Dasus
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- Comment on What's the worst instance of plot armour on characters you've seen in TV? 19 hours ago:
Bronn wasn’t featured in the books and only continued because of the show but…
Or Jamie, surviving his hand getting cut off i. The worst conditions ever…
This happened in the books a decade before the show even came out. Also, amputations really aren’t that rare in history, and Jamie had a Maester to tend him, a Maester who by all accounts pretty much knows some necromancy basically. It isa fantasy series, I might remind you, and this medical procedure — which one might survive in real life as well — is tended to by essentially a member of the closest thing to wizards there is (as in wise men who hold all the books relating to magic, even if the magic has “gone out of the world” .)
The show got shit at s6 because they ran out of books. Even before that there was a bit of divergence, but it was very clear that it went to shit after they ran out of material, despite working with GRRM and knowing “the large strokes”. Hell I know the “large strokes” of lots of stories well that doesn’t mean I think I could write a show about them.
I still can’t believe they were noth of the wall stuck on that lake and were like: you are a fast runner, right? You go and get help, we chill here.
Shit I didn’t even remember that. I mean I guess George would be able to write in a battle that lasts a few days while a runner goes for help, much like the original Marathon, but in the show that seemed just really silly the way it was portrayed.
Ironically the whole saga began because George was tired of producers always fucking up this shows by making grand battles duels and whatnot, so he decided to write a show that could “never be adapted for TV.”
Well gz, George, you did it. Unfortunately the poor reception of the mangled show meant that George has been avoiding finishing the series, because he’s afraid the books will have poor reception as well, not realising that the people who actually have bothered to read the books aren’t the usually the most vocal about how garbage the story is. Perhaps vocal about how shit the show was yes, but not of the quality of the story.
Preston Jacobs is essentially writing a fanfic version of how he’d continue it. A very popular GoT youtuber.
I hope George finishes the story. In the books the last time we saw Jon Snow was when he was getting stabbed over and over and over. It was like 2012-2013 I think, I was reading the books in our smoking room at work on the night shift. “Sure George had been killing main characters but surely Jon Snow is the main character and George wouldn’t… oh no… what are you… noooooooooo!”
And I’m still waiting for that feeling to be resolved. What happens next?
- Comment on Anon's gf has unfinished business 1 day ago:
You can visit or at least check up on sectioned ppl.
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- Comment on Anon watches a fishing video 1 day ago:
Oh that’s weird. The Finnish word for trout is “taimen”.
As in “siberian trout” is literally “siperian taimen”. I mean it’s not weird but I’ve just read much less Finnish etymology and it’s always a pleasant surprise.
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- Comment on This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual” 3 days ago:
Oh I had forgot about the whale thing. Thanks for the refresher.
Yes you make very good points. Unfortunately this is a sort of “if this kids could read, they’d be very upset” moment, as you’re preaching to the quire here, and the people who can understand that usually also accept it.
- Comment on This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual” 3 days ago:
“That is why I will say isolate the crazy gay animals.”
Good luck, that guy. There are claims some 90% of giraffe sex is male on male.
- Comment on This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual” 3 days ago:
The photo is from 1947, not 1886, according to my hasty googling.
The tortoise is from ~1832 and still alive and would’ve been around 50 in 1886.
- Comment on Up'n'Downchirps 4 days ago:
Okay now that this reply remanded me, I’m now looking at it without the night filter (blue light filter, eye comfort shield, flux) I can actually read it myself as well.
I didn’t realise the phone reads the colour based on the filter, instead of reading the “actual” content sans the filter. So it’s not as bad as I thought but one shouldn’t really contrast red with green, although it’s done in the industry as well.
Even as a kid I’d see the border as kind of fuzzy, that’s how I realised having something “wrong” with my colour vision. (I put “wrong” in quotes because I think the red-green difference may actually be an evolutionary adaptation to recognise animals, though there’s little if any proof for that).
- Comment on Up'n'Downchirps 5 days ago:
I think you don’t understand colour vision.
Colour “blindness” is extremely rare. Like actually being blind to colours. Monochromatism.
I have slightly different colour vision, which affects 14.5% men. Calling it deficient would be bias as there’s some studied showing those men (us) can see more hues of green and brown, which might mean being better able to distinguish animals which try to blend into the green/brown backgrounds.
And I also went through a print media design program, ie graphic design, so regardless of the 14.5% of men, that’s still poorly legible, red on green.
- Comment on Up'n'Downchirps 5 days ago:
Holy shit that text is poorly legible.
Might be because I have a bit of colour vision deficiency.
