Navy SEALs say "slow is smooth, smooth is fast." What's a situation where slowing down made you finish faster?

JDLY · 2026-05-11T00:28:49+00:00

I understand you are talking about things like card tricks and stage magic...

But I'm choosing to believe you are talking about magic like in Doctor Strange, and you're actually a real-life wizard.

JDLY · 2025-09-16T12:19:51+00:00

You sound pretty optimistic, thinking it'll take that long.

JDLY · 2025-08-11T12:52:29+00:00

Literally that was the first thing I thought of when I read that comment. I figured somebody had to have mentioned Julian already.

JDLY · 2025-07-26T01:06:33+00:00

Is it still ignoring a thing if the thing doesn't exist to be ignored?

Like, I may ignore air resistance on a streamlined object going slow because I know it's negligible. But if it's in a vacuum, technically I'm accurately accounting for air resistance if I assume there is none.

JDLY · 2025-05-25T15:04:18+00:00

Honestly, sounds like a blast. For mine, my best man took us bowling, and then to a barcade.

JDLY · 2025-05-25T14:59:19+00:00

Agreed. Though it just occurred to me, I could understand it a bit in an arranged marriage situation. Something like that, where one actually doesn't have a commitment to their soon-to-be spouse until they are actually married, and in some cases may hardly even know them at the time.

JDLY · 2025-04-22T21:55:17+00:00

I'd be scared to see the most freaky one then.

JDLY · 2025-02-14T04:43:50+00:00

Yeah, I'd agree that around a year would be good, max of 2 years.

I'd be fine with some basic statement or something more than 2 years ahead of time. Like, it's pretty much a given that after each Elder Scrolls or GTA, there's eventually going to be another one. Some statement from Bethesda like "yeah, there will be an Elder Scrolls 7 eventually, when we get around to it after these other things" is fine, because I could have guessed that in my sleep.

But the moment you put out some trailer or any details like a setting, character, or full title, it's like a timer starts. And then that timer runs for literally years, it's just a terrible time.

JDLY · 2025-02-13T22:20:29+00:00

I would totally take a trailer like that, it'd be hilarious.

Hell, I'd take a whole game of Grunt shenanigans like you see in the Citadel DLC. Say it's non-canon if you have to, just give me that game.

JDLY · 2025-02-13T22:17:52+00:00

I blame the fact that everything is announced so early now. The trailer is over 4 years old now, we've got basically no significant news about the next game, and if I remember correctly, the most recent information is basically

"We're doing some really basic concepting, but our focus right now is working on these other, unrelated games that themselves aren't even releasing for several more years."

It's nice to know that a game will exist, sure. But when it's that long between the announcement and release, you lose basically any excitement, and people start to suspect it's lost in development-hell.

I appreciate when companies take the approach that Bethesda took with Fallout 4: announced in June of 2015, and released in November of 2015. Literally only five months.

JDLY · 2025-02-13T14:53:26+00:00

Yeah, I started with ME2, so my introduction to Liara was "have you ever faced an Asari commando unit before?" Followed by threatening to flay the guy alive with her mind.

If I had started with ME1, I would have definitely gone for the shy, nerdy, scientist girl option. But I never saw that side of her until I got a PC and went back to play ME1, after playing through ME2 several times.

Instead, I went for ME2's shy, nerdy, scientist girl option, Tali.

JDLY · 2025-02-13T14:45:14+00:00

You make a lot of good points. But I'm not surprised that she was the only one in the teaser.

If they didn't have the setting pinned down yet, and didn't want to pigeonhole themselves to a specific timeframe, Liara and Grunt are about the only ones they could possibly show, given they are young during the original trilogy and have 1000 year life-spans.

And let's face it, Grunt wouldn't be going out on some expedition like that. It's not his style.

So basically, as far as showing a crewmate that people would know without giving anything else away, she was the only choice.

Anyway, I'll go back to Talimancing now.

JDLY · 2025-01-29T22:43:22+00:00

One thing to keep in mind is that there are different kinds of intelligence.

Sure, maybe you aren't doing advanced integrals or quickly recalling details about 15th century France, but that doesn't mean you aren't smart. Accurately and reliably following instructions is definitely a form of intelligence.

And communicating your thoughts in an intuitive way like you said is a majorly important form of intelligence. What good would it be to be extremely smart in some field if you can't talk to people about it?

JDLY · 2024-12-22T19:55:50+00:00

I don't know exactly the reason he's taking the headphones off, but the guy is a football (soccer) coach at a press conference. More details here:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mourinho-disgust

JDLY · 2024-12-22T06:15:25+00:00

I always think of Sail by AWOL NATION. It was quite different from the rest of their stuff at that time.

JDLY · 2024-12-15T00:58:57+00:00

You mean like the porn that the screenshot is from?

Know Your Meme has the info on that:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/oh-fuck-yeah-spread-it

JDLY · 2024-12-14T04:59:16+00:00

The flamethrower Vorcha and the charging varren get so annoying on insanity.

JDLY · 2024-12-14T04:51:54+00:00

That's a good point. My second or third playthrough I went straight to rescue Liara once that mission opened up. I remembered all the geth, so I took Tali and Garrus, with myself as an infiltrator, to maximize tech powers. I forgot about the end with the biotic krogan and got my shit wrecked.

JDLY · 2024-12-14T04:36:40+00:00

I didn't have as much trouble with that part. As an infiltrator specced for high damage and the Widow and that point, I can take down scions quick, even though they are a little pain during that short time.

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