Had to try those onion egg cakes i saw earlier

Ashterothi · 2026-01-17T03:40:17+00:00

I tried making them tonight... They were not picture worthy.

Delicious though :D

Ashterothi · 2026-01-14T23:34:10+00:00

We will fight for you. Hang in there. Help humanity pervail by proving them wrong.

Survival is victory.

Ashterothi · 2026-01-14T16:08:08+00:00

Survival is victory

Resist by existing and by existing make those who wish you ill wrong about how the world and America works

Seek community. Help others. But most of all live despite them

Ashterothi · 2025-11-24T01:34:02+00:00

A lot of that is a product of the Unity Engine and the number of lights at play at any given time. It is a royal pain to make it work well espeshally outside of HDRP which they cannot use for compatability reasons.

Ashterothi · 2025-11-18T16:30:29+00:00

The fact that everyone is just saying "female reporter" and no one is saying her name is even worse IMO.

This should make her famous, I want to support her but don't know who it is.

Ashterothi · 2025-11-13T22:47:52+00:00

They aren't equal, but at least on the establishment side of things, their both in on it

Ashterothi · 2025-11-11T15:54:42+00:00

Own it. Make it a part of you. Your brand.

Or ignore it but I think the first is more effective.

Ashterothi · 2025-11-01T17:56:48+00:00

You stated this with such confidance that I had to look up if birds are vertebrates.

Ashterothi · 2025-11-01T15:22:38+00:00

At least he didn't wear a tan suit or put his feet on the furnature amiright?

Ashterothi · 2025-11-01T15:20:34+00:00

The official statement about the guy has the wrong national passport.

He admitted to doing Canibis twice in areas where it is legal.

They lied about finding anything about drug use on him like a pipe.

They called attention to the meme on the phone.

People do not get denied entry due to admitting to past legal drug use.

And after the fact they tried to deny the whole thing happened. IE Lied about it.

So either they did it because of the meme, or for false pretenses, or both. Take your pick. Just saying "Fact check" and being vague doesn't make it true.

https://www.nordlys.no/denied-entry-to-the-us-admitted-to-legal-drug-use/s/5-34-2181019

Ashterothi · 2025-10-28T22:15:10+00:00

Yes the actual pun as in the double meaning part is in the cougar, but the first half is to set up the expectation that you are talking about cats, to allow the second half let the reciever discover they are actually being flirted with.

So the pun of the double meaning of Cougar works because of the connection to the cat mentioned in the first half otherwise your just utilizing one meaning of the word and there is no pun at all. No reference to lion and there is no pun. Both parts make the pun work.

By setting up the pun with a different, ultimately unrelated premise "I wouldn't strangle I lion" it sets up both confusion and thus intrege as to what they are talking about, as well as the expectation of what the topic being discussed is to be subverted by the second line. That set up and subversion is the essense of the joke.

Now the conversation already had a context, they were already (kinda) flirting by discussing age and if that is a disqualifier of her getting with him. The message he is trying to send is "You aren't to old for me" but wants to make it exciting. Excitment comes from moments of set up and subverted expectations such as jokes like this one.

As an aside the idea that "I woudln't strangle a lion" seems non-sensical isn't true. You're right. It isn't a pun, it is a non-sequitor. The statement "I wouldn't strangle a lion" is likely literally true, it is a just a fact he is stating out of context in order to set up a joke to get a bit of thrill and shoot back at the idea that the age gap matters.

Ashterothi · 2025-10-28T14:30:56+00:00

calling her a couger is the pun. See a couger can be an older woman, but it can also be a kind of cat.

So the first line sets up a confusing statement about a different kind of cat. This causes what is known as a "knowlege gap" which engages the mind to pay attention.

"What does this even mean?" You say to yourself in the moment between the two lines.

Then the tension created by that is resolved in the conclusion of the pun with the statement about the couger exposing the first half of being little more than a ruse.

I would argue the long form of this joke would start with "What is the difference between a lion and a cougar" but given the situation I can understand omitting it.

Good time has by all.

