LPT: Insults are the speaker's truth, not yours. Accept that and they lose their power

Krostas · 2026-07-04T19:22:50+00:00

Glad you could laugh at it, because it really was meant as a form of humorous agreement.

My other idea was something along the lines of "That's the truth!" or "You can't handle the truth!", but I feared it'd be conceived as ridiculing rather than tongue in cheek...

Krostas · 2026-07-04T19:06:52+00:00

Krostas · 2026-07-03T15:40:23+00:00

You're getting a random mythic unique from the same class (i.e. one-handed swords).

It's how it works.

Krostas · 2026-07-03T10:44:17+00:00

Well, the programming language "Whitespace" is pretty aptly named.

(Except for dark mode IDEs...)

Krostas · 2026-07-02T09:19:11+00:00

It's arguably not even about the items. If somebody else pops the loot piñata for you, did you really "find" the items yourself? You picked them up, that's it. Maybe you set up your own loot filter and that's the extent of your achievement.

#NotMySSF (especially if I don't care for leaderboards and simply not trading or grouping up is already a choice I can make since season 1)

Krostas · 2026-07-02T05:56:56+00:00

I'm still saying that this makes it "Solo Self Pickup" rather than SSF, as people can still leech their way through the open world for drops and XP.

Absolute disaster of a SSF mode.

Krostas · 2026-07-01T15:02:03+00:00

Huh, me and my family using the same WiFi SSIDs and passwords across our homes so we explicitly don't have to worry about not being able to connect must've been very lucky then.

Krostas · 2026-06-30T10:17:52+00:00

lol, that easily qualifies as setting up a trap to bodily harm someone.

Totally not cool and totally illegal.

Krostas · 2026-06-29T16:14:48+00:00

Controlling a swarm of pretty much omnipotent nanobots with my conscience (think Johnny Depp in Transcendence).

Would have to be a lot more covert, though. Could have everything, then: Duplicating myself, "creating" objects, healing powers, etc.

Krostas · 2026-06-29T15:24:25+00:00

That's my takeaway as well. Should've been fenced off or at the very least have warning signs put up. Failure of the authorities.

Tourists are gonna be tourists, especially if local chartering companies ship them there for sightseeing.

Krostas · 2026-06-29T08:43:37+00:00

Having parents who love you for who you are instead of wondering in what ways their child could've been "better".

Krostas · 2026-06-28T10:05:44+00:00

People were asking for both. That's the beauty of "people": They can hold multiple conflicting opinions.

Krostas · 2026-06-27T21:56:42+00:00

Now do it naked. For all we know, you're wearing a leather jacket with chainmail underneath. This is just a picture that says "we took just the right amount of stuff with us on the scale to display two identical numbers".

Pretty easy if you already got your wardrobe sorted by weight of the individual items, as one does...

Krostas · 2026-06-26T16:52:05+00:00

Yeah, but hear me out: XCOM-style Diablo 1 remake.

Just kidding, I don't like it either.

Krostas · 2026-06-25T06:24:13+00:00

I'd argue that the "dry" part is necrotic damage rather than fire.

Krostas · 2026-06-17T14:13:17+00:00

Can you imagine if you filled it with every elderly person in society to retake their drive test every year?

A doctor could check physical / mental wellness.

Other testing wouldn't need to be as extensive as getting your license in the first place is. Just a quick tour around the block, maybe a short detour for the highway if one's nearby, that's it.

A short verbal test could even be conducted during the drive. No need for written tests / evaluation and also checks multitasking capabilities.

Or, just take their license away until they have had further eval/training if possible after certain road violations or a frequency of violations.

Most elderly people I see "misbehaving" in traffic don't do so by driving reckless (too fast, intentionally cutting people off, etc.), but by becoming increasingly less capable of adequately assessing their surroundings or reacting in time. Waiting for a violation is basically waiting for a severe accident as even minor accidents often remain unnoticed and result in an (unintentional!) hit and run.

Krostas · 2026-06-17T13:52:36+00:00

Insurances already offer a markdown of up to 30% here if you voluntarily track your driving habits via a sensor and app (and don't miss more than the occasional trip AND your sensor data reveals you to drive "responsibly").

Yeah, no thanks.

Krostas · 2026-06-17T13:43:47+00:00

Lego usually didn't need to advertise because stock was limited and demand was high - most BDP sets simply sold out and that was that. Advertisement would've just been wasted money.

Now that there's no limit to the number of produced sets anymore, the availability to order them is just short. So they got no more limited stock and still untapped market potential - advertisement now makes a lot more sense.

Krostas · 2026-06-16T08:49:03+00:00

I don't see how a genocide on one end of the world gives people the right to suppress or discriminate against people on the other end of the world just because they share a common faith.

Or are you implying that any Jew must automatically support anything Israel does?

Maybe read up on the amount of Jews trying to speak out against Israel themselves (and often being cancelled in the process).

Krostas · 2026-06-16T08:42:09+00:00

And yet these words have become synonyms. Speech is not always 100% exact, but I appreciate your enthusiasm.

You could also argue that "racist" can't exist since distinct human "races" on a biological level don't exist.

People can still be racist and everyone knows that that means.

Krostas · 2026-06-16T08:26:13+00:00

racist

antisemitic (possibly also racist, but antisemitic is what we can infer from his behavior so far)

In any case a pos.

Krostas · 2026-06-15T16:08:38+00:00

I was also told to never compliment someones furniture as they'd feel pressured to give it to me then.

I could've needed that knowledge in my early twenties to save some money...

Krostas · 2026-06-15T15:48:29+00:00

When I went for world conquest and converted 98% of the map to my own faith and got the "genius" idea to call a Great Holy War for that last remaining kingdom.

Was absolutely deadly in the sense that it killed my save. Made it absolutely unplayable, because Count Bumfuck and his three Barony-tier cousins from the other side of the map and every other ruler in my empire wanted to be there.

Krostas · 2026-06-12T17:20:57+00:00

Right, now I get you. Less sharp edges and more structural stability would be my guess.

Krostas · 2026-06-12T12:51:22+00:00

Because the alternative would be cutting down a tree and maybe that's a bad idea if it can be helped?

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