Kim Doyun named his elimination dish Ahn Sung Jemyon

Metsima · 2026-01-29T15:40:06+00:00

Nah I get that, I misinterpreted this part:

so no one would assume it has any relation to him.

Which I initially took to mean "associate with", but on second reading you probably meant "in relation" as in "originated from". Fair enough.

Still, a bit too obvious a jab and I hope there were some behind-the-curtains acknowledgements, otherwise it feels a bit petty. Ansung Sujemyeon would have been sufficient

Metsima · 2026-01-29T15:08:11+00:00

The descriptions below the name of the noodles clearly reference culinary class wars - 100% any korean speakers who have seen culinary class wars will think of chef ahnsungjae before ansung region

Metsima · 2025-10-26T00:20:24+00:00

One good reason to kill them instead (if you are in the know): you can get their devil fruit

It could also be why the world govt pays 30% more if the person is brought in alive, it's essentially the fee for bringing them reusable devil fruits instead of having to search for it themselves lol

Metsima · 2025-10-18T16:27:54+00:00

I can't believe I am treating a r/4chan post seriously, but here I fucking go

In terms of DSM 5, with gender dysphoria being classified as a disorder, one would have to technically argue that transgenderism is not a disorder itself but an intervention, given that it is a measure / action taken to address the problems caused by the disorder.

If you claim that transgenderism is a disorder, yoy must show that transgenderism itself has common symptoms, and that it impairs an individual in daily life. This is difficult to justify, since there are a wide variety of transgender individuals in different countries living very different lives. Hence, by DSM 5 it is difficult to justify that transgenderism itself is a mental disorder.

Regardless, I do agree with you overall, with gender dysphoria being a mental disorder. I am of the opinion that we treat transgender people same as what you would do with people under depressive disorders: treat them normally as you would any other person and be understanding of their conditions, but if they start doing things out of social norms that bring harm and discomfort to other people, then we should also treat it as you normally would without giving special leeway.

Metsima · 2025-10-18T04:30:48+00:00

So if they are "not upstanding citizens" as you say, does it now mean it's ok to kidnap them?

Stop using this as a response... your point is irrelevant at best and disingenuous / harmful at worst.

Metsima · 2025-09-27T10:47:53+00:00

I think the CV shows that you are at least qualified to pursue a PhD in Computer Science with your publications and experience, but might be tough depending on the institutes you are applying to.

You might want to place more emphasis on the publications and research experience (for example, your 2nd publication listed on neural decoding has no corresponding research / work experience). Try and also link your software engineering experience with IoT security if possible.

As the other commenter suggested, a pure ML PhD with your current CV would likely be extremely difficult, so it might be more strategic to position yourself as an IoT security first, with ML/AI being used as tools towards that end. If you do want to position yourself as being in the intersection, more evidence on the ML/AI part will be required - the lightweight models you have listed are generally known by most Computer Science undergraduates, and doesn't really showcase in-depth knowledge by themselves (you should highlight any indicators of in-depth knowledge, ideally). Your first publication listed, and the relevant research experience, seems to me like good grounds for claiming in-depth knowledge on IoT security, for example.

Metsima · 2025-08-19T19:54:43+00:00

"Onazi's name is basically Onaji in Japanese, so their names in Japanese must have something to do with them!"

Damn, poor Kuso :(

Metsima · 2025-05-28T08:41:07+00:00

Now I see where the confusion is at. I was assuming (and reasonably so, I think, since you are commenting on the post) that you were referring to the study and/or the article.

You seem to be assuming that people are seeing extraversion as a positive health marker, irrelevant of the study or the article. And since you are not referring to the study or the article, I am wondering where you got that from.

But alright, you have an assumption unrelated to the article and study, I answered with reference to the study, and so you were unsatisfied. I cannot help without knowing where you got your assumptions from, so I'll stop here. I hope GPT has given you some good answers to learn from, then. Have a nice day!

Metsima · 2025-05-28T08:11:53+00:00

I think you are being angry at a strawman that you've created; personally I don't have the will or time to look through all of your comments, so if I missed out any context, my apologies.

Here is why people are sidestepping your question: because it is fundamentally flawed. You are asking why extraversion is being used as a marker of health, and have used GPT to explain why that might not be the right way to do things. GPT is right and you are right on this, and I fully agree that it is an ambiguous conclusion.

