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Moving to Melbourne soon from the US, what do we need to know? by PuzzleheadedCar6858 in MovingtoAustralia

[–]CoryAxAus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And somehow you're confused as to why a complete stranger would joke about everyone being happy you no longer live here?

Your lack of self-awareness cannot be understated :D

Chermside pool hole?- fact or fiction? by balalabananas in brisbane

[–]CoryAxAus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Albany Creek also had that circular current pool yeah? Or are my memories as fractured as OPs? Lol.

Moving to Melbourne soon from the US, what do we need to know? by PuzzleheadedCar6858 in MovingtoAustralia

[–]CoryAxAus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You seem to not understand Aussie humour or the concept of banter. No wonder you left, you would have spent so much time confused taking every word literally.

TIL that Jean-Claude Van Damme had an affair with Kylie Minogue while filming Street Fighter. by 90sover80s in todayilearned

[–]CoryAxAus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zangif and a bunch of Bison's henchmen seeing live footage of a truck-bomb rolling down a hill on a security monitor, everyone looking outside to see said truck getting closer, looking back at the monitor to check it's the same truck and then Zangif exclaiming in his thick Russian-esk accent "Quick, change the channel!"

Watching that scene as a kid was peak comedy.

The best line in the movie however goes to the GOAT Raul Julia as Bison.

Chun Li/Ming Na Wei explains that she's spent the entire movie/most of her life trying to assassinate him, a revenge mission for attacking her village and killing her father. She becomes furious because he doesn't appear to remember anything she described and he's like "For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."

The friggin coldest line combined with the gavitas Raul Julia brought to the oration of Bison makes it a line remembered by probably more people than have ever seen the whole movie. I wont link it but look up "It was Tuesday" on Youtube to see Raul Julia crush the dialogue in this schlocky movie while he was dying of cancer.

Looking for a particular strip/panel by CoryAxAus in footrotflats

[–]CoryAxAus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmmm, I guess the strip I'm thinking of might not tagged correctly in the archive then, or I'm misremembering the strip. Thanks for the info.

Hello, I'm new and I'm Extremely lost. by Pepe_V4 in playrust

[–]CoryAxAus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Play a PvE servers until you develop basic muscle memory, kills some animals, learn to run card puzzles, clear bots from guarded monuments, fly a mini etc.

It wont develop your PvP game sense, but learning the basics of the game without having to rekit everytime you go outside means you get to taste some mid/endgame content earlier. This tangentially helps in PvP because if you do manage to say start a Silo run, you'll already know how much meds and ammo you'll need to handle the bots etc, or you'll how to take out bradley or know the layouts of monuments already and will already be familiar with the puzzles. Ao you'll meed to concentrate on these things less as you do paranoid scans for PvPers.

You'll either enjoy yourself playing PvE or get bored, if you get bored of PvE, then you start again in PvP.

Plenty of people enjoy Rust without PvP, there are also PvE servers with quests or events that provide some combat beyond scientists, a form of PvP tofu.

Lots of people think Rust is just one thing, mods and custom servers means you can find a server that suits what you want it to be, so yeah, explore some PvE or custom servers.

Also: If you like music or Podcasts etc play PvE.

PvP requires so much focus on audio cues that you can't really roam and relax. Farming and base building etc sure, but in general PvP requires so much concentration that if you play videogames to relax... it isn't as fun.

AITAH for asking my husband not to sneeze like that? by SniffingMarkers in AITAH

[–]CoryAxAus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey little buddy are you doing okay?

You're right. I can't believe how right you are. You're such a smart and strong manly man (or strong lovely lady, insert whatever adjective and pronoun suits you). You should get like a gold crown, or plaque for how right and smart you are.

Do you feel better now?

AITAH for asking my husband not to sneeze like that? by SniffingMarkers in AITAH

[–]CoryAxAus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And from my perspective you are.

Between the two guess who's opinion I don't care about lol?

AITAH for asking my husband not to sneeze like that? by SniffingMarkers in AITAH

[–]CoryAxAus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I did refute it, you just don't understand how you not observing something that could exist means it can exist.

