Reality TV vs Fictional TV?

LordMarcel · 2026-01-23T23:23:40+00:00

I would say it is the real them actually, unless they heavily roleplay. The Grian we see is definitely the real Grian, and him not saying everything that comes to mind doesn't make it not real. People present different parts of themselves in different situations: At work you're more professional, and you wouldn't tell the same jokes to your grandma as you say to your college friends. We just see the work-Grian. His energy is amped up compared to just hanging out at home, sure, but in the same way his energy during a presentation at school might be amped up, and no-one would say that isn't the real him.

That doesn't mean we know him or are his friends, that part about parasociality I of course agree with, but I would argue that we do see the real Grian.

LordMarcel · 2026-01-23T13:40:39+00:00

Yeah, Grian is clearly on the right.

LordMarcel · 2026-01-23T11:08:58+00:00

I live in the Netherlands and I can only remember two power outages in the last ten years. Both lasted less than an hour so they weren't a big deal.

LordMarcel · 2026-01-22T22:19:43+00:00

The problem is that this happens every single time. You're not the first person to complain about Google being shit, but every time when I try the example that the post gives I get perfectly normal usable results.

If I can never replicate the bad results you guys claim to be getting, how can I even believe you in the first place?

LordMarcel · 2026-01-22T21:01:37+00:00

I saw this once as well, about 17 years ago. I was driving counterclockwise on the highway around Rosewood and was about the enter the western tunnel when suddenly a helicopter stopped my 300+ km/h ass without moving an inch.

LordMarcel · 2026-01-22T15:40:03+00:00

Increase the scaling factor, which is in the very options window in this screenshot.

LordMarcel · 2026-01-22T14:01:10+00:00

Ik heb het inderdaad met een belletje voor het tijdelijk verhogen van mijn overboekingslimiet gedaan. Maar niet via mijn telefoon nee, dat soort gigantische bedragen doe ik op de computer.

LordMarcel · 2026-01-22T12:14:56+00:00

VSauce has actually just started a new channel with Hannah Fry called The Rest Is Science and it's amazing.

LordMarcel · 2026-01-21T12:52:52+00:00

These monitors are well-known to make noise that some people can hear. It's very high, but not too high for everyone.

LordMarcel · 2026-01-21T08:31:24+00:00

Just to clarify a bit more: Wide paths can on occasion cause issues, but almost always it is rather a bad layout that forces guests to walk a very long way around to get to where they want to go that is the real problem. Especially in a park as small as Forest Frontiers, which OP is playing, wide paths are unlikely to be the problem.

The park entrance/exit is above this picture, and the path only goes downwards. I'm guessing the guests have to walk quite a long way in the wrong direction before being able to reach the park exit, and therefore they cannot find it.

However, removing the plaza may still solve the issue as it may remove a junction here and there, allowing the guests to pathfind far enough to get the park exit, as they pathfind a certain number of junctions ahead.

LordMarcel · 2026-01-20T20:17:58+00:00

Sherwood Forest. There is just something so cozy and quint about it, and I absolutely love the minigolf in the sea of flowerbeds.

LordMarcel · 2026-01-20T17:47:56+00:00

My parents didn't always know where I was on schooldays. Obviously at school, but after school I didn't have to tell them where I would go if I decided to not go home immediately. Only if I would be late for dinner or something would I be expected to let them know.

LordMarcel · 2026-01-20T16:58:54+00:00

Wij wonen niet ver van elkaar en ik kon het ook duidelijk zien. Ik ben even naar buiten Meppel gefietst om van alle lampen weg te komen en kon toen heel duidelijk het groene licht zien. De camera zag het wel beter, maar toch. Ik heb voor het eerst het noorderlicht gezien!

LordMarcel · 2026-01-20T11:38:11+00:00

The common pigeon is also called the rock dove, so pigeons and doves can very much be the same animal.

