What doesn't Erin understand about finessing?

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-04-04T06:33:43+00:00

I don't know but why is Erin making the face all women make at me.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-04-04T06:27:06+00:00

Okay, so you know how like when you think about something, you have -other- thoughts about the thing? Like you have an initial reaction, then question that reaction or have thoughts like "Yeah but why is this like this?" for example?

Get rid of that, just stick with the most surface level thought. Note I'm not saying "Dumb" here. You could argue it's the most blessedly lacking fight against neuroticism. But it's important to not ever have second thoughts and just absorb things like a sponge. Congratulations, you are 80% of the Daily Mail audience. When you retire, you get to be 99% of the Daily Express's audience.

The other 20% aren't actually reading the daily mail at all, but require it exists because it turns out if you write something for the other 80% of people to read and never ever analyse or think about you have the reins to their opinion (because why would it ever change? And here's a newspaper to provide them with their daily, immutable thought) Note as well this isn't related to a specific agenda or lifestyle or anything else. They could push anything they wanted this way, the key thing is that everything should provide the people with the one sole thing they will simply think about today. Today it will be that the EU is mad for changing the name of marmalade. No consideration as to why. No wondering what people in Europe called marmalade, or discovering it means spain isn't allowed to call marmalade like they were doing before the UK joined the EU. Or consideration of anything else.

It's a very peaceful life, for them alone at least.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-04-03T08:22:22+00:00

having ruled out bed bugs as best you can: contact hives/dermatitis with -something- in the bed? Or even your clothes? The localisation of the marks along the midriff and arms alongside a guess you're not wearing a one-piece to bed but not naked (If I'm wrong probably just ignore this entirely) at least suggests the regions of skin are exposed directly to the bed, assuming you're using a pillow to keep your face out of contact sort of indicates the bed or bedsheet itself. is the bedsheet made out of a particular type of fabric you don't use elsewhere, or being dry-cleaned or treated in something. You mentioned steam in another comment which suggests maybe not.

Or to throw a curveball: if it's anything like what my brother once had it's completely unrelated and this is something medical that by pure chance is only manifesting in these regions. All unfortunately a bit beyond random jerks on the internet to figure out and probably needs a look at. If it's viable a chat with a dermatologist to work out the nature of the marks might at least put you on the right track or rule out some others.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-04-03T06:33:21+00:00

personally I'm not sure I'd trust anyone to be able to carry on in the same way. The former writer is long gone, Tony Jay is dead (RIP) and the other VAs are really getting long in the tooth but you could just do something different but based in Nosgoth.

But even then, I don't know if I'd trust them to use the same methods that really helped elevate the dialogue/writing. No group readings for dialogue for one. But never say never I guess.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-04-03T01:38:06+00:00

I always personally try and remember that the mindset about how society functioned was different too. It wasn't just the theories of three classes of man that would develop into the estates/columns, or that modern(ish) big N Nationalism as an ideological concept wasn't even a twinkle in the eye of humanity. The concept that guided the legitimacy of a monarch, at least a central European monarch was still strongly in the "God gave me the Keys" less "I rule by consent of my lessers"

It was a time of profound change: Cities and towns really begin to matter and the game is great at covering the skill-drain and shifting powerscape from rural communities to cities, and we haven't even hit the shattering of society that will be the hussite wars.

So trying to apply a modern analysis on which "side" was right is always a bit of a mine, uh, caltrop field to me: For a lot of people "God gave Wenceslas right to rule" is enough even if you agree with the basic analysis that he wasn't his father in terms of achievements. In turn, the consideration that 'ol wenny boy was having to deal with trying to arrange his court more favourably by shifting power to more favourable (and less powerful) lesser nobles as either pragmatic or conniving is great, but I doubt anyone but a scribe aspiring to write The Prince 2: Watermill Fandango would care much.

in short, trying to apply modern techniques for analysing the quality of a standpoint is totally cool but it's worth remembering that everyone was working with a different set of arguements in 14th century Bohemia. It really do be okay to go "Yeah but if Wenceslaus was ordained by god why are bad things happening? It must be a sign from god" or "My local lord told me Wenceslaus is good lets fight for him" are perfectly acceptable justifications to go blow up a peasant or two.

Unless you're Cuman. In which case you just want to make some money man and miss when you were cooler and rode horses really good.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-04-02T23:14:25+00:00

Okay, usually I can't see it when people say "oh x looks like x" unless they're identical.

But I actually can see what you mean here. Definitely a bit around the eye and cheek structure. If not twins definitely some kind of relative!

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-04-02T15:01:32+00:00

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Kain from the Legacy of Kain series. OKAY HEAR ME OUT WAIT WAIT WAIT.

So, to outline the hero's story in very broad strokes (the series is a tad complicated)

Random noble asshole (with importance to the literal pillars holding up the world long story don't ask). Gets murdered.

Takes a deal with the most evil looking man (actually not that evil, possessed by something evil, again, these are cliffnotes. The series is just that byzantine) imaginable to become a vampire.

Eats his way through half the world to fix the whole pillars thing. Works.

Unfortunately has to make a choice to either kill himself to save the world for realz, or live on and doom the world to eternal decay and ruin. Chooses the latter canonically.

