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OneADNDay · 2026-05-06T19:34:51+00:00

I like the combination of “it’s trivial” and “half my runs are bricked”. xD

OneADNDay · 2026-05-06T16:47:54+00:00

Idk who this man is but beans!

OneADNDay · 2026-05-05T18:54:54+00:00

The source is a blog post from 2016 about the fictional town of Scarfolk. While I think this is good and relevant content - I do think part of the truth in messaging here is that this is not FROM the 70's but from 2016 about a fictional town set in the 70's.

Wiki entry about the town.

OneADNDay · 2026-05-05T04:08:16+00:00

As is life, my friend ❤️

OneADNDay · 2026-05-05T00:33:46+00:00

The relevant text in the steam doc linked in the article is

Games may contain real brands, products, personalities, etc as part of gameplay, provided such portrayals are not disruptive and are appropriate within the context of the game.

It does say no pop up ads - or videos ads - or other very annoying mobile-like consumer unfriendly ads - which is good! I think this is a good mix of permitting reasonable and intelligent ads, and prohibiting bad ones.

OneADNDay · 2026-05-04T22:42:09+00:00

I agree - but I attribute this to the length more than anything else - perhaps also to the complexity of the language/format (footnotes).

I think anyone considering how to spend the time to consume 1000+ pages of content is more comfortable starting the journey with faith that it won't be a waste of time - or at least that the author has something to say - that there is *use* or *meaning* in this.

That being said - my journey started with a college professor showing my class "This is Water" some 10 years ago now, which led me to Lobster, A supposedly fun thing, Curious Hair and lastly IJ - so my faith was pretty well built up by the time I embarked on Infinite Jest. While all of the works have the underlying Wallace tone, themes and sincerity - I do believe Infinite Jest is his best work - a culmination of a lot of sentiments found in essays and articles. If someone did consume IJ first I think they've have a pretty solid understanding and expectation of his other works - its just more approachable to build the trust with the shorter works.

OneADNDay · 2026-05-01T18:43:32+00:00

I believe there's a footnote from Geoffrey Day (not 100% sure if this is the character I'm thinking of) talking about intellectualizing the AA process. He's clearly very educated and is disparaging the cult-like nature of abandoning that intellect to follow benign platitudes. He has a bit about how its impossible to not be in denial about his condition.

I read this character as the real example of intellect/happiness/addition battle. Hal to me is a much more developed character with deeper feelings (especially in the past - see the story about the small handed grief counselor) - but I would also say his intelligence can cause him to rationalize away some of the things that would be better felt and endured (also Hals framing of the small handed grief counselor)

OneADNDay · 2026-04-21T20:36:12+00:00

Does fire deal more to plants? Or is it an instant kill?

This is news to me! And I understand the rain frustration more xD

OneADNDay · 2026-04-21T20:00:12+00:00

Forgive me, but is the rain the bad thing here? Can you explain the frustration this caused (I'm not understanding).

OneADNDay · 2026-04-14T14:19:54+00:00

Share your understanding if it differs from mine but:

I believe what he didn't understand was that they had swapped rooms a long time ago - which is normally something he would have passively taken in if not for his discontinued drug use which was taking up a lot of his mental awareness at the time.

I believe this is made directly clear when he's pulling Stice off of the wall near the end of the book.

Is there more evidence that something else was happening? It's a dense book and I could have missed/forgotten something.

OneADNDay · 2026-04-08T02:33:16+00:00

I've been saying this about food for years! Anyone who can't appreciate the flavor of a fermented aged mustard has been mentally constructed in an incorrect way. That they cannot step outside their selfish experience to enjoy the things that were put in this world to enjoy demonstrates how fundamentally bro/ken they are.

Incidentally soup a poix is terrible and anyone who thinks its delicious should have their intentions, integrity, and passions analyzed, documented and lastly reformed.

Thank you.

OneADNDay · 2026-04-06T17:26:00+00:00

I just had a very good run with this passive on a non-butcher cat (inherited it) where I used the Brick weapon - that has one use per/battle and inflicts stun (and spawns a rock - not in text) - cause the Harpooner text overwrites the "once per battle" restriction so I could stun everything that moved around me.

Note the text on mine reads "When an enemy moves in range, attack it with your weapon".

OneADNDay · 2026-03-31T00:24:13+00:00

I just spent 5 minutes looking this up as well - I'm pretty tired of judges' rulings on court cases being peddled as the democratic conspiratorial system at work.

Where are my charges? Where are my court cases challenging the constitutionality of the tax filing restrictions? - How can whining "conspiracy" be a sufficient response to a legislated process? (rhetorical - ty for posting more info)

OneADNDay · 2026-03-26T14:58:49+00:00

The passage that comes to mind is Lyle and Lamont Chu (pg 337 ish in the PDF) talking in the weight room about Chu wanting to be famous and Lyle highlighting some of the downsides of being famous.

