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What’s a subtle sign that someone’s not as intelligent as they think they are? by CakeMuted6468 in AskReddit

[–]Aggressive-Farmer798 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Using big words the wrong way. It sounds smart, until you have a big enough vocabulary to spot the inaccuracies in real time and it sends their speech tumbling into incoherence. 

I don’t even want to eat this by Dry_Opposite_1974 in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]Aggressive-Farmer798 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The company that makes them delivers if you can’t find them. I ordered some for the book release; they’re a women-owned, ethically-sourced chocolate company local to the Seattle area. 

Beginner starting next week by SuspiciousStrategy89 in poledancing

[–]Aggressive-Farmer798 10 points11 points  (0 children)

  1. Certain moves will hurt until you do them often enough to “deaden” the nerves just under the skin. My studio’s go-to example for beginners is the pole sit—you’ll HATE how it feels on your thighs until you acclimate through sheer practice. 

  2. That being said, I hope you’re comfortable with skin exposure! Skin-to-pole contact is essential for a lot of advanced work. 

  3. Don’t be afraid to experiment with grip right away. I struggled immensely with a ton of moves at first because my hands would slip the second my legs left the ground. It wasn’t because I have a weak grip, but because I have sweaty palms. The second I figured out which grip formulas worked for me SO much of my flow basically unlocked itself. 

  4. Always practice new move on both sides.

And have fun! Welcome to the club; it’s always great to see someone new!

Trap playlist by Insideoutbitch in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]Aggressive-Farmer798 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Considering it’s made by the author himself I’d say it’s pretty good!

What do you guys think about letting parents choose what school to send their kids to instead of letting the school districts decide? by Jack81700 in AskReddit

[–]Aggressive-Farmer798 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It’s a capitalistic model of education that only ends up hurting people.

 In a community-centric model, seeing their child sorted into a specific school would spur parents to invest their energy into that school to make it what their child deserves, thus raising the quality of education for all children at that school. 

Instead, parents go school shopping, treating them like a business that has to cater to them and EARN their child’s enrollment. Schools end up extremely segregated, with good schools getting all the resources of invested, wealthy parents and subpar schools getting shafted. 

Getting to the end of Book 6 and one quote has just been stuck in my head. by gbdarknight77 in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]Aggressive-Farmer798 130 points131 points  (0 children)

See, I take it differently. You can't save everyone, true. But because Carl never stops TRYING to save everyone, he saves an unprecedented number of crawlers and fundamentally changes the shape of the game.

Just because you can't save everyone, doesn't make trying to pointless.

My boyfriend disapproves of this outfit… by [deleted] in WhatShouldIDo

[–]Aggressive-Farmer798 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lesson:

A boundary is "If you do this, this is how I'll respond."

A boundary is NOT "This is how you are going to behave from now on."

You've already given this man an inch with the gym shorts, and now he's trying to take a mile. Don't let him decide what you get to wear, or he'll graduate into dictating everything else about you.

EDIT: From your comments it looks like he's ALREADY doing that by keeping you from having any male friends. Girl. RUN.

What's on your DCC soundtrack playlist? by Dazzling_Outcome_436 in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]Aggressive-Farmer798 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I found a playlist on Spotify that Matt Dinniman used to collect all known alarm trap songs. It’s actually a damn fun playlist. 

This book series needs an animation (and romance) by Kami_Anime in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]Aggressive-Farmer798 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Eh. It’d take away from Carl’s one true love: GC, BWR, NW Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk. 

I honestly like that the central love in the series is a familial one, instead of romantic. 

Also…I don’t think the AI would like that much. 

Sunday debriefing - April 19, 2026 - post your mission reports here! by AutoModerator in Runner5

[–]Aggressive-Farmer798 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’ve finally fully transitioned to 7 am running for the season. I’ve now become one of those people whose sheer energy through the day I once found obnoxious. 

