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My grocery store does a build your own salad bar and while you do slightly overpay by weight by a few cents, you can get a bunch of veg in the exact amount you need. Highly recommend.
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
My grocery store does a build your own salad bar and while you do slightly overpay by weight by a few cents, you can get a bunch of veg in the exact amount you need. Highly recommend.
Okay but the real question is, who would you want it to go to? And would you be down for a departure in style, reboot, or reimagining?
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Okay but the real question is, who would you want it to go to? And would you be down for a departure in style, reboot, or reimagining?
I do have a lesser known LotR factoid though. Shelob has a human form that's just a sexy barefoot goth lady, according to Shadow of Mordor--and it's canon, it was in Tolkien's long lost notes that she be barefoot, v. important.
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I do have a lesser known LotR factoid though. Shelob has a human form that's just a sexy barefoot goth lady, according to Shadow of Mordor--and it's canon, it was in Tolkien's long lost notes that she be barefoot, v. important.
I went from quitting in frustration for two weeks to it being my favorite game of all time. Such an amazing experience.
November 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I went from quitting in frustration for two weeks to it being my favorite game of all time. Such an amazing experience.
It's great! Also, pretty sure Nott does a cheeky little Akira slide at one point which is great.
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
It's great! Also, pretty sure Nott does a cheeky little Akira slide at one point which is great.
That advice just doesn't work anymore. It's decades out of date, companies and even laws and their policies and responses are desperately out of date, and we need something better.
November 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
That advice just doesn't work anymore. It's decades out of date, companies and even laws and their policies and responses are desperately out of date, and we need something better.
One of the most vital parts of the article, I think, is highlighting how harassment and trolling has changed. "Just ignore the bully" is fine advice when it was one kid on the playground, one guy in the forum and operators had control over him. Now the bully directs millions, or is the president.
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
One of the most vital parts of the article, I think, is highlighting how harassment and trolling has changed. "Just ignore the bully" is fine advice when it was one kid on the playground, one guy in the forum and operators had control over him. Now the bully directs millions, or is the president.
(We have insanely expensive and nice ass dog beds and pamper the shit out of our pets for the exact same reason too)
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
(We have insanely expensive and nice ass dog beds and pamper the shit out of our pets for the exact same reason too)
Other things we do that no other species does: live way past our natural lifespans thanks to modern medicine and technology and therefore have to live much, much LONGER with effects of time's slow march on our infinitely deteriorating bodies.
-signed, almost 40.
-signed, almost 40.
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Other things we do that no other species does: live way past our natural lifespans thanks to modern medicine and technology and therefore have to live much, much LONGER with effects of time's slow march on our infinitely deteriorating bodies.
-signed, almost 40.
-signed, almost 40.
Remember when he was first let loose and was like, "Could have gone to many parties this weekend (I was invited to soooo many, I swear!), but I spent it gutting USAID and murdering half a million people, epic lulz."
I'm beginning to think he wasn't invited to any parties though.
I'm beginning to think he wasn't invited to any parties though.
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Remember when he was first let loose and was like, "Could have gone to many parties this weekend (I was invited to soooo many, I swear!), but I spent it gutting USAID and murdering half a million people, epic lulz."
I'm beginning to think he wasn't invited to any parties though.
I'm beginning to think he wasn't invited to any parties though.
I think maybe I didn't know about this game--certainly not that it's the same world as 12?
They, uh... they got bunny girls over there?
They, uh... they got bunny girls over there?
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I think maybe I didn't know about this game--certainly not that it's the same world as 12?
They, uh... they got bunny girls over there?
They, uh... they got bunny girls over there?
In a sane world we'd have the equivalent to a blue checkmark for every account that's basically just the lying cat from the Saga comics. The complex algorithms which are used to mine our data and sell us shit would be put instead toward determining whether an account is a bot, and making it known.
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
In a sane world we'd have the equivalent to a blue checkmark for every account that's basically just the lying cat from the Saga comics. The complex algorithms which are used to mine our data and sell us shit would be put instead toward determining whether an account is a bot, and making it known.
That said, though, square has like quadrupled down on ai, committing to some utter nonsense like 70% ai workforce or whatever insane thing the suits think on planet lunatic ceo, so--hard to feel invested in 17.
November 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
That said, though, square has like quadrupled down on ai, committing to some utter nonsense like 70% ai workforce or whatever insane thing the suits think on planet lunatic ceo, so--hard to feel invested in 17.
Smash 12 and 13 together, in the sense that it's about a Lightning-like princess running from the call (a lady aragorn, if you will), replace Balthier with an even twinkier femboy, keep the stoic bunny girl sexpot "sidekick," and baby, you got a stew going.
November 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Smash 12 and 13 together, in the sense that it's about a Lightning-like princess running from the call (a lady aragorn, if you will), replace Balthier with an even twinkier femboy, keep the stoic bunny girl sexpot "sidekick," and baby, you got a stew going.
