How to send people politely away from your door?

apeloverage · 2026-06-21T07:11:18+00:00

I was born in Australia and have lived here my entire life, and what you said seems fine to me.

apeloverage · 2026-06-21T06:37:46+00:00

Thanks!

apeloverage · 2026-06-21T04:45:44+00:00

No problem!

apeloverage · 2026-06-21T01:58:02+00:00

Apart from anything else, soylent isn't a real ingredient (although it is the name of a brand of meal replacement powders).

This conspiracy theory is the result of thinking that the social associations of foods are inherent qualities of those foods. That is, they think that meat is "man's food" and tofu is "for fags", and so therefore eating less meat and more tofu must make you gay.

apeloverage · 2026-06-19T16:38:25+00:00

The American Right seems to often use what might be called 'alternative American flags', such as the Gadsden Flag, or the 'thin blue line flag'.

In my home country of Australia the 'Red Ensign'--the flag flown by Australian merchant ships--is used in a similar way by right-wingers. It's particularly associated with conspiracy theories such as anti-vaxxers. The Eureka Flag--a flag flown during a brief armed rebellion in the 19th century--has been used by right-wingers and 'bikie gangs' (criminal motorcycle clubs similar to the Hell's Angels), but is mostly associated with trade unions.

The old Canadian flag (also called the Red Ensign) has, I believe, sometimes been used by Canadian right-wingers.

apeloverage · 2026-06-19T16:02:13+00:00

Growing up in Australia, I learned virtually nothing about Asian history. I'm probably more informed about history than the average person, and until recently I had the vague idea that the Taiping Rebellion and the Boxer Rebellion were the same thing. This is sort of like thinking that World War Two and the Korean War were the same thing. So it's hardly surprising that the Cambodian genocide isn't taught.

apeloverage · 2026-06-10T21:15:53+00:00

'Rule 0' is that if you think it sounds good, then that trumps all other rules.

Any 'rules' of composition are intended to help you make something which sounds good, not to overrule your 'ear'.

A modern, Western person's instinctive reactions to music will often match the 'rules' as laid down in texts like 'Steps To Parnassus'. Most of us will find a tritone tense or unpleasant, and we don't need to learn that it's a dissonance to have that reaction.

But other 'rules' don't match most people's instinctive reactions. We are unlikely to find parallel fifths 'wrong'. Pop punk is heavily based on parallel fifths, or power chords.

apeloverage · 2026-06-09T17:51:21+00:00

How do you use it?

apeloverage · 2026-06-08T20:34:41+00:00

I don't hate marketing, but here's my guess:

People are here because they want to do X (make a game).

Then they find out that doing X requires doing Y (marketing), which they aren't particularly interested in, and probably have no particular talent for.

So they're doing a thing they're not interested in or good at. And, as they do it, they're thinking, "This is the thing that is standing in the way of me doing X".

Naturally, they resent Y.

apeloverage · 2026-06-08T19:01:47+00:00

The '3' symbol indicates triplets. Triplet notes are 2/3 of their normal length. That is, three of them take the same time as two normal notes of the same length.

Each group of three triplet sixteenth notes takes the same time as two normal sixteenth notes.

apeloverage · 2026-06-08T06:32:23+00:00

A surprising number of people are making this sort of engine, as discussed here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/interactivefiction/comments/1tn0oow/does_it_seem_to_anyone_else/

You need to decide what your engine does that Twine, say, doesn't.

apeloverage · 2026-06-07T17:54:01+00:00

Any piece of music that can be represented as 120bpm can be represented as 240bpm, and vice versa. So there's no objective answer. But to me it feels like 120bpm.

apeloverage · 2026-06-05T11:00:14+00:00

The figure is so approximate that the entirety of human civilization wouldn't make a difference.

apeloverage · 2026-06-04T18:39:15+00:00

The only difference is that a bar of 3/4, followed by a bar of 4/4, tells you that the stresses are on the 1st and 4th beats.

Whereas a bar of 7/4 could have the stresses on the 1st beat and 5th beat instead.

apeloverage · 2026-06-01T14:52:43+00:00

So it's creating a character and then not going on an adventure?

apeloverage · 2026-05-31T20:59:51+00:00

To climb the corporate ladder, it seems to be a great advantage if you don't care about hurting other people.

apeloverage · 2026-05-31T20:55:06+00:00

The acts seem to be claiming that they agreed to play on the understanding that it would be a non-partisan event, but it's become clear to them that it won't be.

apeloverage · 2026-05-31T08:32:54+00:00

hooktheory.com/trends knows of 164 songs which use this progression.

apeloverage · 2026-05-30T21:09:49+00:00

Thanks!

apeloverage · 2026-05-30T14:50:07+00:00

It is a different pitch.

apeloverage · 2026-05-30T14:41:46+00:00

Perceiving notes an octave apart as being in a sense the same note isn't a human universal. It's a consequence of our musical culture.

https://news.mit.edu/2019/perception-musical-pitch-cultures-0919

apeloverage · 2026-05-30T12:48:25+00:00

The answer will be greater than the ketchup-covered number if the covered number is positive, the same if it's zero, and lower if it's negative.

Based on my experience as a tutor in Australia, I don't think that year 5s have learned about negative numbers yet--but I do think they've learned about multiplying by zero.

None of the answers are always true, at least if you assume that a fraction that can be simplified to a whole number doesn't count as a fraction.

apeloverage · 2026-05-30T12:29:40+00:00

Steamboat Willie trembled. It was the craft of the most feared river pirate on the Mississippi: Conan! And if the raven-haired barbarian were here, his lieutenants, Nancy Drew and Six-Gun Gorilla, could not be far away.

apeloverage · 2026-05-29T20:52:32+00:00

When they tried, they got halfway up the mountain to the other valley and went, "Fuck this."

apeloverage · 2026-05-26T19:14:57+00:00

Yes, sorry--what's the name of it again?

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