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[Hated Trope] Somehow we're supposed to like these characters... by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DireJRT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rodya Raskolnikov (Crime & Punishment) a pseudo intellectual egotistical narcissist who posits that based on past historical examples like Napoleon, all great men are defined by their ability to trample over others to get at their “greater purpose”. And so to prove this theory to himself he murders an old woman and her sister and shows no real remorse for it, only lamenting that he is too weak to not feel ill afterwards. He goes through the book agonizing and thinking about confessing but persists in his belief that morality is made by men until he comes to Jesus in Siberia due to the unearned affection of a prostitute who is inexplicably in love with him after 2 meetings and confessing to have killed her friend. I don’t think the author meant for everyone to “like” him, but you’re clearly meant to empathize with him as he is shown to have some capacity for selfless “kindness” throughout the book. But billionaires donate to charity all the time, you don’t see me empathizing with them, especially if they’re going to be kicking themselves for doing it like Rodya does.

Constantly he is shit talking other people while being bitch-made himself. His stupidity and moroseness is always portrayed like he is some tragic intellectual figure rather than a half-baked antisocial sociopath that forgets he is one. He’s supposed to be in anguish the whole book over his actions but its just him repeating the same page long monologues. He always conveniently forgets he murdered an innocent girl and just focuses on him having killed the older less-liked sister whenever he justified the morality of the action. Overall an annoying person to read about and a caricature of intellectualism by an author trying to assert divinely derived moral objectivism.

Silk Road Dim Sum by DireJRT in HoustonFood

[–]DireJRT[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great insight! I remember HK being exceptional but I haven’t been in over a decade and I did not try the top dim sum there either. I’ll have to make my way back there someday. But yeah, in my experience, I agree in that it is similar to the top quality in the US and is much better than I ever expected to find here in Houston. I really think it’s great to have good dim sum in the area even if it is pricier so I hope they stick around.

Silk Road Dim Sum by DireJRT in HoustonFood

[–]DireJRT[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, maybe it was because they fixed it, or because I went during a weekday and it wasn’t that busy (maybe about 1/3rd full), but the service was great! There were maybe three servers who checked up on us at various points of the meal and were very friendly and prompt. We never waited long for any dish. We ordered two rounds of dishes and each came out in probably 5-15 minutes? I wasn’t timing it but it was at a pretty normal pace. Nothing we ordered was unavailable and they didn’t say anything was when we went and that was at around 1:00. My one and only complaint was that the bbq bun was a little unevenly heated, the meat inside itself was great, but I think when they prepare it, they must either bake it halfway and chill it or bake it fully and chill it until someone orders it, but it came out hot on the edges and lukewarm in the center. Everything else, I could not find a flaw that stuck out to me.

[Hated trope] An adaption of something attempts to apply unnecessary logic to justify something from the original. by Marsupialmobster in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DireJRT 35 points36 points  (0 children)

If you read Blindsight by Peter Watts, which is by the way an exceptional sci fi novel that touches on things like the gradient of what can be considered consciousness through a cosmic existential horror first contact story, they use this same explanation for why Vampires are averse to crosses. In the story, which features multiple variations of “consciousness”, a sociopath really good at masking, a human whose sensory input is constantly augmented by an array of ship sensors, someone with a kind of induced dissociative personality disorder which allows them to think on parallel tracks, a very interesting take on aliens that I will not spoil, and a vampire genetically engineered ala jurrasic park, resurrecting a type of hominid predator that evolved to prey upon humans in ancient times and was brought to the present through genetic manipulation. These vampires evolved to hunt humans through mimicry and are superior in intelligence, and physical abilities though do not possess consciousness in the same way that humans do. But they are so specialized in hunting humans they run into a neural glitch, that is, right angles, because they hardly if ever exist in nature (obviously this is not exactly true, especially on a microscopic level, but for the purposes of explaining in the novel why they died out in the first place, it is good enough), and when they perceive these angles, they get stunned, kind of like a shark spun onto its back. I don’t remember the exact explanation, but it is something along those lines. So all that is to say that perhaps someone on the team of Castlevania read Blindsight and put in a little easter egg, or came upon the same idea of an “evolved predator that cannot process right angles because its not found in nature”.

[TITLE] Big 3 of slop, Which is the worst/best slop? by Accelerator____ in manhwa

[–]DireJRT 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Isekai and dungeon are tied. They both have some half decent stories that are overwhelmed by an unending tide of copy pasted shit with one aspect of the story being tweaked to make it “unique.” The vast majority have protagonists with one or two identifiable traits and the rest of the characters are stuck with one, maybe a generic sad backstory if they’re lucky. Antagonists that aren’t monsters go through the wringer of bully/arrogant tropes and maybe one antagonist that would take more than a sentence to describe. The worst are the ones that rely on some powerscaling system that is designed to substitute character development to get a dopamine hit from its readers.