But genuinely I can not discern the words.
- Comment on Phantom Limb Pain 5 days ago:
Ah, I see you’re a man of culture as well.
- Comment on PUT. HIM. BACK. 5 days ago:
Ah. True ofc, seeing the context of the post.
My dumb
- Comment on PUT. HIM. BACK. 5 days ago:
I’m only guessing it’s Gaiman based on that response.
But remberer that as humans we have the ability to good and bad.
You can like the work while not liking the guy.
- Comment on It's 5 o'clock somewhere 5 days ago:
- Comment on It's 5 o'clock somewhere 6 days ago:
Oh my god I was too stupid to get it since I was thinking about the spaghetto as it was in the comment above yours.
Now that I get it, I’m amused. Spaghettini.
I’m gonna design one and try to make one tomorrow. Although I don’t have martini glasses.
But like… a really good vodka-marinara, then mix in some mode vodka, shake, pour, garnish with a cherry tomato and and a spaghettini (the tiny one I was referring to) and poke it through the tomato. Or tomatini?
I’m not a professional. Sorry for ruining your joke, Ms-apparently-less-high-or-more-smart-than-me.
Apologies again, totally my bad. And thank you for correcting me.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 6 days ago:
anyone but Peter Thiel and Elon Musk want that.
And Putin
- Comment on It's 5 o'clock somewhere 6 days ago:
Venison and red wine.
Oh… I’m think I’m gonna make venison meatballs tomorrow. With a little red wine.
- Comment on It's 5 o'clock somewhere 6 days ago:
According to my linguistic understanding “spaghettini” would be more like
Image (small bits of spaghetti sold as “raketti spaghetti” in finland, favoured by children)
Whereas in the post, that’s a spaghetto.
- Comment on For the First Time, Artificial Intelligence is Being Used at a Nuclear Power Plant: California’s Diablo Canyon. 6 days ago:
Yea I read this as fearmongering Skynet based on someone using Clippy, essentially.
- Comment on This is a shitpost. 6 days ago:
Or thirsty!
- Comment on Quantum mechanics might have the solution to joystick drift 1 week ago:
I was stoll using the first wireless one as a BT controller to play switch games last year. The battery gave out imo, otherwise zero issues.
- Comment on why not 1 week ago:
“Carbon-neutral” isn’t synonymous with coming from renewables.
In 2023, the electricity sold to [my energy company] customers was distributed by energy source as follows: 25% renewable energy sources, 28% fossil energy sources and peat, 47% nuclear power.
But my point was rather a rhetorical one on a global level
- Comment on Quantum mechanics might have the solution to joystick drift 1 week ago:
Idk man.
30 years ago this came out.
The traditional controller for PS1 didn’t have joysticks. You needed a DualShock for that, or it’s predecessor the Dual Analog controller.
But yeah year or two here there, the DualShocks and PS controllers after that were very good controllers.
But those first decent ones came out more like at the turn of the millennium than halfway through the 90’s as you imply.
Back then it ps1 without joysticks and from 96 on N64 with extremely shitty joysticks. Gamecube came out in 2001 and Nintendo had clearly learned it’s lesson — to an extent.
- Comment on why not 1 week ago:
And more than likely most of us here are using thinking stones powered by electricity created by very large machines far away eating organisms for fuel. Not to mention heating, but not everyone lives where there’s only two seasons; winter and July. (Actually I pay extra to have a 100% renewables contract I think but idk how well those work.)
- Comment on lagomorphs 1 week ago:
Thought so. I’m just not well traveled within Finland and thought it might be some little town word, but I am “well travelled” digitally in the drug circles and communities and have never seen anyone Finnish refer to it as such.
Well, maybe once or twice, jokingly.
- Comment on lagomorphs 1 week ago:
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 1 week ago:
Yes.
And I was old enough to remember going to the movies in 1995.
Not by myself, but dad took us to see some.
- Comment on lagomorphs 1 week ago:
Hares are like what rabbits become after they go through what Aimo Koivunen did.
A scout on the Finno-Russian border, their group got attacked by the Soviets, they fled and because skiing is hard fucking work, he got fatigued but couldn’t stop, so he decided to take some of the Pervitin (meth) he had been issued. He couldn’t get a single tablet out with his frozen hand and accidentally took his squads entirely dose.
Was gone for a week. Skiid for 400km. Ate pinecombs and one siberian jay, raw. Pulse 200 and weighed 43kg (95lbs) when admitted to a hospital.
- Comment on shrimp colour drama 1 week ago:
Oh that explains this scene
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 1 week ago:
