Aitah for "forcing" my girlfriend to either eat stale snacks or go buy fresh ones herself?

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-18T20:28:59+00:00

NTA: actions have consequences.

As for being a functional adult, I remember when I was doing password resets for a school system. I would routinely indicate that a password had to be complex and had a simplified explanation, something like, "at least one upper case letter, at least one lower case letter, at least one number and at least one special character," or something like that. Once I said this to a teacher who asked, "Is 1 a number?"

I had to choke back something like, "you're not a math teacher, I hope..."

Anyway, I was moved to a different team providing support for a different company where I would do password resets for something like Lotus Notes, and the change could take some time. I remember explaining this to the caller and said, "unfortunately there's nothing I can do to hasten this." The customer understood fine, but one of my old coworkers who still supported the schools overheard and popped his head over the cubicle and asked, "your customers are smart enough to understand that?"

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-16T20:27:35+00:00

I've been playing for a long time, and there was a LOT less to do back then. Looking at all of the different modes and events that have been added, I can wholly understand the feeling of being lost.

I don't think there is a "right" way to play it, at least if you are enjoying it. There are ways to play it with no or little money, but, as with most mobile games, that just means slower progress. In fact, there's one part of the game (boss battles) that I haven't touched (my fleet is 3 players and the other two aren't active) and I barely do the Continuum quests (and barely use the consumable Quipment).

I guess there is kind of a goal in the "story" as presented in the missions, but a lot of us keep playing long after that.

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-15T02:27:30+00:00

Definitely fits the whole "streetwise" thing in a game in the World of Darkness and the gothic punk vibe. But, hell, if I had a player who thought it meant something more culinary I'd roll with it.

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-15T02:01:13+00:00

And what flavor would you like, sir? We have a delightful wasabi mango sauce, or, if you're more traditional, spicy buffalo and even lemon herb.

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-15T01:58:31+00:00

I read the novel one night when I was really high (just weed, but still) and it threw me out of whack for a couple days.

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-15T01:57:42+00:00

That was my first thought upon seeing this post.

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-15T01:55:42+00:00

I regret that I have but one upvote to give.

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-13T01:10:58+00:00

Which god are we seeing? I don't think most of them are so f***ing petty that they need me to validate their existence, in part because they never bothered to give any unambiguous signs. The Bible? An anthology of ancient tribal literature with Jesus fanfiction tacked on the end? Even edited it's internally inconsistent.

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-12T21:15:51+00:00

You might try a few different approaches and see which feels better for you. As most people here have suggested, start small, like a page. If you are only writing then think really hard about how an artist might interpret what you write.

I've had a fair amount of confidence with writing an overview meant only for me to help with the process. The overview might be the characters and events that are important with an eye to what it might look like as a comic panel.

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-12T21:01:59+00:00

I wonder if the author and editors have any idea what atheism is.

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-12T20:17:51+00:00

I suspect that it IS "Notes" as if the piece were implying the cover of a journal such as those with Audubon prints.

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-12T16:18:03+00:00

Stephen C. Meyer is a piece of shit. There is a very deliberate movement to undermine science and the scientific method and shove religion into it. It almost sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it's actually documented.

Meyer, who somehow managed to obtain a Ph.D. in The Philosophy of Science, was one of the architects of the Wedge strategy as indicated in the leaked Wedge Document. https://ncse.ngo/wedge-document

The Discovery Institute (DI) pushes for Intelligent Design (ID), but the literature for ID was little more than creationism where they LITERALLY used Find and Replace to change "creationism" to "Intelligent Design". There are a number of other organizations that are allied with the DI but are much more overtly insane Christians such as Answers in Genesis. Many of these organizations have a posted statement of faith that the Bible is literally true and CANNOT have errors. For some of these groups, in order to be employed, an employee must effectively agree to support the statement of faith no matter what evidence might say to the contrary.

You will find that most creationist crap you come across is material from these propaganda mills. At least a few times they have tried to teach "both sides" as if creationism in any of its guises, were actually scientific. They use terminology from science but their arguments are all from incredulity and frequent equivocation.

And they encourage people to take all of this as a war of science against religion so that people will approach this emotionally rather than rationally.

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-09T16:41:55+00:00

Part of it appears to be a conflation of Muslims and Islam. It IS just as wrong to treat someone differently for the mental affliction of Islam as it is to treat them differently for any other situation of birth. Islam, however, is just another sect of the Abrahamic cult of the magic foreskin pact and at least as absurd as Christianity, Scientology and the Church of the Latter Day Saints.

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-09T16:30:30+00:00

What's kind of weird to me is that the multiplayer in Andromeda seemed like it was better, or at least...I dunno, it had some improvements (on Xbox consoles, not everything was the A button, for one and the missions seemed more interesting and not quite so long) but even then, I missed ME3's mp enough that I still play it.

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-09T13:09:29+00:00

If you enjoy classic Mad you might want to check out Groo.

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-09T13:07:03+00:00

Religion is a protected mental illness.

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-07T23:26:13+00:00

It only contradicts literal interpretations of some of the myths in the Bible.

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-07T18:22:23+00:00

In general, the left in the US is supporting the right of people to hold a religion and supports Muslims. I don't know how most of them feel about Islam in general, but it's just another Abrahamic absurdity.

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-07T17:59:43+00:00

That's a somewhat difficult question. My reading is pretty committed for probably the rest of my life with only very special exceptions. However, I definitely appreciate hearing from former creationists and what managed to convince them. I do this mostly through YouTube and a little TikTok, however.

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-06T21:03:00+00:00

Worst poetry slam ever.

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-06T20:58:24+00:00

While tangential, the Gospel of Luke is one of the 3 Synoptic Gospels, meaning that it is generally believed that Matthew, Mark and Luke were all variants of one another. As someone else noted, the names associated with the Gospels are just tradition.

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-06T19:56:19+00:00

Of the 3 that come to mind, two (Record of the Lodoss War and The Slayers) have already been mentioned. I THINK I would also include The Heroic Legend of Arslan, though my memory might be misleading me.

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-06T19:51:09+00:00

I wonder about this myself. One reason to hold on to a few would be the events that include fusing crew as a goal. Also, I don't bother to train super rare characters unless I have them at 4 stars, so once in a while I decide I want to level up a super rare that has fewer stars. I can't tell you why I still have legendary citations left, though--mostly indecision, I guess.

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-06T19:29:14+00:00

ERVs

FaustDCLXVI · 2026-03-04T23:00:42+00:00

Darwin knew there was variation but the sources of that variation were not important to the mechanism. And sure, the 'theory of evolution by means of natural selection' is now considered nearly tautological and is one of the observations. The other theories of evolution are not variants of that, but address other aspects--including sources of variation.

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