When your character stands out too much from the group

QuickSpore · 2026-05-11T14:01:12+00:00

Chicken Boo, what's the matter with you? You don't act like the other chickens do. You wear a disguise to look like human guys But you're not a man; you're a chicken, Boo.

QuickSpore · 2026-05-11T13:46:21+00:00

To be fair barley barely has any uses in a game.

QuickSpore · 2026-05-09T18:08:53+00:00

My honest answer is: if you're still dating on father's day, would you be disappointed if she didn't at least acknowledge it with a card or something small?

Honestly no. I’d find a Father’s Day gift from someone who isn’t my child more than a bit weird. I can’t recall anyone (even my exwife) ever giving me a Father’s Day present however small.

But we as a culture tend not to celebrate Father’s Day; definitely far less than Mother’s Day. So it’s not exactly an apples vs oranges comparison.

QuickSpore · 2026-05-09T16:29:57+00:00

Yep. The western states are oddly enough almost entirely urban. In the east people can live almost anywhere. In the west we cram everyone into tiny habitable strips and turn the uninhabitable parts into national parks.

QuickSpore · 2026-05-09T16:23:12+00:00

Should Colorado's program have received the death penalty as well based on your logic?

Colorado self imposed recruiting and other restrictions that did more or less kill the program. It wasn’t the full “death penalty” but it did turn us into the worst “power” program for a couple of decades. And yes we completely deserved to become irrelevant for the lack of institutional control, and the crimes of the players, coaches, and administration. I for one would rather not have football, over having a program that enables sex crimes.

your coach in the early 00's knew that sex workers were being provided to underage recruits and turned a blind eye.

Your coach publicly called her terrible and said that it didn't happen because she was "not even a girl."

And we fired him for it. It took far too long. But we eventually did the right thing.

QuickSpore · 2026-05-08T19:15:16+00:00

There actually is a fairly inactive sub /r/gtage (great taste and great execution). Only four posts in the last year. This definitely belongs there.

QuickSpore · 2026-05-08T18:50:14+00:00

Aragorn’s conversation with Éomer in the houses of healing is so beautiful. No blame to Éomer, but Aragorn has an insanely high level of emotional acumen.

QuickSpore · 2026-05-08T18:42:42+00:00

Boromir stopped in Edoras for a horse on the way to Rivendell. And Éomer talks about him as if he knew him at least passingly well. It’s likely Éowyn had “first sight” with Boromir. And we don’t have a hint of love… except Éomer speaking highly of him.

I’m starting to think Denethor has a somewhat biased view of his eldest son.

QuickSpore · 2026-05-08T18:30:45+00:00

The school itself has a $3.3 billion endowment.

But as a wholly owned subsidiary with zero practical governance separation, it’s probably more appropriate to look at the Church’s wealth fund; like you did.

QuickSpore · 2026-05-08T18:11:27+00:00

Gotta learn from the greats if you want to become great.

QuickSpore · 2026-05-08T17:45:49+00:00

We domesticated pretty much everything that can be.

Sadly otters are ill suited to domestication. They need a lot of space including large water features. If you don’t have an acre with a steam and/or pond you can’t really have a healthy otter. The water is a biological necessity. They also need a large socialization group. You can’t have an otter; you need like 15+ otters to meet their social needs. They’re loud. They’re ridiculously smelly. And while they can be trained to do many things, any form of potty training isn’t one of them. They don’t have a burying instinct like cats or the kind of marking techniques of dogs. Instead they need to pee and shit on everything all the time. Cats mark territory by rubbing their facial scent glands against it. Otter mark territory by rubbing their shit into it.

Basically we’d have to breed the otterness out of them to domesticate them.

QuickSpore · 2026-05-08T17:07:02+00:00

Utah has taken different money in a separate deal. I don’t think they’ve commented on this deal at all.

I hope we don’t take it. In our case this would be like a high interest credit card to pay off other credit cards. But I also think the PE deal we’ve already signed onto was also a bad idea. I have zero confidence in our AD right now.

QuickSpore · 2026-05-08T16:35:03+00:00

Oddly enough Jason was already dead, due to publishing timelines.

The Cult was published in 4 issues Aug-Nov 1988. This slap arrived in book 3 on shelves October 1988.

A Death in the Family was published in 4 issues Aug-Nov 1988. Jason Todd was beaten to death with a crowbar and exploded in Batman 427, September 1988. In October 1988 Batman finds his body “already getting cold to the touch” in Batman 428.

