Is there some I dunno... science or whatever behind the name "Teetotaller" or did someone pull random letters out of a hat, arrange them, and then go "This is to describe a person who doesn't drink"?
Everyone has a price. Throw enough gold around and someone will risk disintegration.
Normally I have enough streamers followed that there's a good variety of things being played that I can hop between whatever I'm interested in.
Literally everyone is playing Monster Hunter.
"playing"
Most of them are SO terrible at it. Jesus fucking Christ.
Yeah a dude I watch has switched over to charge blade and I thought I was bad at it, holy shit he keeps full vials and gets overloaded never fires them, and he's using a rath cb against fire drakes... Its like "I know cbs get a lot of back seaters, but fuck sake dude you are doing nothing".
I see a LOT of people going in with Insect Glaive and Charge Blade as their starter weapon, due to some sort of hubris that "I'm using the MOST COMPLICATED WEAPON in the HARDEST GAME" or some shit like that. I'm like "Umm, it's not THAT hard, and you aren't even doing the bare minimum of the not-hard moves".
Honestly I swapped off the charge blade because I felt like personally on my solo hunts I was doing dumb stuff and I ended up tripping over myself to do moves and not getting consistent damage. I've been using the GS and Dual Blades because they are both not super complicated.
I've been thinking of trying the SnS since I made the nergalos set this morning and it does good damage on elemental crit and the SnS has some cool super leap moves now.
Nothing in the game is particularly hard/complicated by most standards. But there are weapons that punish you more for missing and have that added collection/reload mechanic.
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ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
So all times and distances logged on today's stage of the TransCape race have been lost as a result of the lead marshal being attacked by a swarm of bees
Let's be real: teetotallers can possibly be as annoying as an annoying vegan
how often do you meet annoying teetotalers or annoying vegans
I think this is one of those things where you tend to only find out if someone is either because they're being annoying, and as such people's opinions are slanted by sampling bias.
Normally I have enough streamers followed that there's a good variety of things being played that I can hop between whatever I'm interested in.
Literally everyone is playing Monster Hunter.
"playing"
Most of them are SO terrible at it. Jesus fucking Christ.
Yeah a dude I watch has switched over to charge blade and I thought I was bad at it, holy shit he keeps full vials and gets overloaded never fires them, and he's using a rath cb against fire drakes... Its like "I know cbs get a lot of back seaters, but fuck sake dude you are doing nothing".
I see a LOT of people going in with Insect Glaive and Charge Blade as their starter weapon, due to some sort of hubris that "I'm using the MOST COMPLICATED WEAPON in the HARDEST GAME" or some shit like that. I'm like "Umm, it's not THAT hard, and you aren't even doing the bare minimum of the not-hard moves".
Honestly I swapped off the charge blade because I felt like personally on my solo hunts I was doing dumb stuff and I ended up tripping over myself to do moves and not getting consistent damage. I've been using the GS and Dual Blades because they are both not super complicated.
I've been thinking of trying the SnS since I made the nergalos set this morning and it does good damage on elemental crit and the SnS has some cool super leap moves now.
At least now, Charge Blade in this game has more upgrade paths. When it debuted, there was basically just one for most of Low Rank.
In Monster Hunter Tri, Longsword had a similar problem. The endgame had something like... 11 endgame Longswords? And some of those were special "bonus" weapons that you only acquired later from Event quests.
I've been using only Long Sword and Bow this game. I really should branch out. I've started upgrading a bunch of other weapons, but I've yet to break the seal on them yet.
Let's be real: teetotallers can possibly be as annoying as an annoying vegan
My experience is similar to that of a vegan: people treat me like shit out of defensiveness that I’m like, implicitly criticizing their lifestyle. Give me a vegan over a ‘for every cow you don’t eat I’ll eat three lol!!’ person any day. Same thing here.
Comparing just vegan to militantly anti-vegan is unfair
The equivalent is the evangelical vegan who is dumb as rocks. Your PETA people.
If I was locked in a room with one of those and one of the for every cow you don't eat I'll eat three lol people and I had a gun with two bullets I'd shoot myself twice
Im glad I didnt go through with buying the Shadow of the Colossus remake, its a great game but I got everything out of it I wanted by watching people play it on twitch.
Im still on charge blade, I wanted to like Lance but I need to watch a tutorial to see what its really about cause I didnt see anything compelling about it.
