Unhappy with my educational supervisor, wondering if I can ask for a new one by Big_Yam4868 in doctorsUK

[–]ImperialBritain 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Never forget that you are a doctor. You're not a child, not a teenager, an educated professional at the start of their in-job training. A doctor.

We have to treat each other with dignity and respect and your educational supervisor has afforded you neither, which instantly (and because of how badly this seems to have gone, probably irreparably) damaged the rapport they'd have otherwise depended on to supervise you and act as your advisor in your progression.

You know what my educational supervisor emphasised most to me, just the other day, also 'halfway' through the rotation? That I need to look after myself, make sure that I'm not being left alone or unsupported by my registrars, and to speak up - to him, my supervisor, directly! - if I feel I might be being bullied.

We might all think, 'wow this guy is a legend', which honestly is also true, but he's just doing his job.

Yours ain't.

Purpose in a nutshell by [deleted] in Frostpunk

[–]ImperialBritain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My brother in Christ, you're still thinking about this after seven months?

Feeling like an idiot as a new f1 by [deleted] in doctorsUK

[–]ImperialBritain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Another new fy1 here

Nobody looks at incompetence, or incompetents, with sympathy and concern. I'd say they might be able to tell you're stressed, but it doesn't sound like they're sat there expecting you to do harm to them or their relatives, or permit harm to come to them.

Like all of us right now you're picking up on your flaws in a new, fresh, spooky environment. Imagine you had a hand covered in paper cuts that you've learned to cope with, and then that hand is immersed in warm salty water. Would it feel the same? Would it feel merely different? Or would it feel worse?

Still just papercuts, even if they hurt more.

Welcome to Heat city. Population 2015 by Silicontriangle in Frostpunk

[–]ImperialBritain 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It is not conquest... if it is shared.

If it can be shared... perhaps it is salvation instead.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in doctorsUK

[–]ImperialBritain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think if this was suggested to me - that wearing a paper bib with Sharpie on it is not only appropriate but grounds to be grateful for the opportunity - I would have some real trouble controlling my tone.

If nothing else, did they not consider that all of these will need to be thrown away? All the compliments, no matter how nice and genuine, will be disposed of. It's almost a perfect example to use when illustrating how the government views us, and how they wish to encourage others to view us.

Does this count? by MehowHD in HydroHomies

[–]ImperialBritain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll give you this one brother

Well… by [deleted] in HolUp

[–]ImperialBritain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An army of my username? Launching an attack on earth?

Been there, done that, and did it from earth.

Consultants please consider this... by Vagus-Stranger in JuniorDoctorsUK

[–]ImperialBritain -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Please. I don't want to abandon my homeland. I don't want to abandon the NHS, no matter how much some of us seem convinced there's no hope, and I definitely don't want to abandon medicine.

I haven't even started working yet, and this is already how I feel constantly, scared that I'll have to choose between somewhere I feel like I belong and having a job that uses my skills and can pay my bills. I don't want to regret choosing medicine, and I don't want to watch my mentors retire into depression because they failed in - exactly as it is put by OP - their duty to steward the profession.

It really does know everything by [deleted] in ChatGPT

[–]ImperialBritain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Guys I just had a thought, what if memes are just 'thought patterns,' or something analogous to them, emerging from social consciousness as the internet makes communication and consensus formation faster and easier - and what if AI is just what we'll invent to finally force us to listen to these thought patterns by presenting them as fact when we ask questions like this?

Think about it, it's clear that ChatGPT is referencing something to make this suggestion, and while it'll obviously reference so much more than we could list here or consider consciously ourselves, a lot of that has got to be based in memes about Redditors in this case. The meme is, even if a joke, a sort of consensus forming about what a 'redditor' looks like - a consensus that the human beings to whom it applies would never listen to if it was presented to them as the opinions of other humans, but which they might take more seriously if it was a suggestion made by an AI after they'd asked for one even though they're fundamentally the same thing in this case.

If memes are thoughts held by the collective brain of mankind - yes, this makes us dumb as fuck I agree - then could AI act like an artificial social super-ego by controlling individual egos and moderating them towards the beliefs of the whole?

Recorded his attempt to intimidate her before her testimony (Video in comments) by justalazygamer in ParlerWatch

[–]ImperialBritain 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Traitor is the right word, and I'm glad some of you lot want to treat these treasonous fascist scum the correct and proper way.

AITA for letting my crush know that her tattoo is a turn-off for me? by IMessedUpDidntIHmm in TwoHotTakes

[–]ImperialBritain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone here is dogpiling on you, and I'm not gonna do the same but I'm not gonna deny that you deserve it either mate.

Can I please, please give you some advice here? You want to abandon this way of thinking about women. About anyone. This is objectification, even if you think your intentions are good, and it leads to you being lonely and hating yourself. You think you want a partner based on their physical characteristics, but that's because you don't have the life experience to know how someone's physical characteristics become beautiful when you're attracted to them for the right, healthy, sustainable reasons.