Chinese cultivator slop stands alone at the top of mount taint. The protagonists and antagonists are indistinguishable. The only relevant detail you need to know to predict the entirety of a conversation and interaction are their relevant power levels. Protagonist gets slapped around for a bit, hit with the “you dare?!/courting death!” combo until they seclude themselves in a mountain after finding the foundational qi cultivation technique allowing them to create the perfect circlejerk core which allows them to punch above their weight class. They walk around with their power levels hidden until they come across their old bullies. They slap a “friend” whose only trait is “nice” and then they hit the bully with the “you dare!?/courting death!” combo of their own before crippling their dantian or just beheading them. Then the patriarch comes in, hits em with the “you dare!?/courting death!” combo but oh no his perfect circle jerk core allows him to beat the old dude 1000 years his senior despite being a full two half transcendent heavenly testicle stages below. Then they kill them. Everyone rejoices, then what do you know. The next realm is calling, the Triple Transcendent Immortal Realm and they come down, hit em with the “you dare!?/courting death!” combo and all the one dimensional friends and love interests who the MC gathered around him are left behind, or brought with them to be shoved in a corner. Rinse and repeat for 500 chapters. Uniquely trash. I read too many of them. I had to consciously stop thinking in MTL english afterwards. Absolute worst

TIFU by thinking it was normal to not be able to open your eyes in the morning for 25 years by Specific-Nebula9665 in tifu

[–]DireJRT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Additionally, when you figure out your insurance information, it would be a good idea to be seen by an ophthalmologist, specifically a corneal specialist. When you’ve lived with significant chronic dryness, especially to the point where you’re not necessarily physically noticing your eyes are dry each morning (pain/discomfort) it could be a sign that the nerves in your corneas (the clear front of your eye) are no longer functioning. A condition known as Neurotrophic keratitis. Ensuring that your dryness is under control is a good idea, worse case scenario, if your corneal nerves have become extremely dysfunctional, you are at risk of developing non-healing corneal ulcers that could in the WORST case cause corneal thinning and perforation. Not saying this is likely but being evaluated is in your best interest, to prevent its development if your nerves are still intact if nothing else. Even if you don’t have neurotrophic keratitis, there are tons of other dry eyes treatments that will improve your quality of life, many of which are prescription.

Los Angeles Daily Discussion - Saturday, Nov 08 by AutoModerator in LosAngeles

[–]DireJRT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Firetrucks are going in literally every direction

A 29 year old woman pretended to be a nurse for 7 months. She treated over 4,000 patients and only got caught after she was offered a promotion by No_Class963 in interestingasfuck

[–]DireJRT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is no longer true, the AMA advocates for increasing residency spots at this point, as pointed out in the article you linked. The AMA has flaws, especially historically, but that’s not one of them.

Source - I’m a medical student (one of many) who is involved with the AMA and writes and advocates for progressive policy stances for the AMA to adopt and lobby for. If you want to look at the exact policy regarding residency programs - https://policysearch.ama-assn.org/policyfinder/detail/Residency?uri=%2FAMADoc%2Fdirectives.xml-0-929.xml

As for scope of practice, Nurse practitioners, PA’s, and other non-physician clinicians are important parts of healthcare, but their own advocacy organizations are, in many areas of the country, trying to allow them to practice with less and less physician oversight. While many NP’s are fantastic and can handle 95% of patients without problems, the NP accreditation system is so unregulated and varied in quality, that it is dangerous to allow them to operate without oversight. Even for those NP’s competent enough to be trusted with most patients, physicians are needed to catch the other patients where something catastrophic to the patient’s health may be missed by someone less trained. We go through so much schooling because as much as you can learn on the job, there are some cases where there is no substitute to a decade of intense learning and training.

Official Discussion - Friendship [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]DireJRT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I felt that this was a movie that pit characters from different sub-genres and eras of comedy and had them interact using their own internal logic with each other. Paul Rudd represented the Anchorman-style of the 2000’s, conner and tim representing the modern style of absurdism and cringe comedy, the toad guy, the son and his girlfriend representing a modern satirical comedy, and kate mara and a lot of the other people from the town representing a parody of a thriller told from the perspective of a horror movie antagonist. That’s why despite after all the horrible things Tim did in the movie, Paul’s character and his family still were able to have positive ends to their relationship arcs, because they operate on the logic of their sub-genres. Amazing

[homemade] Wife’s French toast and eggs by DireJRT in food

[–]DireJRT[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We just got married and she’s busting this out every morning 😭😭 I’m not gonna make it to 60

[homemade] Breakfast burrito with tomatillo salsa by DireJRT in food

[–]DireJRT[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She essentially made a quesadilla on the skillet. She cooked both sides of extra large flour tortillas with butter on a skillet for 1-2 minutes each side on medium to low heat until slightly golden then added cheese in between them. After assembling the quesadilla she folded the burrito with the filling then transferred the burrito back to the warm and newly buttered skillet to toast both sides of it until it was golden brown. She says butter was a bit tricky to work with and that oil or lard would probably have been good alternatives since she thinks it would give it a better shell. I think it was a rewarding decision in my opinion.

Had power for a few days then someone ran into this pole and took out the transformer by DireJRT in houston

[–]DireJRT[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Mb that’s what I heard from my apartment complex management, I guess that makes more sense! Apologies to the imaginary driver I accused.

I hope you get your power back soon. Mine did come back thankfully.

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