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ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
Is there some I dunno... science or whatever behind the name "Teetotaller" or did someone pull random letters out of a hat, arrange them, and then go "This is to describe a person who doesn't drink"?
wiki says the origins are disputed, but the commonly accepted origin, is a speech at a Temprence Society meeting where someone stuttered that they insisted on "t-t-total abstinence" of alcohol.
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jakobaggerLO THY DREAD EMPIRE CHAOS IS RESTOREDRegistered Userregular
one time I went to a popular fried chicken place in Nashville with my road trip buddies but I ordered grilled chicken instead of fried
then my friend asked me why I hate america and also freedom
Let's be real: teetotallers can possibly be as annoying as an annoying vegan
My experience is similar to that of a vegan: people treat me like shit out of defensiveness that I’m like, implicitly criticizing their lifestyle. Give me a vegan over a ‘for every cow you don’t eat I’ll eat three lol!!’ person any day. Same thing here.
Comparing just vegan to militantly anti-vegan is unfair
The equivalent is the evangelical vegan who is dumb as rocks. Your PETA people.
If I was locked in a room with one of those and one of the for every cow you don't eat I'll eat three lol people and I had a gun with two bullets I'd shoot myself twice
The point is that there aren't actually that many militant vegans. I've encountered militant vegans but they're pretty rare, and it's been a very long time.
While the opposite, somebody who responds with defensiveness and derision to the mere suggestion that somebody in their presence is vegan, is all too common.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
First guy: Answered the wrong question on the tech assessment. Wasn't good at following what I was saying, might of been me, code was technically good if bulky. Did an okay use of iteration though and was able to figure out the data. Was able to answer the second half well once I walked him through what I really wanted. Young and a it brash though. I am just meh since my instructions obviously weren't crap because...
Second person: Got a perfect answer. Showed the ability to think through the problem and recode. Answered all my questions with a good technical answer. Was quick to figure out anything. Was able to describe to me her thought process. Walked me through how she approaches questions. Also has a similar background. Is comfortable building out dashboards. Didn't try to write off what we do as better in SQL which we can't use and didn't know like the first person.
One left, let's see how this goes!
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BeNarwhalThe Work Left UnfinishedRegistered Userregular
I can only speak for the U.S., but an example: At the Christmas holiday party, there is a chance where if you don't drink you will be labeled "not a team player" and won't get promotions.
Up here, as long as you're first on the dance floor, they don't care about your level of sobriety
Just make an ass of yourself - performing karaoke poorly is supremely helpful, too - and you'll be accepted anywhere
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AegisFear My DanceOvershot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered Userregular
I've never really been able to understand any discussion surrounding alcohol/alcohol culture, as the idea of drinking for the purpose of getting drunk is just completely alien.
Alcoholic drinks were always, in my entire extended family, things which were served alongside food, typically wine, often homegrown grapes that were hand crushed (Italian family). Harder alcohols were served only when company came over, and usually with coffee, or right after supper while everyone's relaxing. Beer was only ever bought by my uncle or dad, being the youngest cohort, and then just before supper or alongside it if they weren't feeling wine.
So alcohol was always a substitutable beverage associated with food.
For every shot of Jaeger you don't take im slamming three
This...
happens a lot with the people I work with
A fairly consistent feature of any night out is the unsolicited tray of shots, and frequently ends up with the purchaser drinking those they bought for people that demurred
I got jumped by a group of teenagers for Pokémon cards that I didn’t even have
My mom gave away my (semi) valuable collection of early 90's Magic and sports card collection. But she keeps bullshit dollar store plastic toys and coloring books.
I had a foil Arcanis the Omnipotent card. I later gave it to my little brother when I stopped playing and he traded it for some stupid bullshit.
and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
but they're listening to every word I say
I've never really been able to understand any discussion surrounding alcohol/alcohol culture, as the idea of drinking for the purpose of getting drunk is just completely alien.
Alcoholic drinks were always, in my entire extended family, things which were served alongside food, typically wine, often homegrown grapes that were hand crushed (Italian family). Harder alcohols were served only when company came over, and usually with coffee, or right after supper while everyone's relaxing. Beer was only ever bought by my uncle or dad, being the youngest cohort, and then just before supper or alongside it if they weren't feeling wine.
