Lurker > adjl

SeahorseCpt89 posted...

but I do worry about all of this boosting his chances of winning the presidency in 2024

I'm actually kind of worried about the opposite: If he's convicted and becomes ineligible to run, the GOP candidate will almost certainly end up being DeSantis, who I'm genuinely concerned has the potential to be worse. Plus, if DeSantis does end up as the GOP candidate and Trump is still free to run, I fully expect Trump to run as an independent to nurture his bruised ego, which would split the republican vote enough to guarantee that neither would get in. Convicting him after that would probably be the safest option.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/4/1/AAC4lPAAES1t.jpg

What exactly do you think Trump is protecting you from being arrested for?

wpot posted...

Alternatively
Step 3: "It's Tuesday and I DID get arrested. Smash some stuff up again - that was fun.
Step 4: *Some stuff is smashed*
Step 5: *MAGA intensifies*

Indeed. Either way, everything about this is a matter of fanning the flames to make authorities wary of arresting him for fear of the backlash it would cause (which, ironically-but-not-actually-ironically, is exactly what many of his adherents accused BLM of doing to secure convictions for various douchemonkey cops).

Step 1: "I'm going to be arrested on Tuesday, protest against it"
Step 2: *Protests happen*
Step 3: "It's Tuesday and I didn't get arrested, look what your protests accomplished"
Step 4: *MAGA intensifies*

As far as I know, the police don't generally have to book an appointment with somebody in advance to arrest them. Pretty sure he's just making this up as a publicity stunt and to fan the flames of any backlash that will come if he does get arrested at a later date (since people will be much angrier if they think they've won and then have that victory taken away from them, much like what happened with the election when all the mail-in votes were for the guy that didn't tell his voter base not to mail in their votes).

I very strongly recommend you consult a physiotherapist to figure out how to deal with an injury like that, especially before trying to do any sort of heavy lifting (exercise or otherwise). Any advice the Internet can give you will be far too general to be useful, given that you need advice that's tailored to your specific injury and what you're trying to do. If you want to try to maintain upper body strength while you wait for physio, lift while sitting or lying down and don't push yourself any harder than you need to to maintain some semblance of your normal activity levels. Lifting on your knees carries the risk of hurting them unless you know what you're doing.

Which is especially nice for an item hoarder like me who never used magnum ammo just in case I really needed it later. Gotta love rare consumable items.

It can be a tricky balancing act. There are plenty of games (and other media, but we'll stick with games because that's the topic at hand) out there that really don't come into their own until you get pretty far into them, by simple virtue of the fact that the mechanics and/or story need some time to build up to their full potential, and trying to front-load more of that potential risks mechanically overwhelming the player or making it hard to build story tension properly, but if a start is too slow then the game won't be able to make the first impression that it needs to keep the player engaged long enough to actually get there.

That said, I think there's merit in pushing to get through a slow opening if enough people insist that the game is a slow burn and is ultimately worth it, unless the things that you don't like don't actually end up getting better, so a hard 1-2 hour cutoff for that isn't necessarily reasonable. I would agree, though, that if you've been playing for 1-2 hours and haven't had fun yet, that's a good reason to at least consider that the game might not be for you.

The appeal of Red 9+stock is that it basically obviates rifles once you get comfortable aiming it long-distance. Even though it takes up much more space than any other handgun, it takes up less space than a handgun plus a rifle, making it overall better. If you're not a fan of playing like that, though, sticking with a different handgun will be more enjoyable.

shadowsword87 posted...

(It's ok to skip some of the side missions)

Also this. After the third act, you unlock a chapter skip that will allow you to go back and do any side missions you missed/skipped due to difficulty (many of them aren't balanced around trying to do them right away), so don't worry about trying to track them all down even if you are inclined toward completionism.

RedSox342 posted...

Who cares if I violate a Saudi Arabian law if I live in Mexico.

If the Saudi Arabian law you're violating is "don't blow up Saudi Arabia," quite a few people would care, and rightly so.

Where are you in the game so far? It's usually not too difficult to figure out where to go based on the objective marker, but there can be some wonky bits with how vague the map is.

Ah, that makes sense. I guess the trackpad really complicates getting any other controller to work.

faramir77 posted...

I wish there was a cheaper third party option that wasn't ass.

