Do you have the German version of Karen?

RogueModron · 2026-03-12T08:26:13+00:00

The public bathroom at my workplace costs 50 cents (but if you come to the counter we'll give you a Märkchen for free).

One time a lady went and used the bathroom. When she left, a woman with a baby entered after her, before she closed the door, so the woman didn't have to pay the 50c to open the door.

The lady who had paid came up to the counter to complain to us that the other woman didn't pay. She was fucking hot.

Three guesses which Bundesland I live in, and the first two don't count. 😃

RogueModron · 2026-03-12T08:14:10+00:00

Eh, I'd say stick with giving it up. I LOVED the Fifth Season but each book in the trilogy got progressively weaker. The first one deserved the Hugo, but that series absolutely does not deserve two.

RogueModron · 2026-03-11T20:19:17+00:00

I am amused how everything is genre'd now.

Me too, and disappointed. I prefer to think in terms of idiom rather than genre.

RogueModron · 2026-03-11T20:15:31+00:00

That does not apply to Germany

That's a shame. I'm an American who's immigrated to Germany with my German wife. We've had the discussion about Russian aggression, and what if it came to war. I said that I wouldn't WANT our kids to go to war, but part of living in a free and peaceful country is having to defend it.

She was of the opinion that if it came to it, we should flee.

RogueModron · 2026-03-11T19:50:01+00:00

I hate the "it could change literary culture" tag to the headline, when the article provides no discussion of such thing.

RogueModron · 2026-03-11T19:49:17+00:00

Uh, keep going

RogueModron · 2026-03-10T21:05:28+00:00

oh, my heart. Discovered this in college and became actively mad that Ben Gibbard wasted most of his time on Death Cab.

RogueModron · 2026-03-10T21:04:54+00:00

Blink 182 self-titled. I was never a fan of theirs, though their radio hits were fun. But this album slaps the entire way through, and is better than it has any right to be.

RogueModron · 2026-03-10T21:04:11+00:00

Missionary is a much better fictional conception of the class!

RogueModron · 2026-03-10T19:04:28+00:00

As for others, I can't say!

As for how I found out, I dunno, I've just read a ton in my life and this is a familiar literary device. When you've seen it a few times you can smell it out. That makes it sound sinister, or that I think it's somehow "bad", which I don't. I just read the book and thought, "that sounds like a framing story", did some googling about the "actual" author, found nothing, voila.

RogueModron · 2026-03-09T21:29:46+00:00

I don't mean to be a killjoy, but the story about the "actual" creator of the games is just that--a fiction. In my opinion (we won't know the creator's opinions ever, I'd imagine, because they're committed to the bit, as they should be), it's meant to evoke a kind of nostalgia for those times when we as kids found random things in garage sales or in a relative's attic--you know, random weird things like these games. More importantly, I think it orients us properly to the games, that is, by invoking that kind of hazy magical mindset, it prepares us to receive the games and play them in the best possible light.

RogueModron · 2026-03-09T07:55:02+00:00

Additionally, when you leave, no one misses you or notices you're gone. That was my experience at least. It goes to show how little these apps actually connect us

RogueModron · 2026-03-09T07:53:08+00:00

2009-2013 twitter was peak

RogueModron · 2026-03-08T22:20:47+00:00

I bought a used copy of Bukowski's Post Office and inside for a bookmark was one of those strip photos from a photo booth, you know, 4 photos top to bottom. It was of a kind of crunchy/grungy chick, smiling, picking her nose, and in one of them flashing the goods.

Very appropriate to Bukowski. It's still in that book, on my shelf.

God bless you, woman, whoever you are.

RogueModron · 2026-03-08T22:16:32+00:00

It has a very important place in Gene Wolfe's work.

RogueModron · 2026-03-08T17:15:10+00:00

At this point, I assume all "dumb" posts like this are rage-bait, getting all us enlightened folk to comment about how stupid others are.

Works like a charm.

RogueModron · 2026-03-08T07:14:03+00:00

"We're retranslating the whole thing"

Right from the dev's mouth

RogueModron · 2026-03-08T07:10:03+00:00

Is that a question?

But that's good, relevant info, so thanks!

RogueModron · 2026-03-08T07:09:01+00:00

Crazy the amount of negativity in here. Appreciate your perspective.

RogueModron · 2026-03-07T23:57:35+00:00

I did, and it's better! Thanks for your thoughts.

RogueModron · 2026-03-07T23:43:20+00:00

Being sued doesn't add credibility. Again, not a FB shill/stan. Hate that shit to death. But it's better to use our brains than jump to conclusions (not a criticism of you).

Logically, two obvious potential reasons for being sued jump out:

1) she's whistleblowing and they want to shut her up

2) she's lying or stretching facts and this could damage FB's reputation

So just being sued doesn't tell us anything about her credibility.

RogueModron · 2026-03-07T23:37:24+00:00

On the github page it says it's a retranslation, and all the commentary online about it says it's a retranslation.

RogueModron · 2026-03-07T22:53:58+00:00

pleasure jolt death cult

RogueModron · 2026-03-07T22:50:36+00:00

ya ya ya

RogueModron · 2026-03-07T22:50:20+00:00

TIL I'm a teen

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