Stovetop

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Ending my honor run in shame

I’m 100+ hours into an honor run and I’ve finally made a decision I apparently can’t live with. I was offered a gift at the end of act 2, and while it was totally out of character for me to accept it, my curiosity got the better of me. I never made it this far before and I wanted to see what would happen. Now I hardly even...

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It is when the >!Emperor offers to enhance the power provided by your tadpole by advancing you one stage further in ceremorphosis. You get access to the outer ring of illithid powers but your character’s face also becomes partly pallid and broken, and your eyes get black sclera (if they didn’t already have it. It’s more noticeable on a human or elf than a Dragonborn, though.!<

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The other two flags are North Korea (left) and Serbia (right).

North Korea began the Korean War by invading South Korea. It didn’t end well for them (or for the South, for that matter) but South Korea prospers today while the North is…well, North Korea.

For Serbia, it is one of the many states formed from the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Going from one country to several countries which were defined mainly by ethnic association was not a clean transition. There were Serbs living in other former Yugoslav countries, and Serbia used that justification to start occupying those majority-Serbian areas, similar to what Russia has been doing with Ukraine, Transnistria, South Ossetia, and to a lesser extent Abkhazia.

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The friction (and resulting heat) I am assuming would come from wind resistance. Think along similar lines to this classic XKCD article.

650 miles per second, as Malkovich said in the skit, translates to about 2.3 million miles per hour, or about 3.8 million kilometers per hour for the more mathematically reasonable among us out there.

A much lighter meteor traveling much slower than that through the atmosphere is enough to generate the heat needed for combustion, so it would probably apply to Santa in this hypothetical scenario, too.

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You could try inverting them, or perhaps (albeit space becomes constrained) try running the tricolor laterally.

Or maybe use blue instead of red? Blue has been a secondary color on previous Maine flags, such as the one you linked.

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She was right to rip up a picture of the pope.

But I think she was wrong to convert to Islam if her priorities were denial of religious tyranny.

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Can we just stop with the megacorp bullshit? Can regulators just please take a step back and look at how much has been ruined by all of these merges and buyouts?

The Warner-Discovery merger never even should have happened in the first place. It was a disaster that ended up making things worse for customers and creators alike. And now they want more?

Fuck off with this noise. What will it take for us to resurrect Teddy Roosevelt so he can go to town with the ol’ trust busting stick?

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They also did strike down a merger between pharmacy chains Walgreens and Rite Aid, but that is unrelated to tech and media, making it easier for old farts in congress to understand.

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I just hope she does a better job of this than the titular character she played in Tár did with her own initiative of supporting women conductors.

Long story short, everyone should see Tár.

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Seeing a lot of people in this and similar threads confused by the headline apparently not having read the article.

There were no mass layoffs at Larian, the video game studio that developed Baldur’s Gate 3.

There were mass layoffs at Hasbro, the company that owns Wizards of the Coast, which produces the Dungeons & Dragons RPG system used by Baldur’s Gate 3.

Throughout the development of Baldur’s Gate 3, the team at Larian would have been working alongside the team at Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast to make sure the Dungeons & Dragons system was integrated properly into the video game.

Following the layoffs, the CEO of Larian had commented that the D&D team who had helped design the system that Baldur’s Gate 3 is based on is now almost completely gone.

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Not really a specific tip, but for the love of god don’t play a Wild Magic Sorcerer in Honor Mode unless your idea of a fun time is Russian Roulette.

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On the one hand, I sympathize with anyone losing access to How It’s Made and Mythbusters. But for everything else on that list, that money was already thrown away for no good reason. I’d like to hope the audiences were small or non-existent to begin with.

Sony is doing the world a favor by purging most of that garbage from their service, to be perfectly honest.

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The Bechdel test is if a movie is able to have two female characters having a conversation with one another about any topic other than a man. A surprising amount of media fails this test.

Björn Ulvaeus is a member of Swedish supergroup ABBA and one of the composers of the ABBA song Waterloo, which is about the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo.

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Wow, no need for the at person remarks.

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I mean they are fairly similar. They share a lot of vocabulary, their nouns have corresponding declensions, verb conjucations are similar, there are a lot of other similar grammar constructions, and the Latin alphabet is mostly derived from the Greek alphabet, too.

Edit: Classical Greek and Classical Latin, at least. Modern Greek and Romance languages like Italian are further diverged from those ancestor languages to the point that they are difficult for modern speakers to even parse.

