Dan Shive
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Must protect! - www.egscomics.com/comic/falsek...

"You're aware she's probably stronger than you, right?"
"Actually, we're super unclear how strong she is. She could be anywhere from Tedd trying to move furniture to Grace lifting a car."
"Wait, whose car?"
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Must protect! - www.egscomics.com/comic/falsek...

"You're aware she's probably stronger than you, right?"
"Actually, we're super unclear how strong she is. She could be anywhere from Tedd trying to move furniture to Grace lifting a car."
"Wait, whose car?"
#egscomics #webcomics
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I was simply reminded of certain attitudes while watching a colorful educational video about a topic I'm far from an expert on (had to do with genes).
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Oh ye gods, the perils of managers who don’t know their actual jobs.

Like if Captain Kirk hopped on down to engineering every time something went wrong and tried to tell Scotty his business beyond a desired outcome.
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Paradoxical as it sounds, I think it's worth taking a bit of pride in humility.

"I was willing to look foolish today!" (Beams)
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I learned several things today because I openly admitted I wasn't sure about something. I asked in spite of thinking "this is silly, isn't it? Someone's going to laugh."

Turns out it wasn't silly, there was much to learn, and if I'd stayed quiet out of pride, I would've missed out on learning.
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"BAH! I am a mature adult. I will still to blocks of tiny text."

(Much time later)

"I still don't know the basics, but I'm old, so I must be an expert anyway somehow."
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It doesn't make you childish or unintelligent.

It just means you don't get to skip the basics just because you've been around for a few decades.

Some things might be too simple for you, sure, but you don't know enough to know what until you've genuinely learned the basics, so... 🤷‍♀️
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Some adults get insulted when things are presented simply with colorful, easy to understand and remember graphics.

Something to keep in mind, however, is that even if you're forty, you're not necessarily forty in terms of your knowledge of a subject. You might really benefit from the simplification
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Thanks to replies—thank you!—I searched YouTube for epistasis, and got this: youtu.be/YJHGfbW55l0?...

I feel like this one 7 minute video beat up my high school biology class and took its lunch money.

That might not be fair, it HAS been a long time, but it sure feels that way 😅
Incomplete Dominance, Codominance, Polygenic Traits, and Epistasis!
YouTube video by Amoeba Sisters
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I don’t expect an answer of “yes, that’s totally a thing.”

It’s just something I thought of in a fictional context, then considered “wait, I’m in no way an expert on this. Am I absolutely sure that’s not a thing?”
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I’ve never heard of this being a thing, but can there be tiers to recessive genes?

Like, let’s say blue hair and green hair are recessive, so neither’s associated trait will show if paired with a dominant gene, but blue’s trait will always show if paired with green in spite of both being recessive?
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It was, in a different way. The thing about Season 3 is I haven’t seen any action from it yet.

For all I know, that’s going to look amazing compared to season 2.
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I feel the new animation style for season 3 of One Punch Man makes limited animation stand out where it wouldn’t otherwise.

The thickness of lines look good as stills, but in some places, it accentuates static elements next to moving ones in ways that make me think of old flash cartoons 😬
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A lot of valid points are sandwiched between sus cuts of bread.

"No really, there's a good point in there."

"I don't trust that bread."

"More than one good point, actually!"

"The bread just winked at me."
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What I was talking about was prices of buying individual things vs price of subscription, and the potential free option of libraries (not always free, well stocked, or convenient, location matters).

Your response is the start of a related, but ultimately separate, discussion.
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Not that I think anyone needs the cost-benefit analysis explained to them.

I’m mostly saying it to be clear *I’m* aware of it after making that first post 🙃
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Note: “Can” does not mean “always does”. It very much depends.

Also, I’m talking about subscriptions in general, not specifically streaming TV and movies.

It really does depend on what it is, what you’d do instead, your habits, who all it can be shared with, their habits, and what overlaps.
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As much as I prefer truly owning things, and as much as there are too many subscription services, so long as one truly uses them enough, they really can save money relative to buying everything.

Granted, if you’ve access to a good public library, so can those.
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Oh hey I'm back - www.egscomics.com/egsnp/cinder...

"Seriously, how are you that fast and stealthy?"
"I wear sneakers!"
"To a ball?"
"I painted them. It's fine."
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Blame American grading systems.
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Bocchi is one of those where I could see a battle to decide A vs S based on various factors.
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Sometimes my tablet’s grammar check does it’s thing and underlines something blue, but doesn’t remove the line after I’ve fixed what made it a grammar error.

“I’ve fixed the problem, grammar check.”

“No! You will click on the wiggly line only to be shown the word that’s already there!”
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I’d say C and B are most common, and whether something is A or S most open to debate.

Not a lot of D’s and F’s come to mind, though I’d say early broadcast Dragon Ball Super was D based on what screen caps I’ve seen (I think F should be assigned with so much reservation that even early DBS is safe)
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I guess I’d describe A-tier as really good, and S as “even further beyond”. B looks good budget, but falls short in places where it shows. C is consistently showing signs of a low budget, but isn’t bad otherwise. D is C with stuff that is pretty bad, and F is so bad it needs emphasis beyond D.
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I remain caught off guard by A Wild Last Boss Appears existing as an anime with S-Tier production value.

Granted, I’m not sure what the criteria is for all the production tiers in my head, but this puts it in company with Shangri-La Frontier and Spy X Family. I’d never have foreseen that.