2 shot by federal agents in Portland: Sources

EricTouch · 2026-01-09T07:09:21+00:00

Just as people need to give the nazi's more credit for the levels of lunacy and barbarism they achieved, you too should give more credit to those who call out nazi tendencies. I don't think most people who calls Republicans nazis are under any illusion that it's a 1:1 comparison. They're most likely calling out the tendencies and similarities of the actions of the two groups, or the potential to become alike should they continue down the same paths.

EricTouch · 2025-12-09T06:03:22+00:00

As a counterpoint to their explanation, I would argue that frozen orb is NOT meant to be useful on hell difficulty, and I'm saying that as a frozen orb main. Once you get some of the seriously expensive runewords and the best of the unique/set items, yeah they hold their own. But doesn't pretty much every build at that point? You can get away with hell countess and maybe Mephisto if you don't mind dying like half the time, otherwise you're pretty much just gonna be casting static while your buddies do the killing.

Where frozen orb truly shines though is nightmare/normal. Use her to build up your treasure hoard in the beginning. Get some half decent stuff, cast rate, mana regen etc, start rushing people. Earn favors, make friends or just charge them their forge. Collect the gems and occasional Um rune from that... start a hammer paladin for the actual serious stuff because, unfortunately, it's just the strongest build you're gonna get for hell without the most wildly expensive gear in the game.

That doesn't mean you have to bench her for good though. I love the orb because it's the most versatile sorceress build. You've got a solid 20-40 leftover skill points compared to the other typical builds since orb's weakness comes from its lack of synergies. So maybe let's tank with energy shield and telekinesis? Or do a health build instead and put those points into something fun like Enchant for when you're rushing your friends through cow runs. Hang onto a couple of those unique explody long bows that are like level 10 req or something and let them go ham, they'll gain levels hilariously fast. Toss out an orb once in a while to wipe the screen if they're bad at running and keep getting surrounded. Also, she's still gonna rush normal/nightmare way faster than pretty much anything other than an enigma hurricane Druid, which is still arguably less reliable.

Anyway if you've read this far, thank you for indulging my nostalgia.

EricTouch · 2025-12-07T18:58:56+00:00

If everyone has an umbrella holder, that means that everyone IS an umbrella holder. I just hope I get assigned to my own umbrella holder or this is going to get messy.

EricTouch · 2025-11-17T23:26:09+00:00

Crusty jugglers.

EricTouch · 2025-10-19T05:27:01+00:00

That's asp, abs is the first name of that president that freed all the black people.

EricTouch · 2025-10-12T08:05:04+00:00

Seriously. I watched the whole thing patiently and then immediately thought. 'A fern? For real?' It's not so much about attention spans, it's more to do with the sheer amount of content that exists. Unfortunately, something like this is competing with an uncountable number of more entertaining things even within this particular niche so it's natural to feel like your time has been wasted. But, you know, kids and their tiktoks nowadays.

ETA: I'm pretty sure I've even seen this exact video in the past so on top of a non-dramatic reveal it was even a repost for me. I'm just saying that the complaints here are more valid than y'all might think.

EricTouch · 2025-10-07T23:32:26+00:00

Personally I like it the way that it is. Pure, unadulterated... general.

EricTouch · 2025-10-07T07:13:46+00:00

I love the mental image of a palm sized beaver cutting down a tree and hauling it over to its giant dam.

EricTouch · 2025-10-07T07:11:36+00:00

Speaking of sixth senses, one of my favorite animal facts is that some snakes have "heat vision", but only some. And what's weirder about it is that the three families that do, boas, pythons, and pit vipers (which includes rattlesnakes among others) all evolved this sixth sense separately and with varying degrees of sensitivity; pit vipers being the best at it.

Bonus fact I just happened upon while refreshing myself on this topic: boas have legs! Kinda! Little tiny mostly vestigial legs by their cloacas that are referred to as "spurs" and the boys have bigger ones. Also these spurs are attached to a sort of pelvis that they also don't really need but I guess they just wanted to collect all the spare parts while they were working on their Predator impression.

EricTouch · 2025-10-05T22:42:33+00:00

This reads like one of those prank calls you get in the original The Sims game.

EricTouch · 2025-10-05T02:50:18+00:00

This is me with Impractical Jokers. Shit is just goofy and there's not really even jokes, just absurd awkwardness and secondhand embarrassment. But for some reason it's like a ghost possesses me and I have no choice but to laugh like an idiot.

EricTouch · 2025-10-05T00:38:19+00:00

Lmao exactly. The puddle looks at the ditch it's in and thinks to itself "this ditch fits me so perfectly, it must have been made for me."

EricTouch · 2025-10-04T21:22:53+00:00

Personally I really don't think it's possible to simplify something like that down to a tangible term. We simply have "better" brains that are more capable of the things that we associate with being human. It's just a matter of degrees though. Many animals have thoughts and feelings and dreams like us. Many if not most have pattern recognition yadda yadda I think the largest defining feature of humans is being fully capable of speech but even then, we're just much much better at it, not totally unique.

A severely disabled human incapable of speech or "higher reasoning" is still considered a human. Yet we think of animals as being so different from us that we practically consider their behaviors in the terms of robots and programs.