I've generally heard good things about 8bitdo controllers, though I can't say I've tried them myself. Do they not do a decent PS4 controller?

You're 20 hours in and you still haven't unlocked fast travel? That's pretty slow (I just finished endings 3-5 last night and I'm at like 30-35, even with a fair amount of sidequesting slowing that down), but you're probably at least close (you get it a short while after the Amusement Park). That should help, particularly where the story grows quite a bit from there (you've barely scratched the surface of it before then, aside from vaguely hinting at the core themes).

It's a possibility, but the extensive testing process means you're only partially responsible for any errors that make it into production. Realistically, you're probably more likely to kill somebody on your commute to/from work than as a consequence of the actual work you're doing.

Lokarin posted...

I very much recommend:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1814010/Stuck_In_Time/

I can't help but notice the aesthetic similarities to Loop Hero.

I'm working my way through Nier now and it's pretty fantastic, but I haven't played any of the others and therefore can't really make a comparison.

I've still got my GC copy, so I'm good.

Clench281 posted...

no use panicking I'll be dead soon

Pretty much. Nothing I did would make an appreciable difference, so I'd pretty much just carry on with life as normal.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

imagine actually typing this all out and posting it

Imagine actually typing this all out and posting it.

Clench281 posted...

In the original example/title, "my" is not referring to ownership of the vehicle. It's pointing out who we're talking about. A secondary "my" would be needed to make it like your example, "my primary vehicle is my car/bike/whatever"

"My primary *object*" indicates ownership of the object. "My primary *decision*" indicates ownership of the decision. "Vehicle" is an object (or class of objects), so if you talk about your primary vehicle, you are talking about your vehicle (note that the adjective can be removed without changing the fundamental semantic structure of the phrase). "Mode of transportation" is a decision, so if you talk about your primary mode of transportation, you're talking about your decision about how to get around.

Mostly, your problem is that you're using the word "vehicle" when you actually mean "mode of transportation." You don't own the vehicle. You do own the decision to use that vehicle to get around. "My primary mode of transportation is my car" is valid for communicating both the ownership of the car and the decision to use it to get around. "My primary vehicle is my car" carries the hidden third semantic piece of implying the existence of more vehicles that you own, then identifying your car as the one you use most often.

Basically, "my primary vehicle is somebody else's bus" doesn't really work at any level (except vaguely implying that you're a bus thief, I guess). Whatever logical gymnastics you manage to pull off in trying to pretend that it does work, it still doesn't work at all for attacking the sense of self-worth that anyone has attached to the value of a car that they own. "You're going to feel like I totally burned you if you interpret this awkwardly worded sentence in exactly the non-standard way that I want you to interpret it" doesn't exactly make for the most robust insult.

Clench281 posted...

The rest of your post depends on that same misunderstanding, so I'll ignore that

Not really. Most of the rest looks at the fallacy of using a singular, permanent(ish) term to refer to a collection of transient things. It has nothing to do with questions of ownership.

T0ffee posted...

And can I just say that they did Sena dirty with her Side Story!?

That's a common complaint. Mostly, the concept of the story revolves around Shania and Ghondor being character foils for Sena and Mio, exploring what might have happened to Sena if she didn't have the combat talent and support from her friends that she did have. It's one that you really have to take a step back and think about in the broader scope of the story - particularly considering just how valuable her interactions with the party have been - instead of getting the details directly. Not everyone's a fan of that, which is understandable, given that everyone else's side story revolves around them confronting and overcoming specific traumas that have shaped them, and it just didn't do that for Sena. Granted, Sena didn't really have a specific trauma (aside from Miyabi, but that was Mio's), and her constant battles with her own insecurities have been shown continuously throughout the game in flashbacks and present-day events (perhaps most notably, the kamikaze attack at the end of chapter 5), but there still could have been more done to show her overcoming that in her side story.

A lot of people feel that the final non-DLC hero quest fills the role of Sena's side story better, in that it actually grows her as a character, and I think there's plenty of room to argue that. By your reaction to her side story, I expect you're going to end up in the same camp when you get there.

T0ffee posted...

I will say that I am glad that Nia still kept part of her goofy charm.

