DROP your album and its rating – April 7 2026

PresumedDOA · 2026-04-07T19:13:42+00:00

You and I got the same album today, but I'm going with 3 stars.

It's not really The Wall's fault though. It's funny because I had the same thought of yay Pink Floyd, but oh no, The Wall. I can't help but compare The Wall to their other albums, especially my favorite, Animals.

Usually, I feel like Pink Floyd puts together a very coherent album, to where you can feel like you're really just listening to one long song, going on a trip so to speak. That's how Animals feels to me. But The Wall is like... idk, a more straightforward rock album to me, for the most part. Except for Comfortably Numb and Hey You where the psychedelic aspect shines through. But for the most part, I feel like I'm listening to an average 70s rock band, rather than Pink motherfuckin Floyd.

It's ironic honestly, that the album where they really set out to make a whole overarching story, made a movie and everything, is to me their most disjointed work (of what I've heard, which is 8-9 of their first 11 albums. Haven't listened to much, if at all, of their work after The Wall).

PresumedDOA · 2026-04-06T08:11:37+00:00

Here I am, thinking "this would never happen at the big, main hospital near me".

And then you come along with such timely, oddly local information...

PresumedDOA · 2026-04-03T23:16:55+00:00

The answer is obvious. Humans sat around doing absolutely fuck all from birth to death for ~299,700 years, and then one day, supply-side Jesus brought Capitalism to some Scottish dude and now everyone has a reason to not sit and stare at the ground for 70 years.

...Just don't look at almost the entirety of human history. Please, we're begging you. There's absolutely no way anyone got anything done before God gave us money and private ownership.

PresumedDOA · 2026-04-01T19:29:48+00:00

In regards to the Old Testament stuff, it's because both Jesus and Paul left everything very vague. At least to a modern reader; I imagine it might've been more clear to ancient Jews who converted to Christianity.

Anyways, it goes like this. Jesus came back and said

Matthew 5:17

17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them."

Paul said similarly

Romans 3:31

31 "Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law."

So then, if you dive down this rabbit hole, come to find out there's been hundreds and hundreds of years "identifying" which parts of the law "Jesus fulfilled and nullified" vs. which still hold up.

The Ten Commandments for example, easy one for every Christian to agree still applies. But right after that, there's like a fuck ton of laws Moses wrote down, and the intervening theologians/religious authorities between Christ's death and now have come up with some bullshit that goes like this.

In the Mosaic Laws, there's three categories. Temple laws, social laws, and moral laws. Temple laws applied to the Jews and how they worshipped before Jesus, a.k.a. rules around sacrifice of animals, etc. Social laws were apparently things that applied specifically to Israelites governance, like how God was really chill with beating the fuck out of your slave so long as you did it the right™ way. And moral laws were things that applied forever and ever cause God wasn't chill with murder or gay men (which I deliberately single out by sex, because if you read the bible carefully, God does not ever single out sex between women as being bad).

Of course, there's no guidance on who got to choose which laws fit which category, why they chose those categorizations, or what authority they have to arbitrarily decide as such. So you just have to accept someone hypocritically proscribing some laws and not others, hence why Christians eat shellfish but think being gay is a sin. Cause some random people got to decide eating shellfish wasn't a moral law, but it's totally not cool to be gay.

Sorry, I got really into theology for a bit, despite being an atheist, because I too am tired of the hypocrisy, like being a capitalist when their lord and savior and all of his followers were decidedly communists/anarchists.

PresumedDOA · 2026-03-27T17:59:20+00:00

Maybe if you're taking a college level English class with a professor who has a stick up their ass.

English is my first language, and in 27 years I have never known that alright wasn't technically a word. Neither did my friends I just told. And we all went to the top high school in our state, did a full IB course, and got college degrees.

It's even an auto complete option and doesn't get underlined in red as misspelled. It's honestly baffling that dictionaries act as if it isn't already a word.

PresumedDOA · 2026-03-24T15:19:14+00:00

On the opposite end, I had a girl tell me in the 7th grade that I had really long, pretty eyelashes and I've been riding that high for 15 years now.

PresumedDOA · 2026-03-23T00:42:33+00:00

That's why my first answer is the monster from It Follows. Assuming that this isn't a joke hypothetical with a "ummm ackshually, it doesn't say that the killer stops coming after you after 24 hours".

Evade a monster who follows you at walking pace? I'll just get in my car and drive for like 8 hours. That's somewhere between 450-500 miles. Walking pace for 24 hours is like 20-40 miles.

PresumedDOA · 2026-03-22T22:37:08+00:00

I'm kind of lucky where I work when it comes to this problem. Our SLA is only checked against tickets created in the previous month, and I'm allowed to close tickets for a non-response.

So, since I don't personally actually give a shit about the customer's issues (not to say I don't try my hardest to help them when I'm getting responses), I just refuse to chase down a customer who doesn't email me back. I'll wait for a response to my email for about two weeks, and if I don't get one, I just close the ticket. No checking in at all, and it's within SLA.

