LouNeko @ LouNeko @lemmy.world

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The Expanse has so many memorable quotes.

• "You're not that guy. I am that GUY."
  Amos
• "What is it you're think you're doing?" "WHATEVER I GOD DAMN LIKE."
  Avaserala answering to the council
• "You look like shit." "You look amazing."
  Avaserala and Amos on Luna
• "I'm just gonna take my pet nuke for a walk."
  Miller on Ceres Station

"I'm a leaf in the wind."

Said by Wash the pilot in the movie Serenity. I tend to whisper that to myself when things aren't going my way and I need a reminder to just go with the flow.

Another one came to mind.

"Because he's my man."

From the series Legion on FX. The main female lead Sydney wanted to safe her boyfriend and others doubted her on her reasoning, since her boyfriend turned out to be a shady guy. When questioned "Why?" She gave that answer. I've never heard a female character be this positively possessive over her love interest before. Usually its the guy that saves the girl.

The only correct answer.

With women, bathroom talk. With the boys we always talk about shit and piss and crack each other up. But mention anything related to that around a girl, she'll look at you as if you killed her dog.

The reason is simple, in the time of motion picture, videogames, and music, why would somebody decide to stare at bland black text on white paper for 3 hours a day?

Reading is by far the least approachable, most time consuming and least rewarding for of self entertainment. Books where the most popular because their distribution was the easiest and the cheapest. Now distribution of digital media including movies, music and videogames has become trivial.

Books are also the easiest to create (in relative terms), meaning for every GOOD book there are 1000s of really bad ones, and it's not readily apparent which one is which. Where as for every really good movie there are many only 10 mediocre ones.

What the article describes as "better mental health" regarding to children reading, is usually a product of the abstraction that book inherently posses. Since all you can go off when reading a novel is your own imagination and maybe some official artwork, books have the least reinforcement of social standards.

Text is a very reliable way to relais information, but when it comes to telling a story, the more senses you can captivate the more alive a story will feel. Books don't appeal to your eyes and ears but movies do.

Those human leather hats aren't gonna make themselves.

The best way to live in the US is to work at an European company and be send out long term to the US branch, you get European paychecks with the European taxing system and have European health insurance. You can receive your pay to a bank that allows global withdrawal with a miniscule currency transfer fee, for everything else you can use a Visa or MasterCard. Sure, this only works for a couple of months to a couple of years max, but you don't have to deal with so much US bullshit and when shit is about to hit the fan, the company is going to pull you out anyway.

GReat APE, return to monke.

I agree. VWs' drive assists are absolutely stellar. It's just line assist, speed limit recognition with cruise control and active distance assist, that's essentially it. It's not FSD but on the highway it almost feels like it. I was very skeptical and distrusted the sensors at first because my previous car had none of that, but after a while I got very comfortable with them.
I can even safely get something out of my bag on the passenger seat without worrying that the car is going to fly of the road if I take my eyes of it for a second.

The only thing that kind of annoys me, but that goes for all line assists, is that they don't seem to follow a center line between the road markings, rather they bounce around inside a "zone" with margins left and right.
So if you are on the inside of your "zone" and approach a sharp turn, the car enters the outside margin at a fairly steep angle and often skims the outside road markings before bouncing back. It just feels like the assist is on a constant rubber band, so I don't really trust it with high speed turns.

Briefly, just skimmed through it. Should've paid more attention. Thanks.

"Well, you can't just take the effect and make it the cause."

The white stripes, Effect and Cause

The vast majority don't. The vast majority lives in India and China, which is arguably just as bad.

Maybe I wasn't clear. I meant community's for specific games, rather than gaming communities in general.

But also, when he was in his 20-40s there where 2 World Wars back to back. So what's your excuse?

You don't need immortality for that. Only a bad decade in your 20'.

Wow you're a real smart one, nobody has ever thought about that. Read the Question in the title again.

Not enough video game communities. I think that was a huge part of Reddits initial success. Even to this day I still search "Problem + /reddit" on google whenever I have issues in a game. Reddit often holds the core community off a video game. It's often detrimental to a games success to have a Reddit community. Lemmy has communities for some games, but they are mostly inactive or have only 10-60 users. So don't even have the latest patch notes posted.

Let's put 2 on the other side.

225 x 2

Now 2 wears 225 as a hat. Which means x is kinda funny.

If a knife isn't meant to cut my own wrists, why am I holding it a perfect arms length away?

Check mate arteries 😏