So alcohol was always a substitutable beverage associated with food.
i obviously don't care if someone doesn't drink, but i do feel bad when they're stuck hanging out with a bunch of drunks
I ended up the designated driver for my brother's birthday one year... It was a pleasant evening of my drunk brother and my then also drunk girlfriend talking about what an asshole I was. Fun
Also, dipping my toes into a chat thread is killing my already record low work productivity... I should probably get something done today
Everyone has a price. Throw enough gold around and someone will risk disintegration.
Is there some I dunno... science or whatever behind the name "Teetotaller" or did someone pull random letters out of a hat, arrange them, and then go "This is to describe a person who doesn't drink"?
It's an old word. Created back before we really had standardized spelling.
There is some dispute over the origin of the word "teetotaler". One anecdote attributes the origin of the word to a meeting of the Preston Temperance Society in 1833. The story attributes the word to Richard Turner,[2] a member of the society, who in a speech said "I'll be reet down out-and-out t-t-total for ever and ever".[3] Walter William Skeat noted that the Turner anecdote had been recorded by temperance advocate Joseph Livesey, and posited that the term may have been inspired by the teetotum;[4] however, James B. Greenough stated that "nobody ever thought teetotum and teetotaler were etymologically connected".[5]
A variation on the above account is found on the pages of The Charleston Observer:
Teetotalers.—The origin of this convenient word, (as convenient almost, although not so general in its application as loafer,) is, we imagine, known but to few who use it. It originated, as we learn from the Landmark, with a man named Turner, a member of the Preston Temperance Society, who, having an impediment of speech, in addressing a meeting remarked, that partial abstinence from intoxicating liquors would not do; they must insist upon tee-tee-(stammering) tee total abstinence. Hence total abstainers have been called teetotalers.
— The Charleston Observer vol. 10, no. 44 (29 October 1836)[6]
An alternative explanation is that teetotal is simply a reduplication of the first "T" in total (T-total). It is said that as early as 1827 in some Temperance Societies signing a "T" after one's name signified one's pledge for total abstinence.[7] In England in the 1830s, when the word first entered the lexicon, it was also used in other contexts as an emphasized form of total; a comparable American English locution would be "total with a capital T" (an instance of the "[word] with a capital [word-initial letter]" snowclone).
According to historian Daniel Walker Howe (What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, 2007) the term was derived from the practice of American preacher and temperance advocate Lyman Beecher. He would take names at his meetings of people who pledged alcoholic temperance and noted those who pledged total abstinence with a T. Such persons became known as Teetotallers.
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
Let's be real: teetotallers can possibly be as annoying as an annoying vegan
how often do you meet annoying teetotalers or annoying vegans
Teetotallers not so much these days. I spend a lot of my free time in bars so teetotallers have kinda drifted out of my social circles (for good and for bad. Mostly bad, but hey, people drift away.)
Vegans... fairly often because I'm kind of friends with one.
She's alright some of the time. When she talks about... most topics, really, she's pretty annoying. But like, absent, uh, a topic of conversation, she's nice
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AegisFear My DanceOvershot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered Userregular
I've never really been able to understand any discussion surrounding alcohol/alcohol culture, as the idea of drinking for the purpose of getting drunk is just completely alien.
Alcoholic drinks were always, in my entire extended family, things which were served alongside food, typically wine, often homegrown grapes that were hand crushed (Italian family). Harder alcohols were served only when company came over, and usually with coffee, or right after supper while everyone's relaxing. Beer was only ever bought by my uncle or dad, being the youngest cohort, and then just before supper or alongside it if they weren't feeling wine.
So alcohol was always a substitutable beverage associated with food.
Let's be real: teetotallers can possibly be as annoying as an annoying vegan
My experience is similar to that of a vegan: people treat me like shit out of defensiveness that I’m like, implicitly criticizing their lifestyle. Give me a vegan over a ‘for every cow you don’t eat I’ll eat three lol!!’ person any day. Same thing here.
Comparing just vegan to militantly anti-vegan is unfair
The equivalent is the evangelical vegan who is dumb as rocks. Your PETA people.
If I was locked in a room with one of those and one of the for every cow you don't eat I'll eat three lol people and I had a gun with two bullets I'd shoot myself twice
The point is that there aren't actually that many militant vegans. I've encountered militant vegans but they're pretty rare, and it's been a very long time.
