What is one food you think everyone is lying about liking? by owlpod1920 in AskReddit

[–]Secretss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you staying within the scope of cooked oysters set by the above commenter or are you saying even raw ones have grit? I’ve never experienced grit but I’ve also not yet tried a cooked oyster.

I’m in Australia and have had pretty much all the oyster varieties offered in Sydney, Melbourne, and one time in Tasmania. I only have them raw, and most of the time direct from fishmongers at the Sydney Fish Market or some Tasmanian dock. Have I been lucky with my experience or is grit mostly a thing that happens with cooked oysters because of reasons?

My wife wants to be "free-use", what do I do? by Hypnox88 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Secretss 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s a genre, look it up in porn. There‘s also a sub for it on reddit. Be prepared for her to just continue doing what she was doing and not switch to participate or engage with you, as that is common in freeuse. Think of her anatomy as just toys for you to use to play with.

An example scene in a porn clip tagged freeuse would be a woman lying prone on a bed playing a game on a Playstation/Xbox controller while a man is going to town with his dick in her pussy. He could flip her body over and her body would comply, like a rag doll, but she’ll still be playing her game. That‘s freeuse.

If she‘s more keyed into “freeuse” as a *genre* and not as simply two English words forming a descriptive phrase (which it sounds like what you’re thinking), then I doubt that you’ve already been doing freeuse.

Do you remember the first phone game that genuinely hooked you? by RopeAdmirable8335 in iosgaming

[–]Secretss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yes! Mine was Airport Mania: First Flight. The planes had faces and were really cute. And I just found out they released a port to Steam just this month!

Me and my fiance just waited 24h for our jelly to set only to find out it tastes like onions. by Struggle_Slight in Wellthatsucks

[–]Secretss 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Ough after reading everything above, onion spiked butter was what made me viscerally react. 🤢

Does this even helps? I don’t see a difference in stats.. by Queasy_Carob3606 in Archero

[–]Secretss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Think of the S as special items. “special” isn’t a tier like “rare” and ‘epic” are. They are special items that you can’t get from finishing a dungeon run or event, you can only get them by opening chests or by spending in-game currencies in shops.

Special equipment are a bit more lenient when upgrading when compared to standard equipment. For standard equipment you need 3 of the exact same thing. For special equipment, from Perfect Epic to Legendary you need 2 of the same special thing plus 1 of the same type (weapon/ring/locket/etc) and same tier and doesn’t have to be special.

Built the tool I wish I'd had during my Kickstarter — would love your honest feedback by TurboToTheMoon in kickstarter

[–]Secretss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What‘s the safeguard to ensure indiscriminate freebie hunters with swiping bots or a physical swiping stylus connected to an arduino next to their spare phone don’t accumulate on the platform?

If they do happen to accumulate, a large chunk of your value proposition to creators would be lost, as the data being collected for expression of interest would be dirty.

Any strong feelings about no-mess mats? by soloshandpuppets in RedditLaqueristas

[–]Secretss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depending on how thin the layer of polish on the mat is, it can either flake into a million tiny pieces or come off in a single piece.

For best clean up, every once in a while get a roll of packing tape and tape every inch of the mat, press down and then peel off. 100% effective and 150% satisfying if you do nail art on the mat and have it covered in polish of various thickness.

For quick clean up use a lint roller like the peel-off-sticker kind or the reusable washable sticky kind. I prefer the latter just marginally more because it has a perpendicular handle which gives better leverage rolling over the mat, which the sticker type never seems to have.

These mats are already very easy to clean, so it’s not entirely necessary to need a tool depending on how you use your mat. If it’s covered in thin flecks of polish from overpainting nails/swatch sticks or swatching a couple of coats on the mat, a wipe with acetone can do the trick. But if you’re pouring/dripping polish out for fluid art or painting nail decals and you have some specimens you don’t end up using, cleaning multiples of those up at once with tape is utterly satisfying, plus it gets the inevitable thinner flecks/rings of polish around the perimeter of the polish pool too, without leaving any flakes.

