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wheatpuppy
Apr 25, 2008

YOU HAVE MY POST!

Pope Corky the IX posted:

I remember having to stop a game of Monopoly Jr. as a kid because my cousin started choking on the horse.

Man you guys were advanced for your age. My circle didn't get into heroin until at least college.

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Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

🎧Listen to Cylindricule!🎵
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Pope Corky the IX posted:

I remember having to stop a game of Monopoly Jr. as a kid because my cousin started choking on the horse.

I bet they felt a little hoarse after that

Nae
Sep 3, 2020

what.

Pope Corky the IX posted:

I remember having to stop a game of Monopoly Jr. as a kid because my cousin started choking on the horse.

That’s the same reason I had to stop doing equestrian.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

Cowslips Warren posted:

AITA for telling my father to cover up his BDSM tattoo at my step-son's birthday party?

I thought kink was sexual. Either way, cover your loving tat.



Seriously though, what a loving dirtball. Also lol at having an "anti-kink bias" because you don't want your kids to look at some creep's porn tattoo.

Albino Broccoli
Aug 5, 2022
Yeah well my kink is involving others to my kink without consent. Stop kink-shaming meeeeeeeee

Ayndin
Mar 13, 2010

Bored posted:

One grooms me when she’s hungry, or notices others are hungry. One makes bread on face if she’s feeling a bit peckish. The boys, however, get hangry and start fights with eachother. Maybe they are each planning to eat the other if food is not forthcoming.

Mine get various levels of whiny or face-pokey if it is past/their definition of past feeding time, but my oldest cat will escalate to literally vomiting in spite after that. Then once fed will eat way too fast and about half the time vomit again.

I love my big dumb boy (and his sisters who are usually less dramatic about food) anyway.

killerwhat
May 13, 2010

Cowslips Warren posted:

AITA for telling my father to cover up his BDSM tattoo at my step-son's birthday party?

I thought kink was sexual. Either way, cover your loving tat.

Kink doesn’t have to be sexual; there are asexual kinky people. In this case obviously this guy wants everyone to know what he’s into, at a kids party :rolleyes: shocking that a transphobe is also a creep

Lone Goat
Apr 16, 2003

When life gives you lemons, suplex those lemons.




TBLALV posted:

Yeah well my kink is involving others to my kink without consent. Stop kink-shaming meeeeeeeee

Sorry, my kink is kinkshaming

MK-Ultramarathon
Aug 12, 2009

Honestly more of my concern with tied-up lady tattoo guy is not so much the BDSM angle but that he's just a creepy misogynist (BDSM does not make you a misogynist, but if you just love looking at bound women and are also otherwise a douchebag, that's a little sus). Either way, really not somebody you should make any effort to keep in your life.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

killerwhat posted:

Kink doesn’t have to be sexual; there are asexual kinky people.

It's true, I got a message on Feeld the other day from one of them asking if I'd be up for some "asexual bratty age regression play" which is aggressively not my jam, but honestly that was kind of my battle to lose when I listed "nanny" as my profession.

Cloacamazing!
Apr 18, 2018

Too cute to be evil

Modal Auxiliary posted:

It's true, I got a message on Feeld the other day from one of them asking if I'd be up for some "asexual bratty age regression play" which is aggressively not my jam, but honestly that was kind of my battle to lose when I listed "nanny" as my profession.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Verdugo
Jan 5, 2009


Lipstick Apathy

blackmet posted:

I found a board game combining Monopoly and Scrabble a couple of days ago. Almost spent $35 on it.

But then I couldn't decide if it was improving Monopoly, ruining Scrabble, or if my friendless rear end would ever play it anyway.

I prefer riskopoly. Risk, but when a combat comes up everyone plays a game of monopoly to determine who the winner is.

Pope Corky the IX
Dec 18, 2006

What are you looking at?
I know from several friends to never ever mention that you work with children in a dating profile. It doesn't matter how proud you are of your profession, you will get some of the worst possible messages.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



Cloacamazing! posted:

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Sounds like somebody's making too much noise and needs to be put into timeout!