I really have to appreciate the dramatic irony in Nia's portrayal this time around. They do such a good job of having her mostly keep up the regal, almost sacred pretense that everyone expects because they've never known another side to their queen, but slipping up just enough to entertain the players who know what she's really like and ever-so-slightly confuse the party (who, of course, thinks they must have misunderstood because she's the queen and obviously she couldn't have done something so goofy). It's really well played to be a wonderful bit of fanservice and extra fun for those that played 2, while still being entertaining for those that haven't.

Clench281 posted...

Thought experiment: If someone owned a bike of their own but also used bikeshare for 90% of their trips, would you agree it would be perfectly acceptable for them to say their primary bike is the bikeshare one?

No, for the same reason. If somebody starts saying "my bike" in talking about a bikeshare bike, they're obviously wrong. The bikeshare is their primary means of getting around by bike, but not their primary bike. The method of transportation can be identified as theirs (by virtue of being a decision they have made), but not the object itself (by virtue of belonging to somebody else).

A bikeshare actually nicely illustrates another issue with this concept beyond the question of ownership, which is the question of consistency: If you're using a bikeshare, there's a pretty substantial chance that you'll make dozens of trips without using the same bike twice. To say "this is my primary bike" about a bike you've literally never ridden before is very obviously silly, even if it's identical to the one you rode that morning (or even to the one you actually own, if you purchased the same model as the bikeshare uses for whatever reason). The same issue applies to buses, trains, and other forms of public transit, though it's less pronounced because the turnover is so much lower.

More than being logically valid or correct or anything like that, though, it's just plain weird. Saying "this is my bus" as equivalent to "this is the bus I am planning to take, so I must now board it" is common, but that's very obviously an idiom and not in any way equivalent to saying "this is my car," which is the equivalency this topic presents. Expressing a sense of ownership of a public transit vehicle stops really being acceptable when you stop being young enough that people will chuckle at you for being cute.

Honestly, staying airborne for that long probably costs at least half that much for just the fuel, let alone maintenance, staff, insurance, and hospitality costs. I'm sure there's still a solid profit being made on top of that, but not nearly as much as you might think at first glance.

As much as I know that the appropriate way to extend words in writing is to repeat the vowels like that, I cannot read "mom" extended in such a manner without reading it as "moom" on the first pass.

Cruddy_horse posted...

I thought they were giving the spin off off away for free and was surprised, but this is just the DLC from 2 reformatted as a standalone game, Gearbox is pretty fucking greedy.

I also thought that. Heck that nonsense. I already have 2's DLC, and as amazing as Dragon Keep was (though most of that was because of the context of playing it after 2), I see no reason to pay $0 for another copy of it.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

not interested in d&d

It's not actually D&D. It's just Borderlands 2 with some D&D-themed jokes thrown in there.

But it's not yours. If you had a friend that drove you everywhere in a Lamborghini, you wouldn't say that the Lamborghini was your primary vehicle.

Sure, effective public transit is worlds better than personally driving everywhere in pretty much every conceivable way for the vast majority of people (and if not necessarily on an individual level, the benefits on a societal level easily outweigh any personal issues), but this is a weird way of trying to dunk on personal cars when there are so many other issues you could point out.

It is a security risk, but not a particularly significant one. You probably don't need to worry unless you handle a lot of really sensitive information on your network and need to be extra-paranoid (like running a medical office). Maybe keep an eye out for anything suspicious and use a guest network for future instances like this, but otherwise you're probably fine.

chelle posted...

Which is a strange strategy. The more people who leave their state to go to Texas, or Florida, like they want means that it just turns the original state more and more blue. If they're all congregated in two or three states...then they literally can never win a federal election again.

Their only way would be to change or revamp the Constitution somehow, which, given that the majority of their base relies on the Constitution being unchanging (despite, y'know, it having done that multiple times), they would have an awfully hard sell for that.

Clearly it's a liberal ploy to weaken the Conservative man further.

Nah, that's just a plant-themed tower defense. It doesn't actually incorporate any elements of farm management. Notably, Lok's hypothetical included having to make the decision between selling the crops you grow and using them for battle.

I guess, actually, that kind of shows up in some Rune Factory games, where crops can be crafted into weapons/armour. That's not a particularly good example, though, since that crafting only really has to happen once per piece and you aren't giving up anything really meaningful (plus those tend to not be worth crafting over other options).

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

This cup I scooped up some of the ocean with is full of water now. However, this is too small of a sample size so I cannot conclude that the ocean contains any more than 1 cup of water.

