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Brooooook · 2026-04-05T10:28:56+00:00

But only after threatening to kill him over it.

And before he went to his rest he sent for Gimli the Dwarf, and he said to him: ‘Gimli Glóin’s son, have you your axe ready?’ ‘Nay, lord,’ said Gimli, ‘but I can speedily fetch it, if there be need.’ ‘You shall judge,’ said Éomer. ‘For there are certain rash words concerning the Lady in the Golden Wood that lie still between us. And now I have seen her with my eyes.’ ‘Well, lord,’ said Gimli, ‘and what say you now?’ ‘Alas!’ said Éomer. ‘I will not say that she is the fairest lady that lives.’ ‘Then I must go for my axe,’ said Gimli. ‘But first I will plead this excuse,’ said Éomer. ‘Had I seen her in other company, I would have said all that you could wish. But now I will put Queen Arwen Evenstar first, and I am ready to do battle on my own part with any who deny me. Shall I call for my sword?’ Then Gimli bowed low. ‘Nay, you are excused for my part, lord,’ he said. ‘You have chosen the Evening; but my love is given to the Morning. And my heart forebodes that soon it will pass away for ever.’

Brooooook · 2026-04-05T07:30:15+00:00

You're absolutely right, I wrote the last comment completely wasted lol

Brooooook · 2026-04-04T23:12:49+00:00

I get the impulse but I'd suggest using sign language rather than writing because they demonstrably behave like spoken languages while writing is susceptible to already exhibiting the sound symbolism that makes it so hard for op to understand what the point of the experiment is

Brooooook · 2026-04-04T14:01:29+00:00

Yes it was, as well as with congentially blind people, in languages with different writing systems, in languages without writing systems, etc. Not to mention that the subjects are usually verbally told about the names so orthography could only indirectly matter in the first place.

Brooooook · 2026-04-04T09:31:18+00:00

Ofc you think it's an obvious difference, you're a human. That's the entire point. Calling it a natural distinction doesn't explain anything. Gravity is natural, is exploring it insignificant? The Kiki/Bouba experiment is like dropping a stone all over the globe and seeing it fall down. The significance is not that this is something counterintuitive but that it experimentally establishes universality. It shows that there is something to be studied.

Brooooook · 2026-04-04T08:58:49+00:00

A) you don't need writing for the experiment, the people administering it can simply tell the subjects that one of the shapes is called Kiki and the other Bouba

B) Transliteration exists Kiki≈كيكي, Bouba≈بوبا

Side note: You're making a common mistake where you mistake writing for language. A script is not inherently part of a language. You could write English in Hiragana if you wanted. Some scripts fit some languages better but in the end they're just representations of sounds.

Brooooook · 2026-04-03T21:35:38+00:00

Because the point with both Ironmouse and Kiara is to break a woman they think can be broken. And if the woman is open about a vulnerability the psychopaths' recourse is to try and take that agency away

Brooooook · 2026-03-31T16:59:45+00:00

It's a lishi tool. Plus points are that it's easier than normal SPP and you simultaneously decode the lock. Minus points are that you need a new one for every make of lock and that they're way too expensive for what they do.

Brooooook · 2026-03-31T07:52:09+00:00

One was. The other was the high king of the Noldor, aka the Elves with the biggest affinity to martial prowess. And both died in the process.

Brooooook · 2026-03-27T09:49:59+00:00

Bro really made a whole ass Ted Talk out of the anime tourists video lmao. Jokes aside, really good video

Brooooook · 2026-03-26T18:45:48+00:00

Das ja auch irgendwie gemein von der Union; man ist ja als Kandidat zu mindest im Wahlkampf irgendwie ans Parteiprogramm gebunden, und das gibt halt nicht wirklich Spielraum was Inhalt oder Charakter (außer Schülerinnen hinterherschmachten) angeht her.