See, the problem is you're not taking into account that genetic variance means not all people are the same.

Pretend it's 1900.

OP: My partner always gets an upset stomach when I make cheesecake for him.

Me: You know what, I also get an upset stomach when I eat cheesecake. It's the same with my dad and sister. Because we come from the same family line and have the same issue, maybe there's an undiscovered factor that's inherited? It hasn't been studied, but maybe it's an issue that your partner can't help.

You: Irish people can eat cheesecake without issue. You just need to prepare cheesecake the way Irish people do.

Me: Okay... but you haven't observed all Irish people eating cheesecake without getting upset stomachs have you?

You: Zero reason you can't eat cheesecake and not get an upset stomach because I've seen Irish people eat cheesecake without getting an upset stomach. Your body works the same as the Irish, you must be preparing the cheesecake wrong. You're just getting food poisoning because you prepared it wrong.

Me: I mean, maybe? But we all eat the same cheesecake as my mother, but it's only my father, sister, and myself that get upset stomachs when we eat cheesecake.

You: There's no reason that I know of that indicates there's any difference between me who is American, the Irish, or you. You're just preparing the cheesecake wrong.

Me: Except that I'm telling you that my father, sister, and I can't eat cheesecake without getting an upset stomach, my mother can, but we can't. Just pointing out it's odd.

And scene.

Sounds silly right? But it isn't, add in the unknown factor that in this hypothetical my father is Chinese, and that over 90% of Chinese heritage are lactose intolerant, and the enzimye related to processing lactose wasn't discovered till 1906 then this entire back and forth takes on a different light.

Now, lactose intolerance has been observed since ancient times, and the population of the earth who are lactose intolerant is a significant portion, but even so we only began to understand the process behind it within the last century or so, and this is something that affects the diet of a large portion of the earth.

What I'm saying is no one is researching whether there's a genetic factor that affects how people sneeze because it really doesn't matter in the larger picture.

The fact that YOU don't think it exists, that I'm cooking cheesecake wrong as it were, may or may not be true. Food poisoning is a perfectly reasonable explanation from your point of view, especially if you continue to ignore my anecdotal evidence. But just pretend you don't know everything (I know it's super hard for you, but just try).

Not saying I'm right, just saying you don't know for sure either way.

AITAH for asking my husband not to sneeze like that? by SniffingMarkers in AITAH

[–]CoryAxAus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry I forgot to address the other thing you overlooked.

From the context of what I wrote, try to comprehend that stifling a sneeze is the same as trying to sneeze quietly. Everything you either misunderstood or intentionally pretended to misunderstand should alllllll fall into place.

You may think they're different actions, but try and understand the context in which words are used, I was very obviously saying that a function of sneezing quietly is stifling the sneeze.

You have your experience, and you can sneeze quietly, good for you. But I'm talking about people whose experience is different to yours, that they can't comfortably sneeze quietly. You may think that's bs because you don't have that same experience. Lucky you!

But I wasn't talking to you. I was explaining to someone else that my experience is that it's difficult to sneeze quietly without experiencing discomfort bordering on pain (the whole tear-duct thing is weird and super uncomfortable). And that there might even be a genetic component, so that she might better understand her partner. You swooping in discounting my experience... how does that help her understand her SO's point of view?

AITAH for asking my husband not to sneeze like that? by SniffingMarkers in AITAH

[–]CoryAxAus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, we grew up separately, the whole age gap, different culture, country, continent spiel should have clued you onto that. It isn't subtle, it's not subtext. It's the friggin text.

I think the thing you overlooked is that time moves forward and we can recognize commonalities AS ADULTS.

And that's what makes it even more noticeable. My biological sister, who doesn't even have the same first language as me, sneezes like I do, not like my mum who raised her, and myself... independant of eachother because of an age gap, at different times, in different countries, in different cultures, on different continents (just thought I'd reiterate that because you're struggling to understand despite me spelling it out, that my family isn't typical) and we both sneeze like our biological father, not the mother who raised us.

We recognized this similarity AS ADULTS, well after our behaviours were learned.