MK-Ultramarathon
Aug 12, 2009

Pope Corky the IX posted:

I know from several friends to never ever mention that you work with children in a dating profile. It doesn't matter how proud you are of your profession, you will get some of the worst possible messages.

Honestly I think the safer bet is just not to put profession in there at all. I'm a :j: woman in tech :j: and some straight dudes will get reaaaaal weird about that. Or try to talk to me about programming languages which is, arguably, worse.

Khanstant
Apr 5, 2007

Cowslips Warren posted:

Scattergories is the best game, especially if you don't use the timer but just set your own on your phone.


AITA for telling my father to cover up his BDSM tattoo at my step-son's birthday party?

I thought kink was sexual. Either way, cover your loving tat.

Naw you can't expect other people to cover their bodies just because you don't like how it looks.

Exile from Garden of Eden really hosed w some peoples' heads.

J Miracle
Mar 25, 2010
It took 32 years, but I finally figured out push-ups!

Modal Auxiliary posted:

It's true, I got a message on Feeld the other day from one of them asking if I'd be up for some "asexual bratty age regression play" which is aggressively not my jam, but honestly that was kind of my battle to lose when I listed "nanny" as my profession.

is this just someone who wants you to make them a grilled cheese and tuck them into bed

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

J Miracle posted:

is this just someone who wants you to make them a grilled cheese and tuck them into bed

Yeah, but they're also gonna be lovely and difficult about it the whole time.

Batterypowered7
Aug 8, 2009

The mist that chills you keeps me warm.

MK-Ultramarathon posted:

Honestly I think the safer bet is just not to put profession in there at all. I'm a :j: woman in tech :j: and some straight dudes will get reaaaaal weird about that. Or try to talk to me about programming languages which is, arguably, worse.

"Y-you want to get together and do a code review on each other's work? M-my code is both commented and self-documenting."

Clark Nova
Jul 18, 2004

lol who is going to sign up to do all the work in an elaborate one-sided sex game where you don't even gently caress? :psyduck:

Crocobile
Dec 2, 2006

MK-Ultramarathon posted:

Honestly more of my concern with tied-up lady tattoo guy is not so much the BDSM angle but that he's just a creepy misogynist (BDSM does not make you a misogynist, but if you just love looking at bound women and are also otherwise a douchebag, that's a little sus). Either way, really not somebody you should make any effort to keep in your life.

Yeah this is my vibe too. Like a bound-and-gagged woman is not inherently BDSM; her consent makes it BDSM.

Her dad’s “joke” doesn’t bode well either.

Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here

Crocobile posted:

Her dad’s “joke” doesn’t bode well either.

Yeah, getting some vibes from old dad. Not good ones.

Desert Bus
May 9, 2004

Take 1 tablet by mouth daily.
If you play Monopoly as a gamer rear end in a top hat you are doing a service to everyone else by making the game end sooner.

(hint, buy all the houses so your opponents can't ever upgrade to hotels)

Dewgy
Nov 10, 2005

~🚚special delivery~📦

Modal Auxiliary posted:

It's true, I got a message on Feeld the other day from one of them asking if I'd be up for some "asexual bratty age regression play" which is aggressively not my jam, but honestly that was kind of my battle to lose when I listed "nanny" as my profession.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NYVZnDuQAc

dervival
Apr 23, 2014

MK-Ultramarathon posted:

Honestly I think the safer bet is just not to put profession in there at all. I'm a :j: woman in tech :j: and some straight dudes will get reaaaaal weird about that. Or try to talk to me about programming languages which is, arguably, worse.

god forbid they go into Big O notation

Foo Diddley
Oct 29, 2011

cat
gonna show her my O(n2) face

Paper Tiger
Jun 17, 2007

🖨️🐯torn apart by idle hands

MK-Ultramarathon posted:

Honestly I think the safer bet is just not to put profession in there at all. I'm a :j: woman in tech :j: and some straight dudes will get reaaaaal weird about that. Or try to talk to me about programming languages which is, arguably, worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsoOG6ZeyUI

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005


Just learned that all of these games are insanely discounted on Steam right now, see y'all in like six months lol.

