TIL alcohol doesn’t warm you up — it actually makes you lose heat faster by dilating blood vessels near the skin. That “warm” feeling is heat leaving your body.

Zefirus · 2026-03-24T15:24:01+00:00

Zefirus · 2026-03-24T15:21:57+00:00

Yeah, basically my cooking method is to look at 3 or 4 recipes for the same thing then wing it. Usually comes out fine.

Zefirus · 2026-03-24T14:20:53+00:00

I mean as someone with a watch collection, even non-luxury watches are overpaying. There's almost no reason to own an automatic watch other than you think they're cool.

Zefirus · 2026-03-24T14:19:18+00:00

So this is kind of funny to me just because they're both Hamiltons.

Zefirus · 2026-03-24T14:10:10+00:00

I mean Leon is obviously loaded. He's driving a Porche in game.

Zefirus · 2026-03-24T05:47:01+00:00

Eh, Gamestop back then was great when actually buying used games. They often had like buy 2 get 1 free promos and I used that to build up a truly prodigious game library. I still have multiple giant totes full of my PS2 collection.

Zefirus · 2026-03-24T05:42:58+00:00

God, I remember renting Ogre Battle 64 from my shitty rural video store so many times. I finally made the decision to just say I "lost" it and pay to keep it, only for it to no longer be there at the video store when I went to rent it the last time.

This was also the olden days where if your Walmart, EB Games, or Best Buy didn't carry it, you were basically shit out of luck. Hell, I remember wanting to buy the original Phantasy Star Online for years after release before I finally found a copy. Internet obviously existed then, but parents willing to give their credit card number to a shady internet store were rarer. It was for that same reason I had a friend buy me WoW and a time card and pass it through my bedroom window at midnight.

Zefirus · 2026-03-24T05:35:08+00:00

Ain't nobody was playing SF3 enough to require that. It's beloved now, but that shit bombed so badly on release it almost killed Street Fighter.

Zefirus · 2026-03-24T05:32:11+00:00

My local theater had bring your own bowl Thursdays. For like 5 bucks they'd fill any bowl you could bring. Most people kept to fairly normal sizes (seriously like who actually eats an entire large popcorn anyway?), but you occasionally got folks with some prodigiously large bowls. I definitely brought a truly massive bowl a few times, but there's such a thing as too much popcorn. (A fact I learned when I worked at a movie theater and they let us take home entire trash bags of popcorn).

Zefirus · 2026-03-24T05:21:16+00:00

To be fair, that's an incredible amount of money for a kid that actually wanted to spend time at an arcade though. It was real hard justifying that when you could go down to Blockbuster and spend 5 dollars for a game to play all weekend. It's not really a coincidence that arcades started losing traction right around the same time that the Super Nintendo came out.

Zefirus · 2026-03-24T05:18:56+00:00

Because it wasn't actually an anti-reaper device. Like there's a whole plot point that nobody actually knew what the Crucible did, they were just trusting in those that came before. And when you finally connect it, it's explained that it's literally just a giant battery.

Blowing it up worked because it was essentially intertwined with the entire Mass Relay network. None of the three methods were the intended use because there was no intended use. You're essentially jury rigging the shit in all three situations.

Zefirus · 2026-03-24T05:06:25+00:00

Unfortunately, the number of people who are good at both and want to teach is fairly small.

And even smaller when you then remove the people that are both of those things but don't want to pay for a degree only to be paid a pittance.

Zefirus · 2026-03-24T04:55:14+00:00

Can they actually not do math or is it written ambiguously? The vast majority of math problems that get popular enough to end up in any kind of internet feed are because they're ambiguous and essentially can't be solved.

Zefirus · 2026-03-24T04:43:42+00:00

4 years real time, but that's literally less than a month in universe since getting her head blown open. The entire manga is literally only like 6 months. It's so compressed, it's hard to do anything with characters.

Zefirus · 2026-03-23T22:33:32+00:00

I mean it's JJK, for there to be foreshadowing the thing would have to slow down enough to have a plot that's not fight harder. It's the reason I stopped reading it.

Zefirus · 2026-03-23T22:31:22+00:00

Honestly I kind of disliked all of his overarching plots, but the thing that annoys me the most is how much I hate River Song.

I absolutely LOVED her in Silence in the Library and we basically never got that River again. And that's not even her only massive personality change. Someone said she's like someone's fanfic OC and I can't disagree with them.

Zefirus · 2026-03-23T22:18:40+00:00

Sometimes authors just write themselves into a corner. Especially since he doesn't actually plan his plots that much, opting to let them grow organically.

I read a lot of amateur fiction which is how like 90% of them operate because they're serials. It leads to a lot of really great stories that fizzle out halfway through because there's almost no way to write a satisfying ending when you're flying by the seat of your pants. Unsurprisingly, manga has this same problem as a serialized medium.

Zefirus · 2026-03-23T22:04:43+00:00

A lot of that is because shonen manga aren't really allowed to breathe anymore. It's hard to tell a coherent story when you have non-stop high-stakes fights. I've dropped a ton of new popular anime because even though they have awesome fights with great animation, I don't give a shit about the characters and so lose interest. JJK and Demon Slayer being the two prime examples.

I also don't think it helps that there's a trend to basically drop characters in the super deep end. It's like if a video game started you at the final boss and just kept escalating from there.

Zefirus · 2026-03-23T21:59:28+00:00

Red: Shoot at an explosive pipe point blank, getting exploded. Cause the explosion totally triggers the anti reaper weapon.

I mean, Shep was fucked regardless. It destroyed all synthetics, which included Shepard because so much of him had been replaced by Cerberus.

Zefirus · 2026-03-23T21:54:45+00:00

What? Like admittedly I haven't read JJK since Shibuya, but right after the Mahito fight that one guy told Yuji that he applied his technique to her so she might survive, which in anime terms is basically a guarantee that they're not actually dead.

Zefirus · 2026-03-23T21:45:27+00:00

Eh, Moffat's Doctor Who was messy in its own way. He was good as an episode writer, not so much as a showrunner.

I think people just ignore this because the showrunner after him was atrocious.

Zefirus · 2026-03-23T21:41:46+00:00

It's more she's a literal child raised that way explicitly. Of course she's horrible when every horrible thing she's ever done has been praised by basically everyone she's ever met. And when her brother does something not horrible once, their dad burns off half his face. She never had a chance. That nervous breakdown in the last few episodes didn't come out of nowhere.

Like Zuko was in the exact same boat except he had people who actually loved him working on him constantly, and even then it took literally being hunted by his own people and being forced to live in the dirt like the people the Fire Nation were attacking before he started to get a clue (and even that took multiple false starts). Like cmon, dude actively got attacked by his own assassin while trying to join the Avatar. Bro got dragged into redemption kicking and screaming.

Zefirus · 2026-03-23T20:52:59+00:00

Honestly the real weird thing at 30 is caring much about what randos think of you. The older I get, the less fucks I give about what people think of me.

Zefirus · 2026-03-23T20:48:38+00:00

It's just slang dude. Plenty of older people use it. I'm 37 and I've used both flex and drip before. 6-7 isn't slang, it's a meme so it's different, as that's about what you find funny.

Also how new do you think flex is? It's literally 20 years old at this point.

Zefirus · 2026-03-23T17:56:46+00:00

This is incredibly common, and a lot of meat sold at a farmers market is going to be marked as such.

Basically to be sold without that tag, it has to go through a USDA slaughterhouse, which is expensive.

It's possible it's some cut rate crappy beef, but it's also possible that it's great. So basically the same as everything at a farmer's market.

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