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adjl posted...

Which is generally a good thing. "You're not allowed to hold a professional job unless you can afford a suit" has always been ridiculous, elitist gatekeeping that serves no actual purpose. Basic things like "take a shower so you don't leave dirt smudges on everything you touch" are reasonable for the sake of maintaining general tidiness, but arbitrary standards of "professional dress" have never been anything more than arbitrary (and in many cases, outright racist because they only permit "white people looks").

Yeah, but there's an in-between there, where things like "be clean-shaven" and "cut/comb your hair" sort of fall. And those are things that have sort of fallen by the wayside as well.

There's an argument to be made that not every business should be "business formal" all the time, but there's also an argument to be made that maybe work shouldn't be "full casual" for a lot of jobs.

A lot of it depends on what the job is, though.

Lokarin posted...

What's the difference between a mage warlock enchanter sorcerer etc?

Depends on the context.

As others have pointed out, in D&D it's mostly a question of how you learned magic. A sorcerer has innate power, a wizard studies, a warlock makes a bargain with dark gods. An enchanter is a specific type of wizard (one who uses enchantment magic), and a mage (or magic user) is just shorthand for any type of spellcaster.

In other games it can have other meanings - in Mage: the Ascension, for instance, a mage is someone who does True Magic while a sorcerer is someone who does Hedge Magic, and most other terms aren't really used (though someone might use wizard as a nickname for Hermetic mages or warlock for a Verbena or Nephandus).

In real life the terms are mostly interchangeable and mean the exact same thing. And mostly mean someone who does dark magic (even necromancer started out meaning that, not specifically someone who raises the dead). About the only real distinction is that warlock is often used for a male witch, or just someone who directly makes a pact with the Devil for magic. But the implication is that sorcerers, enchanters, wizards, necromancers, nigromancers, thaumaturgists, telergists, and most other classifications are all doing the same thing anyway.

About the only real exception is magician, which used to mean the same thing, but now has sort of morphed into only meaning people who do stage magic (ie, fake magic). Which is sort of where terms like illusionist and conjurer have gone as well.

GGuirao13 posted...

Yes, namely those who use it mainly to spread hate, terror, and other forms of harassment.

So pretty much everyone then.

teddy241 posted...

What happened to Camila Cabello?

She use to be a dime piece....

Not only do I not know who that is, I have no idea what you're saying.

There was a time where pretty much every job paid you for how you look, because they expected you to not look like a dirtbag or you'd get fired.

Standards keep getting lower and lower though.

Ferarri619 posted...

I know the game is a meme and I find it funny when Youtube channels sponsor it, and you can see the sarcasm when promoting the meme game, xD

I know one channel where people have asked the host whether or not he actually likes it or if the enthusiastic spiel is just advertising, and he's responded by mentioning things from the game you'd only expect someone to know if they were actively playing and enjoying it.

So maybe? Unless the people who make the game write intricate cheat sheet responses for people and ask you to memorize them.

rjsilverthorn posted...

People have been saying that for years now.

This. That's pretty much the mindset for the last 10+ years.

And before that, it was people on Facebook making fun of Myspace.

But we're all on GameFAQs, so we're already uncool obsolete fossils by default.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

I'm getting the impression that the people answering "yes" just don't want there to be an internet.

The Internet is fine, it's social media specifically that's the problem.

Tell him to play Darude's Sandstorm.

If he can do it, tip him.

Tutoria posted...

this except that "lets turn typically cute thing gritty and evil" isnt a particularly interesting idea to begin with

I'd argue it is an interesting idea, it's just been a bit overdone.

Black_Crusher posted...

Dont forget probably their most famous B side or whatever youd call it of all, Shake the Disease.

How that never made an actual album is beyond me.

Well, it kind of did. But it depends on if you count Catching Up with Depeche Mode as an album or not.

It was a full compilation album in the UK/Europe where it was released as "The Singles 81-85", but it was generally treated more like a full album in the US.

