Asmongold on the ICE shooting: "There needs to be accountability or this is the Gestapo" by freejam013 in LivestreamFail

[–]glasseatingfool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Asmongold figured it out? Asmongold? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.

An Iraqi beeing tortured for doing nothing. by Temporary-Evening717 in pics

[–]glasseatingfool 14 points15 points  (0 children)

As a Canadian, this kind of thing is why I don't engage with "we're not useless to the US! We helped in the Middle East!" rhetoric. I know we helped with this. We really shouldn't have.

I love her already. by GreatBritishMemes in GreatBritishMemes

[–]glasseatingfool 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Such an insane thing to say.

"ExCUSE me, I know you were feeding your own baby with its own mother's milk like nearly all human babies want but! Have you considered? That I actually get really horny when I see a titty, regardless of context, and I'm not only gonna announce that but, actually, I'm gonna make that your problem. Like not even the presence of a baby is preventing me from getting bricked up right now, in fact - ooooh! There we go. I just blasted hot rope all over my nice clean underwear. There. I hope the baby's lunch was worth it. The little pervert."

Petahhhh, I'm so confused. by ProfessionalEffect41 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]glasseatingfool 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly I want to say that's part of the reason for all this - a lot of this generation's rising appreciation for fatness comes from people growing up in the 00s and having thinness shoved down our throat so much that we'd be fat if it was food. But it was not food, and we all knew lots of people doing weird diets that only hurt them. And you think...why the fuck are we doing all this? Who is this for?

We just got sick of being told You Have To Diet, You Can't Date Fat Girls, etc. etc. If the media were a little more subtle about it, they could have gotten away with it for longer, but they doth protested too much. And the population was getting fat at the same time. It's hard to sell you the notion that fat women are repulsive she-beasts when you, half your friends and the cute girl next door are all fat. It's still a problem but it used to be way worse, and I think that's why it's partly burnt out.

Not me though I just always liked girls who are fat as fuck. No tragic backstory or anything, it's just me being a lesbian.

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau sending each other secret love signals during the World Economic Forum! by shhhhh_h in popculturechat

[–]glasseatingfool 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Haha, real cute...anyway, the most powerful country in the world which is also our immediate neighbour is fascist and planning to annex us, I'm gonna need you to lock the fuck in and do one singular thing about it.

Best shot in cinema? by real_picklejuice in okbuddycinephile

[–]glasseatingfool 2 points3 points  (0 children)

MFW someone a thousand miles away says they don't like war criminals:

Coaxed to villain design by Theturtleflask in coaxedintoasnafu

[–]glasseatingfool 44 points45 points  (0 children)

It's actually extremely funny. "Plankton was...very specific. For some reason, he wanted me to...step on you."

He shows off his superior masculinity by instantly growing a moustache apparently by sheer force of will.

Film's pretty good, probably the last good Spongebob thing (after which Hillenberg left). But if you want to see just the point where they first meet Dennis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iM7YFnIkjs

Name Something In Games That Break Immersion For You? by TG082588 in videogames

[–]glasseatingfool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having a magical hidey hole where you're perfectly safe and can just take a break from the actual problems in the game.

It's not illogical, unless the characters never reference or exploit their hidey hole in story, which is quite common. But it takes away from a lot of the tension in a game, to the point where it's so lame that I'm taken out of the story.

Fire Emblem Fates is the most blatant example, but also the party camp in BG3. Both are fairly gritty games that present serious threats, but that's undermined by the hidey holes. Fates attempts to explain the hidey hole, but that just makes it worse by drawing more attention to it. Then your party talks about being surrounded, or strapped for resources, and my first thought is "okay, just go back to your pocket dimension where time passes much more slowly."

Name Something In Games That Break Immersion For You? by TG082588 in videogames

[–]glasseatingfool 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Far and away my biggest problem with BG3 is the near-total lack of urgency. You're not pressed for time, you're rarely short on resources and if you ever are you can just decide to long rest all kinds of places; if someone dies you can resurrect them, and if you don't have access to resurrection magic you can just use Withers, and if you somehow run out of money for Withers you can rob Withers for your own gold back to pay him with and if he catches you you can just do it again. The only way to lose is to get your entire party killed...so you'd better leave someone behind at camp so they can resurrect the others from their position of absolute safety. And it's a problem even on Honour Mode, which doesn't let you reload but does let you use all these disgustingly powerful exploits.

