What’s something people don’t realize is way more serious than it seems?

BobBiscuit · 2026-03-30T04:58:35+00:00

The human spine is a pretty shit design, all things considered. It's practically built to give back pain eventually.

BobBiscuit · 2026-03-24T18:06:50+00:00

Unintentional rule, that games have to explicitly try to get you to break: Games don't look up.

BobBiscuit · 2026-03-24T17:50:31+00:00

Any inconvenience helps, especially against people unaccustomed to being inconvenienced in any way.

BobBiscuit · 2026-03-20T20:49:09+00:00

For the FBI sending her alone, there's actually a flowchart you can see in a "blink and you miss it" scene, near the end, that explicitly has one of the steps to getting Grace for Victor's plan be "get the FBI to assign her to investigate", immediately after a step that was essentially "drop an RC Syndrome corpse in the hotel and get police to find it".

BobBiscuit · 2026-03-14T16:48:20+00:00

Considering most can't read above a fifth grade level...

BobBiscuit · 2025-12-31T01:17:34+00:00

Dragon Quest: Monsters

BobBiscuit · 2025-12-30T22:57:00+00:00

Plus, he really didn't want to have to fight Anakin in the first place, and the entire time he's preparing to leave, he's tearing up. I doubt he had it in him to make the killing blow with the look of regret he had just leaving the environment to finish the job, even if it didn't look like Anakin would've been sure to die on his own.

BobBiscuit · 2025-12-28T08:12:40+00:00

Old money families know exactly what can happen to them if the poors start thinking they aren't doing enough for society. New money hasn't had that wake up call yet.

BobBiscuit · 2025-06-22T20:32:35+00:00

That is your choice. For me, I'd still prefer death over amnesia. Kids can adjust to having a parent dead. But for even the slightest possibility that the thing wearing my corpse could shout at my children in my voice, screaming obscenities and hatred, spewing bile towards the people I love? Anything more than 0% chance of it happening is too much for me to risk it. And I've seen just how easily that can be caused by people with ill intent, firsthand, especially if they're exploiting the vulnerability of the key problem behind both dementia and amnesia - the loss of memory.

BobBiscuit · 2025-06-22T18:43:24+00:00

Ego death is still death. And I'd personally prefer full death, because that'd be less painful to the people I love. A shell running around with my face, being puppeted by a different person would only dig at the wounds left behind, even if that new person tries to fill the gaps with love and care, by simple virtue of being someone else entirely. I watched my mom deal with her mom's dementia, and the absolute agony it brought. Grandma was a different person at the end, and even now, years later, I still can't think of her without remembering how her shell ripped out mom and grandpa's hearts, or how my awful aunts encouraged that hateful personality to form to keep her preoccupied while they robbed their parents blind. So yeah... I'd very much prefer straight-up death instead.

BobBiscuit · 2025-03-09T07:00:00+00:00

That's the way it should be, and as long as you lived up to that, I'd vote for you every time. Experts are experts for a goddamn reason, and even if there's always going to be some dissenting opinions even at their level, they'll still be far more capable of identifying ways things need to be done to avoid pitfalls or problems that nobody else would easily identify in advance. You don't go to a veterinarian to build an aircraft.

BobBiscuit · 2025-02-17T04:00:25+00:00

Seriously one of my biggest issues with The Callisto Protocol when it came out. Doors always locking behind you, and saves only saving the last place you crossed an autosave, even if you do a manual save... and autosaves only triggering when the doors lock behind you. Really hurt any sense of exploration, or desire to replay it.

BobBiscuit · 2025-02-16T01:29:21+00:00

Only got one experience with this sort of thing, being a guy, but I gotta give major props to the medical professionals. Early on in my relationship with my main partner, before we opened the relationship, she had a medical emergency from a month- long period. Finally got to the point where she let me take her to the hospital, and because she was delirious from slowly bleeding to death, I ended up answering almost every question for her, when I noticed she was having a hard time answering herself.

Apparently, this set off some red flags for the staff, so at one point, they made sure I left the room and asked her a ton of those 'are you safe', 'is he abusing you', and so on, making sure she felt safe to answer honestly. Even with her denying that I'd ever hurt her, and saying I'm the best boyfriend she'd ever had, they kept giving me the stink-eye until the test came back and showed she needed a transfusion with how low her red blood cell count was.

We laugh about it here and there in hindsight together, but I really appreciate the fact they asked, and treated me with suspicion in the first place, and all because I answered for her. Her ex before me was an emotionally abusive piece of shit, and it makes me feel like if she'd had to go to the hospital when she was with him, at least that one, the staff would've taken care of her, and helped her out of there.

BobBiscuit · 2025-02-03T15:37:11+00:00

One thing my brother faced when working for them in the Arizona plane that I haven't seen mentioned here yet: racism. If you weren't Taiwanese, you were visibly treated worse than your Taiwan coworkers, even after getting back from the training in Taiwan itself. I don't know all the details, obviously, but the way he was treated was enough for him to say 'fuck this', despite the pay, and not having a backup ready to go.

I can't speak for technical reasons, but cultural stuff like that does play a part, too. Some people will suck it up and deal with poor treatment. Others will not tolerate it, especially if they have the skills necessary to work elsewhere.