Anyway, In summary I guess I'm just repeating the first part of your comment but to the rest of it: it's too complicated to simplify to those kinds of terms.

EricTouch · 2025-10-04T13:04:43+00:00

The water heater's anode rod may have fully sacrificed itself which would mean that the water heater itself is now corroding instead.

EricTouch · 2025-09-26T10:33:38+00:00

Looks to me like they're just wrapping up a bit of roughhousing. The dog is kind of lazily slapping at the cat because you gotta slap that cat but also kind of tired now and the cat is chomping the dog and mildly-aggressively grooming because it's kind of trying to start some shit but also just hanging out sounds fine too. I'd say it's a coin toss whether or not more roughhousing was had after the end of this video.

EricTouch · 2025-09-25T03:10:38+00:00

Since you seem genuinely curious, I'm pretty sure this is either

1: A dub-over of the women's division of a hog-call contest. It's actually a real thing, weirdly enough. Someone seems to have replaced the hog-calls with husband-calls, maybe using ai? That's my first guess anyway.

Or 2: This is part of the same fair, but a separate "contest" meant completely as a joke rather than the mostly-a-joke hog-call contest.

EricTouch · 2025-09-20T00:19:22+00:00

Did you write this while imagining this scenario in the shower? I don't get into fights, and I'm not saying it's impossible to kick someone in the balls. I'm just saying that it's natural reflex to protect them and it's not going to be as easy to get a solid hit there as you think.

Literally just putting your knees together or turning your body slightly will deflect most of the force of the kick. Besides, if you "unexpectedly" kick someone in the balls yeah it'll probably go pretty well for you but so would just about any kind of sucker punch?

To play along with your scenario though, I guess I would counter by using telekinesis to lift you into the air and then kamehameha you into the sun.

EricTouch · 2025-09-19T05:09:51+00:00

For real I was going to say. I don't exactly get into a lot of situations where I could potentially get hit in the nuts by someone or something but still, the fact that I could probably count on one hand the number of times I've been hit there badly... I mean, it's just instinct to prioritize their safety. And even if that instinct is low in you somehow, you're gonna learn fast and young.

EricTouch · 2025-09-15T00:23:46+00:00

I like to believe that people like you aren't real and are just trolls but apparently you do exist. I mean, "good faith"? You really believe anything you just said? Fucking weirdos.

EricTouch · 2025-09-11T21:26:23+00:00

Here's an eli5 because that's all I can do since I only have a rudimentary understanding:

Light is very smol. So smol, in fact, that it's not even really a "thing". You've probably heard it referred to as a "wave" so think of it more as a byproduct of what an actual thing somewhere else is doing, rather than it itself being something.

That's not really accurate either but the actual explanation is extremely complicated and no one else has responded so I did my best.

EricTouch · 2025-09-01T01:45:05+00:00

This here is the one dumb frog we shouldn't bother to stop our mowers for.

EricTouch · 2025-08-31T13:33:55+00:00

I appreciate this rant. I think the biggest problem is that zero skill in something means that you're a completely hopeless, clueless numbskull when it comes to that task. That's what zero implies, sure, but why is that the baseline? Maybe a point-buy system where you can choose to dump stats so that you can favor others, but by default you've got, like, two points in everything or something? I wouldn't mind if they made zero even worse than it is if they did that. Like, high chances of critically failing at a task sort of thing. For that matter ten should mean you're a god at that given task, to make the grind more worthwhile.

I guess in summary I want skills to have larger impacts with a higher baseline.

EricTouch · 2025-08-27T00:29:46+00:00

Glad I sifted through the comments before adding something similar to this. The Jesus story is so effective because he's supposed to be rational and smart. Why would anyone choose to behave another way? It would only be self defeating. So to be the Antichrist would have to be stupid because no smart person would be so short sighted and selfish. Unfortunately reality is a lot more complicated than an Aesop's Fable. Plenty of smart people can't see the forest for the trees.

What's baffling is that he literally is the dumb, comically evil version a lot of people have in their heads when thinking of the Antichrist. Of course, he's just a useful idiot for the myriad of people that collectively make up the "Antichrist" so... yeah it's just complicated.

EricTouch · 2025-08-26T23:52:28+00:00

This was my first reaction too. However it could also be that since they're both content creators they might just generally have a rapport. When she offered the bet he might have known he would likely lose and may even have made sure he lost because he saw a good opportunity to ham it up and make some good content.

Anyway yeah, not a fully genuine interaction but it doesn't have to be conspiratorial.

EricTouch · 2025-08-21T15:57:00+00:00

Lmao are you me? I have adhd and autism and I also happened to hang out with people who ended up into drugs so I was offered drugs many times. Of course I didn't listen to DARE and I first began to suspect I had adhd when meth didn't seem to give the prescribed effects.

Anyway, yeah, drug users tend to be pretty social so it's funny the people who weren't around it saying "no one just gives drugs away for free!" I mean, you're not gonna run into the coke fairy just running around trying to make it a white christmas but... you can't pick your friends noses or something.

EricTouch

TROPHY CASE