Regardless, I will never forget Shake the Disease, because it's always been one of my favorite songs of theirs. As much as I love Violator (it's what got me into them in the first place) and Songs of Faith and Devotion (which is probably the rawest their sound has ever been), Some Great Reward may be my favorite era overall... and Shake the Disease sort of falls into the tail end of that time period for their sound (it's kind of the bridge between Some Great Reward and Black Celebration in a lot of ways).

Black_Crusher posted...

it's probably impossible to sound exactly the same from album to album, as people might tend to get burnt out on them and then your career isn't quite as long!

Never mind the audience, the band itself would probably get burned out trying to sound exactly the same and never really evolving.

But that's the main key to why bands change their sound over time. Because the people in the band change. Martin at age 20 is not the same man he was at 30, or 40, or 50 (or 61 today). He's not going to write the same sorts of songs while in the depths of his alcoholic period as he would when completely sober. He's going to have a different view of the world as a young punk trying to establish an identity than he will as an adult with multiple kids and a 40-year legacy as part of one of the world's most famous bands (especially in Europe). Alan Wilder offering ideas when he was part of the band is going to help create a different sound than after he's gone. Dave's own interests and influences may lead to him offering advice or creative input. As the band goes from being influenced by the people who came before them to blatantly influencing tons of people who came after them, their own sound is going to evolve simply by virtue of the world they exist in.

Bands that sound the same album after album are almost certainly trying to just make the same songs over and over again (because it was succcesful for them before) rather than writing and performing what actually interests them. Which is why so many bands like that tend to burn out or fade away.



Black_Crusher posted...

One thing about the band is sometimes trying to find the right mix of a song, since there are so many of them. A great example would be the video version of In Your Room, which is far superior to the album version

Absolutely - I definitely prefer the Zephyr Mix to the album version. Helped by the fact that it was remixed by Garbage (and I was a fan of that band at the time as well).

It's one of the reasons why I posted the Some Bizarre Album version of Photographic up there - not only is it essentially their official "first" song (it was released before their debut album), but the album version of it is significantly different. Compare the two:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkKueyJaA0A

That was one of the advantages of getting all the singles - most of them come with B-sides. A bunch of them are remix versions of album songs.

Of course, the other advantage to the singles is that some of them have entirely new songs that don't show up on the albums at all. Some of which are really, really good. Dangerous and Sea of Sin could easily have been on Violator, for instance (and honestly, I prefer them to some of the songs that were on the album).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LHuEvw56F8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPb-59BPHAk

Yes.

papercup posted...

Yeah I really dont get people that make sports part of their identity.

Boring people always feel the need to define themselves by the things they like, because there's literally nothing else interesting about them to build a personality around.

It's the same logic as why you get fanatic console defenders on the Internet, or people who will shit on you for not liking the same shows they like, and so on. They incorporate the thing they love into their own sense of self-identity, to the point where if you tell them you don't like or don't care about that thing, it feels like a personal attack on them.



PK_Spam posted...

Sorry, I forgot to say that I whipped my glasses off and said that I used my spare time to read books instead of watching sports, and everyone around me clapped.

But it was a genteel golf clap, because the classy intelligentsia are respectful and polite, and don't hoot and holler and smash their hands together like the filthy plebs do.

Metalsonic66 posted...

Snakes on a Plane was a dumb idea from the beginning

But there were motherfucking snakes on the motherfucking plane!

She hates you so much that she doesn't just want to avoid you, but outright inconvenience you.

So she's deliberately tricking you into making plans she has no intention of following through on.

McDonalds are honestly some of the only fries I actually like. Because they sort of exist as their own thing.

Most other chains feel like they're trying to be like "real" fries, but wind up being an inferior version of them, so I judge them more harshly for it. Like, on some level I'm always thinking "I can make better fries than this at home." Doubly so because I'm not really a fan of crinkle-cut or curly fries or waffle fries or potato wedges or other odd types - I mostly just prefer straight shoestring or steak fries.

Though I do like steak fries if I'm out at a more restaurant-y place.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The trick with Depeche Mode is that they have very different sounds depending on which era you're listening to them in, which means even if you don't like one era it's entirely possible you might like another.

Oh, and on this note - just for fun, listen to these two songs and tell me they sound like the same band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TayT7NLgV4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fphsbLtrDe8

Black_Crusher posted...

