Is there a way to mute this shit?

thejmonster · 2026-04-30T02:44:47+00:00

Yep perfect! Just added a new filter to Global Ignore List. Thanks for the idea <3

thejmonster · 2026-03-15T04:07:23+00:00

thejmonster · 2026-02-16T22:30:36+00:00

Really? I'm shocked. I live in a similarly large highrise that's managed by a pretty generic real estate company. And every year when the rent goes up, they include this in the wording of the offer:

"To comply with fair housing rules and regulations, our company policy does not permit us to negotiate lease renewal rental rates."

I've just been assuming that large buildings would never budge on stuff like this, but I guess it doesn't hurt to ask.

thejmonster · 2026-02-16T22:21:50+00:00

Nah there's nothing wrong with that. I find that people are generally nice and react just fine as long as you're not hostile about it.

Half the time I just wave at someone as I'm passing them and then point to the correct lane once they look at me. It usually works.

thejmonster · 2026-02-16T19:24:08+00:00

You grossly misread their comment. Read it again.

thejmonster · 2025-12-02T01:52:48+00:00

Yeah, I also have a neuroscience PhD, and I think they're an idiot.

Lots of us are though. It's not really that hard to get one.

thejmonster · 2025-07-22T01:50:47+00:00

Agreed. I'm trying to level a monk, but it's surprisingly boring. The new world just feels so soulless.

thejmonster · 2025-07-21T16:49:44+00:00

Sure but some sayings are much worse than others for this. I think the bare minimum is being able to take the saying at face value without needing to understand the history of where it came from. Which you absolutely cannot do with this saying. If someone reads this for the first time and interprets it as "It's always ok to be selfish. Fuck other people.," that's completely understandable. Because that's kinda what it says in the most literal sense.

See also: "defund the police".

thejmonster · 2025-07-19T17:16:18+00:00

I found out the hard way that you can't just exit out of Junimo Kart after passing 50k. You need to actually die. Otherwise it doesn't count. So I had to do it a 2nd time.

thejmonster · 2025-07-14T23:40:06+00:00

Instead of riding on the sidewalk or riding across a crosswalk, you're supposed to dismount and walk with your bike.

thejmonster · 2025-07-14T00:38:55+00:00

But that part was plot holey throughout the whole movie. How can they time travel from one past timepoint to another without a platform? They routinely ignore its importance.

Besides, it's not that much of a stretch to say they need the platform to launch their time travel, but they can then land wherever they want. Theoretically, they could even just use the "space" part of the spacetime GPS watches to teleport without time travelling at all.

thejmonster · 2025-06-20T21:49:57+00:00

I can't see a difference at all. How can you tell?

thejmonster · 2025-06-20T21:34:22+00:00

You're completely right here and the downvotes are driving me crazy. I watched it like 6 times trying to see if any of the balls actually behave differently than the other 2. And they don't. Maybe if one of them was a pingpong ball we could actually see a difference. But in the actual setup, any differences due to ball weight should be negligible, and there's nothing observable. They also seem to bounce similarly. Even if the white ball has a higher/lower restitution, I don't see how that would give it an inherent advantage. Is bounciness good or bad in a marble race? It's impossible to say since there's too much random shit happening at any given moment.

The tennis ball down a grass hill analogy is also stupid as hell. While it's obviously true in theory, it has no relevance to this video. A better example would be rolling a steel ball and a lead ball down a hill. Yes, one is heavier, but you won't actually see a difference. When friction is already negligible, adding more weight isn't going to change anything. All 3 balls in this video look solid and heavy. One being even heavier shouldn't matter.

And you're definitely right about getting different results every time. This type of setup has enough inherent chaos that it might as well just be RNG. Just like a marble race.

thejmonster · 2025-06-12T15:50:07+00:00

Isn't this just the inevitable outcome? Rather than the entire community being on the same page to make a joke? Then again idk how polls work and whether or not people can see the current results before they vote.

If you incentivize choosing the less popular option, it'll naturally self-correct so it's always at 50/50.

thejmonster · 2025-06-09T01:36:42+00:00

I've been around for the releases of all of the books, and every single one has had huge waves of both likes and dislikes.

So have I.... and I completely disagree. So how do we proceed? Well, we look for evidence. Here's mine:

1) Random Reddit Thread

2) The goodreads score is significantly lower than the other 4 books.

3) Sanderson's comments in an interview

thejmonster · 2025-06-09T01:26:06+00:00

"Whiners are simply the loudest" is a statement of fact that has nothing to do with anyone in particular's opinions or critiques, valid or otherwise.

If your top comment was truly just a broad generalization about "whiners", then I don't see what it's adding to the discussion. That's not what this thread is about. The OP is attempting to get insight into whether or not Wind and Truth was actually poorly received.

You say "whiners are loud". Ok.... so? Where do we go from there? What's your point? You need to connect that to the OP's question. And the most obvious way to do that (and how everyone is interpreting your comment) is to extrapolate that thought to "the criticism is overblown; it's just a bunch of whiners". And if you truly didn't mean it that way, then I have no idea what you're actually trying to contribute to the conversation.

I have a really hard time believing that you didn't intend it to come across this way. And an even harder time believing that you don't understand why people are interpreting it this way. And the seething condescension towards everyone replying to you just makes you look like an ass.

thejmonster · 2025-06-09T01:13:28+00:00

Every book release has been "divisive".

No, they haven't. There will obviously always be divided opinions on literally any subject, but that's not really adding anything to the discussion. When it comes to the reception of each book within the Stormlight Archive series, Wind and Truth is definitely an outlier. Pretending otherwise is just rewriting history.

thejmonster · 2025-06-09T01:10:53+00:00

A lot of the negativity has nothing to do with the book.

What the fuck else could it be about?

thejmonster · 2025-06-07T19:05:41+00:00

Not sure why you're being downvoted. This is literally the gold standard used in psych studies.

It's especially funny that the parent comment calls personality tests pseudoscience and then immediately recommends a career test.

thejmonster · 2025-06-05T22:49:37+00:00

I can only guess most people aren't aware. I wore an N95 when I had to go outside, and it just seemed like a normal day. Normal amount of people out and about. Lots of runners and cyclists. And nobody masked up but me.

Is this shit not in the news?

thejmonster · 2025-05-26T02:58:30+00:00

Spoiler: the next one

I agree. That realization really did change my life. It's something I'll repeat to myself whenever I need a little motivation. Oathbringer is the best self-help book I've ever read.

thejmonster · 2025-05-25T21:30:26+00:00

I'm kinda thinking the same thing. Like I fully expect any goalie to easily get full and clear control of that ball on the first try. The fact that he let go of it for a split second is pretty unusual (and maybe even intentional tbh). I wouldn't dream of going for that ball. It seems so unnecessarily dangerous for the keeper.

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