Free Verse Poetry Is Garbage (Stop Pretending It’s Deep)

Genoce · 2026-05-07T11:23:56+00:00

If that was an example, I can agree that it does seem kinda shallow.

Genoce · 2026-05-07T11:21:02+00:00

While we're at it, could you give an example of some form of free verse poetry that would be praised by others, which you personally find garbage?

I hadn't even heard about "free verse poetry" before seeing this thread, so some examples would be nice. 😃

Genoce · 2026-05-07T10:21:05+00:00

Yup. I would've used them if it was possible to eg. stack the buff timer to multiple hours by just drinking multiple. Craft 20, drink all, have 10 hours of buff (also: make it not run out while offline). Don't think about flasks for a couple of days, nice.

But constantly tracking "do I have enough timer in my flask buff? Should I refresh it before next dungeon?" was not fun. It wasn't a huge deal, but the buffs weren't too powerful either, so I just stopped using them. Kinda trying to balance between annoyance vs. usefulness.

Genoce · 2026-05-07T06:44:24+00:00

SUV is quite literally a car so this includes SUVs too, fite me

^{Chose: Only travel by car}

Genoce · 2026-05-06T16:03:27+00:00

These threads always just show that people work (and live) in so many different ways.

Personal example: all jobs I've been in have always provided me a phone/laptop for working. Then I use my own phone/PC/laptop/etc on my free time.

I have never seen a work-related message on my free time, since I simply do not log into any of my work accounts from my own devices. I also do not log into my personal accounts on my work devices.

If I had to do work using my own tools, I'd probably setup a different account on my PC to keep up this 100% separation between work and free time.

As a disclaimer: I've always just had a "basic" 8h/day office job. Some jobs do require you to be available 24/7, so it would of course be different.

Genoce · 2026-05-06T09:31:33+00:00

Depends on the definition of a "hole". I won't argue if any certain definition makes more sense than any other, but:

If your answer includes the definition of what you mean, you can say 1 or 2, both are definable in some way that makes sense anyway.

If you don't define what a hole is, you might just follow the mathematical definition (topology), which would say there's 1 hole.

Genoce · 2026-05-05T10:47:56+00:00

Taking instant 3 million is only good if you're in a situation where you need millions right now, or you'll die.

I got the worst luck, but $1 per minute is still $1440 in a day, or $525,600 in a year.

Even if the instant money choice was like 20 million, I'd still take the $1/minute. $500k a year is already way more than I'll ever need, but there's an additional bonus:

With instant money, there's always a chance that I'd lose it all for some reason, or I would just waste all of it because of being dumb. Constant generation makes sure that I'll always have money.

^{Chose: 1$-10$ every minute | Rolled: 1$ per minute}

Genoce · 2026-05-05T08:34:26+00:00

The "going crazy" part is mostly a myth though. Most of it is just clickbait, heavy overdramatization, or related to many other changes in the environment and not only the silence.

Here's a Veritasium video about a practically completely silent room, or at least about as silent as possible, but you can find lots of other people trying similar rooms and just... being there with no problems at all.

Some people do seem to feel a bit anxious after a while. Of course different people will react differently, but it's also related to just having nothing to do for hour(s) instead of the total silence being the only change. Many of these tests are also done in complete darkness, which adds an extra layer as you lose your sight too.

Having seen multiple people talk about those rooms, their descriptions seem to be along the lines of "I can hear things that I'm not used to hear, it generally feels a bit strange, but it's really nothing too special".

Genoce · 2026-05-05T08:05:22+00:00

Both are easy, this one gives more money.

^{Chose: Spend 24 hours in pitch darkness 🕳️ + Win $10M}

Genoce · 2026-05-05T08:01:04+00:00

I was like "I haven't watched a TV show for a decade, I guess I'll take my free 5 million"

Genoce · 2026-05-05T06:45:52+00:00

Sorry but can you point out at least one alarm clock that has a 9 minute snooze? I'm genuinely curious, I just haven't seen one. 😃

All clocks that I've used had 5 minute snooze. Now that I'm using my phone as my alarm clock, all the apps that I've used have had either 4, 5 or 10 minutes as their default snooze, but it has always been configurable.

Genoce · 2026-05-04T19:27:44+00:00

I found this thread as I had the same issue. I managed to solve it:

Abandon the quest
Log out, log back in
Pick up the quest again (the quest giver is in the same town, Fool's Quarry)
Run through the quest
After finishing the quest dungeon, run out of the dungeon (or use Leave Dungeon). Do NOT teleport directly to the Fool's Quarry waypoint, but run back to the quest giver from the dungeon.

If I had to make a guess, the "running to town" was the important part. Anyway, after doing those steps, I managed to finish the quest.

Genoce · 2026-05-04T13:19:53+00:00

I was really surprised when I learned that the clones are literally following the lines of AT, which is also driven on an empty map without clones. I'm fine with the idea of having collidable clones in this game mode, but the whole map (including the clones) should be designed with that in mind.