Thats cool you were able to see them in some capacity, I only had one chance years ago and of course the show sells out like nothing.

Oh, I've seen them in concert multiple times. I almost went to the Songs of Faith and Devotion tour concert (but a friend of mine kind of screwed that up for us), but I manged to catch them when they did the Singles tour in 98 (we were in like the 6th row back, Martin actually pointed out my friend at one point). Then again for the Exciter tour and Playing the Angel.

I also met them in person and got a signed copy of Playing the Angel when that tour was in Madison Square Garden - I wound up sitting on line for about 10 hours.

They were pretty much my favorite band for years. I got into them when Violator came out, worked my way back though all their old albums, then bought all their old singles. Bought a few posters, shirts, etc.

The problem is, much like you I kind of lost interest with their sound after Playing the Angel - to the point where I passed on opportunities to go see them on those tours (which, in retrospect, maybe I should have, because they still would have played some of/mostly the old songs). So while I'll still happily listen to the older stuff (and talk about it, or recommend it to people), there really isn't much on the last three albums I care all that much about. So Andrew dying doesn't feel like an ending to me, because it kind of feels like the band I cared about already ended years ago. Which is a shame.



Black_Crusher posted...

While I don't like every single one of their songs, they have a shit load of good songs. If I had to put together a top 10 or 15 it'd be pretty hard to do.

The trick with Depeche Mode is that they have very different sounds depending on which era you're listening to them in, which means even if you don't like one era it's entirely possible you might like another.

The first album is mostly written by Vince Clarke (who later went on to form Yaz and Erasure), and it has a much lighter feel in a lot of ways. Then after he leaves Martin mostly takes over writing and the songs get darker in tone and lyrics. Then the state of the band tends to affect the tone of the music - Songs of Faith and Devotion is a very dark album because pretty much everyone in the band was borderline self-destructing when they wrote it.

The first few albums are very electronic, then there's a strong industrial period (where they literally went to a construction site and sampled noises to program into the synths), then they kind of move into a more melodic phase. Then they move into a phase which is a bit more rock-influenced and mainstream-friendly (which is the period they got really popular in the US), then they go darker, then lighter, then into whatever you'd call their current phase.

Though I kind of feel like, at this point, while they may still put out another album or two, Dave and Martin might be more inclined to mostly just do solo stuff in the future. Or maybe retire entirely - because they are getting older, and neither of them really needs the money at this point.

Lokarin posted...

I was thinking of this, playing as the Dark Warriors to return balance when there's too much light...

That's literally part of the plot of Final Fantasy III. The world cycles through periods of balance and unbalance, and when one force grows too strong, the other has to pull it back into line. The current heroes are the Light Warriors, but the last time the world was saved thousands of years earlier, it was the Dark Warriors with the dark elemental crystals who saved the world from the Light.

There's also similar ideas in Dragonlance (where the Cataclysm that destroyed the world in the past happened because the powers of Good had grown too strong and thrown the universe out of balance).

Basically, it tends to crop up in universes where this is the case:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LightIsNotGood



Lokarin posted...

The distaff counterpart to Bahamut would be probably Tiamat, so that'd be your ultimate summon; using Prismatic Flare to strike will all the elements... (or whatever)

To be fair, just because you're going for an opposite take doesn't mean you really have to go with a "distaff" (which means female-swapped, not opposite) counterpart. And Tiamat is really only Bahamut's female/evil opposite in D&D (and things inspired by it) anyway.

You could just as easily go for something else that seems to represent primal chaos/darkness/etc to you as a counterpart to Bahamut. Like, say, something like Jormungandr or Fenrir or even Nidhoggr.

Ultimately, it kind of depends on how you're defining "dark". Chaos? Evil? Literal darkness? Because there are probably better avatars for all of those things than just picking Tiamat. Imagine a setting where you're summoning demons to aid you and you're still one of the good guys (and in the context of Japanese RPGs, there's a good chance those demons will be from the Goetia).

(Though admittedly having a summon that is shooting five different flavors of elemental damage out of five different heads would definitely be a cool visual if nothing else.)



Lokarin posted...

