KhanCipher

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[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

This comment on the video made me lol

I'm gonna be real mad if I have to actually manage my photon torpedo compliment instead of it magically getting reset after every battle

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago

These are F1 races, those don't count here. Also you never mentioned the Daytona 500, instant F for you.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Alright if it is bread, then we must teleport as much bread as possible.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

The only reason we know there's asbestos in the house is because we were going to tear all the carpet in the house out before moving in, then we began to find asbestos underneath several layers of flooring under the carpet in the back room of the first floor, which made us decide to not rip up that one carpet in the back room at all. As for the insulation, I'm not exactly 100% on my assumption of it having asbestos too, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was.

Sure would be a bad time to learn that the metal roof was leaky in one spot, and would cause us have to set up a drip bucket in the attic that would have to be emptied out every time it rained, and said attic space had all the insulation completely exposed to open air, and didn't have the money to properly deal with that issue for several years....

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

It's far beyond old house we're dealing with here, the expansions the original building had went through includes near doubling the foundation footprint, gutting it and changing it probably several times throughout it's life, like the stairs to the 2nd floor when the 2nd floor was added was originally on the other side of the house, not to mention the addition of the backrooms on the first floor that wasn't integrated with the rest of the first floor in terms of air circulation. And for the fun part, there's asbestos in the house, how much? We know the answer is "Yes" for sure, and I'm pretty sure the insulation has asbestos in it too.

Like from what my dad had told me, the city documents for the property shows that the building had been expanded, changed, and added onto at least 20+ times throughout it's life.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

or maybe their house is like a sieve

Good lord the house me, my parents, and my 3 siblings live in is complete disaster. The building started life in the mid to late 1800s... as a single floor funeral home with a crematorium in the basement. Then sometime it got rezoned to be a house, and expanded on so much that it became a two floor sorta two family home since it technically is two addresses (the first floor is house number and the 2nd floor is house number and a half, including the fact it has two electric meters, two gas meters, and so on), now the quality of these expansions wildly varies though mostly on the bad side, like on the level of we're sure it may just end up being cheaper to just tear it down and build a new house than spend forever (and money we don't have) chasing all the issues it has.

Now, I mentioned that my mom and sister can't stand temps below a certain point, during winter due to again probably the quality of the expansions, my room just holds onto heat all the time, meanwhile my mom's room and sister's room seem to not exactly hold onto heat very well. You can start seeing where the problems start creeping up. So that window unit is pretty much the only thing keeping my room at a semi regular temperature during both summer and winter.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

You seriously need to acclimate yourself to higher sleeping temperatures in summer, it can be done.

Before I finally got a window unit for my room, I was regularly sweating, in just underwear, with no covers. And remember, I'm a night person working night shift so heat was that much worse because I have to sleep during the daytime hours. It was fucking awful, and I have a lot of choice words to say to you if you decide to be judgemental about it.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago (18 children)

I'm used to living in 2-bedroom or 3-bedroom apartments and letting the temperature go up to 78 F in the summer and down to 60 F in the winter.

That's nice for you that you aren't as susceptible to temperature as some of us. I live in an area where it can regularly reach the fun extremes for both winter (single digits) and summer (high 90s with humidity). I happened to live through too many snow/ice storms that went through here growing up to make me able to stand outside with a t-shirt and jeans in 50F and be fine, yet I can't stand temps above 72F during the summer for more than a couple hours at best, meanwhile my sister and mom can't stand temps below 76F in the winter. Also since I'm one of the "freaks" who willingly works nights, I kinda want to be able to sleep on the summer days so my window AC unit hovers around 66F to 64F just so i can try to sleep comfortably.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

Eh, on the flipside a pretty good way to find a CIA agent in your nation nowadays is to start heavily looking at the US based journalists in your nation. Remember that journalist that the Saudis chopped up? He was very likely on the CIA's payroll.

