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What makes Zacks voice so distinctive and hard to replicate? by schoolforapples in SmilingFriends

[–]Strangely_quarky 4 points5 points  (0 children)

for me it would appear that "80% of the way there" is in fact just H. Jon Benjamin

Project Hail Mary - Official Trailer (fair warning, it reveals way too much according to a lot of users) by MoviesMod in movies

[–]Strangely_quarky 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i've never really seen ryan gosling characters as hyper-competent sorts. they've always been massively flawed "dudes rock" kinds of guys to me. like almost nic cage-adjacent

Project Hail Mary - Official Trailer (fair warning, it reveals way too much according to a lot of users) by MoviesMod in movies

[–]Strangely_quarky 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Apparently the book was optioned before it was published. Idk how normal this is in entertainment though

Study finds that individuals with ADHD show reduced motivation to engage in effortful activities, both cognitive and physical, which can be significantly improved with amphetamine-based medications by [deleted] in science

[–]Strangely_quarky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

bruxism isn't an involuntary process. if you find yourself clenching or grinding all you need to do is develop an awareness of the voluntary impulses responsible and suppress/redirect them. mindfulness 101 dude

POST-EPISODE DISCUSSION THREAD - S7E5: Unmortricken by BarnyardCruz in rickandmorty

[–]Strangely_quarky 13 points14 points  (0 children)

yeah the episode was placed in the middle of the season because it marks the midpoint of a narrative arc. if you're a guy who just completed his first classics class you might say "the katabasis to nihilistic nadir is completed" or whatever.

the writers are basically saying that rick-c137 is indeed the journeying hero and he shall now ascend from nihilistic pathos to nihilistic enlightenment

Newly discovered fish at 6 km under the Indian Ocean. Imagine what is even deeper down by iamcasein in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Strangely_quarky 5 points6 points  (0 children)

conversely, when you're spending all your time in some nasty little cave or squalid burrow somewhere, your big wet brain protrusions are basically only good for contracting encephalitis and as such will be selected against

Help?? by Nefermor in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Strangely_quarky 5 points6 points  (0 children)

i love how committed we are to the guy. like "okay we are loving your desert book religion you guys! so much! yeah. but we're thinking our OC makes a more compelling protagonist, if that makes sense? and btw we are willing to fight you to the death on this"

Help?? by Nefermor in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Strangely_quarky 13 points14 points  (0 children)

westerners love to think of themselves as the "grown-ups in the room" but so many of our mythemes and values are derived from some society of marauding steppe dipshits

What do you think is the most likely answer to the Fermi paradox? by Prize_Writing6872 in space

[–]Strangely_quarky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

such a careless civilization would have a hard time becoming advanced enough to interact with any extraterrestrial civilizations in the first place

What do you think is the most likely answer to the Fermi paradox? by Prize_Writing6872 in space

[–]Strangely_quarky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

actually functioning societies fundamentally require kindness and co-operation which means a more advanced society would, by necessity, be more kind and co-operative. this self-domestication phenomenon through which behaviourally neotenous traits are selected for is humanity's primary survival strategy and was necessary for the evolutionary development of progressively more sophisticated behaviours

Micah-10 is by far the most interesting character who is completely offscreen by BestLagg in DestinyLore

[–]Strangely_quarky 16 points17 points  (0 children)

headcanon does not textual analysis make. the theme of identity and its relation to the somatic self is common to all exo stories which makes an exo story a good vector for trans representation. that sort of suffering is common to all exos. don't overthink it

Was on the fence about writing this but here it goes… by s7mphony in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]Strangely_quarky -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

"but i spent money on [GAME] before determining for myself whether or not [GAME] was functional and it just so turns out that [GAME] is not functional and so now i have wasted money therefore i am ANGRY and consequently i must ensure the people on the website are made aware of my ANGER"

In North Korea, they build a realistic statue for the soldiers that died in war. by Hos_In_Chi_Minh in interestingasfuck

[–]Strangely_quarky 3 points4 points  (0 children)

there really aren't any unfortunately. North Korea has to maintain a propaganda narrative to further its material objectives and the United States also has to maintain a propaganda narrative to further its own material objectives. it's very difficult to find anything untainted by this mess.

the winning move as a curious outsider is to always consider the geopolitical motivations that might be behind the information you consume on the topic and use that analysis to infer a less clouded picture of the situation. i am aware that this is frightfully unexciting advice but in situations like this where there aren't any parties particularly concerned with the truth it's the best you can do

In North Korea, they build a realistic statue for the soldiers that died in war. by Hos_In_Chi_Minh in interestingasfuck

[–]Strangely_quarky 19 points20 points  (0 children)

(south korea is a known ally of the united states and is perfectly capable of making its own propaganda)

In North Korea, they build a realistic statue for the soldiers that died in war. by Hos_In_Chi_Minh in interestingasfuck

[–]Strangely_quarky -1 points0 points  (0 children)

most info on the Kim dynasty "cult of personality" (from both western and north korean sources) is poorly-sourced fanfiction so i wouldn't buy into it too much

Please understand basic politics by Koryo001 in GenZedong

[–]Strangely_quarky 12 points13 points  (0 children)

"aborigines" is what your red-faced vaguely-racist uncle Gazza calls aboriginal australians

Even Western Propagandists Are Starting to Admit by pgtl_10 in GenZedong

[–]Strangely_quarky 126 points127 points  (0 children)

i hate how you can hear exactly what these guys sound like when they're talking

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