theneverfox
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- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Sea of Sorrow Teaser 18 hours ago:
What the shit??? Fucking team Cherry, they always hit you out of nowhere…
- Comment on too soon? 19 hours ago:
You really never know until you’re in the moment.
I was once in a situation like that… When people started screaming I was already carrying my niece under one arm (who was a preteen no longer usually carried) and bringing her to my stepdad and telling him to get her out of here. I didn’t realize what I was doing, I didn’t hear her asking me what was happening until I was power walking towards the screaming and telling my mom (a nurse) who asked what to do that she should follow me to see if there was something to be done
Turns out a woman offed herself in a bathroom, there was nothing to be done. I snapped out of it, and I was more disturbed by how calm I was during the whole thing than anything else
But now I know. My mind will shut off and I’ll act…I have the memory of what I did, but not a single thought went through my head during the event. I was equally ready to fight someone with a gun barehanded or to cover my hands in blood to slow the bleeding. I probably would barely notice getting shot in that state
I guess I always thought I’d be the heroic type, but lots of people do. I’m shocked at how effective I was in the moment… My priorities were followed perfectly, I locked the fuck in, head empty, no thoughts, no hesitation
I think that’s always what it’s like. And that’s why you never really know… I’m not a leader, in fact my step dad is and I hate telling people what to do. But when the chips are down, I bark orders that people obey and run towards the danger automatically
And I’m pretty proud of that
- Comment on MDs please verify. 1 day ago:
Learning to read was a mistake
- Comment on too soon? 1 day ago:
You really never know until the moment comes. If you’re that kind of person, your mind just blanks and you’re suddenly doing things
- Comment on ELI5 why I logically understand McDonald's food is low quality and bad for me but I crave it like crack? 2 days ago:
Oh, I’d feel nauseous lol, those nuggets are so gross and I don’t really like the fries
- Comment on megashark literature 3 days ago:
Unironically, yes. Creations turning against their creators, classic. The wizard was probably set up as the personalization of some force or ideal, like a Greek god
And let me guess… This led events that set up some kind of call to adventure for a hero, who initially ignores the warning signs until something bad happens, then he goes on a journey through a wider world than he could ever have imagined, and after defeating the villain and/or ending the threat he returns home changed?
That’s a total shot in the dark, I have no idea what movie you’re talking about, but in modern storytelling we usually have an A and B plot. And the heroes journey is by far the most common story in media
How close was I? And what’s the movie?
- Comment on megashark literature 3 days ago:
I always say it’s about 12…
- Comment on megashark literature 3 days ago:
It’s kinda true, but incomplete. There’s twelve stories that we’ve told each other since antiquity
- Comment on Look at this. Or don't. 5 days ago:
Think of it like this…a photon is both a wave, and the smallest discrete unit of energy
When the wave is absorbed by something, the energy must be transferred. But the smallest unit of energy is the full photon, and so the full amount of energy of the wave is absorbed at a single point, because there’s no such thing as partial photons
Or in other words, the wave doesn’t turn into a particle, the energy gets spent at a single point in space
Really, I think all of quantum physics works like this. Electrons don’t exist as a point in space, they exist in an area. They’re fields, they’re not necessarily moving fast, which is why atoms don’t randomly slip through each other and we can’t measure all the properties of it at once
- Comment on Powerbar 6 days ago:
I laughed at that way harder then I should’ve
- Comment on You guys had a peak? 1 week ago:
I agree with this, but just because I was around people my age with lots of free time
Freedom doesn’t work when the people around you aren’t free
- Comment on I care when it affects deez nutz... 1 week ago:
Which is basically irrelevant, since you need to dope the recycled plastic with fresh plastic for most applications and no one is doing this at a meaningful scale
And even if we did scale it up, this just means the amount of plastic use will continue to increase. We’d have to find uses for the lower strength and quality plastic even
- Comment on The Sensory Biology of Plants 1 week ago:
That’s basically just how it is though. This meme is not at all supported by science
- Comment on The Fuck Jar 1 week ago:
It’s part of ki. Uniting your breath and your movements is actually huge - the other part is moving your muscle groups in unison
The two things combined give you an absurd effective strength multiplier
- Comment on I support this 1 week ago:
Yeah, and a simple arm movement could put it back
It’s proportional
- Comment on I support this 1 week ago:
No? I just expect acknowledgement. Just a little head nod or basically any sound
I’m not a doorman. I’m holding the door so you feel like you’re in a slightly friendlier world, I didn’t have to do this. I don’t expect others to do it for me, but my day gets a little better when they do.
These little interactions are how a society feels friendly. It’s the fabric of civilization
When you walk through like you’re entitled to have doors held for you, then fuck you. You’re snubbing someone trying to make the world a slightly friendlier place
- Comment on I support this 1 week ago:
Yes? Obviously? Someone else got mildly publicly embarrassed for not being polite to a stranger
As someone who does the little things like hold the door for others, I think to myself “okay, asshole” every time doesn’t acknowledge it. It makes me just a little more hesitant to do it in the future
When someone does get called out for it, it’s incredibly vindicating. Even seeing it second hand is validating
There’s such a thing as a good Karen. Society does need Karens, but we need them to call out people making the world a worse place in little ways like this
- Comment on I support this 1 week ago:
Yeah, but social punishment for rudeness is how you get a world where strangers are polite to each other
Causing a tiny inconvenience for yourself is worth it
- Comment on ELI5 why I logically understand McDonald's food is low quality and bad for me but I crave it like crack? 1 week ago:
Because your diet sucks. A few months of eating only unprocessed food and you’d probably eat McDonald’s exactly one more time in your life
And I do specifically mean McDonald’s… It’s uniquely disgusting, even among fast food. It tastes like it’s reconstituted food scraps doped with sugar
- Comment on Shut up science!! 1 week ago:
… What?
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s golden retrievers, they’re basically required to keep them from getting an anxiety disorder
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 2 weeks ago:
Cheetahs aren’t dangerous, they’re big zoomy cats
Since they min-maxed for speed, they’re not very strong and don’t really fight for their food, they get bullied easily
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 2 weeks ago:
It’s not. Maybe they’ll fail, maybe it can’t math out, but it’s not vaporware
- Comment on Honestly wtf? 2 weeks ago:
Limited trade… There were full on global trade networks through most of human history. Ironically, not as much across the Atlantic, because civilization in the Americas was centered on the West coast
But you find all sorts of stuff turning up everywhere. Not much of it, and most of it is lost to history, but enough to establish that global trade networks were the norm and not the exception
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 2 weeks ago:
It seems promising, they’re acting like they’re close. They’ve been promising concrete deliverables, I think they’re supposed to have a working model that can actually capture the energy next year
You never know, but they’re called Triton if you want to check them out. They don’t share progress often, but when they do it seems pretty candid about their progress
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 2 weeks ago:
Because sometimes you feel like doing a little trolling, and it’s better to ethically source your trolling
- Comment on We have just released a grand DLC, War Sails, for our game, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t anymore… It crashed like 5x today, and that’s not including the times where it froze for 5+ minutes and recovered
- Comment on Another angle of this modern art installation 2 weeks ago:
Are you sure you’re not talking about a traffic circle?
Roundabouts have specific rules, not every circular intersection is a roundabout
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 2 weeks ago:
Have you heard of Slate? They sound a lot like what you’re looking for
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
That’s kinda how therapy works. It’s 90% getting you talking, and 10% offering compensation strategies they’ve heard before