On my way home. Had class earlier and then went to see Captain Marvel. It's a bit drizzly but weather's still nice enough to walk a stretch of the way home.
wait wasn't rain world that game we tried to multiplayer and we were all so confused we all kept dying and fucking drowning because the rain was just too fucking powerful and we had no idea what to do
hey tilde you have rain world have you played it? i saw matthewmatosis uploaded a rain world recommendation and i started to watch it but i decided to stop since it looked like it might be something i want to experience blind would you have some non-spoiler input
ToN
i love blue threads
Anno
>>653618 Yeah I have Or well, tried like ten minutes of it. It's kind of an obtuse game and didn't quite strike a chord with me. It's like I had an incomplete or imperfect idea of what I needed to do and the missing information made it hard to engage in. I don't entirely know if that's on me or the game though. It has a unique and interesting aesthetic though; I honestly wanted to properly engage with it.
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
>chair wants three versions going at once and wants me to combine them even though some have contradictory edits
>>653621 this is why educated people always seem so broken >>653620 The game is kinda difficult to jump into because the "tutorial" does its best to be textless It tells you how to survive the rain and how to get around but I felt like... once I was aware of the mechanics at play it was hard to explore. Because I was worried about surviving. I'd like to know what the plateau of enjoyment feels like in that game because it was just running, eating, and hoping for shelter in the beginning
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>>653620 a quick excerpt from mattymatosy's video >"it took me two restarts and four hours to truly start enjoying rain world. i tell you this partly as a warning, and partly in the hopes it will arouse some morbid curiosity, a trait that would serve you well going into this one. if you're recoiling at the very idea of investing so much effort into something before seeing anything resembling a payoff, then rain world probably isn't for you. but i hope you'll at least hear what i have to say and consider stepping outside your comfort zone for this one."
i really want to check it out
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It was pretty cheap on sale on the last seasonal Steam sale, like under 5 USD probably. I'd bet on it being a similar way next sale if you feel your interest could maintain until then.
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i hope it does i cant buy games for a while though
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
>>653622 she's making tons of edits to paragraphs i told her i was going to get rid of too
i want to play more Death Mark but I want my friend to see the next chapter with me. and they haven't had free time in a long time. spooky game story time was more fun than I thought it would be. Especially with the ending.
i bought far cry primal a long time ago and still havent played it my old pc couldn't run it at more than 5 fps lmao my laptop can run it fine but i haven't installed it
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
i want to do metro exodus again but i don't have time it's like a 20 hour game more if you are on a hard difficulty and sekiro comes out in like two weeks
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I don't know what I want What I really really want
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
then how can you ever tell me what you want what you really really want
with the warmer weather today i feel a lot less weak and sickly and more motivated i need to get a new keyboard and a new headset though my shit's all breaking down and it's making my work such a chore
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There's a novel I have to read for my class on world literature that opens with a few pages on a very detailed description of the amputation of a six-year-old boy's forearm after it and the hand became horribly mangled by artillery shelling because the novel takes place during the Sri Lankan civil war. It's done entirely without anesthetic and pretty graphic. And then shortly afterwards there's several pages on the main character deliberating on where he wants to take a shit. I get what the book is setting out to do but man. There's a point where things get a bit much.
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
>>653638 do you use regular keyboards or do you need, like, fancy ergonomic ones?
Koi
>My Girlfriend is a Mermaid lots of interesting games dropping on the Switch
>>653640 i use a regular one right now well, i use my laptop keyboard and i use this aluminum plunger keyboard which is labelled "like" a mechanical keyboard the actuation on the keys is so heavy though that it really starts to hurt after using it for a long time, and the laptop has no actuation at all because it's just flat keys and it's very clunky to use for actual typing with any speed or duration i had a mechanical keyboard that worked great up until it didn't work great anymore, but ive been using this plunger keyboard for a year and a half now it was like 25 bucks which is cool but man having a METAL keyboard in winter sure is a paint
>>653646 The class is called The Novel, but like I said it's clear the class' focus is on world literature, e.g Bah e.g., literature from authors outside the Anglo-Western culture sphere. I've enjoyed enough the previous novels we've had to read but this one is really seeing off a bit rough.
Koi
...you can't just NAME the flat girl "Pettako"
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
>>653643 yikes would an ergonomic keyboard be better or is mechanical generally your favorite?
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ive never used an ergonomic keyboard it might be nice ive only ever used the last mechanical keyboard i had, which i bought on my first paycheck when i started this job, and this metal keyboard now prior to that i always used those cheap wireless logitech keyboard/mouse combos that are like 19.99 and last a couple months
>>653652 one that's truly ergonomic would be nice but a lot of keyboards listed as ergonomic are awkward and jank like having the left and right sides of the keyboard split and a big awkward gap in the middle?? no thanks that certainly doesn't speed anything up
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>>653652 Well yeah but war is vulgar. Modern civil wars like the one in Sri Lanka are awful things and the ones that suffer the most are civilians Shelling of civilian camps and hospitals is common enough. The vulgarities are the physical and psychological realities of being trapped in one. Like I said, I understand why the novel is like this. It's just a lot for me to take in at first.