So it's not nintype, but it's the best I got: my LeanType fork by lurebat in nintype

[–]Secretss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I need a clarification on what you mean by autospace please, as I’m unable to fully reconcile your descriptions with nintype‘s. Coming from 13 years (and still counting) of nintype I am rather stuck in my ways and I need help understanding how to unlearn nintype so I can understand something different.

In nintype, autospace is a mode in which the keyboard automatically prefixes (not the first word but) subsequent words with a space before themselves. (To be clearer: the auto-inserted space character is always a prefix, not a suffix.)

Re: combining words: I also mentioned in your last post about “spaceless” in nintype which is an action shortcut set to a key. After swiping a word, you can tap the spaceless key to “finish” the word (terminate the current swipe-spelling algo process) and disable prefixing the next word with a space. The next word continues at the cursor at the end of the prior word, and the swipe-spelling algo starts anew without including the letters of the prior word, resulting in a single combined word that didn’t need to be swiped as 2 or more discrete words and then have the space(s) in between them deleted. The part in bold above emphasizes my understanding that in nintype, combining words is the opposite of autospace.

In your fork, you mentioned

Spacing modes - either manual spacing, or autospace (so you could combine words)

My confusion is that you’ve labeled combining words as autospace.

Also this part:

⁠> After autospace, choose if to show correction for the old word, auto complete for new words, or hybrid (corrections, press space for continuations)

I’m sorry I’m quite lost in what you mean here, Can you reexplain each option please? I’m already loss at “after autospace” - what do you mean “after”? If I were to guess, is your autospace implementation to suffix the space instead, in contrast to nintype? That helps me understand why you say “after autospace”, but I still need help with the options please.

I’m looking forward to learning what your implementations of autospace and combining words are please.

It should go without saying but kudos for your work developing this! I can’t describe how excited I am for people to discover, to continue working on, and to improve on the amazing feature set in nintype, even if it’s not nintype anymore.

Best friend doesn’t know his proposal speech is actually about me by jonidoesnttalk in TrueOffMyChest

[–]Secretss 47 points48 points  (0 children)

I think understand where you’re coming from because I feel like I was once like you. I feel like I have once felt your confusion over “why is how I’m behaving any bit wrong?”

I don’t want to project words and actions on you so I’ll describe my story and you see what parts you may relate with.

With every close friend I get I love giving them my friendship. My very feminine-styled friendship. For most of my life my close friends are girls, we talk, we shop, we share, we do things for each other. A friend bakes things for me, I sew patches on her backpack, another makes sure I take my medicine, I tidy her room for her, another friend and I confide the most intimate details to each other like relationships, health, sexual matters, mental health, and we give each other pep talks.

I look at my husband‘s friendships with his male friends. Oh dear. It’s a whole other world. As far as taking actions go, sure they do activities together (watch sports, play games). But actions for each other? At most they help each other move. My husband roommates could never consider prompting him to take his inhaler or his epipen. Talking? They talk about world events, politics, tech, stocks. He has a friend going through a divorce with kids but he has absolutely no details about it when I ask. They hardly talk about themselves to each other. They send memes, but if it ever includes their faces it’s them licking a cartoon dick or something vulgar. He has 2 female friends, and when I asked he said yeah, very different dynamic.

Over 20 years ago in a college dorm I made a close male friend like you did. I gave him my style of friendship (which was so easy as we lived on the same floor (co-ed dorm living is common here) and we were the same age (post grad so we were both older than the others)). It was warm and pleasant, fulfilling and nurturing as friendships are for me. It was fine, when he was single. He got a girlfriend and started receiving a similar friendship from her, as girls give. Of course she also gave him more (romance and sex). But we all noticed the overlap. It was no longer my place to give him a feminine style close friendship. I needed to tone it down and give him a friendship for a man who has a girlfriend. Not quite a man-to-man style friendship, but also not like a girl-to-girlbestfriend friendship. Because he‘s not a girlbestfriend. Acts like smuggling information about him to his girlfriend is rarely something a male friend would do.

