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someone in the kill six billion demons thread accidentally named a devil after me and there are certain uncanny similaritiesPoltergrift posted:"Anointed Mother" Absalom Malom du Serebryakov is variably Sister Absalom, Mother Absalom, the Prophetess, the Alchemist, or otherwise, a verdant devil clad in the nun's vestments, holy symbols, divine tattoos, anointments et al. of a dozen different denominations. She is always there for souls in need of guidance, and with her all-shrouding clothing, many desperate denizens of Throne mistake her (and her surprisingly soothing voice) for a holy woman, capable of granting immortality to those loyal to her and her unnamed God. Unfortunately, she lacks the smooth-talking skill of a real cult leader, and is forced to rely on scripts to convince the disenfranchised and desperate to attend her and strip her of her names. Her skill with management and logistics is far superior to her charisma -- each of Absalom's New Churches has risen to become an economic juggernaut, transmuting the fanatical labor of devotion into massive social and material capital... until it encounters a serious external threat. Then, unable to handle the resultant crises of faith, the Church collapses or schisms, and Absalom is back on the road, refining her pitch and trying to find a theology that works.
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kill six billion demons is so dope
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Some guy at work had a gun blow up on him. Took a bunch of shrapnel to the chest.
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Schizotek posted:Nah, not all stouts need to be engine oil thick. Granted there are way better light stouts, but its hard to find any on tap with a nitrous spout, which is what makes Guinness and Guinness-likes magical. i dunno pretty much every brewery around here's been doing the nitro gimmick for a couple years now
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stone cold posted:.....you don't have that problem with chopsticks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ku2H2fw3Xk Whatever emotional experience is related to chopsticks, eating rice and things like this with them is inefficient as gently caress. Anything stringy or long, though, yeah, far superior to a fork and spoon - especially if it's in soup or broth. And, no, it doesn't matter what your technique is or how the rice is cooked. It's just nonsense. As the engineer points out, this isn't a question of taste, it's entirely empirical and you can model it. If you prefer to eat with chopsticks when it doesn't make sense, that's fine, but it's an emotional choice, not a rational one assuming availability. Amusingly for LFties, you will appreciate that even after 11 years with conversational fluency, I'm still given a fork and spoon for chopstick dishes sometimes because innocent and trying-to-be-helpful :racism: heh. Have to demand the tiny pool cues for the morning glory and the dumplings and the spar-getty.
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Oh hell yes, "efficient" eating.
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Volkerball posted:Some guy at work had a gun blow up on him. Took a bunch of shrapnel to the chest.  how so
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Now on the other hand watching white people overcompensate and try to use chopsticks for things you're not supposed to use them for is hilarious.
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I have spent over ten thousand dollars on minimizing the number of therbligs I expend in shoving mass into my food tract, get on my level humanities majors.
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there is no meal more refreshing than the smooth mold-tinged flavor of a cool glass of soylent
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your refusal to bring a plastic knife and fork to the sushi joint belies a real emotionality, susan, and it will not look good on your performance review if you continue
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also, good to see you back effectronica. does this fine day find you well?
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Cease to Hope posted:also, good to see you back effectronica. does this fine day find you well? yeah
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that's good, i'm glad to hear it
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ReindeerF posted:They work like poo poo for granular things and I'm quite competent with them (usually, occasional lol exceptions usually involving nigiri). Jerry Seinfeld may have been playing to the home crowd but he was right:
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:kill six billion demons is so dope
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https://twitter.com/MagicRealismBot/status/846696427900157954
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cinci zoo sniper posted:
Not entirely sure. It was something to do with some sort of misfire where you are supposed to step away from the weapon for a few minutes before you fiddle with it, and he only waited like ten seconds. Opened it up and kablooie. Spent the night in the hospital, but he'll be fine. Will probably set off metal detectors for the rest of his life tho. I saw the rifle afterwards and goddamn. The upper receiver exploded into two pieces and I guess a chunk of the lower hit someone further away in the head lightly. The thing was loving mangled.
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Volkerball posted:Not entirely sure. It was something to do with some sort of misfire where you are supposed to step away from the weapon for a few minutes before you fiddle with it, and he only waited like ten seconds. Opened it up and kablooie. Spent the night in the hospital, but he'll be fine. Will probably set off metal detectors for the rest of his life tho. I saw the rifle afterwards and goddamn. The upper receiver exploded into two pieces and I guess a chunk of the lower hit someone further away in the head lightly. The thing was loving mangled. Hangfire? Hangfire into a squib?
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Pirate Radar posted:Hangfire? Hangfire into a squib? Hangfire yep that was the word
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Pirate Radar posted:Now on the other hand watching white people overcompensate and try to use chopsticks for things you're not supposed to use them for is hilarious. Chopsticks are made for froot loops
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Avshalom posted:who are you notorious badposter
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"waiter, a pint of asahi super dry and a pair of chopsticks please"
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Volkerball posted:Not entirely sure. It was something to do with some sort of misfire where you are supposed to step away from the weapon for a few minutes before you fiddle with it, and he only waited like ten seconds. Opened it up and kablooie. Spent the night in the hospital, but he'll be fine. Will probably set off metal detectors for the rest of his life tho. I saw the rifle afterwards and goddamn. The upper receiver exploded into two pieces and I guess a chunk of the lower hit someone further away in the head lightly. The thing was loving mangled.
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Avshalom posted:"waiter, a pint of asahi super dry and a pair of chopsticks please"
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so, what's the europol hot take on austrian withdrawal from the eu refugee resettlement agreement
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cinci zoo sniper posted:so, what's the europol hot take on austrian withdrawal from the eu refugee resettlement agreement Blame Germany.
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randler, what's an alb and why is it swabbish?
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ReindeerF posted:They work like poo poo for granular things and I'm quite competent with them (usually, occasional lol exceptions usually involving nigiri). Jerry Seinfeld may have been playing to the home crowd but he was right: somehow, someone more boring then volkerball steps up to the plate
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the main source of joy in my life is eating rice with chopsticks
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I'm not putting a lot of thought into all the Russia goings-on but man this administration is making it real hard to do so
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I need to go back to K6BD. Last I followed it was written stories about Yisun's stupid and evil student
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Cease to Hope posted:the main source of joy in my life is eating rice with chopsticks The main source of joy in your life is eating plain white rice?
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Rhesus Pieces posted:I'm not putting a lot of thought into all the Russia goings-on but man this administration is making it real hard to do so i'm actually loling at the guy in washington d.c. saying with a straight face "it's all politics here"
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Also alps are mountains travel editor bird.
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Pirate Radar posted:The main source of joy in your life is eating plain white rice? you can do lots of things with rice that are not plain white rice
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spacex product placement in me andromeda 
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Randler posted:Also alps are mountains travel editor bird. No, I thought that was a typo too at first, but Swabia has an "Alb".
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Pirate Radar posted:No, I thought that was a typo too at first, but Swabia has an "Alb".
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