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- Comment on She's a keeper 1 day ago:
I more meant that sometimes requests for help are seen as flirting, when they’re about as casual and commonplace as can be.
- Comment on She's a keeper 4 days ago:
The apartments were randomly assigned. Do you know many freshmen who got to choose their dorms? Once I was a sophomore+, I did, but that first year in university-run student housing I didn’t get to pick.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 4 days ago:
I judge people based on whether they can understand youtube (which you should be changing to invidious or something else anyway) urls. It’s a useful and very short way to see if people have ever paid attention to repeated patterns. The moment I saw the t=XYs, I was amazed.
- Comment on She's a keeper 4 days ago:
In a sense of understanding the wife’s perspective, proximity is just as important as the other major factors that affect how likely a relationship is to begin. There was a cool study of college students who lived in an apartment style building that showed you were most likely to begin a relationship with the person who had a door immediately next to yours. The only exception to that was for the person who had a door immediately next to the mailboxes. Proximity matters because it lets another person see you enough to form opinions based on a lot of interactions, and we all know someone who ‘shines’ despite their physical looks.
Plot twist: new neighbor was wearing a shirt that read, “I <3 dad bods,” and was already flirting (asking for help moving boxes /eyeroll) with the guy in sweatpants.
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 4 days ago:
Everyone wants to shit on motorcycles, but it’s as much a red herring as a meaningful statement. You might as well mention that horse riding is 25x more dangerous than motorcycles. And if you really want to get into the weeds, go look up how many motorcycle fatalities are single vehicle accidents, and how many of those are due to speeding or alcohol involvement. So if you don’t drink, and don’t act like a fool, you’re really not all that badly off. Still worse than being in a steel cage for protection, but it’s not only for people “who don’t want to get old.”
- Comment on Anon has learned enough 6 days ago:
Which is honestly pretty standard for the real world. Limited social circles and hot times blended well for millennia, why not continue the tradition at this point if both parties are willing? That’s probably the most accurate character portrayal rowling ever made.
- Comment on Anon has learned enough 6 days ago:
good
You and I have very different ideas of what the word ‘good’ means, lol. The first, like, two chapters were fine as lampooning the poorly thought out logic of rowling’s world, but by chapter 8 or so it just was the same thing over and over again: mary sue thinker boy immediately noticing the giant flaws of the main author and having already rationalized the perfect exploit in a split second.
If it really became good later, well, first impressions matter and it had a pretty bad one.
- Comment on Anon has learned enough 6 days ago:
O.o wait what.
- Comment on Anon has learned enough 6 days ago:
Bingo! Double ‘nothing but a walking stick’ carrier.
- Comment on Dandelion cannon 1 week ago:
Yeah, the last time this was posted I had to run to wikipedia because I was fuming at my memory being wrong. I even have vague memories from biology in college about the 8-cell formation of a fertilized plant ‘egg.’ The poster was likely trying to say that many plants don’t have ‘male-only’ and ‘female-only’ types, but at the very least, fruit bearing plants/trees (angiosperms, if I remember) have two sperm-equivalents in the pollen that drill down into the pistil of the flower and find the waiting gamete. One fertilizes, one becomes the food portion that we take sustenance from.
- Comment on Online Order Tracking Numbers Linked to 3rd Party Site Trackers 2 weeks ago:
Fucking hell, yes! These infuriate me. And not mildly, either! I sometimes wish I had a bot net that could ping their stupid systems so much that they’d suffer for routing tracking through their own internal system/service.
- Comment on Deserved honestly 2 weeks ago:
I’m imagining an italian fusion of country, where his pasta broke his heart, so his girlfriend broke it to make him feel better heart, which broke his heart again.
- Comment on Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account 2 weeks ago:
use the extension libredirect, one of which gets you to reddit scrapers that aren’t reddit.
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 2 weeks ago:
Thado-mathocist. The real chad all along.
It makes me wonder if somewhere out there in a multiverse, a community of lisping incels all collectively draw the chad wojak as as an aramaic looking dude.
