Nepenthe @ Nepenthe @kbin.social

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

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I was going to say this is a devastating blow to James Patterson's team of ghostwriters

That happened during the school day for me. West coast would have been asleep. On the east coast, at least, no kid was nagging about cartoons unless they were out sick in a non-flu month and also particularly stupid.

Granted, I was 11 then, so definitely on the higher end of the 90's baby scale. But there are at least 630 child millenials that very clearly remember that, because our teachers were ordered not to say anything, told us they were ordered not to say anything, and then immediately disobeyed because they felt it was important. They led my entire grade out into the main hallway to watch it live.

I'd had too much of a sense of realism to ever think we were "innocent" or whatever, in order to understand what people mean when they say they lost that. I think this reaction would be more prominent in the middle class than my PTSD-riddled ass. I assume they just mean a lost feeling of safety?

Sitting cross-legged on the floor in the kind of silence several hundred tweens aren't supposed to make, my main emotion was a deep dread. Anyone with a brain in their head knew we were going to retaliate. I didn't want a war.

I also remember Y2K. It was hard to hear anything else. 1999 is the first new year's eve I clearly remember, actually, simply because it was anxiety-inducing in comparison with all the others. Just sat there with my headphones on, not listening to music. I was a stressed out kid.

Either I cough up significantly more resources than I have, or they take decades of trauma away from me forever?

Kbin gives me the ability to see up/downvotes, and this is usually what I've used it for in the rare cases I've cared to check. To satisfy your curiosity, it's usually accounts who do absolutely fuck all except downvote seemingly at random. Never comment. Sometimes they've never even upvoted anything.

Twice only has it been someone I recognized and knew to be generally a normal human user. One was and still is a fan of melodrama, so they were probably having One Of Those Days. The other, I'm still a little confused because I knew them to be of above average intelligence, but I think I have to chalk that up to fat thumbs.

Sorry if I'm ruining the fun. Can confirm the only haters your hypothetical flower has are absolute weirdos, though, and questionably human.

Probably right. But tbh, whenever I see this, my assumption is either the user is in their 60s and unused to typing, or more likely they're typing in their non-native language and using the typical rules of their native one. And I'd feel shitty making fun of either.

It would be a better internet if that were everyone's first assumption, because I turn out to be correct way more often than not. A quick stalk through their profile proves it to be the second one — punctuation is handled with an extra space in French.

While this isn't supposed to be true of Canadian french, which is what they've claimed, I could see that still leaking into speech somehow and I'm kinda curious how it happened. Any québécois, how rigidly are English spacing rules adhered to?

I wish "Guys can't survive on their own without someone parenting them 24/7" was what people meant when they complained about misandry.

Lol, nope. I'd only stayed at all for the single kebble sub I was in, but the protests either changed the vibe through loss of all the empathetic users or it changed my outlook in general.

I hung on for a couple more weeks, but what with this place and being distracted with other hobbies, most of it was me asking myself how sad I would really be every week. Finally gave it up two weeks ago. Beyond being given the unavoidable google results, haven't noticed.

Glorious. This alone has swayed me. Whoever runs this account, I'm glad they haven't been yelled at by some soulless office robot

Maggran, I think? Maybe it's a question of timing? I didn't immediately move on after the festivities and ran into him in human form on the trail to the left of the entrance to the grove.

I remember him thanking me. I more remember his mouth didn't move when he spoke and the effect was off-putting, but I do remember being thanked. He seems to just complain now, so I have no proof

This is true, but consider that Astarion wants it and he's very pretty

I forgot about people who do pixel art, and I'm terrible. People like you are invaluable to the gaming industry and the ornate ones are their own skillset I'm kind of always awed by

“Why not take advantage of information the bad guys share willingly online? After all, they have friends lists, too,” one SocialNet video says.

monitors random citizens' pregnancies

This is acceptable. This is definitely normal.

Side note for anyone with a few days and $2 to spare, Orwell is apparently on sale and I encourage its consideration. It's literally what the government has decided to do, but with the player in the driver's seat and it's really good if you're into stuff like that.

But today Microsoft announced that it is finally adding two features that could make the app a bit more useful for power users: support for Photoshop-esque image layers and the ability to open and save transparent PNGs.

What kind of person is an MS Paint power user. I just use it to paste screenshots into if I'm not intending fine editing, otherwise it might as well not exist as a program.

The only person who seriously uses MS Paint for artwork is that one guy who recreated the Mona Lisa out of hundreds of pieces of variously burnt toast. Real, usable art tools would destroy the purpose and make that guy sad.

Really, if they kept this kind of momentum up for the next 20 years, it might put it on par with Fire Alpaca. It's an interesting move, they're just so incredibly late to the game that even other free programs are still leagues better than they are and no one will ever take them seriously again.

What other countries. I thought it was supposed to be Americans didn't know geography and didn't care to remember anyone else existed.

In order for us to expend some sort of energy making fun of someone, we'd have to both think of you and work ourselves up to caring about people we know little about in places we'll literally never visit. I'd have to look up new slurs and read up on international politics and shit.

That sounds like a lot, if I'm being honest, and I'd rather rag on Ohio.

Is this...what all memes would be like under communism? I mean, I'm actually disappointed irl about the effort here. You've scraped a hole in the bottom of the barrel. Perhaps in search of potatoes.

As to why he would defend that, it's just simple relationship bias. We'll hesitate a hell of a lot more if it's someone we like or think we know.

You should have seen the irrational tenacity with which one of my parents stuck by a pedophile, right up until their first few nights in prison, simply because they were dating. Even if it meant losing everyone around her. She was the only person under god who couldn't see this a mile away. His own kid was his first accuser, but surely not, right?

What kind of thing could your best friends do that you wouldn't initially defend them over?

These two have known each other for literal decades. I'm not too surprised he would refuse to accept it from someone he's been friends with for that long.

I am shocked that he would choose to step down entirely over it. I could see the question presenting itself to him, since it's...not wonderful PR...but I would have thought the cause itself would have been more important to him. He's between a rock and a hard place.

Glad to hear the bee movie kid grew old enough to appreciate Encanto

Yeahhh. That writing, too, lmao. As a Carolinian, the little faded "comrade" was a good one. Down to earth and huge hearted as he was said to be, I don't think the christian republican co-owner of Dale Earnhardt Inc. is your friendski, pal

It's from It's part of a comedy bit by Keith Lowell Jensen.