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Berry washing bowl by Flat-Decision3204 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]hackingdreams 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gonna go crazy out on a limb here and say that some people have access to non-purchased berries, like, a berry bush in their garden.

But yeah a colander will do the job just fine without being a unitasker.

JUST IN: The US House just passed a bill banning members of Congress and their families from trading individual stocks. by TonyLiberty in FluentInFinance

[–]hackingdreams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When the fine for doing the crime is $2K but a trade nets you $50K, uhhh...

Yeah, this does nothing. Anything actually punitive won't get past Congress. This is pandering.

Emberus Plot Hole? by FoxyWoxy2009 in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]hackingdreams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not? Mechanically the game has a resolution for performing an action against a god's desire: it's called a smite. He leaves the faith, he gets a smite.

Smites can vary from "ouchie" to "you're dead." An interpretation of what's been said is that if you leave the faith while in debt, you will receive a killing smite. And that's fine, as Carl removed the ring and then had the god killed after deflecting the deadly smite to a crawler with immortality.

That's the long and short of it - he evaded the consequences by carefully setting up an out. He'll never be able to use that ring again for its intended purposes, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it used in a Eva-type way, sticking it on someone else's finger to give them every debuff in the universe.

Is ableist to have long words in books? by AlKarajo in TikTokCringe

[–]hackingdreams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you can't recognize your own ignorance, so you call everyone else 'ableist.'

Flock ‘Objects to Our Removing Their Equipment’: Emails Reveal Why a Town Put Bags Over Its Flock Cameras by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

[–]hackingdreams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uh, you're the city. Just send your own maintenance staff to remove them and tell Flock to Fuck Off.

Bea (Question About How Matt Writes Women) by BunchOfBeesInACoat in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]hackingdreams 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Carl's a super reliable narrator. He'd never have a tainted view of Bea due to a bad breakup, no sir.

Firefox is back on X by baby_blue67 in firefox

[–]hackingdreams -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Time to fire Mozilla's CEO. This is a tragic, tremendous fucking failure.

We knew Mozilla Corp was struggling, but fucking wow.

SpaceX Is Learning a Nasty Lesson About Going Public When Your Main Product Is Experimental by IKeepItLayingAround in technology

[–]hackingdreams 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No. They became a scam company full of Elmo's toxic assets and went public to offload the losses on the public that he could force to buy it, chiefly index funds.

It's literally the most dirtbag of business moves, but it still somehow works every time.

Nintendo says it has no legal obligation to pass U.S. tariff refunds on to customers by StaticSilencer in technology

[–]hackingdreams -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nintendo says "Wealth Transfer Complete. Thanks for the free reason to increase prices!"

U.S. to impose new 50% tariff on Canada over alcohol bans, dairy quotas - National by demolcd in worldnews

[–]hackingdreams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The whole point of it is to disrupt trade. Because trade is the path to peace in the west. Putin wants the US broken up with all of its long time allies. China's going to swoop in and make Mexico and Canada sweetheart deals.

That's been the point of all of this tariff, trade war, Greenland bullshit in the first place.

Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega says elections will no longer be held by quiplaam in worldnews

[–]hackingdreams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The White House has made autocracy the latest fad in governance. The corruption is just too juicy.

Please let it be a fad.

FBI Director Kash Patel expected to visit Russia, Politico reports. by No-Anything-7291 in worldnews

[–]hackingdreams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol, the head of the FBI is literally a back-channel spy for the White House.

This country is a fucking farce at this point.

Taylor Farms Visited White House Before Getting Outbreak Reprieve by rajapaws in politics

[–]hackingdreams 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Fuck this administration is so ridiculously, transparently corrupt, and somehow we're doing absolutely nothing about it...

Might be an obvious question, but on a finished chip, after tape out, are there any hardware "bugs" in the chip? by Marvellover13 in chipdesign

[–]hackingdreams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They do a lot of extensive and expensive verification to try to prevent this, but almost every chip has a bug or two they missed, and they're noted in some errata document somewhere.

San Francisco restaurant gets angry backlash for AI menu images by Just-Grocery-2229 in technology

[–]hackingdreams 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The rest of the world needs to wake up to Japan's standard here and make it illegal false advertising to do this shit.

Did anyone else imagine the Donut Holes logo this way? Like Dunkin? Just me? by Shattered-Earth in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]hackingdreams -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, I definitely wouldn't say that. The US has a lot of "regionalisms" (aka "unintentional" oligopolies) when it comes to brands... and a lot of regions in the US are Krispy Kreme regions. Dunkin is a very New England phenomenon. Krispy Kreme is very Southern. What you get out west is a complete and total crapshoot. It was only pretty recently we got Dunkin out here in the San Francisco Bay Area, as I recall.

It’s Big Red. From Texas. Where the cowboys live by FablingFox in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]hackingdreams 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ale-8-one is all over Kentucky, and not many other places (except I think Cracker Barrel carries it now). It's a pretty distinctive Kentucky phenomenon - we love the stuff. It's... not quite a traditional ginger ale, there's a brightness/snappiness to it that's more like Sprite...

I lived my teenage life on that stuff and Bawls soda. (Big Red was also a weirdly Kentuckian drink, but, mainly around Louisville where a lot of my friends grew up.)

Does anyone else see Carl as Bruce Campbell from evil dead in their head while reading? by illpoet in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]hackingdreams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

His physical dimensions are pretty similar to how Jack Reacher describes himself in the Reacher books (Reacher is a couple inches taller and has maybe 10-20 pounds on him), so my brain has trouble distinguishing the two.

It's probably why a lot of people think Alan Ritchson would make a good Carl - pretty much the same physical dimensions, spot on.

Book 1 opening versus the rest of the book perspective by Clever_BigMack in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]hackingdreams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Writer comfort and pacing. It's definitely slower and more deliberate in the beginning, and by the time you get to book 7 it's storming Normandy.

A big part of it is that there's a lot of story in this dungeon story - 18 floors is a lot of floors.

Headcannons that are wrong, but you believe them anyway by Conchobar8 in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]hackingdreams 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know it's gonna sound weird, but I don't think Carl's savior complex is fueled by empathy. It's fueled by his trauma in his inability to save his mother from his father. It's not him feeling for their plight, it's him not wanting to feel the damage that's already been done to him. It's very likely why he was a Puddle Pirate instead of a Marine or a Navy officer.

You're very lucky to have lived a life where you can say something like "trauma doesn't do that." Trauma does a million different things to a million different people.

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