>>653655 yeah, those are pretty weird idk what a n ideal ergonomic keyboard would look like though
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
>>653656 My comment about vulgarity was more about the several pages of deliberating on where to shit than on the vulgarities of war, haha, I dunno, spending pages on where to take a shit feels kind of disrespectful to the reader to me
>>653658 something with an appropriate incline and the right angle of actuation/amount of pressure for actuation, and also proper spacing between the insert/delete/etc keys and the numpad and the main keys and the F1/F2/etc keys at the top on my laptop it's all jammed into one grid with no spacing so i can't in any fashion make use of the insert/delete/numpad or F keys as time-saving measures when formatting because it's the same size and same location as f12 and print screen and all that other shit pressing any of those keys means i need to go manually close the chrome developer tools it opened or reset my clipboard because it has a screenshot on it or use my mouse and go manually select the area of text that needs revision sounds little but when im normally doing like 200-ish actions per minute, that shit really slows me down
FormerRei@mobile
Supposed to be super comfy to use as well.
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>>653659 I was kind of simplifying the writing, hah hah It felt reading it that it's him struggling with the psychological stress of being a young guy in a warzone, helping with a medical hospital that can't stem the tide of dying people flocking to it. Like "I could use the outhouse but it's filthy with blood and vomit and I see enough of that, there's the jungle but it's uneven terrain and many other people use it to shit and while I'm normally fine shitting around othet people I just want to be alone with myself right now, so I guess I could go to the beach where there's also water to clean myself but that puts me out in open view where I'm either a target for army gunboats to pick off or rebel insurgents to recruit, so rationally I shouldn't go there but really, what does it matter if I die today or wait around for a few days when I'll inevitably die anyway, so I'll go shit on the beach. The language is definitely grotesque but I think it does a proper job of showing how fucked up this kid is.
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>>653660 ah yeah the data hand im familiar with this but ive never used it i like the idea of more isolated I/O where typing isn't related to posture like as it is i can't type for fuck if i'm laying down, which i have to do a lot i dont think the data hand gets it quite right though, ive pondered about how it could be better done with just eight omnidirectional "keys" for the non-thumb fingers but idk i'll never have the money to engineer something myself so why do i bother
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
>>653661 sounds like it'd have to be custom or super adjustable i wonder how difficult it is to build a keyboard on your own that could meet /// that could be like that
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>>653660 this is lookin like some cyberpunk supah hacka tool
this is basically a brief write-up of the widely accepted and widely used definition // understanding of stigma used it the literature >Goffman (1963) defines stigma as “an attribute that is deeply discrediting.” Stigma, he divides into three groups: physical deformities, attributes of character, and tribal attributes (e,g, race or religion). Attributes of character, he explains, includes attributes such as a weak will, “unnatural passions,” homosexuality, mental disorder, or radical political beliefs. Jones et al. (1984) build off Goffman’s (1963) definition, and describe stigma as a mark that connects the marked individual to undesirable stereotypes. An individual who possesses a stigma, having been discredited by that stigma and associated with a number of additional negative attributes, is more likely to be subjected to discrimination (Link & Phelan, 1999).
my chair is like "i think you need to elaborate more on what trans stigma is" so i asked her to elaborate on what exactly she thinks i need to add and she says "like, what's the stigma they feel inside. look at the cass model of gay and lesbian identification."
>The Cass identity model is one of the fundamental theories of gay and lesbian identity development, developed in 1979 by Vivienne Cass.[1] This model was one of the first to treat gay people as "normal" in a heterosexist society and in a climate of homophobia instead of treating homosexuality itself as a problem. Cass described a process of six stages of gay and lesbian identity development. While these stages are sequential, some people might revisit stages at different points in their lives.
???????
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
that paragraph on defining stigma is literally in my dissertation and she just read it several times
月
imo stigma is inherently unclear how are you gonna clarify something that has a wide range of manifestations uniquely to everybody, including the stigmer and the stigmee
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My parents are going out tonight to see Captain Marvel hah hah Could have gone along with them and saved my coupon. Or could have seen Alita earlier today. Though two feature-length movies in one day might be a bit much for me. I think the only movies I can do that for are the Lord of the Rings movies.
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
>>653676 exactly all we can really do is use a vague description of how it works we can talk about stigma as a general phenomenon but to specify "trans stigma" isn't possible i've read the goffman and jones et al books on stigma, which are the books on stigma, and even they don't deign to try that and none of the research on stigma defines specific stigmas we can only show that a stigma exists i tried to explain that to her but she just told me to "try"
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
but i don't think she wants me to talk about stigma? so i asked if she wanted me to talk about internalized transphobia, and she said to look at the cass model because the cass model has something about people questioning but that has nothing to do with stigma and she can't seem to explain exactly what she wants
月
i was thinking about trans and gay discrimination a couple of weeks ago i got kind of irritated by specifics of discrimination, like "in what ways are trans people being discriminated" like the actual instances and examples of it, career opportunities or voice or other thing idk you can't really do it like that because there's so many forms of discrimination that listing any specific ones kind of hushes out the others oh, this example or that example is why it's a problem the problem isn't the outcome and limitations imposed by discrimination, it's not results-based it's the presence of discrimination to begin with and the idea that, no matter what you're tryna do in your life, you have to be self-conscious of the fact that you're trans and trying to do this and how others are going to perceive that and judge that for inclusion the social lability -- or i guess upheaval is better wording -- that one undergoes with transitioning is already so dreadfully isolating having to rebuild your life under that looming shadow is very restricting
eh idk just procrastination thoughts
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
yeah i'm really feeling those kinds of limitations and it's making me wish i hadn't started this as my project because there's no way i can do it in a way that i'm comfortable with in the context of modern academia in the end my name's forever gonna be attached to this thing that i don't really like which is kind of annoying but i'm sure i'll deal with it alright
like in talking about "why" this is an important problem that needs to be addressed i have to talk about the consequences of it about homelessness and joblessness and you know all that stuff it feels really backwards
if they're at threat to be homeless, why are they wasting time and money worrying about their gender and identity?? shouldn't they just be getting a job??
