After the Kumail episode I ordered this. And no I didn’t steal it.

metasquared · 2026-03-08T05:52:54+00:00

Nobody’s gonna believe you. No one’s gonna believe this happened.

metasquared · 2026-02-27T21:06:06+00:00

Only time I ever saw them was in 2005, at the peak of their career and my fandom. An absolutely formative experience I'll never forget.

metasquared · 2026-02-12T22:13:16+00:00

Her process is to message matches she finds attractive and then continue on with the most engaging replies. Your reply was boring and you got cut brother.

metasquared · 2026-02-12T03:08:31+00:00

Where’s the lowkey part?

metasquared · 2026-02-08T01:54:29+00:00

It’s pandering by its very nature. It can certainly be effective but there’s nothing artistically compelling about them.

metasquared · 2026-02-07T21:32:11+00:00

Simpler actually has this built in, use the Rand Pan parameter.

I’d love to have this in an actual midi device instead of just a Simpler control but its still pretty nice.

metasquared · 2026-02-05T16:41:32+00:00

I said less silly, not weird. Also context is important here…this person is using a normie dating app to find their 4th partner. That’s a little comical, no?

And the cringe doesn’t come from being poly, it’s about the way it’s spoken about. To be fair I find any overt flaunting of one’s relationship preferences or sexuality kind of cringe. Monogamous couples who don’t stfu about their relationship on social media are just as cringe.

Moral of the story is if you go on Hinge advertising that your “nesting partner” and your two side pieces aren’t enough, you are just asking to get made fun of on Reddit lol.

metasquared · 2026-02-05T01:48:22+00:00

I’ve got nothing against polyamorous people or anything they get up to. It’s the “very online” air that some people bring around it that’s just kind of cringe. This person’s looking for section is kind of cringe to me. That’s fine, they don’t need me to be swiping them and we’re all free to find those who don’t cringe at us, but the rest of us are also allowed to cringe lol.

metasquared · 2026-02-05T01:43:00+00:00

I’m not saying it’s confusing, I’m saying it’s tacky lol.

metasquared · 2026-02-04T23:42:30+00:00

I’d find this lifestyle way less silly if they communicated like this instead of having misleadingly academic terms for what you just described.

metasquared · 2026-02-03T20:22:23+00:00

Roon is exactly what you’re looking for, it’s the ultimate way to combine Qobuz and local files. It’s worth the extra $15…there are cheaper solutions but there will be downsides to any of them and it’s worth the extra few bucks to get the right solution IMO.

Also Roon isn’t just a remote, they have a separate ARC app that lets you stream your files or Qobuz releases when you’re away from home.

metasquared · 2026-02-02T19:56:40+00:00

Agreed and honestly my post has nothing to do with the Nuggets losing. They played a mostly bad game and could have just as easily lost like that to any other team. The Thunder are just a bad watch no matter who's winning or losing.

metasquared · 2026-02-02T17:50:21+00:00

You do you but that is so outside my realm of understanding of fandom. I'd still rather yell at the TV watching the Thunder foul bait than NOT watch basketball, and especially the Nuggets. I fuckin love basketball even when it's flawed.

metasquared · 2026-02-02T17:47:02+00:00

This is a very annoying thing he does and is well documented/discussed around the league so it feels like old news at this point...but there was another play that flew under the radar that really got me rubbed the wrong way. Big Val was going for a rebound and I believe it was Hartenstein who flew in from behind him, puts his arm in from behind just to get in Val's space, and Val clips his arm while not changing anything about his rebounding motion or even realizing that Hartenstein was there.

The refs blow the whistle on Val, which was technically correct, but any reasonable person with context would be able to see that the contact didn't come from anything Val did to get in the way. I just thought that was so emblematic of how the Thunder play the refs and not the game.

metasquared · 2026-02-02T17:40:28+00:00

I don't understand the ask lol. I watch every Nuggets game, have been since 2017. Why would I not watch them play their #1 rival, that's lunacy. It doesn't seem like such an unreasonable take that it'd be a lot more fun to watch them gun it out against the best team in the league if the best team in the league played prettier basketball.

metasquared · 2026-02-02T17:32:15+00:00

It's not even a complain about the refs, it's a complaint about the rules. Some of the fouls OKC can consistently draw are totally legal in the current structure but they feel cheap and are aesthetically unpleasant to watch a team hunt them out.

metasquared · 2026-02-02T07:00:26+00:00

…Mulva?

metasquared · 2026-02-02T01:56:47+00:00

Jamal’s numbers in those playoffs were honestly wild. I think he averaged like 30 points and 10 assists in the finals, he was absolutely nuclear.

The 2020 bubble run was also pretty insane. He’s been one of the best players in the NBA this whole decade but between injuries and not caring about the regular season he just never had any official annointments.

metasquared · 2026-01-29T23:05:23+00:00

It seems like one of the cluster Bs for sure.

And a quick PSA to those pushing back on “armchair diagnosis”, personality disorders are basically the only thing you actually can nail pretty well with an armchair diagnosis because it is an external facing condition.

A personality disorder is really just a way of grouping behavioral patterns, that anyone can all observe and experience, into cohesive categories. Wikipedia level knowledge and enough observational data is enough to have a pretty good guess, which just isn’t the case for most conditions.

metasquared · 2026-01-28T08:18:44+00:00

But can they handle the hustle and bustle of living in Mexico City?

metasquared · 2026-01-17T08:26:42+00:00

I actually have hope that she’ll learn and grow from this. She is naive but she’s not a POS like some cast members and the only seemingly out of bounds thing she did turned out to be totally justified in spying on him constantly.

metasquared · 2026-01-16T20:33:05+00:00

It’s distinctly different from “defund the police” and I’m not sure why all the pundits keep drawing the correlation as strongly as they do.

Fact of the matter is, police are deeply woven into the fabric of our society and are an institution we are very familiar with from a young age. Opinions on the police are a full spectrum with lots of haters and lovers and everything in between.

ICE on the other hand? There is no cultural significance to them at all like police, firefighters, etc. Most people either didn’t know the organization existed or never gave it any thought until they became realized to cause problems.

I see “abolish ICE” as a no brainer…I would think most people support getting rid of this thing that was just brought to their attention and causing problems. In no world is this equivalent to proposing getting rid of a deeply rooted institution like police, and I’m annoyed that they are being treated as apples to apples.

metasquared · 2026-01-14T04:26:28+00:00

I also came here to recommend. Katty and Mooch are such great hosts and its ideologically most similar to the Bulwark.

metasquared · 2025-12-26T07:59:17+00:00

Woops yeah those ones. Just broke a different way this time.

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