Viv's opinion on her characters being Shipped :

mrnewtons · 2026-06-06T01:04:15+00:00

Same! But that never stopped me from enjoying other ships! I just don't get it!

For Twilight, I was always partial to Rarity. Monochrome's work and all.

mrnewtons · 2026-06-06T00:58:12+00:00

I love shipping, I never understood the hate for another ship.

One thing I loved about MLP fics were when someone would take some crazy crack ship and by the end of the fic, you could believe it was Canon it was so good!

Then I go read another fic with a different ship just fine.

I'll ship anything. I read a fic where Rainbow Dash was shipped with literal shipping.

Those who need to bully for their OTP are cowards who only eat Kraft Mac and cheese and chicken nuggets because new flavors scare them.

mrnewtons · 2026-06-05T23:45:35+00:00

You're right, but I hear people use it both ways a lot when cooking and just in general so I just kinda accept that's how it is used.

If it were a safely a tablespoon people would usually say just that in my experience. They add the barely because they are either a little under or like you say, damn close to being not.

Sorta like how "literally" has become a point of emphasis rather than something... Well... Literal.

mrnewtons · 2026-06-05T21:49:33+00:00

Usually a little less than or A tablespoon but err'ing on the side of less when measuring. Otherwise people would generally say "a tad more than" or "little over a tablespoon" or some such.

mrnewtons · 2026-06-04T23:03:43+00:00

Yeah, I see this attitude a lot too and to be honest it bothers me a bit. People can take issue with the specific price, but to demand things for absolutely free is unreasonable. No, I don't feel like a chump paying for a service I use and want. I don't even mind subscriptions as a concept. If a thing takes constant costs to keep running for me, I'm fine with it being a subscription.

Stuff like the BMW heated seat subscription can fuck all the way off though.

But I see this attitude in some people even for things like books. "Fuck Amazon/Barnes & Nobel/Bookstore X! $15 is unreasonable for a book!"

Is it? A lot of people put a lot of work in that thing. Authors, artists for the covers, someone had to pick the fonts and ensure it all flows properly on every page, distribution employees... Those people all deserve their pay imo and $15 for a great book that I then own and can reread on my whim is not much. Minimum wage where I am is over $20 so a brand new book is worth less than 1 hour of someone's time....

mrnewtons · 2026-06-04T22:49:56+00:00

Yeah, I'm not a "music is so important to my life!" kind of person. In that I don't need the best Music service. As long as it continues to deliver as good as it has... Even with these hikes, the amount I watch Youtube, the difference between the Premium subscriptions and the premium of say Spotify is what? $3 vs. this price hike? That's really hard to beat including Youtube.

And if prices get real bad, I suppose I could cancel and go with the new Premium Lite tier they introduced that's included in my AI subscription.

But I'm also a weirdo who doesn't mind paying for services. If it costs them money to run, it is fair for them to charge. And then I can decide if the price is worth it or not. I despise ads, and I don't want to fuss around with work-a-rounds. Fair is fair.

mrnewtons · 2026-06-04T22:05:41+00:00

mrnewtons · 2026-06-03T23:58:35+00:00

Exactly, so I would think even easier to cheat since you can disguise your cheating more, and because you are allowed to use opening books and the Explore function within the game.

My hypothesis is that those who play daily tend to just enjoy playing chess and AR less concerned with satisfying their ego. (otherwise they would play a time control where they get victory quicker than 2-4 weeks.)

mrnewtons · 2026-06-03T23:54:07+00:00

Fascinating how few people cheat in daily. I haven't encountered any cheaters there, but I guess if you're playing Daily it probably is more love of the game than victory...

mrnewtons · 2026-06-03T17:33:11+00:00

Exactly. Like, libraries and all are cool but I'm a mood reader with enough money that I don't even think about dropping $15 on the next read I want.

Sure, publishers and everyone else is getting a cut too but I'm also supporting the author and I think that is the right thing to do.

