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23:01

But yeah I've always been curious what it'd be like to feel intense pain

Not in like a concerning way, just genuine scientific curiosity of the Newton-impaling-his-eye sort

Ginger

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Like normal people are afraid of needles, I just find them cool

Like when I was donating blood and they stuck the big needle thing in my arm they were like "you probably want to look away" and I was just like "nah I wanna see"

user

There is something wrong with you

More so than the average TNBer

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I just kinda want to know everything

user

@RydwolfPrograms What is this? Looking up "newton eye impale" doesn't give any pleasant results

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23:08

I once read in a science textbook that Newton stabbed a needle through his eye to learn how light worked, but apparently the story was exaggerated

user

Is it something I would be comfortable knowing or is it gruesome and likely to give a normal person nightmares for weeks

wtf

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It's like how chocolate and coffee are good because they're better

Bitter is the taste equivalent of pain

It's designed to warn us to not eat stuff

And usually we're hardwired to hate it

user

idk about you but I like my chocolate and coffee sweet

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But in small amounts or as contrast, it just works

user

And there's a huge difference between a little bitterness and the pain you'll get from stabbing stuff into your eyes

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23:10

@user Well the point of chocolate is that it's both sweet and bitter

user

Dark chocolate?

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If it was just sweet there'd be no point in eating it as chocolate

It'd just be sugar with a unique texture

user

That's enough reason to eat it

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I mostly agree actually

Maybe a bad metaphor in the case of chocolate

But there's definitely foods where bitter contributes to the flavor in a positive way

Grapefruit's one I can think of, tho a bit of an acquired taste

user

Eh, maybe, but there's a huge difference between that sort of thing and stabbing

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23:12

Well the pain of literally dying is only something I'd be interested in once

user

I would scratch off a scab even if I knew it'd hurt a bit, but I wouldn't plunge a knife into my stomach

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Not that I have a choice

And it's more of an opportunistic interest

Like, if I'm dying anyway I might as well get the full experience

Not doing so would leave me a less well rounded person

user

@RydwolfPrograms You can have serious injuries and survive, but obviously not a good idea

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This discussion is reminding me of a webcomic but it's a bit too NSFW to share

user

@RydwolfPrograms Yes, because the most important thing when dying is that you're well-rounded :P

Ginger

23:15

@RydwolfPrograms I'm sure it's fiiiine

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Well yeah, at every step in my life I've been having to polish my resume for the next thing, so I assume it's that way with death too :p

user

Imagine getting to the Pearly Gates and having to write an essay :P

Ginger

@RydwolfPrograms ~~is it Oglaf~~

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Actually it is, there's one that's pretty relevant to this

Well a couple

It's seriously hard to search for specific ones tho

user

Choose one of the following prompts and write a 1000-letter essay on it:
- Tell us why you should *not* get into heaven
- Tell us about your favorite kind of pizza

Ginger

23:24

@RydwolfPrograms knew it

user

Then you realize that all along you were in hell and all the overachievers and legacy admits are already chilling in heaven

@RydwolfPrograms NSFW in a gory way, or just language?

Ginger

NSFW as in sex comedy

user

Ginger

@RydwolfPrograms are there any unusually-high-CPU-usage processes on my droplet?

it's being weirdly slow

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Idk, I don't have SSH access, lemme check the CPU usage graph

You're at around 60% CPU usage rn

High disk I/O too

Ginger

23:28

odd, seeing as I'm not logged in

(or using a tunnel)

DLosc

@RydwolfPrograms The way I heard it, it was a small smooth rod that he stuck between his eyeball and eye socket--less damaging, but still a bit questionable.

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@Ginger Probably MediaWiki

Ginger

me when mediawiki

is it done yet?

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Which, I'll say it again, is not designed to run one a single lil VM to host a teensy little toy wiki

No, the CPU usage is at 80% now and it's consistently using half a gig a second in disk I/O

Ginger

*internal screaming*

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23:32

You might want to set up some logging to verify what's causing this

Ginger

I'm going to go have dinner, maybe it'll fix itself

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It seems to happen pretty regularly

I probably shouldn't have this publically associated with me in any way but the lack of transcripts or even ctrl+f of titles for Oglaf is so annoying I might just make a transcript search site for it myself

DLosc

TIL Isaac Newton served as Master of the Royal Mint for 30 years and went to great lengths to prosecute counterfeiters