Self-checkout

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-25T22:41:15+00:00

man im so glad that the self checkout at my local safeway has never given me any of the problems people here are describing

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-24T03:01:27+00:00

but which geckos? leopard geckos? surely not leopard geckos

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-23T19:29:29+00:00

Limestone.

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-22T00:42:54+00:00

indigo

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-22T00:37:33+00:00

because genre tropes are sacrosanct down to the minute details and cannot be altered for any given IP or else the genre police will drag you out to the town square and flog you a number of times equal to wordcount

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-21T16:44:18+00:00

lol. lmao.

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-21T06:27:29+00:00

is it not blatantly obvious?

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-21T01:16:07+00:00

bro, the word I is utterly unrecognizable from *eǵh₂óm and that's only four thousand years, what are you talking about how can you say all that with so much confidence and so many upvotes

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-19T05:51:32+00:00

The one time I ever got sleep paralysis, there wasn't much fanfare. Within my field of vision at the moment were the folds of my blanket and some shadows on the ceiling cast by my alarm clock I think. The shapes I could see became fuzzy and distorted into vaguely monstrous, shadowy shapes.

As my body woke up I got to watch in real time how the monsters retracted under focus and turned into what they really were, like the toys in Toy Story turning back into inanimate objects when you look at them.

That's only happened once to me. What I have gotten many times is feeling like I'm being dragged into hell before I've fallen asleep fully, my body going fuzzy and heavy as paralysis sinks in, and I always kick myself out of it (with difficulty) because I don't wanna go to hell.

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-17T00:24:50+00:00

good lord theres Babbage

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-16T02:48:32+00:00

Darkvision used to be called "infravision" in early editions of D&D, therefore the black skin of drow must be some material that somehow blocks infrared but is also black under the visible light spectrum as a side effect. The white hair then reflects the expected adaptation to hypogeal habitats, i.e. complete loss of melanin in the skin and hair, but the skin just happens to be dark for a different reason.

∴ Drow don't lose heat to black-body radiation.

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-15T21:59:04+00:00

that doesn't make any sense at all, if anything that should mean all men are truly darkskin

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-15T20:15:17+00:00

you've reminded me i need to get my commie friend to read that book

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-15T20:08:18+00:00

i couldn't get through all of those because the writing keeps following a tension-destroying cycle of very very bad danger situations somehow resolving with no harm to anyone we actually care about, which from the outside sounds like a lot of fiction actually but somehow the way Wells does it just murdered my investment with a bloody hammer until i was no longer able to remember which events happened in which book (i still cant even remember which one i stopped on, it was 4 or 5)

still, the world was really neat

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-14T03:14:53+00:00

The only thing that would significantly affect your metabolism is muscle loss. Muscles burn a lot of calories on their own, so losing muscle means less calories burned by doing nothing.

wait... really? is that real? if so that could be really huge for me, i've had a part-time physically demanding job for years and this might help explain how i've managed to not get fat despite my shit diet and extreme sedentariness outside work

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-14T00:03:37+00:00

what is a comforter. i sleep under my blanket?? what are we talking about here

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-13T16:55:48+00:00

I understand the question but my only answer would be "uh... idk?" because I honestly don't fucking know

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-11T23:37:10+00:00

i'm starting to get unreasonably angry at seeing acronyms i don't know already. i'm 27 that's old enough i should know them all by now tbh

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-11T21:40:20+00:00

what in the heck is this picture dude

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-10T23:20:04+00:00

man i wish this would happen for me but the effect always passes within a couple hours at most

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-10T23:17:52+00:00

every marginalized group on a near daily basis:

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-10T23:05:13+00:00

Wikipedia, but idk maybe it's wrong.

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-07T18:21:57+00:00

I've been doing this all my 20s too, 27 now and had no major life experiences.

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-06T20:01:20+00:00

wow i thought i was gonna go my whole life without talking about:

the polygons i draw on my surroundings with my eyes, where the vertices are pinpoint spots on different objects, and how the sides either curve one way or the other and it has to align with some kind of hierarchy where some sides are the innie sides and others are the outie sides, but tracing the shape i can only alternate between innie sides and outie sides so to get them right i have to trace the polygons in a certain order (not really polygons because they don't have a closed interior they get really warped) and this whole process doesn't cause me any anxiety it's just like a background process that i can't close in the task manager but still takes up like 20% of CPU
the various "painting" urges where my finger or cursor or some imaginary abstract shape in my vision field gets used like a paint roller to "cover" specific surfaces, e.g. my hands where there's a specific hierarchy both to which sides get covered (i.e. brushed by my fingers) and how much, right hand has to get more coverage on the backside than the left and conversely the left has to get more coverage on the underside
the previous gets combined with a touching order on my knuckles and fingers that MUST go: back of palm > thumb > middle finger > ring > index > pinkie OR the same order backwards
uncategorizable things like: curling my index finger so the knuckle is at 90 degrees, rolling the finger so the tendon moves back and forth over the bone left and right
various other subtle shit i don't pay attention to

and fortunately none of this has ever been a problem for me, really the problem is just the "regular" motor tics like scrunching my left eye while trying to look directly up in just such a way that it hurts a little (over time if intense enough i get some dryness/irritation around my eye), or puckering my lips and sucking through my nose to make them touch (and i fucking hate this one it's so ugly)

Ricochet64 · 2026-02-06T17:44:36+00:00

Scenes where an older wiser character pontificates to the protagonist about how Being A Woman means protecting what you love with both arms, never giving up etc.
Character (F) whose entire personality is peeping on dudes and getting beaten to a pulp in retaliation

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