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| Topic | Norm from Fallout is so hot |
| adjl 05/15/24 4:18:03 PM #55 | For that matter, are >6' boys considered adults?
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| Topic | Norm from Fallout is so hot |
| adjl 05/15/24 4:15:49 PM #53 | ItIsSoOver posted...
Flip flopping all over the place lmao. Not really. "I'm more attracted to shorter guys" is a normal preference. "I'm more attracted to taller guys" is a normal preference. "I'm more attracted to blonde guys" is a normal preference. "I think any guy less than 6 feet tall looks like a child and consider it creepy for anyone to date them" is not a normal preference. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | fast food french fry prices are the most absurd out of all the price hikes |
| adjl 05/15/24 4:08:25 PM #18 | shadowsword87 posted...
Frozen fries in the oven are garbage, I want those suckers greasy. That's why you dip them in melted butter. Duh. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Norm from Fallout is so hot |
| adjl 05/15/24 3:48:26 PM #45 | I wouldn't say nothing, since it does affect things like how easy/hard it is to find clothes, which shelves you can use, and can complicate physical intimacy if the height difference is too great, but nothing that would qualify as a dealbreaker for any rational person.
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| Topic | Norm from Fallout is so hot |
| adjl 05/15/24 3:23:24 PM #43 | "Men should never tell me I'm wrong for any reason, regardless of how ridiculous I'm being!"
Yeah, not so much. Having a preference? Sure, you do you. Insinuating that women are pedophiles if they date any man outside of the 85th percentile for height? That's just plain stupid, and can and should be judged accordingly. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Slow Mo Guys team up with Adam Savage |
| adjl 05/15/24 2:40:03 PM #9 | It's a collab that makes sense. There's a lot of overlap between Mythbusters' and the Slow-Mo Guys' niches, and while it's not entirely accurate to say they're a modern-day version of Mythbusters, it's also not entirely wrong. This is just really cool for everyone involved.
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| Topic | Slow Mo Guys team up with Adam Savage |
| adjl 05/15/24 1:55:34 PM #7 | rjsilverthorn posted...
If you need a guy on YouTube that has experience firing birds from air cannons, who better than Adam Savage. Pretty much. He started talking about the safety and I had a brief moment of "why's he the one telling everybody this?" before realizing that he's done enough other experiments involving improvised cannons to already know exactly which issues needed to be considered to pull together a set of safety rules. In practice, they mostly just mirrored standard range safety guidelines, adapted for a compressor-powered air cannon, and anyone else could probably have done it, but I imagine it's second nature for Adam at this point. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Slow Mo Guys team up with Adam Savage |
| adjl 05/15/24 12:33:34 PM #2 | I like that Adam probably already that set of safety precautions ready to quote for exactly this sort of situation.
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| Topic | Norm from Fallout is so hot |
| adjl 05/15/24 12:11:14 PM #31 | "Anyone attracted to a man under 6' is a pedophile"
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| Topic | Does getting mad at fake news and calling it out mean they still won? |
| adjl 05/15/24 9:51:10 AM #2 | On the news end of things, they "win" when they get their ad revenue. If you click on the article or watch the clip, they've gotten everything you can personally give them. If you talk about it further and get other people to click on it, even better.
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| Topic | Norm from Fallout is so hot |
| adjl 05/15/24 8:33:29 AM #22 | ItIsSoOver posted...
Most men these days do look like children. Given that 78% of men in the US are over 18, maybe you just don't know what children look like? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | fast food french fry prices are the most absurd out of all the price hikes |
| adjl 05/14/24 8:52:08 PM #15 | It depends a lot on the brand. Some frozen fries are pretty good, others not so much.
As an alternative, you can get a fry press/cutter for less than $50 and just make your own straight from potatoes, but that's more work, especially if you par-cook them first to mirror how they're usually made in restaurants. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Jurassic (Cretaceous) Park? |
| adjl 05/14/24 4:33:12 PM #12 | It'd be cool, but actually pulling it off would be so expensive that I wouldn't consider it worth the price the tickets had to be.
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| Topic | fast food french fry prices are the most absurd out of all the price hikes |
| adjl 05/14/24 3:06:17 PM #9 | Cupcake2006 posted...
