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Honestly I think this is the point of confusion. This guy has somehow never heard the word used anywhere other than the widespread military usage and his own field. Weird that that's the case, but given that starting point I don't think it's crazy for him to say "why are people in my field acting like we've fought in a war? Maybe we should chill and take ourselves less seriously".

Obviously there's the additional problems of not googling things before trying to make a public point, and apparently doubling down when corrected. But I see where a sufficiently sheltered person could get there at least.

this improved my mental health

got any pictures of turtles wearing ferretnecks?

Buying sold software.

You people make me sick.

A toast sandwich consists of only these following items. Bread. More bread (usually toasted). This entire community consist of "double-deckers". Almost every "toast" sandwich i see on here has other spreads added to it. The fact that this community is called "toastsandwich" is nothing short of utter blasphemy. Let me start out by saying I have nothing against double-deckers, I just hate their association with sandwiches that are not toast sandwiches. Adding toast to your butter sandwich? It's called a butter double-decker. Totally different. Want to add mayo and some pretentious bread crumbs with salt? I don't know what the hell you'd call that but it's not a toast sandwich. I would be more than willing to wager I've eaten more toast sandwiches in my 21 years than any of you had in your entire lives. I have one almost everyday and sometimes more than just one sandwich. Want to personalize your toast sandwich? Use a mix of different toastedness levels or use sourdough or french bread. But if you want to add some olive oil and take a picture of it, make your own community entitled "double-deckers" because that is not a fucking toast sandwich. I'm not a religious man nor am I anything close to a culinary expert. But as a bland white british male I am honestly the most passionate person when it comes to toast sandwiches and water soup. All of you foodies stay the hell away from our toast sandwiches and stop associating your double-decker sandwiches with them. Yet again, it is utter blasphemy and it rocks me to the core of my pale being. Shit, I stopped lurking after 3 years and made this account for the sole purpose of posting this. I've seen post after post of peoples "toast sandwiches" all over lemmy and it's been driving me insane. The moment i saw this community this morning I finally snapped. Hell, I may even start my own community just because I know this one exists now.

You god damn heretics. Respect the toast sandwich and stop changing it into whatever you like and love it for it what it is. Or make your damn double-decker sandwich and call it for what it is. A double-decker.

He mentioned he uses automatic1111

The stable diffusion mode for working with existing images is called img2img

It's been forever since I read it, but I think the cool suit was covering himself in sandtrout, which eventually led to the wormy fascism?

I did think more or less the same thing on seeing this meme though, in that my first reaction was "wait, wasn't that God Emperor?"

Well you can start here, then spend a few decades reading and thinking about it, and get back to us when you've figured it out

The following year she was exiled to Mars, where she grew an extra boob

Fittingly enough, this is called the Square-Cube law

maybe it should be 1d2 then - can only deal 4 points of damage on a crit

He's talking about the belgariad/malloreon, by David Eddings. It seems like he may not have read the second paragraph mentioning the death gate cycle, hence the confusion.

The Belgariad is a series of 5 books, and the Malloreon is a sequel series which is also 5 books.

This stuff is generally archived and indexed elsewhere, that's just where the main request threads are

Google "da archive" and be prepared for a rabbit hole of archived 4chan threads and indexes that probably have whatever games you're looking for if you're willing to dig long enough

which sport is the extremest

I actually just read it for the first time in the past few days too. After all the hype, I was a bit let down although I still found it somewhat engaging. Its real strength is the dreamlike style, although that often seemed conscious and artificial - I occasionally became very aware that I was reading something the author had intentionally crafted to be stylistic, which took me out of the experience. I was surprised by how little happened over the course of the book, how little characterization there was (apart from the main character, largely fleshed out through constant flashbacks rather than a sense of her personality), and how flat the dialogue was. The way of alluding to the indescribable and incomprehensible was enjoyable, but nothing new. I'll still read the next two though (already started the second).

I also found their mind-control depiction of hypnosis to be a bit unrealistic for my liking. I know it's a book about reality warping madness, but it seemed like everything outside of Area X was supposed to be essentially present day reality, which the hypnosis isn't.

Needs quotation marks

I'm sure it's better when made by a professional, but if you really want to try it, this site has a recipe: https://gluttodigest.com/cube-croissants-square-croissants-with-an-extra-dimension-of-texture/

It also mentions some places that sell it, but I'm guessing those are expensive and/or distant.

I don't know about modern Germans, but the nazis definitely appropriated and identified with classical Roman and Greek culture (here's one well-regarded book exploring this).

Given that the original post is about fascism and racial supremacy, I assume any German fascists/supremacists it's referring to share some ideology with the nazis in this regard.

Talking to people and examining writing will usually drop references to a couple of other places to explore, or to unanswered questions that are worth looking into. Even if they seem minor, these almost inevitably lead to putting together pieces of the larger story, regardless of which pieces you start with. I don't specifically remember what whistling guy talks about, but it sounds like that's the only potential lead you've found so far. It's certainly possible to make progress without ever talking to him, via all kinds of things that can be independently stumbled on, but if you haven't found anything else I bet revisiting his dialogue will give you an idea on where to search next.

(Okay, I checked the wiki and can confirm that, while Esker is not the richest source of new options in the game, his dialogue does include instructions that lead to new threads for you to pull on)