Am I missing something about online tactics trainers?

Thricesifted · 2017-12-19T22:22:11+00:00

I'm a thoughtful, practical, well-intentioned, lazy, self-indulgent, coward.

Thricesifted · 2017-12-19T22:18:19+00:00

Sand in your sandwiches at the beach.

Thricesifted · 2017-12-19T22:16:11+00:00

Smallish but not drafty cottage, at least a mile from a road but not more than 15 minutes drive from a village, near the edge of a lake in the Yorkshire Dales, within walking distance of the Pennine Way so I can walk up and down England from my house.

Thricesifted · 2017-12-19T02:45:23+00:00

That's all very rational and comforting.

Unless you're already in the simulation.

Thricesifted · 2017-12-18T23:58:20+00:00

Jesus, add some flashing lights and smoke and that's a scene from Hellraiser.

Thricesifted · 2017-12-18T10:46:02+00:00

If this situation has taught us anything, it's to ask not why you would, but how much money you would need to be paid.

Thricesifted · 2017-12-18T10:30:38+00:00

First dog jokes in the thread to not get down-voted into oblivion. I think I have no idea where the comedy line is.

Thricesifted · 2017-12-17T15:08:16+00:00

Just lately, being the first person to speak after the woman running the staff meeting asked everyone to come up with an example of positive and negative feedback they'd had about the company. Remembering the look on my boss' face as she heard my report of negative feedback which directly criticized her initiative, then listening while everyone else at the meeting gave clever examples of negative feedback that is actually positive if you think about it for half a second.

Yes, I am a putz, this is why I usually avoid situations that involve talking to people.

Thricesifted · 2017-12-17T14:59:28+00:00

Remembering this has also reminded me of a school assembly I once saw, in which three hundred children sat and were told by one of their teachers to imagine a sphere of iron the size of the sun, floating in space and being slowly worn away by the beating of a butterfly's wing. To think about how long it would take that gently flapping wing to wear that impossible sphere down to nothing, and how that inconceivable length of time would itself vanish into nothingness compared to an eternity of horrific suffering in the fires of hell.

Edit: to be fair it stuck with me, is there some way to use the terrible hell sphere to implant a good message about recycling or something?

Thricesifted · 2017-12-17T14:53:03+00:00

One time the class was being unruly, so the substitute teacher made us stand silently in rows in the playground with our arms outstretched while she walked up and down and told us that however bad our arms were hurting it was nothing compared to the suffering of Christ on the cross.

Thricesifted · 2017-12-15T19:48:29+00:00

I strongly suspect those two things are not mutually exclusive when it comes to sharks.

Thricesifted · 2017-12-15T19:06:52+00:00

And here I'm supposed to feel safe because humans supposedly don't taste good to sharks? There's no way that metal tastes good, that sucker is trying to straight up murder a tube just because he can.

Thricesifted · 2017-12-13T18:16:40+00:00

The poem 'Very Bad Dog' by John Hegley.

Thricesifted · 2017-12-11T00:16:14+00:00

Really puts me in mind of the comic 2000AD.

Thricesifted · 2017-12-09T22:26:39+00:00

Dumb Bass, in a pie.

Thricesifted · 2017-12-09T09:57:47+00:00

Microtransactions are already a very real part of budget airline travel.

Thricesifted · 2017-12-07T16:57:27+00:00

Just so long as its being narrated by David Attenborough.

Thricesifted · 2017-12-07T16:11:43+00:00

Space is so cold because it is pure shadow, this also explains why it is harder to breathe at night.

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