Some of my more woke friends are trying to absolve personal responsibility in mask wearing behaviors by appealing to arguments of systemic failure. Which yeah, but also like people have agency and why the fuck are we rationalizing failure to comply.
the number 1 thing you can do to stay safe is to wear a mask
Well, the number 1 thing you can do is never go outside or interact with other humans
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Some of my more woke friends are trying to absolve personal responsibility in mask wearing behaviors by appealing to arguments of systemic failure. Which yeah, but also like people have agency and why the fuck are we rationalizing failure to comply.
the number 1 thing you can do to stay safe is to wear a mask
Well, the number 1 thing you can do is never go outside or interact with other humans
The dream...
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Death by guillotine would be painless because it immediately severs the nerves from your spinal cord to brain. The clean cut would paralyze you after severing your vertebrae, so pain receptors would no longer send signals as your nerves are severed and your body is non-functional. This is, of course, assuming you’re alive after having your head completely chopped off by a 10-pound blade accelerating at speeds of 40 mph, which you wouldn't be. You wouldn't even feel the cold touch of the blade as it sliced into your neck hair; it would be too fast.
For those saying that spasms have been witnessed after execution by guillotine, it should be noted that spasms such as involuntary jerks, eye fluttering, and twitches can occur up to five minutes after death. This is because the brain suffocates, but it does not mean the presence of pain is there. Many people who pass away naturally and painlessly in a hospital bed will twitch, their eyes flutter, and even have bowel movements minutes after death. Once you are dead, you can't “feel” anything, including pain. As for studies mentioned about brain activity continuing in rats after severing of the head, the same goes. Brain activity can still be present after death, but that does not mean the subject is alive, nor [does it have] the defined senses of feeling.
The guillotine was such an effective fear-mongering tool because it didn't focus on pain and suffering, but rather punishment. The idea was you're going to literally just be wiped off the face of the Earth for your crime—you're not even going to be allowed the few extra minutes of torture. The idea of dwelling in a dark cave before being escorted out blindfolded, having your neck placed on a board with a bucket to catch your severed head, and being executed by the drop of the blade and nothing else … it's a jarring realization of just how unsympathetic death is.
i'm pretty sure women's clothing sizes have no basis in any actual measurement
eh like men's sizes mean anything more
I have men's jeans with waists of 28 and 30 and 32 and they all fit
similarly in tops XS-M depending on the brand+cut
don't try to make it seem like they're somehow better! Men just tend to care less if their clothes fit
Sizing makes more sense when you realize that in the U.S. the numbers are all meant to be inches, but in the rest of the world and where the clothes are manufactured they use the metric system and just round it off to the closest fit, rather than making U.S. specific sizes. Just another way the english measuring system is screwing us.
i'm pretty sure women's clothing sizes have no basis in any actual measurement
eh like men's sizes mean anything more
I have men's jeans with waists of 28 and 30 and 32 and they all fit
similarly in tops XS-M depending on the brand+cut
don't try to make it seem like they're somehow better! Men just tend to care less if their clothes fit
Yeah there was a time where I could just walk into a store, find the right cut of jeans that I wanted and walk out with new jeans without even having to set foot in a fitting room but those days are long gone.
Buying shorts last Friday reminded me of it because they had the fitting rooms closed due to covid so it was pretty much just welp, hope they fit I guess
I remember when I was a kid, my mom bought me some DND DM books - I don't know exactly what they're called, but at least some of them were monster manuals for various worlds, and they were the coolest thing in the history of the world
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Eddy on
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
take this gem railing against what i'll call "hotel art" by kobayashi issa (translated by robert hass)
Writing shit about new snow
for the rich
is not art.