月
and if it's such a stigma, why choose to be trans in the first place?? why not choose to be something less stigmatized, you know, like a normal person??
>>653686 but that's the whole point of a written system that doesn't mean it shouldn't be logical.
Anno
>>653688 it's logical to shorten March Fourteenth to 3/14
Mahou Shoujo Marsh-chan
>>653689 it's logical to shorten 14th of March to 14/03
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i hope you understand how retarded this "discussion" is now
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
>>653688 14/03/19 isn't necessarily more logical than other ways though there's logic in other ways and they're all equally silly
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i'm pretty sure the date is 2019/03/14 anyways
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
in reality the date is unknowable
Mahou Shoujo Marsh-chan
>>653692 a day is longer than a month and a month is longer than a year why do you need any more logic than that?
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
>>653695 unless you can prove it's more logical than other ways it's just as silly as they are though and none of those dates are actually the date where's the logic in the length of a month?
>>653696 in order to live in this unknowable world we need to give concrete definitions to abstract concepts. and you could do that in an infinite number of ways. But some things have an inherent logic to them. Big is bigger than small. The small things go on top of the big.
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
>>653701 we don't need concrete definitions they do to control us
when you really think about it, don't we lose more than we gain by enslaving ourselves to the clock? but who gains more than they lose? the people who benefit from our enslavement to the clock
it's thanks to the clock that we waste all of our time time is our most precious thing and our most fleeting resource and yet we give it all away to the clock and the calendar to things that exist only in our heads
>>653738 The curvature is in space duh. That's why it looks flat on the earth but when you go to space the earth looks curved. It's really flat but space is curved.
>>653745 we can only go to space if we make ourselves curved too! you know how rockets are shaped? They're curved! astronaut helmets are also curved! it's to keep us safe from the curvature of spacetime!
>>653757 dressing up the skeletons is awesome but using a skull as a fruit bowl is super lame
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>>653758 yeah i guess i wouldn't want a skull for a fruit bowl either it's kind of small if you're gonna use a skull as a receptacle you should drink out of it or eat cheerios or something with it
>>653782 yeah it should usually installers have a state after it reaches 100% that says "finishing installation..." or some such but windows updates don't because windows is shit and microsoft is gay
i got auto enrolled in some health stuff by michigan which is cool i need to figure out how to use it so i can go see a doctor and i wonder if it helps pay for my meds i would try to figure it out but i would need my meds to figure it out lol and also im WORKING all month no work and then 20 something hours of work in the last 30 hours of the pay period always happens, not that im complaining
>>653816 >automatic rifle Doubt it Shit sux though
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>>653815 ugh not to sound like i'm making light of it but imagine having the last words you hear before dying be "subscribe to pewdiepie" like what a dreaded existence to be memed at
i'm fine with seeing the video but a lot of people who wouldn't be are gonna see those unmarked videos going around and it's gonna be really bad for them >>653836 yeah
!C0.PerkELE
yeah and since the most of its bulk is HIM just driving around you don't get really warned about what is coming
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>all of his guns have some hastag memes written on them
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
he has like "14 words" and stuff painted on them too
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if you paint words on your guns you should be shot tbh
!C0.PerkELE
dear fucking god this is the peak meme shooter
FormerRei@mobile
Live Leak's search is garbage I can't find the video
People are going to see this video and still refuse to admit that white supremacy is a serious problem and that far right terrorists are probably the most dangerous people around right now.
!C0.PerkELE
>kebab remover written on his gun
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>>653848 they are the problem is with that you get called far right for just disagreeing with some people, when the actual people are this sort
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
shooter released a white supremacist manifesto too apparently and he said he basically agrees with oswald mosley and he is a jingpingist
!C0.PerkELE
this is about isis level brutal, since the guy just executes people
I don't come here often but I just wanted to say that the new Heaven's Feel movie was absolutely fantastic I really hope any fate fans have the opportunity to enjoy it because they did the visual novel justice
Now who you gonna call? wicky wicky BEES Now who you gonna call? You don't wanna see my BEES If you ever wanna see my bumrush, BREAKOUT, before you get BEES At the WOW WOW
battle royales just generally kinda blow apex legends is still somewhat fun for me but i'd still rather just actually play titanfall 2 titanfall 2 is very good and very underrated and i love that game >>653932 the better i got at the game, the less fun it became overwatch was at it's best when i didn't know enough about the game to see how bad and unfun its dynamics are it is balanced to be a competitvely difficult class-based team shooter and it turns out that makes it extremely not-fun to play without a competitive class-based team
ehhhhh let's see valuation of competitive investment and reward would beeeeee mahjong > scrabble > competitive maths > dota and then like uhhh rock n' roll racing
!C0.PerkELE
r'n'r racing man that was the game back int he day
月
i played it with quarx recently that shit is still fun there weren't many games that really had progression like that one did at the time, racing games anyway now you've got like the initial dick cabinets and all the gran turismo and shit that really takes it to the extreme with progression
!C0.PerkELE
we used to play it on 1 keyboard with 4 players how the fuck did you accomplish that even as kids, is beyond me
!C0.PerkELE
or Liero or then the original co-op >one uses arrows >other uses ctrl to fire >doom/quake/wolfenstein
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The weekly D&D stream I tune in for has been HELLA stressful tonight holy fuck. Who ever knew dice rolls could be so stressful.