The 25% off ultimately doesn't end up adding up to much unless you're buying for a lot of people If fries are normally $6, 25% off becomes better than $1 fries if you spend more than $20 total, which is actually pretty easy to do these days. You might not do it solo, but if you're buying for even one other person there's a good chance you'll break $20. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | What's a restaurant that offers a really smoll deep dish pizza? |
| adjl 05/14/24 3:04:29 PM #19 | Isn't double decker pizza just lasagna?
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| Topic | What's a restaurant that offers a really smoll deep dish pizza? |
| adjl 05/14/24 1:04:10 PM #17 | It'll vary by pizza, obviously, but pizza actually isn't too bad in terms of macronutrient balance. It works out to ~50% of the calories from carbs, ~35% from fat, and ~15% from protein. That's a bit higher-fat than is advisable, but nothing that can't be corrected by the rest of the day's meals. Heck, if you're light on the dressing, you can probably correct that just by having a side salad (which has the added benefit of shoring up the micronutrients that pizza tends not to offer in meaningful quantities).
That's not to say you should have pizza for every meal or anything, but being afraid of it like that is just silly. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Hypothetically if you guys won a big powerball jackpot would |
| adjl 05/14/24 8:35:23 AM #15 | It'd remove some pretty considerable stressors for me and everyone I care about. Some things can't be fixed with money, but quite a few things can.
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| Topic | fast food french fry prices are the most absurd out of all the price hikes |
| adjl 05/14/24 8:32:06 AM #2 | Generally speaking, fast food places use higher margins on fries to compensate for lower margins on their meat. The gold standard for food service is to have food costs make up ~30% of the final price of the item (the rest covering labour, overhead, and profit margins), but fast food burgers typically have food costs of 50-55%. Fries, on the other hand, come in at 5-10%, and drinks are like 1%. This is why they push combos so hard.
Air fryers are pretty great for making frozen fries at home, if you find a brand you like well enough to substitute for fast food fries. You can get even cheaper by just making your own, but that tends to be much more time-consuming and often doesn't turn out as well. Neither help for when you're on the road, but it's an opportunity to save some money at home. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | What's a restaurant that offers a really smoll deep dish pizza? |
| adjl 05/14/24 8:25:24 AM #13 | ItIsSoOver posted...
It absolutely is. Tasting good doesn't make something not trash. What farms are you visiting that they're ordering pizza for livestock? Lokarin posted... although the yeast might be expired. You can test it by throwing a little bit in a cup of warm (~body temp), slightly sweetened water. If it bubbles after a few minutes, it's still good. If not, it's dead. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | i'm pretty sure i have tennis elbow and i don't know what would have caused it |
| adjl 05/14/24 8:21:44 AM #14 | Which is about what I expected, because America. The next best option is to stick with the advice of stretching your forearm out and doing a variety of small exercises to round out your arm's musculature.
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| Topic | i'm pretty sure i have tennis elbow and i don't know what would have caused it |
| adjl 05/14/24 8:16:19 AM #12 | It's probably worth seeing a physiotherapist for that. If it were just hurting and you could pinpoint some form of overuse that was likely the culprit, you could work to balance that out yourself. If you've got other symptoms (though symptoms that are likely related), it's worth getting a professional opinion to help narrow down the root of the problem and make sure whatever you're doing doesn't exacerbate the other issues.
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| Topic | How are the most recent Pokemon games? |
| adjl 05/13/24 3:07:37 PM #16 | ReturnOfFa posted...
It reminds me of playing a N64 or PS1 game, it can be pretty funny. This seems pretty accurate to me. It's that same kind of jank that we just laugh off because it was a different time with lower standards for performance/quality control (heck, I recently watched a 4-hour video on all the different places invisible walls pop up in Mario 64 because of mistakes in object geometry), except for the part where it's a modern game in one of the world's biggest media franchises and the standards are therefore quite a bit higher. It doesn't stop it from being a fun game, it's just shameful. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Billionaires pay less taxes than you |
| adjl 05/13/24 3:04:38 PM #16 | Lokarin posted...