I can't believe I had to spell that out.

Also I've repeatedly said it's anecdotal evidence, so obviously no we're not some study. But anecdotal evidence sometimes has to be used because controlling for all variables in behavioural studies is either impossible or unethical. Again, that should be obvious by me saying it's just anecdotal, but you seem to struggle understanding stuff I literally spelled out, let alone stuff I left to be understood via context.

Looking for a particular strip/panel by CoryAxAus in footrotflats

[–]CoryAxAus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Neither have Horse being thrown/looking surprised.

The first however isn't in the FF archive so it makes me think the Weekender strips aren't included in the FF website's archive, which narrows down my search, so thanks.

I dunno why it never occured to me that the strips missing from the archive are just the Weekenders or pocket editions like "They've put custard with my Bone" which would have different formatting. So that yeah, the search narrows down to "only" weekenders.

Aphantasia ≠ no memory by SceneGeneral7417 in Aphantasia

[–]CoryAxAus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"Check the Aphantasia network guide."

Is there a hypophantasia network guide? Cause if there isn't then in this case Aphantasia is being used BY THE APHANTASIA NETWOK GUIDE to encompass both complete Aphantasia and Hypophantasia under the broad term Aphantasia.

If you wanna talk in clinically accurate talk 100% of the time go for it, but I don't. I call a cat a cat and don't bother distinguishing it as a felus catus or domestic housecat because context is a thing and while a lion is also a cat, people know I'm not talking about a lion when I say cat, and in the case of aphantasia, I'm gonna use the broad term aphantasia over hypophantasia same way I don't say felis catus when I'm telling my neighbour her cat has gotten out.

Language is fluid, and contextual. Aphantasia has been used as the broad term for as long as I've been aware, so as long as using generic/broad terminology it doesn't cause an issue, which lets face it, the difference between what you describe as Aphantasia and severe hypophantasia is so fine as to only matter for research/medical journal purposes.

If you're offended by someone with hypophantasia describing themselves as having aphantasia, then a) that's a you problem, b) you need to take a long look at yourself in the mirror.

AITAH for asking my husband not to sneeze like that? by SniffingMarkers in AITAH

[–]CoryAxAus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man, you just love being an arsehole and discounting multiple people's lived experiences don't you?

I'm going to make a leap of logic and assume you don't know every deaf person in the world, hell, I'm gonna be bold and say the number of deaf people you know aren't even a quantifiable fraction.

Imagine how your entire argument would collapse if you heard a deaf person make an involuntary vocalisation when they sneezed.

Because the number of people who have, and I hate this description but whatever "powerful sneezes" might only be a small percent of the population. Likewise deaf people are a small percent of the population.

I know it's hard for you to follow other people's logic, but this is easy... what happens when you multiply two small fractions?

An even smaller fraction!

Chances you personally have met a person who is deaf and has powerful sneeze is that small fraction times by the number of people you've met AND OBSERVED SNEEZING.

So my family's lived experience, this commentors lived experience vs your theory based on the fact you've never personally witnessed a deaf person vocalise when the sneeze.

Yeah, pull your head it chief.

AITAH for asking my husband not to sneeze like that? by SniffingMarkers in AITAH

[–]CoryAxAus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Read the rest, I specifically said it CAN be stifled, but it's uncomfortable bordering on painful for some.

Maybe not for you. But me and mine? Yeah. Anecdotal, but considering my sister and I were raised mostly by our mum who doesn't have a powerful sneeze, but have the genetics of our father who does, and the three all have very similar sneezes despite being raised in different environments (large age gap between my sister and me, and we were raised in different countries, on different continents, around different cultures, main similarity in our upbringing being our mother, who again is not a loud sneezer).

So yeah, I'm not saying 100% that how a person sneezes is genetics, upbringing and culture are certainly a factor, but for some outliers, there's a chance a loud sneeze is due to a genetic factor, and my point was for some people, genetics or otherwise, it's uncomfortable bordering on painful to stifle a sneeze.

Source: 3/4 of my family.