>>653974 The party is fighting an infernal demon probably a bit above their current paygrade alongside a pair of succubus and incubus. The demon itself deals a hell of damage and the two ~ccubus have been charming various members of the party, including one moment where they got the Wizard to level-four Fireball the rest of the party. And one really nightmare-inducing charm was their Barbarian who, despite the rest of the party burning lots of attacks on her, resisted the save for the charm for like ten attacks.
So between the infernal demon and the charmed Barbarian the party has had like four or five drops down into unconsciousnes that only some expensive healing and burning lots of their potions kept them from actually dying. And one really good Nat 20 death save.
It's been a long slog of a fight that's pretty exhausting for people attached to these characters, which includes me.
our dd session was pretty much >me and jan talking about dmc >ton, mats, pan and jan talking about past campaign >for some time deciding what to do next >some actual rping for very brief periods >we just stahp
>>653975 mind control is an abiltiy that can truly fuck the party up I hope I never get charmed in the game, since judging from my past history with similiar conditions, I will have it forever. >100 turns of confusion
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Really the only reason they didn't TPK or at best escape with one or two still alive is because in the stress of the situation they confused a role of sixteen minus one for the save of sixteen the Barbarian needed to clear the charm. But they'd been fighting for like a hundred minutes without rest with a lot of consciousness drops so I don't think anyone's gonna hold that against them hah hah.
月
man ive been trying to look for this railway company in china so i googled chinese railway companies and wikipedia had a convenient list of all chinese railway companies, 21 companies in total so i spend like ten-ish minutes investigating each one of them to find none of them are the one im looking for it turns out there's a chinese railway conglomeration named Chinese Railway that has 21 subsidiary companies and i'm looking at just that company's subsidiary railway franchises
It's pretty much been a rolling encounter dungeon the whole night long, hah hah. They started off fighting the ~ccubuses and some minor fiends and then chased them into the fight with the major demon. So by the time of that big battle they were already kind of tapped.
And then they do actually get a character death because their rogue shot the last remaining enemy with an exploding arrow when it was right above one of their party members that could only take one more hit before actually dying hah hah. Good thing they had the materials and spells prepared for reviving ONE (1) person at least hah hah.
>>653988 Reminds me how I have several times knocked out pan's character with one spell, only for him to use a monk ability to just go "NO I AM NOT DEAD" roll natural 20 and get up with more hp than before I hit him
!C0.PerkELE
and a free standard action next turn
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Yeah the Wizard that rolled the Nat 20 on his death save got an action too. He's kind of a disable Wizard for the most part though so he only had a Slow spell.
I usually just hit pan if I want to hit justo ne target the spell has >if misses hit one target and don't exhaust spell which is usually my aim and pan has highest ac of us
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In Bang's game I play a Druid and I've been leaning on my attack spells a lot like Moonbeam and Flaming Sphere. Which are hella fun to use but they're dangerous to party members too hah hah. On one occasion our Dragonborn was fighting something alongside my fire sphere and just duked it out with the enemy while taking damage from the fire. Which he shrugged off because he's tanky and has passive fire resistance because Dragonborn hah hah.
alchemist is kind of a jack of all trades caster good debuffs, good buffs, good heals, good dmg but nothing too exceptional best is when you hti with one quite low dmg spell and get weakness on every target and also some of the special debuffs like fire dmg or hampered
!C0.PerkELE
most amusing spec is "on 16+ target additional enemies" it is kind of a good question what it means, since it is "attack one available target" so in theory if you have two enemies, slab on one of them 16+ then slab on the other 16+ can you then attack the first target again?
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Man I really need to calm the fuck down now though hah hah. The stressful engagement is over by my adrenaline's still pumping. I ought to be winding down to sleep in an hour or so but the tension is still HIGH
I think most powerful stuff alchemist has, are basically the + stuff for example +int modifier to attack rolls >suddenly have say 5 from dex, 5 from int + lvl to hitting people or +3 to ac or >use heal +2 to all party pd or >don't move during turn, get +1/2/3 to attack (ac/pd/md with further perks)
!C0.PerkELE
or just one quite broken heal >get lvlx2 regen for entire encounter >means on own turn can just regen out of unconsciousness
!C0.PerkELE
>on miss heal ally with lvl+int modifier(x2/3) >miss 8 enemies >heals ALL AROUND
Man people that put ridiculously luminous lightbulbs into their porch lights and then leave them on a four in the morning can fuck right off. I don't really appreciate having a searchlight shining through my window when I'm trying to fall asleep.
huh that guy that got arrested for cocaine in Japan was also the voice of Olaf from Frozen in Japanese they're removing his voice from KH3 too I guess i probably don't have to make the let it snow joke
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>>654103 my brain is broken enough that i can handle the new zealand stuff far more easily than i can handle the news that a dude who lost to ted "the zodiac killer" cruz for governor and is now running for president was part of what was basically the original big time hacking group in the world that basically invented hacktivism
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
i think because new zealand feels like the natural progression of things, so it's completely ordinary to me while the cult of the dead cow stuff has come out of nowhere, had no foreshadowing or anything, and now i just have to deal with these ridiculous revelations about this loser character who apparently used to be a bad ass
Aawwww shit the food truck selling beavertails is still on campus. Hopefully they're not charging an arm and a leg for one I haven't had one in a while.