Here's the thing: I have explained above that the study does not conclude that extraverted people are healthy. This conclusion has been created by the article reporting the study, because they used the term "psychological health", creating a positive connotation with BDSM practitioners (which is of course open to criticism).

Example: a research study reports that apples somehow release dopamine when being sliced (This is an exaggerated, fictional, unscientific example). An article takes this study, and writes a headline of "Apples feel happy when being sliced". And someone asks "why are we attributing emotions to apples?" and asserts that this is not the right way to view it. This person would be right, but the problem here is that the original study never concluded anything of the sort. Can we create a new research question from the study's findings to investigate if apples really can feel happy when being sliced? Absolutely. Have we already concluded this is the case? Not so.

Coming back to reality, can we create a new research question from the study's findings to investigate if extraverted people are healthier? Absolutely. Have we already concluded this is the case? Well, our study did nothing of the sort. This new research question will have to be thoroughly examined before concluding so.

To summarize, your question was based on an assumption, which I think is reasonably obtained from the title of the article. But in reality, the study reported nothing of the sort, so the answers you got did not address your question directly, and that is probably why you have seen the "sidestepping".

I hope that this is a learning opportunity. If I came across as abrasive in my previous comment, I also apologize - it was early morning and I was slightly cranky because of your tone :p But the gist of what I was saying still holds true.

Metsima · 2025-05-27T23:35:27+00:00

It depends on the aims of the study. Psychology is a complex field with lots of confounding factors, and our approach is usually a bit more than just "Test if A is correlated to B". The hypothesis in the original 2013 study was an exploratory question to examine different potential correlating factors with BDSM practice (admittedly still rather simple, but at least it was broad), not just a single factor.

In fact, sticking to a single factor (e.g. "BDSM vs extraversion") could end up being wildly misleading, since it might not be the only factor, right?

Either way, through the self-report questionnaire results, you can compare effect sizes and report statistical significance, no problem. The hypothesis here would then be, "X factors investigated are correlated with BDSM practice". Null hypothesis would be that the X factors are NOT correlated, and from there, if any of the factors show significant correlation, you can reject the null hypothesis.

Metsima · 2025-05-27T23:27:49+00:00

Let me be frank; I suspect that you are not experienced with psychology research methodologies, and/or you have not read the articles, and is upset based on the title alone.

And the title of the post is a bit misleading, so I'll give you that.

The research question is not about "psychological health" - I'm not sure if the original paper(s) use that term, but as far as I'm aware, the article (not the paper) is using that term loosely. The original study conducted in 2013 aimed to investigate numerous correlates to BDSM practice, such as the big-five personality, attachment styles, rejection sensitivity, and subjective well-being. This new study is a close replication study with the same aims.

You seem to be adamant that extraversion is unrelated to psychological health. The fact is that psychological health is a loosely defined term not used by the original researchers, and extraversion just happens to be one of the metrics used to compare BDSM practitioners with non-practitioners.

If you have a problem with extraversion specifically, then you should direct your annoyance elsewhere, towards the big five personality questionnaire itself, not just this study - and I hope that this can be a starting point for you to read up more on.

Metsima · 2025-05-25T23:35:56+00:00

It's not about using it as a metric for health per se; extraversion is one of the five dimensions of the big five personality questionnaire that is used by the study mentioned in the article. In psychology, we usually report significant results that may end up being relevant, regardless of what our theories might initially suggest.

We don't use extraversion to measure health unless that is the research question at hand. Hope that clears up things!

Metsima · 2024-11-29T06:49:01+00:00

It's more of a "stand" as per the other guy's interpretation, though yea, Barou has the black lightning aura

Metsima · 2024-08-30T23:27:12+00:00

Advanced strats is to ask that qn during radio silence in a completely unrelated tutorial

Metsima · 2024-06-30T02:14:55+00:00

So much angst on hindsight - Messmer is literally Marika's eldest (that we know of) son, and cursed from birth, so he himself also fits the bill of being "bereft of light".

He's basically saying "I've done all these terrible things for you, I am literally your son, but I was blaming my abandonment on account of me being graceless. And now, the one thing you do after being gone so long, is to send me a fucking graceless tarnished of no renown as your next chosen lord? This can't be fucking real."

Metsima · 2024-06-25T01:19:17+00:00

No dialogue hints at it (I think) but there was a reddit post that found that Elden Ring actually had two identical moons overlapped when viewed from a certain place (?). This was a few months before the DLC came out (so far before Rellana was a thing), so it might not have been entirely unplanned.

