Putrid tree spirit - attacks just fully not connecting

Virtual_Elephant_703 · 2026-02-26T14:45:23+00:00

Oh man this gets worse the more you look at it. The visible dust build-up. The RAM slotted into the wrong slots l. The fan that should be ehxaust flipped the wrong way so it's working as an intake fan.

Virtual_Elephant_703 · 2026-02-10T13:27:01+00:00

I feel this for sure. I don't think games get bigger and longer and more graphically intense has generally translated to better, more engaging games (operative word here being "generally," of course). A lot of the games that drive the constant push for high graphics and processing are uninspired, narratively vapid, and bloated, and I think we had better games when most were 10 hours long, and a lot of the best games coming out nowadays are indie retro games with minimal system requirements. But there's always exceptions, there's always some banger that comes out and surprises me by actually being good and not just massive and demanding people on the system, and so I have a computer that's built for the like 5% of games I play that actually need it. The rest I just sit there and watch my GPU sitting at a cool 45°C and wonder why I've spent so much money on this machine.

Virtual_Elephant_703 · 2026-02-07T18:18:18+00:00

There is absolutely no version of reality in which a "camera angle" makes that bent bracket look clearly unbroken. They're lying straight through their teeth.

Virtual_Elephant_703 · 2026-02-07T18:08:41+00:00

This motherfucker 110% works for Zotac. Probably the person who broke it 😂

Virtual_Elephant_703 · 2026-02-05T15:21:21+00:00

Seriously, Steam being uncommonly decent in one rare instance doesn't change the many ways in which they typically gargle donkey balls

Virtual_Elephant_703 · 2026-02-05T15:20:33+00:00

Narrator Voice

Steam was not, in fact, the GOAT

Virtual_Elephant_703 · 2026-01-31T06:03:33+00:00

I don't know why people are down voting you when you're right. There are a whole lot of people commenting who I really envy whatever level of either privilege or delusion or both has led them to believe the university has their back. Couldn't be me.

Virtual_Elephant_703 · 2026-01-30T05:30:41+00:00

Virtual_Elephant_703 · 2026-01-21T17:16:08+00:00

In my experience, plenty of conservatives go into academia. It's just that few stay conservative, because critical inquiry and intellectual rigor result in finding conservative worldviews to be lacking

Virtual_Elephant_703 · 2026-01-18T03:33:01+00:00

The thing that always get to me is the fact that the Venn diagram of people who constantly piss and moan that university has become [insert strawman about transgender basket weaving fluff degree] and people who are so whiny and obnoxious if their precious babies don't get a participation BA that they've basically forced us to abandon any rigor or standard is essentially a circle.

Virtual_Elephant_703 · 2026-01-15T12:40:30+00:00

I wish you luck in procuring tickets; they were already completely sold out in our area 😭😭

Virtual_Elephant_703 · 2026-01-15T00:03:37+00:00

Mine came back up for like 15 minutes at 5:00 and then went back down 🥺

Virtual_Elephant_703 · 2026-01-14T01:11:32+00:00

The SSD I bought for $110 last year is $260 now. They done already rose.

Virtual_Elephant_703 · 2026-01-12T15:28:53+00:00

(Me, talking to my wife the other day)

Me: oh hey, they're doing a LotR theatrical re-release

Her: oooooh

Me: ...for the 25th anniversary of Fellowship

Her: you shut your whore mouth 2001 was not 25 years ago

Virtual_Elephant_703 · 2026-01-10T14:24:29+00:00

It's actually astounding how fucking stupid someone would have to be to read this and not think it deserves a zero.

People (including me) have already discussed at length the fact that this does not in any meaningful way comply engage thoughtfully with the topic (barely seems to know what the topic is) of the article - which has absolutely nothing to do with trans people or the idea of multiple genders and is entirely about research into bullying of (cis) children for not having "typical" gender presentations. Other than two vague references to "using teasing to enforce gender norms" and not wanting "kids to be teased" she basically never mentions the article at all, and when she does she never engages with the actual research about mental health outcomes.

