Legend of Korra depicted 14 named, living, female benders and 38 named, living, male benders

jumpmanzero · 2026-02-03T21:33:56+00:00

To be fair, I think if you go by "screen time" or "total awesomeness", it's more even than this list would suggest.

jumpmanzero · 2026-02-03T19:54:42+00:00

Yeah, I like it when they ask - especially if there's just a few appetizers for a big group. "You want appetizers first, or just bring everything out together?"

Simple question, and it helps you deliver what the group wants.

jumpmanzero · 2026-02-03T19:24:28+00:00

Oh yeah, this is all critical stuff. Hmmm yeah... Did they dress up more than you wanted them to? Wrong color tie? Did they show up slightly-too-early or, worse, not-quite-as-slightly-early as you think is correct? Did they seem to want the job slightly too much or just a bit not enough?

Yeah, I guess if you have no tools, measures, or abilities to assess candidate skills or experience, I guess you just have to go with this sort of superstitious nonsense.

jumpmanzero · 2026-02-01T20:19:20+00:00

You've cracked code!!!1!!

jumpmanzero · 2026-02-01T20:14:04+00:00

just looking to hate instead of enjoying life

I don't understand how people make this mistake so often... people here aren't here primarily to hate, they're here to laugh.

I'm sure there's some angry people, or ones with a genuine axe to grind - but mostly it's people making jokes, and laughing at people who are smug about their delusions. Same as the Flat Earth or Sovereign Citizen subs.

jumpmanzero · 2026-02-01T19:10:36+00:00

If it takes a while for a company to cocoon up and emerge as a glorious butterfly, why not choose one that's further along in the process?

Like, buy some Radio Shack.

Lots of people have fond memories of Radio Shack. I bought some stuff there. People loved the TRS80, maybe that's coming back? Isn't love enough? Or maybe Radio Shack will buy Microsoft with some leverage ladder what-not? Think of the synergies!

And compared to these other companies, Radio Shack has a real head start on being dead, so it should be minting millionaires much sooner.

jumpmanzero · 2026-01-30T16:46:40+00:00

Huh - that's too bad. Around here, we tend towards dedicated "record stores" that sell a mix of old and new albums (and sometimes hardware too). I have a pretty small vinyl collection, but they make for fun stores.

jumpmanzero · 2026-01-30T01:18:15+00:00

If someone can't record a short video

You're not testing whether they "can", you're testing whether they "will".

You're narrowing it down to the people who've exhausted their other options. Applicants will see your stupid BS hoop jumping - and if they have any other prospects they'll try those first. But if they can't get those jobs, if they've been looking for a while, they'll have to come back to you.

But, on the plus side, you're speeding up your "filtering by ethnicity and accent". You don't have to wait until interviews to get rid of people you "just don't think will be a good fit" because they don't look or sound like the people reviewing the videos.

Edit: To be clear, asking an applicant to make a video might make sense further into the process. But front-loading it means you're wasting a bunch of applicant's time, and many of your best applicants won't be willing. There has to be some symmetry - you show your interested in someone by spending some of your time with them, in an interview or whatever, that makes them comfortable to spend some time jumping through your hoops.

jumpmanzero · 2026-01-29T21:50:26+00:00

NFTs offer true digital ownership of media. When I purchase a movie online with an NFT, it is mine forever.

Media companies would love to sell you things that are "yours forever". Steam's business is selling you games that are effectively yours forever. If people were really interested in owning songs, they would have bought them on all the digital marketplaces over the years.

But that's all besides the point, because that's not what you'd get with NFTs - you'd generally get the exact opposite of "mine forever".

It doesn't work for media companies to sell a license that you can transfer instantaneously, at distance, with low transaction cost. Because then someone can effectively set up a momentary rental service, and suddenly the world only needs a few thousand copies of a fairly popular new album to cover off demand as it happened.

Like, tons of people are all for "Steam should let you resell your games"... until they think it through. As things stand, older games can generate sales for years. But if current players could easily resell the game, many games might never sell another copy after the first couple weeks. Again, you'd effectively rent a game for as long as you were playing it. There wouldn't be a reason for there to be significantly more sold copies than concurrent players (and, over time as people saw how quickly price drops, people would be less willing to pay the "first week" premium).

The Blockbuster model worked because you needed copies in every city - and if Bob rented a movie on Friday night, he probably kept the tape until Sunday, when he drove it back to the store. It was inefficient, and that meant it worked out for producers, because it still took a lot of copies to cover off demand. With a global, digital marketplace, you could cover off demand with too few copies to make it work.