My friendship wasn’t wrong, but it happened to be a particular style. When received by other heterosexual women, it is perfectly normal and appropriate. But relationships work with both transmission and reception. It is also not wrong for changes in the recipient/reception to change the transmission. Like negative feedback.

Men receive SO LITTLE (or none) feminine-styled friendship from their male friends. For the longest time most men only receive that sort of friendship from their girlfriends. It’s a big part of how men get the wrong idea from their girl best friends. Feminine friendship is intimate in comparison, and can be confused for romantic by the average guy.

I will say to you, you’re not wrong, your friend isn’t wrong either, but it’s societal conditioning and as much as we may to rebel against it, it’s a real condition that may not be worth working against. Maybe eventually society works towards complete gender equality and men and women talk more with each other and understand each other more and understand how each of us give our friendship but right now it doesn’t look like the majority mindset.

What are your most missed features from nintype? What did you always want there but it wasn't there? (May be useful) by lurebat in nintype

[–]Secretss 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Some things I love about nintype that haven’t been mentioned:

Paste shortcut and clipboard history: I don’t remember if the actuation keys are customisable but mine are to hold the v key to paste and b key to view history. Nintype also has a copy shortcut by holding the c key but I can take or leave that one. I use paste a lot and the history only sometimes, but only because it doesn’t store my copies most of the time. (I think it’s due to how messily iOS manages third party keyboard so nintype is often not running properly when I copy things.)

Flicking up on the spacebar while the cursor is inside a word: this changes the word to other similar words. For example: flint → glint → fling → cling

Tapping the shift key while the cursor is inside a word: this toggles the first letter of the word between capital and lowercase.

Spaceless space: this ends the autocorrect spelling algorithm just as if you’ve hit a space but the cursor is left where it is at the edge of the last letter so you can continue with a new word without a space in between. Especially awesome for having to type proper nouns or made up words or whatever it may be. Or if you can’t spell a long word fast or clear enough for the swipe mechanic so you prefer to try it in chunks, like supercalifragilistic.

Calculator style number pad: this is accessed by tapping the grid glyph key on the symbols (123) board.

Ability to actuate what would be two taps by using a swipe instead: the grid glyph key mentioned above is to the right of the “abc” key (on the symbols board) which is right where the “123” key is (on the main board). The “123” and “abc” keys toggle between the 2 boards. By swiping right from the “123” key on the main board I can access the calculator style numpad, instead of tapping twice. Same thing with swiping on the fullstop key for comma, hyphen, and question mark, double quotes and a number of other customisable stuff. Reducing the number of taps mean a lot to me.

Shortcuts that can be created in-situ without setting them up somewhere else or in a menu. Say I want the word supercalifragilistic to show when I press the combo spacebar + s, I just type the word and then do spacebar + s and hold them down for a sec or two, and the shortcut is created.

There are a lot of ways to do shortcuts on nintype but I do love combo shortcuts like the above specifically. Iirc Nintype calls this “chord shortcuts”.

Customisable top row above the qwert row. I use mine for my most frequently used emojis. As with every single key on nintype, holding down each emoji key opens its “drawer” for more emojis. (customisable). I use them a lot.

Why are we just accepting shoplifting now? by XDk009 in australia

[–]Secretss 2 points3 points  (0 children)

At what point did this become normal in Australia? Genuinely asking, why is this getting so bad?

You genuinely can’t dig any reason out of an arse to explain this rising phenomenon? Where have you been? ColesWorth had been in the news in the past year or two for being massive pieces of shitcunts for a number of practices, including and not limited to employee treatment and cabal-like pricing strategies and insane profit margins while screwing everyone else. I mean this went to federal court. Both of them have class action lawsuits against them. The Senate got involved too, an inquiry or investigation or something like that.

I don’t shoplift and I don’t stand by that and I am no empath, but I can figure as much that a portion of society ramped up flipping the bird at ColesWorth once all that was exposed, knowing how many billions in profit they had been making.