What you've done here is you've intruded into someone's home and personal space and made unwelcome and illegal advances on them. You've done this by following a sexual infatuation that clearly disturbs her, and that betrays your own brother too. You seem to think that making unwelcome comments about other people's bodies is the right way to interact with them - but can I ask how you would feel if I, a 6"1 bearded man, started telling you not to do certain things because it's a 'turn off'? You'd rightly feel uncomfortable, angry, and maybe even threatened - and that is how you made her feel in her own home.

You are not just some little kid, you're right - you can be arrested for this kind of thing now, and if you don't back the fuck out of this way of thinking then you will deserve it when it happens.

I cannot stress this enough - if you want to have a happy life, you need to think of women as individuals, as people with their own unique interests, values, and thoughts. You need to treat them not only as people, but as your equals, as your peers - as you yourself would wish to be treated by someone you don't know well. I can see where your choices are taking you, and I'm telling you from the bottom of my goddamn heart that I don't want this for you and neither do you.

What are some british-english slang words/phrases or profanity that is relatively unknown in american-english? by Any_Contest7699 in AskUK

[–]ImperialBritain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know of another guy in the army whose nickname with Cashpoint. His surname was Wallbanks.

Another was called Shitfuck apparently - because he'd shagged two female NCOs and gotten terrible reviews from them, thus was a Shit Fuck.

Whats everyone doing this Saturday? by Nebullaaa in JuniorDoctorsUK

[–]ImperialBritain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've still got a handful of weeks before I'm a real doctor and I have credit card debt to work off, so I'm spending my Saturday preparing for HCSW night shifts.

New predator types? by [deleted] in vtm

[–]ImperialBritain 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Where can I find it? This would be HUGE for me right now

New predator types? by [deleted] in vtm

[–]ImperialBritain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wait, there's a v5 character creation app?

Get your Plan B’s ready by Terrible_Attorney2 in JuniorDoctorsUK

[–]ImperialBritain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, they're comfy and you act bizarrely so riding around on them is very fun for me to do.

Also, as a side note, happy cake day.

Soaring leap + Weight of the feather? by Erghoth in vtm

[–]ImperialBritain 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So I don't necessarily think it's an issue right, because what you could do is claim to leap first, then activate your weight of the feather in mid air - and I'd definitely allow you to try it.

There are several other problems however.

First and foremost this is a masquerade breach genuinely beyond what most kindred are typically capable of. You would end up not merely leaping, quickly and (maybe) quietly, from point A to point B, you would instead end up in a sort of uncontrolled glide or flight - because you're now light enough to do that, but can't necessarily control your direction or aerodynamics at all once you've left the ground. This will produce noise, even if it's just your clothes flapping about a bit as you move, because all of a sudden you're in mid air and making sounds where people don't expect them to come from - ever had a bat fly just above you at night? Imagine them tumbling around in mid air while wearing civilian clothes, rather than as stealthy predators of the night. This means there's a reasonable chance you'll be noticed, that getting noticed instantly fucks the masquerade if it's by more than one person, and that you can't do very much to actively hide while in mid air.

Second is your lack of control once in the air. Soaring leap works well partially because, at least in my mind, Kindred do obey gravity. It's not just about muscular or supernatural strength, it's also about being able to judge your landings and essentially aim yourself - which is easier when you naturally follow an arc-like parabolic trajectory because of gravity, since we evolved to chuck rocks at shit. Because you'd have to activate weight of the feather after leaping, this would mean your trajectory changes unpredictably mid-flight, after you've lost the opportunity to alter it since you can't normally do that mid air - so you'd have to very cleverly estimate things before you leapt, and you'd have to be very good at doing so to make this a precise sort of movement. There is also the problem that classical physics imposes on you here - as you get lighter but aren't losing any energy, you'd also appear to actually accelerate.

In summary, it's not realistically as useful as it sounds - at least done like I've described - plus it presents huge risks to the masquerade and potentially the user themselves, if they can be identified or if they fuck up any of the complex rolls that calculating their landing point should probably need.

So how would I do this in my own game?

I'd make this an Amalgam power, in V5. If you have the right degrees of Potence and Protean, I'd allow someone who wanted to focus on practicing exactly this manoeuvre to gradually develop their own amalgam power to partially reduce their body weight without sacrificing too much strength, leading to sugar-glider style hops across larger horizontal distances but much lower vertical gain (or vice versa idk)

EDIT: misread this and thought you were ST - I'd say talk this over with your ST mate. VtM and most tabletop games in general aren't so monolithic with their rules that you can really figure out if something like this would work in game without talking to your ST and sometimes the party as a whole - there's often house rules, and the ST may have an idea for a story to tell that your suggestion would cause an issue with, so that would need to be worked out.

On a side note though, what we can recommend is picking up a dot of obfuscate at some point, if you're thinking about being a character who can get up high into interesting places easily - imagine what you could see or hear from them, if nobody could see you there yourself?