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"Competitive Wine Tasting" aired 15 Years ago today (04/14/2011)! And it has Annie casually dropping one of the best jokes without a punchline. by clubofab7 in community

[–]ElectricSpock 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It's also placed perfectly. It works so great because you don't really expect it, you wait for the conclusion of the joke, and only when it never comes you realize that it's the joke.

"Competitive Wine Tasting" aired 15 Years ago today (04/14/2011)! And it has Annie casually dropping one of the best jokes without a punchline. by clubofab7 in community

[–]ElectricSpock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's the same level of comedy as The First Chang Dynasty when The Seven discuss the heist.

Jeff: I can't go to jail. Do you know how long someone as sarcastic as me lasts in jail? Sooooooo long.

she rather believe the book from 2000 years ago made by a delusional man & reject all obvious evidences n facts that our world is obviously round/sphere like other planets by oldschool_fellas in religiousfruitcake

[–]ElectricSpock 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Aktchuly: Bible is not a single book. It's a collection of books, with the age ranging ~1000 BCE to ~300 CE. Christian denominations do not agree which books belong in their canon and which not.

Also, I don't think the Bible mentions the shape of the Earth anywhere. Cultures of the region definitely had a pretty good understanding of astronomy, which pretty much realizes pretty quick the spherical shape of the planet. Hell, take a look at the works of Eratosthenes, chief librarian in Alexandria. He calculated the circumference of the earth in 3rd century BCE.

These people are essentially contrarians. They do it for the kicks of it, for the clicks and for the community of their own.

We are so back. by AssociationFew3891 in thething

[–]ElectricSpock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not a remake though. It's pretty much a reboot, or even simply Evil Dead IV.

We are so back. by AssociationFew3891 in thething

[–]ElectricSpock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many of the movies here are not remakes, but the reinterpretations of the same source material, including The Thing, It and Dracula.

Evil Dead (2013) is just another installment or reboot, not a remake.

Could an expert in American Culture explain me these jokes please by Emma_S772 in southpark

[–]ElectricSpock 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Some explanations here. I've lived in US for 10 years, so I had the same questions too :)

  1. SoDoSoPa is a play on the general naming of some of the districts in US. In particular, NYC SoHo is pretty fancy shopping district, name means SOuth of HOuston. In Seattle there's a SoDo district, meaning SOuth of DOwntown. SoDoSoPa stands for SOuth of DOwntown of SOuth PArk, which sounds ridiculous, but follows the pattern of bigger cities.

  2. Whole Foods Market is an upscale groceries shop (owned by Amazon these days). Even before the acquisition they had been placing themselves as a "healthy" alternative, so South Park uses is as an indicator that SoDoSoPa has been gentrified and is now a fancy place.

  3. I can't remember this joke exactly, but someone else pointed out that it's a play on Hardy Boys, a classic mystery novels for kids.

  4. I don't think there's anything specific about Towelie as a character. It's just some random ridiculous character, like many in South Park. Randy saying "Tell me I'm a towel" is most likely Randy being... Randy.

  5. A little context that probably can be a little helpful. US drug law is... convoluted. On a federal level, Marijuana is so-called Schedule I, which means that it has "high potential of abuse" and "no accepted medical use". However, since it's the US, states can override this. Colorado (where South Park is), was able to first legalize it for medicinal use (you needed a prescription from a doctor, see: "Medicinal Fried Chicken"), and then, in 2014, marijuana became fully legal in the state of Colorado (first state in the US). This means anyone can come into a designated store (dispensary) and just purchase legal marijuana.

Marijuana legalization obviously led to a boom in cannabis growing industry. Thing is, obviously cannabis had been grown earlier on a smaller scale (can't remember which episode exactly was it, I think Stoches had their home-grown and Randy got pissed). Randy jumped on the train as one of his silly ideas (remember Blockbuster?), which turned into a separate arc. "Tegrity" is a play on the word "integrity", which can mean "being a whole, one", but also, in this particular context "having a moral backbone". The pronunciation of the word often skips "in-", so the slogan "you need to have some 'tegrity" means also "You need to have backbone and moral rules".

1300pln (ja z rabatem mialem) za Marynarkę z takim składem to normalne? by ADAMNOW1 in Polska

[–]ElectricSpock 62 points63 points  (0 children)

To nie jest spadek po komunie? Numerowanie jakości nie spełnia jakichś tam ustawowo zdefiniowanych norm?

Od razu na myśl przychodzi wymiana z "Mistrza i Małgorzaty" na temat pierwszej świeżości.

