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Year ago, when reading Monster by Naoki Urasawa, there was a chapter centered around a kindly old reformed hitman who enjoyed sugar in his coffee. At the time, I was still concerned about appearing more mature by drinking black coffee despite, as a tea drinker, really not having a taste for unsweetened coffee in a slightest. That sweet coffee reminded the hitman of the little things in life he enjoyed and, through a spark of empathy for a target who enjoyed the same amount of sugar in his own coffee, triggered the process of him eventually rekindling his sense of humanity. It was a cozy and not particularly daring or novel story but, in a small way, it helped convince a younger me not to be concerned about pretense and just have coffee how I liked it.
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steinrokkan posted:Coffee with sugar is still black coffee in terms of color you're technically correct the best kind of correct
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Aug 13, 2023 09:55
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I think it all comes down to how much tolerance one has for young John Connor.
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Aug 17, 2023 18:57
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Community's first episode is weak but the series as a whole is fantastic in a weird comedy sort of way. It didn't find a very large audience though, probably because it was really weird compared to the standard US sitcom Also it gave Childish Gambino his big break, so credit where credit is due
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Aug 23, 2023 16:31
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My perspective on British TV is skewed because the vast bulk of my exposure to it, in ascending order of volume, goes from GBBO, to marathon binges of pirated QI (XL cut), and the entirety of FFXIV's post-ARR English dub cast.
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Aug 23, 2023 17:40
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I cannot relax while there are unwashed dishes in my sink
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Aug 26, 2023 05:49
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Gaius Marius posted:Please don't let dishes accumulate for a week. Just do them.
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Aug 27, 2023 01:29
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There are some good pickles out there
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Aug 30, 2023 03:18
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Gordon Freeman could probably take em
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Oct 20, 2023 12:49
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credburn posted:People my age who say "cringe" or "fail" but as adjectives and nouns. I know the language is fluid as gently caress and allows this sort of thing, but it feels like turning your baseball cap backwards and forcing yourself to say new trendy words to disguise the encroachment of age. Though I did recently find myself using the word "literally" when I absolutely meant "figuratively" so gently caress me, too. This is a much older version of the more modern phenomenon where millennials use "no cap" and "fr"
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Oct 20, 2023 21:52
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I look forward to a few years from now when zoomers remake the millennial "i turned 30 and my bones have ground to dust" memes
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Oct 20, 2023 21:55
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I assume dentistry Cap like a crown/fake tooth
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Oct 20, 2023 22:24
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It means that you aren't lying because you aren't exaggerating (ie going over the top) (ie cap). ah
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Oct 20, 2023 23:31
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Jen heir rick posted:I'm with you Gripweed. Your idea is dumb, but not because you won't post your stats.
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Oct 21, 2023 20:46
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Killingyouguy! posted:Good. The customer always being right is used to justify so much harassment of minimum wage employees Yeah I'm imagining the guy who's angry that you're now expected to treat servers or retail workers with basic human decency because you're a "guest"
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Oct 21, 2023 20:49
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I want to see someone design a Beaux-Arts skyscraper
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Oct 24, 2023 08:00
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a vampire cannot enter a dojo until first invited
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Oct 30, 2023 09:56
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oldpainless posted:How about you put that in English for those of us without masters in computer science, Nerd change your shorts into watches
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Nov 3, 2023 21:31
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hawowanlawow posted:you gotta swallow the drink before you put the food in your mouth and vice versa
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Nov 7, 2023 23:03
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Punkinhead posted:Well said. Bullshitting can be so mild that it basically just means small talk. For example you can bullshit with your coworkers about which dragon ball character is the best. Horseshit has no chill, it is exclusively used for objectively bad or wrong things. I hadn't really thought about it but yeah, this all tracks
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Nov 8, 2023 22:52
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Miles Morales has been a Spiderman since 2011 and the only people who took offense to that were and are racists.
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Nov 18, 2023 14:15
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If western fantasy had more historically authentic aesthetics it would at least look visually interesting but everything just looks generic. D&D 3e defined an aesthetic that was meant to be timeless but wound up just being kind of boring comic booky, in a lazy movie costume design sort of way. And western fantasy continues to take cues from that in varying degrees. It's rare to find Witcher 3-tier historical authenticity (it's just medieval Poland with monsters and elves) or design clarity and cohesion like that of the LotR movies. A lot of that is budget but some of that is just a lack of creative spark.
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Nov 20, 2023 20:41
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And sometimes you straight up put magic and fantasy into your historical fiction. See: Luo Guanzhong
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Nov 20, 2023 21:24
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War and industry alike rob us of our humanity ---------------------------------------------------> Wow cool sword!
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Nov 20, 2023 21:34
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Gripweed posted:Oh in that case nevermind, if they don’t want to talk about Delicious in Dungeon, gently caress them.
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Nov 23, 2023 04:35
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my grandmother used a rice cooker, my mother used a rice cooker, and by God so do I the fact that I am also a weeb is irrelevant
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Nov 23, 2023 04:36
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drat it's almost like every culture that eats rice as a staple food would, if given the opportunity, choose the method to prepare it quickly, conveniently, and consistently, without pretense or misplaced egotism.
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Nameless Pete posted:Hey now, I said feebs, not weebs. Though I suppose there is going to be a some overlap. lmao, but also 
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Nov 23, 2023 06:08
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Grassy Knowles posted:holy poo poo they probably have aphantasia, it's fine
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Nov 24, 2023 04:22
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Gripweed posted:Here's a PHUO; this thread needs to change it's tag so I stop confusing it for another thread with a similar tag lmfao Nameless Pete posted:Any Julia Roberts part could have been performed better by Sandra Bullock, even (perhaps especially) the role of "Julia Roberts" in Ocean's Twelve. yeah probably
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Nov 25, 2023 13:43
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Hot Warhammer 40k take incoming: the imperial guard is the lamest faction by far. they fulfill a niche in the genre fantasy that those other factions don't and those space knights already dominate the scene to the point of oversaturation
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Nov 27, 2023 21:58
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furthermore,
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Gaius Marius posted:Warhammer seems lame as hell. you're right
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Nov 27, 2023 23:13
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In my opinion Trader Joe's is the Nintendo Switch of the American grocery landscape
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Nov 28, 2023 02:38
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Woolie Wool posted:Also this entire thread is hot takes by people with axes to grind so I don't know what you were expecting this thread is about workshopping a hot take in a low stakes peer feedback context
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Nov 28, 2023 22:07
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Blue Moonlight posted:For example, this clip is the only anime I like: what does he mean go back to work is this just a hobby for this man
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Nov 30, 2023 08:47
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The Puritans tried to ban Christmas in England so the English banned the Puritans. That said the version of Christmas in question had a lot more drunken reveling so maybe we should bring that back.
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Nov 30, 2023 23:27
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Poinsettia Tension is a good Gundam name
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And now both properties are devalued
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