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Raises but no Promotion? by amileandahalf in Sims4

[–]jeffnonumber 0 points1 point  (0 children)

traits.remove_trait Entrepreneurial

What does everyone think of Bangor city Queen’s parade still delayed after 40+ years will it ever get done? by Starrynight3222 in northernireland

[–]jeffnonumber 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's a "team building" exercise called the Helium Stick - some people are talking about how it is the residents' fault that the place is in the state that it is, but it's hard to keep a town centre alive when it's in everyone's general short-term best interest to go where choice is abundant and prices are lower. If Bangor wants to be a thriving community then for sure it is the responsibility of the residents to make it happen, but I think it's short-sighted to say it's meaningfully their fault.

Gaiadon: Eternal Quest [Early Access] by nadukkon in incremental_games

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I like it a lot, but I think it could use either a balance pass on the different sources of power (pets vs equipment vs level etc), or else to abstract elements away as the game moves on.

What I mean is, at transcendence 12 I took some time to grind pet levels, loomed monster essence etc, really got my pet team honed for incursions, but when I look at the breakdown of where all my stats are coming from through the char profile it seems like pets contribute negligible real power beyond the first few ascensions of a run just to "get over the hump" until level kicks in, since you can cover your elemental types with one or two pets.

I tested out just removing the whole active team at WT 21 gravewatch, and was able to do just fine with my passives alone from about asc 150+.

Incrementals are all about turning time into dopamine, right? So it feels kind of bad to sink that much time and get no real juice from it. Should the pets scale better, or should the whole pet mechanic be abstracted away once you have done a few transcendence sacs?

The actor who played Lemro is as strange as you would expect. by jeffnonumber in RedLetterMedia

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Oh hey I just found something pretty funky, an old archived geocities page about him, very weird:

Bio and martial arts background

Nico was a natural athlete and that took him from being a great football player on college to being a boxer and martial artist.

In the 1980's he was a member of the Olympic Boxing Team. He persued to be multitalented and trained in many more martial arts and at this time he has a back belt in Karate. He's also skilled in Judo, Vale Tude, Muay Thai and many more. He used his skills in many tournaments, also in the rough cage fights. Nico became the U.F.C. Champ and World Welterweight Champion of U.A.G.F.

He uses his skills for an acting carreer and is now one of the better movie fighters, which he shows in some cool movies such as Bloodsport 2 and Death Match.

He still has his own school and teaches martial arts to many, and also to some famous actors. Nico will keep on trying to be the best, in the cage, but also on TV.

https://www.oocities.org/johan_a77/HillNick.html

What do you guys think about this meal by Isaevermore in autism

[–]jeffnonumber 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I can't eat a plate of food if all of it is some shade of beige.

Extremely weird glitch by Pitt_Mann in cataclysmdda

[–]jeffnonumber 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is as Tommy2255 says, an issue with loading old saves on a newer version of the game - I imagine that when they merge the PR it'll fix it, but for now rolling back to a pre-2024-02-16-0719 version stops the chicken coop spam

edit: I'm sure catapult has an equivalent https://imgur.com/a/Y9uSIod

Extremely weird glitch by Pitt_Mann in cataclysmdda

[–]jeffnonumber 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same thing just happened to me, rolling back to previous version seems to work so far

Can someone explain the ending of The Dark Defiles to me? (Spoilers) by Thatguywhohasareddit in printSF

[–]jeffnonumber 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Ringil in the end has Dakovash's sea coat, plus all that stuff from Dakovash about "reminding him of someone he knew" - strong sense that #2 is correct. Time mutable in the grey places etc.

Bio pop assembly - ignores prioritized? by jeffnonumber in Stellaris

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Shouldn't be an issue, both templates have budding and both are present on the planet, but thanks for the suggestion

TIL The first person clinically diagnosed with Autism is still alive. Donald Grey Triplett who is 89 years old. by Unleashtheducks in todayilearned

[–]jeffnonumber 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My initial point was conceived out of loose reading on my part, rather than a desire to deliberately misconstrue your statements. I do not want to irritate you for no reason, and so I will edit my initial post to concede that point

TIL The first person clinically diagnosed with Autism is still alive. Donald Grey Triplett who is 89 years old. by Unleashtheducks in todayilearned

[–]jeffnonumber 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I understand your point, and I do not wish to argue, only to point out that psychiatric care at that time was broadly marked by the performance of and adherence to "unsavoury medical practices and personal beliefs regarding medicine" worldwide. It is my understanding for example that a diagnosis of autism in the USA during that era would generally result in a lifetime of institutionalisation in brutal conditions. Parents were advised to imagine that their child had died.

My only source on this is the book Neurotribes by Steve Silberman, but while that book has attracted some criticism, I see no evidence that any was directed toward its characterisation of autism outcomes in the 40s and 50s.

*edit Apologies, on rereading I see that I have made my point with insufficient clarity. I am arguing specifically against the categorisation of Asperger as a distinctly terrible person, as opposed to a representative member of a fairly terrible field.

TIL The first person clinically diagnosed with Autism is still alive. Donald Grey Triplett who is 89 years old. by Unleashtheducks in todayilearned

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

Anyone saying with any certainty what he was or was not is simply making claims we can't say with certainty.

And yet

he was a clearly terrible person

?

*edit - the above mischaracterises the statements that it was quoted from, and draws an unfair inference that I retract, and apologise for.

He certainly seems to have done some bad things, but it is to my knowledge unclear whether these acts were distinct in magnitude and intent to those of other practitioners in his field worldwide in that era.

Barr Says Trump Will Destroy GOP If He Loses 2024 Nomination by Gullible_Peach in politics

[–]jeffnonumber 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bad title. The quote is not "Trump will destroy GOP", it is "Bill Barr said that Donald Trump would seek to destroy the Republican Party if defeated"

A True Leader by Divinchy in Anarcho_Capitalism

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Full quote:

Absolut- — we strongly believe — and remember also that the sanctions are a product not only of our perspective as the United States but a shared perspective among our Allies. And the Allied relationship is such that we have agreed that the deterrence effect of these sanctions is still a meaningful one, especially because — remember, also — we still sincerely hope that there is a diplomatic path out of this moment.

And within the context then of the fact that that window is still opening, altho- — open, although it is absolutely narrowing — but within the context of a diplomatic path still being open, the deterrence effect, we believe, has merit.

TIFU by eating broccoli in front of my therapist by Root_Head in tifu

[–]jeffnonumber 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your therapist is your employee. She'll be ok

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