And it's like... Many other RPG's are smoother and quicker to learn, and will do what you want better. Some are so slim you can print at home on half a dozen pages, and they'll still hit the same levels of depth and complexity.
"Try another rpg" is not a pain in the ass just because DnD was.
"Try another rpg" is not a pain in the ass just because DnD was.
November 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
And it's like... Many other RPG's are smoother and quicker to learn, and will do what you want better. Some are so slim you can print at home on half a dozen pages, and they'll still hit the same levels of depth and complexity.
"Try another rpg" is not a pain in the ass just because DnD was.
"Try another rpg" is not a pain in the ass just because DnD was.
But it's kind of a pain in the ass to learn, and it's not good at being all things, so people who have played and know how prickly it can be think ALL rpg's are like that.
"You want me to learn ANOTHER RPG?" where "learn" means "read 1000's of pages and buy hundreds of dollars of books."
"You want me to learn ANOTHER RPG?" where "learn" means "read 1000's of pages and buy hundreds of dollars of books."
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
But it's kind of a pain in the ass to learn, and it's not good at being all things, so people who have played and know how prickly it can be think ALL rpg's are like that.
"You want me to learn ANOTHER RPG?" where "learn" means "read 1000's of pages and buy hundreds of dollars of books."
"You want me to learn ANOTHER RPG?" where "learn" means "read 1000's of pages and buy hundreds of dollars of books."
DnD's greatest strengths (legacy branding, cultural dominance) are its greatest weakness. It's an okay game but people think it's the only one (its brand is synonymous with the hobby itself), whether by broad impression because they don't know any better, or by sunk cost because they're invested.
November 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
DnD's greatest strengths (legacy branding, cultural dominance) are its greatest weakness. It's an okay game but people think it's the only one (its brand is synonymous with the hobby itself), whether by broad impression because they don't know any better, or by sunk cost because they're invested.
Oh yeah, Yoko Taro would have in perpetuity, if he could, a maid cafe where a 2B maid steps on you and drops sneaky little lore hints you can't find anywhere else. He'd have revelations printed on the interior seams of sexy android body pillows.
November 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Oh yeah, Yoko Taro would have in perpetuity, if he could, a maid cafe where a 2B maid steps on you and drops sneaky little lore hints you can't find anywhere else. He'd have revelations printed on the interior seams of sexy android body pillows.
I like it when it's done by your Yoko Taros and your Hideo Kojimas and other such weird lunatics, like it's part of the art and the weird. Like ergodic fiction (House of Leaves) in a game. The audacity is neat. But yeah when it's movie stuff in Fortnite, when it's just money marketing: ugh.
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I like it when it's done by your Yoko Taros and your Hideo Kojimas and other such weird lunatics, like it's part of the art and the weird. Like ergodic fiction (House of Leaves) in a game. The audacity is neat. But yeah when it's movie stuff in Fortnite, when it's just money marketing: ugh.
OMG I keep forgetting that mike johnson is the one with the porn pact with his son, holy shit. So fucking batshit weird.
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
OMG I keep forgetting that mike johnson is the one with the porn pact with his son, holy shit. So fucking batshit weird.
It's an amount that if you ate it out of the bag you'd not only know you were eating too much cheese but you'd be sick of it before you got there, but in the pot it's like, "I dunno, could be a little cheesier."
November 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
It's an amount that if you ate it out of the bag you'd not only know you were eating too much cheese but you'd be sick of it before you got there, but in the pot it's like, "I dunno, could be a little cheesier."
Anyway, I clocked that Nott does a quick little Akira slide in the new Mighty Nein animated show. I thought it was cool and not something you'd "um ackshyually" about.
November 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Anyway, I clocked that Nott does a quick little Akira slide in the new Mighty Nein animated show. I thought it was cool and not something you'd "um ackshyually" about.
Yeah that's a real grim pair of words king of like "child labor" or "underage prostitution" that should be inherently understood as wrong and just explains itself.
And yet. That the pairing exists at all points to a big fuckin problem.
And yet. That the pairing exists at all points to a big fuckin problem.
November 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Yeah that's a real grim pair of words king of like "child labor" or "underage prostitution" that should be inherently understood as wrong and just explains itself.
And yet. That the pairing exists at all points to a big fuckin problem.
And yet. That the pairing exists at all points to a big fuckin problem.
Every once in a while I try to make a post on reddit for a thing I like, usually something pretty innocuous and safe, and without fail a bunch of contrarian pains in the ass try to start a fight, and I just delete the whole thing.
November 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Every once in a while I try to make a post on reddit for a thing I like, usually something pretty innocuous and safe, and without fail a bunch of contrarian pains in the ass try to start a fight, and I just delete the whole thing.
@samriegel.bsky.social You might think nobody else has noticed Nott doing an Akira slide in the M9 show but I noticed. Kudos.
November 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
@samriegel.bsky.social You might think nobody else has noticed Nott doing an Akira slide in the M9 show but I noticed. Kudos.