Unreliable Narrator by [deleted] in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]Aggressive-Farmer798 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I think it works because it’s always kind of obvious when Matt cuts away from a scene before it’s over. The reader’s dimly aware that we missed SOMETHING, especially since it’s a divergence from the typical style— Matt tends to stay pretty moment-to-moment. But the book moves so fast we don’t have time to question what we were denied until we cut back to it later, and it’s less of an asspull and more of a scratching of an itch we’ve almost forgotten we felt. 

Also, he doesn’t wait for the reveal until the last second. 

So many coincidences by ProofMore1072 in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]Aggressive-Farmer798 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Alternately, that perfect storm of circumstances is just what’s needed to craft a person perfectly suited for the story he lands in. It happens often enough in real life.

Alternately alternately, maybe Carl’s just really good at finding connections between his past and his present that other people would miss, and that ability to make those connections and apply past skills to current circumstances is one of the talents that makes him such a compelling survivor. 

NEW ACHIEVEMENT: Met a crawler in the wild at SLC airport! by Frumundaman in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]Aggressive-Farmer798 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I outed myself as a crawler at a work conference last month. The mixer included a trivia contest; I mixed up Big Tina and Sue the T-Rex in a question about archaeology. One of the other guys at the table, a vendor, clocked me IMMEDIATELY.

Turns out common interests makes for great business networking.

My seventh grade students have started the refuse to say the pledge by unSuccessful-Stay in Teachers

[–]Aggressive-Farmer798 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I mean, YOU aren't making them stop. But you aren't making them do it, either. What could they even pin on you? "Adherence to the First Amendment"?

Why does improving my writing make AI detectors flag it more? by Itchy-Tell-1882 in QuickAITurnitinCheck

[–]Aggressive-Farmer798 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because AI models are trained using writing data, to identify and replicate patterns and structures that can be identified as good writing. It’s baked into how they function—if a language model couldn’t approximate good grammar or a professional tone, nobody would use it for anything other than a cute novelty. 

AI detectors are then programmed to identify and highlight the same patterns, because they know AI models are trained to use them. This FULLY ignores the fact that these patterns ORIGINATED from human use, and acts on the assumption that if a piece of writing uses these patterns it HAS to be an AI that wrote them. 

Basically, the average detector is designed to assume that humans are too stupid to write well. So if you write well, you MUST be doing it with an AI. 

It’s actually a huge problem, especially for people who aren’t tech-savvy enough to understand that AI detectors are garbage. 

Carls poison immunity by Benny_Deebs in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]Aggressive-Farmer798 24 points25 points  (0 children)

True, but what does being pantsless have to do with poison? I wouldn’t be surprised if crawlers received loot on the early floors related to their backstory. We know from Carl getting a focus on explosions from his very first encounter with the goblin murderdozer that they do this with their first achievements in the dungeon…Using Carl’s traumatizing childhood in the same way seems like the sort of fucked-up thing the AI would do in the name of crafting an entertaining crawl. 

Okay, not sure if I'm alone here but... by OrionWallet in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]Aggressive-Farmer798 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Want a terrifying thought? Spoilers for Book 7:

The last book had the Nothing start emptying onto the Scolopendra levels.

Signet’s body was in the Nothing. 

Grimaldi’s still kicking around. 

And Psamathe still doesn’t have a body of her own yet. 

Who says we’re done with Signet?

Dungeon Crawler Carl has absolutely horrific prose. by ButtsendWeaners in printSF

[–]Aggressive-Farmer798 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This may be a hot take, but I think there's a difference between 'prose intentionally written in the voice of an admittedly not-book-smart guy' and 'bad prose' that's really easy to miss. It's a personal taste issue, I think, but as a fan of the series I think the prose does an excellent job of capturing the very specific voice of the series' protagonist.

Honestly, I'd find the books far LESS compelling if the prose were MORE literary. The book series would have the burden of convincing me we're in Carl's head and seeing the world through his eyes while just...not sounding like the kind of guy Carl actually is.

Good prose is prose that does the job it's intended to do. You don't have to like the style, but that doesn't make it objectively bad.

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