So that got me thinking of other reverse-final fantasy stuff; like the final boss of FF1 is too much Order; Rigid, stubborn, stagnant and so on and so forth.

The backstory for Werewolf: the Apocalypse (and for most of the old World of Darkness by proxy) was that the entire universe and all of reality was created by the Weaver, the Wyld, and the Wyrm. The Weaver is pure Order, structure, planning, logic, etc (but also stagnation and stasis); the Wyld is Chaos, growth, mutation (for good and ill), instinct, emotion, and so on; and the Wyrm is supposed to be the Balance between them - it exists to tear down and destroy the creations of the Weaver when they grow too overgrown or tangled, and to tame the Wyld when it grows too out of control.

But the Weaver developed full sentience (probably because of its own orderly and structured nature), realized that nothing it created would ever mean anything because the Wyld and the Wyrm would always change or destroy it... so the Weaver promptly went insane, and started spinning her web faster and faster in the hopes of ultimately capturing the Wyld and the Wyrm and calcifying the entire universe into frozen eternal perfection without change.

In the end, she was never able to trap the Wyld (because by its very nature it cannot be contained or restrained, and will always shift away from any such attempt to imprison it), but she did manage to trap the Wyrm, which drove it insane as well - so now instead of Balance, it has become Destruction and Corruption. It brings ruin to everything it touches, polluting the world and bringing out the darkest aspects of anyone it infects.

And the ultimate tragedy of the World of Darkness is that even the heroes who fight back against the universe being broken (mostly the werewolves, who are explicitly fighting a losing battle) are mostly fighting against the Wyrm (whose corruption is both blatant and obvious) - which means nothing will ever be fixed. Because the Wyrm's madness is only a symptom of the Weaver's madness. Which makes the Weaver the true enemy, and no one is really fighting back against the Weaver at all (and in fact, some of the werewolves outright worship the Weaver themselves).

So yeah, there's an example of a universe were "Chaos" is explicitly the "good" force and "Order" is the "bad" one, as the growth of order and science and reason and technology fuels the destruction of the natural world and undoes the intended balance.

HornedLion posted...

Does this take you back?

No. THIS takes me back:

https://youtu.be/nI9WwdVb-_A?t=11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k8E3zJaJTo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9vJbdIUsdc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rkaiKYEkDQ

No, because it feels like a Snakes on a Plane scenario. Where the idea of the movie is way cooler and more interesting than the movie itself can ever actually be.

joemodda posted...

Tell me this song isn't the best thing to drop this decade thus far

Before clicking on this topic, my immediate assumption was that I could very easily tell you that and be completely correct.

Now, having clicked on the song, I can definitively say that it's kind of average at best. Maybe I'd like it more if I was a weeb.

Lokarin posted...

what's the deal with isekai, like the only way to die is either hit by truck or by overwork

That's pretty much the life of the average Japanese office worker.

St_Kevin posted...

Does anyone like Jay Leno?

Now? Who knows. Back when he was actually doing his show in his prime? Apparently, because it got better ratings than Letterman did for pretty much the entire time they were running against each other.

The usual assumption was that Letterman appealed to younger, more "hip" viewers, especially ones on the coasts, while Leno was more appealing to older viewers and the "Flyover States", but I think that was always more anecdotal than anything definitively proven.



JixHedgehog posted...

On one hand Letterman was funnier.. but on the other hand Letterman cheated on his wife

Who cares?



JixHedgehog posted...

.. but Leno kicked Conan off his old time slot when he wanted his show back

It's a lot more complicated than that. Mostly, if you really want to point blame there, you should be pointing it at NBC. They kind of fucked Leno over, and most of what he did in response was self-preservation in the face of it, with Conan mostly getting fucked over by proxy.

If you really want to point to Leno being shitty and fucking people over deliberately, what you really want to be pointing at is the mess where he went out of his way to push Letterman out of the Tonight Show spot earlier. Though NBC has a share of the blame in that instance as well.

The real irony is that he took a ton of shit for the situation where he really shouldn't have, but also didn't take much shit at all in the situation where he should have. He basically got away with being a dick, and then 20 years later got demolished over something that really wasn't his fault.



nuggetg posted...