While the opposite, somebody who responds with defensiveness and derision to the mere suggestion that somebody in their presence is vegan, is all too common.
i obviously don't care if someone doesn't drink, but i do feel bad when they're stuck hanging out with a bunch of drunks
I legit don't mind at all
My extended family is largely a big bunch of drinkers (with a couple exceptions), and I love 'em all, so if they need a refill I'm the first to go get it for them
As they get drunker and the conversation gets sillier, I'm allowed to loosen up and be a little sillier too, it's kind of nice!
My friend group is largely sober, with a couple exceptions, but we'll alternate going to the bar and chilling at someone's house or going for coffee, it's all good
Ladyfish drinks in moderation, and mostly she's just very cute when she's had a few
Normally I have enough streamers followed that there's a good variety of things being played that I can hop between whatever I'm interested in.
Literally everyone is playing Monster Hunter.
"playing"
Most of them are SO terrible at it. Jesus fucking Christ.
Yeah a dude I watch has switched over to charge blade and I thought I was bad at it, holy shit he keeps full vials and gets overloaded never fires them, and he's using a rath cb against fire drakes... Its like "I know cbs get a lot of back seaters, but fuck sake dude you are doing nothing".
I see a LOT of people going in with Insect Glaive and Charge Blade as their starter weapon, due to some sort of hubris that "I'm using the MOST COMPLICATED WEAPON in the HARDEST GAME" or some shit like that. I'm like "Umm, it's not THAT hard, and you aren't even doing the bare minimum of the not-hard moves".
Honestly I swapped off the charge blade because I felt like personally on my solo hunts I was doing dumb stuff and I ended up tripping over myself to do moves and not getting consistent damage. I've been using the GS and Dual Blades because they are both not super complicated.
I've been thinking of trying the SnS since I made the nergalos set this morning and it does good damage on elemental crit and the SnS has some cool super leap moves now.
At least now, Charge Blade in this game has more upgrade paths. When it debuted, there was basically just one for most of Low Rank.
In Monster Hunter Tri, Longsword had a similar problem. The endgame had something like... 11 endgame Longswords? And some of those were special "bonus" weapons that you only acquired later from Event quests.
I've been using only Long Sword and Bow this game. I really should branch out. I've started upgrading a bunch of other weapons, but I've yet to break the seal on them yet.
Yeah I remember tri's upgrade system and even 4U had some shit where some weapons were not usable at all at low levels due to not having the damage/upgrade paths of others.
Its one thing I kind of bristle at when people complain there aren't enough upgrade paths in this game, because this one has so many more lower HR options and a lot of weapons that work end game instead of "just these two."
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Let's be real: teetotallers can possibly be as annoying as an annoying vegan
My experience is similar to that of a vegan: people treat me like shit out of defensiveness that I’m like, implicitly criticizing their lifestyle. Give me a vegan over a ‘for every cow you don’t eat I’ll eat three lol!!’ person any day. Same thing here.
Comparing just vegan to militantly anti-vegan is unfair
The equivalent is the evangelical vegan who is dumb as rocks. Your PETA people.
If I was locked in a room with one of those and one of the for every cow you don't eat I'll eat three lol people and I had a gun with two bullets I'd shoot myself twice
The point is that there aren't actually that many militant vegans. I've encountered militant vegans but they're pretty rare, and it's been a very long time.
While the opposite, somebody who responds with defensiveness and derision to the mere suggestion that somebody in their presence is vegan, is all too common.
there aren't many militant vegans in general, true
however, if you ever hang out in certain parts of the Northern European radical left, hoo boy
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Because they only drink tea. Teatotallers. A lot of people misspell it for some reason.
Nothing in the game is particularly hard/complicated by most standards. But there are weapons that punish you more for missing and have that added collection/reload mechanic.
goddamn it jebus
Happens to the best of us
That's hilarious
I think this is one of those things where you tend to only find out if someone is either because they're being annoying, and as such people's opinions are slanted by sampling bias.
Fried chicken!
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
In Monster Hunter Tri, Longsword had a similar problem. The endgame had something like... 11 endgame Longswords? And some of those were special "bonus" weapons that you only acquired later from Event quests.
I've been using only Long Sword and Bow this game. I really should branch out. I've started upgrading a bunch of other weapons, but I've yet to break the seal on them yet.
Comparing just vegan to militantly anti-vegan is unfair
The equivalent is the evangelical vegan who is dumb as rocks. Your PETA people.