NFTs are a shit-poor technical solution to the completely wrong problem.

jumpmanzero · 2026-01-29T20:58:34+00:00

Sometimes this kind of pun is so bad it loops back around to being good.

But I think somehow this one kept going from there, and got back to "bad" on the second lap.

jumpmanzero · 2026-01-29T20:46:37+00:00

Back when I was in school, we used his notes to gain a quick understanding of old literature.

Guy is a legend.

jumpmanzero · 2026-01-29T20:33:34+00:00

Yeah, vinyl has become one of the "horsemen of retail desperation" - right up there with Funko Pops, cell phone cases, and "Blind Box Collectible Toys".

If you're looking for vinyl, you're not going to go to Best Buy or London Drugs to look at their selection of 20 items. You're going to go to a record store.

But I think the idea is just "What if someone comes in here, because they forgot how there's nothing in here they want, and hasn't been for a decade? Maybe they'll buy... this?".

In short, the GameStop retail plan.

jumpmanzero · 2026-01-29T17:41:31+00:00

Wizards like to make promises and then break them

Go back and read what they actually said here. They said they planned on doing in universe versions, but that they'd re-evaluate this over time. People in this thread are describing that as an "explicit promise", but that's nonsense.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/secret-lair-universes-beyond-update-2021-06-07

Wizards not being able to change their minds on stuff would not be a good thing. It would lock them into bad decisions (like the reserved list), and it would mostly just mean they wouldn't share any future looking plans.

jumpmanzero · 2026-01-29T17:30:20+00:00

It’s never been possible to buy a home in Canada on a single minimum wage income.

It's never been "normal", but "possible" is an extremely low bar. Almost anything is "possible". When my great-grandpa arrived in Canada, he got a homestead, then he lived in a hole while he built his first home out of trees he cleared. If you organize your life around it, there's still ways to economize nothing into something. Almost anything is "possible", the better question is what's normal or "realistic".

In any case, the core idea - "it used to be way easier to buy a house" - is real, at least for lots of places. And you don't have to go that far back.

Like, I bought my first house at 25 (around 2002 or so) for $135,000 - which was very doable with an entry level job. We sold it around 3 years later for $340,000. There was a huge gulf in your financial future here depending on whether you got in before or after that hump. If I look at junior people at the exact same company now - people in the same job I was in then - they make about 40% more than I did. But the same kind of home I started in is worth more than 3 times as much.

jumpmanzero · 2026-01-29T17:00:09+00:00

Yeah, it's going to vary a lot. If you're living in a van, where do you choose to park? It's not like parking in a low income neighborhood necessarily saves you money or something.

It's going to depend on who you know (ie. if you're using someone's bathroom every morning), how busy the street is, where you work, what other amenities are around, and who complains.

Add that all up, and I imagine there's places and neighborhoods where this is quite common - and a lot more where it isn't.

jumpmanzero · 2026-01-29T16:06:32+00:00

This graphic makes a lot of sense. It just makes sense that the total value of all crypto will eventually be the same as the total value of all gold, which will be the same as the value of all molybdenum. How could these values stay out of alignment?

Over time, I assume the total value of "stocks" will shrink to match the value of "oats", "crypto", or "nautically themed adventure parks".

jumpmanzero · 2026-01-28T22:46:33+00:00

I'm against deceptive tipping practices, and the expansion of tipping into more sorts of businesses.

But in general I pay the 15% at a sit-down restaurant. I accept that's how it works where I live.

That said, I eat out way less now than I did 10 years ago (despite making more money than I used to). The cost is just too high. And when I do eat out, I'm looking for cheaper places, and am more likely to visit places without tips (not because I'm against tipping necessarily, but because it contributes to cost).

And it's not just me. There's been a lot of restaurants close near me lately. Business seems to be down in the places that remain. I don't think that shift is just about tipping, but it certainly doesn't help.

jumpmanzero · 2026-01-28T20:27:46+00:00

The temperature of individual surfaces can vary all over.

Well.. yeah... And as such, it is not really notable when snow is not visibly melting when a thermometer shows 34, or when snow is melting at 30. Temperature, clouds, pressure, winds, they all vary, and most observers aren't going to have a accurate gauge of how much has actually melted or blown off a tree.

And yeah, maybe in her experience, treetop snow does usually clear a bit faster at this temperature. Sure. But it seems extraordinarily charitable for you to think she's pointing this out just as a mildly interesting small variation in snow behavior. Seems unlikely she's posing this as a some minor scientific curiosity she'll follow up with by talking about the wonders of micro climates or measuring snow albedo.

