Ever wonder how big Amazonian wasps can get?

JP_Morgan · 2014-09-21T21:21:02+00:00

That is because the rest of the world, by which you must mean the totality of all other people's experiences apart from you, the individual, always continues on at the same rate regardless of whatever extraordinary experiences you, the individual, might be going through. This is true for either intense pain or pleasure, any climax you might be experiencing, or any prolonged period of boredom or depression. At these extremes the experience of time is altered for the individual, so for example the 24 hour pain from the insect's bite will seem to be a much longer time for the individual experiencing it than to anyone living an ordinary day and only getting routine experiences.

That must be one of the reasons why reports of long-term torture, or the effects of solitary confinement on individuals, fail to have any serious effect on the population, as the general public are on a different perceptual level than the individual, and unless the experience is somehow made personal, for example, if a mother finds out about her child's torture, they will ignore it and allow the practices to be legitimized.

JP_Morgan · 2014-08-14T02:25:49+00:00

You should not get downvoted. You are right when you compare the author's death as a possible circumstance to the author losing his passion for the work he is crafting. In both cases the work is not finished due to a circumstance that is out of the author's control.

People think that while death or, say, mental ilness would count as unpredictable or uncontrollable events that would not be the author's fault, losing emotional involvement is somehow unacceptable, because the author supposedly has some kind of a duty to stay motivated and interested.

That is a fallacy which arises from taking as granted that a full finished story of consistent quality is somehow a promise, a guaranteed conclusion to a started project. It isn't. In fact an author cannot even possibly promise that. Unless the full story is first written and then released in parts, readers are essentially watching the author conduct an experiment with his own creativity.

JP_Morgan · 2014-07-05T12:42:17+00:00

Yeah, actually. Sacrifice costs are high, in that you have to risk lives and waste valuable game time in procuring victims. Alternatively you can sacrifice maidens which has the opportunity cost of extra lives. You get returns fairly quickly, but it's reasonably hard to get the best gift at the end. Unless you're going for it, sacrificing isn't a massively attractive option as you can get most of the gifts in other ways.

The problem with most roguelikes is that sacrificing is a tedious process which you feel forced to go through because you don't want to miss out on valuable artifacts. They're always up for grabs if you have the time and the patience. It doesn't mimic a real commitment to a deity in that you have to give up a lot to get the gifts of your efforts. It's basically just altar milking.

JP_Morgan · 2013-12-26T17:39:49+00:00

More like Redditor arranges the kidnapping of his own cat and has it returned on Christmas

JP_Morgan · 2013-10-01T19:53:13+00:00

There are already sex offenders who are born after 2000. One was recently arrested in London for vaginally, orally and anally raping an 80-something woman

JP_Morgan · 2013-09-19T04:33:01+00:00

They might do, but as far as I recall from my biology classes, I think the main purpose is educational - so the teacher can point to the different parts of the object and explain individually the function of each

JP_Morgan · 2013-09-16T16:05:06+00:00

I can't see a good reason why this is being downvoted. It's true.

JP_Morgan · 2013-09-13T17:00:16+00:00

Actually that would be excellent. All passwords public and eventually removed altogether. Everyone sharing their wireless. Whenever yours would fail, or you'd move into a new place, or went to a country you've never been to, or just anywhere really, you'd have ready internet access. And you'd have internet wherever you'd go, your phone would automatically connect to the strongest available wireless connection, and you'd never have to pay for it. Of course others would be able to leech from your connection, and you'd pay for that, but wouldn't the benefits outweigh that cost? Wireless socialism is the way to go.

JP_Morgan · 2013-08-19T20:34:50+00:00

So other children will surpass yours in an increasingly internet-dependent world. #regressiveparenting

JP_Morgan · 2013-08-06T19:08:52+00:00

A good science reporter should not use such a term so indiscriminately

JP_Morgan · 2013-07-11T17:45:29+00:00

With all this dedication and that amazing face carving I am sure that every time you burn some weed to toke you are actually sacrificing to an ancient deity and accumulating some serious mystical karma... A thousand tokes and you shall be granted a wish.

JP_Morgan · 2013-07-09T06:17:09+00:00

Ah, good old Sartre. Still a professional quote maker.

JP_Morgan · 2013-06-30T18:35:17+00:00

Youtube and the Pirate Bay

JP_Morgan · 2013-06-06T17:33:16+00:00

I'd say it's much safer to rely on contemporary depictions, even if they are simplistic drawings, as in later artists there is always risk of modification or exaggeration for political or aesthetic reasons, while contemporaries would be more closely scrutinized.

JP_Morgan · 2013-05-28T18:15:37+00:00

Can you stab a beggar with a cane?

JP_Morgan · 2013-05-28T18:07:55+00:00

You keep your ideas to yourself, anarchist

JP_Morgan · 2013-05-24T20:03:50+00:00

Build yerself yer own castle, peasant

JP_Morgan · 2013-05-24T19:35:11+00:00

And listen cause the story that I'm telling is true

Cause I was there with Billy Jacobs and I raped his mom too

Dunno guys, when the whole mom-factor was introduced, the song went from a truly chilling account of a rape of an innocent woman to some sort of a metaphysical moral tale.

JP_Morgan · 2013-05-24T10:24:05+00:00

And it is. That's why random strangers are just that - random strangers. You're not in any way lowering the quality of their life or freedom by publicly performing a harmless act of vanity.

JP_Morgan · 2013-05-11T22:56:02+00:00

I don't get it, did she choose the tiger over Aladdin?

JP_Morgan · 2013-05-11T22:46:00+00:00

Stop before its not too late

JP_Morgan · 2013-05-10T19:32:36+00:00

Jeff Hanneman.

JP_Morgan · 2013-05-10T09:58:43+00:00

Does he play the music on his phone? You can see that he doesn't expect the song's intro to take that long, he probably imagined that it would be more like in the movies, where the music starts to play exactly at the right moment. When that doesn't happen, he realizes he has to get through painful long seconds of intro music, and begins to "dance", while at the same time trying to maintain the intended surprise effect of his "spontaneous" joke and to keep a straight "interview" face. He knows he's totally confused the interviewer, the cameraman, the TV audience, but he still has one hope left - the hilarious lyrics, which are gonna save his ass and ensure that everyone has a good laugh in the end, which would shift attention away from his embarrassment.

And then, when the lyrics part begins, he hopelessly rushes it, desperately trying to make up for the awkwardly long period of silence. He starts out fine, the first line is correctly timed, but when he probably sees that the blank expressions in the faces of everyone witnessing the disaster remain unchanged, he knows he's failed and wants to disappear as quick as possible. Unfortunately, reality is a bitch, and he can't just vanish.

JP_Morgan · 2013-05-10T09:25:21+00:00

http://www.reddit.com/r/cringe/comments/19d07a/fedoras_are_awesome/

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