I definitely went for one of the more extravagant and decadent options but man that was good.
月
what the heck was it a baby beaver or something beaver tails are way bigger than that
Anno
Yeah hunting baby beavers for their tails is the dark side of Canada no one gets to hear about.
It's a thin, chewy plate of fried dough that you can make up with any toppings you please. I took the Skor cheesecake option because I wanted something decadent and rich, but they had other options like maple syrup icing, cinnamon sugar, cinnamon apples, Reese's Pieces.
月
was there any nonsweet stuff that list is making my blood hurt just looking at it
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I think your best bet would be the apple, hah hah. The Beavertails franchise, which this food truck was from, generally specializes in sweets options though. Like a crêpe though, it's really a versatile base for almost any kind of topping you could consider.
月
man i would put like rosemary and squash on there or like rhubarb
or even something like ginger mayo or horseradish with some bonito flakes or like those little strips of radish you get with your wasabi at japanese restaurants not those slivers of ginger but those long white strands of radish they cut out for cleansing the palette and good garnish ooh maybe like blueberries or strawberries though with whipped cream -- fresh berries or the berries in syrup without whipped cream that's about as sweet as i can handle but it's good
This is probably the least sweet normal option they seem to offer, hah hah And even it's still sugary. There's also a hot dog wrapped in the pastry with no fixings, like some kind of giant pig in a blanket.
>>654119 Berries or fruit in maple syrup sounds like a really traditional topping for it yeah. I bet whoever made these traditionally probably did up something like that.
ToN
that seems like a cool place
月
pig in a blanket? what is that is that just the canadian version of swine in a sweater?
Anno
>>654122 It's a little translation of a traditional colonial French meal, cochon dans une couverture actually. Literal translation even.
>>654123 i kind of wish i had a pet piglet i can't take care of animals though maybe when im stable
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I'm pretty content with cats for pets. Dogs are a bit much for me and more modernly exotic pets seem like more work than I'm particularly seeking in a pet.
i dont personally believe too much in having pets for novelty i think it's pretty wasteful and unfulfilling for both parties so when i think of a pet i'd like, im definitely associating it with a lifestyle i'd be positioned to as well not just tacking on a pet to my life that doesn't require one since things in excess make me angry and i can't bring myself to be angry at other animals i neglect my possessions as it is because they dont mean much to me, so maybe that's why i don't want a pet as a possession i love animals too much to be neglectful so it's more comforting to me to not have one so i dont have to sacrifice that space i need to operate within
however raising animals on a farm, being a falconer, having dogs in a rural environment far from roads that do useful dog things that mate them our coevolutionary partners, barn kitties who keep all the mouses out of the houses but are properly self-sustaining so that i dont ruin their natural population limitations by feeding them and allowing them all that time for kitty making or indoor cats are functional as is regardless if they're not sullied by toxoplasms from the outside regardless comma if that looked vague hamsters and guinea pigs dont make sense to me i see no reason for their cohabitation i would just eat them probably
>>654128 I believe guinea pigs and rabbits can be pretty affectionate and social pets, kind of like the domesticated bird species. And I believe a lot of the reptilians that make common exotic pets don't actually need a lot of open space and are generally content to have some magic hand feed and occasionally move them. So if it brings people pleasure to observe their activities I feel both parties are being satisfied. The kind of pet I'm most often in doubt of reasonability actually is fish The mass majority of fish owners don't give their fish the volumetric space they need, so it really feels like taking advantage of a "lesser" species to me.
Personally I just either don't have the sufficient fascination or will to commit to the responsibility to take on a pet that's not a cat, plus on a mental level I enjoy the social activities of being a cat owner for the most part.
>>654130 yeah i guess, but affection and social are probably the things im least comfortable with in life idk if it really makes sense but i need something i can connect to as a peer just by innate concept, possessing a pet or implanting an animal into the structure of your life makes them automatically not a peer but if can imagine raising huskies in alaska or living in the woods and having a hunting dog or a falcon or A // or a goat or anything really even though they're probably serving you in some respect, hunting or providing you milk or being your sleddogs they're your peers because you're mutually dependent on each other for survival you're cut from the same cloth indoor kitties (natural ones not pet store ones) usually are there because they were the runt of the litter or couldn't compete so easily out in the wild and wouldnt have survived on their own or wouldn't have had a generation of offspring basically anyway at that point their dependence and purpose really changes to a life of feeling comfort or security there are times we feel that way too so that is why i think an indoor kitty is useful as a peer in that space ive had many cats but they have always been strays or abandoned kitties and often times once they're already adults, not as kittens they just feel relatable
Major shutdown on one of the most vital bridges for one of the thoroughfares in the city. Also shuts down the subway that runs hanging underneath it, as well as the two most major subway transfer stations for our city's subway system. Apparently someone did or was hanging, ready to jump.
wait so let me understand this Dragalia gives us Nyarlathotep. And then we get this girl. Who is actually Nyannyanlatherhotep in disguise ...whoops CF is calling me train of thought gone excuse me
>sorry wasn't trying to unload all my anxiety at you This is my job. Unpacking CF's anxiety. ....whoops Forgot that thing does that. but yeah, where was I? Yeah. So they make this girl the disguise of a segment of an "Ancient One" and then when you get it as a Dragon, it doesn't use the disguise. It's just ... the slimy looking dragon.