- Comment on Thoughts?? 2 weeks ago:
Heh. I actually was using SPSS in 2010 for statistics. Weird memory resurfacing there.
- Comment on Anon's grandpa does his own research 2 weeks ago:
You don’t have to be curious anymore. You can summarize the entire argument rhetoric into, "Supported america in any way/shape/form, therefore bad. Must immediately dismantle imperial hegemony of terrible capitalistic empire.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 2 weeks ago:
people liking one game in the genre is a very poor predictor of whether they’ll like another one
I love survival/building games, and so do most of my friends. Even the terrible ones are usually fun. So I’d posit that it’s the opposite with a caveat: liking one for more than its story means you’ll enjoy the others.
I think it’s more indicative of games/hobbies as a whole than the survival genre specifically. People who love the adrenaline of a motorcycle may not enjoy the thrill of going down a mile high mountain on two thin sticks, IF it was the rumble of the engine beneath them that they actually enjoyed. If it was the rush of the speed though (or in the case of survival/building games, the exploration and struggle to stay alive and not lose your stuff), then they’ll likely enjoy the other adrenaline sports.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 2 weeks ago:
It’s horror in the sense that Bioshock was horror, but much less so. There are some areas with ‘tension’ that you pretty quickly become accustomed to, just as you would in a game where there is a ‘progression’ of areas where each area you move into is quite difficult at first until you get the resources and build the new items from that area.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 2 weeks ago:
It would make sense for it to be canon in the subnautica universe. I think they were pretty much the epitome of authors with an anvil with the references to economics and governing.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 3 weeks ago:
This isn’t paying to see a concert, play, or musical. This is buying a book for amazon’s e-reader, and them not allowing you to read the book anymore when they put out the book’s sequel.
- Comment on EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING 4 weeks ago:
fruit sugars are prolly fine
Fruits in general aren’t as good for you as general thinking have them. The majority have been bred to be so exaggerated in their sugar content that, as an example, you can’t feed pet primates fruit very often or they will get diabetes (without getting into the horrors that keeping primates as pets encompasses). You can quickly get an idea of this by searching for ‘wild strawberries vs grocery strawberries.’
The fibrous parts of fruits is good, the ‘nutritional’ aspects of them are decent, but the absolute black-hole-mass of sugar on the one side of the teeter-totter is a pretty big negative for them.
- Comment on EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING 4 weeks ago:
The get rich quick scheme I thought was well thought out, for the ‘in universe’ principles that had been laid out. One galleon converted to a lot of copper, so the mary sue could take gold from the muggle world, get it made into galleons in the wizard world, trade those for a metric shit ton of copper knuts, and then take those to the muggle world to be sold for a much larger sum of money than had been used to buy the gold.
As long as you don’t expect it to work forever, it would be fine. The writing was terrible, but the character established all the nuts and bolts of the operation by ‘just asking’ questions to the diagetic narrator: pure gold was able to be made into galleons for a fee, banks would give you your money in knuts if you asked, and the prices would work for it.
- Comment on Please remember to spread the word about this :( 5 weeks ago:
F you.
spoiler
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- Comment on Anon remembers moot 5 weeks ago:
Forced doxxed him? Everybody on 4chan knew who he was from the beginning. He went to the conventions. Hell, the classic meme reply to newfags explaining what a troll was used him as the template!
- Comment on *tap tap tap* 5 weeks ago:
And we’re all jealous of woody the woodpecker on this glorious summer day.
- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 5 weeks ago:
Damnit! My secret-keeping low volume speakers have foiled me again!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Damn, how do they get the price of the ink so low? I would kill for large size prints of my guts innards for $5.
- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 5 weeks ago:
That always made me do a double take in hades. Everytime he was called ‘prince zed’ by sisyphus I had to take a second to think about what was being said.
- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 5 weeks ago:
You’re gay and canadian? Notice me, senpai!
>.>
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You did drop the t to a glottal stop in your last glass of water, though, just saying! :P
- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 5 weeks ago:
Wait until you learn why it’s called epinephrine. Then you’ll really roll your eyes.