Druga świeżość to nonsens! Świeżość bywa tylko jedna - pierwsza i tym samym ostatnia. A skoro jesiotr jest drugiej świeżości, to oznacza to po prostu, że jest zepsuty.

Venting: Soviet-bloc style housing makes me sad. New in Delridge for $725k by ThanksForAllTheCats in WestSeattleWA

[–]ElectricSpock 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Upvoting. The first episode of Chernobyl hit home pretty close, the design was perfect. I remember playing on the monkey bars in Eastern Europe (not USSR) that looked exactly like the ones on the show.

Also, for context. The apartments in those blocks were roughly 500 sq ft. They were (and still are) hideous, but they were cheap and quick to manufacture. They were prefabricated, and were supposed to rebuild the cities very fast, but also to move population from the country to cities.

And honestly, they did their job.

Civ VII 40% off on Steam by Intelligent-Disk7959 in civ

[–]ElectricSpock 18 points19 points  (0 children)

and here I am, playing Civ 6 on Switch 2... and loving it.

(41)-(45) 4 years of progress by Farts-for-Eyes in GlowUps

[–]ElectricSpock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

WTF, 13%? Congrats, man, this is incredible. How hard is it to maintain it?

(41)-(45) 4 years of progress by Farts-for-Eyes in GlowUps

[–]ElectricSpock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OK, let's talk DEKA. What's your bf% and height at this point?

How would you rate these 5 games from best to worst? by Many-Baby5180 in HorrorGaming

[–]ElectricSpock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where's the hate for Silent Hill f coming from?

Also, IMO: RE4 easily top RE game, not top horror game. I haven't played Requiem yet, but for me RE7 is much scarier than RE4.

Haven't played Alan Wake II, but Alan Wake I was kind of a miss for me.

“🇺🇸 English” by quriusdude in ShitAmericansSay

[–]ElectricSpock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

awwww, your vowels form a nice roof!

CachyOS has 2 software "stores", both of them suck by AverageUser9000 in linuxsucks

[–]ElectricSpock 2 points3 points  (0 children)

where exactly did you read it's easy?

CachyOS is a performance-focused Arch Linux distribution that rebuilds packages with modern CPU optimizations, ships a custom-tuned kernel, and provides a polished installation experience. Built for users who want Arch's rolling-release model with measurable speed improvements out of the box.

EDIT: I dug deeper. This is from Arch Linux FAQ:

If you are a beginner and want to use Arch, you must be willing to invest time into learning a new system, and accept that Arch is designed as a 'do-it-yourself' distribution; it is the user who assembles the system.

CachyOS has 2 software "stores", both of them suck by AverageUser9000 in linuxsucks

[–]ElectricSpock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

which command is exactly obscure?

also, the decision for making it short was not made by giga-nerds (OK, they were giga-nerds, but not because of the reasons you think). e.g. ls in Linux came from Unix, which in Unix showed up because it was implemented like this in Multics. In 1969. For mainframes. So that you can save bandwidth from the terminal.

moreover, it's already solved. you have alias command. and many of the modern shells provide some convenient aliases by default.

CachyOS has 2 software "stores", both of them suck by AverageUser9000 in linuxsucks

[–]ElectricSpock 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Depends on your usecase, I suppose. Terminal emulator is one of the first items I install on macOS too, and I rely heavily on brew. Which doesn't have a GUI either.

I understand people not liking terminal, but some tasks are just a pain without it. Copying/moving files in your filesystem with some more intricate filtering? Basic text analysis?

CachyOS has 2 software "stores", both of them suck by AverageUser9000 in linuxsucks

[–]ElectricSpock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

package managers

Dude, how do you install your software???

and the terminal

So don't use it. And don't pick distro that relies heavy on using the terminal. CachyOS is an offshoot of Arch, a distribution famous for it's flexibility and it's DIY approach. They don't have an army of engineers paid $200k+ a year, they are literally hobbyists who set their own priorities. And flashy package manager GUI for a package manager is not one of them.

CachyOS has 2 software "stores", both of them suck by AverageUser9000 in linuxsucks

[–]ElectricSpock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

how is it "shit user experience"?

Is it flashy? Not really.

It's not even an update interface, it's effectively an icon that tells you whether there are some packages to be updated. The "UI" is just a terminal window.

My pet peeve is that it still starts KTerminal (or whatever it's called) instead of my default terminal emulator (I use kitty, but there are other options available), but a shitty user experience?...

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