You actually believe that finding 4-5 news outlets saying the same thing means every single news outlet also says the same thing? If anything, what you've done is more analogous to believing that your kitchen is underwater because somebody brought you a glass of water from it.

Lokarin posted...

how about a farming sim where you 'could' sell your crops, but they are also fruit/vegetable soldiers that need to defend the farm

I was going to say that sounds like Atomicrops, but that's not right. I'm still pretty sure there's been at least one farming sim/tower defense hybrid, though.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

I value my opinions highly.

And yet you're unwilling to defend them. Hardly the behaviour of one who is rightfully confident in his opinions.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Not only did they all have the same viewpoint, they all read from the same script.

I don't even have to watch those videos to know that that's a tiny sample of the wide range of news outlets out there, one which is far too small to support a conclusion as broad as "all of them do this."

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Those are nine stories that garnered attention. How many more were lies that people ignored?

I don't know, how many more were? Perhaps you should conduct research to answer that question instead of generalizing from a non-representative sample.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

It's an opinion.

Opinions only have as much value as you give them. Your opinion has been given no value, thus it has none.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Do I even have to? If you've been paying attention at all it should be self evident. They lied about Covington. They Lied about Rittenhouse. They lied about the impeachment. They lied about bleach. They lied about fish tank cleaner. They lied about horse paste. They lied about the vaccine. They lied about the laptop. They lied about J6.

Even putting aside for a moment the question of whether or not "the news" actually lied about any of those things (bear in mind that, on every single one of those matters, "the news" has taken multiple mutually exclusive viewpoints and it is therefore overtly paradoxical to claim that they all lied, even before looking at the rather tenuous basis you have for that belief), that's nine things. Nine things, amid literally hundreds of thousands of stories every year. That's not exactly the most representative sample, you know.

You really need to take a step back and realize that what you're actually saying is not "the news always lies," but rather "any news that disagrees with what I've already decided must be true is lying." Insisting otherwise is just dishonest.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

News outlets blowing things out of proportion is the joke. The LGBTQ flag being involved is entirely ancillary.

You can keep saying this as many times as you want, but it's never going to be true. The actual intent of the joke is blatantly obvious to anyone with even the most cursory grasp of what's going on in the world. If you're interpreting it differently, that might be cause to re-evaluate the amount of attention you're paying.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

The position that I hate news outlets.

That's not a position on whether or not there's reason to infer homophobic intent from these incidents, which is all that's particularly relevant to the question I asked you.

That's also not a position you've actually committed to. Sure, you state it an awful lot, but you've put forth exactly zero effort to actually defend it, including outright ignoring substantial attacks on the philosophy. Committing to a position doesn't mean repeating it over and over again in the face of disagreement, it means justifying it and making a real effort to logically convince others that it's worth holding.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

The joke is, again, a jab at the news outlets blowing things out of proportion.

It's really not. It's a jab at the LGBTQ community being upset by anti-LGBTQ vandalism (while conspicuously not taking a jab at those that were so offended by the pride flag that they felt the need to vandalize it, as it typical of edgy right-wing memelords), a response which news outlets subsequently reported on (with varying degrees of slant from allyship to homophobic derision, depending on the biases of the outlet in question). That news outlets are reporting on it is entirely ancillary to the joke. Again, stop trying to shoehorn everything into your ridiculous fixation on the news. Nobody else cares like you do.

Lokarin posted...

that doesn't make sense, you don't see people killing men who jerk it and they dicard millions of times more future peeps

That's because men are making the rules.

agesboy posted...

ever checked out the ffxiv x automata music? some of its real fuckin good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVAgd9dbYIs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmU6x97Pr-k

I have not, I'm just working my way through Nier for the first time now, so bits and pieces of its soundtrack pop into my head.

GanonsSpirit posted...

A game that rewards you with blowjobs.

Well, with those robot lips that recently came out of China for "long-distance kissing," you might not have to wait much longer for that.

BUMPED2002 posted...

Capitalism itself isn't the problem. The problem is unchecked capitalism and the wealth and power that goes with that allows a handful of people to wield and exert control over governments, people, commodities, and resources of the natural world.

That's the issue with unchecked capitalism.

