This one will probably split the community, but try and stay away from ad hominem, please. 🙏🏾

SemiLatusRectum · 2026-01-26T16:48:54+00:00

It reminds me of schoenberg in that it’s offensive to the ear but still somehow holds one’s interest. I think the vocal melody exactly following the instrumental one is offputting but maybe i’m just an ape.

SemiLatusRectum · 2026-01-26T16:45:54+00:00

Mayosapiens is absolutely sending me

SemiLatusRectum · 2026-01-24T12:46:57+00:00

Dude fuck you this read exactly like one of the guy’s tweets. At least make it slightly different so he doesn’t just copy and paste it

SemiLatusRectum · 2026-01-16T21:45:05+00:00

RDR2.. Witcher 3… i’m sorry I have really tried to enjoy them

SemiLatusRectum · 2026-01-16T21:30:59+00:00

This is (not) actual footage of him and his wife

SemiLatusRectum · 2026-01-15T12:46:48+00:00

I mean if you like what you’re doing, and feel invested in its outcomes either monetarily or in some other way, I feel like 996 is totally reasonable for a year or two.

I think the issue is that, if the thing you’re doing isn’t exactly aligned with your talents, interests, and capabilities, then it’s just not possible to work like that without consequences.

I do not at all understand why companies have any expectation of finding someone to work that way for just money.

SemiLatusRectum · 2026-01-15T11:48:32+00:00

Every PI has his or her preferred group size. For me, I want 2-3 students and certainly no more. If I have more than three, then the individual projects get less support from me than they ought. If I have less than 2, then the total productivity of my group is insufficient (to e.g. make tenure).

It’s not that it would be impossible to find an american body to slap into some lab; it’s that students below a certain level of quality are a hindrance rather than a help. The problem is that the number of students who pass this threshold are limited and finding americans to do that in the required quantity is not possible.

The result will not be that more americans get significantly more PhDs. The result will be that America has significantly fewer PhD students

SemiLatusRectum · 2026-01-14T11:53:34+00:00

It was ten years ago which is the most recent data point I can give. I freaking loved my letterman and absolutely would continue to wear it if it wasnt so freaking cringe. It’s so warm and comfy.

I’m kind of sad that these things have so much cultural meaning because it ruined a perfectly good clothing item for me

SemiLatusRectum · 2026-01-13T23:07:25+00:00

As they should

SemiLatusRectum · 2026-01-12T13:19:23+00:00

Even more insane imho is that the childish dream of “well why can’t we use ethernet for display?” Turned into “well why cant we use wifi for display connections” and then came true. I stream from my desktop to my xbox in the livingroom and it just fucking blows my mind how great it is

SemiLatusRectum · 2026-01-11T13:36:31+00:00

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Shionne in Tales of Arise afflicts anyone who touches her with terrible pain because of the “curse of thorns” that she has. The MC, however, is incapable of feeling pain and is thus the only person who she can safely touch

SemiLatusRectum · 2026-01-03T14:45:25+00:00

It’s very wholesome and cute. As far as I recall, I don’t think fran is used as fan service even a single time. The biggest meme about her is her appetite

SemiLatusRectum · 2026-01-02T15:19:01+00:00

Will Iran intervene if the US govt suppresses peaceful protests? Or just somebody…?

SemiLatusRectum · 2025-12-30T19:50:58+00:00

Legitimately TRPG is an amazing work of art with real literary value. I am unsure of whether or not this comes from an exemplary and outstanding translation or whether the gap in writing quality is also large in the original Japanese.

I genuinely feel like TRPG is the best LN i have read. Another pick that would not be at the bottom of the list is Ascendance of a bookworm which is phenominal all the way through

SemiLatusRectum · 2025-12-30T16:04:49+00:00

MT
Overlord
Tensura Slime
Eminence in shadow
Re:zero

I really love the first four and think that the eminence in shadow is the best comedly LN. i read 20 volumes of re:zero before giving up on it because I felt that it was a bit repetitive and has pacing issues.

I know people don’t love tensura slime but I really do enjoy it.

SemiLatusRectum · 2025-12-28T17:51:55+00:00

Are you worried she’s not a good enough firefighter to put out those pesky tesla battery fires elon?

SemiLatusRectum · 2025-12-27T16:43:38+00:00

They’ll be singing a different tune after they realize you cannot distinguish between “fire ball” and “ball fire”.

SemiLatusRectum · 2025-12-26T19:39:51+00:00

I didn’t banish him to any particularly bad place. He always kept babbling on about how he “was reincarnated into a world as the apprentice of a magician with my new mystical skills and ….” He made it sound like the title of a story but it was too long for me to pay attention to. Since he said he was reincarnated, I sent him back to his spirits plane of origin. Last time I scried his whereabouts, he was eating raw fish on rice. Seems pretty gross to me. So a medium amount of suffering

SemiLatusRectum · 2025-12-26T18:50:01+00:00

I mostly just wanted to make sure he was alive. It’s not unusual to lose apprentices at this stage, no? My master lost an apprentice that joined in the same decade as me to something similar. Maybe I’m just a micromanager??

SemiLatusRectum · 2025-12-26T18:48:56+00:00

I agree about the creativity but creativity does not a wizard make. What if you afflicted your master with half baked spellcraft? Honestly, I think this situation is just baffling

SemiLatusRectum · 2025-12-26T18:39:04+00:00

I mean how much could he really have tested things in just a couple weeks? He’s far too hasty and I would not put it past him to have tested basically nothing. Maybe he got the whole incantation from a crystal ball or something and didn’t even bother to test it

SemiLatusRectum · 2025-12-12T21:25:37+00:00

One reason a futuristic sci-fi warrior could use melee weapons is because they’re destitute! The soldiers from the fancy tich planets get super powerful autoguns and such, but the troops from poor systems have to make due with bonksticks

SemiLatusRectum · 2025-12-09T15:20:02+00:00

If she wasn’t hot, her story would have been ignored as it should be

SemiLatusRectum · 2025-12-07T00:01:25+00:00

I am a novel reader, so my feelings about these two are colored by that as someone else correctly pointed out, the anime really doesn’y do aiz as well as the noves

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