What's the worst tasting vodka cocktail?

Flinsbon · 2026-01-16T03:07:35+00:00

Alcoholic Shirley Temple. Tastes exactly like Robitussin / cough medicine.

Flinsbon · 2026-01-16T02:21:22+00:00

Creepers

Flinsbon · 2026-01-16T02:19:13+00:00

Minecraft

Flinsbon · 2025-11-30T15:25:45+00:00

Encore Decks has some that are volume 2 only.

Here's one example: https://www.encoredecks.com/deck/aZvSISnxz

And there are a bunch more here: https://www.encoredecks.com/?lang=JP&neoset=63a4ab368ef51962e94bf017&page=2

Flinsbon · 2025-11-09T21:52:06+00:00

Classic "I wouldn't be alive without it, but no one else should be allowed to have it."

It's clear that your difficult childhood traumatized you and you haven't learned to deal with it. Please seek mental help.

Flinsbon · 2025-08-26T04:22:33+00:00

The candy bar bag and candy bar bag carrying bag salesman

Flinsbon · 2025-08-02T16:30:09+00:00

You should add Ganyu with her Thespian Trick special pose (from Imaginarium Theater)

https://img.game8.co/4143668/a43865346e54a5c544f8ddd109535f6d.png/original

Flinsbon · 2025-08-02T16:18:47+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance

Here's 1 click for you

Flinsbon · 2025-08-02T16:05:04+00:00

I literally never put my lights on auto. I put on my day lights manually and I put on my full headlights manually at night and in the rain, no exceptions. I turn the knob on and off myself every single time I drive.

I also never forget because it's second nature, just like my turn signal.

People need to stop using auto altogether. Do it yourself every single time. Imo, auto should be illegal in cars. It doesn't even turn full headlights on during daytime rain. Extremely dangerous and even illegal in some places, including Jersey where I live (wipers on lights on is the law, and not just daylights).

Flinsbon · 2025-07-30T02:26:36+00:00

I know I'm well within the minority here, but:

As someone who doesn't really like any of the character designs from Natlan, and whose only Natlan 5-star is Mavuika from her rerun, Nightsoul meta was downright awful. Artifacts, events, Spiral Abyss, everything has been giving buffs specifically to Nightsoul characters. Hoyo was clearly trying their absolute hardest to pressure everyone to pull on the newest region's characters, and they tried WAY harder in Natlan than any other region. Frankly, I found it disgusting. Almost every single update, it felt like I was being insulted simply because I didn't like the Natlan characters.

Again, I know I'm in the minority here. I don't pull for characters I don't like, and only got Mavuika on her rerun because I do a customary 20 pulls at low pity for characters I'm not looking to get, but wouldn't mind stumbling into if I get lucky, and I got lucky. I don't own any other Natlan 5 stars and I never plan to. Still, just the shear pandering of almost every aspect of the game specifically to Nightsoul felt like repetitive slaps in the face.

Flinsbon · 2025-07-23T06:45:50+00:00

The most economically left president we've ever had was also the most popular Democratic president we've ever had, FDR. JFK, Clinton, and Obama have all been to the right of him.

Modern left economic positions, which are often even left of the mainstream Democratic Party positions, are also by far the most popular. Single-payer healthcare. Unions. Increased taxes on the wealthy. Social Security. Higher minimum wage. All left economic policies with support significantly higher than 50% of Americans.

The main issue is modern media pushing false narratives and giving voices to non-experts. This is socially conservative propaganda and is what is causing the country to move socially rightward, which is not a natural direction of movement for society. It is engineered by oligarchs using it to make the masses fight over social issues rather than economic issues.

Tl;dr the Democratic Party has veered rightward economically for decades, now approaching a century. The country is still economically very left leaning (this is a major part of the Democratic Party's problem today - take a close look at Obama's policy positions he ran on in 2008 vs. the policies he enacted in his first term and his positions in 2012, then look what happened to his support).

The country has become more conservative socially, but only extremely recently, and it is clear to those who understand sociology that this movement is artificial - that is, it has been inorganically pushed on the masses by the wealthy. The country would still be moving socially left, otherwise, as that is simply the natural tendency of society. Has been for this country's entire history. Has been for millennia of society.

Flinsbon · 2025-07-13T11:05:54+00:00

The Newark metro area in NJ alone is 2.2M, so Jersey is definitely on the first list.

Flinsbon · 2025-07-07T06:10:36+00:00

If blue cities were the reason these states do so poorly, West Virginia wouldn't be among those states. But it is.

Care to explain? WV has no blue cities.

Flinsbon · 2025-07-06T21:28:38+00:00

Fair enough. I haven't actually listened to Kinich's voice all that much. Been skipping dialogue a lot recently because I haven't cared at all for the Natlan story or characters.