Grey Cat
Jun 3, 2023

Doing stuff and things



Not having an IDE that can set whatever amount of spaces you want to tab though? What year is this?

Batterypowered7
Aug 8, 2009

The mist that chills you keeps me warm.

Grey Cat posted:

Not having an IDE that can set whatever amount of spaces you want to tab though? What year is this?

I had a professor demand we indent three spaces. Not two, not four, but three. Also, any one line of code couldn't be wider than 90 characters.

Grey Cat
Jun 3, 2023

Doing stuff and things


Batterypowered7 posted:

I had a professor demand we indent three spaces. Not two, not four, but three. Also, any one line of code couldn't be wider than 90 characters.

Three... what a weirdo.
I like 2 or 4 like most people.

90 characters is also super arbitrary unless he's teaching a class for like, basic on a TI calculator.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Foo Diddley posted:

gonna show her my O(n2) face

Just wait until she experiences my growth :q:

StrangersInTheNight
Dec 31, 2007
ABSOLUTE FUCKING GUDGEON

killerwhat posted:

Kink doesn’t have to be sexual; there are asexual kinky people. In this case obviously this guy wants everyone to know what he’s into, at a kids party :rolleyes: shocking that a transphobe is also a creep

Honestly I think trying to put a hard line between kink as sexual or not is fallacy. Kinks aren't sex but they are sex-adjacent and often threaded into one's sexuality rather than a concrete Other. The language and space created for kinks is a space that isn't inherently sexual, but it's not NOT sexual either. And asexual people can and do have sex - even kinky sex.

Batterypowered7
Aug 8, 2009

The mist that chills you keeps me warm.

Grey Cat posted:

Three... what a weirdo.
I like 2 or 4 like most people.

90 characters is also super arbitrary unless he's teaching a class for like, basic on a TI calculator.

I was wrong. It was an 80 character limit.

"This common coding standard is a result of the IBM's 1928 80 column punched card format, since many coding standards date back to a time when programs were written on punch cards, one card/line at a time, and even the transition to wider screens didn't alter the fact that code gets harder to read the wider it becomes."

"A legacy of the 80 column punched card format is that a display of 80 characters per row was a common choice in the design of character-based terminals. As of November 2011 some character interface defaults, such as the command prompt window's width in Microsoft Windows, remain set at 80 columns and some file formats, such as FITS, still use 80-character card images."

Grey Cat
Jun 3, 2023

Doing stuff and things


Batterypowered7 posted:

I was wrong. It was an 80 character limit.

"This common coding standard is a result of the IBM's 1928 80 column punched card format, since many coding standards date back to a time when programs were written on punch cards, one card/line at a time, and even the transition to wider screens didn't alter the fact that code gets harder to read the wider it becomes."

"A legacy of the 80 column punched card format is that a display of 80 characters per row was a common choice in the design of character-based terminals. As of November 2011 some character interface defaults, such as the command prompt window's width in Microsoft Windows, remain set at 80 columns and some file formats, such as FITS, still use 80-character card images."

Definitely weird. I like the idea in the sense it challenges/restricts you which is a good skill to have when trying to make stuff optimized.
But also the future is now.

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Hobnob
Feb 23, 2006

Ursa Adorandum

J Miracle posted:

is this just someone who wants you to make them a grilled cheese and tuck them into bed

NGL that sounds like a pretty good time.

Clark Nova posted:

lol who is going to sign up to do all the work in an elaborate one-sided sex game where you don't even gently caress? :psyduck:

I guess if you like, got off on feeling real nurturing?

