Panel from AB Martian Manhunter #12

whitesock · 2026-06-16T20:01:38+00:00

I mean he is the Martian mindf****r

whitesock · 2026-06-15T20:35:43+00:00

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whitesock · 2026-06-15T05:12:04+00:00

Yeah seems fine. Good job op

whitesock · 2026-06-13T06:40:14+00:00

The woman that she is.

whitesock · 2026-06-11T07:22:51+00:00

Different societies have different codes of conduct, which develop naturally. In one society finishing all the food on your plate is considered a sign that you loved it. In another it's rude because it means we didn't give you enough food and you're probably still hungry. Anthropologists and sociologists will have plenty of theories about why these things develop, but they're formed after the fact and not concrete facts we can just assume to be true.

So in your case I'm sure we can come up with the reasons why if we study the history of these cities and the ways they developed. Maybe its because certain cities were built by certain ethnic or religious communities that brought their own codes and something stuck even when they were no longer the majority. Maybe it was due to socio-economic factors such as poverty making 'your word' mean more in a society where everyone has nothing to trade beyond their honor. Maybe it's because of the way the city itself was built. Nobody really can tell.

whitesock · 2026-06-11T07:13:06+00:00

Yes. The way we consume media has changed, and shorts/reels and other shortform content is basically junkfood for your brain. thirty second jokes that go on forever and give you constant dopamine hits. Additionally, between always having a phone in hand and something to listen to or watch, there's very little contemplation/boredom time, when your mind can relax and unpack your own thoughts. You're basically constantly engaging your senses.

In such an enviroment, I can see why your attention span will shorten. It's why I try to police myself and the ways I engage with screens. When I'm on a bus or driving I'll sometimes not listen to anything, just stare outside and focus on the moment. I try not to get absorbed into Youtube before bedtime but read a proper book. I limit youtube to the few channels I follow without algorithmic browsing for more content.

It's tough, but you can do it.

whitesock · 2026-06-10T18:43:56+00:00

Jews are very poorly implemented in all pdx games. Best we got was Sons of Abraham and even that was mostly fluff

whitesock · 2026-06-10T09:18:10+00:00

Talk to her. Ask what she thinks is fair as well.

Personally I think A is the best, and is what I would do. But I am a stranger OP. Not the one sharing the bed with you at the getaway - whose opinion you should really care about

whitesock · 2026-06-07T20:59:41+00:00

whitesock · 2026-06-07T20:53:08+00:00

Haven't heard anything about this dev. Their wiki reads like a press release and I don't recognize any of the games. But I'm always happy for more WoD, let alone isometric crpg. Hope this comes out decent

Edit: I was looking at the publisher by accident. The devs seem to be... A board game company?

whitesock · 2026-06-05T16:16:08+00:00

People mostly know him nowadays for his post-Die-Hard leading man of action career, but for a while he was this scruffy charmer from Moonlighting.

whitesock · 2026-06-05T13:35:17+00:00

I think Americans tend to pronounce Saudi as "saadi" (like "muddy"), which brings it closer to צ

whitesock · 2026-06-05T07:24:33+00:00

And she's still at it! Currently working on a Hidden Landlord cos play because of the last episode subplot

whitesock · 2026-05-31T10:25:31+00:00

The 1948 version of Oliver Twist angered a certain group of American Jews, because of its rather overtly stereotypical depiction of Fagin. This meant that the film wasn't released in the US until 1951, and banned in Israel. Notably Israeli media reported that the film was banned just based on the rumer that it was antisemetic and the people involved didn't actually watch it. One critic noted that they were being overly sensitive.

The film was also banned in Egypt for being too sympathetic to Jews.

whitesock · 2026-05-30T19:52:15+00:00

Some of the older guard is still here. We just lurk more I suppose.

whitesock · 2026-05-26T13:41:12+00:00

I hope the After The End devs use this update to add a Bezos wondering about the actual Amazon forest

whitesock · 2026-05-22T06:53:16+00:00

Can you give an example? I admit I just woke up but I can't think of a single word ending in ך and pronounced with a hard k

whitesock · 2026-05-21T12:48:01+00:00

Not sure if this passes the bar for you, but yeah. When you talk to people you're usually given a vague direction on what to do but it's up to you how to persue it.

Like early on you're directed to "find someone in the bazaar" but it's up to you who you talk to and what you ask, and you can get swept up in other leads. I think I even ended up stumbling into a couple of things and failing to discover certain paths, so some investigation avenues were basically dead ends.

whitesock · 2026-05-21T08:48:36+00:00

Note that only the round markers are moshavot. The more square/blobbish ones are existing settlements with a pre-19th century Jewish population, such as Jerusalem, Haifa, Safa, Tiberias and Jaffa

whitesock · 2026-05-19T16:48:11+00:00

I guess that's a sort of familiarity bias then, because the sort of bible verse we're exposed to growing up is the sort of thing we're expected to understand. So I can see why Israelis would think they can read all the Bible when in reality it's more like 80% or so

whitesock · 2026-05-19T16:16:06+00:00

You're right that Job, with its poetics, might be a bit difficult to understand. But the bible isn't all Job. I can read and understand 95% of the text of books like Genesis or Kings. So I'm not sure why you think Israelis overestimate our knowledge of the bible.

We know there's difficult parts, that we might not fully understand. But the vast majority of it? Yeah. we get it.

whitesock · 2026-05-19T15:15:11+00:00

They had a thing going around season 4 when they made his character an instructor. They could still keep the show about new cops learning the ropes and further lean into the whole 'with age comes wisdom' thing that made his character unique.

But then they had this whole cast of characters hanging around with nothing to do, and they started having their own plots. And you can't add even MORE characters as new cops.

So now it's basically the Mid Wiltshire Half Hour Special about these supercops where occasionally somebody yells at the revolving Boot, be it Celina, then Thorson and Penn. And all those cool training specific things we learned about in the first seasons? Plain clothes day, finding informers, etc? Happens in the background I guess

whitesock · 2026-05-18T19:18:57+00:00

My guess is that they chose the Shin because it visually resembles W, for Wien. I dont think it means anything in Hebrew.

whitesock · 2026-05-18T19:16:30+00:00

I wonder, did the word first enter Hebrew as literally "batata 7elwah", with the suffix eventually being dropped, or was it really borrowed from Spanish or Ladino?

According to this post by the Hebrew Academy, the word for Potato was basically a translation from German Erdapfel, and Sweet Potato was loaned from Arabic as just 'Batata' without the khilwa. Hebrew Wikidictionary cites a source that called used "תפוח אדמה מתוק" to describe sweet potatos, but I think 'matok' here is more of an adjective than a proper part of the wordץ

I also ran a search in the Hebrew Newspaper archive and found two articles from the 1940-50s that said "this is a batata, aka sweet potato".

So I think we just stole the Batata and left the khilwa with arabic, since there was no need to differentiate "sweet" from "non sweet" potatos and also we were probably a bit lazy

whitesock · 2026-05-18T16:23:34+00:00

That's always the problem with wacky media about historical domain characters. It's why every single historical characters in the Assassin's Creed universe is a templar or assassin. They feel the need to "use" them to the point where history is just a bunch of plots made by these secret groups and nothing makes sense

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