Jeff Bezos claimed negative income a few years back... not only did he pay less than you, you paid HIM with your taxes In a similar vein, ABK (at least before Microsoft bought them) gets a tax refund of upwards of a hundred million each year because they hide all of their assets in offshore tax havens. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | If I've got a brand new pair of AirPods from 2022, will it have warranty? |
| adjl 05/13/24 8:28:39 AM #4 | ConfusedTorchic posted...
warranties typically start at point of sale, so yes This. For a product like this, they could track when you start using them, but most products can't and the only reason to do so would be to extend the warranty period, which doesn't work in the company's favour, so they aren't going to. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | How are the most recent Pokemon games? |
| adjl 05/13/24 8:25:44 AM #12 | TLR_ posted...
I will start by saying I'd experienced bugs and rendering issues within the first hour in the most up-to-date version of Violet. This is also true. That the performance is as bad as it is is 100% just GF not putting in the necessary effort to make a polished game, and that's worth complaining about to put pressure on them to coast less, but none of the problems are really that bad. The worst you'll get is an occasional crash, and the game autosaves frequently enough that that won't cost you much progress. Most of the time, it's just jank that's more entertaining than seriously harmful. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | i'm pretty sure i have tennis elbow and i don't know what would have caused it |
| adjl 05/13/24 8:21:37 AM #9 | Indeed. In general, RSIs like tennis elbow are caused not just by the repetitive motion, but by the fact that doing the motion repeatedly instead of a wider variety of motions causes certain muscles to become over/underdeveloped, resulting in unbalanced/incorrect tension on the affected tendons and more strain than the overdeveloped muscles would normally see during other motions because they end up doing more of the work than they're supposed to. Doing a variety of light exercises can help even things out.
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| Topic | Meme 35: can finally run for president |
| adjl 05/12/24 11:03:23 PM #397 | https://imgur.com/yuBnh2o
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| Topic | How are the most recent Pokemon games? |
| adjl 05/12/24 10:32:52 PM #9 | There's no excuse for how buggy and poor-performing they are, given GF's resources and what contemporary games on the Switch were able to do (namely, Xenoblade 3 and TotK both looked and ran better), but the experience of open-world Pokemon is really fun and there are quite few QoL improvements that are very welcome (particularly the option to change natures and IVs on a whim, and EV training being much more easily accessible). My assessment is mostly a second-hand one from my girlfriend's experience playing it (bought it for her last Christmas), and neither of us have played a Pokemon game since DP and therefore I can't comment on how it compares to Sw/Sh, but I'd say it's definitely worth playing.
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| Topic | I counted my PS3/PS4/PS5 games |
| adjl 05/12/24 9:51:45 PM #7 | Roachmeat posted...
or having to nuke an account for having one bad game and all of its dlc junking up my library. Why would anyone do this? Dikitain posted... Besides, the whole investment thing is BS anyways. Like the people who say "Don't pay off your mortgage early, you can invest the extra money!". The math behind it is so far fetched once they try to explain it to you. It does make some amount of sense, if your interest rate is low enough that you can reasonably expect a higher return on investment than you'll save by paying off the mortgage earlier, but in practice unless you're already actively investing that extra 2-3k you throw at your mortgage as an extra payment isn't going to make much of a difference in the long run, nor will it magically get you started on investing. That's more of a broader investment strategy sort of question than a "should I make an extra mortgage payment this month?" sort of question. Dikitain posted... Compared to some hobbies, video games isn't really a "I could have invested it!" thing. It is so minuscule vs. what some people pay on sports, cars, boats, planes, or other hobbies. Indeed. The front-end cost for any given game/system is high enough to feel like a significant cost, but in terms of cost per hour of entertainment gaming is extremely economical compared to most other hobbies that have some sort of consumerist aspect to them. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I knew better but did it anyway. |
| adjl 05/12/24 1:37:27 PM #9 | faramir77 posted...
No, the beef is just prepared by a kid getting paid minimum wage, and thus is likely contaminated with loads of salmonella. Your body reacts that way because in all likelihood the tacos they sell are literal poison. Salmonella usually takes a day or two to start showing symptoms, or at least 8 hours. If you're seeing results within the hour, it's not from salmonella. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Billionaires pay less taxes than you |
| adjl 05/12/24 1:33:55 PM #8 | ItIsSoOver posted...