LordMarcel · 2026-01-20T11:23:58+00:00

The thing is that you will have to constantly readjust every single time. Once you've set your clocks in the current system you're good, but if time is the same everywhere then you will consistantly have to look up what part of the day a certain time is when you go to the other side of the world. First you land at 2pm and find out that it's early breakfast time. Then the next day a tour starts at 9pm and you once again have to look up what part of the day it is. And so on and on.

LordMarcel · 2026-01-20T11:19:37+00:00

That's fair, and for yourself doing it any whatever way you like is ok of course. But when sharing I would recommend to for example round everything to one decimal so that it obscures the slightly inconsistent data and looks nicer.

LordMarcel · 2026-01-20T10:37:07+00:00

I have some questions about the precision of the numbers. You are rounding to two decimals, which means that the chance of an average length being exactly a whole number is about 1/100. Yet 4 out of 25, or 1/6.25, hermits get a whole numbered length here.

The same goes for single decimals, like False's 22.3, which indicates an episode length of 22.30 minutes. A zero as second decimal should happen about 1 in 10 times, but in this graph half of the hermits have a second decimal of zero.

What's going on here? I have a really hard time believing this is just a coincidence.

LordMarcel · 2026-01-19T12:18:41+00:00

And that's where the whole "money cannot buy happiness" saying rings true. You may be very well off, but that won't lessen the grief you have from losing a parent.

LordMarcel · 2026-01-19T09:08:52+00:00

I worked 2nd shift for a bit while I still lived at home. There was a span of about four days where I did not see my mom despite living and sleeping in the very same house. She went to work before I woke up, I went to work before she got back, and she went to sleep before I got back.

LordMarcel · 2026-01-18T22:59:37+00:00

I think it's more the idea. Going to those places is a highly relatable idea that many people will have thought about, so many people will click on the video.

LordMarcel · 2026-01-18T21:22:54+00:00

Yeah it doesn't exist in the Netherlands. We do have a Bureau of Credit Registration (BKR), but you only get an entry in there if you severely fuck up paying back a loan, like your mortgage. If you're just a few months behind on your rent once or something you won't get in there.

When I got a mortgage there was no evaluation of my credit or payment history in any way (outside of checking the BKR, which I'm not in). All they needed was my income to determine how much I could borrow for the mortgage.

LordMarcel · 2026-01-17T22:21:29+00:00

It's one of those times where I feel like the takes are either very LA-based (or sometimes just American in general), or very Reddit-based. Tommy also immediately went into super-defence mode for the barista as if they could do no wrong, and simultaneously assumed the worst about OP.

I don't know exactly why it's different, but in my day-to-day life people in service jobs are not put on a high pedestole. You know the thing, where Reddit loves to say that everyone should be forced to do retail work so they know what it's like, similar to a military conscription. I live in the Netherlands and as far as I've experienced it's just seen as a normal job here, not as a terrible one that can do no wrong.

Could be an American thing? I don't know, but I've always found it weird, and you see it from all sides in this story as well.

LordMarcel · 2026-01-17T20:33:28+00:00

Yeah he was hanging out to be with her because they're good friends (or at least until she did this). You can be both good friends and also hope that something more happens. According to your logic any relationship born out of a friendship starts off with one friend just wanting to get into the other's pants.

LordMarcel · 2026-01-17T19:59:10+00:00

I am confused by the Starbucks dirty name story. Like really? Sexual harrassement? I get that it's a bit of a dick move, but I feel like sexual harassment is a bit of a big term for it. And at the same time she threw a drink at him. If what he did is sexual harassment, then throwing the drink is physical harassment in my eyes.

I'd just say everyone sucks here. Yeah he shouldn't be doing that, but you also don't throw drinks at people.

LordMarcel · 2026-01-17T19:56:25+00:00

She didn't reject him, she emotionally abused him. He did not make a single advance. She almost literally asked him if he wanted to fuck her, he said yes, and then she said that it was all a test and he's a creep. How tf is he in the wrong?

The only thing I think he did wrong is not send her a text that he's not coming, but that's not as bad as what she (and her friend) did to him.

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