Also it's impossible to dislike a card whose art goes that hard. That wasn't just "draw the meme," the artist understood the assignment.
Also it's impossible to dislike a card whose art goes that hard. That wasn't just "draw the meme," the artist understood the assignment.
Find a new streamer, everything seems fun and chill, you're grooving, and then it turns out they have a sub alert that's 2 minutes of noise overload looping on itself until the sensation is physically painful.
First time I learned to comment my code was when I was asked to go back to something TWO WEEKS after I wrote it and had to untangle my own thoughts. It wasn't even complicated, just a couple of nested loops!
It was fun for me to see all the usual Varsity athletes at school and then I got my letter jacket as part of the chess team.
The Constitution is not in Heaven.
It certainly wouldn't hurt, but I would argue that if you're trying to do a "best practices" standard to make it easy for people to not engage with stuff they don't want to engage with then hiding the terms so they need to engage more to find them seems counterproductive.
I run into this issue with the puppy play people. I'm not opting out of cute doggos.
I used to keep a book on top of my cpap machine after my cat learned that stepping on the power button got him attention. Eventually he forgot again.
Always great when that sort of thing also tastes good!
All I ask is that folks tag things well so that I CAN use filters.
Also related, in one moment of frustration I described Gaza as "a proxy war where white folks on the other side of the planet argue which ethnic group it's morally right to throw rocks at."
In other areas I've drifted into a memetic bubble of people saying stuff like "it's okay, he'll die soon" and all I can say is "you think when that happens the bad stuff will *stop*?"
Took me half a block to catch the joke, and I had to turn around for a photo.
And nothing will stop when he does.
Too many people talking about the problems with the current world as if a single person is the cause rather than a symptom and as soon as they're out we don't have to worry about it any more.
The jumpscare children get a lot of people.
The fondness is because it's one of the few times I can remember someone else getting their head stuck into video games as deeply as we did.
I fondly remember a friend calling us up because of that game. She'd gotten most of the way through, didn't know which brother to trust, and was terrified of choosing wrong. She knew we'd already played the game and called us for help.
Oh Lord I'd forgotten about that.
The Mario Land 2 "obey Wario, DESTROY Mario" commercial sure sticks in my head.
The AC placement is a relic of global warming. This apartment holds heat very well in the winter, but in the summer they put the AC in the farthest corner with no airflow because 20 years ago its only purpose was another 50 bucks a month rent.
My AC unit has a remote and I put a Command velcro strip on it to just keep it on the AC unit so I don't lose it. Not useful for my situation, it's line-of-sight and my AC is installed in a place such that if I can see it I can just reach out and press buttons.
My high school mascot was the Toppers. This aint my first rodeo. As far as I can tell there's been at least 40 years of adults pretending not to know what people are giggling about.
Yeah, the general stance has been "don't make it our problem, dangit" which has to get hauled out every time new content comes out and the world-firsters stream with mods active like idiots. This current Mare stuff has a lot of information confusion and assumptions.
I got it taken care of, but sure would've been easier with the right tools and a truck like those guys had.
Mom got some trees taken down a few years back and told the tree folks "just leave them, my son will move them across the 4 acres to the firewood pile next time he visits." When I challenged her about this later she claims that she panicked and defaulted to "nice" instead of "employer".
Just happened to have his pants off, slipped, and fell directly on the hate crime.
I love telling people who go off about gender-neutral changing rooms that they've been around for at LEAST 40 years. That's how long I've been using them anyway, I'm shy and like the single-person showers and curtains at the swimming pool.
Intentionally culling them, poking back into paper I don't want to end up with longboxes in the attic like last time. Just gonna get some sleeves for an "I think they look neat" binder and sell the rest.
I remember when my brother pointed out it's the same as saying "smooth move Einstein" and suddenly it clicked for me.
We had chimes in elementary school, I can't recall if we did after that. I got a letter jacket for chess, which isn't common. They had a few non-varsity things that counted for that, and we had a very good chess team.
This is advice I keep giving to people. Ask AI about things you know. Don't try to guide it to an answer, don't go for obvious stuff, aim for the nuances and misunderstandings. Look at how confidently it can state something that's nonsense or maybe even damaging.
Feels like someone put their target advertising audience into an LLM and didn't proofread.
I originally got it as a gift for my dad but he said he preferred his version with the jacket and maps torn by excited children's hands, chewed cover, and a lot of memories.
