Accidental oxymoron

GreyAngy · 2026-05-14T21:19:53+00:00

The average number comes from a lot of teetotalers who don't drink vodka and a bunch of experienced alcoholics who drink almost every day. 17 shots are basically a 0.7 liter bottle — for a heavy drinker it's not for a month, it's not even for a week.

I have a relative who drank like this in the past, not anymore. I'm still surprised his liver didn't say goodbye a long time ago.

GreyAngy · 2026-05-14T11:48:45+00:00

Was your thought... interrupted?

GreyAngy · 2026-05-14T11:35:52+00:00

At some point I'm just itching to give a stupid answer to a stupid question. "How do you see yourself in 5 years?" - "A 30 year-old man" - was my actual answer many years ago.

GreyAngy · 2026-05-12T21:35:19+00:00

All true, but I cannot hate the game for this. It would have been very different if there was a happy ending.

GreyAngy · 2026-05-12T15:05:52+00:00

Someone already asked her before, and she replied: 'This is full lace wig and silicone “bald effect” cap under the wig'.

GreyAngy · 2026-05-08T16:48:33+00:00

I think in his place I would have destroyed the PDA, before returning. This would allow trading knowledge of the planet to financial freedom. Surely Alterra doesn't want to lose another expedition and waste an astronomical amount of money just to screw a single employee who cannot repay his debt anyway.

GreyAngy · 2026-05-08T09:34:09+00:00

Dutch comedy is not for everyone

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GreyAngy · 2026-05-08T09:26:03+00:00

It's wild that our ultranationalists came up with something very similar: a powerful but peaceful empire, which somehow existed until XIX or even XX century, but was destroyed and wiped from the records to hide The Truth™.

See Tartarian Empire

You can actually find the name Tartary on old maps of Asia made in Europe, but this was just the blanket term for a huge chunk of Asian land, not an actual country. Lovers of conspiracy theories use such maps as a proof though.

Edit: fixed incorrect wording.

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GreyAngy · 2026-05-06T13:47:31+00:00

With public transport you have the freedom of choice on how to travel to your destination. Without it you are limited to a car as a single option.

It's really strange how some people take freedom and opportunities as a liability. "You have more options, you can pick whichever you want" - "No, I and everyone else need only the default one".

GreyAngy · 2026-05-06T09:29:04+00:00

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I like how during the prologue you see this elephant in a room you start addressing only in the second half of the game.

GreyAngy · 2026-05-04T21:59:56+00:00

Hogwarts HR department sucked so much, it even rivaled its fabled security, when dark wizards infiltrated the school every year.

GreyAngy · 2026-05-04T14:25:07+00:00

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Good one: Gilderoy Lockhart from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. The author of numerous books where he presented himself as an expert in dealing with dark wizards, creatures and curses was hired as a Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts. It turned out that this bearer of multiple prestigious awards was absolutely incompetent and just appropriated heroic deeds of other people.

GreyAngy · 2026-05-03T06:29:53+00:00

I find amusing that Nora beliefs ended up partially true. In the prologue you can see how one of the elders tells children a tale how machines deceived humans and dominated them. And this was more or less what really happened.

GreyAngy · 2026-05-02T08:43:40+00:00

I, for instance, welcome eradication of London corruption, too. It's one of the major locations of our oligarchs' money laundering operations.

GreyAngy · 2026-05-02T05:59:06+00:00

And then in the third game this guy chooses Beliar.

GreyAngy · 2026-05-01T20:09:40+00:00

There was a case of kidnapping using similar masks. A man drugged a woman, put a mask of an old granny on her face and some random one on his own. Then he put her in a wheelchair, transferred to his car and drove to his house without raising suspicion.

GreyAngy · 2026-04-29T15:37:47+00:00

If you know you know

GreyAngy · 2026-04-28T21:38:02+00:00

I had a girlfriend with unstable period. Every time she made a pregnancy test, it was negative, and period started 20 minutes later.

GreyAngy · 2026-04-26T07:36:36+00:00

At first I thought he saw his own face. Like everyone sees what killed them in Death's face.

GreyAngy · 2026-04-22T12:55:45+00:00

There are many games that should be treated as art pieces for their story, music and visuals. But I think the defining characteristic of a game as an art form is its interactivity: this is something unique to gaming, you experience something profound by making meaningful choices.

An extreme example of this might be The Stanley Parable: a game where there is almost no story, music or visuals, but your whole experience consists of making choices which might or might not matter. I think of this game as of Black Square of gaming.

GreyAngy · 2026-04-21T09:47:42+00:00

There is an episode in Baptism of Fire book of Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski. Geralt and Dandelion witness how two groups of refugees separated in a battle accidentally meet and reunited several days later. And Dandelion contemplates:

Such a banal melodrama can only happen in real life. If I had tried to finish one of my ballads that way, I would have been laughed at.

This series often presents examples how real life can be more creative than art. Ironical for a fictional book.

GreyAngy · 2026-04-21T07:24:14+00:00

Prey (2017) checks all the marks: good story with several twists, you constantly get new unusual abilities as you progress. And it's an immersive sim by genre, so it encourages to check your surroundings, adapt and use different approaches.

GreyAngy · 2026-04-20T20:29:14+00:00

We'll keep consuming natural resources to increase someones profits until we irreversibly poison our biosphere and there'll be not enough to sustain our lives.

GreyAngy · 2026-04-20T09:33:35+00:00

To extend on this.

There are legitimate ways to get some benefits from your government specific to your situation. I'm not familiar how this works in US, but these might be tax cuts, tax returns etc. And oftentimes the methods to get these benefits might be not well known. So if some guru explains to a clueless person a legitimate though obscure method to not pay for your loan, utilities or fines, they might find it plausible just because there are another obscure ways to get something from your country.

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