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doverhog posted:Didn't stop drinking completely, just imposed strict limits on when it's allowed. Can't interfere with my job or working out. Tonight tho I'm free and drinking some aniseed liquor. Back to work on Saturday. Good, don't believe the AA bullshit that abstinence is the only option. You can control yourself fine.
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french customer service culture is better than american you walk into a small shop, you say bonjour for coming into their space or you're an rear end, you don't wait for the employee to greet you and bow in tribute and beg you to let them help what you find what you need
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:french customer service culture is better than american I feel Spain was like this too, though it's been a decade since I've been there. Also, shopping late night in SE Asia, where you realise the shop is the front room of the owners house and grandpa is watching stories and there's a kid doing homework in the back corner.
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Final Fantasy IX is a slog to actually play. The battles take forever because the animations are super slow and it’s the worst implementation of the ATB in the series. Going through the game sucks because it’s chock full of sidequests and little cutscenes that are either missable or a complete pain in the rear end to backtrack and do.
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Napoléon loving sucked but lmfao at people who stan the british and/or prussians as being better
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Stanning the Hapsburgs is the chad move
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Elissimpark posted:Also, shopping late night in SE Asia, where you realise the shop is the front room of the owners house and grandpa is watching stories and there's a kid doing homework in the back corner. Had a fantastic meal in Mexico that was served on a family's backporch. They ran the local convenience store out of the front room. The husband met us and spoke with us for a while and said that they ran an unofficial restaurant that was basically pay to eat meals with the family. It was awesome and various local guys would come by for lunches during the week so we met some really nice locals.
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Jun 4, 2021 22:46
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The PYF food thread should be titled Post Your Flavorites.
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Jun 5, 2021 06:53
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all streamers are boring e: asab
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Lotron posted:all streamers are boring counterpoint: there is a dude named justblazin who plays EU4 at an amazingly high level while constantly taking massive bong rips
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:counterpoint: there is a dude named justblazin who plays EU4 at an amazingly high level while constantly taking massive bong rips That's not a counterpoint.
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No they are seriously massive bong rips. The dude must have approximately all the tolerance and is just trying to maintain via replacing oxygen with weed smoke. But no you're right it's still boring.
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theatre should just be performed conservatively i.e. julius caesar wears a toga and macbeth has a kilt and stuff because anything else distracts from the delivery of the lines. set design and costumes are super boring and theatre just by itself already tends to be boring. i enjoy theatre when its just a good actor playing a character but modern theatre is more like live action yaoi with pyrotechnics which is fine if it's once or twice for people who enjoy that stuff but not every play
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Shibawanko posted:theatre should just be performed conservatively i.e. julius caesar wears a toga and macbeth has a kilt and stuff because anything else distracts from the delivery of the lines. set design and costumes are super boring and theatre just by itself already tends to be boring. i enjoy theatre when its just a good actor playing a character but modern theatre is more like live action yaoi with pyrotechnics which is fine if it's once or twice for people who enjoy that stuff but not every play You really got to see Actors ACTING there and it's always better than big city professional theater for it. People doing theater for free very much love stagecraft and they're better at it than people give credit.
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Shibawanko posted:theatre should just be performed conservatively i.e. julius caesar wears a toga and macbeth has a kilt and stuff because anything else distracts from the delivery of the lines. set design and costumes are super boring and theatre just by itself already tends to be boring. i enjoy theatre when its just a good actor playing a character but modern theatre is more like live action yaoi with pyrotechnics which is fine if it's once or twice for people who enjoy that stuff but not every play actually julius caesar and macbeth should both be wearing contemporaneous clothing to the time and place the show is being performed, if you are acting conservatively As a community theatre nerd I agree with fizzymercury though. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 13:36 on Jun 5, 2021 |
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Podcasts don’t need theme songs and if they insist on having one it should be twenty seconds at longest
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Podcasts don't need to spend 3 minutes explaining how to download the podcast.
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thetoughestbean posted:Podcasts don’t need theme songs and if they insist on having one it should be twenty seconds at longest I've never listened to a podcast but 20 seconds is looooooooooooong.
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Podcasts should use the Nosleep model. The free episodes have one ad at the beginning, usually extremely lame and unfunny but done by the cast of the podcast. Alternatively, you pay 20ish bucks once a year and get double-length, no-add podcasts plus a few bonus episodes. It amounts to like 50 hours of content so pretty good deal, plus no recurring patreon bullshit, plus no hosts or voice actors hocking podcast networks and subscription boxes at you. I do not want to hear a podcaster desperately pretending they love razors and underwear deliveries every month. Honestly who the hell is buying all of these goddam subscription boxes? I know a few people who tried and hated the food ones, who is ordering Harry's Razors and poo poo?
