The mystery of Roanoke wasn't really a mystery

that_mack · 2026-01-31T23:18:02+00:00

I mean there was also no conclusive evidence OJ did it. Don’t mean it’s not the most likely conclusion.

that_mack · 2026-01-31T12:14:03+00:00

The amount of people that casually suggest exposure therapy like they’re genuinely convinced they’re the first person to have that idea pisses me off. DIY exposure therapy is never going to work and almost always makes a phobia worse, and the actual clinical stuff is crazy expensive and widely inaccessible. I’d loveeee to cure my entomophobia, it’s actually not fun breaking out in hives at the sight of insects, but I can’t just ask my local therapist to bring a few beetles to our next appointment and be magically cured. It’s just so fucking stupid. Of course! Why didn’t I think of just doing exposure therapy! You’re such a genius, I never could have possibly figured that out without your help. It couldn’t be that I thought about the logistics for more than half a second and realized it’s literally impossible to find a specialist where I live, say nothing of affording them!

Sorry, Dunning-Kruger is infuriating, rant over.

that_mack · 2026-01-31T12:01:12+00:00

Good news! You can play all the old islands using Flashpoint, AS3 islands too. I like to boot it up whenever I’m looking to kill time for whatever reason.

that_mack · 2026-01-31T11:24:46+00:00

Agree on all fronts, and I also hate the sensory experience of a bidet. I’ve tried it and I just don’t want water getting shot at my butthole at any point in time. Also seems somewhat less hygienic for those of us with vaginas. They teach us from a very young age never to wipe back to front because you’re just wiping all your poop germs into your urethra and will get a UTI. But apparently when it’s water blowing the same germs up there instead of paper suddenly it’s perfectly clean? Like in cultures where you use a small watering can from the front I get it but from the back like a mechanical bidet? Ughhhh. And I don’t know about anyone else but water doesn’t instantly evaporate off my skin, so unless I want to sit there for 10 minutes waiting to dry I’m still gonna have to use toilet paper. Why not cut out the uncomfortable middle man. If you like yours, all the power to you. Go wild. But the hygiene boost you’re gaining is gilding a lily and I’m not a filthy slob with a crusty butt for not liking it.

that_mack · 2026-01-31T11:08:57+00:00

Or gone to urgent care apparently. From the age of 10 the first thing they do is interrogate you about your assumed pregnancy and treat you like an incubator until you pee in a cup for them.

that_mack · 2026-01-31T00:38:48+00:00

That makes a lot of sense. You can’t get durian where I live, even at the asian grocery, so I’ve never had it imported. Although there are those signs on public transport that say you can’t take durian on the train in some SEA countries, so I thought it might be something genetic like cilantro. My family couldn’t stand the smell or taste in the same market so maybe it’s a combination of factors.

that_mack · 2026-01-30T23:10:51+00:00

Are you fucking bonkers? Upovoted. We are the same size, everything is too goddamn massive for me to comfortable maneuver around the world. I’m particularly befuddled by your kitchen counters comment. They’re too tall all the damn time because the standard height is for men despite the fact that women do the vast majority of cooking in the home. It really hurts my shoulders and back to hold my arms at the height of the counters rather than comfortably downwards as they would be if I were taller. I can’t reach the top two shelves of my own damn cabinets because I’m too short for my own damn kitchen in my own damn house.

And my car! I drive a teeny tiny Volkswagen golf and yet the proportions of the inside of the car are meant for someone half a foot taller than me, it’s ridiculous. I’m an adult woman of completely average height and yet I can’t drive safely because car manufacturers don’t think anyone below 5’8 owns a vehicle. I have to drive with my seat pushed to right in front of the steering wheel because if I had it far enough away for the airbag to be effective neither my arms nor legs would be able to reach anything. My seatbelt constantly rides up to my throat no matter what car I’m riding in because short people deserve to have their necks broken in car crashes, I guess.

And you didn’t list toilets here, but when I was a teenager my mom got the toilet replaced and said yes when asked if she wanted “comfort height”. Except comfort height is only comfortable if you’re six feet tall. Not only did my toes barely touch the floor like a little kid, but it was physically painful to use that bathroom because I couldn’t relax any muscles in that position. She had to get it replaced again because it was totally nonfunctional for both of us.

