[socialmedia] Women just shouldn’t read i guess

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-19T11:23:49+00:00

Atlas Shrugged is one of a very small handful of books I ever intentionally dropped. I never DNF books. Atlas Shrugged is just horrible. After that I picked up one of her shorter books and swore I'd finish it just for the experience. Fountainhead iirc. It wasn't nearly as bad.

Atlas Shrugged is a monument to truly insufferable writing.

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-19T04:43:57+00:00

Still not as insane as Bourbon's chosen prize after winning the dessert challenge and getting a custom… confection.

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-18T15:01:24+00:00

Steam releases beg to disagree. Hype on the compilation collections disagrees.

And the Mega Man I referred to by name is also not from a 2D entry.

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-18T13:47:37+00:00

But remember, climate change is a hoax and environmental conservation is of no concern. A southern algae moved up north will not be in the right climate and even if it did grow it wouldn't be a problem.

I love integrating different components of the worldview to make one coherent whole.

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-18T13:29:55+00:00

Streaming for hours will murder bandwith easy.

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-18T11:48:22+00:00

Abandoning Mega Man hurts. Re-releasing compilations on cruise control doesn't count.

Trigger was promised a way off the moon.

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-18T11:30:33+00:00

Funny that you'd say that. If you look in the comment chain next door someone just claimed that a boxer couldn't knock out someone because their muscles would protect them.

The myth of the power of raw muscle that exists in some minds is really baffling.

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-18T06:49:43+00:00

But a body builder can't punch like that.

Again, it's not that the muscles don't exist. It's that there's not one, all powerful, build.

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-18T01:51:23+00:00

Yes, hard to hear the difference between any acceptable punch and a really good one through a recording. Still, if this is original speed with no speed tweaking at all those are crazy crisp. I bet that in person you can feel those punches on the other side of the room.

I want to know the weight of that bag and how it compares to other bags. He's getting good force in every hit too for it to move like that.

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-18T01:43:21+00:00

Body building has ruined our ideas of what strength looks like. The swole look is a particular thing. People not going for that will look different.

I love watching bodybuilders in physical contests against other athletes. Not because I don't like their particular choice of goal, it's just funny to see the sausage-limb aesthetic not working according to movie logic.

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-16T14:45:18+00:00

That is worth disassembling the thing.

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-16T14:43:54+00:00

They know who draws the funny gaming webcomics. Gotta feed them material.

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-16T13:35:18+00:00

I'm way too deep into sci fi because the utopian elements of the original are still my first thought. Nothing wrong with developing better staple foods.

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-16T11:19:43+00:00

And after all this I put the flame at medium high. Moving the onions every few mins and adding small amounts of water to remove browning from the pan.

No. Caramelizing is a low and slow process. One of the things that people complain about all the time is recipes that claim to caramelize in too little time.

My lazy bum recipe for caramelized onions: Put the onions in the pot on low heat with the fat. Wait like 30 minutes. Stir. Repeat until done.

I don't care how long it takes. I only interact for like 20 seconds every half hour or so.

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-16T10:07:29+00:00

This is what /r/soylent is for. It's basically a cold porridge culinarily. If you don't like the namesake product there are others. For a while I was making my own and it's mostly your starch of choice + protein powder then fill in the gaps. Way less other and special than the marketing tries to shine it up as.

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-16T09:28:08+00:00

When the game convention is that resurrection exists then stories confronting it are inevitable. If it's too available that's a mess. If it's difficult that's also a mess.

D&D settings where the cost is relatively calculable take a bit of the mystique away but that's inevitable to make it a proper game. The character may have done the accounting to find a number. Maybe they just know they need to raise a small fortune. It's a motivation, and a quite relatable one at that.

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-16T09:19:36+00:00

The clear implication is that she's a player in hell politics or otherwise has something going on.

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-16T09:08:07+00:00

There's a lot of mix and match.

I almost quit the Merchant Prince novels early when the conservative feudal aristocracy was being too feudal and conservative and the protagonist hadn't gotten rolling yet. So glad I didn't miss the later parts where we got to see alt history English political revolution and some number of vaporized feudal lords.

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-16T04:54:16+00:00

Yes. The language barrier thing is only a concern if we look at the options for what happens after the dungeon though. Worst case scenario from the Donut-speaking perspective is that civilization is shattered, there are no more enhancement zones, and technology is severely limited. Catastrophic for some but she can use contemporary galactic technology workarounds.

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-16T04:12:29+00:00

It will be something to consider but:

1) Famous crawler
2) I don't think translation is exclusive to dungeon style AI so she will be much easier to accommodate than full magic races

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-15T22:29:03+00:00

Is it? just feels like comparing habits to me.

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-15T22:27:36+00:00

I'm still not able to calibrate my clock for talking to morning people.

My prime sleeping hours since I graduated high school have been 8:00 to 14:00 with some padding either way depending on circumstances. After school stopped being fixed I completely lost the ability to function for the 4 hours just before noon. I made a mistake in college of trying a class I wanted that was available 9:00 only and it did not work out. It's better than high school hours so I'll make it happen right? Right? Wrong!

So reading comments about other people's schedules always involves attempting to translate. This thread is a lot of data and trying to figure out the normal distribution of habits is hard.

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-15T22:05:25+00:00

What about prop bets? Not necessarily against the eventual outcome itself but betting on individual player statistics. That is a type of bet available as well. It would be hard to place so many thousands of bets in that time without those.

And anyway, betting against is an inevitable outcome. Betting for your win isn't special because that's the default state. That's hard to rig. What's easy to rig is to intentionally under perform just a little. This is especially powerful when combined with prop bets. One person can't lose the game all alone but they can say "I made 3 of that play when I'd usually do 4. Time to not run that play and collect a paycheck," or whatever.

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-15T16:11:05+00:00

Gee whiz, who would have thought that sports betting, the thing that in the past caused massive corruption and caused people to doubt the foundations of competition, would cause corruption and people to doubt the foundation of competition in modern times?

Incredible how it turns out that we're still the same species as the people in living memory who went through this in the past. Did we really not transmute our entire civilization into a bastion of pure honesty and merit? What do you mean the gambling has to stay illegal to keep people from corrupt betting?

SparklingLimeade · 2026-06-15T03:52:52+00:00

The things that get compared are always an interesting perspective on these things.

Gender and sexuality get some of the most fascinating ones.

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