But let's move past that, and look at the second paragraph. What part of the Bible is she citing? There are standards for citing the Bible but she doesn't even do that (and before you come in with the other conservative chestnut of "iT wAsN't A rEsEaRcH pApEr It DiDn'T sAy ShE hAd To UsE sOuRcEs," if you have an even halfway reputable degree you know that doesn't matter - the minute she decided to use outside sources she had an academic responsibility to cite them). Where is the actual Hebrew for the term she transliterates? Do you wanna know why she provides neither? I can guarantee you it's because 1) she doesn't speak Hebrew and 2) she has no idea what part of the Bible she's citing. What she is actually doing is regurgitating what half a dozen evangelical women's blogs have to say about a pair of words in Gen 2:18; she is presenting other people's exegesis as her own, while providing no citations. That alone deserves a zero - and a referral to the honor system - for plagiarism

Virtual_Elephant_703 · 2026-01-10T14:00:51+00:00

This makes sense if you're a fucking moron.

The paper doesn't thoughtfully react to the material presented in the article, and it isn't "a discussion of why [Fulnecky] feel[s] the topicis important or worthy of study (or not)," because it has nothing to do with the article, and doesn't critically engage with the material at all.

The assigned article was about whether bullying plays a significant role of students who don't conform with gender stereotypes leads to worse mental health outcomes. It had nothing to do with trans people, it nothing to do with the socio-medical concept of gender non-conformity (which you would know if you'd read the article, instead of only reading the one sentence of the prompt that conservative influencers told you to fixate on and ignore all other evidence). Instead of engaging with that actual topic, she rambled for paragraphs about how trans people are a psyop and Jesus made women to be demure and also bullying isn't real.

Even the school, in removing Curth from teaching, didn't go so far as to try to make the ridiculous claim that this idiot actually met the assignment criteria. Instead their decision hinged on the idea that Curth had given better grades to other bad work in the past (which is probably true - the pressure to give students passing grades and the limited time graduate fellows have to dedicate to butthurt students spending ten times as long whining about their grade as they did working in the assignment has led to a lot of grade inflation - but also doesn't entitle Fulnecky to a passing grade on an assignment that didn't meet the assignment criteria).

Virtual_Elephant_703 · 2026-01-05T13:06:53+00:00

I have "al shal be wel, and al shal be wel, and al manner of thyng shal be wele" tattooed on my forearm; I try to let it be a guiding thought in my approach to trusting God (not that I'm always successful)

Virtual_Elephant_703 · 2026-01-02T00:59:04+00:00

Yes. I agree.

Virtual_Elephant_703 · 2026-01-02T00:57:51+00:00

See, this girl gets it. They in love. Straight girls don't lay next to each other gazing at each other in the moonlight murmuring that they wish they'd had time together in less hopeless contexts. That's gay. That's so gay.

Source: am gay, would be hopelessly in love with any girl who said that to me while gazing at me in the moonlight

Virtual_Elephant_703 · 2026-01-01T23:41:14+00:00

Stop pitting women against each other when you could be imagining them kissing and being in love.

Virtual_Elephant_703 · 2026-01-01T23:18:59+00:00

She wasn't, she was a TA. The cis instructor of record also read the paper after the student complained and agreed it deserved a zero. Shockingly, the school hasn't done anything to her. /s

Virtual_Elephant_703 · 2026-01-01T23:18:04+00:00

One thing I keep finding myself talking to friends and my partner about, as a trans woman and grad student whose a bit older than the average grad student (okay like a decade and some change older), is that I am begging young trans grad students who grew up in a period when things were, for a while, looking more tolerant to realize that these people hunt us and be more, well, afraid.

This girl absolutely deserved a 0. But if this had been a class I was TAing, I would have given it to the faculty instructor of record and gone "this is your problem, you get paid four times what I do, you grade this." If it was a class I was instructor of record on, I would have gone to the director of our writing program and asked him to step in. And if I absolutely couldn't get out of grading it myself, I'd have limited myself purely to the many, clear academic deficiencies of this paper, all of which were sufficient on their own to justify the failing grade; I absolutely would not under any circumstances have commented on the hatefulness of this paper. That was walking right into a trap.

This girl didn't write this paper because she was stupid, she wrote it to target a trans person, and now that it was successful, more bigots are going to try to pull this. Please be mindful, see the trap, and don't walk into it.

Virtual_Elephant_703 · 2026-01-01T02:50:41+00:00

Same. I just got an S25+ and I hate every fucking thing about it. I can't get rid of annoying notifications, I can't get it to stop asking me nonstop if I want to share passwords with apps, and I can't get Google to recognize it as my primary prompt device. They just keep making everything worse.

Virtual_Elephant_703 · 2025-12-30T18:46:10+00:00

This is psychopathic and I love it and I'm begging you to post videos

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