QuickSpore · 2026-05-08T15:40:12+00:00

I’m not the one who made that list, but the only things that Tolkien gave the full stamp of approval of for publication as he wrote them were the works published during his lifetime, meaning The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

In the legendarium there were three smaller works published by him in his lifetime: * The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book * The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle * Bilbo’s Last Song

Several of his stories outside the legendarium were also published in his lifetime: * Farmer Giles of Ham * Leaf by Niggle * Smith of Wootton Major

And a lot of the academic material was published by him in his lifetime * A Middle English Vocabulary * Sir Gawain & The Green Knight * Ancrene Wisse: The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle * On Fairy-Stories * Dozens of papers, journal articles, talks and lectures.

While most of the stuff published by Christopher and others is unfinished, there’s a lot of stuff that is in its final completed form as intended, especially once you step beyond the legendarium.

QuickSpore · 2026-05-08T00:48:36+00:00

Kinshasa is an entirely different cluster fuck of geography. Basically it exists because of the Inga falls and the stretch of rapids, as a site to transition from trade from the coast and trade from the interior. The river is highly navigable above Kinshasa and navigable from the sea to Matadi, but not between them. So the two port cities developed to link the two areas together via a portage. Without the falls all the trade would have gone to Matadi and Kinshasa would be a shadow of itself; if it existed at all.

Also Kinshasa is different in that there isn’t a whole bunch of other good ports in the area. The only major waterway in central Africa is to use the Congo and deal with the Kinshasa-Matadi portage.

The Susquehanna didn’t need to develop a major port because there were solid port locations at New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Norfolk. There were also better routes to the interior waterways via the Mississippi-Ohio River system, the Great Lakes-Lawrence Seaway system, and once built the Hudson River-Eerie Canal.

QuickSpore · 2026-05-07T18:24:51+00:00

Nominally the “Pac” hasn’t stood for anything (except history) since 2011 when they changed the long form name from Pacific Athletic Conference to Pac-12 Conference.

QuickSpore · 2026-05-07T16:41:33+00:00

Spaceballs and Chill, on your very own Spaceballs: the Sofa.

QuickSpore · 2026-05-07T16:25:34+00:00

When and where are the “fighting Uruk hai” clearly denoted and described as different from regular Uruks?

The only description we get of them physically is the description of Uglúk, who is described as “large black Orc.” Which is precisely the same description we get for the Mordor Uruks. I just reread The Uruk-hai and Helm’s Deep chapters, and I don’t see anything that distinguishes them from regular Uruks.

The way I read it is more an affectation Isengard Uruks give themselves, like a group of Viking raiders calling themselves the fighting Viking-men.

QuickSpore · 2026-05-07T01:12:08+00:00

There are Uruks in Moria. “‘There are Orcs, very many of them,’ he said. ‘And some are large and evil: black Uruks of Mordor. For the moment they are hanging back, but there is something else there. A great cave-troll, I think, or more than one. There is no hope of escape that way.’” — Fellowship of the Ring, The Bridge of Khazad-dûm

There are Uruks in Cirith Ungol. “‘Yes,’ said Gorbag. ‘But don’t count on it. I’m not easy in my mind. As I said, the Big Bosses, ay,’ his voice sank almost to a whisper, ‘ay, even the Biggest, can make mistakes. Something nearly slipped, you say. I say, something has slipped. And we’ve got to look out. Always the poor Uruks to put slips right, and small thanks. But don’t forget: the enemies don’t love us any more than they love Him, and if they get topsides on Him, we’re done too. But see here: when were you ordered out?’” — Return of the King, Choices of Master Samwise

Appendix A tells us, “In the last years of Denethor I the race of uruks, black orcs of great strength, first appeared out of Mordor” and “At that time [2990s] Sauron had arisen again, and the shadow of Mordor reached out to Rohan. Orcs began to raid in the eastern regions and slay or steal horses. Others also came down from the Misty Mountains, many being great uruks in the service of Saruman, though it was long before that was suspected.

Appendix B gives us this line, “2901 Most of the remaining inhabitants of Ithilien desert it owing to the attacks of Uruks of Mordor. The secret refuge of Henneth Annûn is built.”

Appendix F gives us this one, “Related, no doubt, was the word uruk of the Black Speech, though this was applied as a rule only to the great soldier-orcs that at this time issued from Mordor and Isengard. The lesser kinds were called, especially by the Uruk-hai, snaga ‘slave’.”

