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Because scrolling through your feed clicking 'block ________' on all the pointless gibberish is still you scrolling through your feed, viewing ads.

It's not 100% obvious, but it seems like you missed the joke.

Similar to this. I care, but the answer can be different at different times or with different games/groups. Heck, if my range can include fantasy and hard sci fi and quasi-realistic* special ops games and weird-world** RPGs, I can certainly get behind both low- and high-fantasy fantasy games...

The crazy old man I'd see in a parking lot would have a 'spoonful of sugar' shirt with entirely different implications.

Thus far, we've focused almost exclusively on highly recognizable network (+HBO and now streaming) shows that were a big deal at the time. Also*, we're generally going with shows people think started off as very good shows. What if we open the discussion up to, say, non-HBO cable tv shows and...

Also it was a movie from the 70s gently chiding the 50s at times, and I missed that. Also saw it for the first time as an adult, in a film class, around 2000. Still, I have no strong opinions on Gangster movies (or the crime genre in particular), and I still was able to recognize it as one of...

Must preserve the sanctity of the thread, right? ;) At the same time, if it's not protectionist feelings but instead some kind of 'hey, we were having a moment here' kind of situation, I can totally get the frustration. But at the end of the day it is making demands of other people and their...

The point was that, in fairness to Payn, his comment was not utter US cluelessness, cultural chauvinism, or assuming that everyone knew how things work in Eagle-land. They had every reason to believe their comment was close to universal in broad strokes, that people would catch the relevant...

Oh, I totally get it. They are playing to the algorithms, and YouTube's monopoly power + watch-the-world-burn social media behavior + having many content creators by the purse strings is the real culprit here. However, if the content creators are warping their product so much to match it that...

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...