My Silmarillion's only from 2001, but I've got a copy of the trilogy from 1965. Walked into the store, saw the same book covers my dad taught me to read from, and it was maybe the fastest hundred bucks I ever spent.
@mtgarena.com this message from you guys didn't have anything more to read, it was just a blind link to my account page with an "optin=true" flag at the end. That is NOT okay! What the Hell? It ruins the entire purpose of opt-in. What was I just tricked into agreeing to?
It's easy to find doomsayers on the internet, to help counter that what's something you genuinely liked about each of the last... let's say 5 main sets?
"Oh no, I'm not a manager. I just manage somehow."
Mainly despite being labeled as some sort of clock, SPF is a measure of percentage. SPF 30, 50, or 200 are all going to wear off at about the same time when used the same, it's how much they cover during that time.
Poking around I think the answer is "in a spherical cow universe this is what it means, but there's enough complications that all you can be sure of is more SPF means more protection."
Even official sunscreen websites misstate this.
A few weeks ago I said I got a similar vibe from the Undertale fandom and people from both got mad at me. Not about media quality, just the intensity of the fans and going deep into niche references with the assumption they're universally understood.
I need to start intentionally placing difficult orders for delivery apps when I'm awake and together so I can learn the process for when I'm out of sorts. Got a message at 7AM that Safeway made a substitution and I had until 7:15 to approve it. On at 7:02. No way on the site to do anything.
Never in my life have I had both an empty CD-RW spindle and a bagel in need of storage.
My apartment has some off echoes, and some of them cut out most of the frequencies. Mostly I can adjust, but I wish lawnmowers or other machinery outside didn't make it sound like a grinding noise is coming DIRECTLY from my PC tower.
I always enjoy in speedrun stuff like GDQ when someone will mention "this looks straightforward but it took me a solid week to learn the timing" and such.
If I remember right the issue in Oregon was particularly that they were trying to jump the queue. In times of water shortages priority goes to certain people like the Native Tribes, depending on local details, and "we want to sell it to city folk" doesn't count.
We've had similar in Oregon in the past with Nestle, and back in my time in New Mexico there would occasionally be some fuss about Intel and others.
I once got to live the dream of telling a kid going on about locals "I moved here before you were born, I outrank you."
Do they always try to do this in deserts, or do we just not hear about it when they try to build in, say, Georgia?
Yeah, one of those things that made more sense without other context when I typed it than when I reread it.
Yeah, I mean that people who say "bigotry is bad, I am not bad, therefore I am not bigoted" are not taking that first step and just expecting to wind up in a better place somehow.
The first step to progress is acknowledging where you are. Only then can you decide it's not where you want to be.
When my dad died in 2018 one cousin couldn't make it because his fiancee's dad had just died, and then two months later another cousin's husband lost his mother. Not putting more load on any one person, but we were swapping trauma advice back and forth.
I saw a shiny pacific chorus frog once. Sky blue instead of the usual shades of green. They don't survive long in the wild since they don't camouflage well, if I'd know that at the time I'd have tried to catch it for my local wildlife refuge, at least long enough to ask them.
Every chile season I get 6 or 7 pounds of Hatch green chiles, dice them up and put them in the freezer. A handful of that tossed into boxed mac and cheese or cheap ramen tastes amazing and really helps add nutrition on those days I can't be bothered to meal properly.
The Muskrat claimed that people were making fake accounts to spam it and drive up Twitter's phone bills or something.
I like Portland when it rains, I like Portland when it's sunny, but when the clouds come in and just sit there for a week without doing anything it feels like a massive weight is sitting on my soul.
Back in my day it was the War on Drugs. Local police and Feds didn't like the school's policy of "if something goes wrong we want people worried about getting help rather than getting in trouble" and we had a few standoffs where they backed the words up with action.
Just got a notice from my private alma mater that their director of campus security gave info on a protestor to the FBI without a warrant and they're now suspended for investigation. This fits with what I saw 20 years ago, glad they still have the students' backs.
Kirtland, White Sands, or one I don't know about?
Campus Security has a history of standoffs with both the Feds and local police going back to before I was there 25 years ago. On multiple occasions they have prioritized the students/alums and had our backs with more than just words. So this is a big deal.