One of the things I dig about "traditional" Japanese art - and find western commentary often misses - is how much of a pop, commercial scene most of this theoretically stiff, traditional art was being created in. Woodblock prints are -prints-, mass produced cheap art that middle class customers can run down to a store to buy. Rakugo, puppet theater, standup - all entertainment from the Red light prostitution districts, you'd go eat, drink, see a show, drink, and then go to a brothel. Hence why geisha, courtesans, and prostitutes are such regular topics in those genres. Kabuki too - it seems highbrow because it can be very abstract and formalized, but it was actually lowbrow entertainment intended to play for large, noisy crowds. It's so formalized because the government was regularly banning new things they found objectionable. Lots of classic samurai movie plots are lifted from kabuki standards, mass produced novels were sold to a highly literate urban population, etc etc.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
God there better not be gross nest boys out there getting laid
I have bad news for you about the minimum requirements for young men to get laid
if its so easy then how come
Well, you do have to try to have sex with people to have sex with them
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A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
I like the power armor where all the flavor text for its unlocks are AARs of people talking about breaching some anomalous vault and how they fought countless copies of themselves and they think they might have never actually left and then the gear itself is like "and here's how we turned that into a sick ECM module"
My therapist wants me coming every week now until I’m not *gestures at self* this way
New therapist or new thoughts?
Same therapist, same thoughts, . . but hitting heavier and I’m tired
The aimlessness and hopelessness are crowding me of late
Hopefully getting back on a regular meds schedule will help
Even without everything else shitty
I've found it really hard to feel OK when covid's sort of turned every day into the same thing.
Very little really happens that I can actually look forward to, so I'm just in like kind of a constant low-grade funk
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Also @Silas Brown and @Vanguard I read your discussion a bit on Pathfinder and other systems.
I will say Pathfinder 2.0's leveling system after reading it is interesting. Not the scaling but the idea of how they use your initial decisions of species/race and such and how it combines with your class. The idea of gaining feats/abilities based on your choice of ancestry as you level is neat. And they built it very much around more cultural abilities at times. Stuff like gaining knowledge of weapons, better scavenging, and so on. Some are more innate like poison resistance.
At the same time though it is still 3.5 scaling. And after playing 5E and running in that for a while 3.5 scaling is just so annoying. 5E built around proficiency and a linear growth of levels not so much the rapid increase with skill points and such is just so much easier to build encounters and checks. Growth is still there but 5E is so much more predictable and skewed.
Vanguard I would say take a look at the character creation rules for Pathfinder 2.0 I am trying to figure how to move them to 5E. I just really like them.
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VanguardBut now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
Also @Silas Brown and @Vanguard I read your discussion a bit on Pathfinder and other systems.
I will say Pathfinder 2.0's leveling system after reading it is interesting. Not the scaling but the idea of how they use your initial decisions of species/race and such and how it combines with your class. The idea of gaining feats/abilities based on your choice of ancestry as you level is neat. And they built it very much around more cultural abilities at times. Stuff like gaining knowledge of weapons, better scavenging, and so on. Some are more innate like poison resistance.
At the same time though it is still 3.5 scaling. And after playing 5E and running in that for a while 3.5 scaling is just so annoying. 5E built around proficiency and a linear growth of levels not so much the rapid increase with skill points and such is just so much easier to build encounters and checks. Growth is still there but 5E is so much more predictable and skewed.
Vanguard I would say take a look at the character creation rules for Pathfinder 2.0 I am trying to figure how to move them to 5E. I just really like them.
Send me a PDF and I’ll give some ideas
I’ve only read 5E but a lot of it’s sensibility is cribbed from both story games and OSR
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Nice
Andrew Rhea of Binging with Babish has the carving fork from the movie Chef that Jon Favreau plates the pasta aglio e olio with for Scarlett Johannson
He claims that folks ask him when he's going to frame it and he insists that it's just in a drawer as a daily driver
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I will now proceed to find my phone, which is dead probably
edit: Found it. It wasn't out of battery, just in between the cushions of a sofa. Welp.
Well, the number 1 thing you can do is never go outside or interact with other humans
The Amiibo corner strategy, I see!
The dream...
Yup definitely NSFW (hooray working from home!)