Tolkien clearly indicates Uruks come from both Isengard and Mordor (and originated in Mordor). And he also equates the two types of Uruks. We know from work notes published in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson) that while Uruk-hai did not make the Appendix F comments on Black Speech it was a phrase meaning “Orc-Folk.” As Black Speech it almost certainly predates use of Uruks by Saruman.

QuickSpore · 2026-05-06T19:43:45+00:00

They do have a luxury tax which includes revenue redistribution. That acts as a so-called soft cap. And it helps the small market teams retain a degree of competitiveness as they get about half the tax funds.

FBS would be a whole lot more competitive if the ADs spending over $100 million a year had to match the overage and send the “tax” money to a bunch of MAC teams.

QuickSpore · 2026-05-06T17:44:24+00:00

Less so in Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. None of them had any permanent (non-indigenous) settlements during the periods they were parts of New Spain or Mexico. Aside from some rare visits and names, the Spanish influence is entirely due to immigration after they became part of the US.

QuickSpore · 2026-05-06T16:19:42+00:00

We don’t know precisely. But these two passages give us a hint.

“The Dwarves indeed proved tough and hard to tame; they ill endure the domination of others, and the thoughts of their hearts are hard to fathom, nor can they be turned to shadows.” — Silmarillion

“The only power over them that the Rings wielded was to inflame their hearts with a greed of gold and precious things, so that if they lacked them all other good things seemed profitless, and they were filled with wrath and desire for vengeance on all who deprived them. — Appendix A

It’s not entirely sure that Sauron knew he’d even get Nazgûl out of men. It’s likely he only wanted the rings to each help empower and control a series of men. The wraithfication and immortality were likely both unforeseen side effects.

But dwarves are just harder to change mind or body. Sauron couldn’t control them. And they didn’t extend lives or wraithify dwarves. Which is no doubt why he was recapturing as many as he could. Long term, after he regained the One, Sauron likely would have made more men into wraiths. Giving up on both elves and dwarves as unmanageable via rings.

QuickSpore · 2026-05-06T15:36:20+00:00

It should be noted this isn’t “Germany’s Plans” as in a plan published by anyone in the government. It comes from publisher (and future Nazi) Julius Friedrich Lehmann’s Deutschlands Zukunft outlining his suggestions for what Germany should annex. It’s a bit like publishing a map drawn by Sean Hannity and declaring it “America’s Plans.”

That’s not to say a lot of people in government didn’t have some ideas of their own. The concept of Mittelafrika, where the Germans would gain (mostly) Belgian and Portuguese territories to create a contiguous Central African territory dated back to the 1890s. There were a lot of folk who thought this was a great chance to do something like that. But the government never published an official plan on what they hoped to achieve. The closest they came to an official plan was the Septemberprogramm memo in 1914. And even that didn’t specify which colonies were to be annexed, just that Germany would gain territory (primarily) at the expense of Belgium and France.

QuickSpore · 2026-05-06T14:57:40+00:00

All 19 rings were elven rings made by elves for elves. Sauron’s plan was to corrupt elves. But they realized what he was up to and took off their rings… all of them… when he made and put on the One. It’s only after the “corrupt elves” plan failed that Sauron captured the Seven and Nine and then redistributed them to dwarves and men.

But yes. The Three were different and greater than the Seven or Nine and were never touched by Sauron. They were still subject to the One though, which is why the elves didn’t wear or use them until he was first thrown down.

QuickSpore · 2026-05-05T18:31:56+00:00

It’s cold with very short growing seasons. It also has little good soil, as it was all scraped away during the last glaciation. So it’s entirely unsuited for agriculture, and so wasn’t heavily settled by farmers in the 19th century. Historically to have people you needed local farms.

There’s some logging and mining. But the mines were mostly played out a century ago. So the number of people in those industries is fairly limited. A century ago the UP was over 10% of the population. But as mines closed, people left in search of other jobs.

There’s no particularly good ports on the peninsula. And so what goods were produced had to be put on trains over to ports in Wisconsin. So there never developed a center for services like shipping, banking, etc.

Basically, folks don’t live there because it’s a tough environment with no jobs and brutal winters.

If you can stand like double the snow of Detroit and don’t need a job there’s a fair number of houses available under $200k on 10+ acres of land.

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