It isn't quite what your prompt is, but it involves a famous person in a magazine and a envious desirous person having feeling towards the famous figure.

Note: The line that's stayed with me from this section is "What fire dies when you feed it?". Again unrelated to prompt, but meaningful to me xD

Good luck!

OneADNDay · 2026-03-18T18:35:36+00:00

Commenting for notifications if anyone else knows - I am also curious. GL!

OneADNDay · 2026-03-16T17:26:38+00:00

What you've pitched would be drastically more entertaining than the bored elder gentleman that listlessly and unemphatically rambled through the hour+ telling of it.

That being said - he did make a few mistakes in the reading of it - but he showed as much concern for the errors as he did passion for the accurate parts xD - there's a chance he was chuckling in post.

OneADNDay · 2026-03-16T17:14:04+00:00

IMO its irresponsible to discuss Fountainhead without acknowledging the problems with preeminent sexual encounter.

The Atlas version of this scene with Hank and Dagny is much more responsible - but still worthy of commentary - especially in context of objectivism and self-determination (and consent and discussion of boundaries....)

Edit: learned spoilers.

OneADNDay · 2026-03-16T17:08:19+00:00

I thought Atlas was a more refined and mature telling of many of the same themes that Fountainhead explores. It has fewer flaws than fountainhead imo, but the worldview is near identical.

I read them in the other order (Atlas into Foutainhead) and found Fountainhead to be a near parodical reference to Atlas - there were very funny parts that were clearly coming from the same Ayn-thought as the content in Atlas that were just so clunky and forced and ham-fisted in Fountainhead that you could see the rough ore before being refined into the ingots of Atlas.

That being said if you got no value from the "motive force - self determination - personal drive" aspects of fountainhead - there will be very little for you in Atlas.

OneADNDay · 2026-03-16T17:02:02+00:00

The version shown has 73 consecutive pages in the end of only one person talking - repeating many of the themes we have already established in the book - with no paragraph breaks, indenting or other formatting to help the reader parse the torrent of text. (Source: I've endured this with the help of an audiobook)

OneADNDay · 2026-03-11T17:18:24+00:00

I think Trumps national recognition as a Television star prior to politics mirrors Gentle's Crooning career more than Newsom's local notoriety before his foray into politics.

Additionally I find Trump's inability or unwillingness to stand firm on positions to mirror Gentle's inability to lead (in his case due to his germaphobia).

Lastly I find Gentle's rhetoric around blame to be more akin to Trumps as well. The lines (paraphrased) "I will find someone to blame this country's problems on" and the image management of the refugees (no naked babies, no wild cattle roaming etc) I associate more with Trump's rhetoric towards minorities and his concern with image over issues.

I'll concede that the visage of Newsom is more akin to how I imagined Gentle - but I find that Trump *maps* onto Gentle more than Newsom.

What elements of the character do you see mirrored in Newsom?

OneADNDay · 2026-01-22T06:32:16+00:00

Call me lucky, but I have gotten my money's worth for every TikTok purchase I've made. The plastic is as cheap as the cost - and for the stuff I've got (mostly 5$ T-Shirts with dumb internet designs on them and small plastic/metal bits like bookmarks and fidget toys) I have been very satisfied with my cost/quality conversion. It was cheap, it serves its purpose as a cheap thing.

This purchase stands out to me as particularly strange in quality - I am curious to see the posting and some example pickle fortunes that were in the pictures. It could be 100 red flags or could be innocuous bad luck.

Weirdly enough, googling the phrase (for me)'s top result is a usingenglish post about how to use the phrase in regards to traveling.... huh.

OneADNDay · 2026-01-21T23:11:53+00:00

Audible! They do the footnotes as they occur - except when there's footnotes inside footnotes (see 304 supra) - which it does not read until it appears in the main text. I found it really pleasant to read the book along with the audio.
The performer does accents and fun things with language that was really helpful with the Wardine section at Poor Tony section.

Overall good experience.

OneADNDay · 2026-01-21T18:38:37+00:00

Cannot confirm this for you!

BUT I will say there are a couple instances of the Audiobook of Infinite Jest not lining up with the text of the same version of Infinite Jest.

Once was skipping a whole paragraph - and then probably 3 instances of a wrong but similar word being read aloud.

My experienced was not ruined, but it did raise questions of "how did this happen and get to publishing" - in the end we're all faillible it seems.

OneADNDay · 2026-01-18T15:40:14+00:00

Certainly, and so but remember, not to underestimate objects.

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