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| Topic | Favorite condiments |
| wpot 03/12/23 12:26:55 AM #6 | Green salsa --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | I cannot believe Starbucks asks for a tip |
| wpot 03/11/23 3:09:14 PM #26 | I am indeed: it actually seems that you are not. A bell curve wouldn't describe a situation where 98% of the results in the middle are the same with the top and bottom 1% getting a couple bucks more or less. What I am describing is a flat rate with a couple extreme outliers. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | I cannot believe Starbucks asks for a tip |
| wpot 03/11/23 2:55:21 PM #24 | Muscles posted... It definitely has a connection, do you work for tips?It should, but I don't think it does except for the 2% of time someone is unusually good or unusually bad. Everybody else gets the same 18-20% from me at restaurants. (Well, except for people who just hand me my fast food - they get a buck or two) I think most people are the same - we just look at it as paying part of the servers' salary. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | So, Should We Stop Saying JRPG? (The Jimquisition) |
| wpot 03/11/23 2:51:54 PM #6 | JRPG has some meaning, albeit not as much as it used to. It's an anime-adjacent, fairly lighthearted, big quest with a large party. There must be a cutesy/bratty young girl character. It's Persona or Star Ocean or Xenoblade or Dragon Quest. It is NOT Final Fantasy anymore: they want nothing to do with anime, cutesy, or lighthearted (except to the extent Remake had to). There's no point to the term if it just means "RPG made in Japan". --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Vote for Employee of the Month |
| wpot 03/11/23 2:43:49 PM #5 | In rod we trust. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | I cannot believe Starbucks asks for a tip |
| wpot 03/11/23 2:42:52 PM #21 | Tipping hasn't made any logical sense in years, but it's particularly out of control now. It no longer has any connection with now good your service is and is more about 'do you respect your server (or the person who hands you a coffee) or not'. I vote for whoever said "make pricing/wages transparent" such that we can choose to avoid the places that pay their employees like crap and try to solve the actual problem as opposed to this make-a-show-of-it performance tipping. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Are you taller than me? |
| wpot 03/10/23 8:35:31 AM #7 | 5' 16" for me. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Old school game consoles |
| wpot 03/09/23 10:27:38 AM #30 | darkknight109 posted... Put it this way - the PS2 is currently as old as the Atari 2600 was when the PS2 first came out.Ouch - I didn't need to hear that today. I still have my NES and SNES and they were hooked up until recently (I have friends who still enjoy a game of Tecmo Super Bowl or RBI Baseball). I got the mini NES/SNES in the past couple years and made them obsolete, however: I was kind of sad when I realized what I'd done, although I won't miss the isopropyl alcohol ritual needed to play them (...or will I?) Otherwise I still have an N64, DS, PSP, PS2, etc...the old classics. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | You must go to the random place this generator tells you to go to in your life. |
| wpot 03/09/23 10:20:41 AM #4 | Bethany Illinois Could I have gotten a more boring result? --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Best chili |
| wpot 03/08/23 10:46:30 PM #12 | I haven't gone to Wendy's since Dave Thomas died and the quality declined overnight...but I used to like their chili. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Have you ever driven a hybrid vehicle before? |
| wpot 03/08/23 10:45:01 PM #6 | adjl posted... Maintenance may throw a wrench into it, but a major component of that is going to be how much city driving you do versus highway. Hybrids offer very little advantage over ICE's for highway driving, but the mileage difference for city driving is huge. Regenerative braking is an absolute game-changer.Yep - that's exactly what I'd try to figure. I suspect I'm suburban enough that the math wouldn't quite work, but it does work for some... --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Have you ever driven a hybrid vehicle before? |
| wpot 03/08/23 6:51:44 PM #3 | I've driven both a hybrid and an electric vehicle, although I've never owned one. They drive fine...in the sense that they are as boring as anything else. I wouldn't want to own an electric until the infrastructure is better prepared, but I'd happily buy a hybrid if I did the math and found that the cost of owning one over 10 years appeared comparable to a gas guzzler. I switched over to an electric mower recently with no regrets. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Why do people think that aliens and UFO sightings are real. |