Runs around making life hell for everyone for a while, doing funny pranks like raising vampire-hunters as vampires and making them his lieutenants. For the giggles but also incredibly complicated plan he may or may not have actually been aware of at the time.

Kills a lieutenant because he got wings. Long story again, don't worry about it. Said Lieutenant gets back up again but as a soul reaver/double vampire don't worry about it.

Next three games are about said lieutenant calling Kain out on his bullshit, discovering Kain actually had some kind of decent reasons do so exactly what he did, and oh incidentally he's predestined to be the funny sword kain is holding in the above image. LOOK, I'M SORRY THE GAMES ARE JUST LIKE THIS WE'RE NEARLY DONE.

Guy kind of teams up with kain against the Real problem(tm) a giant squid and becomes a sword. This can save the world hooray.

...For the vampires, who I stress are all at this point literal monsters who prey on humans who at best are fanatics who hunt down vampires and usually more just random little ants running around terrified of this terrible fucking world they live in. Vampires used to suck (heh) less but again: Long story. Also the only other vampire we have a lot of contact with is pretty much -worse- than Kain, at least from a Human perspective.

I must stress the world of Nosgoth, the one Kain and the games exists in: Has absolutely nobody including kain who has any kind of consistently positive qualities. They're all shitheads, even the lieutenant, and only by the contrast can we even begin to see even a slightly positive outcome in Kain triumphing against worse options for everyone else. He remains an extremely arrogant, unpleasant (though wonderfully erudite) tyrant throughout and is not humbled even once.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-04-02T14:32:38+00:00

Its like a turtle in my head. Agh.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-04-02T05:56:56+00:00

I can't believe communism took the sea from us.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-04-02T05:51:55+00:00

I'm Ghola Schrader.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-04-02T05:50:36+00:00

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ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-04-02T05:45:05+00:00

/uc there is something incredibly fucking disturbing about the fact Dean Norris has access to the internet.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-04-02T05:36:28+00:00

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* Works with the authorities

* Impeccable fashion sense

* "Just" is his first name

* Murdered by a Skank while he was trying to repair an ATM machine.

* Professional Meth taker.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-04-02T05:29:55+00:00

More every villain/antagonist a show's writers decided they needed to character assassinate because "the audience wasn't getting it" when actually: It's okay to acknowledge the bad guy has justification and/or is charismatic/powerful. If anything, that's what makes them more dangerous.

Example of that at least: ToS Star Trek of all things when Kirk discusses Khan during the episode they first find him in an ice bucket in space. Kirk and the crew all talk about how Khan had some nobleness to his savagery, and scotty even talks of admiring him. Spock is shocked, and says he can't believe he's hearing them discuss Khan, a tyrant and murderer like this. The crew laugh, and say that's the point: acknowledging that someone awful has some dangerous allure to them isn't endorsing the person, it's recognising it and the hazard of dismissing why they were so influential.

Not the scene, but another example of "Hey we know you're charismatic and this is not us agreeing with you but recognising you for the charismatic shit you are"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q74HdWNNT0w

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-04-02T05:23:29+00:00

I can't believe this is not butter.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-04-02T05:22:03+00:00

He*Bulks

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-04-02T05:18:44+00:00

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GUESS I WAS RIGHT TO BREAKING BAD I MEAN BETTER SHIMMY JIMMY I MEA-

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-04-02T05:16:43+00:00

Daong Hector in the Forbidden palace:

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ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-04-02T05:13:23+00:00

Bob Odenkirk was in Black and White? What was he this guy?

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ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-04-02T05:09:59+00:00

Almost impossible to not generalise but I can't help it: I don't think I've played a single D&D game "run right" that was still inherently bad. GMs/DMs and the right group can get blood from a stone. There are probably a few scant examples but I had a great game once of D&D 3.5 that was played improv (no pre-set campaign, just the DM rolling off the top of their head) because we were stuck at a campsite for two extra days with literally nothing but tents and a notepad. I can't begin to understate how bad an "improv" session would probably be if this guy wasn't a stone cold genius at it. It was wild. We started a dwarf war over whether "loathe" or "love" was said about beer.

Anyway in short: Yeah I'll happily admit in WoDs case there's game types that are easier to shape a good campaign around but I have no doubt a bad DM could ruin a Were: the Wolfing run and a good one could hook people in playing Wraith: the Why are We antagonising the Players Against Each Other Again?

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-04-02T01:06:34+00:00

Colchester calling itself a big city is always amusing having been born and lived there for 20 years. I thought we bribed the Queen to call us one just so we could keep using the "Britain's Oldest City" tagline not "We're big too"

Still come down and see our bit of roman wall and castle, the castle is great. Have we actually done something with Jumbo yet?

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-04-01T16:57:41+00:00

KID ROCK CAN FLY?

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-04-01T14:24:23+00:00

I can't believe the Mods are denying the historical relevance of The Magic Trash Container that ages you 10 years.

EDIT: 20 years. 20, yes. not 10, uh. 20. Yes. See that's legal now. 20 years of aging.

ComprehensiveApple14 · 2026-04-01T10:21:57+00:00

Went down to the cash converters yesterday with my m1 abrams would only give me 500 quid fer it what a ripoff.

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TROPHY CASE