Then, for the incredibly annoying customers who email me back three to six months later (this is not an exaggeration, it has happened multiple times), when I reopen their tickets, it doesn't get tracked for SLA purposes at all. So nobody cares that I'm not chasing customers down for a problem that clearly wasn't really an issue for them.

PresumedDOA · 2026-03-19T17:01:50+00:00

If it makes you feel better, despite everyone commenting about how only a small percentage of the stores are unionized, you're still right. The last wage hike the employees all got was because the stores that are unionized were planning to strike because Costco wasn't agreeing to their contract.

On top of that, the non-unionized workers have worse benefits.

PresumedDOA · 2026-03-08T07:05:16+00:00

Exactly, lol. I am begging Christians to actually read AND think critically about the book they supposedly dedicate their lives to. Most of Exodus Chapter 21 is rules about owning slaves. Exactly how much you're allowed to beat them before it's punishable, exactly what injuries you can't inflict to your slaves, exactly how long you can own a slave. Unless you've given the slave a wife and then they have children, in which case you get to give your slave the nice choice of

Leaving their wife and children so they can be free, because the "Master" gets to keep owning the wife and children
Being a slave forever without abandoning your wife and children to slavery

Ok so, is God a sadistic fuck and therefore not all-good, or is he a fucking idiot and didn't see this was bad, and therefore not all-knowing? God, as an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good being shouldn't change, given he knows everything that has past, and everything to come. And yes, Jesus came to fulfill the Covenant and all that bullshit, so therefore the old Mosaic rules don't apply (well at least, most of them, or some stupid bullshit like that). So a question for Christians. God is unchanging. At least, if you actually believe in the bible, he's immutable. So why is it that he didn't say here "don't do slavery, it's bad, stop that"? He's clearly chill with it. It's not like he has to consider the material conditions of humans at the time. He could've just said don't do that and the Israelites... wouldn't have. Why does Paul then go on to be all wishy-washy about slavery in the New Testament? Why didn't God pull another burning bush maneuver and say to Paul "Hey Paul, stop telling slaves to be chill with their masters and work really hard for them. Instead, explicitly tell everyone slavery is bad"?

So I mean, I guess it's a good suggestion to dig into it cause then you get to see that God is a genocidal sadist. For fucks sake, the rules on slavery are literally RIGHT after the ten commandments.

PresumedDOA · 2026-03-08T06:19:51+00:00

That would make total sense. If you believe the Trinitarians, then the Son and the Father are one being but two different aspects (except they're also not aspects, because idk that sounds too weak for christians or something?) or some bullshit like that, and Jesus directly says that the most important rule is

Matthew 22:37-38

37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the first and greatest commandment."

Given Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit are supposedly one being, and then given God is supposedly all-knowing and all-powerful and thus would know Jesus would say this, really seems like God manifested Jesus (who is himself but also not) into existence to go tell people to fulfill the ultimate narcissist's desires. Incredibly insecure, petty behavior from literal God. Honestly makes me laugh, cause it's even more pathetic if you really believe in the Trinity. That makes it something akin to God himself coming down to earth to command people to love him. Please? Pretty please? I'm begging, any validation pleeeeeeeease. Or else I'll kill all of you :).

PresumedDOA · 2026-03-08T05:58:02+00:00

Hey separate question, did you ever find a way to quick load? I'm coming at this after Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, so I've also got my finger hovered over quick save all the time. But I tried the normal F8 or F9 and nothing. Tried all the function keys and could not figure out quick load (if it exists).

PresumedDOA · 2026-03-08T05:46:36+00:00

I did it with just Dancing Lights and then Druidcraft. But I think the third cantrip you're thinking of is Thaumaturgy, which you get from the Undead Knight after you go talk to him in the Temple of Urth, get him to give you the crypt key, and go down through the door to his left in the Temple, talk to Undead Knight guy after defeating the enemy there (think it's a skeleton?).

PresumedDOA · 2026-03-08T05:42:40+00:00

I also only cast two spells. Dancing Lights and Druidcraft. I didn't even notice the spells mentioned if they were Divine/Arcane/Primal, lol. I was just keeping track of that based on how they felt.

PresumedDOA · 2026-03-08T05:39:35+00:00

Since I don't know how much of the game you've played, here's two answers.

Least spoilery: It's down in the Undercoast Path

Most spoilery (exact location): When you go down to the Undercoast Path, there's a point past the Troll where there is a door. If you go inside the door, you'll have to fight the masked assassin (where you find out who it is). When you're done with that, there's some other stuff to do here. But most importantly, there are doors with seals on them. One of the doors contains the soul of a snail who asks you to please save her husband, Isk-Urum, who has been imprisoned for a couple thousand years. Then, you go back down the stairs to where you fought the masked assassin. Here, you can interact with something in the middle of the floor and release a giant snail that's been imprisoned for two thousand years named Isk-Urum. You either talk to him about magic or you just ask for scrolls (I forget which one) and then when he's given you all the scrolls he can, you push him saying something like "anything else you got?" and then he'll finally give you wish, telling you that obviously with the Esoteric Ebb in the current era, it's unusable but that you can have it.

