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Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

I don't drink.

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Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

My great aunt was a microbiologist and she refuses to eat blue cheese. I follow her example.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Kin posted:

Back in my 20s I had bronchitis and tonsillitis and for at least the last decade whenever I laugh a lot I get severe coughing fits (doctor said that's nothing to worry about though). So I've always thought my lungs were a bit rubbish.

Streamer and Youtubesman Woolie Madden gets that too, so you're not alone there. I don't think he's ever mentioned having lung problems, though.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

This forum is educative in many dimensions. I have also learned a lot (some of which I might be better off not knowing - ahem).

we all have to find out how michael gove drinks water sooner or later

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

The last one, the one replying to Dolores, is a very confused old person who doesn't get how replying to things on the online works. They've copied the whole text of what they're replying to to call it bullshit. Like if I did this


I'm not certain those tweets are serious/bots? I mean if they were a disinformation bot why would they reply to the message they're copying. That's like me trying to steal someone's invention by referencing their original patent, a bit self defeating. I disagree!

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012


Thought this was Watso for a sec

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Jippa posted:

I woke up to a small dusting of snow. I haven't had that for years.

No snow here yet, but it's cold enough - the grass outside is gorgeously frosted.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Mebh posted:

Re: Cat chat.

They vary, massively. Just like people. They have mental health, anxiety, sadness, loneliness, happiness, joy, excitement etc. The whole range of emotions.

Yes they're not exactly smart, but they feel, and have emotions and memory. They'll miss you, but they'll also be fine most likely especially with someone checking in regularly to play and spend time with them.

I had one cat who never recovered from us travelling with her, and another that is only happy when travelling now!

I have two cats with separation anxiety who become entirely despondent when I leave or my partner does and start howling at each door and bathroom in the house to try to find me.

When one of my cats passed away, her partner didn't notice for a while... Then he started looking for her and it broke me. He'd climb into places he'd never been and start meowing inside the coat rack. He'd leave my office and then suddenly scamper back inside to her spot and look. He then started sleeping in her old spots and sleeping way more. You'd call it depression if they were human. I think he just knew something had changed and wanted it back.

When we got another cat we had her separated in the conservatory he SUDDENLY perked up, and was so excited. He started howling to be let in and the screech stop when he realised it wasn't her was just wrenchingly sad.


Yeah we anthropomorphise them, think they have thoughts they don't and prescribe motivations to them that they can't possibly hold... plus nearly nobody understands how to train them properly! But I've had cats my whole life and they're quite a lot deeper than most want to admit. All animals are, really.

Miss my Broshka =(


ah, you bastard, you've made me cry

I'm sure I've told this story before but when we first got our cat, she didn't really warm up to us at first. Then a few months afterwards, we went on holiday for a couple of weeks and left her at the cattery. As soon as we got back and brought her back home, she was all over us. She's been a lap cat ever since. I think the fact that, after a couple of homes that didn't work out, we were the ones who came back, that was what proved we were good 'uns to her.

E: Cat tax: this her

Dabir fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Dec 13, 2022

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Redwood isn't trying to suggest a solution, he's just taking a dig at the mythical army of Useless Managers sucking up all the NHS's money. We must starve the NHS, you see, to show them how useless they are. Everything will be ok once the useless managers are gone. What's that? You're asking who decides what gets cut when money is short? Don't worry about that

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

WhatEvil posted:

When did the heavily-banded minimum wage come in? I do remember getting paid a pittance at Tesco as a 16 year-old (£3.19/hour in the early 2000s) but I thought that once you were 18 at that time, you got the full whack.

Now it's under 18 (and apprentices), 18-20, 21-22, 23 and over. Seems like real bullshit to me.

As soon as that poo poo came in I could see how it hosed over everyone on both sides of the line. And I'm a loving moron.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

I assumed it was 'brave' as in "a Red Indian brave", ie very racist and outdated language, but then I wouldn't know why it needs to be said now. Are Americans going around calling themselves or each other braves?

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

The one about whitespace is genuinely silly because there's nothing good or bad about whitespace, it's empty, it's as neutral a thing as you can get. You can have too much or too little or just enough, and if you code in python you can have the wrong kind and get in a fight. It's just called white because that's the colour of paper.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

If it's potted you just transplant it into the ground and let it grow

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

I pronounce words wrong on purpose just to annoy people.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012


If I were a Korean I wouldn't trust any 'pork' sold to me by Mr Hands

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

To be clear, the Steps guy's name isn't Ian H. Watkins, it's Ian "H" Watkins. The H stands for 'Hyperactive'.

I loved S Club 7 in the 90s. I was, however, no older than 7 myself

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

The Nintendo membership only gates online play and the emulators. They could perfectly happily play, say, Untitled Goose Game without it.

There's no Mega Man because those are sold as the Legacy Collection packs. If you want a good Tetris game, get the latest Puyo Puyo Tetris - you can play either game by itself or mixed in the weird vs mode.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

I play video games all the time and my reaction times, reflexes and hand eye coordination suck rear end

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Tesseraction posted:

Souls games are absolutely not for everyone and it's rather annoying that people say that they are. I beat DS1 and enjoyed it, I started DS2 and it sucked, I got to the final boss of DS3 and couldn't beat him in the first session and then decided who gives a gently caress.

They're hard games, often deliberately dicking you over to increase difficulty. Cool. If you like it, go hog wild. Having played most of FromSoftware's catalogue, I've decided that their games are fun, but not mandatory to have an opinion on what is or isn't an acceptable level of difficulty.

DS2 just is very poo poo and deliberately cruel thoigh, in a way the others really aren't. Especially the Scholar version and its favourite trick, hiding enemies in nooks and crannies way above you so they can drop on you and take you by surprise. DS3 is still hard, but it's fair.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

You're not missing anything, they're shite

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Disproportionation posted:

I'm sure everyone with photo-sensitive epilepsy is both aware that they have it, and also an active reader of games journalism, so obviously this is not a problem.

