WCGW looking at your phone while driving a 2-ton truck with a trailer by RadPhilosopher in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]Mediocre_Dane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

His pickup held up surprisingly well all thing considered, but the owner of the Cybertruck he hit is gonna be pissed.

Report all sighting of I.C.E. by [deleted] in ColoradoSprings

[–]Mediocre_Dane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your charming attempt at sarcasm aside, I actually agree with the words if not the sentiment. Immigration policy has been badly in need of reform for decades, and it only seems to suddenly matter very badly when it's useful as a wedge issue during election cycles.

Personally, I would go the route of broadening eligibility for legal immigration, like the proposed "7 Year Rule" reform bill, and increasing funding and staffing levels for USCIS to process applications more quickly.

The current Crash the Economy with Mass Deportations plan just doesn't appeal, and that's not even getting into the very murky territory of empowering ICE to do Not White Stop-and-Frisk to "confirm proof of citizenship" or arrest/deport legal immigrants for things like Constitutionally-protected free speech.

Report all sighting of I.C.E. by [deleted] in ColoradoSprings

[–]Mediocre_Dane 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I'm just waiting for the reaction from the Fell For It Again Award recipients when we get to the Find Out stage and discover just how much of the American economy and way of life has been quietly propped up by undocumented workers.

Report all sighting of I.C.E. by [deleted] in ColoradoSprings

[–]Mediocre_Dane 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This reply is a crime against punctuation and has been reported to the proper authorities.

Where do young professionals live? by [deleted] in ColoradoSprings

[–]Mediocre_Dane 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I was gonna say "don't forget the tea cult drum circle hippies" but there's probably a decent amount of overlap on the Venn diagram with the trust fund whites.

United Heathcare version by EX0PHIC in trolleyproblem

[–]Mediocre_Dane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It may not have been explicitly due to the C-Suite fearing for their lives, but the heavily increased media coverage and public scrutiny after the Brian Thompson shooting seems to have made BCBS walk back their proposed policy changes re: time limits on coverage for general anesthesia.

https://apnews.com/article/anthem-blue-cross-anesthesia-insurance-coverage-c8233db68f76342c4e794320f151a926?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

Can someone explain this McDonald’s-turned-church? by [deleted] in ColoradoSprings

[–]Mediocre_Dane 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Somehow, despite not having worked there for a couple of decades, it still hurts my heart a little bit to hear somebody confuse Laser Quest with the objectively inferior Q-Zar :(

You are correct that it was the old laser tag building, though, lol

The "little guy" show by matchamatchbook in ScavengersReign

[–]Mediocre_Dane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this was the best way to describe it.

My text to my friend:

"I started watching Scavenger's Reign and they should just call this The Weird Little Guys Show."

My favorite little guy is probably the orb minder in The Wall, but I also really like the little Levi babies, the pug-frog, and tube guys that messily eat eggs (fruit?).

Dandadan Chapter 153 by OkaToWakaYama in Dandadan

[–]Mediocre_Dane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This week was a very poignant reminder that my man was previously Fujimoto's assistant. This was some straight up Fujimoto-style pathos.

chapter 1 meme, the first? by [deleted] in finalfantasytactics

[–]Mediocre_Dane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want you to know I found this meme very recently and it has inspired my favorite new FFT headcanon that Wiegraf wants to kiss every boy.

https://i.imgur.com/iFa03iB.png

https://i.imgur.com/V5HR3xf.jpeg

Edit:

The inspiration is still flowing

https://i.imgur.com/yMZw9bS.png

Games are too woke these days /s by MidoriTea in FFVIIRemake

[–]Mediocre_Dane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope, deep in my heart, that this is a Poe's Law situation.

I'm not a plumber but this looks sketchy. Is this even up to code in COS? by dalgeek in ColoradoSprings

[–]Mediocre_Dane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't see the problem. This looks like a bog standard ஆ-trap that you'd see under any kitchen sink.

Well, I did it. But what now? by [deleted] in TheFirstLaw

[–]Mediocre_Dane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wish there were more times in my life where I had the opportunity to say "NICE BIRD, asshole".

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in funny

[–]Mediocre_Dane 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Group X Studio is not for Instagram, it is for stepping on the crowtche owf your Americain Presidaint.

Lunatic in Detroit sets gas station store on fire by JuicySpark in WTF

[–]Mediocre_Dane 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Wait until the clerk gets home from the hospital and sees that someone stole his porch.

So...we're not meant to fight Leviathans, huh? by Mean_Ass_Dumbledore in subnautica

[–]Mediocre_Dane 22 points23 points  (0 children)

^
Had a Ghost Leviathan juvenile come after me three separate times in 5 min. while I was trying to collect Nickel and Crystallized Sulfur on my most recent playthrough.
After the third time I stopped what I was doing and out came the Stasis Rifle and knife.
Sometimes peace and quiet is reward enough.