Indeed. Unchecked, capitalism just ends up as a race to see who becomes the dictator, or at least who comprises the oligarchy. Wealth naturally concentrates, given the extent to which having money makes it easier to make more money. With appropriate regulations and social support programs in place to ensure that wealth doesn't concentrate too much, though, capitalism is generally a better option than anything else.

Mostly, start with UBI to ensure that everyone's comfortably fed, housed, and has any other basic needs met so capitalism can't hurt them, then let capitalism run its course.

If nobody else has one, it might be something to be concerned about because your manager has somehow singled you out for closer scrutiny, but odds are it's just a matter of checking in with everyone to see how things are going.

The theme from the opera boss fight in Nier Automata.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJBUF-s15co

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Are you still going on about homophobia? That's not even what we're arguing about!

Then what is your position, if not "there's no reason to infer homophobic intent from these incidents"?

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Oh noes, someone doesn't trust the news outlets.

That's not remotely what the joke is. The joke is poking fun at those that have taken issue with people defacing a pride flag with skid marks. It has nothing to do with the news. Stop trying to shoehorn everything into your ridiculous fixation on the news.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

what is happening in this joke topic?

Somebody's trying to deny that the actual homophobic hate crime (using the term "crime" colloquially, since I'm not sure what Florida's laws say on the matter) this joke topic is making light of (which is itself pretty homophobic) was a homophobic hate crime, based on a rather tenuous grasp of reality.

Read newspapers or talked to people. It was a different time. They didn't know any better.

Yellow posted...

how does Harry somehow stumble into a life-endangering scenario where he has to save the world every year in elementary school?

Mostly a combination of there being a magical serial killer with a personal vendetta against him and him looking for trouble at every opportunity because he wants to punch that serial killer in the dick. Also because he's the protagonist, and you can't have much plot unless conflict happens to the protagonist.

Yellow posted...

This is supposed to be a safe place for kids?

Beyond Harry's personal war with every evil person in the country, it's still not exactly portrayed as safe. Their sports are dangerous, half their classes are dangerous, they're routinely playing with things that could outright kill them but don't because magic... In-universe, that's just sort of supposed to be "normal" for wizards, who have collectively changed very little about their society since medieval times (when OSHA wasn't overly active), but it is indeed pretty weird if you stop to think about it for any time at all. If you want to read into it, you could probably interpret it as Rowling making some sort of commentary on how much effort goes into keeping kids safe in the modern world and reminiscing fondly about the days when kids were "allowed to get hurt," which I think would probably be pretty in line with some of her other views, but that might be a bit of a reach.

Yellow posted...

JK Rowling being transphobic really annoys me because now my hatred of HP is supposed to be political.

Nah, not really. Not being a fan of HP has never been that unusual a position, and certainly not unique to people who oppose Rowling's activism.

That said, being against transphobia isn't really the sort of "being political" you should feel compelled to avoid.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Look at how quickly you focused on a pride flag being involved.

There are literally millions of square feet of road surface in Fort Lauderdale (or so I assume, given that that's true of pretty much any city, especially in North America). I'd be very surprised if more than 1000 of those square feet have any sort of pro-LGBT artwork on them. The odds that two separate individuals/groups would deliberately deface a pro-LGBT patch of road over any other as a matter of random chance are pretty astronomically low. That suggests intent, for which the most obvious explanation is homophobic dickbaggery (especially in Florida). Unless you have evidence to the contrary, there's really no reason to expect there to be a need to dig deeper than that.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

You jumped to conclusions about dog whistles and gas lighting when that wasn't the subject.

No, I presented that as one extreme on the spectrum of possible reasons why you're acting like this. That was not a conclusion, merely a stated possibility. As it happens, I believe you are actually more on the clueless end of the spectrum than the evil end, but you'd be better to just get off that spectrum entirely by thinking sensibly about the matter. Again, your approach is comparable to flat-earther "logic" in how vague and non-committal everything you've said is.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Meanwhile you ignored the lack of evidence to support deliberate action and the credibility of the source.

Just-released surveillance video captured the bicyclists skidding out over the rainbow pattern painted on the road symbolizing LGBTQ+ Pride back on Feb. 26.
Then, on Feb. 28 the same cameras captured a black Ford F-250 burning tire marks on top of the mural on Sebastian Street off A1A.