| wpot 03/08/23 6:47:57 PM #34 | Muscles posted... People get so scared of aliens conquering us but there is no reason to believe they will be like us, they might not even be carbon based, or even made of an known element. They are a complete wild card.Simple logic can make some hard-to-refute deductions, though. There really aren't that many reasons for an alien to go through the trouble of coming here. Regardless of how they think they would not spend the (likely considerable) resources to come here without the expectation of getting something of value. Maybe that 'something' would be to simply observe another relatively advanced lifeform (as we hope to do someday) even though we wouldn't be as advanced them. Maybe that something would be to mine the Earth's resources. Those are just about the only two known reasons. It's possible there are unknown reasons (say, they want hover in harmony with our planet's magnetic field) but I think it would be wiser to base our potential interactions off from the known manners in which life operates....and I don't like the 50/50 coin flip, if 50/50 it is. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Have you ever been attacked by an Animal? |
| wpot 03/08/23 5:30:14 PM #12 | Nothing too big. Sure, a dog/cat or two. I got stitches from a 8-lb fish that fanged me after I caught it. A goose bit my thumb when I was little. Mosquitos attack me constantly. Actually my best story is just a few months ago. I have developed an allergy to bee stings the past few years, which is awesome. I can breathe just fine (I'm actually told I don't need an epi pen) but the site of the sting swells up huge. One stung me in the eye socket when I was biking and the entire right side of my face puffed out about an inch such that my eye was completely swollen shut. I show the picture to my daughter when I want to annoy her - she hates it. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Now, my story begins in 19-dickety-two. |
| wpot 03/07/23 5:37:25 PM #4 | Zareth posted... I had an onion on my belt. As was the style at the time.That was the important thing. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Why do people think that aliens and UFO sightings are real. |
| wpot 03/07/23 10:14:26 AM #28 | Alien life somewhere? Almost certainly, statistically. Have they been flying around in small ships in our atmosphere for decades in such a manner that they are mostly hidden without otherwise making contact? That seems...unlikely. Nichtcrawler-X posted... The scariest part is we have not heard any signals, while we have been very noisy.Space is super enormous and intelligent life is as best rare. I think it's most likely that humanity is on its own for as long as we exist as a species. ...which is probably good, given that the risk that some other civilization would want to conquer us probably outweighs the risk that they would give us helpful technology. If they are advanced enough to cross space and come here they would be setting the terms of our relationship. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Question for non metal heads |
| wpot 03/02/23 4:00:22 PM #14 | Muscles posted... I'm assuming at least Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Ozzy Osborne, Iron Maiden, Metallica and Slayer. Maybe Megadeth,Probably these (plus Deep Purple) for fans of classic rock. For the public more at large here's guessing it's just Ozzy and Metallica. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Favourite seasoning? |
| wpot 03/02/23 3:36:07 PM #21 | adjl posted... Pretty much this. Salt and (usually) pepper are pretty much mandatory in anything savory. They aren't exactly exciting, leave them (or something that contains them, like soy sauce) out of just about anything, and it doesn't really matter what else goes in there, it's going to taste lacking. Discounting those (which we probably should, given that they're such defaults), onion and garlic also show up in almost everything I cook, so I'd say they have to take it.Yeah, anyone who says anything other than salt is fooling themselves. And pepper/garlic/onion aren't far off. Among the less common spices...let's say rosemary. That is often a nice surprise in bread/fries/etc. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Marjorie Taylor Greene |
| wpot 03/02/23 1:01:35 PM #31 | ParanoidObsessive posted... Based on years of life experience, I tend to strongly disagree with this.People certainly SEEM stupider than they used to, but I still say it's society (and the internet). There used to be expectations of citizens that you would remain informed, act 'appropriately', and work towards some common good. There were, of course, significant downsides to that which effectively marginalized people who didn't fit in, but the upsides were a strong social fabric/purpose for the majority that did fit in. Today people are just as intelligent as individuals, but there's little real pressure to apply that intelligence towards remaining informed or working together for causes. On the contrary, there's a lot of pressure to doubt official narratives and "think for yourself" (along with a ton more misinformation). A large chunk of society has NEVER been well-qualified to "think for themselves", although it wasn't as large of a problem prior to the internet when there were only a few relatively mainstream news sources. That's a much bigger problem now. The most emotional arguments are those that are winning majorities: not logical arguments. Thus MTG. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Marjorie Taylor Greene |