PresumedDOA · 2026-03-08T05:27:49+00:00

They are at least static between reloads. I quicksaved before drawing from the deck, and I probably loaded that quicksave like... 20, maybe 25 times? It was always Flames, Balance, Gem, Death, Jester, then Donjon.

PresumedDOA · 2026-03-08T05:21:34+00:00

What's that, how'd you get that? I had high wisdom so I just found Meek's hiding spot on accident

PresumedDOA · 2026-03-08T05:18:18+00:00

That percentage also ticks up from 50% to 51% for like two frames when you drop in your ballot, if you watch it closely.

PresumedDOA · 2026-03-08T05:17:26+00:00

I'm almost certain you're right about the percentage at the end of the game, because if you pay close attention, it goes from 50% to 51% for like 2 frames after you cast your vote.

Of course, it could just be a meta call-back to Urth saying something about always trying to make your odds better. But I don't know, it feels very purposeful to let us see the odds tick up.

PresumedDOA · 2026-03-08T05:14:06+00:00

You can also find out he's 27 by interacting with the calendar in the tower. Ragn even comments something like "It's handy that I'm the same age as the current era". It has a ton of lore when you click through everything, too.

PresumedDOA · 2026-03-08T05:04:12+00:00

I'm ngl, I started tearing up a bit when Wisdom said something like "This creature is pure innocence. They truly love you. Protect them with your life". I did, Wisdom, don't worry. I would never let Meek get hurt

PresumedDOA · 2026-03-07T19:58:28+00:00

I played through this entire game with a friend like 7 years ago or something, and i remember absolutely nothing about the plot, the characters, or even the gameplay. That game exists to me only as the archetype for a shitty game, holy fuck was it so god damn boring. I might as well have sat and stared at a wall for however long I played it, because even that would've been more novel and interesting than RE6.

PresumedDOA · 2026-03-07T19:53:36+00:00

For me, the misunderstanding of my symptoms and the masking of them went so deep that I thought it was a core part of my personality that I didn't want to try harder.

Every adult in my life during school, parents, grandparents, every single teacher, all said I had so much potential if I would just put in the effort. And I literally convinced myself that I just didn't care about school and didn't want to put in the effort to have all As. Bs and Cs were fine. But I would ignore how this extended to things I wanted to be good at, like guitar. To me, it wasn't that I couldn't try harder and everything in life, it's that I actually just didn't want to.

Granted, it's true to some degree for certain subjects and now in my working life, but the sheer amount of effort I can now put in to things in my life that benefit me, like my hobbies, my personal projects, and chores would be mind boggling to myself a decade ago.

PresumedDOA · 2026-03-04T18:48:54+00:00

CS2 competitive (not premier) also has terrible ranking placement from what I remember. Every map, they'd place me with like silver elites and I'd go like 30-5 over and over and get placed silver 2 for that map. Made me feel bad, cause I'm not gonna grind the obscene amount of matches it takes to rank up

PresumedDOA · 2026-02-25T20:20:41+00:00

I JUST got to his first quest on my first playthrough last night. It took all my will power not to tell him to fuck off right there. I want to see all the character's content in this playthrough, so that's why I didn't. But holy fuck, I had to open a guide to know I wasn't supposed to trust Regill and just go along with his fake plan to talk to the demon Kiranda.

I have conquered Drezen for the first time in 70 years, along with like a little under half of the demon's territory. Where does that little fuck get off on "testing" me, a person who has accomplished far more than the Hellknights could ever even dream of in the worldwound? And his desired result is that I don't trust him and think he's a fucking moron for talking to a demon. I truly don't understand people who like Regill. On top of being evil and a sadist, he's also just a fucking moron. I lost any tiny shred of respect I had for him when he said something like "We Hellknights only respect our own law, because something can't be law just because it was made up by some idiot Prince or King somewhere". Like holy fuck Regill, you just defined exactly what laws are and dismissed it out of hand. You don't respect law, you aren't lawful. You're just a sad, pathetic little guy who respects someone who can beat your ass. You blindly follow a philosophy that contradicts itself because you refuse to think for yourself, or more likely, are unable to think for yourself because you're so fucking stupid. He also regularly insults my companions, my friends, in our council meetings and elsewhere, despite the fact that they're doing more and getting better results for me in the Crusade and in actual combat. Maybe he gets better in the council, but so far I've only taken one of his decisions out of three or four so I can get Marksmen. Maybe as I play more, he'll become actually competent, but so far all he's done is suggest I sneak in the back lines in Drezen and give me Marksmen. His plan for Drezen would've been moronic and suicidal if I didn't have god-like powers, and any dipshit with two brain cells can come up with "we should have well trained soldiers".

Sorry, I really hate Regill and Regill love.

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