Search results

To be fair, remove the word gun from each paragraph and leave everything else as-is (and know that 900 pounds is ~400 kg) and the topic works pretty well for anyone. We all know roughly what a safe is, and how hard moving one that mass would be (compared to other potential home furnishings). I...

Within the context of negotiating states of affairs with others*, I would vote for 'find acceptable' as the closest term. Likewise, on the happy-unhappy spectrum, I think 'okay' and 'ambivalent**' are the closest to a neutral state. I agree, both unhappy and not-happy are below the neutral...

Oh man, I used to love watching his stuff. Then... not so much. He has just tripled down on all the crass YouTube tactics to get people to click -- hyperbole, all-caps/exclamation points, vague descriptions that require you to click on the video (and watch through the first ad) before you find...

I suspect that in most cases it is factors other than genuine cognitive impairment. Primarily, a lot of people are reading this board on their phones on lunch breaks, or similar situations. This can lead to rushed reading, and rushed responses. This leads to a lot of instances of people...

Re: really long posts: when I make a 20+ line post, it is because I am responding to 4-5 people who said things I have something to add. Hopefully that's different from a wall of text on (much less a refutation of) one person's post or point. Still, I understand if people just gloss over my...

Or heck, look at folklore and mythology. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Norse Eddas, each discrete narrative is usually no more than 20-50,000 words. Some epic collections like Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur or Wu Cheng'en's Journey to the West end up in the half-million to million wordcount...

On a certain level, maybe. On the flipside it is also accepting an established precedence on the matter. The Minneapolis Lakers (from 'the land of 10,000 lakes') moved to Los Angeles* 19 years earlier and did not change their name. *a city within a state where neither is especially known for...

Pretty sure the How It Should Have Ended animated Youtube channel had a scene where the GotG joined Batman and Superman at their restaurant table and they had a back and forth of those.

I don't think it's what they are, it's what they do. And what they do has to be super-human -- and that is a know-it-when-you-see-it thing. Batman, regardless of how it is justified, does the superhuman -- he leaps off buildings and/or swings from ropes in a way my brain tells me is not...

Ours' is right where the water comes into the house (same with gas). FWIW, it is probably a good idea to test that they work as well.

I certainly understood the later (Beuller references help). And I don't have a problem with what you said, I simply had to refute the other individual's notion that my comment was flawed reasoning when it was in fact very specifically reasoned. I understand why you are thinking of it...

I'm not convinced that this happens much. I mean, yes those of us who grew up with TSR-era D&D do love to point out that we learned the words charisma and proficiency long before our peers (and that cloth is measured in bolts, and wine comes in tuns, etc.). That was generally beneficial. The...

My main point was that Some Dude included two categories in his premise, so he wasn't necessarily calling Jaws, Psycho, and The Shining lowbrow. Anyways, you're definitely not wrong. Theoretically, all movies should be called genre movies, since 'genre' is just a fancier version of the word...

Right, but they are genre entertainment*, right? Psycho and The Shining are horror and Jaws is (the first) summer blockbuster.*since the quote was "In general, 'lowbrow' or genre entertainment tends to be more memorable, or at least have scenes that get etched into the collective psyche." I...

That is not the case. The question was whether this situation made 3.Xe's "super crunchy language" look good to us. I stated that it did not. One's preference for rules light vs. high-crunch id based on known understandings of the up- and downsides of each game rule strategy. Rules light...

In so many ways it was (in the U.S., with regards to broadcast television, etc.). The decade started with 4 networks* consistently trying to fill the primetime block and ended with 6. The weekends were a crap-shoot on what they did, and Fox/WB/UPN might have left the 10-11 PM (EST) timeslot open...

Regarding making the potion be permanent and thus all subsequent potions at risk for miscibility as balancing factor: If this only applies for super-powerful potions like these two, this seems reasonable. It seems a little too much of a downside for having the good fortune of rolling 00 on...

I didn't know what to do with bringing up Roseanne (or Married With Children). They are concurrent with Seinfeld (started at the end of the 80s) and kinda found their footing alongside it. Friends and Frasier and such definitely* were built with reaction to Seinfeld's success in mind, whereas...