Starred posts

trogdor

Oct 15, 2020 23:14

you got me officer, take me away

Rubiksmoose

Oct 15, 2020 15:06

@NautArch Here There Be Dragons

Thomas Markov

Oct 15, 2020 15:02

Thomas's Dank Cantina

Thomas Markov

Oct 15, 2020 14:57

Not even a bar on TV

doppelgreener

Oct 15, 2020 14:02

Recently it's been a room that's more-or-less full time discussion about MLP (and sometimes tangentially related topics), which is fine and something I love us having a space for, but it probably undermines its availability as an overflow room to shift into for serious topics. It also undermines its availability as an overflow room to move messages into, so as to shift the whole conversation, if it's highly likely those messages get interleaved into existing conversations.

BESW

Oct 15, 2020 00:04

yeah, making the NAB a default-join room is a risky click and that's not the fault of the room for being what it is.

Derpy

Oct 9, 2020 11:12

C seems pretty common when laws are involved. I mean, if commoners were made able to actually understand laws wording... there would no need for advocates :P

Yuuki

Dec 8, 2017 21:24

Although with recent continuity reboots, who knows what's going on.

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Derpy

Oct 1, 2020 10:02

animation-nerima.jp/map/animegate

Derpy

Sep 29, 2020 10:35

I am confused, can't wrap my mind around it. Some element seem to point to a tale about a box, the interpretation I don't like and the one the Simpsons parody seems to use. On the other side, I see also elements of a "Old enough to read fairy tales again"..

BESW

Sep 18, 2020 13:20

If a game is trying to represent "reality," it's still gotta filter through the creator's understanding of reality--and then through their sense of what is important to represent, and how. Not even physics is an accurate representation of reality, how much less a game.

doppelgreener

Sep 18, 2020 13:10

So, the thing I am saying is that the options a game presents, how it presents them, and the possibilities and outcomes you're likely to see (or less likely to see), fundamentally define that game as separate from other games which present different options different ways and provide different ranges of possibilities or outcomes.

trogdor

Sep 15, 2020 08:34

@Derpy lol, I mean they can melt into ink? so I buy this

trogdor

Oct 31, 2017 04:49

I just found a bunch of frowny faces in the file I'm working on

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doppelgreener

Oct 26, 2017 23:48

I Would Laugh But Someone Literally Died would make for a suitably cryptic spacecraft name in that universe

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Derpy

Aug 31, 2020 07:42

@trogdor Kinda hope for a page where Twilight (or Pinkie) asks why they all have the same Cutie Mark....

BESW

Apr 16, 2015 22:34

As much as we like new users and welcome questions, making new users happy is secondary to having quality questions. This means that discouraging people from making suggestions to improve questions--rather than encouraging people to learn how to make those suggestions more welcome--is antithetical to the hard-learned lessons of the Stack.

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BESW

Apr 13, 2015 03:56

"Why are abstractions leaky?" doesn't seem like a very good question, I'm afraid.

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BESW

Aug 15, 2020 07:04

"The #ReclaimHerName initiative ignores the authorial choices of the writers it represents," by Olivia Rutigliano for Literary Hub.

doppelgreener

Sep 14, 2017 07:59

@Adeptus The lord giveth and the lord taketh, sometimes via chainsaws.

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GcL

Aug 6, 2020 15:53

I would like to nominate the word "can" for the craptastically overloaded term awards this year.

GcL

Aug 4, 2020 18:05

Have you tried casting your ballot in something stouter? Cast your vote in bronze. It carries a lot of weight and resists ~~corrosion~~ corruption

GcL

Aug 4, 2020 16:59

Vote for some stuff. Eat a couple dumplings. Call it a day.

AncientSwordRage

Aug 4, 2020 15:29

The classic example I've heard is, when referring to a baby "what's it's name?"

Thomas Markov

Jul 30, 2020 17:04

@NautArch counterspell doesnt work in court, you have to use barspell.

Derpy

Jul 30, 2020 16:07

@GcL I heard that the microbes were heard chanting "ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn", could mean something.

