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  • You have an embarassed billionaire healthcare.
    "It's the best in the world! I just don't have access to it right now. But once I do, you'll see!" they say, trying to decide between bleeding to death and the ambulance.

  • That's a surprisingly kind view of things, but yeah, my dad did mountaineering his whole life and fucked his knees proper, but also likes to enjoy good food, so now in his seventies and with diabetes creeping in, it's a perfect combo for becoming fat.

    I guess it's a bit easier to mock Steven Seagal because he's been so fit in his movies throughout most of his career, and now it turns out he was an asshole all along, on top of looking like an asshat even when I loved his movies. But mocking him for being an older human still feels rather cheap.

  • Given that the author was genuinely inspired by something he lived (it's never been cleared up for me whether he had a girlfriend experience miscarriage or what), I never really understood the vicious and now eternal mockery. Just goes to show the community...

    The meme itself is wonderfully elegant! It's a reduction of the original comic to its simplest form. The sort of shit that should evolve over the course of centuries gets done in a few weeks in the Internet primordial soup. I could write it thus and I reckon it's still recognizable : I Ii II I_

    Each bar represents a character in the otherwise silent comic. And is usually presented in a two by two pattern to reflect the comic layout. But it's been deconstructed to much it'd still work as I've rendered it above.

  • I really enjoyed the few times in Witcher 3 where I arrived to a quest giver and Geralt was "oh yeah, lucky you I came across this earlier on". Alas, the few times it happened were so unexpected I completely missed it apart from the "quest complete" kinda pop-up.

  • Most of the Dark Souls are like that, ain't they? I'm too weak sauce to ever reach those levels, though. Black Myth Wukong has you starting Heaven's entire army, so I guess that qualifies too (I'm assuming you end up fighting a god at the end, but again, I'm not worthy)

  • I just describe it as "bilingual level", because fluent is often used but can represent a range of levels depending on how demanding you are.

    For me, fluent is what I'd describe someone who's studied well and can live only speaking the target language. They may have a crappy accent, make mistakes but they know they can express their ideas and be understood and generally don't search for words.

    I'd use "native level", but that can be a bit misleading too.

    And so, that's why we have exams/diploma with levels and such.
    If someone tells you they have a C2 level diploma in French, I assure you that their command of French is worthy of respect even for a native French person.

    If I tell you I have HSK3/4 even in Chinese, you know I'm nowhere near fluency, despite how well I can fake it with what little I do know! :P