Nothing too serious, i want to hear your petty, your eccentric, your off beat takes.
Losing in-game progress is as real as losing real life progress. No, I will not starve if I lose game credits (regular credits, not microtransacrion credits), but games are a transaction. For any progress, real or virtual, you’re spending time and effort to get a reward back. Having fun while earning credits is like having fun while learning how to build/repair something. If you fail at the end, you’ve invested time with little or no payoff. The game credits are there to get you better equipment and such, making your future play better in some way. As I’ve gotten older and busier, my limited play time is more valuable, and I want to progress. If I don’t or can’t, then the game doesn’t provide as much reward, and the game loses entertainment value despite a fixed monetary cost.
All to say if progress is at risk in MMOs, I stick to solo modes or non-PvP groups so I can remain the main character who rarely dies
Horsepower is a stupid measurement of engine output what is this the 1800’s.
Superman 3 is worse than Superman 4.
The $2 coin in Canada should’ve been called a doubloonie but we got twoonie instead. (Both play on the $1 coin being called a loonie after the loon pictured on the tail side. As a bonus inconsequential hot take, I believe all tail sides of coins should feature an animal with an actual tail, for clarity. So the loonie is fine, as is the Canadian nickel, which features a beaver with a big ass tail! The quarter features a moose. While said animal has a tail, only its head is shown on the coin, so that’s a bit confusing.)
YYYY-MM-DD is the only acceptable numeric date format and should be the standard taught in schools.
Coke Freestyle machines are fucking terrible. And ya wanna know why? Because the normal bare-ass no bullshit added, COKE tastes like shit. Mixing it on the spot does not make it taste right. It’s wrong and it’s terrible. I would happily lose every other flavor just to have normal Coke back that doesn’t suck shit sauce. And thankfully restaurants are going back to the older machines now.
The Last Jedi sucks, but not for the reasons right-wing chuds complained about. The premise of the entire chase rests on a bunch of Macguffin’s (they can suddenly track ships through hyperspace, fuel is an issue for the first time ever, no one can escape except when they can), the Canto Bight sequence is pointless and contrived, the light-speed kamikaze blows a plot hole in basically every other movie, and Poe should have been executed for mutiny.
Structurally, I get what Johnson was doing; everyone complained that The Force Awakens was a beat for beat retelling of A New Hope, so he basically inverted the plot structure of The Empire Strikes Back. It’s a fun idea, but his desire to end on a Hoth sequence ruined what could have been a perfect ending. I was having problems with that movie, but after Snoke gets murdered, Rey and Ben have one of the best lightsaber fights in Star Wars history, and Ben asks her to join him, I was expecting the credits to roll, and I was ready to leave on one of the greatest cliffhangers in movie history. But then there’s another 30 minutes of movie, and while the Luke stuff is cool, it mostly just drags on.
It’s also clear that Johnson wasn’t just inverting plot structure, but Star Wars norms. Everything that is established is questioned and turned on it’s head. The problem is, by the end of the film, it’s all thrown out and the status quo is hastily reestablished with little justification. What’s the lesson from Canto Bight and DJ? “Rebellion? Empire? Two sides of the same coin for the weapons dealers. The real battle is between the haves and have-nots.” How does the movie end? “Get on the princess’ space ship, we’re not done fighting the Empire!” The entire Rey/Luke/Ben aspect of the film? “Light? Dark? Jedi? Sith? They’re just artificial constructs. Let them die. Burn the temple.” How does the movie end? “Don’t worry, Rey didn’t join the Dark Side and she’s got all the magic Jedi books!”
Anyway, there’s also a lot of stuff I like (the Rey/Luke scenes are excellent), and it’s bad in an interesting way, which makes it better than the rest of the trilogy by default. I guess this is more of a small essay than a hot take, but TL;DR: chuds think The Last Jedi sucks because of wokeness, but it actually suckes for lot of structural, thematic, and plot weaknesses.
Constellations don’t look anything like the things people say they look like with some rare exceptions.
Orion? Looks like a guy ok.
The Lizard? Little known one but actually looks like a lizard so ok.
Dippers? Look like big ladles ok.
Oh wait that’s supposed to be a BEAR? With a long tail for no reason? Fuck off Greeks.
THIS ONE IS A CRAB no it isn’t stfu
If your car has cruise control and you’re not using it on highways you should not drive on a highway.
Funerals are stupid. I don’t go to them and I don’t want one.
“Lgbtq+ rights” is a mouthfull. We should call it rainbow-rights instead.
Why it needs to be anything different for the human species at all is an insult and degrading.
I was raised with LGBT which basically covered everything and it was awesome
It wasn’t until. The alphabet soup snowflakes needed letters for every 2^45 possible gender and sec combinations out there that it got annoying
Its LGBT, maybe LGBT+, but just leave it at that
Same as the rainbow flag: beautiful, elegant. After the snowflakes were done with it it became a god unholy curse from Beelzebub design
Equal rights for everyone, but please stop over complicating the crap out of everything. You’re not special, nobody is special, we’re all human, we’re all the same.
Do you ever count the letters?
“It happened by accident” not “It happened on accident”.
Halo Combat Evolved is out-classed by PC shooters of its time, and before, and the “good” Halo games are incredibly overrated.
Making your bed every day is useless.
Nobody’s gonna see it and you can’t use it without messing it up.
Ah young one I was once like you until I realised, that by not making the bed, your fitted sheet ends up absorbing more dust and moisture during the day and you have to change them more frequently. For truly optimal laziness it’s best to at least throw the quilt over.
Cat hair was what did it for me.
I leave my bedding open in the morning specifically to let the moisture dry out
How and why is your bed absorbing moisture during the day? I get if you’re saying sweat from sleeping in it, but otherwise I’m confused.
Personally, I use a very thin, non-fitted sheet as my blanket, so I don’t think any of the bed is really more or less impacted than others on having stuff piled on top of it.
I think humidity of your climate plays a role in this between regions.
I was fully in the “don’t make your bed, let it air out” camp, then I realized the dogs slept on the unmade bed during the day and I inhaled dog hair at night. I now make the bed, though I am constitutionally against it.
People should stop using the word symmetrical. Symmetric is the better word.
I think it should be “symmetricalous”. Compromise?
Now you just need to write a rap song in 5/4 time and name it that
Let’s go with symmetry-adherent.
