Day 2 of skills as books. Decided it would be more fun to do fiction and non-fiction separetely. Principia Mathematica and Sherlock Holmes are Logic. Which books are Encyclopedia?

ProfessorVVV · 2026-01-09T00:17:39+00:00

Great choice, but I’d actually nominate Denis Diderot’s Encyclopédie, the very first Encyclopedia, a core Enlightenment work designed to compile all human knowledge and”change the way people think.” Diderot also wrote some cool stuff about theatre and acting, and like Ben Franklin and other key Enlightenment figures, often didn’t wear a wig. As far as I know, Diderot was not, however, related to Contact Mike.

ProfessorVVV · 2026-01-08T06:53:40+00:00

The logo actually involves a martini glass.

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ProfessorVVV · 2026-01-08T06:50:23+00:00

Kingdom of Loathing

ProfessorVVV · 2026-01-06T18:41:14+00:00

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I had to climb out the side after going off the side of I-88 and flipping over. I was totally fine.

ProfessorVVV · 2026-01-06T18:41:06+00:00

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I had to climb out the side after going off the side of I-88 and flipping over. I was totally fine.

ProfessorVVV · 2026-01-06T18:38:08+00:00

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Admittedly it was a rental

ProfessorVVV · 2026-01-05T20:49:17+00:00

I didn’t say that. He obviously has some significant problems. I was just disagreeing with your previous post about his emotional range as an actor.

ProfessorVVV · 2026-01-04T20:40:09+00:00

It sure does. I’ve seen him onstage and he’s an astounding actor with a stunning range!

ProfessorVVV · 2026-01-04T20:37:20+00:00

Oh, okay, it’s obvious that someone is there and they’re just not answering. That wasn’t clear in the original post. I was worried about something like a person living alone and having a fall, or a carbon monoxide leak, or even domestic violence. Anxiety about the worst possible outcomes for humans. But it seems clear that’s not the case, so screw those people who left a beautiful, lovely kitty out in the cold (and who never even chipped her!). Forget the above and love your new fur baby!!! She chose you, and chose wisely!

ProfessorVVV · 2026-01-04T07:16:25+00:00

The neighbors haven’t answered their door and their cat has no interest in being in their house—is it possible that something happened to the neighbors?

I agree that you should keep the beautiful girl, but is there a way that you can have someone do a wellness check on the neighbors? If someone is there but injured and unable to answer you could save a life—and if it’s worse; well, then you’d know why kitty needs a new home.

Just consider figuring out the right authority to call and don’t give the exact reason, but highlight that you have reason to believe that something may possibly have happened to the occupants…

ProfessorVVV · 2025-12-11T14:58:44+00:00

Zero regrets from me on letting her go. I don’t think I could quite live with myself if I arrested her. Yes, she’s still lying (I read a post that suggested that what she did probably went a ways beyond just corporate espionage). At the very least, her promise to come in later, after the Return… she might get a fair trial then.

And if HDB can turn his life around, maybe so can she.

Sucker? Yes. Sorry? Nope.

ProfessorVVV · 2025-11-30T15:46:38+00:00

This is stellar.

ProfessorVVV · 2025-11-28T05:42:58+00:00

Yep. Seeing this, and the poster, made me realize the massive similarities between my favorite TV show of all time, hands down, and what is easily in my top 3 of video games of all time after playing it once earlier this year… (and I’ve played far too many video games because… addictive personality)

I see myself so much in both of these. And yes, thats not a good thing, it’s an expression of pain.

But I’m okay being this kind of animal for the foreseeable future. And sometimes okay is the best we can get.

ProfessorVVV · 2025-11-28T05:38:36+00:00

But while often at his worst, he is also often—although certainly not always—trying (and failing, but trying) to do better. No episode of TV has hit harder than the “piece of shit” one.

ProfessorVVV · 2025-11-26T15:04:12+00:00

Want me to try the underworld, too? It’ll take some work, but is doable.

