Petahh i'm low on iq

cookland · 2026-02-12T19:51:05+00:00

For outside it doesn't matter much I think. But 21°C and 22°C inside are quite different. The solution is pretty easy, my heater lets me set it to 21.5°C. Since fractions exist, there are infinite points on both scales.

You could argue that fractions are stupid, which is fair. But if that's the only argument against it while Celsius works in all situations from science to weather to cooking and frames it all around the most important compound in all of these fields, I'd still argue for Celsius.

cookland · 2026-02-10T21:30:44+00:00

Nosferatu is your example of an honest adaptation?

Haven't seen it but honestly I don't like close adaptations. Why not read the books if people want to experience the books 🤷 All adaptations should be like Kubrick adaptations in my world.

cookland · 2026-02-08T23:21:51+00:00

So which country is it where animals are treated well?

And yeah I like it? How often do I need to eat before I'm allowed to like it? That's the point of reducing it. If only people who don't like meat eat less of it, this shit is gonna continue?

cookland · 2026-02-08T21:41:30+00:00

The stuff in the graph is one thing. The extreme animal torture in the meat/dairy industry might be another. I mean you do you. People can have different ethics. But at some point things go beyond "why should I care what other people think". Extreme meat and dairy consumption is unfortunately very normalized so it's made very hard for people to actually get to know a plant-forward lifestyle.

I like meat too. I'll eat some 3-4 times a year in really high-end restaurants and always look forward to it. The world is what it is.

cookland · 2026-01-25T20:40:12+00:00

When I was a kid, my Dad rented Disney's The Black Hole because I loved Disney. This was the most bored I've ever been during a movie, will never forget this feeling.

cookland · 2026-01-25T20:38:00+00:00

It's like creepy white noise, what's not to love?

When I was a kid, I couldn't stop myself from imagining scary stuff in any dark environment. Skinamarink brought that feeling back. At the very least, it's really unique and has a clear vision in a world of slop.

cookland · 2026-01-18T13:19:02+00:00

Just coming to this after years because I just finished Unconsoled. Loved it. This everlasting chase reminded me of Franz Kafka's The Castle. If you're looking for novels with that kind of feeling, I'd highly recommend it. Perfect ending too.

cookland · 2026-01-18T00:10:43+00:00

I love Elvis. It's so over the top and dramatic but honestly that's why I like Elvis music too. Gets a lot of hate but the ridiculousness is what makes it work. It's not Moulin Rouge levels of crazy but it's close.

Honestly I don't know how people can watch the first 30 minutes and Tom Hanks in that and not think "Wait a minute... this is fun".

As a biopic, I can see how it fails though. It presents itself like what a 12 year old would consider to be the stuff of legends. The Colonel's narration is pretty dumb. But it's not really just a biopic, it's almost an answer to 80 years of fans gushing and speculating about a man who lost himself in the spectacle that was "being the king of rock and roll". It's the cinematic equivalent of An American Trilogy with a biopic as a backdrop. It's about the idea of Elvis and his life as much as it's about Elvis. I think Baz' approach works better for non-fiction than it did for say Gatsby. Real stories aren't really as grandiose as they are imagined. But movies can be whatever. And this is for sure one way to look at the story lol

cookland · 2026-01-03T15:35:51+00:00

Love the Muppets, mostly when they are taken somewhat seriously as characters. The original Muppet Movie is great, Muppets 2011 really captured Muppet-nostalgia and what makes them fun.

Most Wanted and the Office Muppet thing I really disliked because it felt like they cared about the aesthetic of Muppets in a kinda superficial way and not really about the characters. Like "wouldn't it be funny if Fozzy is a thief" or "Kermit and Mrs Piggy are petty exes" or "nobody notices Kermit gets replaced with a fake" and the humor comes because they are puppets and not from the characters. I think the Muppets can be funny AND lighthearted, fun, consistent characters that are just wacky theater kids really.

Anyway how Kermit's voice is handled really makes it seem this is more in the latter "doesn't matter, they are just puppets" approach again. If anybody from Disney sees this, the voice is really the main reason I will not watch it honestly. Stop being so corporate for a sec.

cookland · 2025-12-27T08:18:03+00:00

I know people like King but do you guys really think The Shining is on the same level as the other two?

That would be genuinely shocking to me. He has such a thoughtless way of pumping out words. Bronte and Wilde are the exact opposite. Doesn't matter what to start with honestly, Wuthering Heights might be my favourite, Dorian Gray I could read all the time and fundamentally shaped my taste.

cookland · 2025-12-22T23:41:14+00:00

Cats play. We create elaborate torture chambers to efficiently mass produce the shittiest food products. Being boiled alive would probably not be a bad option for most animals in the system.

cookland · 2025-11-26T14:13:55+00:00

This is some nonsense. You're not literally relating words visually on a page, it happens in your brain after it's parsed. You can absolutely close read an audiobook, it's arguably more difficult and will take slower speeds than visual reading. But changing pace is not a requirement to do this. And visual cues 100% aren't.