Certain people (who probably share a lot of views with TC) aren't in favor of a flat tax, which could fix this issue Yes and no. The problem with a flat tax is that losing, say, half your income when you make $20k is devastating, but losing half your income when you make $20M has very little impact on quality of life (and none whatsoever on your ability to survive). To that end, if it's determined that the tax needs are X% of the country's total income, taxing everyone X% is going to disproportionately hurt the lower class without actually doing that much to alleviate the overall tax burden. However it works, something needs to be done to ensure that people whose basic survival hinges on keeping as much of their income as possible get to do so. Are tax brackets the best solution? Maybe, maybe not. The problem with tax brackets isn't that the idea doesn't work at a fundamental level, it's that the system of deductions and exemptions needed to make it work is too complicated for anyone without a good (and expensive) accountant to take full advantage of, plus there's been significant lobbying to ensure that those deductions work in favour of those who don't actually need them because they're the ones with the resources needed to lobby. I could see a flat tax working with a much higher minimum income threshold (like you get taxed the greater of X% or whatever takes you down to $75k), but even that would require some rejigging to catch the multibillionaires who ostensibly only make like $10 a year because of how they've structured their wealth. You'd also probably still end up needing some extra deductions/credits (like $75k goes a lot further for a single person than for a person with three kids), which pretty quickly starts devolving into the same overcomplicated nonsense we've got now. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | can't even play league of legends anymore |
| adjl 05/11/24 11:42:01 AM #2 | Hopefully the player base doesn't...
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| Topic | Rabbit and Steel, a four-player raiding game that feels like FFXIV (has a demo) |
| adjl 05/11/24 10:54:45 AM #6 | Nichtcrawler-X posted...
Guess I never knew that FFXIV was actually a 2d horizontal bullet hell... I can't speak for FFXIV, but most raid bosses in WoW functionally were (at least the last time I paid attention to WoW, which was like 2010), just with a ground-level perspective. Positioning, dodging AoE attacks, and other movements that happen as part of executing any given fight rarely include any sort of verticality, which means they're effectively 2D bullet hells (or at least bullet hell-adjacent games) masquerading as 3D games. Abstracting them into 2D doesn't actually take much of anything away from the fights' executions. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | why are mods actually enforcing the politics rule |
| adjl 05/11/24 10:18:10 AM #30 | Count_Drachma posted...
idk, can't be any worse than Red Ventures. RV set a very, very, very low bar, given their wacked-out CEO's directives. Are you unaware of the steps Fandom has taken over the last couple months? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Aurora borealis in Arizona |
| adjl 05/11/24 10:11:15 AM #3 | I tried to see if I could see anything here last night (Nova Scotia), but I'm within the city and it was pretty cloudy, so no dice. I've seen some other shots from around the province, though, which is pretty nifty.
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| Topic | Rabbit and Steel, a four-player raiding game that feels like FFXIV (has a demo) |
| adjl 05/10/24 10:35:46 PM #2 | An experience similar to raiding in a WoW-like MMO, but without having to schedule around, rely on, or talk to other people? Colour me intrigued. I'll have to check out the demo
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| Topic | Rarest Ice Cream flavor you ever had? |
| adjl 05/10/24 10:33:21 PM #10 | There's a Syrian ice cream (booza) place here where I had rose-flavoured ice cream once. That's not that crazy (especially if you look pretty much anywhere middle eastern), but I think it probably qualifies.
Also Tiger Tail, but that's not so much genuinely rare as it is unpopular. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Meme 35: can finally run for president |
| adjl 05/10/24 10:11:31 PM #382 | https://imgur.com/5fZxjyY
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| Topic | It's a good thing there's nothing political worth talking about right now |
| adjl 05/10/24 5:59:34 PM #11 | ParanoidObsessive posted...
If you were to believe Reddit - about pretty much anything - you'd be very gullible. You could probably find Reddit telling you not to believe Reddit about anything. What then? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Honestly I think banks and law enforcement should start giving more attention... |
| adjl 05/10/24 2:02:58 PM #6 | Dikitain posted...