nothing in the entire world brings me greater joy than when i'm trying to concentrate on important work and my stupid neighbor is blasting annoying rap music and i have to find music i can actually work to and wear headphones which makes my fiance unhappy because she can't talk to me at all
It's a tough situation My dissertation chair gave me like 36 hours to essentially make thousands of edits and add about five pages of content altogether
And she basically said she's going to ignore my colleague who has the same dissertation chair until mine's done because my proposal is closer to completion, so if I don't get it done by next Friday, my colleague is going to suffer from not getting any attention again
But on the bright side at least I'll be done soon And then I can finally have recreation again
that sounds like a big chore i just got through a super long work stretch too hang in there you'll do great remember to take a nap now and again and to eat
su
>>654171 if it makes you feel better about bad neighbours it turns out the christchurch terrorist lived 2 blocks away from me and i have walked past his house almost every day while taking my dog for a walk
FormerRei !GURPSRWiTs
>>654178 I bet you could get a lot of money for dirt from his yard. also who are you?
wow I didn't know sugoi was in australia well not wow but huh
su
yes. nz not australia when i say lived i mean as in now his current residence probably met him in passing...
going to take my dog to shit on his lawn later tbh >>654183 nope. he's in auckland afaik and i kind of stopped posting not long after he arrived so i don't really know him tbh
FormerRei !GURPSRWiTs
ohhhhh well I didn't know you lived in NZ either you ever hang out with Maria?
>>654186 he's more likely to travel a thousand kilometers just to not hang out probs
su
>>654184 y-you too >>654187 probably. a wow guild member lived in the same city as me and i made lots of excuses not to meet up >>654185 it happened on the same day i gave my 21 days notice on ending the lease too coincidentally bit of a bogan shithole neighborhood. fititng i guess... the guy next door is apparently a convincted sex offender...
>>654188 im not sure what it's like there, but i try not to pay attention to the sex offender registry there's lots of bullshit that can happen and label people inappropriately and their lives are ruined like two consentual adults partaking in sins of the flesh on a private beach that's still in view of public property or scornful folks can try to snag pictures of you dressing through your window and then say you're always exposing yourself through the window and get you arrested for indeceny though a lot of people would lie anyway, it still is pretty hecked up to wrongly ruin someone's life and make nobody ever trust them ever
>>654178 Damn, that's nuts Also hi Sugoi, I miss havin you around on /moe/
>>654177 I'm just going to work until it's time for bed and then I'm gonna stop for the night. Some of the stuff I don't have done, I'm gonna see if we can't omit it and then add it for the final dissertation since this is just the proposal. It's mostly stuff I don't think needs to be in it anyway Except for one part that's important and I haven't written
>>654192 i ended up being an hour and 20 minutes past my deadline today because my keyboard accidentally got melted last night i did like 16 hours of work in eight hours with just my laptop keyboard and my wrists and hand tendons feel so awful there's this one client that sends in work every quarter and i swear i always get cursed with dumb shit with this one set of projects every quarter stupid things i cant control
su
>>654192 Thanks. I miss /moe/ too sometimes, good luck with your dissertation. >>654190 It's possibly, but I suspect he's guilty. Makes me uncomfortable at least but yeah
>>654204 oh. i lived in miramar until a few months ago actually you're not hamish are you >>654203 sybyl fucks gonna die >>654202 Nothing interesting really. I'm glad things have worked out for you though!
>>654202 naw i didnt take any more work for the weekend i did 20 hours in total, that eight hours bit was just after the keyboard melted it was my aluminum keyboard, which the aluminum didnt melt but the keys did making the lower row all unusable and warped it was so cold that it was hurting to use my keyboard so i tried to warm it up with my space heater which i do sometimes but i left it in a way that it slid and pressed against the metal grate which was hot hot and not just air hot while i went to get water pretty dumb really
FormerRei !GURPSRWiTs
Seriously though, how did they melt?
FormerRei !GURPSRWiTs
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
FormerRei !GURPSRWiTs
So I know there are space heaters, but what about time heaters?
>>654205 Thanks! I'm glad to hear you're doing okay.
ToN has been running tabletop games and stuff. He's a pretty fun dm. Maybe we could play another game together someday.
Anno
Oof getting up from that nap brought to my attention that my leg feels like it's one wrong move away from cramping up. This is a very unpleasant experience.
>>654213 yeah im stuck on my laptop it shouldnt be too bad as long as im not trying to do six committee meetings in under 24 hours again if i just do three hours at a time, maybe twice a day, then i shouldn't get too sore problem is i think i'll be going back to freelancing soon which pays less so idk
>>654216 this was the only work ive gotten this pay period and i passed the deadline idk if it's a big deal or not but i probably wouldn't keep giving work to someone who screwed up the same client's stuff every quarter for the last couple years every time i get it it's dumb shit like having to drive someone to the ER or having a tornado or having bones
Anno
what's it going to take to get a new keyboard?