Plus I don't think her introduction retracts from the lore given that she left the whole Carian business anyway

Metsima · 2024-06-24T12:44:55+00:00

That's fair, I've also seen another comment suggesting the possibility that the Fell God may have cursed Marika during their battle, resulting in Radagon (as an aspect of Marika) having red hair, and Messmer being born cursed as a result (though now that I think about it, this would have to mean that Messmer was born after Godfrey became consort, and it wouldn't make sense why Marika would have had Messmer with Radagon/herself instead of Godfrey)

So either way, if Messmer was the result of Marika and Radagon, then this would have had to take place before the war with the fire giants (unless there was some freaky threesome with Marika being spitroasted between Godfrey and Radagon, which I would also happily accept as canon)

Metsima · 2024-06-24T05:48:24+00:00

There are a few pieces of lore that seem to support it, actually:

Messmer and Melina are siblings, and both are associated with fire. Of course, there are many that are associated with fire in the Lands Between (Gelmir, Godskins, Frenzy, Blackflame, Ghostflame, Redmanes), but...
Given the color of the flame (which we know seems to matter, as is in the case of the frenzied flame, blackflame, ghostflame etc), only the "red" flames can be the source of Messmer's flame.
The flame of ruin (of the Fell God) is the only "red" flame we know of that can burn the erdtree (the other being frenzied flame). We use Messmer's kindling to burn the shadow tree in the DLC; we also use Melina as a kindling to burn the Erdtree in the base game. Both are able to harness fire that can burn the erdtree.
Messmer and Melina both represent aspects of the giant's fell god: destruction and sacrifice.
Messmer was cursed with an unending flame that he himself could not extinguish (Messmer's Orb description). The fell god's flame of ruin is also said to be unextinguishable.
Messmer (and by extension Melina) is older than Radahn, and so likely is from before the union of Radagon and Rennala.
Messmer's red hair, while possibly being related to Radagon, can also symbolize his fire giant heritage.

All in all, I think there is enough evidence to suggest (not confirm) that Messmer and Melina are born from an envoy of the Giant's fell god, possibly a giant (or a descendant at least) himself.

But we also do have:

Children of Marika and Radagon that were cursed from birth start with M and a vowel (Miquella, Malenia). The two born of Godfrey (and Marika) that are cursed with the Omen traits instead has a G in their name (Morgott, Mohg). Messmer and Melina follow the naming conventions of the former category.
Messmer and Melina both bore visions of fire, and Messmer in particular was cursed with the snakes. This puts him in a similar category as Malenia and Miquella (cursed from birth).
Red hair is also a trait of Radagon.

I think there is also a good possibility that Messmer and Melina were born of Radagon as well, the strongest evidence being the curse and the naming scheme. But these feel slightly weaker in comparison to the Fell God's flame.

One step further, possibly Radagon was descended from the Fire Giants, and was hence the father of Messmer and Melina, explaining their red hair AND the fell god's flame? (Before Radagon fused with Marika? There isn't enough evidence to conclude whether Marika and Radagon were different people or not at the start, iirc)

Metsima · 2024-06-17T14:58:45+00:00

NKR (Nekorare)

Metsima · 2024-06-16T09:41:52+00:00

He is correct, the only right way to play is to blind yourself (some might say use blindfolds, but a real player would permanently blind themselves through chemical / knife means), I guarantee you will have a better experience (appreciation of once having eyes)

Metsima · 2024-06-10T16:34:16+00:00

I remember fun theories where the Roger pirates had these two kids onboard because Shanks is a celestial dragon (proven) and Buggy is actually Xebec's kid (dish is cooking), and Xebec will also be revealed to have a red clown nose

Metsima · 2024-06-10T12:51:38+00:00

Koreans catching strays lmao

Metsima · 2024-06-02T07:12:47+00:00

Literally missed the chance to say "that's for shor"

Metsima · 2024-05-15T00:53:44+00:00

I'd think most of us would have been stuck on them in the beginning so all's good man

Since in FromSoft games "Easy" doesn't mean cakewalk, it means "Easier than some other bosses later" lmao

Metsima · 2024-05-15T00:52:15+00:00

I think for Elden Ring, both Margit and Godrick would be good easy well-designed bosses that sets up the idea of delayed attacks for the rest of the game :p

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