| wpot 03/01/23 4:29:30 PM #9 | ParanoidObsessive posted... The system is very much broken.It's not working well, no, but I fear this rhetoric. There are many WORSE systems than our current system and I fear those who seem to want to throw it out with the thought that 'anything is better than this'. That is decidedly not true. The problem as I see it is that modern society has little purpose (historically survival or defeating a foe) or shared values (historically religion). Without either of those were stuck in a cycle of decline regardless of our political system, honestly. If we somehow end up in an inspired dictatorship (Augustus Caesar style) that would be better for a while, I suppose, but dictatorships are not going to have a better end result than democracy. (See subsequent Roman history) People aren't stupider than they used to be (Idiocracy be damned)...it's a question of motivation and values. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Marjorie Taylor Greene |
| wpot 03/01/23 3:44:48 PM #7 | ParanoidObsessive posted... "The system is broken, and people are stupid".The system? Maybe, maybe not - I don't see any clearly better option. It's more that society is broken. I was watching Idiocracy yesterday and it hits so close to home that it's hard to laugh at. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Marjorie Taylor Greene |
| wpot 03/01/23 2:36:36 PM #5 | ^ This is true for some people, but the scary thing is that she appears to be what the base of the party wants: someone who lives to complain and air grievances. Problem solving skills quite literally do not appear to be required (and are probably a negative, actually, given that they require negotiation/concession skills). Scary times. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | What are some examples of great musical pairing in cinema? |
| wpot 03/01/23 2:27:56 PM #13 | John Williams made Star Wars STAR WARS. And Jurassic Park. And Jaws and Indiana Jones and Harry Potter and... --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | What are some examples of great musical pairing in cinema? |
| wpot 03/01/23 11:48:15 AM #8 | adjl posted... Freebird during the church fight scene in Kingsman. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | What do you not like on your burgers/sandwiches? |
| wpot 02/27/23 9:07:16 PM #6 | American cheese. Most anything else: tasty. Other cheese? Great. American cheese? Scrape it off or throw it away. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Got a new tv... |
| wpot 02/25/23 1:25:40 PM #4 | LinkPizza posted... It was a late Christmas gift from my mom. It came yesterday. What was weird was I think she ordered it yesterday, and got a message saying it was coming today. Then, when I was on the phone, she said it told her March 8th, which was a very different day. Then yesterday, she called me while I was sleeping and said, Nevermind. Its coming today (yesterday) And while I was trying to pull up the map she sent to me, I received a knock on the door Anyway, its a 75, which is nice. Never had a tv this big beforeI got a 75" TV for Christmas (because I saw it on a Black Friday sale and asked for it). I have a love/hate relationship with new TVs. On the one hand it looked really cool for two weeks and I can see it from further away, which is nice. On the other hand you get used to them in two weeks and after that it just makes your other TVs look small. :) --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | what are some 'so bad it's good' RPGs? |
| wpot 02/25/23 11:22:21 AM #11 | Are we talking about something like Undertale here? Or just something that's thoroughly bad i.e. Mystic Quest? --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | What was before Capitalism? |
| wpot 02/24/23 9:22:58 AM #12 | It would depend how smart (and lucky) you were. Assuming you had infinite money hidden in the woods that nobody knew about and want to become powerful...you probably use it to get transported out of the center of your kingdom and go to the less stable fringes of empires. Then you move around buying a bunch of stuff and offering help to help neighboring rulers who want to take over the area. With your resources you should be able to help them do so. If you pull an Aladdin and pretend to be a displaced lord from far away (this would take skill) perhaps you can get yourself set up as the governor of the area. In short, serve a purpose in conflict zones. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | How would you feel about Amazon becoming a major health/pharmaceutical service? |
| wpot 02/23/23 2:28:49 PM #21 | funkyfritter posted... I don't think they can do much worse than the large corporate healthcare networks that already exist. but PMarth2002 posted... I would prefer Amazon not run literally everything. They need a competitor. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Is religion a "taboo" subject for you? |
| wpot 02/23/23 2:18:10 PM #8 | It has several 'indecent' results as well, of course, but there is true value having a system for shared values...up to a point. A society without values leads to things like the Cultural Revolution in China. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Is religion a "taboo" subject for you? |
| wpot 02/23/23 1:54:12 PM #6 | Religion is a non-existent bridge people can use to walk over the great yawning void of nihilism (like Wile E Coyote before he looks down). It might not be real, but it provides some meaning and value to individuals (and, yes, society...despite its faults) nonetheless. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Is religion a "taboo" subject for you? |