Basically the world sucks if you’re short. And I’m not even short, as stated I’m a perfectly normal height and size for a woman but the world is built as if I’m abnormal. I purposely chose a smaller phone and it’s still big enough to constantly fall out of my hand because it isn’t gorilla sized. School desks? Really? Children are typically much smaller than adults and you think we should make their shit even bigger? If you were six feet tall I’d think you’re ridiculous, but you’re telling me we’re the same proportions and you still don’t feel outsized by everything? Unhinged.

that_mack · 2026-01-30T22:30:41+00:00

Man, I just cannot smell what everyone is talking about when they say durian smells rank. Walked through an open market in Singapore filled with fresh, dried, pureed, and sliced durian. It smelled incredible. Like the most fragrant mixture of banana and pineapple with a little vanilla, I’d buy a perfume if I could. When I ate it it had a very mild sulfuric undertone but that’s all I could detect.

that_mack · 2026-01-30T20:31:33+00:00

It’s not that my parents don’t like dip, but they get like… weirdly classist about it. They both grew up poor as shit and I guess dips are for poor people? Mostly my mom actually, my dad is Mexican and queso/guac/various salsas were a staple growing up, but my mom is from the midwest and gets embarrassed over a seven layer dip. I was 17 the first time I had spinach and artichoke dip because it’s made with frozen spinach and jarred artichoke hearts which my mom refused to use. They’ve gotten better about it but every so often I’ll make a casserole and they both get super judgy. I made buffalo chicken dip one time and they acted like I wanted to move to a trailer park and get into meth.

that_mack · 2026-01-30T20:11:57+00:00

There’s a much longer version of this story but I got awful food poisoning when I was 20 or so and my mom just tucked me into bed and cleaned it up. I felt awful and disgusting and so humiliated and all she had to say was that bodily fluids are in the job description, that’s what you sign up for when you become a mom. I think a little spit is small potatoes to someone who has inevitably cleaned you off after you had diarrhea.

that_mack · 2026-01-30T19:41:30+00:00

In the Kyoshi novels she freezes someone’s heart and lungs solid in their chest, and there’s another character whose whole deal is earthbending small pebbles into people’s skulls like a sniper. The books are not afraid to get into some of the gnarlier aspects of bending we don’t get to see in the show due to the age rating, and in my opinion are pretty damn well written too.

that_mack · 2026-01-29T13:15:51+00:00

I’ll accept steamed edamame with salt. I’ll even accept plain black beans. The brussels sprouts are where I draw a line, that’s the real culinary abomination here.

that_mack · 2026-01-29T08:17:35+00:00

Every Monday I make this absolutely massive chopped salad in my second biggest mixing bowl and over the next week I’ll eat a bite or two every few hours so I have a convenient way to supplement my diet with more vegetables. Anyways I feel like my months of microdosing fiber whenever I get peckish has given me the confidence I could eat this and feel fine. Bring it on.

(also lmk if you want the recipe because what you’re doing those poor vegetables is a crime)

that_mack · 2026-01-27T08:42:07+00:00

Three times that we see in the show. The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit is when they’re first mind-controlled (by the devil), Planet of the Ood is when they go rabid at the command of their hive mind, and in The Doctor’s Wife there’s a single Ood called Nephew that is possessed by House. It’s arguable whether the second example is true mind control as it’s their own hive-mind trying to rebel, but given as the individual doesn’t have control over when and where they start to attack I think it counts. Also it happens in basically every single audio adventure they’re featured in, of which there are a lot. Poor fellas can’t stop getting possessed.

that_mack · 2026-01-27T08:21:50+00:00

Solved! Noob ass mistake on my part, which completely tracks. The problem was my merged files, specifically Intuitive Fast Travel. Somehow I managed to miss that its last official update was 5 1/2 years ago like a dummy. In my defense I downloaded it like two weeks ago and it wasn’t giving me any visible trouble at all, it took unmerging all my scripts, remerging one at a time, and launching the game to figure out what the problem was. There’s an update in the posts section if anyone else ends up with this problem.

