Wugmeister @ ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling @lemmy.dbzer0.com

This is a man who knows how to gling. He is glinging. Yesterday, he _____.

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Quick grain of salt: when I say combat in GURPS goes faster than other systems, I'm only comparing it to other games that focus on tactical combat. The fastest combat I've seen was in Trail of Cthulhu, which paid so little attention to combat rules that your combat turn can be summarized as "roll 1d6 and pray"

I've played a lot of different rpgs, and I've noticed that combat drags the most in games that care the most about tactical combat. Interestingly, the game I've played that dragged the least in combat was GURPS, despite each round lasting for 1 second of game time. I think this is because the tight time window on your turn means you get to do exactly one thing on your turn, and if you are doing something intensive like casting a spell you might be spending several turns doing nothing but the occasional step or defense roll. Contrastingly, Shadowrun 5e had a 2 second turn, and combat slowed to a fucking crawl whenever someone wanted to do something more complex than moving and hitting due to the amount of dice being rolled and decision fatigue; we even banned grenades at one point because the chunky salsa technique was just too tempting to exploit.

Technically my problem isn't that I can't smell at all, it's that I have pretty much every seasonal allergy so when I was growing up I never had the opportunity to learn how to use my nose. As a kid my parents tried to address this with decongestant, but I think I built up a tolerance because they stopped working for me. Every once in a blue moon, there will be two weeks where I can actually smell things, but I will consistently misidentify what I am smelling since I never learned how to smell. This leads to me embarrassing myself by saying demented things like claiming flowers smell like burnt popcorn or that my fiancée's cooking smells like burnt plastic. I suspect that not being exposed to smells at a formative age caused my brain to just not bother with the nose-interperetation part of the brain. Maybe when I die they could dissect my brain and figure that out.

I've thought about getting back on the decongestants again, but I don't want to overdo it and damage my liver. I like my liver. I want to treat it well. My fiancée's dad also told me about some shots he got to get rid of his grass allergy, so I might look into that

No this was a brand-new sealed container of lactose-free 2% milk

That actually sets my mind very much at ease. I was so worried about getting sick from it.

I think I need to modify the title to "How to detect spoiled milk if you cant smell and your sense of taste is only technically there"

Both baby animals in the pic are also adorable

I still have no idea what the endgame of this scheme is supposed to be

If your Switch is the one in the picture, I dont think jailbreaking it is going to do much for you.

Talking in terms of hope or wishing them luck is a good substitute. Serves the same purpose, but doesn't carry the god baggage. It also has the extra benefit of sounding more sincere, since it's just non-standard enough to give the impression that you actually put thought into your well-wishes without sounding seriously unusual.

My go-to is actually variations of "I have faith in you" and then encourage them based on whichever one of their strengths is most applicable. For example: "You're smart. I have faith that you'll spot whatever opportunity presents itself next."

And of course, there is the classic atheist thing of replacing the thoughts and prayers with actual help. A lot of the instances where thoughts and prayers are actually appropriate include times where they need emotional support, which costs nothing but time and energy.

It's a reference to the Wug test. Specifically the prompt "This is a man who knows how to gling. He is glinging. Yesterday he ______"

At the time the test was developed, it was commonly believed that children need to be instructed on how to conjugate each individual word they learn, or else they will end up englishing very ungoodly. The test showed that even young children have a grasp on how to pluralize and conjugate even unfamiliar words, and can make guesses on the meaning of new words based on context clues.

@aihorde@lemmy.dbzer0.com draw me a picture of this guy's dad snorting snow off a lady's back on a cruise ship

Look, we are not the target demographic for Apple.

I'm gonna try to get this printed and hang it in my living room

3: one for lemmy, one for Mastodon, one for Pixelfed. I'll also count the one for loops.video once it federates.

I think he meant to ask what this picture came from. Although the accurate description of reality is still appreciated

Dad had a friend with the exact same name as him in high school that he he almost killed once. They had dug a big hole, filled it with fireworks, covered it in gasoline, and then lit it on fire. This resulted in a big boom, and he couldn't locate his friend for a bit afterwards. Took him a while for his eyebrows to grow back after that. I suppose this is proof that I got my dumbass genes from his side.

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