| wpot 02/23/23 1:39:01 PM #4 | It's generally only a taboo subject for people who have a "belief" that they aren't comfortable defending (i.e. they would have trouble continuing to believe it if they were forced to think about it...and they know it) and/or those uncomfortable with conversations that might get emotional. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Have you ever spent so much time with a toxic playerbase that... |
| wpot 02/22/23 3:40:14 PM #3 | All 'playerbases' seem toxic to me. Single player games! --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | So Russia, China, and potentially Iran are finished. |
| wpot 02/22/23 1:04:18 AM #68 | Ozmose posted... They went from Once we discovered it we had wait for a safe place to shoot it down to We were tracking it from the moment it launched from China in what, less than a week?Yes, the story developed. Yes, there was likely some misdirection and spin all of the way through. But the mainstream media corrected itself over time, didn't it? You seem to have accepted the final facts they gave you, didn't you (if not their analysis of them)? For your point to make sense wouldn't a different form of media need to have given us better info? And even if we don't believe a single word of the mainstream I still see no logic that leads us to believe random people on the internet. It's just magical thinking. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | So Russia, China, and potentially Iran are finished. |
| wpot 02/21/23 4:36:35 PM #54 | Ozmose posted... Thats why I go with the person that has the least motive to lie.How do you know this unknown person is who they claim to be? Or that they were quoted correctly? Major news sources certainly aren't bias free, but there are a number of processes (formal and informal) in place to check what they are saying...even if it's only a newspaper of a different polarization. Random unaffiliated sources on the internet with no known check processes are much more likely to have blatantly incorrect information. It sounds like you trust the latter simply because anything must be better than the major sources with their known problems? That's throwing the baby out with the bathwater: unknown problems are typically far worse. Getting people to disbelieve the main sources of information in our society because of their imperfections (and to instead believe much less accurate sources because "they're all wrong so you might as well go with the news you like") was Trump's greatest "success". --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | So Russia, China, and potentially Iran are finished. |
| wpot 02/21/23 4:08:45 PM #51 | Ozmose posted... Do you really not think you're being fed propaganda? The government has used the media as it's own personal arm for every conflict in modern history, but somehow this time is different?No source is 100% reliable, no. But you're trying to convince us of 8:1. 8:1...really? Don't you need to be on the watch for propaganda as well? This can't-remember-who-it-is reliable source of yours is definitely propaganda-free? You're digging yourself a deeper hole here. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | How walkable is your local area? |
| wpot 02/21/23 12:58:02 PM #6 | I live in a suburb with good sidewalks and trails...however it's too sprawling to actually walk anywhere for a functional reason (I.e. to get food or entertainment or necessities). I do live unusually close to a good Italian restaurant and there's a CVS/gas station/upscale grocery about a quarter mile away, but for various reasons (winter, schedule, awkward exit from my neighborhood) I rarely walk or bike to any of them. Probably 4 of 10 or something like that. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Favorite season |
| wpot 02/21/23 10:23:51 AM #4 | Muscles posted... Fall for me, you got Halloween, the weather is nice, football starts, bugs start to die, and pumpkin everythingThis. Plus the wife/kids' summer break is over and I can work at home in peace again. Lokarin posted... I like the melting season, which is the very end of winter/start of springI would have said that is my least favorite season: you can't do anything fun with the snow anymore and everything is a sloppy/icy mess. But to each their own! --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | So Russia, China, and potentially Iran are finished. |
| wpot 02/21/23 8:40:39 AM #46 | This thread is a great source of misinformation. The big picture is that Russia and Ukraine are locked into a war of attrition. Ukraine has a great backbone and won't back down. Russia is unexpectedly incompetent but Putin only has one page in his playbook: double down and pretend to be an 1800sesce great power. It would be different if the Russian population wasn't willing to be a bunch of powerless peasants, but they have been trained to hate the West, are heavily repressed on political subjects, and show few signs of life. Russia is definitely taking heavier losses militarily (civilian is a different story) but if Putin cared about human life he wouldn't have attacked in the first place. How will it end? No, Russia will not be conquered. No, Ukraine will not be conquered. It's most likely that this will end with a dirty negotiated solution where Russia keeps Crimea and their 'land bridge' to Crimea unless Ukraine can force them out. That's possible (and I'm rooting for it) but there's a limit to how long Ukraine can fight over destroyed territory as well no matter how many weapons the West gives them. Putin has bet everything on 'Ukraine will get exhausted', and if I had to guess I'd unfortunately say he's probably right. ...although we shouldn't give him too much credit. He thought Ukrainians would be overwhelmed by the initial assault and he'd be welcomed into Kiev by all of the true Russians in the country. He believes his 'Ukraine doesn't exist' nonsense. On the plus side what's left of Ukraine will join NATO as soon as the war is over and the final border will remain the final border. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Do you wear corrective eyewear? |
