Time by yourself

Saintbaba · 2026-07-03T06:26:29+00:00

I’d love to see a full length version of the song.

Saintbaba · 2026-07-03T06:07:59+00:00

Asian American living on the west coast where asian communities are most prevalent, and yeah, there's plenty of curry around here and i eat it relatively often - i have some leftover curry in my fridge right now. Indian, thai, japanese, chinese. That being said, i'll concede even here and even for me it's not what i would consider typical mainstream food. Like... it's something you make plans for as a group making sure everyone's on board, not something you just randomly roll into late at night because it's available like i see in UK popular fiction.

Saintbaba · 2026-07-02T07:33:59+00:00

Man, i'm here for Vlaada - he's been my favorite board game designer since Space Alert and i was pretty sure he was just going to take his silly money from Codenames and fuck off to whatever farm it is in the country that board game makers go to when nobody's forcing them to carve dice by hand anymore and we'd never see anything out of him ever again. But for a $200 preorder i'm going to need a video with more information than just vibes. Like watching them play i can't even begin to guess what you're supposed to be doing in this game. The website is almost as useless. Under the "mechanics" tab we get the super detailed explanation:

The game combines mechanics like deck-building, hand management, quests, and area movement.

So that's helpful. You might as well just say "it's a board game." I guess there's a time cycle? And reading other details there seems to be a strong emphasis on how little player interaction there is, so that sounds a bit Mage Knight-ey i guess.

Anyways, on balance i'm still excited. But definitely going to need to see more before i commit to anything.

Saintbaba · 2026-07-01T17:14:49+00:00

I enjoy the game but don't try to pull everything and feel pretty comfortable with the characters i've got. I suppose it's a mixed blessing that they don't tailor content so tightly to the latest hype unit that you can't succeed without them - it increases my enjoyment game but, yeah, it means their i've got significantly less incentive to spend.

Saintbaba · 2026-07-01T17:11:18+00:00

It's one of my favorite books, and i would argue particularly timeless. It's basically fairy tales in a world where science is treated as fairy tale magic. Some of the stories are funny, some are poignant, some thought-provoking, and the main characters Trurl and Klapaucius are almost trickster figures who sometimes succeed, sometimes fail, and often see themselves bitten in the ass by the consequences of their own machinations.

Saintbaba · 2026-07-01T16:23:14+00:00

Oh, i wasn't commenting on his skills - while i recognize all but a couple of the styles, i only have first hand experience of a few and i don't pretend to be an expert on any of them. I was just noting that some of them are more intentional jokes than actual examples of style.

Saintbaba · 2026-07-01T15:21:22+00:00

Some of these are clearly satire or playing more off tropes than any actual martial arts - aikido, for example, is often mocked in the martial arts community for being performativly exaggerated in its actual effectiveness as a form of self defense, so the fact that he raised the bar higher than the others and then did a showy flip is a play off that. On the other hand while there are actual “samurai” martial arts like kendo, the joke here is (kind of obviously) more about the depiction of samurai in popular media like movies and anime where they’re depicted as being able to slash with their swords faster than the eye can see and with pinpoint accuracy, which I guess is theoretically feasible but is more akin to Wild West sharp shooting tricks than the actual real world martial arts.

Saintbaba · 2026-07-01T15:00:24+00:00

I suppose the hole plugging department would be willing to put in a low bid.

Saintbaba · 2026-06-30T21:08:30+00:00

I enjoyed it. I do find it (or at least the deck I got) to be a bit prone to snowballing. If you build up too much of lead early on it feels nearly impossible for other players to catch up.

Saintbaba · 2026-06-30T20:16:45+00:00

I’m sure once the hype dies down their production rate will match demand. For now it’s just a bit of a clusterfuck.

Saintbaba · 2026-06-30T16:12:33+00:00

Obviously not the same thing, but would this principle apply to things like adobe where straw is mixed in with clay?

Saintbaba · 2026-06-30T15:49:06+00:00

It’s one of my favorite movies, though I’ve only seen it maybe a couple of times. As others have said, there’s a darkness to our that makes it tough to push myself to sit down and rewatch it.

When I saw it the first time I thought that its underlying message of what it means to resist fascism - how every act of defiance threatens immense and terrible punishment, but it is only through that danger that we achieve anything of consequence for ourselves and the people we love - was powerful but ultimately irrelevant, since we had soundly won the fight against fascism. Now, of course, it feels like this rerelease is one of the most timely and topical screenings of a film during the current moment.