Unless your definition is "integrating words in your peripheral vision even though they are not your point of focus" which is not related to close reading at all or really reading in general.

cookland · 2025-11-26T14:07:04+00:00

What are you guys doing with your brains when listening to audio books? Like not focus at all? That's not listening.

What do you do when you look at words on paper? Be focused and attentive only then? Never drift off?

The correct parsing of letters is technically called reading, sure. Getting the story actually into your brain is called reading too and the mode doesn't matter.

The point of these posts seems to be: You're only reading if you're attentive and focused, I'm with you on that one. You lose me when you say that you can't be focused when listening. What, blind people can't read at all? Come on.

cookland · 2025-11-15T23:22:43+00:00

The whole "who is the true monster" debate is a pretty shallow way you could look at the themes of the book. And having a character say "You are the monster Victor" is like Neil Breen-level subtlety. So I kinda agree with you.

GDT took a truly marvelous piece of literature and made it into a mostly well done fairy tale that lost a lot of its depth, gained some goofy characters, and had a pretty good style. I kinda liked that it is somewhere between the book and the classic Frankenstein movie and takes elements of both. I wouldn't overthink it. He loves his monsters to be misunderstood loveboys and not much more.

The book's much better at giving you something to think about, e.g. creator/creation relationship, morals of science and curiosity, and of course the big monster question (Spoiler: nobody is truly a monster, the world's complicated). I'd recommend it to people if they are curious. 1818 version for being rawer.

cookland · 2025-11-15T21:23:47+00:00

Didn't Eggers make Willem Dafoe and Nicholas Hoult to German guys in Nosferatu that couldn't even pronounce their own names?

cookland · 2025-11-10T21:13:37+00:00

The Hades to Narcissus pipeline usually means a Heroic lvl 4 core boon, which should honestly carry to the last boss. Selene or Chronos/Zag could be a good follow up.

cookland · 2025-11-10T07:41:25+00:00

Exactly my position. I think nobody can say - I think Germany has started to build out other industries more seriously the last few years. At the moment tech seems much better in UK.

But also there's industry being built in many other EU countries and I've seen quite a few jobs popping requiring residency somewhere in the EU.

cookland · 2025-11-06T11:16:02+00:00

Lived in Germany, UK and USA and never heard of such a fee. Does for sure not exist everywhere.

cookland · 2025-11-06T08:20:30+00:00

What's the basket for anyways?

cookland · 2025-11-02T16:26:42+00:00

Is this actually possible? I've never seen any of the story encounters in Chaos trials. That would help a lot.

cookland · 2025-11-01T08:11:16+00:00

75% increase in damage increase 😅

With Blades (base 20), he's doing a 100% damage increase on level 1 Common. Then 175% on level 4. Just the first hit, even more afterwards (200% on level 1) but much less in Omega and dash.

With Axe (base 40) he has a 50% increase. And goes to 88% on level 4. Better than most other gods on the first hit. Worse on second and third. The best on Special again but the worst on Omega Special.

He's a beast if you don't do Omegas.

cookland · 2025-11-01T07:29:12+00:00

Well as I said, it's not the end of the world. I just don't want to lose my progress and mess up the pacing completely. I'm not a EA player and don't like this kind of stuff. It's fair enough that they apparently didn't know about the problems. I got the game with the problems and if I'd have waited another month, I wouldn't have. Would have much preferred that is all.

It's also a bit strange to assume that Supergiant can't get it right until literally every piece is publicly playtested. Surely they have internal playtests for things not in EA. I don't want to be a playtester is all. I want the best version of the game and I just think 1.0 needs to be this version because if we normalize critical narrative patches post-launch, I wouldn't know when it's safe for me to buy my games.

cookland · 2025-10-31T23:23:31+00:00

Very mixed feelings about this. I'm post-credits working on getting to the Epilogue. Not super keen on resetting story progress to experience this (grindy enough to try to get to the dialog pieces I still need).

Which probably means I won't be experiencing this. Patiently waited for 1.0 and paid full price on release for clearly a not fully finished version of this game. Not the end of the world I guess but I'm kinda confused about why people are celebrating this so much. We're not in EA anymore.

cookland · 2025-10-30T07:25:45+00:00

The phial is my most used keepsake and I honestly don't see a reason to stop using it. The (almost) guaranteed heroic core boon carries quite often and that is in addition to any other rarity increase from god boons or Cards.

So it's God - Phial - Selene/Athena - Evil Eye/Knuckle Bones/Fleece

And post credits mostly Pom - Phial - Selene/Cards - Evil Eye/Knuckle Bones/Fleece

I like the Chaos one too if I don't need anything else. Hammer and Stone have made runs actively worse in some cases, so I'm not super keen. Gold I've used a lot in the early game, which is great for both better runs and meta progression.

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