| wpot 02/20/23 11:33:34 PM #31 | 20/19 in one eye, 20/20 in other. I went to the eye doc a couple years ago to check for signs of glaucoma (runs in my family) and she said I had the most boringly average eyes shed seen in a while. Boring = good in this case. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | How old are we all? |
| wpot 02/20/23 11:06:17 PM #3 | It's hip to be square. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Hockey is just better soccer |
| wpot 02/20/23 9:52:17 PM #6 | Zareth posted... Fight meI agree with you and say so commonly: hockey is faster (and tougher) soccer. That makes it better than soccer, but still worse than the other major spectator sports than have more happening. Why must we fight? --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Anyone else realize the tobacco industry is actually pretty evil? |
| wpot 02/19/23 10:15:44 PM #23 | Corporations like to think that they aren't evil. But if it comes to a choice between evil and profit they will choose profit 99.9% of the time. And at some point in their lifespan most of them will have to make that choice. Google knew that and made the 'don't be evil' corporate rule...but they aren't any different at the end of the day. As far as tobacco companies in particular, I dunno. Would people find a different fix without them? Probably. Would it be better? Maybe. But frankly a lot of people are too stupid and self-destructive to save and I have trouble getting worked up about it. It doesn't make the tobacco companies any less evil, but IMO they aren't greatly separated from the rest of corporations. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | So Russia, China, and potentially Iran are finished. |
| wpot 02/18/23 12:19:52 AM #11 | ^It was decadence. They conquered everything they cared to conquer, became a large heterogenous empire who's citizens had relatively little in common with each other, lost their fire, and their slow dissolution was inevitable. Crop failures, road maintenance costs, etc are all solvable problems for a motivated country & population. Unmotivated countries squabble and stop solving collective problems. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | So Russia, China, and potentially Iran are finished. |
| wpot 02/18/23 12:13:07 AM #7 | Finished? No. That said they arent as opposing as they would have had you believe, Russia in particular. They will be strategic foes of the West for the foreseeable future, however. From the million-foot view, I think the question might actually be: is that a good thing? Do we need them as foes? We might. When things were going well you can see how badly things started falling apart as we just found new foes within our own country. Without a shared religion or anything else holding us together theres little to stop us from fighting amongst ourselves. Many people simply seem to require enemies in order to function or feel good about themselves. With an external threat we would have some reason to band together. And, of course, that is exactly the reason China and (especially) Russia are picking fights with us: they need external enemies to distract their public from the negative things their governments are doing. Its all very stupid and 1984esce, but its possible that humans need to feel some sort of threat in order to rise above their base needs and honor good behavior/something greater. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Pack in game |
| wpot 02/16/23 3:17:05 PM #12 | There aren't all that many games that are likely to (or even designed to) appeal to a broad general audience anymore, however, especially for Playstation. Nintendo could still do it and throw in a Mario game, but PS (especially at launch)...I dunno. I think it makes more sense for them to give people three free months on their service or something (as much as I hate the service model). --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | What is your current phone? |
| wpot 02/15/23 9:48:54 PM #23 | iPhone SE. That's enough phone for me. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Do you ever refrain from rewatching a show or movie you used to love because you |
| wpot 02/14/23 4:49:18 PM #4 | No, not really. I'll recognize that it might not hit as well as it once did, but I'll still watch it anyways. I might not show my kids a movie that I like specifically because they would tear up from a modern perspective, though. Or I might steer them away from playing something like FF7 because I don't want to see them rolling their eyes at it. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
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