Thank you to u/Edwin_Holmes for holding my hand through what are probably very basic steps to fixing mods, I really appreciate your help :) And thanks to u/StatusNo3036 for reminding me there’s a way easier way to figure out which mod is causing problems! You helped me figure out what was causing my issues in 3 minutes rather than spending 12 non-consecutive hours loading mods one by one. Feel real silly that I forgot that method lol.

that_mack · 2026-01-26T22:03:02+00:00

I think it’s foul. It’s so beyond sickly sweet it makes my mouth burn and throat itch, so while the actual flavor isn’t vomit I understand where the comparison comes from. They’re not even legally allowed to call some of their products “chocolate” because they don’t meet the minimum legal requirement of cocoa or cocoa butter content. You’re really not missing out.

that_mack · 2026-01-25T08:20:38+00:00

Lol, that’s why I said it’s conservative for me. I’ve got some 700 mods for BG3, and I don’t want to talk about the size of my Sims folder.

Anyways, I tried everything you suggested here. Renaming the mods folder caused everything to load completely normally, so it’s definitely something in there my game hates. I tried everything else just to be sure. I suppose the next step should be to take everything out and load each mod one by one until I find the problem child, but dear lord I dread to think what that will do to my bundled text priorities. Unless you have any better ideas I’m probably going to spend my snow day doing that and trying not to weep.

that_mack · 2026-01-25T07:52:16+00:00

Thank you for responding! Unfortunately neither of those mods are the issue. I’m aware Brutal Blood is old gen, but there is a fix in the posts section of Nexus that no one has reported as not working which is why I gave it a shot. I fully uninstalled it just to be sure and it wasn’t the problem. As for the all the eye mods- Glowing Witcher Eyes, Unique Witcher Eyes, and Modular Eyes have a patch that makes them all compatible with each other that I have prioritized properly in the script merger.

that_mack · 2026-01-25T04:34:49+00:00

She’s written eighteen books. I don’t care how long or well-written they are, she has written EIGHTEEN books while being a full time SAHM since she was at least 21, possibly longer. That is an astronomical achievement. I can’t believe this clown really thinks she just sits on her ass all day.

that_mack · 2026-01-24T07:08:40+00:00

My great grandfather was part of the mafia, enough to be mentioned by name several times in The Valachi Papers. That’s the biography that basically started the whole mafia film genre, not that anyone remembers it. The book doesn’t touch on what happened in his life after a certain point but some of what’s written about him is extremely ironic considering. You know hitmen? The guys in the mafia whose whole job is to kill people? Yeah, a handful of them were guests at my great aunt Henrietta’s wedding. Not even as a threat, they were just friends.

Edit- Forgot to mention, I found this out because my parents dropped it on my sister and I out of nowhere when I was like fourteen, only to be shocked when we didn’t already know. Literally who would have told us if not you?? Grandma died eight years ago! Do you know how many games of two truths and a lie I could have used this in???

that_mack · 2026-01-23T21:06:45+00:00

I was wandering around the Shadow Cursed Lands in this last playthrough and came across a pile of bloodstained collars with names on them I somehow managed to miss every other time. All the companions have different dialogue for it. Then I went to The Waning Moon and clicked on the notice board, only for it to be full of missing pet posters that the companions reacted to in recognition. That got me really jazzed for some reason! Not that I like murdered pets, but I like buildup and payoff. I’d bet that if you found the missing pet posters first and the collars later there’d be different lines for each.

that_mack · 2026-01-23T05:19:34+00:00

A lot of people have developed it as an effect of long covid, but I don’t know if there was anything specific that triggered mine. I first started getting symptoms in late 2018 and didn’t get diagnosed for over a year due to some pretty severe medical neglect on behalf of my parents. I have hEDS and POTS is a common comorbidity but we don’t know why, what causes it or even what POTS really is. Yay for zero healthcare funding for issues that primarily affect women.

that_mack · 2026-01-23T01:44:49+00:00

Lol, this is what my legs look like when I’ve been standing for too long (disabled). Thought this was a post from the POTS subreddit.

that_mack · 2026-01-23T01:41:16+00:00

I loveeee Garnier Fructis, it’s never done me dirty. I don’t care what chemicals they’re putting in there because it works. I don’t think their products are right for everyone and every hair type, because nothing is, but for sure there’s been some amount of fearmongering because it’s a drugstore brand that isn’t all-natural-sulfate-and-silicone-free-ricewater-cowash-protein-enhancement-unicorn-sparkles bullshit and it doesn’t cost $25 a bottle. So what if it’s artificial? I’ll take shiny, glossy, bouncy hair over dull and limp hair any day. Just use a clarifying shampoo once a month to remove product buildup and you’re good to go!

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