You are also 100% correct that is fucking amazing.
i imagine it's pretty quick
hmm yes
i'm okay with this
guillotining is humane
Sizing makes more sense when you realize that in the U.S. the numbers are all meant to be inches, but in the rest of the world and where the clothes are manufactured they use the metric system and just round it off to the closest fit, rather than making U.S. specific sizes. Just another way the english measuring system is screwing us.
hey buddy get in line
Ah yes, my normal human cat, that lives in my human apartment
Yeah there was a time where I could just walk into a store, find the right cut of jeans that I wanted and walk out with new jeans without even having to set foot in a fitting room but those days are long gone.
Buying shorts last Friday reminded me of it because they had the fitting rooms closed due to covid so it was pretty much just welp, hope they fit I guess
god this is some good stuff
I remember when I was a kid, my mom bought me some DND DM books - I don't know exactly what they're called, but at least some of them were monster manuals for various worlds, and they were the coolest thing in the history of the world
Athenor's shadowrun book collection is my library of Alexandria
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
One of the things I dig about "traditional" Japanese art - and find western commentary often misses - is how much of a pop, commercial scene most of this theoretically stiff, traditional art was being created in. Woodblock prints are -prints-, mass produced cheap art that middle class customers can run down to a store to buy. Rakugo, puppet theater, standup - all entertainment from the Red light prostitution districts, you'd go eat, drink, see a show, drink, and then go to a brothel. Hence why geisha, courtesans, and prostitutes are such regular topics in those genres. Kabuki too - it seems highbrow because it can be very abstract and formalized, but it was actually lowbrow entertainment intended to play for large, noisy crowds. It's so formalized because the government was regularly banning new things they found objectionable. Lots of classic samurai movie plots are lifted from kabuki standards, mass produced novels were sold to a highly literate urban population, etc etc.
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The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Even without everything else shitty
I've found it really hard to feel OK when covid's sort of turned every day into the same thing.
Very little really happens that I can actually look forward to, so I'm just in like kind of a constant low-grade funk
That's a shame, the actual french canadian dub was really good.
Unfortunately, i can't find the actual French Canadian Boomhauer but he was well cast.
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If your clothing is Euclidean something very strange has happened >.>
COVID and lockdown are a huge part of it, no doubt
Having surgery last week without any family or partner to be with me or check on me was probably a big factor too
Plus I just kinda hate life, but that’s not a new thing. That’s, like, my oldest thing.
I'll never be able to rewatch the right version of King of the Hill.
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(The right version of King of the Hill is the American version.)
Hahaha.
wait, you're serious?
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SUBS NOT DUBS.
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I will say Pathfinder 2.0's leveling system after reading it is interesting. Not the scaling but the idea of how they use your initial decisions of species/race and such and how it combines with your class. The idea of gaining feats/abilities based on your choice of ancestry as you level is neat. And they built it very much around more cultural abilities at times. Stuff like gaining knowledge of weapons, better scavenging, and so on. Some are more innate like poison resistance.
At the same time though it is still 3.5 scaling. And after playing 5E and running in that for a while 3.5 scaling is just so annoying. 5E built around proficiency and a linear growth of levels not so much the rapid increase with skill points and such is just so much easier to build encounters and checks. Growth is still there but 5E is so much more predictable and skewed.
Vanguard I would say take a look at the character creation rules for Pathfinder 2.0 I am trying to figure how to move them to 5E. I just really like them.
Send me a PDF and I’ll give some ideas
I’ve only read 5E but a lot of it’s sensibility is cribbed from both story games and OSR
Andrew Rhea of Binging with Babish has the carving fork from the movie Chef that Jon Favreau plates the pasta aglio e olio with for Scarlett Johannson
He claims that folks ask him when he's going to frame it and he insists that it's just in a drawer as a daily driver
delicious, delicious op blast weapon
and more than enough mats to make this op agitator secret set time to tell monsters to do the roar