Nepenthe @ Nepenthe @kbin.social

Rexxitor. Biology nerd. Roguelites, indie games, and TRPGs. Drowning in unu

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The kid, I'm willing to accept, but both the parents look like default sims

One of my grandparents used to do that. He was 41 for several decades, and just turned 42 that last year because he said he was starting to feel his age

Problem being, "There are several vegan dishes I, a curious meat-eater, continue to enjoy to this day and everyone should at least give it a fair shake :D" is always going to come off better and likely pique someone's interest more than "But think of the animals you are deliberately murdering!"

I'm well aware. If that were enough to sway me, I'd already be vegan. When your target lacks the morals you're trying to capitalize on, you're going to have to make it worth their while. In this case through the thing they care about: deliciousness.

The phrasing of this could be interpreted to sound like your problem isn't that the woman's punishment was too lenient, just that a theoretical guy would have experienced an actual consequence.

Run For Your Life! D:

The End, just like that? Lovely Rita, Here, There And Everywhere! It's All Too Much. I suppose I Should Have Known Better. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey.

I Don't Want To Spoil The Party, but From A Window isn't really the method I would have expected. Happiness Is (after all) A Warm Gun.

I'll Be On My Way.

Don’t leave us hanging

Found the bat.

One of them is probably a plankton, by the way. 95% of all marine life is plankton.

By namesake, my child should be a Beatle. Not sure if this means I am or that I have to marry a beetle to genetically make that happen. The whole question feels incestuous.

Not that that saying never had the last four letters of DARVO written all over it to begin with, mind, but I'm so used to seeing it in the context of discrediting trauma that I had to stare at it for several minutes to realize it meant, "If the machine constantly fucks up, maybe you're just too stupid for touchscreens."

Not gonna lie, my time in customer service has notably damaged my impression of people. But really, my dude? The contribution is a more insulting version of "works fine for me?"

Eh, you have one cashier watching like 7 checkouts. Security would be a thing regardless, because they'd otherwise be watching to make sure nobody walks out with an item or steals from the register.

I'm not really convinced they do a lot of maintenance on those things, for how well they function, but I also wouldn't be surprised if that's the machine at its best.

Wouldn't know how much they really cost per machine in order to account for that, either, but the Walmart near me only ever has one person watching the self-checkout, doesn't even always have anyone on an available lane, and they've had those things forever.

That one, at least, didn't buy more tech for covid. They just fired some people and redirected the customers. They're saving more than enough in wages.

The fact that, from experience, my average customers per hour divided by pay (and thus, the rightful customer discount for doing my job) still adds up to a matter of cents probably says more about how much I was being paid.

$7.25 an hour, and I was loudly and publicly threatened with the loss of my job because a customer thought I "wasn't smiling enough" over the Christmas rush and called the manager over.

I'd just had my brother cremated less than a week ago.

We generally aren't sour to each other when you're not looking. Can confirm years of watching customers literally stomp on shit directly in my line of sight so they can turn around and demand a discount because this item is inexplicably dirty or broken has made us very sour at everyone else.

One of them paid for a candy bar, ate the whole thing right there in line, and immediately demanded a full refund because "she didn't like it." Under the watchful direction of the same manager because "the customer is always right," I had to do that.

I wish people would come through my line and say nothing to me.

You'd think. On paper, it's the logical response. Irl, anything not on the market is going on the black market

Ok, well, am I supposed to hate cupcakes now? Had I seen this in a friend's photo, I would have asked where they got it. Had I seen it on a menu, you bet my fat ass is ordering this shit. I don't often (or ever, really) use the word "decadent" to describe anything, but a hot fudge milkshake served in what appears to be a large mason jar, topped with cookies and garnished by an entire frosted cupcake is the most godlessly american food I will see for a good while and just looking at it makes me patriotic. I am going to eat this, given the opportunity. Or at least try to, so I can regret it.

Since I figure I might as well kill two birds rather than send two notifications to the same person, your other comment here about the bot votes -- Kbin allows users to easily look through the votes on any post, and I have more than sufficient spite to sit and do that. Survey says out of 115 upvotes, 14 accounts were otherwise utterly inactive.

12% is not quite enough to make me cry fake. Not on a lesser-known platform with quite more than its share of self-admitted non-contributors, from an account that would be empty because it's new, on the basis of a photo I myself would have taken.

Average for a popular post seems to hang around 60-140 these days and if this were being botted to the top (not a thing that can happen on kbin, at least, which has no algorithm), I feel personally like it would have been way more popular. Like they would have fucked up and sent it to the high 300s because y'all have several thousands of bots lying in wait and they're more used to causing reddit numbers.

Slightly longer FAQ I dug up. Short answer: the game is the game.

The sole objective is to go for as long as possible without consciously thinking or talking about the game in any way. Once you realize you have, you've temporarily lost the game and have to start over. You must also announce your loss to others, forcing them to lose the game with much swearing.

Once you know about it, you're automatically playing it. In all versions, there is either no way to stop playing or the game isn't over til some event happens that is 100% never going to happen.

OP has lost and dragged everyone in the comments down with them

I've never heard of this place and it turns out there's a marble slab an hour away from me. I can and will make a 2hr road trip just to put this in my face

Paw-purr-ganda

And not so. I ran this by my own cat and she said every bit of it was true, and out of all the cats that I know, she's one of the most.

Ah. Would our darling Erdoğan like to show us what he knows of interior design?

The thing about these is whenever I see them the first time, I can read them because scrolling quickly leaves the picture just unfocused enough.

And then I scroll past, back up because I'm very sure of what I just read, and it's just a photo of cats or something. Amazing. My mind knows what it saw, but it has no proof.

Right? Grandma grew up during the great depression. She'd understand.

I had that bad feeling myself, recently. "This merchant is in an extremely dangerous place," I thought. "And here I am, overloading them with 39 scimitars and the equivalent contents of half a library and some dude's entire ribcage just so I can take a scroll off them. What happens if and when they have to run? They'll never make it. They'd have to ditch all of it just to have a chance."

So I just started stealing. It's for them. I'm out here saving lives, and not even needing your thanks. Just saying it would be nice.

Wouldn't it take 79 years to do that to brick, though? Someone would notice