Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
11hr ago
Oh, what the hell.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
In a sort of "it isn't money that's the root of all evil, it's love of money" way?
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
I'm not sure if you're getting how big of a mania this is. People ended up bullied out of certain amateur forums for merely using AI illustrations.
I've seen the unironic take on some D&D forums that if you want an image of your character and can't afford to commission custom art, it is more moral to search Pinterest/Deviantart/whatever and download an image that looks kind of like what you imagine, rather than "use AI and steal from the artists it's trained on".
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
How about the appeal of legos? But there's also a mode where instead of just having all the legos you want, you have to hunt for/create them, following a gameplay loop, with just enough adversarial events (monsters) to keep you from getting complacent too easily.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
It did lead to the weird situation where Trump entered office as the first non-incumbent who was not opposed to gay marriage.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
I always assumed that was less as anti-tax sentiment and more as a misleading "this is a low price (oops no you'll be paying more than what we said once tax is applied)". Same with car ads: "Taxes, tags, and fees extra".
Mantergeistmann
11d ago
LotRO and GW2 do it, but in separate ways: LotRO has the way you describe it, your cosmetic outfit vs your gear, whereas GW2 has transmog, which changes the appearance of thr piece of gear itself. I have a hunch FFXIV does something similar as well based purely on what I've heard of fashion in that game. I'd assume it's becoming more and more popular in MMOs in general, but I don't know how much it exists outside of that realm (other than things like e.g. BG3's camp clothes vs adventuring gear swap).
Mantergeistmann
12d ago
As I said, not seeking to help his case, merely indulging my inner pedant.
"Your honor, my client could not have committed this robbery, as he was clearly seen committing wire fraud elsewhere at the time".
Mantergeistmann
12d ago
TIL that should I ever venture onto Pornhub, all the videos will be about cleaning the grout in your bathroom, weeding the garden, the precise temperature at which your roast is perfectly cooked, and giving that mucky wall a good scrub.
Or, to quote Field & Stream,
"Although written many years ago, Lady Chatterley's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press, and this fictional account of the day-to-day life of an English gamekeeper is still of considerable interest to outdoor minded readers, as it contains many passages on pheasant raising, the apprehending of poachers, ways to control vermin, and other chores and duties of the professional gamekeeper.
"Unfortunately, one is obliged to wade through many pages of extraneous material in order to discover and savor these sidelights on the management of a Midlands shooting estate, and in this reviewer's opinion this book cannot take the place of J.R. Miller's Practical Gamekeeping".
Mantergeistmann
13d ago
At some point, I really need to do an effortpost on Admiral Rickover's infamous interviews of candidates for the US nuclear navy. He already knew their technical qualifications, so it was a matter of seeing what sort of person he was dealing with.
Mantergeistmann
13d ago
I will admit to overusing that pun, but I shall never apologise for it.
Mantergeistmann
13d ago
I see no reason why they should be taught as "afflictions" any more than, say, being left-handed.
I dunno, being left-handed sounds kind of sinister to me.
Mantergeistmann
17d ago
Why is the Pope Predictor bullish on Robert Prevost?
Mantergeistmann
18d ago
When you put a bird-feeder in your yard, you don't get to complain when it attracts birds.
I mean, I complain about the starlings. I like most of the birds that show up.
Mantergeistmann
19d ago
I work in a... medium? (Maybe 1000-ish people per location per city; no building above three or four stories) that's insanely high trust (vetted engineers) and yet...
Mantergeistmann
19d ago
At least we got to read weekly educational flyers posted in the bathroom about Testing on the Toilet (alongside other flyers asking engineers to remember to flush...)
Is it something about engineers, or just people in general? We had signs plastered everywhere in the bathrooms reminding our engineers "don't flush things down the toilet that aren't toilet paper, you know how often it breaks and that's the cause, what's wrong with you?"
Mantergeistmann
20d ago
It's entirely possible the dude repeated a combination of sounds back at the officer without really understanding what he was saying
To quote My Cousin Vinny, "I shot the clerk!?"
Mantergeistmann
20d ago
I've been tempted to recommend that my company (which makes a very big deal about LGBTQ equality) just go to completely gender-neutral bathrooms all around, but I feel like it'd be stirring up far too much trouble (even if I personally would be unironically in favor of that decision, so it's not entirely a bad-faith recommendation), and I'm not ready for an early retirement.
Mantergeistmann
20d ago
Yes, actually, I will.
Mantergeistmann
20d ago
Ah, yes. The Comanche, according to wikipedia were "nomadic traders" up until... "As European Americans encroached on their territory, the Comanche waged war on the settlers and raided their settlements, as well as those of neighboring Native American tribes."
Mantergeistmann
20d ago
Re-adjust a bit, but not too far given that the source is The Daily Caller.
Mantergeistmann
20d ago
I would expect gang member conviction to carry a higher burden of proof than asylum proceedings, personally...
Mantergeistmann
20d ago
I liked the way Admiral Richardson discussed it:
the term “denial,” as in “anti-access/area denial” is too often taken as a fait accompli, when it is, more accurately, an aspiration. Often, I get into A2AD discussions accompanied by maps with red arcs extending off the coastlines of countries like China or Iran. The images imply that any military force that enters the red area faces certain defeat – it’s a “no-go” zone! But the reality is much more complex. Achieving a successful engagement requires completion of a complex chain of events, each link of which is vulnerable and can be interrupted. Those arcs represent danger, to be sure, and the Navy is going to be very thoughtful and well prepared as we address them, but the threats are not insurmountable.
Mantergeistmann
21d ago
I also like supercavitating torpedoes because I have not put my inner eight-year-old to death.
The trick is to age up to an inner 18-year-old, and enjoy Arpeggio of Blue Steel.
However, I am not sure China has gotten their submarine force in good enough shape for it to be a solid option for them.
Which, I think, is a big part of why the USN is more concerned with Russian submarines, and why they're still confident the death of the carrier is yet again over-predicted: as long as they can avoid being torpedoed, everything else they can figure out some way to deal with, even if that's just limping back to port after taking a hit.
I think Benedict had 3:1 odds at one point. Francis was a bit less likely, but he had been noted in the previous election as having some support, so it wasn't out of the blue.
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