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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We being set up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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???⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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???⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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???⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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???⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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???⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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???⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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???⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose a major you love⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. I eventually found a job doing something that I don’t give a shit about, and turns out that’s the key to being happy at work, at least for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this true?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I think that’s why open world games are so divisive. Some people want the game to reward them for doing the things they’re supposed to do, while some people just view playing the game itself as the reward, and just do what they want within it. The prior hates how difficult it is to find and get to the next objective in an open world, while the latter doesn’t need or sometimes even want objectives, preferring to just be in the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pie in the face.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If we’re going back to when we actually put ourselves at risk to fight back against our overlords, I’d rather we go all the way back to when we’d burn their houses down - often with them inside - instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It do be like that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Steambot Chronicles! Still the best game I’ve ever played. Just finished up another playthrough a few weeks ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heh Heh Suckers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There were already plenty of examples to show that making people viscerally hate an arbitrary group of people is incredibly easy. The Stanford prison experiment is so well-known because it perfectly outlines our own innate desire to fit in, even when it means becoming evil, despite how much we want to convince ourselves that we’re above it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wanna be a maelstrom in 1714 C.E.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Got the same view last week, haha!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't have a plan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but being independent is still an important general life skill. You can rely on other people under normal circumstances, and that’s certainly not a bad thing, but there will always be scenarios in life where you need to figure things out for yourself. If you’re paralyzed with anxiety when that happens, that means there’s a skill you unfortunately were unable to learn that is now causing an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't have a plan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife’s cousin is in a similar situation. She never left home and got a job or a driver’s license because she was always too scared, and her mom always let that slide, since she didn’t want to make her daughter scared or uncomfortable.

  She thought her job was to protect her daughter from all the stresses of the world until she was ready, but failed to understand that she won’t be ready until she’s experienced some of those stresses in a controlled environment like most kids do when they’re in their teens and their parents push them to get a job and a license.

  It came from a place of kindness, but ended up being a major mistake that now both the kid and the parent are paying for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you too young to remember these?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember being so excited when my family got a box to convert composite cables to coaxial so they would work with our old TV. I got my friend to bring over his gamecube all the time until I finally got my own after a few months.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SBA #195 spo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can certainly think of some days that were bleak enough to not have any good sides; I prefer to think that all new days have potential, no matter how dark yesterday might’ve been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony's PlayStation Profits Rose 37% – Powered by Tariff Refunds, Not Game Sales⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rich and powerful people used their power to make themselves richer. What, you thought they would use their power to benefit us? How do you think they got it in the first place? The only reason powerful people ever did anything for our benefit is because we used to burn down the houses and other possessions of the powerful people that didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who was Trevor Moore⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good picture, but I would’ve preferred it if he looked happier and with his mouth open.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨take their money and arrest those responsible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I believe the main roadblock is the idea that change will need to happen at all. The sad truth is that most people are fine with contributing to climate change so long as they can keep doing what they’re accustomed to doing.

  The only way I can see for meaningful climate action to happen is to get people on board with regulation polluters while allowing them to be ignorant to the fact that lifestyle changes will have to follow, and then when they’re forced to adapt, they will. People are much better at changing when they can’t afford not to than when they have the option to just keep on doing what they always have.

  People are also a lot more likely to make sacrifices to keep up momentum after a win like regulating polluters; few people are going to change first when they can see a company like Shell - polluting more every day than they have in their entire lives - going unchecked. A change has to happen to give them hope that the climate can even be saved before they try to make changes themselves to save it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I won’t be turning mine on, but that’s only because I recently hacked my GameCube, so I’ll be playing that until I decide to go back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re both right. He had good intentions, but good intentions implemented in bad ways can be - and often are - just as harmful as bad intentions. If you want to be beneficial for society, you can’t just hope for the best: you need to actively assess whether your actions are helping, and course correct if they aren’t. It’s a tiresome, often thankless job, but it’s required to do actual good.