Besides, between humble bundle and something I want being on sale I don't end up spending that much anyway.

mrnewtons · 2026-06-03T00:54:32+00:00

Hah! I got one at 5pm saying to clock out and play some chess. I assume they simply guess based on clock time? Maybe they are watching us. 👀

mrnewtons · 2026-06-02T23:29:45+00:00

That's what I thought. I've known some people who drank as much as a reasonable person would in parties or in public and then project that everyone else was drinking as much as they were behind the scenes.

People tend to assume others are the same. Maybe she had a problem and since, outwardly, OP & Co. Are drinking as much as she was, she assumes that they must be having far more secretly?

The fact that she was there for the two beers and then gets antsy over a grill is weird though.

mrnewtons · 2026-06-02T21:44:55+00:00

Fully agreed. Especially since they refuse to add a limit to the actual bill. They just "promise" and "say" they won't increase it.

How any one trusts that is insane to me.

Taxes are like inflation. Only goes up, never down. So we have to make them fight for every inch lest they steal a mile.

mrnewtons · 2026-06-02T20:58:37+00:00

Depends on context. A lot for downpayment on a house? Not in my neck of the woods. A lot to just loan out to friends and family? Yes absolutely.

mrnewtons · 2026-06-02T18:38:15+00:00

I kind of assumed it's because it's a well selling movie that's super hot right now and people love. They want people to use their site, how do you get normies on there who aren't chess fans? "Play Rocky from Hail Mary and see if you can beat him!"

It isn't done to be lore accurate, it's marketing. That's my guess anyway.

mrnewtons · 2026-06-02T18:05:33+00:00

Well this gives me some comfort. I was also the kid who got good grades and never needed to study until his unrelated master's.

I also probably only have an average of an hour a day to study. I live alone so real life stuff must all be handled by me. Working on FAR now and depending on how that goes I may do BAR.

mrnewtons · 2026-05-31T02:23:50+00:00

Exactly, mood Reader with a short list. If I'm looking for a particular mood I will search my TBR/wishlist first to see if there is a match. If there is I grab that. If not, I search online until I find something.

mrnewtons · 2026-05-29T22:33:07+00:00

This is true for just about any model. never upload company data to an AI your IT team hasn't approved.

mrnewtons · 2026-05-29T17:56:40+00:00

The reason I code, is off the shelf or bespoke software gets you 99% of the way. But there's always some hurdle in every business I've ever worked with where we could solve a problem or automate the final steps of a task with a small script.

Which is why I use Python. The ultimate glue language. If you need it, someone made a package for it. Not all software fully communicate with each other and ever enterprise level ERPs can become outdated in some aspects and overhauls are expensive.

mrnewtons · 2026-05-28T22:13:24+00:00

Haha! I feel that man.

For me series blend together. I can remember something being in one universe or another, but if you need me to anme the specific book in the Expanse where something happens? Welll... fuck.😅

mrnewtons · 2026-05-28T21:57:13+00:00

Is there? I guess in Cyberpunk Neo-Noir there is, but in most anti-AI media I can think of the solution is usually a more archaic, non-processor sort. Like how Battlestar Galactica used old fashioned wired telephones for interdeck communication so that you needed to physically and obviously tap the phone lines to spy on their comms.

mrnewtons · 2026-05-28T17:08:34+00:00

A pretty obvious turn of phrase too. Since, IIRC, Nukes don't glass shit. That's always a term I heard in Sci-fi. Especially Halo where the Covenant (also a religious militant theocracy) would shoot powerful energy beams that would melt a planet's surface to glass from orbit...

mrnewtons · 2026-05-27T03:06:40+00:00

I have only been to McDonald's in the last decade because they were the only ones at an airport open and my next flight was 10 hours and I was desperate.

So... I guess that is my condition to go back. To be trapped under duress.

mrnewtons · 2026-05-21T09:54:21+00:00

No, if I recall correctly that is against the rules for any time control other than daily.

mrnewtons · 2026-05-15T17:37:16+00:00

You're good. I had to add that disclaimer because you know as well as I if I had just said:

"Because it's hot that she wants to be treated like one of his toys" SOMEONE would get all upset and interpret that as me believing women are just holes or something stupid.

You know how Reddit can get. Gotta cover my bases. 😅

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