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Zzulu posted:I literally just squiggle some lines for my cursive name When I transitioned i didn't change my signature at all, even tho my new name is completely different lol
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Manager Hoyden posted:Black pepper was desirable in the past because it is good at covering the taste of turned meat. Rich people loved it because they could pretend they weren't eating the same unrefrigerated, half-rotten meat as the peasants I’m pretty sure that this isn’t true. People just liked spices
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Nov 7, 2022 22:31
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I do a simple squiggle that doesn't look like any part of my name because I had to sign things many times a day for several months and I can't be dicked to do anything complicated, and because it's funny to me to make my signature a symbol of my own indifference.
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Nov 7, 2022 22:36
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thetoughestbean posted:I’m pretty sure that this isn’t true. People just liked spices Sounds like something a midwesterner would say to defend why all their recipes involve cans of condensed soups or “flavor packets” instead of actual spices. And as a midwesterner myself, I will start using it to defend the honor of the tater tot casserole. Robobot has a new favorite as of 22:40 on Nov 7, 2022 |
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Nov 7, 2022 22:37
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Anyone who likes food less spicy than me is an idiot, but anyone who likes food more spicy than me is a maniac!
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Its called a hotdish
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thetoughestbean posted:I’m pretty sure that this isn’t true. People just liked spices Huh, looks like you're right and that explanation was debunked Okay well in that case I do not know why black pepper caught on anywhere, especially to the point that it's on every restaurant table
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Nov 7, 2022 22:50
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Due to the fact that it's delicious op. White pepper is also good but somewhat different and I enjoy them both.
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Manager Hoyden posted:Huh, looks like you're right and that explanation was debunked https://www.allrecipes.com/article/why-are-salt-and-pepper-paired/ Tldr the French
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Gaius Marius posted:Its called a hotdish Couldn’t remember if it was one or two words…probably the most shameful moment of my entire midwestern existence. Well, this and the time I said I didn’t really like county fairs.
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Nov 7, 2022 23:02
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thetoughestbean posted:I’m pretty sure that this isn’t true. People just liked spices No. People in the past liked putting expensive and exotic spices on rotten meat.
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Nov 7, 2022 23:09
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Robobot posted:Couldn’t remember if it was one or two words…probably the most shameful moment of my entire midwestern existence. I’m from the midwest and my family says casserole. Don’t worry about it
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Nov 7, 2022 23:35
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Tiggum posted:There is no good reason to ever buy black pepper. White pepper is just the better version of the same thing. idk that seems kinda racist
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disco elysium would be a better game without the politics stuff i'm surprised at how much i do actually like the game, it's fun and well made but when characters start talking about communism or liberalism or whatever it hits this sophomoric tone that seems at odds with the characters, who seem like they have more immediate concerns. i don't really want my character to be railroaded into that stuff, i just want to solve a crime and help people
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Nov 14, 2022 10:25
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the characters are the politics, the sophomoric political thoughts is how the protagonist copes with his immediate situation
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Shibawanko posted:disco elysium would be a better game without the politics stuff Politics IS an immediate concern for many of the characters. Even when it's not, people sometimes comfort themselves with ideology when things are hard, for various reasons. As for your drunk dude, what's crime? Which political force gets to decide that? How do you decide who to help when people's interests conflict, and what kind of help should you offer? Policing is inherently political.
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Shibawanko posted:disco elysium would be a better game without the politics stuff Thanks for the review. I bought this a couple of days ago because it was on sale on Steam. When I bought the game, in the back of my head I kind of wondered if it actually would be good or if it was highly regarded because it is about left wing politics. It sounds like the game is actually good.
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silence_kit posted:Thanks for the review. I bought this a couple of days ago because it was on sale on Steam. it feels a lot like a pynchon novel in tone, the characters are likable, it reminds me of pynchon's V. in particular. it looks good and i like it, it's very original the only part where the politics stuff annoys me is when i am required to choose between some dialogues that don't seem to fit my character. i'm playing a washed up old policeman, he shouldn't think in sentences that come from a student's essay. i don't mind this stuff when it's just a background theme that i can choose to pick up on or not but there's a few points where the game really wants you to care and it just doesn't add anything
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Shibawanko posted:disco elysium would be a better game without the politics stuff Everything I've heard about that game suggests to me that the entire point of it is owning the libs. I'm surprised to learn there's anything to it beyond that.