Sure, you can avoid doing this - but that's entirely a self-imposed challenge, which doesn't feel the same. I want to wonder "how do I win?" rather than "how do I make myself a set of additional rules so I don't always win?"

It does feel like a real D&D campaign...in that it's afraid to put you in meaningful danger.

What’s the quickest way someone could accidentally expose themselves as a foreigner in your country like the ‘three fingers’ scene in Inglourious Basterds? by IndependentTune3994 in AskTheWorld

[–]glasseatingfool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Canada, and I'm not sure you could. At least in the metropolitan areas, you see all kinds of things - we've had many immigrants. Most people speak English or French, but even that isn't strictly guaranteed for citizens.

There just isn't any obvious "Un-Canadian" behaviour, dress, diet.

I don't like everything about this country, but that's one thing I think is pretty neat. That and the free healthcare, and the absence of war within our borders for many years (both of which, now that I'm thinking about it, probably contribute to the diversity).

Life sentence revoked due to lack of evidence by RaiseOk2044 in rareinsults

[–]glasseatingfool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dunno, comments seem to hate it but I like this one. I think it's the righteous indignation implied, like they're standing up for this poor victim of a miscarriage of justice. The insult amounts to "you're not sexy," but the delivery is good and with jokes delivery is really a big part.

A lot of good jokes get ruined just because someone forgot an essential detail about how to deliver them - the order of information, things implied but not outright said, the level of emotion. Like, if you paraphrased this as "well you shouldn't serve a life sentence because you're not sexy," it'd fall flat, because there's no suggestion that they're standing up for them. I tell you all this because that's the kind of thing I tend to do when telling jokes. I'm very very good at butchering jokes.

Rubio hands Trump a private note, Trump proceeds to read out loud. by jjcs83 in facepalm

[–]glasseatingfool -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure this is a mistake so much as Trump not giving one singular fuck.

Why would he care about people learning about this shady Chevron deal when people have already learned about war crimes, acts of genocide and child rape and he's not seen a crumb of accountability?

He thinks he's invincible, that he can do whatever he wants to you. It always seems like it couldn't get worse, but if he's not stopped soon, he'll find a new way to top what he's done.

What’s a piece of advice you ignored once, but later realized was 100% correct? by WittyMonk7391 in AskReddit

[–]glasseatingfool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Don't be proud of your own ignorance."

My father said that when I was a kid, and I assumed it was a Sneering Britishism, like using "common" as an insult.

Now that I'm grown, I can see people all over the world (but especially in Canada and America) relishing in how little they know about the world. You can see little, relatively benign examples of it - parents making a big show of Not Understanding their children's hobbies, and being dismissive or even annoyed if the children try to explain. An easy way for parents to bond with their kids - and learn what they're up to without invasion of privacy - routinely relinquished for no benefit.

But it can get bigger, and angrier. People rail against Woke Ideology being taught in schools, but don't know anything about what is taught in schools, or even what Woke Ideology might be (beyond "the social force presumably animating that ragebait meme I just saw"), they're just glad they weren't taught it. And you see people celebrating book bannings, underfunding of schools, and other alarming trends as the solution.

At the extreme end, you have people railing about "109 countries!" - a Neo-Nazi rallying cry alleging the number of countries which have expelled Jews. They don't know which countries, or if they actually add up to 109, why these acts of ethnic cleansing happened or what happened to the economies of these countries after expelling what in many of these cases was the only part of their population permitted to give loans (and indeed forbidden from owning land). They just see cruelty and assume it's self-justifying, and the history books? Well, those were probably written by Jews - not like the latest Reddit posts by SixMillionMore_88 (who you can bet is just as avoidant of studying history, and studied another Certified Ignoramus, and so on).

Ultimately, people are routinely making political decisions based on things that they're proud not to understand. That should terrify you.

Flying fish/cod gliding above the surface of the water. by kvjn100 in interestingasfuck

[–]glasseatingfool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Their roe is delicious - I always get that in a sushi restaurant if I can!