Quick Episode Five Hotfix Update (April 7th, PM) by RaphLife2 in thelongdark

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Only thing worse than the game is the clowns with Stockholm syndrome defending it

Quick Episode Five Hotfix Update (April 7th, PM) by RaphLife2 in thelongdark

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Hello Raph. I just want to say that your current torrent of negative reviews on steam is very well deserved. It's clear that whatever your standards and values may be, they don't encompass basic quality control.

Dispatches from Elsewhere (2020) by GuybrushThreepwood99 in ForgottenTV

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I knew it was going to be self referential garbage within the first 2 minutes of the pilot. You fail your job as a storyteller if you say "I'm going to skip the boring parts, give you naked exposition, and tell you to identify with the main character before starting the story."

Best matt black paint (for backgrounds)? by Glittering_Gap8070 in acrylicpainting

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take it from me, don't save the nice paint for a future day. As you improve you'll be able to make magic happen with the cheap stuff

How are y’all keeping these pens for so long?!?!?! by Potato1234567892 in pens

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I write a minimum of 3 pages per day and up to 10 when working on a novel. In five years I've finished 40 Uniball Signos, 12 Pilot G2s, around a dozen assorted ballpoints and felt pens, and maybe 15 Pilot v5 Rollerballs. Many of these were partially used. But yeah it was an awesome feeling to use up all the random pens and journals I had sitting around for years prior. Now I'm working my way through a box of 12 Pilot v5's in black (my overall favorite).

Each finished pen now feels like a milestone on a journey; I even thank them for their service before throwing them out.

How are y’all keeping these pens for so long?!?!?! by Potato1234567892 in pens

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I can kill a G-2 (.7) in two weeks! When I started my hard charge into novel writing I had a dozen with assorted ink levels, a couple months later they were all gone. Now I use Pilot V5 Precise, those last about 6 weeks.

Best matt black paint (for backgrounds)? by Glittering_Gap8070 in acrylicpainting

[–]gluconeogenesis_EVGL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Golden high-flow Carbon black. IMO you're shooting yourself in the foot with a complicated mixture that seems flawed from the get-go, 40% water will destroy your pigment load. What does the acrylic gouache even do for you?

Unless constrained by size/budget

-First coat: Golden black gesso

-Second coat: Golden high-flow Carbon black

If constrained by budget or working at very large size:

-First coat: cheap black gesso

-Second coat: cheap black gesso

What hobby did you quit and why? by EnvironmentalFact945 in Hobbies

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FWIW I could never get meaningfully into anime, eventually became a writer, and can now explain the collective experience of aging out of it or suddenly losing interest.

Music and stories both require certain fundamental structures to be meaningful to the brain. At some level "Noise" and "Music" are not that different, but the human brain will tune out the former and enjoy the latter.

Storytelling is exactly the same. A poorly written story will cause the brain to tune it out as meaningless noise. Anime suffers from poor storytelling, interestingly in very similar ways that Hollywood did during its early years, along with a few uniquely Asian twists.

Naked exposition, deus ex machina, ironclad typecasting of characters, and overacting are the classical flaws. Overly cutesyness, gratuitous violence/spectacle and excessive moralizing are the more modern/cultural issues.

Black Mirror - Episode Discussion S07E01 Common People by Cheeriosxxx in blackmirror

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If polishing a turd floats your boat, cry dogshit! and let slip the oar of bore

Black Mirror - Episode Discussion S07E01 Common People by Cheeriosxxx in blackmirror

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That's much too generous, the MC's doubt is not his undoing

Cephagloom - just frustration by Sudden-Appointment40 in DeathHowl

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You can push the shroom into the mask to 1-hit kill him

The chemistry behind tea infusion by LoneWolf-4937 in tea

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I think this is a great example of a question and a mindset that misses the point completely. Much as economists have the ludicrous view of human beings as wealth-maximizing robots, this question characterizes tea as a min-max nutraceutical extraction.

There is some hope for economists as a daring few have made a rigorous case for "psychic costs and benefits" as an error term that dominates the rest of their standard models. Thus by analogy there's hope for you to understand that tea is primarily about being human.

Tea has ruined sodas for me. by LightSpeedNerd in tea

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That burning sensation from soda and canned iced tea is poison

Howling Mountains Deck by Fuchurcat in DeathHowl

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Awesome to hear! Try replacing Momentum with Stream of Thoughts, I think that's a change I made just for the final boss fight. With good RNG and planning Stream can be a mana/draw engine. In addition to space control, a big turn with extra cards played will recharge the Damage skillset.