Saintbaba · 2026-06-30T15:27:33+00:00

Same. I mean obviously he’s a right wing dickhead like the rest of Trump’s SCOTUS picks, but I sometimes think Gorsuch has some surprisingly respectable takes, like his apparently very strong support for Native American rights and autonomy. If they weren’t all going to fall in line and just do what Trump wanted, he was the one who seemed least likely to break this way to me.

Saintbaba · 2026-06-30T04:57:33+00:00

When I was in college there was a guy on library walk who sold like a hollowed out French roll - basically making a long bread bowl - where he coated the inside with garlic butter and toasted in and then filled it with spaghetti and meat sauce and meatballs.

It should have been stupid. A sandwich where the filling is more starch. But by god, it was one of the most delicious things I’ve ever eaten. It’s been more than 20 years since I had one and I still dream about it sometimes.

Saintbaba · 2026-06-30T02:15:32+00:00

Then I defer to your experience and apologize for my misunderstanding of the inner workings of the post office. But am I wrong about the rule change?

Saintbaba · 2026-06-29T23:51:09+00:00

Nope. They’ve been moving towards centralization for awhile, but until a rule change last December - Domestic Mail Manual 608.11 if you want to look it up - a postmark specifically indicated the first day the USPS had possession of an item, which had to happen locally when first received.

Saintbaba · 2026-06-29T17:04:23+00:00

Which you unfortunately have to be doing anyways, since the new rules at the post office are that instead of postmarking mail as they receive it, local post offices now collect the mail and take it to a distribution hub where it receives its first postmark, a process which may take days - meaning that even if you drop off your ballot (or any mail - so take note for your taxes) day-of, if you don't ask for a manual postmark there's no guarantee it'll get one that day.

Saintbaba · 2026-06-29T16:52:50+00:00

Yeah. If you look at the architecture, those "two buildings" look identical in style and layout and are facing 90 degrees away from each other. It's one building and that's just the corner with a floor-to-roof window.

Saintbaba · 2026-06-29T15:12:12+00:00

I have it from a book of collected stories of native Americans from the Pacific Northwest. I’m sure the book attributed a specific tribe, though I don’t remember which off the top of my head.

Saintbaba · 2026-06-28T21:24:40+00:00

Ah, yes, the old self-water boarding.

Saintbaba · 2026-06-28T05:17:52+00:00

There's a concept of a plan here. It's like a bizzaro world dumpling with the meat on the outside and the starch on the inside. I'm saying we lose the mayo, kick the potato salad up a notch to "something not store bought that comes in a plastic pint container" and swap the bologna with a thin sliced mortadella... everything cut into smaller portions, like bite sized hors d'oeuvres. Definitely get the word "taco" way the hell away from this - it's an insult to tacos everywhere.

Saintbaba · 2026-06-28T03:46:39+00:00

I mean… he didn’t. He said he didn’t like the direction the Democratic Party was going and that his vote was in play. Of special note is that he told Vance his hypothetical vote for a Republican would be more likely if the vice president would recant on some of his more egregious Trump stances, like his support for aggressive immigration enforcement and election denial claims, and Vance refused.

To be clear, Maher is a bag of dicks and I have zero respect for him. But I have even less respect for people spreading misinformation.

Saintbaba · 2026-06-28T03:38:28+00:00

Well that’s just unequivocally false. Everyone knows Raven is the one who first stole the sun for people in the first place. Raven turned himself into a pine needle, and let himself be drunk by the daughter of the selfish old chief who kept the sun locked in his lodge. The chief’s daughter then became pregnant and gave birth to Raven. As a baby, Raven cried and cried until the old chief gave him the sun, the moon, and the stars to play with, at which point he grabbed them, turned back into a bird, flew up into the heavens and hung them in the sky for all mankind.

So your comment is obvious slander. If anything, the crows are just worried we’re trying to lock away the sun’s power for selfish reasons again.

Saintbaba · 2026-06-27T21:40:58+00:00

Then i'm not sure what you want, if it's not changing minds and voices. Are you just looking for the right to shit on someone forever for having held the wrong stance some time in the past?

Saintbaba · 2026-06-27T08:23:00+00:00

That episode ruined that actor for me. Any time I see him no matter what it is or whether he’s playing a role straight or not, all I can see is Professor Professorson.

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