that’s done to play upon the ick reaction that the mainstream has towards kink. That’s exactly the kind of thing I’m talking about, and it’s probably the reason why their outfits are much less BDSM in the reboot.
- Comment on But why 4 weeks ago:
That’s like saying that a lot of people get murdered in Stephen King’s stories, so he must have homicidal fantasies.
Horror writers look for ways to shock and shake up their readers, and judging from the comments here, he succeeded.
- Comment on But why 4 weeks ago:
What icks me out is when they make an evil character LGBTQ or kinky.
- Comment on Woman 4 weeks ago:
Really? Memes don’t need to be ironic or funny.
- Comment on And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗 5 weeks ago:
Navidrome is awesome and super easy to set up if you use a PikaPod.
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 5 weeks ago:
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I didn’t think that IRC did any archiving, so it’s actually worse than Discord in that respect.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 1 month ago:
Which is pretty warped if you think about it - shouldn’t the whole point of religion be to learn how to live well?
Surely not the whole point, since you don’t need religion to do that. This is a question that philosophy has been tackling for thousands of years.
Another problem that I see is people neglecting the good life on earth for their anticipated good life in heaven. Why bother trying to live well on earth when you’re only going to be here for a short time, and you’ll have an eternity of living well in heaven?
- Comment on I'd go to that 2 months ago:
I suppose you don’t believe that a kid invented Wolfenoot, either.