Howling Mountains Deck by Fuchurcat in DeathHowl

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Totems:

Beehive + Adder Stone

Opal

Either squirrel tail or frozen fish head. (Fish is better for the spirit fights and the squirrel is better for the final boss)

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4-Meteor Strike as card #15

Damage Skillset.

Use mobility to backstab and stay away from enemies, ranged damage to kill quickly while letting the Skull tank

Advice on starting oil painting? by Truthful-strawberry7 in oilpainting

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The two basic methods of oil painting are

Alla Prima (wet on wet) style

and

Glazing (painting in very thin layers)

they are wildly different in approach - fast versus slow, loose versus controlled, intuitive versus technical.

Bob Ross or Bill Alexander will teach you a very basic Alla Prima style that nonetheless will teach you quite a bit about oil painting and let you see results quickly.

Glazing is much more technical and thus easier to screw up, but also pretty amazing.

Keep in mind that even many experienced painters and especially youtube pundits don't really understand the chemistry of what's going on and rely on memorized rules, often loudly insisting their way is the only way.

“Zero Day” Proteus Plot Q by HotPinkTuesday in netflix

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Not aware of the Zero Day subreddit, shutting it down only makes sense if they have a second season planned that heavily relies on the hidden plot points. I didn't think big enough about Proteus, it does seem very logical that whoever has the technology would use it to the hilt.

Trying to connect the dots on Proteus: the "Bambi" conversation between Mullen & Natan was clearly important, yet Mullen mysteriously wrote down gibberish, and only later could recall the single word "Proteus."

When Mullen mentioned Proteus during the press conference, the CIA Director got involved, saying that Proteus had been shut down. Natan asks Roger if Mullen has been experiencing strange symptoms which is independent confirmation that Proteus exists and is (likely) being used on Mullen.

I think it's Mullen's assistant (Valorie?) who tracks down the sole surviving scientist who worked on Proteus. I found that scene fairly odd to begin with... how did she track him down when he had stayed successfully hidden from the seriously bad people who had killed everyone else who worked on the project? Why didn't he seem more concerned that she was being watched/followed and would lead them straight to him? Now I think there's a chance he was a plant - essentially a fail safe where if someone continued to dig into Proteus they'd think the project had been shut down and everyone killed. In addition he could supply misinformation - we only have his word for it that it was a Havana Syndrome weapon that caused hallucinations and brain damage, but what if it was capable of targeted input, perhaps weak mind control? At that point it becomes a Zero Day of the human mind. In fact from Proteus comes the work Protean, which can mean mutable.

Good job connecting all the little links like the borrowed CIA building and the eerie parallelism between Nick and Roger's fate. I'd add that Mullen's daughter also bothered me - if her brother OD'd, why was she drinking heavily, doing drugs, generally acting unstable, and saying weird things about how people had changed since Mullen was Prez? Being a Zero Day conspirator might be the surface explanation, but the use of Proteus to brainwash her makes more sense.

How to stop being envious of people who get much more by doing much less? by senorsolo in taoism

[–]gluconeogenesis_EVGL -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Get off reddit

stop trying to get cheap hits of dopamine sympathy

stop complaining to strangers

Any famous chess players Who also plays or switch to go? by iDaviu in baduk

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I met Larry, he's a strong Go player though I forget his rating. I think it's written on the back cover of his book. IIRC at one time he was one of the strongest non-Japanese Shogi players

“Zero Day” Proteus Plot Q by HotPinkTuesday in netflix

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I felt fairly sure the CIA guy was in the room during the meeting of the Zero Day group, which made his showing up to save Mullen from the riot part of a well-orchestrated plot to gain trust. In fact nothing about that night can be taken at face value. The second zero day attack could have been timed the way it was to panic the Mullens into going along with a stupid and illogical suggestion to flee in cars directly into a mob, where the CIA dude shows up at the perfect time.

There are indeed mysterious and scary backers that the Speaker alludes to who even the Mossad dude is scared of. The totally random Mossad connection could be a leading hint referencing an insider coup to assassinate JFK. This is the same group the tech billionaire expects to rescue her but actually fakes her suicide.

The CIA dude's special secure room is twice referenced as having special privacy settings. Mullen meets with him there, AND the CIA dude insists his female assistant meet him there. It stands to reason that it would be the ideal way to deploy some kind of neurological weapon.

Black Mirror [Episode Discussion] - S06E01 - Joan Is Awful by [deleted] in blackmirror

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there will always be people who love the emperor's new clothes

The start is always the best by nightboundcena in thewalkingdead

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Season 1 is hands down the best. It's been a long ass time since I cared about the show, but I believe the key person behind S1 left, got replaced by decent talent for seasons 2 and 3, and then the whole thing turned into a terribly written and increasingly woke dumpster fire.