The specific person being was both aware they had it and literally a journalist, so

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

It's hosed up to put strychnine in a plate of food. It's also hosed up to, on being told the food is full of strychnine, go "I'm gonna taste test the strychnine food, will report back later"

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Glazius posted:

The second thing didn't happen. Stop bearing false witness.

Keep trying, I'm sure you can come up with an even wankier way to say that if you work at it

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012


We glossed over this but it's really not to your credit that you saw 'men' and read 'incels'. People don't generally join right wing movements because of some fundamental evil lurking deep down in their character, it's because they're hurting and the right indoctrinates them by offering easy answers. Rightly or wrongly, leftists often give men the impression that we want them to feel guilty for a thousand crimes that they didn't know they were committing and to abandon their masculinity and all that, and then when that idea bothers them they're told to gently caress off. If we were making more of an effort to help them feel welcome, they probably wouldn't become incels in the first place.

E: Guava sniped me with a much better post. He's probably more in tune with current events than I am, ignore all this.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Solefald posted:

oh lol I literally did that.

This is why marketers need to be strangled on their first day at work. 'Prepare to Die Edition', come the gently caress on.

E: Although for DS2 and only DS2, that is the attitude of the designers. The second cutscene of the game is three old ladies pointing and laughing at how poo poo you are and how much you're going to die, and then you walk into the Kingdom of Human Drop-Bears

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Dark Souls 1, specifically, is about as much of a knowledge game as it is about reflex skill. Beating regular grunts is easy, almost rhythmic - block their attack, hit them while they're flailing around from bouncing off, block, stab, block, stab. If they have a big shield, they're trying to do that to you, so you kick the shield out of the way and stab them instead. The input to do a kick is physically tricky for just about everyone, but there are other options, like two-handing your weapon so you don't bounce off and can wear them down. I'm sure there are disabilities serious enough that you can't handle the really, really loose and generous timings involved, like we're talking multiple seconds to hit back after you block them, but they'd have to be pretty bad. As for bosses, there are some optional fights, mostly in the DLC, where your only real option is to knuckle down and fight a thing good, but for the critical path, it's mostly about knowing, learning or figuring out one extra thing. This one is really vulnerable to dropping on its head, that one is trivial if you stay behind it, etc. Even the notorious nightmares like Capra Demon have a trick that once you know it, the fight gets a lot easier. I've said enough about DS2 (it is a bad game), DS3 and Bloodborne are much more along the lines of action-heavy skill games with a ton of fights that are all about dodging good and swinging good.

Dabir fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Dec 31, 2022

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Oh ok well if you're not having any trouble and can recognise when someone you trust is telling a bad way to do something you have no experience in, I guess there's no issue.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Some people are lucky enough to be born into a situation where they're raised well and taught the right ways to behave. Many, I would guess many more, are not. Condemning those people because they didn't have guidance, or had wrong guidance, and didn't think to reject everything their entire history of socialisation told them and reinvent leftism from first principles, is... I don't think I can pick the appropriate word. Silly, for a start. Heartless. Strategically unwise.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Well fascists are being very nice to them, seems to work for them.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

OwlFancier posted:

Fascists are offering them what they want. Because what they want is state and social enforcement of a system that allows them to functionally and or literally own women. They are not just lured in by fascists being nice to them, they have already internalized and adopted a key position of fascist and especailly modern christian dominionist thinking, which in turn is why the fascists are nice to them. Because they very accuratley perceive them as being already most of the way to their position.

No, they want that because the fascists are telling them to. Most of them don't start out believing that women should be property. They get radicalised into it from a very simple and approachable starting position, which is that they want to go on dates but they don't know how to make new connections. Sure, deradicalising people once they've been got is difficult, and I'll bow to anyone with a good argument for that not being worth the time, but it's really worrying that you'd write people off and let the fascists have them at the point that all they are is awkward young men.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Insoles

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Tesseraction posted:

you may have been first but mine's better

spoken like someone with normal, non deformed feet

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Tesseraction posted:

nah my feet are different sizes and I walk notably strangely, often compared to Lurch even though I am average height and thus don't need to walk like he does

I developed this method over time because if I didn't I would keep catching my toes on the pavement in school shoes and then I was so used to it I've kept it up since

I've got one leg longer than the other, fallen arches, clawed toes and my feet are so wide that I need to go to a specialist website to buy shoes that fit, and I'm pretty sure I'm getting ripped off on quality from them.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Failed Imagineer posted:

You forgot:
* Weighed 750 pounds

* Parents were both Charles Manson (long story)

* Wore a bath robe to school every day

* Had the word "homo" instead of a mouth

joke's on you, i'm too dumb to tell if I'm being owned

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Oh dear me posted:

The the is bad because people don't like it, but that suggested reason is bogus. It's the United Kingdom, the United States, the Philippines, etc, for contingent historical and linguistic reasons which imply nothing.

Ukraine means Borderland. I'd be upset if people kept calling my country, which sits next to an imperial power, "the Borderland".

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

The youtube shorts UI sucks and there's no reason for it

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

The dems are, in fact, doing something, right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMwWxL3jJD4

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Hang on, I thought you could use whatever name you liked for anything here as long as you're not doing it for the explicit purpose of fraud. Given that he gave his real address and the fine notice got to him, it would be pretty easy to argue that he wasn't trying to dodge it.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

MeinPanzer posted:

That's excellent, and sounds like just the thing to help me reduce the worst of my anxiety. Thanks a lot!

if it turns out not to be strong enough for you, see if you can get a prescription for propanolmao

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Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

She doesn't want to gently caress Rishi

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