He's slightly funnier than Trevor Noah!

I just passed a bowel movement that is funnier than Trevor Noah.

NeoSioType posted...

First, I don't want to get hit by a truck or die if possible. I don't like pain.

Hard luck then, since that's the plot of like 90% of those stories.



NeoSioType posted...

A court wizard summoning me in front of a king to be a hero is better.

You kind of have to be worthy for one of them to ever bother targeting you, though.

Do you think you've done anything in your life to be worthy?

If I'm going to be honest, I feel like I know way more people who don't watch basketball or football than people who do.

Even my friends who actually care about sports at all don't really give a shit about basketball, and most of them barely care about football beyond the playoffs/Super Bowl.

The two friends I have who are really into sports mostly only care about baseball (and even then only their specific teams). But most people I associate with wouldn't even notice if all sporting events ceased to exist tomorrow.



Nichtcrawler-X posted...

Sportsculture is weird yes.

Let's be honest, most culture groups are weird and cliquish. It's a natural extension of the fact that humans kind of suck.

Black_Crusher posted...

This must be about Martin Gore, who could get basically any of the hottest euro chicks out there. Probably even still!

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4e/de/75/4ede757490f8722dc3c6aa8aeeddf2d6.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/474x/b3/8b/cb/b38bcb1e1a6a5eb0a9ab075105ec1b33--martin-gore-martin-omalley.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0e/13/0a/0e130adfcdf4b3a754d29e291f12c7e3.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/29/37/88/2937888969bf6938422d45ab64e7d7d9.png



...though on a semi-related note, I saw Dave Gahan's Paper Monsters solo tour about 20 years ago, and while he's up on stage in his tight pants and topless and just wiggling his ass in the way he does, my gf turns to me and goes "I would totally have sex with him," and I replied "So would I."

Martin may have been the one who was always going for a weird androgyny thing, but Dave was always a bit of a sex machine. And Andrew was a weird asexual lump of wood.

It was never worth it to me in the first place.

As far as I'm concerned, nothing meaningful has changed.

Solid_Sonic posted...

Do you think some people need to be removed from the Internet entirely?

I think most people should be removed from the Internet entirely.

OhhhJa posted...

Sure but if you live in an apartment, you don't necessarily have that option

Yeah, but you said homes, not apartments.

And even in apartments, you can still change it. Landlords should technically change it between rentals (just like they should repaint the walls).

I know friends of mine who bought new carpet for their apartment years ago. It basically became an issue because their landlord told them if they bought it themselves he'd reimburse them for it, but then he never did, so they tore it up and took it with them when they moved out just to spite him.

HornedLion posted...

If Vabranium is so fucking indestructible

It's not, that's adamantium.

Also, it's vibranium, not vabranium.



HornedLion posted...

then how do they forge weapons, armors, and other shit from a material which is so strong its resistant to everything?

Adamantium basically has to be created in liquid form and is then cast into whatever form it's supposed to hold. Once it sets its in that shape more or less permanently, so you don't forge anything out of it unless you're an alien with access to science beyond human understanding that allows you to manipulate matter at the molecular level.

Vibranium isn't actually that physically strong - its strength lies in its ability to absorb kinetic energy. So while you wouldn't be able to forge it by hitting it with a hammer like a blacksmith, you could still theoretically shape it and mold it and cast it and cut it by normal means.

Nerds who are way smarter than you have spent years thinking about this shit. There is no question you can possibly ask that someone somewhere hasn't already answered.

OhhhJa posted...

Carpet shouldn't even exist in homes tbh. It wears out and gets nasty looking after a few years and is bad for allergies

That's why you're supposed to replace it, not just put it down and leave it there for 30 years.

Lokarin posted...

Why can't ye get liquor slurpees?

You can, they're called margaritas.

Black_Crusher posted...

Weirdly enough making this has me listening to a lot of their super old stuff I didnt know all that well.

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

Yeah, was going to say Stripped. Though there's a lot of industrial sounds on some of their earlier albums (especially Construction Time Again), so it might be something else as well.

