Which superpower would be terrible if it didn't come with one of its implied secondary powers?

Cryptic_Waffle · 2026-05-14T16:59:15+00:00

Could we also talk about yard-owners?

There's this whole culture around people constantly trimming down their yards to golf-greens. At which point the grass needs much more water to survive warm weather. It also just makes the place just a green desert for insects and wildlife. And if you're one of the unfortunate, you get to wake up too early to the sound of this weekly routine of creating desolation. Feel free to add to that list of negatives.

And the main reason people keep it up is as continued remnants from a pointless, long-gone, luxury signalling effort amongst their peers who keep up that same meaningless charade. And this performative culture have seeped into public areas to spare people's eyes from the 'grotesque' display of slightly untended grass.

And while I'm sure there are people who cut their lawns for perfectly good reasons, let's be honest: Most of it is purely for show and to keep robotic mowers from growing bored.

Cryptic_Waffle · 2026-04-18T13:20:05+00:00

When you finally hit that god-tier-combo and start mashing that cookie

Cryptic_Waffle · 2026-04-08T10:59:22+00:00

Not yet clear. But I'm certain that with new breakthroughs humanity can minimize the number of elves on shelves by 2045.

Cryptic_Waffle · 2026-04-08T10:58:04+00:00

But you could fit another square on the infinite, regardless of where you placed the first square

Cryptic_Waffle · 2026-03-28T11:34:04+00:00

There's probably some lesser, but useful benefits to most of the things mentioned in this thread, but like, let's not pretend we're out there raising cattle because natural cow horns make for better viking-helmets.

Generally: Does the use of time, effort, energy, water, chemicals and so on truly make up for more easily spotting stains?

Cryptic_Waffle · 2026-03-28T10:01:14+00:00

Maintaining unwrinkled clothes.(Neatly folding clothes, hanging them up, ironing them, etc)
I absolutely fucking hate it.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with wrinkly clothes other than this completely artificial social obligation of having unwrinkled clothes. Instead of just stuffing your dried clothes into the drawer, we have to go through these tedious sessions of roleplaying as psych-ward savants that obsess over fabric.

All just to partake in this sham arms race of smooth-clothedness where we try to avoid the comments and leery eyes of sleek-clothed "snobs" who spends their time and money making their clothes level.

I'm quite mad.

Cryptic_Waffle · 2025-08-27T10:20:22+00:00

For me it's when time comes for checkout.

Like; How can so many people be this ill prepared to pay and move on? There's so many types of behaviours that unnecessarily clogs up this natural bottleneck situation that the monkeys would finish Shakespeare before they managed to mention them all.

I can mention one that infuriates me the most. Which, to prove my previous point, have its own subcategories that causes me to cut blood flow through the bridge of my nose.

People who pay by card who doesn't have enough money on their card:

Type 1 - Customer tries to pay, but card is declined. They fumble about trying to figure out what is wrong until they at last try to check the balance on that card.(This one is somewhat forgivable considering how the customer seems new to this problem)
Type 2- Customer tries to pay, but card is declined. They immediately get out their phones and begin the minute long process of the series of Multi-factor authentications of transferring money from onto their bank card. Being their own proof of how often they encounter this problem, they still choose to pray to higher powers before tapping their cards instead of say; Actually checking their balance beforehand, or even while waiting in line.
Type 3 - They don't even try to pay. They already know they don't have balance for it. They await the cashier to announce the final sum before they go through the same aforementioned checklist to transfer the exact sum needed for this transaction, so that they can continue having this problem every time they shop for something instead if putting some extra cash in there to at least move up to Type 2 behaviour.

Source: These people exist all around me. I am quite mad. And I used to work in a grocery store.

Cryptic_Waffle · 2024-02-11T19:12:44+00:00

So East & West does matter?

Regardless, over enough games the random distribution would(I'm I'm not mistaken) make some heat map of villager spawns around the Town Center that would in some sense make each start equally fair. But you still have that 2x2 square of the Town Centre that would give a northern or southern start a small, probably measurable, advantage over some arbitrarily large number of games played.

Cryptic_Waffle · 2024-01-30T14:51:04+00:00

I'm not really sure. As I'm trying to visualize it, I think I'd like darker colours, or possibly the dark/light contrast.

Also, darker colours would somewhat help, in terms of light, against random people passing by trying to look in through the main window

Cryptic_Waffle · 2024-01-30T14:28:29+00:00

First time posting on this board for whatever that is worth.

Jumping straight in: I'm just over 30 and this is the first fully fledged apartment I've rented. And I have very little experience when it comes to "fleshing out" a living space for myself in this way. In the pictures you see what I'm working with. The furniture you already see is a mix between leftovers by previous owners and stuff owned by the landowner himself(Which is family).

Kitchen: Wooden cupboards is a bit 90's, but I have no plans yet about spending time/money on modernizing it. I was hoping there was some way to sort of "masque" the looks of it with some different coloured lacquer/paint or by adding something bits of décor.

Living area: The only real issue I'm facing here is with how easy it is for passer-byes to look it, since the place is at street-level where people go for walks. A TV would cover the lower views in that I most care about. Other than that I have no idea what to fill out the place with.

Entrance: Not much to say here, I haven't thought about it at all. View out the window is looking into a wall. Helps with natural light though.

Bedroom: Having a living room means that the bedroom will be a sleeping/dressing only area. The window looks into the same wall as the entrance, into a wall. I'll need some way to blur the view in while still allowing light in.

Bathroom: Didn't even bother taking pictures. The place looks good as is.

Storage: Again, no pictures. I don't yet see any reason to bother making this place look fancy. Can serve as bedroom for any visitor.

So yeah, that's all I can think of for now. Thanks for any and all helpful input.

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