Bad news: the head of campus security at my alma mater gave info to the Feds about an alum who was at an ICE protest with no warrant. Good news: the college has suspended the person pending investigation, this strongly goes against their policies Better news: it wasn't the person I know workingthere
I saw "Summer Rumble Slam" on the schedule and immediately turned it into the Sumbleslam.
A Hindu
You have no idea who you're talking to, do you?
You can take the atheist out of the Christianity, but you can't take the Christian hegemony out of the atheist.
Watching Electric Company reruns as a kid (I think they repeated on Sesame Street) my dad perked up and said "that's Tom Lehrer!" He excitedly told us about him and we excitedly listened. That Christmas we got two of his CDs and said "thanks. Who's Tom Lehrer?" Still loved them.
Yeah, definitely.
I bounced off that gameplay loop hard for the communication issues, my friend didn't so I got the story through him.
Yeah it's a weird one. Gives you a "this going up is bad and will make you die" bar but it turns out what it actually wants you do is use the bar to fail forwards past bosses in order to power up on replay and be able to get further without using it. Makes for weird time pressure issues.
I have an appointment I can't miss early tomorrow and for some reason my brain decided to worry about it all of last night and wake up TODAY fully ready for action.
I've been dealing with this from some takes from people who helped raise me. They're part of the reason I am who I am today, how is it so different from who they are today?!
Turned out my dorm-mates had caught the guy in the act but didn't know whose bike it was so couldn't let me know until I noticed. They had most of the pieces stashed in the closet, unfortunately missing one critical one but at least it could be repurposed for spare parts.
Back in college I got back from a Thanksgiving trip, idly looked down from my dorm's balcony and saw my bike's handlebars and a wheel hanging from the lock. The thieves had gone at the thing with a wrench to remove everything not attached.
I remember similar stuff with FF and Dragonstorm
I've been down that rabbit hole before, and the response I hears from Brits was "of course that's how you do it". They didn't see a disconnect in different rules for driving. An interesting case of taking "the way we were taught" and calling it "intuitive", then trying to translate.
*sigh* my hometown rabbi and other people who helped raise me are having a fight in the local paper about Israel and my mother just looped me in seemingly in support of the letter I find most offputting. I need to figure out how to probe this.
What if we made MtG pink?
When I lost weight it didn't really sink in until I was carrying a bunch of groceries home from the supermarket and realized how familiar it felt. Used to have that load on me all the time.
File that with any service that wants me to turn off my adblock.
If you're really into fashion, for example, pretty much every clothing brand or trend is going to have some place specifically catering to them. Until you get really niche, anyway.
Thinking about it more, one factor is going to be that they're fan subjects that easily encourage some really niche interests but aren't big enough to support a store only for that niche. So someone starts working there for their obsession and then "we have to carry this junk."
What is it about music, comic, and board game stores that has clerks making fun of you for buying something they sell?
I'm not sure if this is a one-off "all sorts of stuff ends up at the Eternities" or a hint at future sets like how there were single dragons in the sets leading up to Dragonstorm.
I've heard a large number of people doing set reviews say something along the lines of "this isn't bad in Limited. It's playable. I mean I never got results with it but..." We want to believe in the slivers.
That implies there's anyone who *isn't* a Weird Al fan. He's so sincerely earnest about it I can't imagine truly disliking his stuff beyond "I find the people into it annoying".
The gringos say the same about Jews.
I was worried when I'd started because the streams I'd seen had all been people trying to punch above their weight class so I thought the whole thing HAD to be parry or die.
In theory everything in that game is beatable with enough parries, but not in a fun way.
I just had this in clair obscur. One boss that pasted me, clearly out of my league. Walked around it to find another boss that was much more beatable. So I spent an hour trying to get that first one before giving up
Oglaf in a nutshell
Ooo, a gray nostril hair.
Which is fun when you're not in the major supply areas for that and are competing with collectors/soda connoisseurs. I found out last year that Lay's makes Passover potato chips as well.
It was fifteen years ago, but I think so. Treatment of animals by the film industry has gotten a lot better than it used to be, and still runs into problems sometimes.
That was my first experience recognizing something like that where the people filming either couldn't tell or didn't care.
I remember watching an episode of the old Mission Impossible TV show where one character used a pet cheetah cub to talk her way into a relationship with the mark. The camera shot it as "cat being cute" but that cat did NOT like what it was having to deal with.
Too real! Too real!
Speedrunners compete for how quickly they get back into it after retiring.
"This show was ahead of its time" no, we just keep struggling with the same things.