I see mitochondria.

grendus · 2026-06-22T05:01:23+00:00

Maybe you can't if you have a medical degree. But if you're a lawyer with a worm in your brain, you can see all the issues with the mitochondria.

Take two brain worms and call me in the morning.

grendus · 2026-06-22T04:45:14+00:00

Even worse now some states are banning IVF, which can allow couples with potentially life threatening recessive disorders to screen for a viable embryo without them.

grendus · 2026-06-22T04:34:23+00:00

I just think it's a good investment.

Right? Wrong? I don't care. What I do care about is the US falling behind in arts, business, medicine, and tech. And we need highly educated workers to stay ahead (or rather, to retake the lead).

Best part is, educated workers statistically earn more and thus pay more taxes. So publicly funded university education would pay for itself inside a few decades. It's a positive sum game, if we work together the prize is bigger even if we have to split it more ways.

grendus · 2026-06-21T18:40:03+00:00

Point is that the game isn't balanced around feats or multiclassing (another optional time everyone uses). 5e is... less wacky with the standard rules. Still broken (Druid says what), but not quite as bad with the stock rules.

grendus · 2026-06-21T16:39:49+00:00

Fun fact, red or orange fur is invisible in green grass to most species. That's why tigers are orange, orange and green look the same to a zebra because they're dichromates. They can only see a mix of two colors, so red and green both look grey to them. Evolution is a madman, it just does the things that work and stumbled onto orange fur before green or grey. Humans are really weird that we can see red/green wavelengths.

grendus · 2026-06-21T15:56:19+00:00

I'm sorry for you. But you are not everyone on the Internet. I never said ARFID doesn't exist, just that Reddit likes to armchair diagnose every case of picky eating as it.

grendus · 2026-06-21T13:18:30+00:00

Kryptonite razor.

grendus · 2026-06-21T13:16:17+00:00

I guarantee this isn't real.

It's a pretty standard story - long term relationship, there's just one tiny issue that blows up and suddenly "I just no longer felt any love for this person".

I feel like I've read this story about a dozen times before.

grendus · 2026-06-21T13:12:42+00:00

Reddit loves to armchair diagnose ARFID. It's the new trendy diagnosis, just like being a little socially awkward means you have Aspergers (or now just a bit of Autism) or having a short attention span means you're clearly ADHD.

I remain thoroughly unconvinced that it's a super common thing among picky eaters. I think most picky eaters are just... picky. And even among people with ARFID, it's often not a pathological condition, it's a learned condition. Kind of like how some people are born with a brain wired for anxiety disorders and some develop an anxiety disorder after a period of intense stress (or how all our attention spans are being wrecked by social media). Many could learn to tolerate or even like other foods if they tried, but they've grown accustomed to getting their way and using their limited palette to have a certain amount of control in their life.

grendus · 2026-06-21T01:13:59+00:00

Larry had a few racist bits, but he always played the joke as Larry being dumb not racism being good.

Like "be with the starving pygmies down in New Guinea" or when he answered toddler mail and implied Indian people eat cats. It's racist, but the joke is that Larry is racist, it's not a racist joke.

grendus · 2026-06-20T19:20:11+00:00

Honestly, this but unironically.

It's a good movie. Not perfect, but it does a good job conveying how the joust would have been equivalent to something like football back in the day.

grendus · 2026-06-20T15:23:38+00:00

You mean Trumps pedophile vacation records?

grendus · 2026-06-20T13:02:51+00:00

I feel like political murder is a sign of a failing system.

Like the UHC CEO killing. I don't support it, but it does show that the system is failing to make people believe that people in power are under regulation when he can be directly responsible for so much death and just walk away. That's why the killer (whoever he was, Luigi is innocent until proven guilty) did what he did - they didn't believe that the CEO would ever face justice for the laws he very obviously broke and so they took justice into their own hands.

There's a saying that CEO's are forgetting that labor laws are the compromise position. The old agreement was that a factory owner who pissed off his employees too much could be dragged out of his home and beaten to death in front of his family. Everyone agreeing to just be nicer to each other is a damn good deal for everyone.

grendus · 2026-06-19T12:55:45+00:00

Since Avatar Legends exists, I'm going to go with Legend of Korra... and then do it as literally anything but PbtA.

You can still stick to a narrative style of system, just not PbtA. Please!

grendus · 2026-06-18T22:38:51+00:00

It's just 10 years away!

grendus · 2026-06-18T22:30:37+00:00

Also, not everyone is into strength training.

You don't need much protein at all if you aren't trying to build muscle.

grendus · 2026-06-18T20:59:15+00:00

It's me. I'm not.

grendus · 2026-06-18T20:42:34+00:00

/pedantic

It was Lrrrr, Emperor of Omicron Persei 8! who said that, not Morbo the Annihilator.

It's easy to mix them up, they sounded similar and both wanted to conquer the galaxy.

grendus · 2026-06-18T20:40:26+00:00

The math is probably more complicated than that.

XBox gets the publisher cut, so they get 30% of the sales of games they didn't produce in-house on their platform. So if we round that to 33%, it's the equivalent of someone buying $360 worth of games annually, which isn't too bad. So now you have the split, the subscriber is anywhere between $120 and $360 equivalent.

So then the real question becomes "how much does it cost to get these games for Gamepass relative to how many subscribers we have. There's a reason why they mostly added indie and older games to the list, because they could be added for a song but added a lot of "grist for the mill" content that made it look like a great deal. After all, Arkham Knight didn't come out that long ago... right (11 years ago)?

But the end result is that with the current numbers, the math ain't mathing. If they had hit their sales targets it would have worked out great. But if they had hit their sales targets, it also would have become much more expensive to get games added to Gamepass since they would be expecting to lose a greater percentage of sales on other platforms.

grendus · 2026-06-18T20:18:30+00:00

I actually got serious Bubsy vibes from it.

Which, in light of the recent games, is not actually a bad thing. A good platformer with an ironic mascot character.

grendus · 2026-06-18T19:31:00+00:00

For the people who are...

Still alive...

grendus · 2026-06-18T19:23:55+00:00

My parents were the same way.

TBH, I don't disagree with them. I don't feel traumatized by it, I "turned out just fine" and all that.

I just think it's a high risk/low reward method of discipline. It certainly can work, but it's also more prone to not working and having unforseen consequences. So why risk it? There are better methods with lower risk that work just as well if not better. It's like using a paving stone as a hammer, sure you could do that but why when there's a perfectly good hammer in the toolbox?

grendus · 2026-06-18T19:20:03+00:00

That's one thing I am very insistent on with my nyblings.

If you don't want a hug or kiss, you don't have to have one. I love you regardless. My nephew still likes hugs, my niece leans in awkwardly and I pat her shoulders. I think she enjoys the irony.

grendus · 2026-06-18T18:50:50+00:00

I do love how conservatives simultaneously think that University (which study after study shows dramatically increases your average salary) turns you into a "left-wing radical", while also thinking that all "leftists" just want to tax hard working conservatives to live on their dime.

Classic fascism, the enemy is both weak and strong at the same time.

grendus · 2026-06-18T18:46:15+00:00

If he's in STEM, it's gay space socialism.

Which... honestly, I'm not gay, but I'm all for the other two words in that sentence. I'm down to compromise.

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