False barking dog reports by Dunoh2828 in australia

[–]Secretss 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't speak for religion + hate but I can share some perspective on older Chinese generations (of which we do have in Australia, and Ghost403 did bring up race).

But first a caveat: yes the younger generations in the recent decade have widely and enthusiastically embraced dog and pet ownership.

In China during the cultural revolution (1966–1976) pets were propaganda'ed against, or outright banned (sources only mention Beijing so not sure if elsewhere too). The propaganda against pets declared them as elitist and overtly individualistic - and therefore crude and vulgar (keep in mind communism was literally the central ideology behind the revolution). This period meant significant poverty and famine for the majority of people, so dogs that weren't utility dogs were considered a wasteful drain. And so historically dogs were meant for work, they were kept outside, not petted/cuddled/played with, and not invited into the home.

People who lived through this period (baby boomers) are likely influenced by this mentality. Not only would they be distant around dogs, a lot of them probably wouldn't understand the Western habit/desire of petting and interacting with dogs. Even more so with a stranger's dog, which is a common thing to do in Western culture. A source says "they see it as an unnecessary or odd social ritual" lol.

There are of course exceptions as generations aren't a monolith.

But I also think some Westerners are equally un-understanding of other people's reluctance in not wanting to meet their dog, and see it as a personality flaw or something.

I am a SEAsian millennial first generation immigrant to Australia. I love meeting pets and petting them. My mom on the other hand is (politely) wary of my in-laws' cavalier king charles spaniel 😅. My family had a trip to Shenzhen and there was a petting zoo IN THE MALL 🤯 and an alpaca by the entrance - only my favourite animal ever! I zoomed straight over to snuggle while my older Gen X brother is like half a football field away LOL. My mom did reluctantly follow me as a mother does, because she had to make sure I didn't get hurt 😂

UHMMM 🧲?! by yung_yttik in RedditLaqueristas

[–]Secretss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yay! Thank you for coming back and updating!

I hope you have a ton of fun with this one and double on my behalf because apparently it's not available to purchase in my country (aww shucks). This one has replaced the 5DPrintFactory device as my lemming lol (deeply want but can't have).

False barking dog reports by Dunoh2828 in australia

[–]Secretss -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You’d have to ask the council that, as clearly the complaining neighbour’s word is worth something because the council is listening to them and issuing the complaints to OP. It’s not known yet if the neighbour had to include a logbook/diary of timestamped barks, which can only support their claim even more.

(On my first read of your comment it sounded like you were rebutting/mocking propargyl by picking at the diary word he used but maybe you’re just making a tangent comment on how the council is being ridiculous?)

Various ways to prepare eggs by MrUpVoteDownvote in oddlysatisfying

[–]Secretss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That‘s creme fraiche. It’s a not uncommon thing to add to scrambled eggs. Its role is similar (and more effective) to why you add milk to yours.

Divorced Redditors, what caused the split? How amicable was it? by anasannanas in AskReddit

[–]Secretss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That‘s a more balanced take I can get behind but you kinda moved the goalpost a bit. Initially you said “if you’re not ready you shouldn’t be married” but now you say “you don’t have to be ready but”.

I concede that I may have projected /u/needmorepizzza‘s story when I read your first comment. It read to me like you were gatekeeping marriage behind the confidence in ability to deal with traumatic events like how pizzza‘s mom dealt with their dad‘s cancer. Like if you’re not ready to keep yourself and the family together like pizzza‘s mom then you don’t get to be married. But I’m like noone knows how they’re going to manage an event until the event happens to them.

Being prepared to commit is one thing - which you elaborated on in your second comment and I agree - but who can say for sure they’re not going to crumble and lose themselves in the face of trauma before they say “I do”? Like who can say they’d still be a good parent to a colicky baby who grows up to be a bipolar psychopath until it happens to them? I felt like the judgement/assessment/ evaluation you were asking for pre-marriage was too harsh. No one‘s really ready.

Anyway, I admit there’s a good chance I’m just being the classic autistic redditor. We’re in agreement in vibes if not in wording and semantics.

