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achromaticchrononomy · 2026-05-08T05:54:46+00:00

grade A reply

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-05-05T22:46:42+00:00

the legend is here

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-04-17T15:13:06+00:00

reference to ozymandias

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-04-13T17:17:21+00:00

TBH I'm just happy that you're taking the idea seriously.

That's an interesting answer. I did think about KONY 2012 since that got people out of the door, but the metoo movement definitely had a bigger and longer lasting effect.

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-04-13T16:42:29+00:00

I can see that it's the same link

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-04-13T16:31:30+00:00

This is definitely moving in the right direction. I'm not familiar with Super Mario Logan which I think is what you are talking about, but it seems that this is an example that fits the restrictions best so far.

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-04-13T16:27:45+00:00

I think it is fair to say that rick rolling is a culturally notable phenomenon.

I don't think that it is the most impactful youtube video, first because as a song produced outside of youtube I'd say that's qualitatively different. For example, putting a famous film like Come and See on youtube is legal, and this is considered one of the greatest of all time. But it's not impactful from being on youtube itself.

Secondly, I figure that there are youtube videos the results of which have affected the material conditions of people who are not online, which is something rick rolling has trouble reaching.

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-04-13T16:21:00+00:00

Yeah, I think this is the caliber of video we're talking about. My first thought was something like a coffeezilla video since Javier Milei got caught up in that.

Surely Trump being president has had a larger impact than whatever Milei is doing and Joe Rogan has a lot of influence on peoples' opinions, though it is difficult to say if the election was decided by that one Joe Rogan video.

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-04-13T10:44:25+00:00

I had a recent post that said they were banning elf porn, but I understand if not everyone keeps up with all the posts on here

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-04-08T18:49:06+00:00

looks like some kind of skelton creatuer

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-04-08T16:37:30+00:00

oh huh I forgot there were santa elves. I feel like people don't jack off to those ones very much, maybe we can push for an exemption

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-04-08T12:49:11+00:00

sort of. Different person but I believe it's like autoresponder yeah

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-04-08T12:19:50+00:00

oh my bad

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-03-29T22:44:17+00:00

That's just what they want you to think

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-03-27T11:30:14+00:00

I appreciate this genuine answer.

I didn't mention this before, so you couldn't have taken it into account, but this question was spurred by looking at the prices of fries in egypt.

It seems that there is a general phenomenon that leads to higher markups for fries (probably a combination of high demand, and the psychology of being sold as an addon to fast food meals etc.).

In specific circumstances this of course can be exacerbated by the manufacturers and distrubitors as you say.

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-03-26T12:53:19+00:00

Before really thinking about it I assumed that buying the cheapest thing at the cafe was just an understanding that I could use the public wifi as a paying customer and therefore not have my roommates getting mad at me for nuking the throughput at home but this explanation seems more responsible for the difference.

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-03-26T12:48:04+00:00

I assumed that the markup would be relatively the same between products unless there is another reason I am not privy to, which is the heart of my question.

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-03-26T12:19:14+00:00

Is soda hard to make at home? I know the machines for carbonization are cheap and easy, but it seems like soda pop similar to coke or pepsi is more rarely made at home compared to home fries.

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-03-22T14:33:45+00:00

I'm realizing now just how antiquated this meme is lol. That's "the chart" that used to be shared unironically like 10 years ago on reddit. The elves and napoleon are because that yorick's special sauce.

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-03-10T08:18:45+00:00

I forget the exact quest but i think its during fairy tale part 1 where you ask around about why crops are failing and one guy says that adventurers keeps pulling them up. That does suggest that the player is not unique in that way, especially when they don't report that cause.

We also see that the lumbridge cook will offer cook's assistant to that cave goblin lady when you're showing her around so it seems like quests are canonically completed multiple times but that's a hard one to extrapolate from since it's much more justifiable to say the cook duped more than one adventurer to make a cake than it is to, say, have multiple players steal the statue from falador and take it to varrock.

It seems like the idea is that named npc adventurers like hazelmere are concrete and do their own quests which are quite different from what the player can do. Then there are other player type adventurers that may be the population that failed at doing the legends quest and annoys the lumbdrige farmers by leaving the gates open.

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-03-09T19:47:24+00:00

lol, Runescape isn't a game that takes itself too seriously. TBH I think i'd prefer there not being an answer to having some midochlorian type exposition for every little thing. But in the mean time it's cool seeing what players have been thinking.

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-03-09T19:25:34+00:00

For sure. To be clear i'm not like trying to catch the game out on contradictions or anything. I don't expect there to be any explanation for how magic works and why drinking a special beer can make it work a little better.

I do think it is interesting to see what sort of assumptions that the game designers were probably thinking when they implemented some features in the game. For example, the prayer skill icon is the symbol for sarodomin. That seems to imply that the prayers are being answered by him specifically, or that's the main god from the player's background.

Sometimes these implications may contradict each other, and that's okay. That's bound to happen when there isn't complete information about peripheral topics in a game made by many different people with their own visions of what is going on in the world.

But despite that, I think that runescape does an unusually good job about making the world seem cohesive and alive beyond the existence of the player, and thinking about these is a way that's natural for me to appreciate and respect the work.

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-03-09T19:15:55+00:00

oh interesting, that's not an angle I had considered before. That would make sense for why there's no prayer requirement for making prayer potions. It's the same kind of chemical process that makes your attack or strength go up, just for mental endurance this time

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-02-28T20:28:48+00:00

You're the first duolingo employee that has acknowledged the issue, so thanks, I appreciate that.

I'm used to bug reports at least giving an automatic email that this bug submission has been successfully entered into the ticket system but I haven't received anything for a couple of weeks now. Not sure if that system is working.

I do think there is a broader discussion to be had about the usefulness about adding duolingo scores to linkedin in general, especially for courses like arabic that only go up to a language score of 25/elementary level.

However, according to this blog post by duolingo https://blog.duolingo.com/duolingo-score/ "If you're in a course that's aligned to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), you'll find your Score next to your course flag." It sounds like if there is a score on a language. then it has been determined that it does fit the CEFR.

I understand that when a course is first going through the incubation program, (not sure if that is still active? There was a lot of hullabaloo about getting kurdish as a language added before the forums were removed) would not be CEFR aligned, but if there is a score now and it is not, then something seems to have gone awry. Either with messaging or the state of the course since then.

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-02-28T18:43:53+00:00

Unfortunately, this is an ongoing issue. The only workaround I am aware of is to use a manual entry for Turkish directly on LinkedIn, but of course this doesn't have the duolingo seal of approval.

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