Though on the subject of Stripped, everyone who knows/likes Depeche Mode (and especially the song Stripped) should experience this version at some point in their life:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzC10Gixw8E

hypnox posted...

If this stuff is so dangerous that just touching it is a hazard then how the hell do people actually take it?

There are tons of medications that are hazardous to touch in the wrong concentrations or if you're not the intended patient. It's part of why you'll hear dick pill commercials or hair regrowth commercials tend to say something like "Under no circumstances should pregnant women handle this".

Most medicine is essentially poison if used improperly. And plenty of poisons can be used medicinally if taken correctly.

hypnox posted...

A good example of this is borderlands. They have cool sniper rifles in the games, however I hate how there really isn't a stealth aspect to it. The second you fire at an enemy all the others some how know exactly where you are.

Makes you won't what's the point of even having those sniper rifles in the first place.

That's exactly what would happen in real life, though. It's kind of hard to disguise the incredibly loud boom a sniper rifle is going to produce, so after your first shot all of the enemy are going to be alerted. Then it's mostly just a question of figuring out what direction the shots are coming from, finding cover, and potentially flanking.

It's why snipers tend to either focus on high-priority targets and then scoot, or act as part of a larger operation where the enemy are occupied with other things so can't focus on finding the sniper.

Games where you enter perfect stealth and can pick off an entire army one man at a time without anyone knowing you're there are way more unrealistic.

As for games like Borderlands, the point of a sniper in games like that (or Destiny, or Halo, or whatever) is that you're still shooting from a greater distance with a weapon that does significantly more damage than most other guns. So you can fire off a few powerful shots and potentially take down a number of enemies before they rush you, at which point you're switching to your back up close-quarters gun, which encourages a degree of strategy.

Why start with cassette tapes? Why not just jump directly to digital flash drives? Set your sights higher.

ZangsBeard posted...

Tbf, I am a poopy head.

https://youtu.be/-BZk9MQa0YA?t=201



adjl posted...

That's not actual mansplaining, though. That's just people falling back on the term any time they don't want to listen to what a dude is saying.

That may have been how the term originated, but it's rarely how it's used now - so its original meaning is almost... well... meaningless.

It's like the term "troll". It originally meant something very specific. Now it's basically just used to refer to almost anyone acting like an asshole (which isn't what it's supposed to mean), or even worse, to refer to pretty much anyone "who disagrees with me".

I'd even lump it in with terms like "problematic" and "toxic", which have been so misused and abused in online discourse to the point where someone simply using them at all is kind of a huge ideological red flag that you are no longer having an actual sincere conversation in good faith, but are being subjected to agenda-driven rhetoric.

It's a large part of what makes discussing social issues (especially on the Internet) such a futile waste of time. Because even if you potentially agree with a concept in principle, the overuse of loaded terminology and appeals to emotion turns the entire thing into a fecal mess. No one is really thinking for themselves, they're just parroting back things they've heard other people say and getting overwhelmed by their own feelings.



adjl posted...

People don't get offended by having their knowledge questioned.

Have you actually met any people? People get offended by having their knowledge questioned all the time. There are literally multiple aspects of psychology that directly address how the brain handles having its preconceptions questioned (ie, poorly).

Sure, being a condescending asshole about it can certainly turn people against you more effectively, but even if you play the role of the most understanding and polite person you can be, there will still be people who take offense at being told they don't already know everything there is to know about a particular subject, even if what they actually know mostly boils down to jack and shit. That's the root of things like the DunningKruger Effect and confirmation bias.

It's most pronounced on the Internet because it's easy to dismiss the qualifications of the person you're talking to without even knowing the qualifications of the person you're talking to ("What he says must be true, his dad works for Nintendo!"). But a habit of dismissing bad faith arguments has left a lot of people completely unwilling to listen to or even consider good faith arguments either. And to react with what is essentially ad hominem attacks to condemn the speaker without even judging their words.

"Mansplaining" has essentially evolved from "You're talking down to her because she's a woman" to "You don't know what you're talking about because you're a man". Which is why it's ultimately become worthless as a concept and a rhetorical tool of shitty people.

ZangsBeard posted...

Because like, I want to point out when someone is fucking wrong. Youre wrong! My dick in no way impacts just how wrong you are!

