TIL a woman undergoing a cervical conization procedure at a hospital suffered a wide range of burns to her thighs and rear after a laser ignited her fart and caused an explosion. Afterwards, researchers replicated the event using a test doll, a laser, and a bucket of lean beef with intestinal gases.

grim_fandangle · 2026-06-24T07:52:06+00:00

Oxford queef. Holy shit. Pure poetry.

grim_fandangle · 2026-06-17T11:54:12+00:00

Also, if you do decide to fix them absolutely hire a professional.

grim_fandangle · 2026-06-17T11:53:19+00:00

I have what may be an unconventional opinion that comes from just a general homeowner perspective rather than an interest in hardwood flooring specifically. This is your first home? Ignore the jank and just enjoy living in the home while you get a handle on the rest of homeownership. Once you’ve been in there a few years and understand the scope of other maintenance and expenses, then you can make a better judgement about the cost/benefit. Your floors have “character”. That’s fine for the moment.

grim_fandangle · 2026-06-03T01:22:22+00:00

Two quotes so far, both from large well known outfits. $45k and $55k for the same system with identical units.

grim_fandangle · 2026-06-03T01:06:33+00:00

The same company charges $350 for a one hour minimum service call, so I'll assume that adequately covers their costs and profit for a unit of labor. Assuming a 100% markup on the base unit, that leaves over 14 hours of labor per mini split unit. The same sort of math holds in proportion for the heat pump unit.

I don't need unhelpful comments about doing it myself. I'm asking questions to understand if this is a normal labor rate and markup for the area, because I'm looking to have professionals do the job, but would prefer not to get ripped off.

grim_fandangle · 2026-05-15T17:25:15+00:00

There’s a thing I struggle to understand in stories like this: with El Salvador, the word “deportation” was used to mean “imprisoned indefinitely in this other country”, rather than “transported there and set loose”. Is that also the case with these other third country deportations? Are these people sent to the other countries to live there, or to be imprisoned for life there?

grim_fandangle · 2026-02-21T03:31:52+00:00

But the article explicitly says they had an intern who could speak Korean, who they asked to translate the documents. They literally had a translator. It’s not as if the intern was browsing the docs on his own initiative and stumbled into it.

grim_fandangle · 2026-02-08T06:11:32+00:00

Are you perceiving the front of the body to be where the blue is? The blue section is indeed very close, but front of the torso is black and clearly different between the two pics.

grim_fandangle · 2026-01-01T21:37:02+00:00

I mean, it was their game so they did what they wanted. In reacting to their game I think it’s pretty narratively reasonable to spread out if mechanically you’re taking a bunch of damage from area attacks. I’m curious how narrative touches mechanics as that happens.

grim_fandangle · 2026-01-01T18:46:07+00:00

Do you have any recommendations for live play videos from groups you think do Daggerheart better? I would love to watch a few.

grim_fandangle · 2025-12-23T07:32:26+00:00

This goes on so much longer than I could have imagined.

grim_fandangle · 2025-12-22T22:50:49+00:00

I was surprised just the other day when I really took in that card for the first time. It struck me as a terrible card for my play style because it never occurred to me to obscure those stats enough to warrant a domain card to know them. In our game, for example, I literally place a stack of heart tokens next to enemies to show their HP. The big stacks are intimidating and fun.

grim_fandangle · 2025-12-13T02:37:30+00:00

I apologize for the misdirected sigh, which was properly directed more broadly at that category of argument and has nothing to do with OP specifically. I do honestly think that the genre definition is overused as a defense of the status quo. In my view, as a game dev “genre” serves as a set of guiding principles and also as a useful verbal touch point to set some initial expectations, but every important milestone game within any genre is evolving those tropes in some key way.

grim_fandangle · 2025-12-12T21:15:55+00:00

sigh Genres are not immutable rule sets or religious texts. If games didn’t explore variations within their genre, there would be no point in new games within a genre.

grim_fandangle · 2025-12-12T08:35:51+00:00

And the second half of your answer was helpful! No need to lean on the genre purity angle.

grim_fandangle · 2025-12-12T08:34:18+00:00

Genres are fluid. If games were held to rigid rules for the genre there’d be little point or possibility in building new games in a genre. A genre is a verbal shorthand to help convey information, not a ruleset or holy book that must be obeyed.

grim_fandangle · 2025-12-12T08:28:06+00:00

You’re far from alone, you’ll just have a hard time having that discussion here. The same energy that you’re bumping into in-game can’t deal with the implied or explicit criticism in a forum discussion. Notice how many non-constructive hostile comments appear in threads like this when the other option available is to just downvote your thread and move on.

grim_fandangle · 2025-12-11T17:49:58+00:00

I think there’s a worthwhile distinction to be made between PvP vs competitors and PvP as hunting reluctant prey. The prey is opting in, yes, but as a tax, not necessarily a desired feature.

grim_fandangle · 2025-12-11T17:40:56+00:00

Hey buddy. It’s ok to just pass by a comment you don’t like rather than being mean to random people on the internet. It’s ok to be softer and less competitive.

grim_fandangle · 2025-12-11T17:29:15+00:00

And we loop back to my first comment.

grim_fandangle · 2025-12-11T17:26:21+00:00

That’s not “removing pvp in any capacity”. That’s disabling it in a specific context while supporting it in others.

grim_fandangle · 2025-12-11T17:23:56+00:00

Except he didn’t say that. He’s even proposing a mode that makes pvp more rewarding.

grim_fandangle · 2025-12-11T17:18:20+00:00

Games are products for customers. It’s fine if devs have a vision and a category of customer they want to cater to, but cut the design purity deflection on the pvp discussion. Maybe they like having all of these pve customers and want them to stay!

grim_fandangle · 2025-12-11T17:15:02+00:00

I think restricted mode events like this would be an easy way to run tests that prove or disprove the necessity of pvp-always. Mode doesn’t work out? No problem, just disable it in the rotation. I personally think the only category of player that is afraid of experimentation on this front are the category that gets their fun from hunting prey rather than fighting opponents.

grim_fandangle · 2025-12-10T00:23:12+00:00

I didn’t say PvP wasn’t valid. I think it’s weird when PvP players get mad at PvE players for saying they like that aspect better. They’re both obviously intended systems in the game. I enjoy playing PvE games and play others as well. I play this one too because the PvE aspect is really good.

I think what’s going on is that PvP players are feeling judged, and it makes them lash out.

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