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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He Has Arrived⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, he had such a bad experience with it that he doesn’t want to talk about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good luck, space cowboy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that definitely became the creator’s favorite way to stretch things out. The Wano arc had one big fight toward the end that went on for around 80 episodes… There were several different people fighting in different locations, but it was still way too long. I haven’t seen the “One Pace” edit that someone else brought up in this thread, but it sounds like it cut out a lot of that unnecessary filler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good luck, space cowboy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That was near the start of Dressrosa, which was a pretty long arc with a lot of fight episodes that seemed to just be the same back and forth stalemate over and over again. It’s unfortunately just a few arcs before the Wano arc that does the same thing to an even greater extent, unfortunately. The filler was already starting to wear on me by that point, but those 2 arcs took it to an extreme. Luckily, it seems that the creator has realized this as well, and the arc after Wano is a nice quick pace with plenty of stuff going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t watch no scrubs. Scrubs is a show you won’t find on my TV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good luck, space cowboy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I love it, but the length is certainly a hurdle. It took me years to get through the anime, and there were several points where it felt like it took multiple episodes to make even the most minor progress in the story. Still, though, the story itself is great, and it seems that recently things are back to the snappy pace that the beginning of the show used to have, at least where the dub leaves off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Truth about schizophrenia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  …what? It’s not hard to get your hands on a copy of the DSM-5…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That’s just unrealistic… too few poop breaks.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t, but my boss doesn’t have to know that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Small but mighty! Remembering the GameCube, Nintendo’s purple box of delights⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d highly recommend the picoloader if you ever want to mod it. It was surprisingly easy to install.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I found it just a few days before they posted their last comic. I was very sad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have all experienced this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Me on my lunch break at the job I’ve been at for 7 years, surrounded by people I know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The irony of arguing with someone who read about it in a history book vs. you having lived it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, human memory sucks. If someone tells me that something I remember clearly was totally wrong, it’s likely enough that they’re right that I have to look into it every time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy 25th Birthday to the Nintendo GameCube!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gamecube was the first time I had a console that was still relevant! For the first time I could talk with my friends about games they were actually currently playing, instead of constantly bringing up games they hadn’t touched in years. I just dug my gamecube back out and hacked it a couple months ago, and have been having a blast replaying Phantasy Star Online again! PS2 will always be my favorite console, but gamecube was definitely a good one too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shut Up Boomer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The pre-boomer generations didn’t just complain, they physically fought for and defended their rights, and the elite feared them for it.

  Then the elite changed tactics - either out of fear or strategy, they gave the boomers everything they wanted, and raised a generation of people who didn’t have to fight, but felt entitled to what their forefathers had fought for anyway.

  In turn, the boomers gave rise to generations of people who thought fighting was unnecessary and harmful. Now the elite are back to tearing down rights again, and not only do we not fight, but we can’t even agree that it’s necessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨9/11⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still get the theme song stuck in my head every so often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The White House removed a MAGA-themed game called Build the Wall from its website after the Tetris Company issues a statement online alluding to copyright infringement⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The government doesn’t care what you want. Politicians only care about themselves, which is why we need to make sure that they’re only safe and happy when we’re safe and happy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We being set up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically I was simplifying it a bit. What it actually does is add 1x normal damage, so one use gives x2 your normal attack, 2 uses gives x3, and 3 uses gives x4. After that it does nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We being set up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Swords dance is a move in Pokemon where your opponent does no damage, but doubles their attack power, allowing them to deal twice as much damage every subsequent turn so long as that Pokemon stays in the battle. A small decrease in damage dealt now in exchange for more damage dealt later.

