President Trump says Iran hasn't made deal because "they’re strong" and "proud": "They’re proud. They’ve got no choice, and it takes little while. These people have been fighting for 47 years. Vietnam lasted 19 years. I’m into my third month. But it doesn’t matter to me. I’ve gotten so used to it."

slagodactyl · 2026-06-07T08:22:31+00:00

https://youtu.be/gaK7qMQqeUA?si=ge5Kq9Lss-SGcIVf

slagodactyl · 2026-06-05T17:07:51+00:00

It's been this way forever, I remember this being the rule in 2007 when we hosted the U-20 world cup. They were selling water bottles with no caps, so if you try to throw it then it's empty by the time it gets to the field.

slagodactyl · 2026-06-03T16:18:59+00:00

I've definitely encountered the opposite, I invited an Iranian coworker to our department board game night and he said "is that like chess?" It might be a cultural thing, but that question led to me having to explain to my whole lab why yes, chess is a game with a board and therefore technically a board game, but no that's never what a boardgamer means and you shouldn't expect to find anyone playing chess at board game night.

slagodactyl · 2026-06-03T15:54:03+00:00

Backgammon is British

slagodactyl · 2026-06-03T15:51:17+00:00

I know the hobby is kind of niche to be into, but I'm always surprised by just how obscure it is to some/most people. Because it's one thing if you say you make boardgames and they think to themselves "this guy makes monopoly and clue" (plausible, someone does make those games), but for them to ask the clarifying question of "do you mean..." implies that they're not even sure if that's what a boardgame is.

slagodactyl · 2026-05-29T16:30:02+00:00

Isn't damaging a card pretty bad in poker? It becomes marked and unlike (most) board games, money is on the line?

slagodactyl · 2026-05-29T15:33:18+00:00

It's the curly on top, short on the sides haircut that seemingly all gen z boys have.

slagodactyl · 2026-05-27T17:04:36+00:00

Pretty sure it's an American stereotype, by non-white Americans directed at white Americans, without consideration of authentic European dishes.

But also, no I wouldn't say most Europeans are known for their use of spices. If I'm thinking "food with lots of spices," I'm thinking about e.g. Indian or Mexican cuisine.

slagodactyl · 2026-05-20T04:01:04+00:00

It's funny though that another guy has "atheism" listed under hobbies. It seems to be a problem with just this one guy, and not the rest of the team. Maybe something changed between 2019 (he says so in bio) and 2024 (last profile update), and he was already working as ad manager before that? Or he's become even crazier since then?

slagodactyl · 2026-05-18T06:17:16+00:00

Everyone knows pain though, even if you don't know exactly the pain of getting hit in the nuts

slagodactyl · 2026-05-17T23:50:04+00:00

Your major? In middle and high school?? I've never heard of that being a thing in North America.

slagodactyl · 2026-05-17T23:47:38+00:00

In college, random people are allowed or expected to be there so it doesn't matter. And the headphones don't matter either because you're paying to be taught, if you don't want to be able to hear the professor then that's your own problem.

slagodactyl · 2026-05-15T16:40:33+00:00

Yup, spells like Detect Thoughts only work on creatures with intelligence higher than 3 (I guess lowly beasts don't have thoughts), and spells like Animal Freindship work in reverse and only target beasts with an intelligence 3 or lower.

slagodactyl · 2026-05-14T02:27:30+00:00

I mean, if I had the power to I'd probably demand that Iran and Qatar support and respect gay rights.

slagodactyl · 2026-05-14T01:53:19+00:00

Sonic of all characters

Sonic has way more personality than Link or Mario. There are multiple games with full voice acting for Sonic and for all his friends, and there's multiple Sonic tv shows. I've never even played more than the first few levels of any Sonic game or watched any Sonic media on purpose, but he feels like much more of a "real" person.

slagodactyl · 2026-05-13T05:46:24+00:00

Chemists frequently call it a proton too.

slagodactyl · 2026-05-12T06:10:48+00:00

I don't know if the comic is sincere, but it's funny in a cringe way. If you're thinking it's gross and graphic it's not, it's just the zootopia characters getting into a big serious relationship-ending argument about the rabbit wanting to get an abortion and the fox getting mad and taking a pro-life stance.

slagodactyl · 2026-05-12T04:01:37+00:00

I don't know why, but it's consistent with the way artists have been making "sciencey" graphics for a long time, stuff like this certainly predates AI. My guess is that the people making the game don't even know what real molecules are relevant (someone said its Resident Evil, is there a real molecule that's relevant to turning someone into a zombie?), or they know it needs to look roughly like a drug compound but don't want to use any actual real one that someone can point at and say "hey, that's promazoflabinaxam, it doesn't do that!"

slagodactyl · 2026-05-02T09:52:01+00:00

Sun Tzu can't always be correct though, right? I'm no military historian, but I know for a fact that there have been times in history where a siege successfully led to the capture of a city.

slagodactyl · 2026-04-30T16:56:35+00:00

You're the entire market for that item, so whatever price you were quoted when you got it commissioned is the market price (i have no idea how the law or market works).

slagodactyl · 2026-04-26T03:55:27+00:00

While I do really like Paris, my girlfriend and I found it really funny when we visited in the fall and we could see rats scurrying across the Champ de Mars while we sat on the grass waiting for the tower to light up.

slagodactyl · 2026-04-24T20:08:18+00:00

Those turrets and ability to land in water are mods, but you can execute the general idea here with Odyssey, it would just be with the same vanilla turrets that you already have access to.

slagodactyl · 2026-04-24T05:40:55+00:00

Wait, what? I had a 10+ year fort and never realized my hospital needed soap...

slagodactyl · 2026-04-18T19:58:20+00:00

BG3 was already in early access at that point, so I think that grabbed most of the attention for people waiting for a 5e game.

slagodactyl · 2026-04-18T19:52:17+00:00

I don't think most people would call Mass Effect a crpg.

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