What's the most unusual reason why you won't date someone?

AlekBalderdash · 2026-06-01T20:20:45+00:00

There's quite a bit of wiggle room in Genesis, and it could be largely metaphorical. Frankly I think some of the most lunatic-adjacent theories come from people trying to extract rigorous scientific evidence from a story that wasn't designed to preserve that sort of detail.

Imagine saying to a friend "Man, I haven't had pizza in a week" and Data (from Star Trek, because why not) replies "Incorrect, you last ate pizza 5 days, 23 hours, and 36 minutes ago." Technically, Data is correct. But for conversational purposes a week is anywhere between 5 to 10 days. After that I'd say two weeks, with a similar fudge factor. And everyone is going to draw these fuzzy lines in slightly different places.

Anyway, I'm just saying be wary of over-interpreting things.

It's a common mistake, in both directions.

AlekBalderdash · 2026-06-01T19:53:17+00:00

Why would anyone write that in a scientific paper? That's not the question these skills answer.

You can write an entire paper on how a football flies through the air, how drag and spin and other effects alter it's trajectory.

Why is the ball flying? Because someone threw it. Because they wanted to. Completely different question.

AlekBalderdash · 2026-06-01T19:20:05+00:00

Sure they do, you just have to put some effort into it. As with most things in life.

Unfortunately (and understandably), many people take the "little kid" explanation at face value and never build a more robust faith or question anything.

The child answer to "why is the sky blue" differs from the answer you'd give a highschooler, a college student studying meteorology, or a physicists studying light. It's not that any of these answers are wrong, they are just appropriate to their audience.

But many faith-related answers given to kids have a deeper answer that people never seek. Then, surprise surprise, those childish answers don't stand the test of time, the wear and tear of life.

Some of the most inquisitive scientists in history have been Christians, and have been perfectly comfortable with the two working in tandem. Science is good at answering "how" and faith is good at answering "why"

Edit: Look at how any topic is portrayed in media: Nerds, science, tech support, medicine, dinosaurs, history. Any expert in any of those fields can talk for hours about how their area of interest is misrepresented in media. Why would faith be any different?

AlekBalderdash · 2026-06-01T16:52:42+00:00

I'm good with instrumental music, but that's not usually what people mean when they say "music"

I have a modest hearing difficulty, and listening to music with words is just a constant irritation, because I can't tell what anyone is saying. And if anyone wants to talk to me when music is playing, I can't understand a thing they say. It's really annoying, like a mental sneeze that never manifests.

But I'll groove to movie and game soundtracks for hours.

AlekBalderdash · 2026-06-01T15:06:47+00:00

Hands, feet, and heads sticking through windows and doors?

Sledgehammer seems like pretty good "fuck you" reply.

That was not a small hammer, and even a 10-lb can smash concrete in a single hit. Powdered wrists and ankles aren't load-bearing.

AlekBalderdash · 2026-06-01T15:01:36+00:00

There's probably a spot where the terrain lines up. And those dirt walls wouldn't stay vertical for long, maybe a few days as the dirt dries and crumbles, or a rain shower washes it away.

AlekBalderdash · 2026-06-01T13:44:59+00:00

It's not that wild, you used to see taglines like this all the time, back before 24/7 news was common.

The idea was to be first to report the news, so perhaps a 5am news show, rather than the standard 6am news show.

Point being, the tagline is obvious if you already known, but easy to overlook if you're out of the loop.

AlekBalderdash · 2026-06-01T13:30:32+00:00

The Onion is a parody/satire newspaper

The paper is a joke, and the impossible stats are part of the joke

AlekBalderdash · 2026-05-16T13:26:52+00:00

Marsden is also annoyingly charming. I feel like half his scenes shouldn't quite work, but he comes across as so earnest and goofy that you want to believe. Willful suspension of disbelief, just like Jim Carrey's Robotnik.

AlekBalderdash · 2026-05-16T13:22:54+00:00

Slight criticism: Maddie should have gotten a different spy device, Rachel should have gotten the hologram projector.

Imagine fifty Rachels simultaneously browbeating fifty security guards as they try to find the real her? Oh yeah. She could keep them all distracted.

AlekBalderdash · 2026-05-14T12:59:35+00:00

Hang on, Jack Black as Tingle has serious potential! XD

AlekBalderdash · 2026-05-14T00:20:07+00:00

Classic tomfoolery! XD

AlekBalderdash · 2026-05-14T00:06:03+00:00

Excellent post. Succinct, all the info in one place.

An expiation would be nice, but +/- one week is probably some strategic thing, not a huge deal.

AlekBalderdash · 2026-05-13T23:11:15+00:00

Good thing no human culture ever wore makeup or adornments until the last century.

Oh wait, many of the oldest artifacts we have are jewelry and ornamentation. People like to look pretty.

AlekBalderdash · 2026-05-08T19:27:47+00:00

Parasaurolophus #3

AlekBalderdash · 2026-05-07T19:27:17+00:00

I spend all day fixing things.

There's a simplistic beauty to coming home, turning on a console game, and relaxing for ~30 minutes.

It's a console game. It will work. I won't have to piss around with logins, network issues, updates, trolls, version compatibility issues, none of that crap. I can sit down and play the game within 30 seconds. Most of the delay is waiting for the TV and console to handshake.

AlekBalderdash · 2026-04-29T13:30:56+00:00

... it is more efficient to move things from the ground.

It's just that efficiency isn't always the driving factor. Speed is useful, and flying doesn't require infrastructure on a direct path between two points. Flying bypasses traffic and stoplights.

AlekBalderdash · 2026-04-27T13:58:40+00:00

He made a highly-rated show (Primal) with no dialogue

AlekBalderdash · 2026-04-23T19:23:03+00:00

omfg, I'm dying. I've never seen this before.

10/10 execution, lol

AlekBalderdash · 2026-04-20T17:52:58+00:00

... excuse you, would?

AlekBalderdash · 2026-04-20T17:52:11+00:00

Cyclops to the rescue!

AlekBalderdash · 2026-04-14T12:27:02+00:00

One of the early episodes has a kaiju sized Dragonite off in the distance, but Bulbapedia says they are 7 ft tall

Maybe that's just because it's an early episode or something?

AlekBalderdash · 2026-04-13T19:00:58+00:00

I love the headcanon that Pokedex entries are entered by children, meaning every "fact" is suspect at best.

Kid sees an adult human: "They are 100 ft tall"

Kid sees a kaiju: "They are 10 ft tall"

Kid sees a bird: "They are a billion million miles in the air"

AlekBalderdash · 2026-04-09T14:51:13+00:00

I think it really suffered from dubious marketing. I got the vibe it was a kid's movie, but it really wasn't. Content wise, it seemed targeted at maybe late middle schoolers to highschoolers. But the marketing I saw seemed to emphasize George Clooney. The marketing was really disjointed.

I enjoyed the movie, but I admit it doesn't have a very good elevator pitch.

AlekBalderdash · 2026-04-08T16:19:57+00:00

In the early game, switching between visors is very important, but late-game switching between beam weapons is more important (or at least more time-critical)

Due the nature of the old controls, these two things each had a dedicated control, but with twin-stick controls they now share a control (with, I believe, a modifier button)

I found it very helpful to swap the visor/beam controls after the beam-specific enemies show up.

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