I don't think there is much that law enforcement can do since most of the scammers are in other countries (mostly India and China). Outside the jurisdiction of all but international courts (which really don't have any power in the first place). The biggest thing that could be done would be to require some form of authorization for any international money transfers that would let scam transactions be screened out. That would, however, have pretty substantial effects on global commerce, even with some kind of system whereby some entities could be pre-authorized to not need to have every transaction checked, so I'm not sure it's a worthwhile tradeoff. It also wouldn't do anything to stop scams that get their money through gift cards, so odds are implementing such a measure would just shift most scammers to those instead. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | i'm pretty sure i have tennis elbow and i don't know what would have caused it |
| adjl 05/10/24 9:27:05 AM #3 | You can get it from some of the muscles in your forearm being too tight, which can happen from inactivity. Notably, it was one of the things my physio gave me stretches to avoid after I broke my elbow and was stuck in a sling for a couple weeks, which left me with a very stiff forearm. In that state, I found that the repeated thumb motions of playing controller-based games gave me some tennis elbow, so maybe yours has been caused similarly.
You can stretch out your forearm by holding your arm out straight, grabbing your outstretched hand with your other hand, and gently twisting the arm until you feel a stretch in your upper forearm (both directions can offer stretches). Don't go too hard, since you don't want to hurt yourself, but it can help loosen things up. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Hornyposting ITT >:D |
| adjl 05/09/24 9:59:48 PM #4 | https://imgur.com/WrbiK1m
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| Topic | Sweden encourages parking snitches... |
| adjl 05/09/24 7:33:16 PM #11 | That's the same vibe as "winning the lottery isn't even that great because you lose half of it to taxes." It's a weird fixation on what's being "lost" as though that somehow overshadows the tens of millions of dollars you still get that you otherwise wouldn't have.
If I can put in a few seconds of trivial effort to ensure some entitled prick gets punished for parking like an entitled prick, and I get paid for those few seconds of trivial effort, I'm not going to get pissy over that reward being less than face value (especially not by the same margin by which all other income in the country is less than face value, meaning the purchasing power of any net income has already been scaled by that margin). That's still money I otherwise wouldn't have had in exchange for something I'd consider doing for free. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Sweden encourages parking snitches... |
| adjl 05/09/24 3:55:28 PM #6 | ParanoidObsessive posted...
Remember you'll probably have to pay like 60% of it back in taxes. When it comes to things like parking across driveways or in bike lanes, I'd be fine with just making it legal to key the car or smash a window. To get even 40% of a cash reward is just icing on the cake. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Someone in one of my claims filed a police report for water damage |
| adjl 05/09/24 2:49:53 PM #16 | Well then that's just plain dumb, instead of being a logically consistent course of action that was just blown out of proportion. This particular devil no longer deserves my advocacy. Good day, Satan.
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| Topic | Sweden encourages parking snitches... |
| adjl 05/09/24 2:43:02 PM #4 | Krow_Incarnate posted...
You mean I get to report inconsiderate a******s and get paid for it? When's the next flight? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Someone in one of my claims filed a police report for water damage |
| adjl 05/09/24 2:41:06 PM #14 | It only makes sense if they somehow believe it to be intentional vandalism and not just an accident/oversight. That's still a bit of a stretch for a leaky pipe, but it's the only answer I can come up with.
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| Topic | Hades 2 baybeeeeeeee |
| adjl 05/08/24 9:39:37 PM #43 | ConfusedTorchic posted...
luckily i can just download a completed save so i don't have to go through the entire game just to unlock everything. That was honestly the biggest thing that kept me from bothering with hell mode. I didn't start the game with it on because I rarely start games on whatever "hard mode" is, and once I was in a position where I wanted more challenges I couldn't be bothered starting a new file when I could just crank up the heat instead. And then I got bored of the game before really getting into it, so hell mode never happened. I'm generally a huge fan of Hades' difficulty system, but hell mode stands out as being needlessly cumbersome to activate. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | What TV shows are you watching/recommending? |
| adjl 05/08/24 5:36:54 PM #4 | My girlfriend and I have been watching Darkwing Duck for the first time. It's a good time.
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| Topic | Hades 2 baybeeeeeeee |
| adjl 05/08/24 5:34:59 PM #31 | It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure it's the one on the far right.
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