月
a new keyboard isn't really a big issue i just wanted to share my dumb story of the cursed client and how i melted my keyboard
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
>>654217 at least you haven't had a bone tornado, i guess
>>654270 so hows life treatin ya? hows the fam did you ever graduate even
su
just fine i guess. no happier/unhappier than usual really I did and the family is okay but i rarely talk to any of them as we're all in different cities (and islands) these days..also I'm just not the kind of person that keeps in regular contact like that
Anno
>I'm just not the kind of person that keeps in regular contact like that I know how this goes. If not for the structure of /moe/ there's a solid chance I'd drop out of contact with lots of the people here. Even people I feel a lot of affection for. It's just something I'm really bad at doing.
I've been trying to get better though.
月
>>654273 same here my family gives me a lot of grief if im ever around so i just dont go around anymore i'll call em i guess but not if they don't try to call me it's just how it goes really everyone's better at a distance
su
for sure, family can be a pain >>654274 pretty much. sometimes it causes people to think I dislike them but that's not the casse
yeah my sister got really angry at me last time i went to visit because i moved out of state and am not too involved and thinks im trying to like remove myself from the family really that much sentiment doesnt go into it travel is expensive and hard to do and i really just dont need to be in constant contact with people i guess i dont think about it gosh damned extroverts whats wrong with em
Anno
oh is st. patricks this weekend a friend of mine mentioned something like that
月
oh no is it gosh im supposed to be driving to chicago tomorrow or back from chicago rather in the evening saturday evening on pattys day im gonna loose it
Anno
It's falling on Sunday up here at least. I guess the weekend in general would be pretty partyful though.
>>654291 since regular consumption or last consumption? i specifically don't count days because i dont want to give it that much invasiveness over my thoughts ive had an occasional pint every month or so but not anything in excess or repeatedly october 27th was when i started up meds again so that was prolly when i'd count stopping i know i had some bourbon over new years, not because party but because fireworks trigger me
FormerRei !GURPSRWiTs
>>654290 probably st patgties *pattys alternatively the day that ireland becomes united and independent
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
irish free state part 2 never
Anno
irish wristwatch
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
>>654292 yeah i dig im happy for you that you're doing good with it
月
thanks nobody's really said that yet it kind of helps out
FormerRei !GURPSRWiTs
wait what the fuck POLAND BALL HAS A WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE??!?!???
Anno
>>654293 did you ever see the movie with liam neeson about the ira
taken 4 ira edition nope it's just a biopic about michael collins
Anno
>like your forebears crawled out of the ocean and built cabins and made fires and designed intuitive inventory systems in first person shooters that let you pick up the railgun AND hold on to the candy bar
>and look at u. u lost to a stick
月
it's good yeah
Koi
are people reading 17776 i miss that
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
>>654304 i have been thinkin about rereading it maybe with fish
月
cod bless benzodiazepines for letting me eternally be able to re-read and re-watch things haha all you suckers can only enjoy things once and then it's left as a stupid worthless memory
Anno
>>654304 I read it again like last year Still just as good as I remember
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
oh shit modest mouse is gonna play in Florida in November they're opening for some band i don't care about though
月
oh i remember now i couldn't finish reading it before when i started because my shit-ass SATELLITE INTERNET couldn't even load the video pages and even the text pages with images would take so long to read that i'd have to wait i was capped at like 5 gigs lmao
Anno
>>654306 I can't even enjoy something on drugs then again sober honestly
i wanna see modest mouse real bad they're like my favorite band
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i really hope they end their set with Florida honestly >>654313 same well they're not quite my favorite band but seeing the Strokes just isn't the same unless Julian is blitzed and he's like recovering and abstaining from drugs and alcohol and shit now
>>654308 the black keys or that other band I see on the website
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
>>654316 black keys i literally don't care about them
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
I think ive heard a few of their songs there's one about a submarine and one about gold on the ceiling i feel like there's another one i know something about size? like a song about something that's big or something that's small? i can't remember
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
oh they're playin in denver in september let's go crash with rook and get fucked up and listen to modest mouse
in normal conversation and stuff i can act like i know things because general knowledge is basically just something we use functionally and whether it's actually knowable or not doesn't really matter
but like if im writing academically, i don't want to be making sweeping statements about things based on studies with methodological flaws about things we can't actually know to be true
it's like trying /// i dunno i cant actually know that so many of the finding are true or not because they aren't generalizable even though modern academia says they are
especially with psychology where virtually nothing should be generalizable except for basic foundational models
if im going to write something academically, i want to write about things i can actually know with certainty I want to write about the things i can experience or observe
i want to write phenomenologically
what im writing now is stuff i can't actually know and even if my results are significant, they won't actually mean anything they can be used functionally but that's not good enough for me
studies are useful in their ability to assemble a model when writing academically you have to speak about the application of that model or the interpretation of that model and leave it simply within the framework of that model you don't have to, and can't, speak about actualities that's what ive learned anyway. having that in the academic body is still useful -- id argue it's the only thing that's useful
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
when i tried to write in a way that avoided making assumptions of certainty where i couldn't logically make them, my dissertation chair told me i need to make sure my study never leaves room for my readers to think because if they think, they will have ideas which is apparently bad
so instead of being able to write and say this stuff suggests whatever, i basically have to say here is information, this is exactly what it means but there's no real foundation on which to say it with certainty
Anno
That's a really cynical view of writing something wow.