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thetoughestbean posted:Podcasts don’t need theme songs and if they insist on having one it should be twenty seconds at longest Counter point. They should either be 5 seconds or less, OR, be EXACTLY 30 seconds, so that the common fast forward option skips you right to the end of it.
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I have the actually unpopular opinion that podcast intro songs are very frequently the best part of them. Podcasts are terribly boring unless a legitimate comedian or professional radio host are involved. And even then they desperately, without fail, need an editor that means it. You're not really listening to all that faff and you know it.
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Most mnemonics are worse than useless. They actively make it harder to memorise the information.
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fizzymercury posted:I have the actually unpopular opinion that podcast intro songs are very frequently the best part of them. Podcasts by professionals mostly blow chunks. I will use as my example the History of Rome/Revolutions guy who had a rocky start, got good at podcastin', got published, and has sucked and sucked more and more since. Good lord the next time someone tries to talk to me about the french revolution and it's immediately obvious their knowledge starts and ends at the podcast Like gently caress, at least podcast guy acknowledges that he's a dumbass american who struggles to pronounce such obscure and exotic french as "Georges Jacques Danton," his listeners think they are all experts Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 15:28 on Jun 6, 2021 |
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I've only ever found them useful for remembering the order of things, like the OBAFGKM stellar classification one. Even then it's not really that useful because tests never ask you to write them in order, they ask specific facts about them like mean temperature of an O star etc.
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I pretty much unironically agree with this https://twitter.com/derek8185338005/status/1401392161375940612?s=19
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the best podcast is of course in our tine with melvyn bragg although hes at his best when its a historical subject and not so much when its science
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The U.S. should get rid of the penny and the nickel and round all cash transactions to ten cents.
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Platystemon posted:The U.S. should get rid of the penny and the nickel and round all cash transactions to ten cents. No that's stupid.
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I’d say it makes cents
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Shibawanko posted:the best podcast is of course in our tine with melvyn bragg although hes at his best when its a historical subject and not so much when its science I listen to “In Our Time” because every other podcast about academic topics is terrible but he cannot process any subtlety in historical interpretation and heaven forbid you suggest that the British were not the best at anything and everything to him.
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Gripweed posted:No that's stupid. It's actually very smart The US should, however, keep archaic cotton disease vector dollars instead of plastic monopoly money like what the goddam foreigners use
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College professors should not be allowed to require students to figure out some piece of software just for their class. If they have an assignment like "Over the course of the semester you'll be putting together a timeline about your chosen topic! Go to Timelyne.com, make an account, link it to your school account, watch the tutorial videos, and use their bespoke timeline-creation tools to create your timeline!" you should immediately be refunded the entire cost of the class and be given full course credit.
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Brahms is boring
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The oatmeal raisin cookie was invented to convince people that delicious oatmeal cookies are actually bad by putting gross raisins in them.
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Put more salt in and they become amazing. People never use enough salt in their cookies
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I have come to despise fiction with Harry Potter-esque settings where there’s around four different groups for readers to easily slot themselves into, especially when each group is defined by having a few key personality traits like they’re zodiac signs. It’s lazy world building that encourages overly-simplistic worldviews
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thetoughestbean posted:I have come to despise fiction with Harry Potter-esque settings where there’s around four different groups for readers to easily slot themselves into, especially when each group is defined by having a few key personality traits like they’re zodiac signs. It’s lazy world building that encourages overly-simplistic worldviews I forget the exact quote, but there was a tweet to the effect of "According to Hogwarts all children are either brave, clever, evil, or boring".
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thetoughestbean posted:I have come to despise fiction with Harry Potter-esque settings where there’s around four different groups for readers to easily slot themselves into, especially when each group is defined by having a few key personality traits like they’re zodiac signs. It’s lazy world building that encourages overly-simplistic worldviews I prefer fiction where there are two opposing political entities and people are divided up between them purely through circumstance so there are selfish and cruel and noble and good people on both sides
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Is that a thing outside of Harry Potter? PHUO: slytherin has the coolest robes, coolest animal, and the rest of the wizards were all nazis and cops too so really, they are the best Draco Malfoy owns what he is, Harry Potter pretends to be better while casually mindwiping untermenschen The baddies cast the instant painless death spell, the good guys will light you on fire, petrify, and disintegrate you, and call you a bitch while you die horrifically Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 13:22 on Jun 8, 2021 |
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Is there some reasoning by which Slytherin and Voldemort are actually good? Similar to how in SW the Republic and the Jedi were pretty poo poo and the Empire actually did bring order.
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