  Most children play Pokemon with a simple goal to attack every turn, and don’t pay attention to what non-attacking moves do, and they view all such moves as a waste of a turn, represented by the bored spongebob. Adults playing Pokemon better understand strategy, and realize that the opponent becomes much more threatening after using swords dance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not saying you should...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like a normal ice cream scoop, but square. The connotation is that you can use it to make building-shaped scoops of ice cream to put on the twin-scoop cone to make twin towers. Not sure how a square scoop would actually work, though. The round ones work by having a thin metal strip scrape the inside of the spoon to dislodge the ice cream when you squeeze the lever on the handle, but I can’t imagine a shape with corners would be able to use such a mechanism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I GOT THE MOVES LIKE JAGGER⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What, do you think the crew is just going to sit there when this guy is the only thing keeping them from leaving? As soon as everything else keeping them from taking off is resolved they’ll politely tap him on the shoulder to let him know to put the guitar away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finding a job tier list:⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my experience it’s a high B.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the fuck are you awake, don't have have work in like 3 hours???⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most get filtered automatically by my phone, but even the ones that get through never happen in the middle of the night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the fuck are you awake, don't have have work in like 3 hours???⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I have heard that before. I interpreted it more as advocating getting up with your alarm instead of hitting snooze a million times, but this makes more sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the fuck are you awake, don't have have work in like 3 hours???⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, my wife swears by it, but I’m lucky to be able to fall back asleep really easily, so it doesn’t bother me much to be woken up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the fuck are you awake, don't have have work in like 3 hours???⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, gotcha. I don’t use other social media, so I wasn’t aware that there were already people advocating for getting up early. I suppose it’s not a difficult conclusion to come to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the fuck are you awake, don't have have work in like 3 hours???⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I use the word emergency kinda loosely; I just mean I want to be available if someone needs help. Like one time a friend’s car broke down driving back from a party and he texted me around 2am, well past my bedtime, to see if I was still up to help. He would’ve called an uber and dealt with it in the morning if I hadn’t responded, since he didn’t want to wake me up, but I was happy to help anyway, so I just pretended that I’d been awake to keep him from feeling bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the fuck are you awake, don't have have work in like 3 hours???⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, if I get a text in the middle of the night, it’s going to wake me up, and I’m going to check it in case there’s an emergency. It’s why I don’t put my phone on do not disturb mode. Even if it’s not an emergency I’ll probably respond if it’s a quick thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the fuck are you awake, don't have have work in like 3 hours???⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I started getting up early to do fun stuff before work, but I honestly eventually found that getting chores done instead actually makes me feel even better! I get up at 5, work out, take a shower, do some Japanese lessons, pack my wife a lunch, and clock in by 6:30. Then when I’m done with work I’m done with everything for the day. I think the calmness of the early hours helps me focus and keeps my brain from thinking of all the other things I’d rather be doing, plus I’m still half asleep when I start working out, so I do my first set completely on auto pilot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do we punish people when nothing bad happened ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I kinda get what you’re saying. I can’t remember how many times my parents would yell at me as a kid for climbing too high up a tree or swimming too far past the shore, and I always came back. I knew what I could handle, and made sure I didn’t go further than I was able, but my parents could only understand what they could see, and they didn’t trust that I was able to handle it. The issue is that they had no way to know what I knew, and they can’t do their job of keeping me safe by trusting that I knew what I was doing, because if I was wrong and got hurt, we’d all pay the price.

  Different people carry different risks, even when performing the same task. A professional driver is a safer driver than a teenager with a permit. The question is how much risk we’re willing to allow before we say it’s too much. The law is there to make sure that everyone is safe, and so everyone has to operate at the same level. The sacrifice we make is that, for example, the professional driver who could probably drive safely at 100 mph in a 60mph zone has to drive at 60 mph, because the teenager with a permit is barely able to drive safely at 60, and if we let the professional drive 100, we’d have to let the teenager drive 100, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do we punish people when nothing bad happened ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re bad because the path that led to Trump began a long time ago, but nobody cared until something bad happened. We must identify situations that have too high of a risk to cause something bad to happen, like unsafe driving habits, unchecked capitalism, and prejudice, and find ways to prevent them before something bad happens. The world can’t function by only reacting to bad things when they happen - it has to work to prevent them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of jobs are easy on a day-to-day basis, but get hard every once in a while when some edge case comes up and you’ve gotta have a breadth of background knowledge of the field to handle it effectively. It’s why AI seems so useful to middle managers who don’t realize that edge cases exist; their employees can handle them without issue, but AI spits out total garbage and calls it done. I’d imagine librarians are indeed dealing with people looking for the latest fad book more often than not, but they still have to be prepared for the person coming in wanting to know all about insect phylogeny.