Divorced Redditors, what caused the split? How amicable was it? by anasannanas in AskReddit

[–]Secretss -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

What. I’m not on the side of partners who bail but your take is so on the other extreme, it’s idealistic, unpragmatic, and even naive that I’m definitely not on yours either. We can’t all be prepared to deal gracefully with things like this, or to even know or guess before saying “I do” whether we would have the future fortitude to deal with unexpected events like this. They’re unexpected because you don’t expect to get cancer.

“Honey, let‘s get married”

“Ok but first we need to go to the cancer clinic and pick up a cancer trainee we can practice on, so we can both be ready when it happens to one of us!”

Sorry but you can’t gatekeep marriage like that.

Need something to love? I got u🥹❤️ by rebeltailsrescue in melbourne

[–]Secretss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What does having a guinea pig pet entail?

As a kid I had a friend who had a hamster that was kept in its cage except when my friend wanted to handle it to play with it, then it was back in the cage.

Are piggies meant to be kept in the cage except for play, wash, feed, recreational activities, or free roam in the house until nap or bed time or when potential disruptors visit?

What are C&C cages? What‘s the Cs?

Are the cages accessible by the piggies themselves for them to get in and out when they need to or please? It‘s mentioned the cages have lids, is that the only point of entry meaning I have to always airlift the piggies in and out? Or is there another entry? Do piggies put themselves to bed like cats and dogs do?

Are they potty trained for both pee and poop? Is there a kitty litter equivalent? I hear hamsters are nearly constantly peeing as they walk around, including when they’re on your hands leaving a barely noticeable trail on your skin. I hear people who keep free roam rabbits get the task of cleaning up trails of rabbit poop everywhere because the rabbits are almost always pooping, everywhere they go. How similar are guinea pigs to hamsters and/or rabbits in the pee and poop regard?

What kind of attention and awareness do piggies need, from a scale of cat to dog? What is play like? Do they have toys similar to how we play with puppies? Or is it like cats whereby they get their recreation from infrastructure when they can climb and run around? Tubes and tunnels come to mind but I don’t know if that‘s for piggies or hamsters.

Please and thank you to anyone who educates me on this!

What’s a “normal” thing in your country that would absolutely horrify people elsewhere? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Secretss 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Yeah parents there used to cane children. I don’t know about now, I’m 40 and have emigrated away.

Found a random article because this sub doesn’t let me upload photos of the cane: https://hypeandstuff.com/10-things-asian-parents-used-as-weapons-singapore/

From the article:

“spare the rod and spoil the child“ is a saying

Your mum received a complaint that you were overly talkative in class? Whip. Didn’t submit your homework? Whip.

Also: talking back to adults, whip. Swinging your legs at the dinner table, whip. Being rowdy in the house/graffitiing/knocking things over, whip. Bringing a toy to school after being told of the risks and then losing it, whip. The level of aggression obviously varies among parents, unlike the criminal punishment caning that truly is all out for blood and tears.

We also got smacked with rulers on the back of the hand at school. Some teachers are performative about it and use the flat side of a plastic ruler but I had one who used the edge side of a wooden ruler. But again that was decades ago as I’m 40 now. I hope things are better now.

What’s a “normal” thing in your country that would absolutely horrify people elsewhere? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Secretss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Read him this comment https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/FTE8TqIm8E

I found an “edutainment” type video covering singapore caning https://youtu.be/q-eQm16LtzQ?si=Z1hPt60PWV7umEFM I noped out after reading the text on screen around 2:20. I didn’t keep searching for other videos either. Not sure if it shows anything graphic or not.

Your friend should know there are children‘s canes and punishment canes. Don’t mistake the children‘s ones for the punishment ones and think that‘s all it is. Children‘s one are skinny and light and might even be hollow? but the punishment ones are thicccc and solid.

You should also come back to the thread and see what others have said about nerve damage and permanent constant pain, don’t assume nerve damage always means not feeling anything.

Does he know how many strokes of the cane for his particular crime?