To be fair, the sort of people who use the term "mansplaining" unironically are generally terrible people whose opinions are pretty meaningless anyway. It's why you hear it pop up in places like Twitter or Tumblr more than anywhere else.

It's effectively an ad hominem attack that boils down to "I can't actually argue against your point logically or rationally, so I'm going to resort to personal attacks." It's the adult equivalent of going "Oh yeah? Well, you're a poopy head."

Not sure. I've been typed, but I forget what it was. It's either A or O, though, because that's what my parents are.

HornedLion posted...

You love Nintendo? You love Sonic?

Not really.

papercup posted...

It took so damn long to get all the sheep into their pens for the wool farm but I did it. x_x Now to dye them all appropriately. But that's a problem for future papercup.

Now just hope none of them despawn because the game is being dumb.

Or worse, it turns out that you accidentally built your pens in a forest biome and eventually a wolf spawns inside the pen and murders them all.



Straughan posted...

I remember 16 colors?

Yes.

Red, Orange, Yellow, Lime, Green, Cyan, Blue, Purple, Pink, Magenta, Light Blue, Brown, Black, Grey, Light Grey, White.



papercup posted...

Yeah I *think* have I everything I need to make all the wool.

Remember, you can shortcut it by having certain sheep mate. Like a green one and a blue one will have teal kids. Or a white one and a black one will have grey kids.

Brown's a bitch if you don't have a jungle anywhere nearby though (or in your world at all if you're playing on console with limited map space). And black can be annoying if you're having trouble getting squid to spawn.



papercup posted...

Also I need to figure out how to make an iron farm. The only village I've found so far just straight up didn't have any villagers. >=/

Potion. Zombie. Trap. Boom. Repeat.

I forget the exact recipe (I'm pretty sure it involves a golden apple), but basically you find a zombie villager (they spawn randomly), then lead it into a trap where you can keep it locked up. Hit it with the potion and wait 5 minutes, and it'll turn into a normal villager. Then do it again and you've got a mating pair, and you can build a village around them. Just be careful you don't leave them out in the open where other zombies can attack them while they're changing/after they recover.

I'm still annoyed that they changed how they reproduce, because they made it way harder to actually grow villages. But it's still doable.

BlackScythe0 posted...

I wasn't going to post female genitals followed by a slur for mentally disabled individuals.

That's not how you spell the term for female genitals you're thinking of, though.

Also, cooch isn't censored on GameFAQs anyway.

shadowsword87 posted...

If/When I go to NYC, we gotta meet up.

No way, you're just going to try and get all those years worth of back child support out of me.

Judgmenl posted...

If you go back what? 15 years? Maybe.

Well, I did say:

ParanoidObsessive posted...

15 years ago, yes.

Today? Not a chance in hell.

So yes.

But honestly, PotD has always had cliques. But cliques aren't necessarily bad if the people in the clique are worthwhile. The problem starts when the cliques are mostly filled with terrible people being terrible. The trick is to just find the people worth interacting with.

As an example, I was willing to go to Paradiso, but I never would have gone to any of the others. Or the PotD Tinychats. And while I spent more than 10 years hanging out in the Geek topics, and spent time in the Chestbump Squad topics before that, I wouldn't really bother going in to any of the other various clique topics.

You just have to sift through to find the good people.

15 years ago, yes.

Today? Not a chance in hell.

I always used to say that if anyone was ever in the NYC area and they wanted to meet up and hang out I'd be up for hitting a bar and having a few drinks (and we were talking about maybe meeting up at Comic Con in the Geek topics for a bit), but those days are long past. I'm too old to really care now, and most of the worthwhile people have long since left.



Judgmenl posted...

PotD is not that kind of community.

It used to be.

Maybe that's the biggest indictment of the site and the board and what both have become over the last decade or so.

Ogurisama posted...

https://youtu.be/gqELqRCnW6g

Literally came in just to post this.

That's not actually what stoking a fire means, and you physically cannot stoke cock. Unless you're... like... shoving coal up the peehole or something.

I'm just going to assume Covid ate a hole through the language center of his brain.