kriss___vector
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kriss___vector
6d ago
Not so much "remember the right one" as "forget the wrong one completely" because you'd be unlikely to forget that the noun is the "e" one, wouldn't you? Then the verb synonymous with "impact" starts with the other letter.
kriss___vector
6d ago
Simply remember that a noun and a verb are different, "effect" for one and "affect" for the other. "Effect" as a verb means something different, and it's never worth it to use it: you'll impress 1%, 49% will smugly and mistakenly correct you, 50% won't notice anything or care.
kriss___vector
7d ago
I suspect these four words are as close to Shiri's scissors as we can get in the real world.
kriss___vector
7d ago
People did vote for this, but they shouldn't have been allowed to. This is democracy out of control, something that the constitution was carefully crafted to prevent. Musk is running around shutting down agencies with no accountability to the bureaucracy or the courts.
A point that @Capital_Room has made over and over and many more times.
kriss___vector
7d ago
Thanks for the recommendation, though short length is not a plus in my case, the more chores and travelling can fit in one audiobook, the better, so doorstoppers are preferable. (What would the metaphor be for recordings? Cassette libraries?) And, well, it was "reliable" quality, not "good" quality, I didn't want to gamble. Great writing? Or characters who speak like Tumblr users? An enjoyable story about the Kessler syndrome separating Earth and Luna? Or a story where the population of Earth are pollution-loving chauvinists ruled by a rich criminal that is referred to by the narration as "orange man" (real example)?
kriss___vector
9d ago
Mainly because of a brief discussion of this series here a while ago, I'm nearing the end of book 4 of The Stormlight Archive. I'm not fond of fantasy, I'm not fond of Sanderson's writing, but I wanted something of reliable quality rather than risk disappointment like with several previous books. So, I was surprised by how engrossed I was by books 1 and 2. Since then, well, not so much.
One particular thing about Rhythm of War drives me mad, because half of the plot hinges on a specific event. There's this hardass commander* that is noted a dozen times per book to be a stickler for military codes, how the troops under him are visibly more disciplined than others, etc. And yet, when the bad guys launch a surprise attack on the single most important stronghold, they kill patrols and sentries on the ground level and then ascend for hours to the tower itself, without anybody noticing. How could his people have missed the outer perimeter going dark for hours? They have instant communications!
*Don't ask me to spell his name, I'm consuming the series as audiobooks. The irony is not lost on me, this is the only time I say: they should have centered female voices.
kriss___vector
9d ago
I don't know of any male gods associated with them
If you don't mind the size of the cat...
(Highlights: "The patron deity of the month of Pax has jaguar paws above his ears, a removed lower jaw, and vomits blood" is just how I like my gods to be, "A specific and as yet unexplained transformation into a jaguar involves a male child with jaguar ears and a jaguar tail" Mayans 🤝 weeaboos.)
kriss___vector
10d ago
Is it me, or do the Half-Life 2 segments of the clip look much worse than the Half-Life 1 segments? Particularly the sand buggy one, looks at the same level of graphics as the source material.
kriss___vector
12d ago
And what do you think his experiences would have been, if they had not come for communists? Sure, defend neutrals, but his experiences/"poem" consistently and almost exclusively gets used to browbeat the listener into protecting listener's enemies, not simple neutrals.
kriss___vector
13d ago
Working to establish such a principle is unilateral disarmament, it's suicidal, it's insane. It's insane to such an extent that any attempt to convince me to adopt this course of action, like that revolting "poem" counts as an attack by a hostile interest.
kriss___vector
13d ago
I just knew that either you or the other guy would bring it up that the "point" of that vomit was that nobody should come for anyone. While you're in that world, I would like a pet unicorn, his coat should be lavender. For the time being, residing in the kill or be killed world, I vastly prefer the left side of the equation.
kriss___vector
13d ago
What an alien perspective for me. The one time I had my experience socially validated only underlines how little I cared for it. I used to be very good at Minesweeper. The design of the game forces you to guess a couple of times per game, but otherwise I used to be able to move as quickly as my mouse would let me. It was kind of meditative to me. And that one time I mention was when I was playing it while waiting for a practical class in college to start, gathering a few spectators including the person who was teaching that class. I can swear to you, hand to my heart, that before that I had never had even one thought where I had imagined anybody impressed by that ultimately lame display.
kriss___vector
13d ago
No such friends; and I have no expectation of my enemies speaking for me, especially after their words and actions have demonstrated the reverse. It's the author of that shitty manipulative "poem" who says that we should have such an expectation for some reason.
kriss___vector
13d ago
What a bingo card answer. I'm saying that to expect them to "speak for me" is naive to the point of retardation, at best they will cheer when it's my turn, at worst they will be the ones who are coming for me.
kriss___vector
13d ago
Homosexuals, immigrants, and disabled are very fond of straight white men and fiercely protect them when they're persecuted or murdered.
kriss___vector
15d ago
The URL hit me like a ton of bricks.
kriss___vector
18d ago
If you were writing a story (a book, movie script, video game lore, anything) and wanted to include a cameo/reference to The Motte, what would it be?
This is not a “My friend has an embarrassing problem” expression where I actually am doing the said thing, I just want to hear some positive moments and impressions.
kriss___vector
19d ago
Want to read stories about cannibalism? There’s a tag for that. Probably about 10,000 stories.
47,475
Want “lesbian” AND “werewolf” AND “age gap”? Probably a fic.
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kriss___vector
20d ago
And unless you are constantly policing your actions and keeping up with the latest blacklists, you too will at some point do something that will mark you as an apostate.
Emphasis added.
kriss___vector
20d ago
And I thought that how Python uses whitespace was controversial! Are you looking for people with ropes and torches to come to your home?
kriss___vector
20d ago
Sarcastic? Not in the least. I want to fit in with my allies that parrot anything they heard no matter how little sense it makes, instead of counter-productively raging at them. I want to be a part of the solution.
kriss___vector
20d ago
I am anti leftist because I care about the truth, not in spite of the truth.
Meanwhile, I've been trying to train myself to give zero consideration for the truth for years, and haven't achieved any success. Any pointers from anybody?
kriss___vector
21d ago
in a country where 80% of tinder dates lead to marriage
Not as an absurd hypothetical as you might think. Back when I was on a local genuinely hook-up app, lots of girls used a variation of “yes, I'm using this app as Tinder, I'm actually looking for a long-term relationship” in their bio. (There is a tangent that could be made about how even 10% of female users openly admitting interest in sex for its own sake counts as a genuinely hook-up app.)
kriss___vector
24d ago
At that point in 2020 where toilet paper and staple crops disappeared from the shelves all I could think was the moment in Pathologic where the period from Day 1 to Day 2 had inflation of 1000%.
Would you call the concept of mutually assured destruction a technical reason?
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