Anno
>>654348 I will defend words to the end with my DYING BREATH
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
>>654351 it's difficult to deal with i think it's better than // that readers think i want to lead them to my conclusions without forcing them into my conclusions
>>654350 >>654347 i feel like the only thing we can know with certainty is the mechanical application of a model, without drawing any conclusions that might be the archivist and information thing in me but i feel it's just raw work investment ability to draw conclusion is just unrefined information and probably obsolete but i really dont know the field and the scope is probably different i cant really see any function besides archiving and processing, or model construction i guess
i wanted to say some more stuff but i think at this point i'd probably distract you more than help you at all and you're on a time crunch also i noticed you had some concerns lately about being cynical or at least perceived as cynical idk i think im always being a cynical bitch about everything with you guys as my soundboard and that probably doesn't help you out
i actually stopped workin a little bit ago you can only write doctoral level shit for so long before you start getting cognitively exhausted and then you're just not effective anymore im gettin ready for beddo now
i don't think you're cynical as much as you're pessimistic but i don't think that's a bad thing and it's good for people to be around others with all kinds of different attitudes
Anno
Yeah I don't think you're cynical. I think you're battered, for lack of a more accurate term, and that produces a mental state that creates maybe a similar mentalscape to cynicism or pessimism. Maybe even that comes off as too pretentious. Like when you're out on a hot day and the sun's beating down on you for all those hours and you get inside and your skin feels stretched and tired. That's the kind of feeling I get from hearing your experience.
Koi
>>654355 Wanna watch another Canadian cartoon first
月
>>654356 i think im really attuned to recognizing flaws in things and the thing is, stuff like that intrigues me a lot im filled with a curiosity that makes me want to share the experience of intrigue, but since im often talking about those flaws in things, i think it really sounds like im whining or complaining or being really negative all the time but im really just so curious to problems and puzzles that i can't let go of those little things that go against the grain
like today i was doing some geological survey stuff and there was talk around mining diamonds and some process that sounded like "deglowing" so i head over to google and type in deglowing to check if it's a word or if i can gather any context clues around what it could have been well it's not a word, so google assumed i meant the next closest thing and searched degloving for me which i dont suggest googling yourself as it's a // an injury where skin is forcefully pulled off of the body, like by a machine and google did the kind service of displaying me a few of the top images along with the web search that it automatically changed from deglowing to degloving it really struck me as confounding because i was doing a fairly innocent search about minerals and got a page full of medical gore i think that's a pretty blaring issue with google, and i actually thought about coming to /moe/ to post about it when it happened but i realized it's probably burdensome for the only show up to post about something bad happening all the time or to complain about how something's not right not that i was really bothered by it given my medical learnings but it was just a thing i couldn't stop thinking about all day during work that could really affect some people
月
and all these forceful wallotexts nobody asked for just an archivist digging through heaps of information all day like rummaging through an antique store and wanting to share all these odd finds i gotta realize not everyone is as obsessive about the mundane as me and that people have real lives and stuff
Oh the National Film Board. I'm familiar with their work.
Is Robert Munsch at all known down there? I read a metric fucktonne of his books when I was a kid.
Anno
>>654360 what is that all I can make out is shallots
Anno
A rice bowl of ginger pork topped with yeah, shallots. There's rice somewhere down there. The ginger pork is hella tasty despite being like five days old.
>>654371 DO YOU REMEMBER THE ONE WITH THE TELEPORTER? AND THE SCIENTIST? AND THAT ONE BITCH
月
>>654372 it really was a pretty effective tool at turning people less of a fool
Anno
>>654374 Hm, not off the top of my head. Maybe it's sitting somewhere deep in there though.
This animation is nice but a Robert Munsch book isn't quite a proper story when it's not told by Robert Munsch himself. https://robertmunsch.com/book/jonathan-cleaned-up# He's such a great storyteller.
Koi
>>654376 >>>/watch?v=KUXKUcsvhQc This was my introduction to Canadian ideas. We had this show called O' Canada and it would air super early in the morning. and it would fill my head with this craziness
Anno
980 Yonge Street isn't a house any more though. As like most things in this city, it's become condos. There is a subway station pretty close by though.
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https://robertmunsch.com/book/mortimer# Mortimer's got to be the quintessential Munsch book though. Hearing him tell it is a thing of brilliance.
CLANG CLANG RATTLE BING BANG
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>>654377 Ah I see now. Rather than an adaptation of a Munsch book this seems like an original work. Avant-garde stuff like this I probably never really had a chance to see as a kid.
Anno
>>654377 This has got to be one of the most fucked cartoons I've ever seen haha
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I need to get me one of these guilt erasing teleportation machines
Anno
https://robertmunsch.com/book/love-you-forever# Munsch could at time write some extremely sentimental and heartfelt stuff too. This guy is a national treasure.
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https://robertmunsch.com/book/the-paper-bag-princess# Last one but this is another one of his absolute classics. I fucking love this guy.
>>654380 >>654381 OH SO YOU GUYS JUST THREW YOUR SHIT OVER HERE AND KEPT THE ACTUAL CHILD CONTENT FOR YOURSELVES HUH
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I mean it probably aired late-night on somewhere like Teletoon and we only got that channel for maybe five or six years before the cable company realized they'd been accidentally given us a better package than what we were paying for and told my parents to either downgrade or start paying the proper fees and my parents, being the ... hm, not quite spendthrift or stingy and not really a matter of pragmatism or sensibility either, but regardless, chose to downgrade. And this was all long before I would have been allowed to watch late-night stuff.
Anno
Also 17776 was a very enjoyable read and brilliant execution of the multimedia capabilities of digital publishing.
Koi
>when you're about to win the game but Liberty DIES
