Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
14hr ago
It's interesting to me that he doesn't consider the point of captcha fights to be attrition - ideally to me, an RPG should be slowly grinding away your resources as you approach the boss, maybe even forcing you to withdraw and come back another day, refreshed and re-equipped.
That seems to be a bit of an uncommon view, though, and a lot of games don't encourage it -- 5e both tabletop and adaptation pay lip service with long vs short rests, but in practice...
Mantergeistmann
17hr ago
To the extent that you or Meshkhout do not believe that this sort of behavior is worth talking about, I am willing to concede my error: these tactics are legitimate, and therefore my side should exploit them freely for our own advantage, and I'm confident that you and Meshkhout will obviously agree.
I'm neither one of them, but I'll heartily agree: what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. If dirty pool makes a legitimate tactic for one side, it absolutely follows that it is for the other. I may not like it when either side does it, but I don't think it illegitimizes an election either way.
Mantergeistmann
21hr ago
claimed, and three other judges sign onto the claim, that "semiautomatic weapons are unlikely to aid in hunting for food or trophies given the destruction they cause to the target"
Reminds me of listening to the local NPR affiliate round table talking about how you can't use an AR-15 to hunt because it'll scatter the deer into pieces all over the forest.
Presumably both the round table and these judges are working from the same talking point distributed somewhere, but I can't be arsed to find the origin.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
You could say the exact same thing about "black lives matter". And then "all lives matter".
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Between those two, I would go VT. As I understand it, the value premium (if it exists) is mostly for small caps, no? Hence the popularity of AVUV.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Do you not find it conceivable that someone could have gotten an accurate picture of the toll of the war in Gaza from a multitude of reasonably objective sources, and then from that drawn the conclusion (perhaps informed by other values they hold, however much you may disagree with those) that they ought to oppose the Israeli position with all that entails?
I mean, if people had gotten an accurate picture of the toll of the war in Germany (or Japan) during WWII (or the starvation of WWI!), or the South during the US civil war... somehow, I still think they wouldn't have opposed the Allies/North, merely thought "How dumb must those people be to not surrender and keep wanting to fight us for no good reason?"
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
They: You are trying to sit on the fence and placate both sides, but this is unlikely to work. In particular, progressives will notice if you keep saying "they" when a transgender person's preferred pronouns are she/her (after all, in progressive spaces displaying your preferred pronouns is normalized), and will correctly recognize you as a coward trying to play both sides, if not a person who doesn't subscribe to gender ideology.
There's a weird shift in progress amongst certain sects, that are starting to insist that "they" be used for everyone, regardless of gender. It remains to be seen if it'll win out.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Oh, for sure. There's definite asymmetry there.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Counterpoint to "It's okay to be white". The people objecting are correctly seeing that it isn't being posted as an innocent statement, it's effectively a gang sign marking turf, and these people understand those posting the sign to be in a hostile gang.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Sierra Club used to be outright racist and anti-natalist, if I recall correctly. Can't let Africa have cheap energy, or there'll be a massive third world population boom!
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
As she lustfully stared at me, my loins exploded like the Titan submersible, and she, the ocean I wanted to be so deep into.
I can't tell if the author intentionally got implosion/explosion wrong here, or if it's accidentally even worse than they tried to be.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
he's better off pretending to be Canadian
That used to be the advice for Americans travelling abroad: put a Canadian flag sticker on your luggage/backpack/laptop. This was, oh, mid-late 2000s? Early 2010s?
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
This is the stereotype in the Southwest, and it's what I essentially believed as a Protestant. In the northeast and sprinkled throughout the country, there are a lot of Irish and Italian Catholics; one was my neighbor growing up, with the Saint Francis statue and everything.
Yeah, in my experience in the Northeast, the shrine & statue garden decor is absolutely Italian-coded.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
There's also a story mode, I think, if you just want to play on super easy mode. Might be a mod or two out there to give "kind of easy mode" as an option.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
I don't blame them for that, same as I don't blame them for not applauding during Trump's SotU address. It's a pointless move to score political points, and I wouldn't blame Republicans if they didn't follow along were the Dems to do something similar.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
The FIRE link mentions that, actually. Last time Fighting Words was upheld, the words were "god damned racketeer" and "damned fascist". Somehow, I doubt there's much overlap between "people who want slurs included as Fighting Words" and "people who want 'fascist' to be a Fighting Word."
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
What model and what'd it run you? I've been considering one now that I'm working from home more.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
Wishing you were independently wealthy so you could take a year off and just play games.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
Yes, absolutely agreed.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
I used to order food about once a week when I was at university. Typically pizza or chinese.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
Cruises. The whole set-up seems wildly unpleasant, particularly if I'm going to have spend my time on a boat cooped up with other people who wanted to go on a cruise.
It's basically a resort where you get to wake up somewhere new every day.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
Even if you work on the 50th floor of mega corp office building then going to get your coffee at Starbucks on the ground floor is still a 20ish minute adventure versus whatever office pot or espresso machine in the office.
Sometimes you just need an excuse to get out of the office and take a walk, and sadly, in a lot of workplaces "I'm going out to grab a coffee" is more acceptable than "I'm taking a stroll to clear my head." Same thing as having a smoke break, really, but for non-smokers.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
De gustibus non est disputandum. I love matcha, personally, in basically any form -- lattes, shortbread, cheesecake...
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
Little Women remake
Based on my limited knowledge of Emma Watson, she seems like a... less than stellar choice for that, just from a "personal view fit" level.
Me, I'm lame and boring, and just hope this crash continues through the end of the week to when my paycheck gets auto-deposited/invested. Tempted to shift a bit of my emergency fund into the markets, though -- i can afford to rebuild it back up with no major worries.
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