BESW

Aug 14, 2017 05:19

Typo of the day: Easter proof. "This phone case is not Easter proof."

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BESW

Aug 8, 2017 01:42

me deleting the oxford comma from a post so it meets the character limit https://t.co/RkTYwzLyBz

Tweeted by rwxoxo on August 7, 2017 at 5:58 PM

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BESW

Aug 7, 2017 12:14

But I'm equally sick of trying to have a conversation where every time I'm confused by something and use the basic communication technique of re-stating in my own words what I think is being said, I get accusations of devious insincerity, so whatever.

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BESW

Aug 7, 2017 11:34

Also, can we please stop acting like pointing out a logical fallacy is a substitute for engaging in a conversation? Assume folks are trying to have a reasonable conversation and if they say something which seems weird or nonsensical to us that means there was a communications breakdown.

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GcL

Jul 17, 2020 15:09

Are you getting enough physical activity? chasing a toddler counts.

goodguy5

Jul 17, 2020 14:33

the "you don't show enough initiative" meetings

doppelgreener

Jul 31, 2017 14:32

@eimyr deez boys ain't know wot appened last time an ork done put on musick! we 'ad ta clean up da place good and propah for an 'ealth inspection da next day, and da 'ealth inspectahs still managed ta' find some blud & teef! but dey found enuff teef dey agreed to keep hush about da blud if dey could keep da teef.

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BESW

Jul 27, 2017 22:08

> Reasons for Wearing a Moustache.--We have been able to draw up a table of the different reasons for wearing a moustache. We have questioned not less than one thousand persons so adorned, and their answers have helped us to the following result :--

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BESW

Jul 12, 2020 22:24

"Inside the Comic Book Industry’s Sexual Misconduct Crisis—and the Ugly, Exploitative History That Got It Here," by Asher Elbein for The Daily Beast

Adeptus

Jul 10, 2020 06:09

Similarly, The Hu have just released a Deluxe Edition of their album from last year, The Gereg. The extra tracks are a few acoustic versions, and a few versions with American vocalists added. I was annoyed until I realised that I only like one of the new versions (and don't care about acoustic versions). So I just bought that one track.

Andras Deak

Jul 6, 2020 09:26

@kviiri since you've become my resident bird person: there's a viral new tune taking over white-throated sparrow songs in Canada

MikeQ

Jul 5, 2020 04:58

We maintain a diverse community here. That includes users who may be unaware of other groups' norms or language. So occasionally someone will say something that offends someone else, usually out of ignorance and not intending harm. But we also assume good faith, so the user isn't banned or shunned. Instead another user corrects them. Then they learn and move on. There are plenty of active users here, including myself, in this category.

BESW

Jul 13, 2017 01:10

STEAM: you've been playing this game for...60 hours! ME: *sweating, closing door behind me* who else have you told

Tweeted by markpopham on July 13, 2017 at 12:46 AM

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Miniman

Jul 12, 2017 03:23

DotA and Aeon were both made by users who just wanted to make something for other people to enjoy.

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Derpy

Jul 3, 2020 08:01

Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear enough. What I mean is that Scar - or Hercules's Hades if you prefer - seems to be portrayed as an "evil character" from the start. He wants powers for himself, isn't afraid to kill relatives to gain that power and once he obtained it... he uses it just for himself and the gain of his followers / subordinates. Disney clearly didn't plan to give the story a "this is told from the winner point of view" or "this is Mufasa version of the tale".
You can say that you can see the story as "told from the winner perspective" anyway, but at that point... many tales can be…

doppelgreener

Jul 2, 2020 13:16

Yes; NK Jemisin wrote about the nature of Orcs in Tolkien and pop culture and how it represents a problem in The Unbearable Baggage of Orcing

BESW

Jul 8, 2017 02:28

Deconstructing the art and design of comic book layouts.

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godskook

Jul 7, 2017 14:51

@doppelgreener, where is the appropriate place to hash out these questions that these users ask?

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BESW