Both of those passages describe deliberate acts, caught on film. Again, leaving skid marks is not something that happens during normal driving. You'd know this, if you understood anything about driving, but you don't, so try listening to people that do. If you're leaving skid marks, it's because you're either braking, turning, or accelerating exceptionally hard, to the point where the tire disintegrates a bit because you're demanding more frictional force than can be provided by the material.

Sometimes, this happens accidentally, as a result of losing control or having to brake hard in an emergency situation. Otherwise, it's a result of deliberately driving/cycling in a way that causes tires to squeal. Again, the odds of such emergency situations randomly happening on top of the same pride flag twice are exceptionally remote, plus that would have been extremely obvious from the video. That means it was done deliberately (which would also be obvious from the video), and the low odds of this one spot of road being chosen randomly suggest that it was not chosen randomly (especially when there's such an obvious motive available).

Now, is it possible that the video does actually show accidental skidding, and the news article chose to lie about that for the sake of pushing a narrative about homophobia being a problem? Sure. But the odds of that are pretty low, given how common homophobic acts like this are (which means there's no real need to fabricate them), so I wouldn't advise giving serious consideration to that possibility. If you're bent on doing so, though, it's pretty easy to support the theory: Research the matter a bit, dig up the video, and use it to show us that there's no evidence of homophobic intent.

adjl posted...

I really don't know how to start helping you.

I will leave you with this point thing to consider: Categorically believing the opposite of everything you read in the news is exactly as stupid as categorically believing everything you read in the news. Either way, you're basing the entirety of your belief system on what the news tells you and not thinking about anything for yourself. You have not stumbled upon some genius "free-thinking" hack for figuring out the truth, even before considering the inescapable point that it's very easy to find multiple news outlets stating the opposite of what others state, rendering your approach logically impossible to follow through.

Revelation34 posted...

Those lines are fine. They should just be allowed to be skippable.

They're skippable in that you can scroll through them by mashing A, but that still just ends up adding 5+ seconds to every single turn just dealing with useless, tedious repetition of information that could be displayed much more efficiently, which adds up and is more annoying than anything. Plenty of turn-based RPG's communicate all the information needed to follow more complex battle systems than Pokemon's without needing to spell it all out in text every turn. Heck, Pokemon already does have animations and icons for things like status effects, you just have to sit through those and then still have text boxes tell you what they meant. It's mildly useful the first couple times, but after even one battle of being burned, paralyzed, or confused, the vast majority of players are going to have figured it out.

As a philosophy, text in turn-based battles should mostly only be used to communicate information that can't be more easily communicated another way (or to retain a log of what's happened, which can fill in at the same time as other informative actions are happening on-screen). A lot of using text goes back to the original inspirations of D&D and the like, where the DM does actually have to tell you what happens after each attack because there's no other way to deliver that information. Even once we did get into the realm of video RPG's, graphics were pretty limited and adding more animations was expensive (both monetarily and in terms of how much it taxed the systems). We're well past that point, though, and using animations and HUD elements to communicate information more efficiently can make things a lot less tedious.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

1 =/= I
0 =/= o

Man, what a n00b.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

not as bad as star wars day bing may 4th.
it's only star wars day if you have a lisp, and pronounce "fourth" as "force"

Oh no! Not a slightly silly joke! However will society recover from this?

Yellow posted...

They aren't allowed to have chairs at work because of a (disproven) study from the 90s that said workers were more efficient without chairs.

There was an actual study? I always figured it was just the widespread attitude of "if you aren't standing, you aren't working" getting in the way of interpreting any empirical evidence to the contrary.

Alright, in that case:

adjl posted...

[Because] you genuinely believe that it's merely a coincidence that all of these skid marks just happen to be on top/in the immediate vicinity of a pride flag, rather than a deliberate act by some homophobic dickwads, [I'm afraid] you're so hopelessly naive that I really don't know how to start helping you.

adjl posted...

At best, [that] represents a complete failure to think critically about the subject at all, meaning you've done nothing to curate what possibilities are and are not actually plausible. At worst, [that's] deliberate homophobic dog whistling and you're trying to gaslight us into ignoring homophobic vandalism, meaning you're a festering turd of a human. You can either take your pick where you want to fall on that spectrum, or you can start thinking sensibly about the matter.

I appreciate that you're not actually making me write anything new beyond tweaking a couple prepositions to make the syntax more appropriate. This is a very convenient time-saver for me.

Well, you know what they say: The punis mightier than the sword.