Also if you really want to get down into it historically speaking, warcrimes are generally only enforced and prosecuted by the winners of a war, if they have the geopolitical power and desire to do so that is. So realistically the rules of warfare end up a lot closer to a honor system than what people want to admit.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

Watch those wrist rockets.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 1 points 9 months ago

You can do so much cleanup and provide clear templating with keywords

You say that, but a lot of YGO effects are kinda built around the wording and what words they use for a long time now, e.g. there's a huge difference between when and if, not to mention what cards target or don't target.

Though a large part of the problem is that the TCG refuses to adopt the OCG effect formatting, though that one can be put at Konami of Japan's feet because it has always felt like KoJ treats KoA (the US branch) and thus the TCG as an afterthought.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

To be fair, printers are machines sent up to us from hell to torment us for eternity.

 

4 and a half minutes, or 5 and a half with the minute long title intro, into this and i'm already getting heavy vibes just from this screen cap that I'm going to want to chuck the writer, and everyone who signed off on this into the sun.

 

I'm in a restaurant, just got off work, trying to eat my "end of work week breakfast". Meanwhile some old fucks are talking shit about poor people and people on welfare half way across the room, and good fucking lord it's pissing me off.

Good god I have to deal with co-workers shitting where they eat, why can't I get some fucking reprieve away from work...

 

It's about that time when I actually write down how awful the Prime Directive is generally written in trek (I'm going to call it PD from here on out in this post), but first I should lay down what the PD is, it's reasons for existing, and some of my thoughts on it.

The PD out of universe largely exists because of two things. The writers becoming aware that the lives they live were built upon the suffering of others, in this case more about becoming aware of the horrors of colonialism. The next reason being largely a reaction to the Korean and Vietnam wars, though mostly the latter, in a sense of don't stick your nose in other people's business. This is all looking very reasonable so far, like yes we should rules and guidelines to exploring and interacting with other civilizations. The problem is that the writers more often than not have no clue what the PD actually entails, and use it more as a literary device more often than not.

In TOS the PD is largely used as something for Kirk to brazenly violate to show how much of a man he is, and it always working out in his favor, which further proves how much of a man he is. From TNG onwards the PD starts becoming warped and distorted, the most egregious case (besides like all of VOY) of this was the TNG episode where the Enterprise accidentally does a first contact with pre-warp civilization when responding to a distress signal, finds that the two civilizations are in a supremely fucked up situation (one is abusing the other), and Picard decides that the best course of action was to take his ball and fuck off. This was so bad that Lower Decks lampshaded how fucked it was. Then from there on out, it gets dragged out to have our main characters have debates in the important meeting room on whether or not stopping a natural disaster from wiping out a civilization is "playing god" or not, which the answer almost always ends up becoming "The consequences of preventing their civilization from being wiped out, must be on some level better than just letting them die". Partly because I highly doubt any of us would walk away knowing we could've and had the means to do something, and didn't. Also partly because the audience would likely not forgive the characters for not doing anything as well.

The other part of the PD is the 'don't stick your nose in other people's business', and this regularly violated in trek as well. In TOS there's a episode where the Kirk and company are in a system where two civilizations are having a simulated war with each other, and as part of it the simulated casualties of said sim war have to... it's pretty obvious what they're supposed to do. This goes on until the away team that includes Kirk, Spock, and some others are declared as casualties, so of course Kirk goes fuck this shit, this is all stupid and forces the two civilizations to actually have peace talks about what to do now. And the enterprise leaves with it being said/implied that the federation sent out someone to help them and mediate the talks. Which at the end of it I don't think anyone could knock Kirk for violating the PD in this case.

The flipside of this in TNG is the episode where the enterprise and crew is helping a civilization avert a natural disaster, and it's part of their culture that the inhabitants willingly euthanizing themselves after a certain age. This comes to provide the drama for the episode when one of the key people literally gets to that age, and is expected to do the thing while the crisis is still going. Like the I recall the civilization going out of their way to delete said guys work, and pretend he never existed in the first place if he didn't go through with it, he ends up going through with it and the civilization is saved, and nobody learned a damn thing from this. Great job writers, you made a civilization that's so stupid that they'll shoot themselves in the foot rather than survive, that's all I have to say on that.