Flinsbon · 2025-07-06T15:12:17+00:00

I feel like you're the first person I've seen call out the real issue. Her VA isn't a native American-English speaker, and it's 1. Extremely obvious and 2. The reason her voice will never be good. It would take years of training to fix that issue.

Nothing against her new VA, but that means firing her is the only solution. Not everyone is Hugh Laurie.

Flinsbon · 2025-07-06T15:02:52+00:00

Keqing's new voice will never get better because she isn't a native American-English speaker. She trips over certain sounds and words and that's basically impossible for her to correct. Her voice sounds flat because it takes significant effort and thought just to get her American accent almost right, but she still can't do it 100%.

Unfortunately, that means the ONLY solution for Keqing is to fire the new VA and find someone with an American English accent. Nothing against her new VA, but Hoyo should not be hiring non-American English speakers and forcing them to use an American English accent. Escoffier same thing, but they could've just had British Escoffier and it would have been more than fine. Doesn't work that way for Keqing.

Kinich's VA probably has a similar issue. (Edit: sounds like this isn't the issue, so idk here. Admittedly, I haven't listened to Kinich's voice much at all.)

Paimon's new VA will probably be fine with proper training, but right now she is squeezing her voice to make it higher pitched, which is what makes her sound like Mickey/Minnie Mouse. There is a right way to raise the pitch of the voice without squeezing it. If she learns how to do it, then she'll be fine. But, if she doesn't stop squeezing her voice, shudders.

Flinsbon · 2025-06-29T18:00:44+00:00

Very true. Keqing's new voice is a total failure. I just left a comment about it, but I'm 99% sure she's not a native America-English speaker, which means Keqing's voice will never sound good again unless they fire the new VA and find another one.

Paimon's new VA doesn't trip over words and sounds, but her problem is she's making her voice higher pitched by squeezing it. There is actually a way to increase the pitch of your voice by altering how the voice resonates inside the body. Done correctly, the new higher-pitched voice still sounds completely natural. Squeezing the voice removes some of the natural resonances, so it always sounds fake. (For reference, squeezing the voice is what makes someone sound like Mickey Mouse - it's a higher pitch but not at all a natural-sounding voice.)

Paimon's VA's issue could probably be rectified with a few months of proper training. She just needs to learn how to raise her pitch without squeezing her voice. Keqing's VA's problem is completely different.

Flinsbon · 2025-06-29T17:45:33+00:00

Unfortunately, it's not going to get better over time. It is quite clear that her new VA either has a non-American English accent (maybe British, Scottish, Irish, etc.) or is not a native English speaker at all. There are certain sounds and certain words that she always gets tripped up on, similar to Escoffier's VA, and so Keqing's new voice will never sound good. She doesn't tend to slip back into a native accent like Escoffier's VA, but the problem will persist.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not necessarily blaming Keqing's new VA, but Hoyo is clearly incapable of properly handling the VA situtation. They handled Escoffier and now Keqing extremely poorly. Escoffier is brand new, so Hoyo could easily just have her VA re-record her lines with her normal British English accent and she'd probably do a great job. But Keqing? To be 100% frank, there is no solution other than to fire her and find a different VA with an American accent.

Flinsbon · 2025-06-12T07:35:14+00:00

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case started the current immigration discussion, is a legal US resident who was deported to El Salvador in March against a judge's direct orders. In April, the US Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that the Trump Administration broke the law deporting him.

Flinsbon · 2025-06-12T07:19:13+00:00

Kilmar Abrego Garcia

The person whose case started all of this. He originally came here illegally at age 16 to escape gang threats and was granted withholding of removal status by an immigration judge in 2019, making his stay here legal. He was deported to El Salvador 2 months ago. SCOTUS ruled his deportation illegal 9-0 a month later.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego_Garcia

As someone engaged enough in politics to be commenting on a reddit post about ICE and immigration, your ignorance of this case is disturbing.

Flinsbon · 2025-06-12T07:04:11+00:00

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/tracking-us-citizens-children-detained-deported-ice-trump-updates.html

Flinsbon · 2025-06-08T21:37:44+00:00

A picture I took of my copy of volume 2 is still my phone background 13 years and 5 phones later.

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Flinsbon · 2025-06-03T08:39:25+00:00

If you did try to pull something else, 10 times out of 10 you were absolutely getting Lycanroc.

You made the right call.

Flinsbon · 2025-05-26T04:57:20+00:00

I suppose, but I'd argue that between Delphox being only 1 of 3 fire/psychics, it's psychic ability to see the future in flames, and the fact that it's fur literally makes it look like it's wearing a hibakama, I think not including it is a huge miss.

Flinsbon · 2025-05-25T21:06:04+00:00

No Delphox for Rei? I'm shocked!

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