KoboldCoterie
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
Kobolds with a keyboard.
- Comment on Hell yeah. 2 days ago:
Seems completely plausible, as part of their rhetoric to turn people against drag queen story hour.
- Comment on Chill out 6 days ago:
Someone a long time ago pointed out that they likely do it on purpose just to bait engagement from people saying basically exactly what you’re saying, and I think about it every time either the ridiculous censoring, or this style of objection come up.
- Comment on I'll take it to all 2 place it goes! 1 week ago:
That price is certainly not representative of what was actually available when I was booking. There were $99 tickets but only if you wanted to leave at 5AM or arrive after 4PM. If you want to leave between 8-10AM and arrive at a reasonable time, there were no coach options and business class was $200+.
- Comment on I'll take it to all 2 place it goes! 1 week ago:
Train stations definitely have less bullshit, but it’s a 5h trip vs a 1h trip in this case. I could have spent 3 hours in the airport before the flight each way and added 30 minutes to get from the train station to the airport and back, and still saved time by flying.
- Comment on I'll take it to all 2 place it goes! 1 week ago:
We don’t have high speed rail, either, so that trip would only take you (by my understanding) about 1.5-2 hours.
- Comment on I'll take it to all 2 place it goes! 1 week ago:
I’ve had to take a train from Boston to NYC and back a few times. Round trip, it costs anywhere from $200 to $500 depending on whether you want to leave / arrive at a reasonable time or not, and it takes about 5 hours, which is slightly longer than driving takes. Incidentally I can fly from BOS to JFK round trip for about $200, assuming reasonably early booking, and the flight is about 1 hour. So this doesn’t surprise me at all.
- Comment on wxyz so overrated 🥱 1 week ago:
I’m actually curious how it’s sung in Spanish, they have a few extra letters in the critical range.
l, ll, m, n, ñ, o, p
I took Spanish in highschool but that was a long time ago. I vaguely recall learning a weird version of the alphabet song that starts with A, B, C, CH, D, E, F as the first grouping, but I can’t recall how it went past that.
- Comment on wxyz so overrated 🥱 1 week ago:
Elemenopee is the undisputed high point.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
A lot of it comes down to what you believe happens after you die. Personally, I believe we just stop existing, that nothing comes afterwards. I believe that when I die, it’ll be like going to sleep, I just won’t dream, and won’t wake up.
Going to sleep is, generally speaking, a very peaceful and pleasant experience. When I die, nothing going on in the world will matter anymore. All of my problems and worries will just instantly go away. Nothing I think matters actually will.
Personally, I find the prospect of there being nothing after death to be immensely comforting. I don’t fear it at all.
- Comment on Choose wisely 2 weeks ago:
That sounds like a challenge.
- Comment on Fuckin' furries 4 weeks ago:
I mean there are literal websites devoted to all kinds of porn. Are you a prude about all of it, or only the furry sort? :P
- Comment on Fuckin' furries 4 weeks ago:
no one was able to describe to me wtf is this about simply put
Did you actually ask any furries? I’ve never met a furry who had a difficult time explaining that it’s a fandom for people who enjoy anthropomorphic animals. That’s all there is to it.
- Comment on Survey says... 5 weeks ago:
Rather than re-allocating their money across every human on earth, why not allocate it inversely proportional to the net worth of the recipient (and maybe also local currency conversion rate), to uplift the poorest folks?
Could probably choose a lower number, too - say, $100M. Nobody needs anywhere remotely close to that.
- Comment on Having a bad day? 1 month ago:
In all fairness, it’s in no way required to own a fursuit to be a furry. :) It’s only as expensive as you want it to be.
- Comment on Scary indeed. 1 month ago:
Because gamers have a finite amount of time and money? New releases are literally competing for both of those.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This is me, too. Even if I enjoy the trip itself, “having a trip planned” but not being on the trip yet is the most stressful time of the whole ordeal, and the stress only increases the nearer to the day of the trip it gets.
- Comment on Sexy Spyro 1 month ago:
When you get an image with the mouth open and it’s alarmingly detailed, that’s when you can be absolutely sure.
- Comment on The T in LGBT actually stands for Thagomiser 1 month ago:
Yeah, I don’t know about that. The top left one, on the other hand…
- Comment on Anon is judging you 1 month ago:
If you’re gooning to the characters, you’d probably enjoy the movie, to be honest!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
IDK, WDYM?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Video game travel always has that weird feel to it, too. For instance, in the Morrowind / Oblivion / Skyrim, you can run from one city to another in roughly a minute. Even if we very generously assume you’re running at ~15 MPH (which would be crazy fast for any distance), that would put them about a quarter mile apart. At more realistic speeds, 1/8 or so.
- Comment on Delivery robots are spreading across LA. Residents ‘both pity and hate them’ 2 months ago:
Perhaps it is not the entire world who is stupid while you’re one of a select few intelligent enough to really know what’s going on.
I’m not sure where you got the impression that that was at all what I was saying, but just to restate, the complaint was that the above points never even make it into the conversation when this comes up. The discourse is always ‘Robots are taking away our jobs’, and it completely misses the ‘…and that would be okay if we took steps to ensure everyone’s prosperity’ followup.
I’m not saying we should stop opposing this stuff because an alternative exists where it’s okay, I’m saying that we should be actively talking about that alternative every time this comes up, because the vast majority of people [in the US] are not used to even hearing it.
- Comment on Delivery robots are spreading across LA. Residents ‘both pity and hate them’ 2 months ago:
I agree with you, I just hate that it rarely ever even makes it into the conversation. “We need to regulate this new technology until we pass this other legislation that we are actively working towards which I will now outline” would be far more productive than just “This is bad and we need to ban it.”
- Comment on Delivery robots are spreading across LA. Residents ‘both pity and hate them’ 2 months ago:
The reasons related to them occupying sidewalks and whatnot are totally reasonable, but I really hate when something like this is opposed because it will take jobs from delivery drivers. That’s such a backwards way of thinking. “Humans need to work because working is how we make money and we need money to live” Sure, but like… what if we didn’t need money to live? What if the increased ‘free’ labor that things like this provide was just… shared equitably among everyone in the community? What if we had UBI so people didn’t need to work gig economy jobs that could be done by robots?
But no, that’s crazy talk.
- Comment on How come assassinations went away for the most part? Why send a bunch of god fearing young kids into a battle the upper class started or wanted when clipping one leader would stop it? 2 months ago:
Imagine you’re the leader of a country. You’ve got beef with the leader of another country.
You can resolve your beef by sending thousands or tens of thousands of plebs to die, while remaining safe yourself, or you can normalize directly targeting each other with assassins.
In the first case, you sit safely on your ivory throne sipping wine while the conflict resolves itself. In the latter case, you’re constantly looking over your shoulder, wondering who’s going to come for you next.
- Comment on Do young people still say words like "taped"? 2 months ago:
Taped as in, to record something on VHS.
- Comment on Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should 2 months ago:
Seriously, my first thought was, “Why isn’t this a thing?”
- Comment on When a judge tells the jury to ‘forget XYZ,’ how can the jury possibly do that? 2 months ago:
It could also, however, be legitimate evidence that proves guilt, but that was obtained through illegal means and therefore is inadmissible in court.
- Comment on i'mma breed you hotter 2 months ago:
We’re in a sadomasochistic relationship with chilis.
- Comment on Must have apps 2 months ago:
An even better option is Ventoy - You just drop the raw .isos onto the drive and it gives you all of them as options in a bootloader. Can put all of your distros on one drive (and even windows isos if you really need to for some reason).