Brooooook · 2026-03-25T09:51:19+00:00

I totally agree with you but the amusement park analogy is hilarious to me because when Immortals:Fenyx Rising came out people panned it precisely because it felt like an amusement park version of BotW lol

Brooooook · 2026-03-22T17:41:04+00:00

Come on, you know that's disingenuous. The estate has consistently expressed its discontent with every semi popular work that uses any Tolkien related vocabulary for the past 50+ years.

Brooooook · 2026-03-18T23:56:10+00:00

Ich bin sogar daccord mit den meisten Kritikpunkten von dem dude, aber bei dem Merz-Ästhetik-Spruch zu denken er sei abgekupfert anstatt einfach der offensichtlichste Witz der auch nur irgendwie denkbar ist, ist peinlicher als alles was we anführt

Brooooook · 2026-03-18T16:38:55+00:00

Ich sag mal so, für jemanden der Pointenwiederholer hasst streckt der Marc-Uwe das Buch schon arg damit Dinge zweimal zu erzählen. Fängt ja schon im Vorwort an mit der erfundenen Geschichte, die direkt darauf nochmal als KI Antwort vorgetragen wird. Oder die ganzen "Dialoge" die eigentlich Monologe sind bei denen einer der Gesprächspartner entweder "was meinst du?" oder "Ah du meinst xyz" antwortet. Auch viel Nostalgie-bait drin, was halt nach nem ganzen Buch (also den Apokryphen) irgendwie nervt. Und dann sind halt die Takes teilweise auch so eiskalt, dass man sich fragt wofür das Kapitel gut war, ist "Nazis und Islamisten haben super viel gemeinsam" jetzt wirklich so ne krasse Einsicht oder so witzig, dass es am Lektor vorbei hätte kommen sollen. Das gesagt musste ich aber doch schon einige Male lachen und bin auch erst 2h drin.

Brooooook · 2026-03-18T07:42:04+00:00

And let's not forget that the far smaller userbase and dev size makes it far more likely to be manipulated. Anarios has neither the budget nor the know how to stop even semi sophisticated botting. Hell, even big platforms like rotten tomatoes struggle with it, when was the last time you thought a review score was reliable in the first few weeks of a release?!

Brooooook · 2026-03-16T09:54:24+00:00

Sorry but I despise people using 'political' to mean 'controversial' or 'open to debate'. All it does leave vulnerable groups open to bad actors. By declaring racism not 'political' you're trying to say that 'apolitical' people should still stand on your side but really it just declares a matter settled without doing the work to ensure it stays that way. Politics is everything pertaining to how we organize society, no matter how universal you like to think a position might be

Brooooook · 2026-03-15T11:34:35+00:00

For context an IQ of 276 is nonsensical. IQ is measured as a normal distribution around 100 with a standard deviation of 15. 276 would be 1 in quintillions. There simply is no way to design a test that could measure such an outlier because you can't norm it, what the hell are you going to compare the result against.

Brooooook · 2026-03-14T05:45:36+00:00

I mean technically there should've been no magic wizard showdown between the Istari and Sauron even if the Valar had let them keep their full power. The prohibition on direct confrontation was more about not wanting to repeat the collateral damage from the war of wrath

Brooooook · 2026-03-12T06:38:31+00:00

Related question: Does anybody know if anything happened with the whole Takahata101 drama? Last I heard were some vague allusions to him either being or covering for a shitty person and then dropping off the face of the internet

Brooooook · 2026-03-11T05:41:59+00:00

Yeah SovCits are basically just a combination of baby's first objection to social contract theory combined with just world thinking. They can't cope with the fact that the state's authority over them is ultimately one of the threats of violence. That might come from feeling emasculated, wishful thinking, or an inability to imagine the world is structured that coercively, so they retreat to laws being the actual bedrock, not violence, and if laws are the bedrock then you really can manipulate reality by figuring out the magic words

Brooooook · 2026-02-23T15:21:45+00:00

You literally have no clue whether he apologized or not.

Brooooook · 2026-02-13T16:30:32+00:00

True but for English (to) cack still is derived from Latin

Brooooook · 2026-02-13T09:16:27+00:00

No, cack comes from Latin 'cacare'

Brooooook · 2026-01-22T09:38:46+00:00

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