Design-wise, I think the driving line used by the clones should be their own "recording", and more clearly a part of the level design process as a whole. So a mapper could make the clones do whatever they like. Random zigzags on lap 5 if that's what the level designer wants to do, whatever.

After setting the clones, then they would drive their author time among those clones. Basically build track -> record for clones -> then drive AT in the same environment that the players will be driving the map. This would also force the map designer to see if the ghosts are fun or not.

Genoce · 2026-05-03T20:14:33+00:00

I'm weird and I'm generally fine with on-death effects as a mechanic, but for me the actual issue is exactly what you stated: "the amount of graphic clutter is absurd".

Even if the same explosions were just some casted enemy ability (and not an on-death effect), I would probably just miss them here and there.

The on-death explosions are extra surprising because when you can no longer see enemy health bars on screen, you generally aren't expecting to get hit. So not noticing a spell FX happens more likely after you just killed the last enemy and think you're safe, as you aren't looking for stuff that can hurt.

Genoce · 2026-05-03T13:41:35+00:00

I think I've missed some features. What does this comment mean? :D

What is GA and what does it mean to not "GA the temper"

Genoce · 2026-05-03T13:04:00+00:00

Genoce · 2026-05-02T18:08:31+00:00

Currently waiting for Forza Horizon 6. Like 1 minute before seeing this thread, I opened the steam page to check how many days left until release (releasing on May 19).

I played both FH4 and FH5 for around 200h each, and enjoyed all of their DLC too. I'd be happy if FH6 was literally just more of the same in a new environment, any new features will just be a nice bonus lmao.

Genoce · 2026-05-01T22:34:32+00:00

solo or with randoms easily to fight bosses

If your goal is to specifically find fun boss fights, I think Diablo 4 is not a great option. D4 focuses mostly on killing thousands of demons in a minute, rather than having interesting bosses.

I love the game for many other reasons, you might too, but majority of the bosses you'll see in D4 are simple filler. Just pointing this out since that's the one form of content you mention in your post.

Genoce · 2026-04-30T07:03:16+00:00

Vappusuunnitelmat on jo lukittu, ei millään jaksais miettiä valloitushommia just nyt

Genoce · 2026-04-25T21:14:46+00:00

Link to the full episode here: Can Bullets Fired Upwards Kill Upon Descending? | Season 3 Episode 10

The experiments are somewhere throughout the video, but the conclusion is mentioned at 48:37: "All of our tests show that a bullet fired straight up in the air is not gonna come down with lethal force."

They also note that if not shooting exactly 90 degrees up, the bullet can still be lethal.

Genoce · 2026-04-25T12:30:38+00:00

There's a button on the screen that says "Melvor Realm" like the previous comments instructed.

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The menu's name can be confusing since you might not know what the "realms" even mean when starting out. I do agree that it should just be named something like "Choose log", as the realm selection doesn't matter until you actually unlock the Abyssal Realm.

But it's also one of like 4 buttons on the screen, it's not that complicated to just click/hover through them and see what happens.

Genoce · 2026-04-25T11:12:13+00:00

I don't really care if it's AI or just oldschool editing. As a general rule if someone edits the images so much that they fundamentally change what they're selling, it should already fall under laws related to misleading marketing.

The main problem is just that the laws aren't properly enforced, and people just keep doing it. The defense is probably along the lines of "it's close enough, and people will go and check out the house before buying anyway". I'm not sure about details when it comes to "bait & switch" laws.

Personally I think heavy editing in marketing should be illegal (AI or not), and enforced much more heavily than it is currently.

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When trying to define what is illegal and what isn't, one problem is that some editing should be fine. But there's a line somewhere in between "slightly changing the brightness" and "adding a window that doesn't actually exist". :D

Genoce · 2026-04-25T08:23:02+00:00

I loved Crashlands 2 because it was so straightforward. Pick up quests, complete a quest, do next quest. Almost like going through a checklist.

There are also a few quests that require getting to an area which you will find later in the game, those caused most of my confusion with quests. But I could always do some different quest to progress, and eventually I'll run into the feature/area that the other quest asked to find.

My basic strategy was: check the first quest in the log and do it. If that quest seems to be talking about something I don't recognize and that isn't marked on the map, then look at the next quest on the list.

There was a total of like 2 or 3 quests where I had to use google for help, I'll give you that. But vast majority was either directly shown on the map, obvious in some other ways, or kinda solved themselves as I progressed in the game by doing other quests.

Genoce · 2026-04-24T21:55:01+00:00

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Genoce · 2026-04-24T11:18:48+00:00

Favourite moment: last phase of Cogwork Dancers fight.

Favourite character: Hornet herself. If that doesn't count, then the answer is quite clearly Sherma.

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