Now what about the Klingon Civil War, yeah technically that's like it's whole own list of PD violations. I think K'mpec said it best about that whole thing, in TNG: Reunion he pretty much told Picard to his face "Look I know you've got your federation ideals to hold yourself to, but both of us know the federation is absolutely interested, regardless of the ideals they espouse, in the matter of who becomes the next Chancellor of the high council. Not for diplomatic reasons, but to not have a potential war with the Klingon Empire, and that's why I picked you to be the arbiter for picking the next Chancellor."

Now for ENT: Dear Doctor, fuck this episode, fuck Phlox for condemning a Valakians to extinction for the crime of allegedly keeping the Menk in 'evolution hell' (serious, that's the fucking reason), and fuck the writers for making this piece of fucking garbage the PD origin episode.

Alright, is the living situation between the Valakians and the Menk good. Fuck no, absolutely not, that much I know we can all agree on. The premise of the episode is that the Valakians have a genetic problem that is making them evolve into extinction. I'm sorry, but what? What the fuck is this shit, I'm pretty fucking sure it doesn't quite work like that. So questionable science aside, the Valakians have a problem, then throughout the episode Phlox finds a cure for it, and decides that it would be unethical to give the cure to the Valakians. Because he believes that the Menk are on the cusp of a evolutionary jump, a jump that can only done if the Valakians die out. Then due to exec meddling, he manipulates (he doesn't, but like fuck this episode) Archer into not giving the cure to the Valakians, originally it was supposed to be Phlox keeping the knowledge of the cure to himself. Then the NX-01 leaves, and we're supposed to cheer on the doc and Archer for being enlightened...

Where the hell do we even start with this episode, like legitimately where? Like we're mirroring the 'Picard takes his ball and fucks off' episode in TNG, except significantly worse because of the entire implied extinction of the Valakians, not to mention the strange leaps of logic, and the science that sounds very suspect. All that makes for episode that is not only bad to me, it's just flat out offensive on the moral plane.

 

To preface this, I already know the abridged version of what all happens in the story, and I also know what the internet thinks of Ava. So I wanted to play it for myself and see if I can find these so called unforgivable sins the character does. I'm up to Eden-9 (rescue Jakobs planet, right after Maya gets merced), and I haven't really seen anything Ava does as offensively bad yet, and I feel everyone hasn't done anything out of character.

So essentially from what I've played so far, she hasn't really done anything deserving of hate yet.

 

Imagine using this energy for actually productive change, over being angry that you're being slightly inconvenienced.

Pretty much what happened is it wasn't advertised that you would need an epic games account to play the multiplayer, and people are angry about it for some reason. Likely because it's Epic, not because they had to make an account, though knowing Gamers they probably would be pissed about about having to make an account outside of steam too.

And it's funny because the one discord server I usually hang out on that has pretty chuddy people on it largely had a reaction of "Sure it sucks, but there's a lot bigger fish to fry in the games industry."

 

Like I grew up essentially being a homeschooled church kid (who was also abused too) living in a rural rural area, not like a suburb like actual countryside. The homeschooled part is kinda just more that my parents sorta given up on trying after 6th grade. The church kid part was mostly enforced by my parents to try to have a social outlet for me. But at the end of it I just don't know how to talk to people, which has its own set of negative consequences.

It gets worse when any resemblance of community around here is steeped heavily in religion of the evangelical variety. So even if I wanted to I couldn't do anything without being told some nonsense about how everything wrong with me is that I'm a 'lost sheep' that needs to reconnect with god. Including going to get therapy, because I've heard that some of the professionals here is on that BS too.

And the more I'm thinking about it, the more I feel like I'm completely screwed out of having a relatively normal life. Not to mention I found a way to unintentionally self sabotage the first relationship I had.

And this just turned into me rambling about my situation.

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