If I was locked in a room with one of those and one of the for every cow you don't eat I'll eat three lol people and I had a gun with two bullets I'd shoot myself twice
Throat parched for a drop of Mallört
It can be ok, as long as they're able to like, loosen up. You can definitely get into a drunkesque mood without drinking if you'e so inclined.
wiki says the origins are disputed, but the commonly accepted origin, is a speech at a Temprence Society meeting where someone stuttered that they insisted on "t-t-total abstinence" of alcohol.
then my friend asked me why I hate america and also freedom
The point is that there aren't actually that many militant vegans. I've encountered militant vegans but they're pretty rare, and it's been a very long time.
While the opposite, somebody who responds with defensiveness and derision to the mere suggestion that somebody in their presence is vegan, is all too common.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
First guy: Answered the wrong question on the tech assessment. Wasn't good at following what I was saying, might of been me, code was technically good if bulky. Did an okay use of iteration though and was able to figure out the data. Was able to answer the second half well once I walked him through what I really wanted. Young and a it brash though. I am just meh since my instructions obviously weren't crap because...
Second person: Got a perfect answer. Showed the ability to think through the problem and recode. Answered all my questions with a good technical answer. Was quick to figure out anything. Was able to describe to me her thought process. Walked me through how she approaches questions. Also has a similar background. Is comfortable building out dashboards. Didn't try to write off what we do as better in SQL which we can't use and didn't know like the first person.
One left, let's see how this goes!
Up here, as long as you're first on the dance floor, they don't care about your level of sobriety
Just make an ass of yourself - performing karaoke poorly is supremely helpful, too - and you'll be accepted anywhere
Alcoholic drinks were always, in my entire extended family, things which were served alongside food, typically wine, often homegrown grapes that were hand crushed (Italian family). Harder alcohols were served only when company came over, and usually with coffee, or right after supper while everyone's relaxing. Beer was only ever bought by my uncle or dad, being the youngest cohort, and then just before supper or alongside it if they weren't feeling wine.
So alcohol was always a substitutable beverage associated with food.
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[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
Chanus these guys are awesome
This...
happens a lot with the people I work with
A fairly consistent feature of any night out is the unsolicited tray of shots, and frequently ends up with the purchaser drinking those they bought for people that demurred
I had a foil Arcanis the Omnipotent card. I later gave it to my little brother when I stopped playing and he traded it for some stupid bullshit.
but they're listening to every word I say
This seems like a fair question
Are you American?
I ended up the designated driver for my brother's birthday one year... It was a pleasant evening of my drunk brother and my then also drunk girlfriend talking about what an asshole I was. Fun
Also, dipping my toes into a chat thread is killing my already record low work productivity... I should probably get something done today
Get on my joke level slowpoke.
but they're listening to every word I say
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teetotalism
I'm surprised he hasn't already booked an appearance to pick up his hat.
Teetotallers not so much these days. I spend a lot of my free time in bars so teetotallers have kinda drifted out of my social circles (for good and for bad. Mostly bad, but hey, people drift away.)
Vegans... fairly often because I'm kind of friends with one.
She's alright some of the time. When she talks about... most topics, really, she's pretty annoying. But like, absent, uh, a topic of conversation, she's nice
Canadian. Grandparents immigrated from Italy.
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[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
No.
Get a load of this soy boy
I wish I'd had chat so I could have made a demotivational one.
I legit don't mind at all
My extended family is largely a big bunch of drinkers (with a couple exceptions), and I love 'em all, so if they need a refill I'm the first to go get it for them
As they get drunker and the conversation gets sillier, I'm allowed to loosen up and be a little sillier too, it's kind of nice!
My friend group is largely sober, with a couple exceptions, but we'll alternate going to the bar and chilling at someone's house or going for coffee, it's all good
Ladyfish drinks in moderation, and mostly she's just very cute when she's had a few
Yeah I remember tri's upgrade system and even 4U had some shit where some weapons were not usable at all at low levels due to not having the damage/upgrade paths of others.
Its one thing I kind of bristle at when people complain there aren't enough upgrade paths in this game, because this one has so many more lower HR options and a lot of weapons that work end game instead of "just these two."
pleasepaypreacher.net
Even if you are currently drinking jäger there's hypothetical jäger you are at currently not drinking
there aren't many militant vegans in general, true
however, if you ever hang out in certain parts of the Northern European radical left, hoo boy