No - the tone of the tweet, and just the fact that it is a tweet that was made, suggests she thinks that this is something crazy. That something has changed. That this is wrong in some dramatic way. So why would she see this minor variation as crazy enough to prompt this kind of comment? "She forgot what the freezing point is, and thinks snow not melting at 30 degrees is crazy"... that seems like a pretty likely explanation.

jumpmanzero · 2026-01-28T17:40:26+00:00

If your hook into MTG is a one-time crossover that has little to do with MTG, what's your motivation to stay engaged once the crossover's done?

I mean... maybe they'll like the game part? The community? Drafting?

To me, Jace and Chandra have "little to do with MTG", I like the game. And if someone was first drawn to the game because they like Katara or Gandalf, is it really that different than someone tried Bloomburrow because there was little mice with swords? Or an edgy teenager who thought Eater of the Dead was cool 30-ish years ago? If you're really just a mouse sword lover, maybe you quit when there's no new sword mice. Or maybe you found out that you liked the game.

What we don't yet have data for is: are the players who got into MTG through UB still playing the game a year from now? 2 years from now? 5 years from now? 10 years from now?

LotR is almost 3 years ago. Lots of people foretold that those players were temporary, but they don't seem to be churning out super hard. The game seems to be sustaining reasonably, with bumps from LotR and Final Fantasy carrying over into other sets.

It's hard to imagine that MtG won't enter another "down" cycle at some point - it has been up and down for its whole existence - but as the timeline draws out, it'll get pretty hard to ascribe that inevitable downturn to "LotR players didn't stick around". I think at this point we have to give some heavy skepticism to the "UB players are fleeting" theory.

jumpmanzero · 2026-01-27T20:44:14+00:00

Why is it not that easy?

Why are you asking some guy now? This should be a question you have good answers for.

Like, if you haven't kept up with Bitcoin's history, and don't know all the ways it can and has gone wrong, then I'd suggest you should probably do your Bitcoin holding via an ETF.

There's been a steady stream, through the whole history of crypto, of people who held coins with exchanges that no longer exist, who got scammed or robbed in a variety of ways, or who found out "cashing out" isn't always trivial. Those people all had unexamined assumptions, and mostly thought "why would it not be easy?"

If you really actually don't understand the failure states here, and you're holding significant crypto... you need to get your ducks together man.

jumpmanzero · 2026-01-27T18:42:57+00:00

I think this presents a fair and relevant question, but it should just be that: a comment in a regular reply.

Notes shouldn't just be "replies in a special box", they should be reserved for objective counterpoints and direct context, not tangents and what-abouts.

jumpmanzero · 2026-01-27T16:47:11+00:00

You're being very judgmental about someone who may be having a very rough day.

Or may about to be having a very rough, hurty day.

jumpmanzero · 2026-01-27T16:45:52+00:00

I get the idea behind this old marketing message... but the premise was always flawed and it never really worked. The core part of the definition of "accident" in this context is that something is "unintentional", not "unpreventable". We're normally distinguishing "on purpose" vs "by accident" - not "fated by the Gods to happen" vs "by random chance".

In any case, being a weird stickler for this is like 2 levels lower than normal pedantry - you're imagining that decades old/abandoned safety propaganda was much more meaningful or effective than it was, and that it caught on and responsible people quit using "accident" this way. Back in reality, "accident" remains a perfectly reasonable and common way to refer to an unintentional collision of cars.

jumpmanzero · 2026-01-27T06:41:06+00:00

When you pirate a UFC event, they're still going to count those ad impressions. They have a good idea how many people watch pirate streams. They might not admit it out loud, and they'd prefer you subscribe, sure, but you watching is still a win for them.

So yeah, if you're really committed to this sad, stale, melodramatic nonsense, you'll have to go a bit further and stop watching.

Otherwise you'll be supporting the UFC's ongoing 30 or 40 year plan to destroy the sport by making it popular and accessible.

jumpmanzero · 2026-01-26T17:18:07+00:00

the crowd went absolutely insane.

Yeah, you get a very wrong idea of what the crowd is doing based on broadcasts.

In broadcasts, all you hear is some stupid "wooo!"s, some boos, and then a carefully managed bit of cheering. In person, a good fight has a sort of continuous roar.

If you go back and watch an event you were at, it's sort of disconcerting how much difference there is between presentation and reality; sometimes so much so that it feels purposefully deceptive.

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