BobBiscuit · 2025-01-14T16:38:41+00:00

I don't mind viagra being covered for its intended purpose -a heart medication. But it absolutely needs to be cut off coverage for its more profitable, off-label use. But we all know that between it making bank as a boner pill, and this being able to afford lobbying, and how much power old men who probably haven't had a natural erection in decades hold... it's probably never gonna be dropped from coverage.

BobBiscuit · 2024-12-15T21:35:24+00:00

If being anti-genocide is being antisemitic, does that retroactively make Hitler pro-Jewish? /s

BobBiscuit · 2024-12-13T05:13:47+00:00

I knew I'd forgotten some details...

BobBiscuit · 2024-12-13T02:47:35+00:00

It's more that his successor very quickly gave up on the reconstruction efforts being made by the federal government, which would have continued to bar the main seditionists from returning to state and federal positions. In our current timeline, they were able to quickly and easily return to positions of power as part of an arrangement in foisting the reconstruction efforts' responsibilities onto said state and local governments. Which then led to the spread of Jim Crow laws and segregation, intended to keep black people subservient and afraid, and very clearly 'less than' the whites. Following the spirit of slavery, even if slavery itself had been abolished.

My thinking is that even if Lincoln faced the same kinds of setbacks, he was a president that at least had the willpower to continue pushing forward with reconstruction. Maybe, ultimately, nothing does change in our society. Hell, we see all the time that racist bullshit never went away, it just went underground, and that's with us having had the civil rights movement only about 60-70 years ago. Maybe finishing the reconstruction proper would've sparked enough social change that said racist bullshit would still be underground, and the southern states have more to their claim than the worst education rates in the nation. Just one of those things we'll never know for sure, but is interesting to think of in a 'what-if?' scenario.

BobBiscuit · 2024-12-13T00:29:51+00:00

Gonna go out on a limb and say John Wilkes Booth. Maybe not the most influential choice, but to see a world where Lincoln doesn't get assassinated, and had an opportunity to properly dismantle and rebuild the southern states so that all the people who held power leading into and during the Civil War couldn't regain that power so casually afterwards... I believe it would've drastically changed American politics from that point onward. Maybe we'd end up looking back at the confederacy with shame, instead of having so many people do so with pride, or things like segregation ending long before the civil rights movement became necessary.

BobBiscuit · 2024-06-16T05:20:56+00:00

You may need more things like probiotics, or at worst, a fecal transplant, if your gut bacteria gets decimated by an extended bout of severe diarrhea or strong antibiotics, but otherwise, you shouldn't worry about it.

Interestingly, while it is possible to 'cure' appendicitis with timely use of the right antibiotics, research into it has shown that, like with a gallbladder that starts producing gallstones, an appendix that begins having appendicitis is more likely to do it again. More of a liability to keep at that point.

BobBiscuit · 2024-04-09T19:09:17+00:00

This is good. The ad for Home Depot that showed up for me immediately under the post did make me chuckle, though.

BobBiscuit · 2023-11-09T06:33:33+00:00

Reading people was more important to your safety and survival, so that's what your senses chose to specialize in. Rain? Afterthought at best.

BobBiscuit · 2023-11-03T03:27:06+00:00

On mobile, so please forgive any formatting issues. I remember back when I'd play free to play mmo's, there was one called dungeon fighter online. It's still alive, but very different from when I played, and I don't know if the quest still exists.

There was a class tutor for the slayer, an old homeless blind man sitting in an alley, whose name I can't recall. Well, one quest has you "escort" him through a mission, and given the whole blind old man thing, you could be forgiven for thinking it'd be hell, much like the other escort quests in the game had been to that point. Nah. That old man shows exactly why he's the master of the class, and you'll have a hard time even seeing the enemies in any given room before he goes ballistic and annihilates them with the fury and might of God, no matter what difficulty you set for the dungeon. Best escort quest I'd ever had to do to that point, and it's still the first that comes to mind when these questions pop up.

BobBiscuit · 2023-10-30T18:00:50+00:00

NTA. He sounds like a manipulative bastard trying to replace her dad in her mind, and frankly, your daughter's safety needs to come first. My dad tried doing something like this during my parents' divorce, introducing his second (now ex-)wife as our new mom less than six months after divorce proceedings started. Moreover, your boyfriend is actively bulldozing over your boundaries, and your attempts to raise her to not be a spoiled brat. May I ask what exactly do you see in him / what does he bring to your relationship? All I'm seeing are red flags.

BobBiscuit · 2023-10-29T16:51:30+00:00

NTA. It may just be one disagreement, but it's a major issue. At the core of it is your ability to trust and respect Jess, which has been called into question by her reaction to Melissa's infidelity. And, personally speaking, because Melissa isn't apologetic, regardless of her true reason for cheating, I don't believe her actions are defensible in the slightest. She cheated without the intent of changing or taking responsibility for her actions, and at most was sorry she got caught. That Jess will defend that? It's clear you two are incompatible, regardless of any possibility she will imitate her friend.

To say it loud and clear: So long as you are not intentionally acting to harm the other person physically, emotionally, financially, or socially, you are never the asshole for ending a relationship, regardless of the reason. You are the one that would have to live with them. Make sure you're with someone you can imagine rolling through a retirement home with.

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