Hobnob fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Sep 15, 2023

trickybiscuits
Jan 13, 2008

yospos

nonathlon posted:

There's an equivalent story with Douglas Adams, books he contracted to write and received the advance for, and his agent.

supposedly Colette's first husband would do this with her. The extent to which she asked him to do it so she would be forced to write is unclear. Writing just loving sucks I guess.

Good advice from Carolyn Hax:

quote:

Dear Carolyn: My daughter is not speaking to my mother. It’s a complicated issue involving my mother interfering in her parenting, and it’s been a source of contention for some time. It came to a head a few months ago, and my daughter has drawn a hard line.

My mother admits she is in the wrong but says she is unable to stop her actions. These involve undermining my daughter and her husband in their parenting, of one of the children in particular. There’s no danger to the child. It’s simply a matter of disagreement about what the granddaughter should be allowed to do, and my mum aiding and abetting her to do it even though she knows my daughter has said no.

My mother and my daughter haven’t spoken for months. It’s affecting everyone in the family. My mother is old, and I know if anything happened to her, my daughter would be devastated, but I have pointed that out gently and my daughter still will no longer put up with what she sees as a betrayal.

I am so sad. They’re both immensely stubborn, and experience tells me my interference only makes things worse. But it’s going on and on, and the hardest thing is they both adore each other. Should I continue to keep out of it, or try to convince my daughter to soften her approach? My mum is wrong but she’s also old and upset and it’s awful.

— Stuck

Stuck: I bet it is awful, for all of you.

But is it really “complicated”?

Your mother declares herself “unable” to stop, and you seem to buy that wholesale because she’s “old,” but if I were your daughter, I’d be seething at both of you for that alone — for so blithely accepting Great-Grandma as a helpless victim of her own impulses.

Your mom has one mandate here: to apologize, make amends and butt out. Any bystanders — you — with any other agenda are only making things worse.

You say you’ve kept yourself out of it. However, things you “point out,” even “gently,” are a form of involvement — in which your sympathies plainly lie with your mom.

If you really want your daughter to soften, then validate her. Seems counterintuitive, but support builds confidence, which makes people more flexible. Every time you negate your daughter’s distress relative to your mom’s, you feed her distrust and reinforce her choice of estrangement to safeguard her parental authority. (To save words and attention spans, I’ll cover all the gray area on that authority with a basic rule: With non-abusive parents, either support them or shut up.)

You can also give your mom’s excuses no quarter.

Even the sad possibility of “anything” happening to your mom — to any of you — during this estrangement is information they possess and a risk they’ve assumed.

I take your word for it, by the way, that your mom’s issue is stubbornness vs. cognitive decline. But if she knows not what she does, then your appropriate role extends to enlightening your daughter as needed — while still supporting her efforts to insulate her household from the effects.

Otherwise, though, the reallocation of your support from your mom to your daughter is the extent of your appropriate involvement here.

You and your mom presumably can summon, like it was yesterday, how you felt during some of those endless days of rearing children. Presumably you can imagine also having to battle on a whole other front with an intrusive relative. Remind yourself of that whenever you’re tempted to treat your daughter as the one who needs to bend.

Ayndin
Mar 13, 2010

haveblue posted:

Just wait until she experiences my growth :q:

“Hey baby, you can call me bogosort, because I’m non-terminating in the worst case.”

Yeah outside of maybe asking a couple of extra questions when small talking on a date that is not a route I’d go down chatting someone up, there are so many better topics to talk about. Though I guess if you’re dealing with one of those turbo workaholic programmers it’s good to see that flag get raised early?

thepopmonster
Feb 18, 2014


MK-Ultramarathon posted:

Honestly I think the safer bet is just not to put profession in there at all. I'm a :j: woman in tech :j: and some straight dudes will get reaaaaal weird about that. Or try to talk to me about programming languages which is, arguably, worse.

What do you think is the best programming language to teach to children?

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Quackles
Aug 11, 2018

Pixels of Light.


thepopmonster posted:

What do you think is the best programming language to teach to children?

probably python tbh

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