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“Mama” is not the common word you’d use in Japan, it’s a loanword from watching English/European media. Normally they’d use “Haha”. At least as my neighbor once explained to me.

In Chinese, though, we use “maa maa”, which does sound more similar.

Black Friday (files.mastodon.online)

alt textthree rows with a barbecue on the left and William Wallace in Braveheart on the right. In the first row, captioned Wednesday, the barbecue is labelled “$899.99” and Wallace says “hold”. The second row, captioned Thursday, depicts the same. In the third row, captioned Black Friday, the there is a label with...

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Sometimes it will be $1099 $899 but they may use subpar quality for Black Friday models compared to standard models.

Like TVs for example, certain models that are discounted on Black Friday have lower quality displays, fewer HDMI ports, cheaper speakers, etc. when compared to the “standard” model from the same line, and the ads will downplay or obscure the exact model number so you think you’re getting something better than you are when you look it up.

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I feel iffy on this. I loved the original Karate Kid growing up, but absolutely hated the 2010 remake. Partly because I feel like it is following the trend of just lumping every Asian character into a generic “Kung Fu Guy” stereotype with no room for nuance.

Like, in the original, Mr. Miyagi’s backstory as a Japanese war veteran was pretty significant to his character, and karate being a specifically Japanese fighting style made sense for him to teach.

Not to say you have to be Japanese to learn karate, but that wasn’t even the premise in the 2010 movie, where Mr. Miyagi was swapped out for the Chinese Mr. Han, and the discipline being learned is kung fu, not karate. But that doesn’t matter, does it? Because as far as the white people in the audience are concerned, there’s basically no difference. Asian is Asian, right?

(And being a movie made in cooperation with China Film Group, which is a propaganda arm of the Chinese government, they definitely couldn’t have Mr. Han also be a war veteran who regretted his years of service, because who could ever regret fighting for glorious communism?)

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I was going to write this almost verbatim in my comment above but cut it for length. 100% agree.

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I watched Lower Decks and am also tempted to jump on the Star Trek binge, if only to rewatch Lower Decks again and better catch all of the references.

Granted, I caught a lot of them just by being someone who has used the internet for my entire adolescent through adult life, but I know there’s a lot more good stuff out there to enjoy.

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I think the Nicaraguan flags actually look kinda nice.

I’ll give the award for worst tricolor to Gelderland in the Netherlands.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Flag_of_Gelderland.svg/2560px-Flag_of_Gelderland.svg.png

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At least it has “Mid” in the name. Imagine if it was just “West” and everything west of that was the Westwest.

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I believe they’re referring to an undefined threshold of buying power. E.g. if I earn $3000 but my take home is $200 after taxes, rent, food, utilities, and student loan repayments, abusive price hikes on basic needs could reduce my take home below the point of sustainability, even factoring in an extra $1000 on top of that. Basically, if rent, food, and utilities go up by 50% but I’m only earning 33% more.

Might be an extreme example, but I think it’s certainly a consideration that needs to be made when putting together the legislation. There needs to be some form of price control, otherwise those UBI checks could basically just become a free gift from the government to exploitative corporations and landlords.

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I do want to believe all of that, but I am also not going to underestimate the tendency for de facto oligopolies like ISPs to continue colluding on prices, or landlords disproportionately raising rents to “keep out the (probably non-white) poors” who have been gifted greater economic mobility.

I’m just not keen on any policy which assumes that the market can be trusted to course correct itself in a way that is healthy and fair for consumers, because that is so often not the case. I would honestly prefer a system with no UBI, where people simply do not need to buy basic necessities at all. Shelter, food, and utilities should be fundamental rights that people shouldn’t need to pay for in the first place, and income would just allow people to improve the quality of those things should they desire.

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Just to clarify, it’s not that they don’t list the ingredients (that would be very illegal), but for people who have a food allergy or dietary restriction, it’s something that you have to stay vigilant about. Most teriyaki sauces do not contain animal products, for example, but some do. And whether that is just honey, or if it’s a meat derivative, it comes down to checking the ingredients list. And if you’re not the one preparing a particular dish yourself, it can be difficult to trust. You can go to any restaurant and inform the server of your allergies/restrictions, but that basically boils down to how much you trust someone paid minimum wage or less to care about you.

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