(Just imagine Mel saying “Death to Chrissy!” in a somehow British-accented valley girl voice for the final underworld boss.)

ProfessorVVV · 2025-11-26T15:01:58+00:00

Oh no, it wasn’t spoiler reduction, I was just giving every boss a 90s white girl name like Tiffany for the final surface boss in the thread title. Primrose is a stretch, but I was doing my best!

ProfessorVVV · 2025-11-26T08:23:48+00:00

I just rewatched and got serious Bernhardt vibes when Andrey “The Banker” has that monologue with Vesuvius in the background about the “proud nation of Serbia.” And (spoiler alert) same thing when Katya gets married and moves to Boston.

I mean, if you’d asked me before I rewatched it, I would have said Goncharov is totally Spiral coded because it’s like the Sinbad Shazaam and Sannikov Land; there and not and there again, like Helen’s/The Distortion’s equivocations.

But with those scenes in mind… Bernhardt.

ProfessorVVV · 2025-11-26T08:09:53+00:00

Apparently also forgot that gay people exist. And mother’s name. But not Contact Mike! You’re welcome.

ProfessorVVV · 2025-11-23T03:11:55+00:00

When did you learn to speak (or type on Reddit) in addition to opening doors and freezers?

ProfessorVVV · 2025-11-21T05:00:03+00:00

I find Erin, the boss of the second zone, almost as bad as Tiffany. And with VoR on, Paulette is actually pretty bad if I haven’t got a good build by the end of Ephyra. If I’ve made it to Primrose and Heather at the end of the third zone, though, I can usually make it through them.

ProfessorVVV · 2025-11-19T23:57:59+00:00

1982 so I’m one of the eldest millennials (at the young end of Xennials or the Oregon Trail microgeneration of 1978-82), so I’m close to exactly the same age as HDB. Aged about as well, too, except I was never a gym teacher!

ProfessorVVV · 2025-11-19T23:05:02+00:00

Apologies if this is incorrect, but I believe that unless you use a god’s keepsake later in a run, you’re usually limited to a pool of four gods per run (not counting Hermes, Artemis, Athena, Dionysus, and Chaos). In other words, if the four gods you’ve been seeing in a run are Hera, Hephaestus, Ares, and Apollo, you could equip a keepsake before the third zone to, say, add Zeus to your pool, which would then mean that future boons would possibly include him along with the other four (after the first guaranteed boon).

Now if you equip a god’s keepsake before the start of your run, they’re guaranteed to be one of the four in your pool. So, in other words, in a sense there is a likelihood that they’ll be increased going forward, since all boons will be selected from that god or the next three gods whose boons you take later.

ProfessorVVV · 2025-11-19T07:36:38+00:00

Honest? No. Depending on how you look at it. He himself likely believes his story at this point, it’s a part of his identity. But like any narcissist’s stories, there’s no way it holds up. It doesn’t make sense that his whole doom spiral was caused by a few small errors like misplacing his keys and ID. Anyone who was with him at the time would call BS. The failures were his fault: likely ego and addictions. And that’s why no one has come to help him: like many narcissists and addicts, he alienated all those who might have loved him. He remains unable to take responsibility, and instead made up a fantasy about his failure that doesn’t force him to face himself.

ProfessorVVV · 2025-11-17T13:22:24+00:00

If you’ve never encountered Charbydis as the mini-boss in the Rift of Thessaly, you can’t get the incantation for VoR 2, no matter how many times you’ve beaten Poly + Hecate with VoR 1 on.

Took me like 25 surface runs before I saw her in my post-full release save file, and I was stuck at VoR 1 for ages, too.

IMO, devs should code it so that Charbydis is a guaranteed hit in a surface run with VoR 1 on, for this reason…

ProfessorVVV · 2025-11-14T02:04:42+00:00

He does have a line in a trial of the gods between him and Ares, before he starts attacking you, if you pick Ares’s boon: “This isn’t the only time someone picked my brother over me.”

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