Tar_Alcaran

Accelerationism sounds nice, unless you have issues with a few million corpses, of them probably yourself.

You know what? Screw you!

Unsmorks your alam

Before that basically everything towards the magenta part of the spectrum was all just called red.

And before that we have people looking at colours entirely differently, like Homer calling the sea the colour of red wine.

Which my Greek teacher would explain by saying “my pencil is the the same shade of yellow as your book is blue”.

Simon is just a moron who comes to the wrong conclusions constantly. I also found it extremely annoying to play a protagonist who is just demonstrably wrong about everything, and has emotional outbursts at everyone trying to improve the situation.

I fully agree.

Having Simon as the main character constantly had me feeling like one of the reveals would be that the scanning process was imperfect and somehow left him mentally damaged. Alas, it seems he was just naturally gifted with the emotional control and abstract reasoning abilities of a toddler.

I get that it’s hard to explain a story in the internal monologue of a first-person character, so having them be oblivious is a great way to explain things to the player. But Soma felt likt it was actively insulting my intelligence by assuming I needed a drool-proof keyboard.

Someone who was my age when I was a stupid kid told me that me being 16 and them being 40 meant they had 22 years experience in being an adult, and I had zero.

It took a while to realize how right that was.

Seeing much younger versions of myself wearing the goth stuff I kept for nostalgia reasons made me try it on again.

Turns out my parents were right, it was a phase. Damnit.

That’s impressive! I’m happy when my unions are bigger than a plum…

But the other thing…yeah we don’t do that shit

Not exactly the same, but The Troubles were very much going on during the 90s

Naive young me thought that with facts and education so freely and easily available, surely the internet would benefit everyone hugely!

Or maybe it’s because only about 1 in 4 Americans has a healthy weight.

A US 34B is a euro 75C. That’s one strapsize below the median here.

It depends.

It isn’t that yarn in itself is expesive, but if you’re knitting/weaving, you’re not doing it to save money on socks, you want to make something cool and unique. If you really get into it, you’re going to eventually want that specialist wool/bamboo/elastane blend with a super specific colour grade and maybe a specific manufacturing method too. And that’s expensive.

Similarly, if you’re spinning your own yarn, you can get boring old for about half the price of boring old yarn, and even less if you dye big batches yourself. You can get a pretty nice wool for about a quarter of the price of the yarn, so far so good. But of course, if you’re spinning your own yarn, you’re going not doing that for production purposes, you want to make something cool and unique. So you’ll want to blend in specifics, like glitter nylons, or maybe even metalic fibers, and that long-fiber, ultra-fine angora will go great with a slightly thicker cairngorn, etc etc. And before you know it, you’re making yarn that costs maybe ten times what they sell at the local hobby shop.

And spinning wheels aren’t exactly cheap either. Mine was something like 800 euros, but you can easily spend four times that on an electric wheel. You can buy a LOT of yarn for that money. And lets not talk about how much wool I’ve ruined due to lack of skill while learning.

Or, if you want to do it for historical purposes, you’re going to want kinda-shitty, historically accurate materials like hemp or flax or wool from sheep that aren’t really all that suited for wool-making, and are probably not even kept anywhere anymore outside of niche hobby flocks. And then you want to process it yourself. And it’s surprisingly hard to fine someone who will just sell you flax-the-plant.

Fair point. I was more concerned about dropping it in, and then catapulting a small metal disc into some very expensive electronics.

There’s a bit of difference doing it on a gameboy, and doing it in a running PC with spinning fans and such.

Doing historical reenactment can be done in two ways:

• spend an absolute fuckload of time on everything.

• spend an absolute fuckload of money on everything.

The former is more historically accurate, but I completely understand not wanting to pick up flax farming as a side hobby.

finding workable clay in nature is stupidly easy if you know what to look for

Workable clay may be hundreds of kilometers away, depending on where you live.

I mean, I’m in the Netherlands, i literally can’t avoid the stuff, but not everyone lives in a giant river delta.

All the other ones also have copies floating on the great seas, and some are just plain free

As someone who owns a spinning wheel, you can dye and spin yarn at home to make the money pit even wider and deeper!

Workplace safety is quickly turning from a factual and risk-based field into a vibes-based field, and that’s a bad thing for 95% of real-world risks.

To elaborate a bit: the current trend in safety is “Safety Culture”, meaning “Getting Betty to tell Alex that they should actually wear that helmet and not just carry it around”. And at that level, that’s a great thing. On-the-ground compliance is one of the hardest things to actually implement.

But that training is taking the place of actual, risk-based training. It’s all well and good that you feel comfortable talking about safety, but if you don’t know what you’re talking about, you’re not actually making things more safe. This is also a form of training that’s completely useless at any level above the worksite. You can’t make management-level choices based on feeling comfortable, you need to actually know some stuff.

I’ve run into numerous issues where people feel safe when they’re not, and feel at risk when they’re safe. Safety Culture is absolutely important, and feeling safe to talk about your problems is a good thing. But that should come AFTER being actually able to spot problems.