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The game is good. Some guy on Twitter posted a thing where the entire thought cabinet is just Frasier and I felt the need to record a thingy. https://twitter.com/luchasoros/status/1549857253662101510
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it feels a bit like playing deus ex, being basically a policeman and doing lots of sidequests that all tie together. this is a great formula for games i think what i don't like (in general) are books or movies or games or whatever that try to be didactic. i can pick up on a theme on my own, you don't need to spell it out and be on the nose about it
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Nov 14, 2022 20:52
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Yeah DE is little on the nose sometimes. Like the investigation stops while some nobody explicitly asks you philosophical/political questions. Subtext tends to lose its value when it is turned into text. What is authority, what is identity, what is trauma - there are a lot of good thematic beats but all of it is yanked from the bones of the story and gaudily shoved into the player's face. Still a very good game, but unfortunately it is a clever game made specifically for dumb people
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Shibawanko posted:it feels a lot like a pynchon novel in tone, the characters are likable, it reminds me of pynchon's V. in particular. it looks good and i like it, it's very original revachol as a setting is very politically charged because it's a graveyard of ideology haunted by the ghosts of the past. in this setting a detective is more than just a detective, they're a sort of spiritual medium in constant contact with these ghosts.
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right but that should be apparent from the setting, not spelled out in what amounts to telltale style "moral choices". books dont interrupt the reader with a questionnaire about their beliefs and neither should games
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idk i took the bluntness as part of the overall bit making fun of the idea of a cop making ridiculous metaphysical inquiries and latching on to ideologies in a very surface-level way
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That game peaked for me when I was offered the option to kick a malfunctioning computer and took it. Died instantly from the shock of pain in the toe triggering a massive stroke. And totally worth it.
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Catgirl Al Capone posted:idk i took the bluntness as part of the overall bit making fun of the idea of a cop making ridiculous metaphysical inquiries and latching on to ideologies in a very surface-level way It deffo felt like that was the intent to me. There's a few places they're more explicit about 'everything Harry is doing is because he's gullible as gently caress and an absolute mark', like the little thought/dialogue chain where you can get Harry curious about the homo-sexual underground. You can tell Kim that you think you're gay, and he immediately responds with 'no you're not you absolute idiot'. Harry is still a character with an established backstory and personality, all his wanderings and musings on metaphysics and political ideologies is just him still lumbering through the aftershocks of a massive bender.
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Shibawanko posted:it feels a bit like playing deus ex, being basically a policeman and doing lots of sidequests that all tie together. this is a great formula for games i think Yeah, Disco leans on it so hard it gives the game this unnatural feel a lot of the time. People like Measurehead and the Sunday friend aren't even characters, they're just caricatures of ideologies that the authors disapprove of. The fact that they succeed in making Joyce a character shows they had the skill to make them people instead of caricatures but failed to do so. The actual best bit is that Communism as portrayed in the work is just Religion.
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Adventure games almost universally contain caricatures. It is an aspect of the form, sometimes you have a scene and you want to tell a joke and you need a Kind of Guy to tell it. And they're right, communism is religion.
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Ohtori Akio posted:And they're right, communism is religion. I don't see it.
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Decrepus posted:No. (citation needed)
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It depends on your flavour of communism I guess?? My favourite current flavour is "Well maybe if we structured things a little differently, everyone could be provided for"
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It makes no sense to me that they ever made those watches with the strangling wire in them. How was there a market for that?
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People were super good at preserving meat in the past, I'm not sure why OP thinks people put spices only on rotten meat
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I for one eat my rotten meat without spices, medium rare obviously.
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alexandriao posted:People were super good at preserving meat in the past, I'm not sure why OP thinks people put spices only on rotten meat I think you may have missed the sarcasm in that post -- stating that people just loved wasting expensive and exotic spices on the very worst meat they had. (Or perhaps I just saw sarcasm that wasn't there. Either is possible.)
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Communism is Protestantism. You go to a weekly meeting and talk a whole bunch about esoteric nonsense and when you don’t get your way you split off and form your own group.
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Gripweed posted:Everything I've heard about that game suggests to me that the entire point of it is owning the libs. I'm surprised to learn there's anything to it beyond that. The writers of the game are communists themselves and do have a bone to pick with centrism as an ideology but i don’t think it’s anything remotely close to the point of it
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