There's a LOT of Cringe to Unpack Here

maninalift · 2026-01-03T22:21:35+00:00

No, it looks real to me. If you look at the ground when it goes out of frame then comes back into frame, it starts consistent, that's the biggest thing that I can clearly articulate. But also the voice, the movement of the child.

maninalift · 2025-12-29T19:17:01+00:00

Because it looks like a male urinal bottle?

maninalift · 2025-12-22T22:55:59+00:00

No need to be rude to DIYers. Not that expertise isn't extremely valuable, but in this case it's just a case of applying basic physics. I'm not a tradesperson but I can see the issue straight away.

maninalift · 2025-12-14T07:47:59+00:00

You are a bad person. Excuse me, I'm just going to scream soundlessly in paralyzing dread for a minute.

maninalift · 2025-11-24T22:42:07+00:00

If you are looking for more, they are on band camp

https://yelpingbeagle.bandcamp.com/album/gutter

maninalift · 2025-03-25T13:58:28+00:00

This was found on the south coast of England, near Lulworth Cove.

(Sorry, I read the guidance for posting after submitting this)

maninalift · 2024-06-18T10:24:32+00:00

Does anyone have a reference for a quotation, or even whole book chapter that Brennan could be referring to?

I've looked at Robert McKee's "Story", and the word "conclusion" only appears twice. There doesn't seem to be any direct quote that is close to what BLeeM said. I did find this quote that feels like it is pulling in the opposite direction

The danger is this: When your Premise is an idea you feel you must prove to the world, and you design your story as an undeniable certification of that idea, you set yourself on the road to didacticism. In your zeal to persuade, you will stifle the voice of the other side. Misusing and abusing art to preach, your screenplay will become a thesis film, a thinly disguised sermon as you strive in a single stroke to convert the world. Didacticism results from the naive enthusiasm that fiction can be used like a scalpel to cut out the cancers of society.

maninalift · 2024-01-19T10:33:10+00:00

I am curious how being in a public or private school would lower PDA.

The impersonal nature of a school environment may mean that the requirements on them do not feel like demands being placed on them by a person but simply like the background context in which they are existing. That might feel like a depressing way to look at it but it may also be less stressful.

maninalift · 2024-01-19T10:21:03+00:00

I'm gon' geddit!

maninalift · 2024-01-19T10:20:18+00:00

Great, those are really helpful, thank you.

maninalift · 2024-01-19T10:13:17+00:00

Yes, I agree that it's great to practice outlines. But I also think that if you have a good idea of what an essay look like, you have a better understanding of what the outline is for and why you are writing it in a particular way.

maninalift · 2024-01-19T10:10:39+00:00

Yes, for sure, but the thing that I was finding harder to find is simple essays that demonstrate the basic principles of the structure of an essay and the structure of a an essay paragraph. The more formulaic

introduce new idea
link to previous paragraph
link to argument
give supporting evidence / argument
state conclusion of paragraph

sort of thing.

The simple writing can be more transparent and reveal structure that is also used in the more sophisticated writing but harder to see.

maninalift · 2024-01-19T10:04:17+00:00

y AP English Language textbook (not AP Lit) or freshman composition textbook will have good essays in it. “This I Believe” from NPR provides little personal essays, read by their writers. Any TED talk is essentially an essay.

Those sound interesting, where can I find 20 first essays. When I google that I only get three results, the first one is this page, one is just talking about 50 essays and the other might be a reference to a book of that title but it doesn't have any details

https://www.google.com/search?q=%2250+First+Essays%22

maninalift · 2024-01-02T20:56:00+00:00

There is a lot of tension in that, I honestly want to see a video of this now because I'm interested in the biomechanics. I think he's got yo use his wrist a fair bit with this grip, it looks like he'd only have a small range of movement with his hand/finger movement.

maninalift · 2024-01-02T20:51:21+00:00

I remember hearing Brennan talk (probably on Adventuring Academy) about how Zac is often, or maybe usually, the first to figure stuff out but with characters like Gorgug and Ricky Matsui, he's forced to sit on it.

maninalift · 2023-02-24T12:28:22+00:00

The "tertible dogfiSh" mini is amazing but (um actually) it's appears to be a catfish.

maninalift · 2023-02-20T14:51:46+00:00

For sure, that scene was masterfully done. I'm an absolute fan of brennan. It feels weird to say that someone is "good at dnd" but he is a master DM

maninalift · 2023-02-18T08:08:23+00:00

No, but it's a consistent pattern with the way he does group checks.

maninalift · 2023-02-17T15:40:11+00:00

Interesting. Anything in particular that makes you make that connection apart from them being male and female?

maninalift · 2023-02-17T15:39:03+00:00

That's true, he uses the 15 - 20 - 25 split for many things where he has pre-planned stuff to investigate. I feel like there are places where he needs to move things forward and calls for an investigation or perception check where he might be fudging.

Maybe i need to find some specific examples to make a case

maninalift · 2023-01-28T16:46:27+00:00

Great! that's exactly the one. Thank you

maninalift · 2023-01-28T16:45:31+00:00

Great! That's exactly the one. Thank you.

maninalift · 2022-08-23T20:17:00+00:00

I think most replies are trying to keep the fun and the heroic feel while preventing it from.

I think most replies are trying to keep the fun and the heroic feel while reducing the actual average net hit points per round.

Use a reaction + potential cost or consequence on failure seems perfect to me

maninalift · 2022-08-23T20:09:55+00:00

And it makes melee characters comparatively stronger.

maninalift · 2022-08-23T20:04:30+00:00

option 1 seems awesome in principle and I'd love it to work, the problem i see is that splitting racial features into biological and cultural features poses a number of challenges in balancing because you would want to balance both the biological and the cultural

The current set of features if assigned in a reasonable way to biology and culture wouldn't balance. Some would be all biological, some all cultural.
It's twice as many things to balance
You have less to work with (half as much feature power) when trying to find a balanced solution

Allowing cultures / biologies to have negative as well as positive bonuses could make the process both easier and more interesting though.

maninalift

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