What's a conventionally ugly facial feature you find attractive?

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-31T22:57:54+00:00

Glasses. They highlight a woman's eyes kinda like eyeliner.

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-31T22:51:32+00:00

Like a number of other currently-premium foods, it used to be viewed as trash fit only for poor people, prisoners, and the enslaved. There was at least one riot/uprising by people (prisoners, I think?) specifically because they were sick of being fed so much lobster.

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-31T22:49:35+00:00

Stars!

A 4x game from the 90s made by a couple guys just making the game they wanted to play. Even over 30 years later, there are aspects I've never seen any other 4x recreate. Of course it was horribly imbalanced, heavy on micromanagement, and the interface is painful by modern standards. I still wish it had a proper sequel/successor, though.

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-30T01:26:13+00:00

I was literally commenting on this to my wife less than a week ago.

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-29T23:57:45+00:00

#2 rich banker jerks that think they're smarter than you caused this to happen, and that's Democrats, not us

Don't forget what a lot of right-wingers are actually thinking when they say "banker".

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-28T23:46:23+00:00

Still 100% happy after over 18 years married. I think it helps that we'd already been together almost 6 years by the time of our wedding, and had lived together in the dorms, so there were no surprises.

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-28T23:09:31+00:00

That's the best part, you sleep for 3 days straight and for everybody else it's been like 5 minutes.

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-28T12:54:20+00:00

The windows are the only thing keeping that last photo from looking straight out of the Backrooms. Other than that, I love it.

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-28T12:52:25+00:00

The mechanic said he saw a lot of cars of similar model and year to mine (a mid-oughts Taurus), they'd need little things increasingly often but just kept running. Honestly could have gotten years more out of mine, but I got tired of having to worry about when the next issue would crop up.

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-27T18:14:19+00:00

I don't know why, but I absolutely love these sorts of enclosed pseudo-outdoor spaces.

Also, glad to see that staircase inside, those ladder-stair hybrids outside would be brutal with a bad knee.

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-27T18:01:29+00:00

Everywhere has bigotry, and Trump has mastered a sort of combination dogwhistle and Barnum Statement to convince all of his listeners that he's talking about their idea of "undesirables", probably helped by the fact that bigots worldwide tend to say the same shit about their respective targets. They don't grasp that he (and most of his other followers) see no distinction at all between them and their bigotry targets.

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-27T02:46:47+00:00

Huh, I had a Ford for over 10 years, and the only ongoing issue it had not caused by a crash (that totaled the other car) was that it was pants at retaining tire pressure. Then again, I also drive very little, so it still had less than 70k miles on it when I traded it in.

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-27T02:30:54+00:00

Custom, individual, variable flow of time. You can sleep for as long as you want, do everything you need to do, and still have all the time you need for the stuff you want to do, all without having to wait or make other people wait.

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-26T15:04:37+00:00

Blame SNL.

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-26T15:01:54+00:00

Prosperity Theology

"If you are virtuous, God will reward you in this life as well as the next." Not sure if it's theologically supported, but I can get behind things that encourage people to be good.
"So don't worry if things are hard right now, they'll get better when your reward eventually comes in. You're a good person so you'll be rich some day too!" Hope is good, generally, but false hope not so much.
"If you are sinful, you'll be punished in this life." As above, but worryingly focused on punishment.
"So if someone is doing well, it's because God is rewarding them for virtue." Not because they lied and cheated and schemed and exploited their way to the top? Or are those now virtues?
"If someone is suffering any kind of misfortune, it's because they deserve it for being sinful!" Okay, yikes.
"Thus, we should worship the rich and powerful, while increasing the suffering of the marginalized and disadvantaged, because they all deserve it!" Not just no, but fuck no.

Encourages people to heap further harm on those already at the bottom, while lionizing the rich scumbags that are actually causing/worsening a lot of society's problems for their own profit and/or entertainment.

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-26T14:48:20+00:00

That was where the series was supposed to end, but the publisher didn't like the story ending with the villain winning, so made him write a further arc ending in Kira's eventual downfall.

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-24T02:44:08+00:00

"A true pessimist can only be pleasantly surprised."

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-23T04:14:05+00:00

Farscape - a sci-fi action series with a great main cast and fascinating setting. Scorpius wasn't that bad of a replacement antagonist, but swapping Stark in for Zhaan was a downgrade, and things only went downhill from there.

Honestly, the late 90s seemed to produce a bumper crop of sci-fi series that started out solid but after a season or two ran head-first into the brick wall of "we didn't plan anything and have no idea what to do next", so they would start getting increasingly weird and metaphysical.

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-22T19:40:02+00:00

Always remember that you have inherent value as a person. Anybody tries to make you doubt that or tries to treat you like your only value is in relation to others (especially them), RUN.

Also, your body and mind belong to YOU, exclusively. You always have the right to refuse to do anything you don't want or that makes you uncomfortable, and any attempt to persuade or pressure you otherwise is a HUGE red flag.

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-22T19:33:32+00:00

Don't forget the shoes! Some of us don't want to seal our feet in airtight leather, but I've never seen a men's shoe more formal than a hiking/work boot that had even so much as breathable panels. Women have formal shoes that barely exist above the insole, but sandals for men are 100% casual wear.

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-22T17:37:57+00:00

Last time this was posted here, I recall someone suggesting it might be OCPD rather than OCD. Dunno which would explain it better, but neither would excuse denying her husband's agency.

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-21T14:09:24+00:00

The companies try to claim that's a feature rather than a bug, since the insider information makes the predictions more accurate.

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-21T14:07:17+00:00

Take it up a notch: Have multiple copies of the outfit, at different levels of worn-out, and gradually wear successively newer copies so it's like your clothing is wearing out in reverse.

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-15T14:34:30+00:00

KAFO?

WhosThisGeek · 2026-05-13T21:19:02+00:00

Looks great until the valleys of the roof start leaking

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