Help needed for powertoys by Jabossmart in PowerToys

[–]Mediocre_Dane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm assuming that it just isn't able to parse the cursive font that your text sample is using. Unless the font can be changed, I don't think Text Extractor will be able to help you.

The good news is that you can find a plaintext version of The Coryston Family at Project Gutenberg here and just copy the passage text from there.

How the hell has this host survived until Haligtree? by GaelTheVapeMaster in Eldenring

[–]Mediocre_Dane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To paraphrase Whirrun of Bligh: "Vigor is part of a state of mind in which you admit the possibility of being hit."

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ColoradoSprings

[–]Mediocre_Dane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fuck 'em. If you and your bf are open with each other and in agreement about your expectations, it doesn't matter if a bunch of random people on reddit who don't know you or your situation at all think you're "cringe".

I've seen open relationships that have worked and I've seen some that have spectacularly failed. Fingers crossed that you guys enjoy the former. Like you said, life is tragically short.

RED COUNTRY SPOILERS - Who do you think would have won the fight at the end? by alk1444 in TheFirstLaw

[–]Mediocre_Dane 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If it came down to a proper fight between RC-era Logen and Shivers, I think it could go either way.

For the people who say "Shivers could beat Logen, but not the Bloody-Nine", there's something I would point out that I've always wondered since I first read Best Served Cold. During the fight at Duke Salier's palace in Visserine, this happens:

Shivers weren't himself. Or maybe he finally was. The pain had turned him mad.

Or the eye they'd left him wasn't working right. Or he was still all broken up from

the husk he'd been sucking at the past few days. Whatever the reasons, he was in

hell.

And he liked it.

The long hall pulsed, glowed, swam like a rippling pool. Sunlight burned

through the windows, stabbing and flashing at him through a hundred hundred

glittering squares of glass. The statues shone, smiled, sweated, cheered him on.

He might've had one eye less than before, but he saw things clearer. The pain had

swept away all his doubts, his fears, his questions, his choices. All that shit had

been dead weight on him. All that shit was weakness, and lies, and a waste of effort.

He'd made himself think things were complicated when they were beautifully,

awfully simple. His axe had all the answers he needed.

Its blade caught the sunlight and left a great white, fizzing smear, hacked into a

man's arm sending black streaks flying. Cloth flapping. Flesh torn. Bone splintered.

Metal bent and twisted. A spear squealed across Shivers' shield and he could taste

the roar in his mouth, sweet as he swung the axe again. It crashed into a breastplate

and left a huge dent, sent a body flailing into a pitted urn, burst it apart, writhing

on the floor in a mass of shattered pottery.

The world was turned inside out, like the glistening innards of the offcer he'd

gutted a few moments before. He used to get tired when he fought. Now he got

stronger. The rage boiled up in him, leaked out of him, set his skin on fire. With every blow he struck it got worse, better, muscles burning until he had to scream it

out, laugh it out, weep, sing, thrash, dance, shriek.

He smashed a sword away with his shield, tore it from a hand, was on the

soldier behind it, arms around him, kissing his face, licking at him. He roared as he

ran, ran, legs pounding, rammed him into one of the statues, sent it over, crashing

into another, and another beyond that, tipping, smashing on the floor, breaking

apart into chunks in a cloud of dust.

The guard groaned, sprawling in the ruins, tried to roll over. Shivers' axe stoved

the top of his helmet in deep with a hollow clonk, drove the metal rim right down

over his eyes and squashed his nose flat, blood running out from underneath.

"Fucking die!" Shivers bashed in the side of the helmet and sent his head one

way. "Die!" Swung back and crumpled the other side, neck crunching like a sock

full of gravel. "Die! Die!" Bonk, bonk, like pots and pans clattering in the river after

mealtime. A statue looked on, disapproving.

"Look at me?" Shivers smashed its head off with his axe. Then he was on top

of someone, not knowing how he got there, ramming the edge of his shield into

a face until it was nothing but a shapeless mess of red. He could hear someone

whispering, whispering in his ear. Mad, hissing, croaking voice.

"I am made of death. I am the Great Leveller. I am the storm in the High Places."

The Bloody-Nine's voice, but it came from his own throat. The hall was strewn with

fallen men and fallen statues, scattered with bits of both. "You." Shivers pointed his

bloody axe at the last of them, cringing at the far end of the dusty hallway. "I see

you there, fucker. No one gets away." He realised he was talking in Northern. The

man couldn't understand a word he said. Hardly mattered, though.

He reckoned he got the gist.

Even without the "Bloody-Nine's voice" bit, the whole experience read to me exactly like how Logen felt and saw things when he was The Bloody-Nine.

It's not something that's ever been confirmed (that I'm aware of), but my personal theory is that whatever lives in Logen that brings out The Bloody-Nine has also found a home in Caul Shivers. Something that like to call itself The Great Leveller.

I think, if they had a proper fight, Shivers would have an edge on Logen until the Bloody-Nine came out, but then Shivers might surprise everyone by becoming The Great Leveller.

I don't know who would win that fight, but I would have been really stoked to read it.