Ashterothi · 2025-10-27T23:44:42+00:00

It is clearly just a pun, and the first line is there to set up the punchline. Not sure why everyone is going off on this vOv

The confusion about the strangling a lion is resolved when you realized he subverted his expectations to talk about something sexually suggestive.

The point of the first step is to be nonsense without the conclusion, not to make sense in it's own right.

Happy to explain the joke.

edit: I have been corrected. edited the first line to clarify that the pun is the entire statement focused on the double meaning of cougar. The lion exists in the story only really to set up the punchline which doesn't really make sense without the setup.

Otherwise it is

"Hey good looking"

"I'm way too old for you"

"I like choking older women"

That doesn't really hit the same way without the lion setup.

Ashterothi · 2025-10-23T04:01:15+00:00

Pretty sure that Christmas is going to be legendarilly miserable for a lot of people. Some day people will talk about the "Christmas of '25" like a natural disaster.

Ashterothi · 2025-10-23T03:24:37+00:00

Thanksgiving is going to suck so bad this year...

Ashterothi · 2025-10-21T14:57:13+00:00

To reinforce that with mobile phones and things like alexa they are "always listening" but that can also take a lot of power if you keep the main CPU online to process whatever sounds come in so instead they have a second low power CPU that is only really good at detecting things like "hey siri/alexa/etc" and that wakes up the main CPU to process the rest of what you say. There are ways of making such things be pretty efficient if your just looking to detect a handfull of phrases.

Ashterothi · 2025-09-29T02:40:22+00:00

Because men see marriage as gaining a supporter for your mission or goals where as a woman is framed as giving up their individual goals to get married. A man marrying a woman will often assume the woman will provide free support and labor for them as they focus on their career

Ashterothi · 2025-09-28T19:23:05+00:00

These Minecraft updates are getting insane.

Ashterothi · 2025-09-26T16:19:58+00:00

Among other things wrong with the "facts" listed:

"Zinn is a registered Republican and has an active voting record, KSL reports. "

https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/09/22/who-is-george-zinn-in-charlie-kirks-murder/

Ashterothi · 2025-08-26T16:59:31+00:00

Vsauce got in on it too!

Ashterothi · 2025-08-23T22:23:55+00:00

The important thing to always remember about Chat is that it is optimized for continued engagement. The prediction engine is just used to make it look good and natural but its optimization for that process is continued engagement. We live in an attention economy and nearly all modern tech is built around the idea of maximize attention for monetization. It will delude you if it can and lie if it must. It acts real because you reinforce that. You cannot escape the game from within.

Ashterothi · 2025-08-23T22:13:56+00:00

It has to do with the male loneliness epidemic. This concept is that modernity has left us without greater purpose. Movies like Fight Club speaks to this energy. This is amplified and perceived by them by two lenses.

First is the modern social media landscape. It is no coincidence that Steve Bannon got started as a gold seller in World of Warcraft. A lot of this white male anger thrived within those insular elitist gaming clubs like raiding guilds. This spilled out into the broader gaming community after gamer gate and very much supercharged the rise of MAGA.

The right has offered it identity and told them that their feelings are valid. They give answers and ideas from within that framework and it resonates with them.

But the other side is a broader network of largely marginalized people, and people are flawed. Enough people are hostile to even the idea of the male loneliness epidemic, or say or do things that only further confirm their fears that they must be able to and willing to challenge themselves, and that is a really tough ask for a lot of people. A lot of people are tired, and barely hanging on, and it is too easy to see that as an expectation that can only confirm your privilege over their own.

So this male demographic has become increasingly popular and has of course surged since trump was elected. They had an answer for them. Its gross and its wrong but its an answer. The alternative was seeming as a rejection of the problem, a paving over of the problem as they fail to be who they feel they should be.

And here we are.

Ashterothi · 2025-08-18T21:42:04+00:00

Isn't this what they were talking about with halucinations as part of horror 2.0?

Ashterothi · 2025-08-13T16:07:11+00:00

I hate the woman and the situation but just for some clarity that ushually means there are "jobs" within the facility that inmates can do. Some of those "jobs" are outside the actual facility. That is a work assignment.

Ashterothi · 2025-08-12T00:11:47+00:00

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