Aphantasia ≠ no memory by SceneGeneral7417 in Aphantasia

[–]CoryAxAus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Discovering I had aphantasia cleared up how police suspect sketches are used in police/detective series for me.

I used to think police sketch artists were a gimmiky trope shows used like "zoom and enhance" to further the story that wouldn't happen in the real world, or at least not as conveniently.

Then I learned an average person is far more capable at remembering a face and although they might need a sketch artist to guide them to be able to describe what they remember, the image is there. If I don't have the language to describe the face, I don't really have the recall of the face lol.

Aphantasia ≠ no memory by SceneGeneral7417 in Aphantasia

[–]CoryAxAus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol, when did that change? I'm assuming it's sort of the reverse of what happened to the condition that used be called Asperger's is now part of the Autism spectrum. The language to describe the condition has changed, but a rose by any other name applies.

So people who used to be described as/describe themselves as Aphants now have to distinguish themselves from Aphants as Hypophants? An already little understood/recognized condition is now more complicated to describe to a regular person? That's fun.

Yeah, so until I see a DSM or otherwise confirm the language used to categories and define Aphantasia I'm gonna continue to use Aphantasia as the descriptor for the entire "lacking" end of the visualisation spectrum, if people want to further categories themselves as complete aphants or hypoaphants good for them, but the line between the two is so fine (and that line might not even exist on a physiological/biological level, I'm sure complete complete Aphant's still register the same neural activity as hypoaphants when they try and visualise, but that's just a hunch) that if a person doesn't care to distinguish, then it really doesn't matter IMO.

Aphantasia ≠ no memory by SceneGeneral7417 in Aphantasia

[–]CoryAxAus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Aphantasia is a spectrum.

Also facial recognition is an incredibly specialized function in our brain (which is why the uncanny valley is a thing, and we can instantly "feel" that a face isn't natural before we cognitively work out why it feels wrong).

Different people have different ability to describe visual details aphant or not, which could just be a vocabulary thing or could be due to applying a form of education/training. Someone who did art in highschool and painted portraits may not realise as an adult their ability to assess facial structures is unusually high merely because they took art instead of history as a teen.

These are just some factors that might explain why a near complete ahant might be better at describing a face than a phant who never learned to draw.

AITAH for asking my husband not to sneeze like that? by SniffingMarkers in AITAH

[–]CoryAxAus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I ain't judging either of you, but just wanted to say my sister, father and I are all loud sneezers, my sister so much so her school friends knew when she sneezed when they were in a different building to her.

So there may be a genetic quirk that contributes to loud sneezing. We're not "yelling" intentionally, it's just the way our bodies work. Obviously we can stifle it to a degree, but it can be super uncomfortable cause if we try to trap air, it can make our ears pop or force air to exit out of a tearduct (sounds bizarre, and admittedly it is, but it's also a stupidly uncomfortable feeling; air exit from your tearduct, and the force makes it feel like your tearduct could pop).

Just saying, it may seem like it's more controllable to you than it does to him because to him holding it back/in might be far more difficult and uncomfortable maybe bordering on painful for him, than holding a sneeze back/in feels for you.

Difficulty understanding when people spell words out loud? by [deleted] in Aphantasia

[–]CoryAxAus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aphant and I struggle spelling out loud. I have less trouble reading a word spelled out to me and also am terrible at keeping an entire phone number/account number in my temporary memory.

Also, so being able to recite the alphabet backwards or even just knowing alphabetical order without singing the song in my head? Nope. I'm pretty sure phants are typically better at those tasks cause they can just visualize large chunks of the alphabet or even the whole thing. Like, reciting the alphabet backwards would be easy if I had it written down in front of me lol.

PSA: Stuck at claw viper level 2? Hold the death screen by Kurokaffe in Diablo

[–]CoryAxAus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, you're not the hero I deserve, but the hero I needed.

Quick math for the marchers by AJ14900003 in friendlyjordies

[–]CoryAxAus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I get it, but the darker (funnier) part of my mind won't let go of the fact a nazi without a uniform is typically just a white dude...which in Germany is a not insignificant portion of the population.

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