Guess it’s time for you and he to have some kids! If you don’t want to ‘steal’ pictures from facebook, there’s always the new image generators.

I find it so sad that your take shouldn’t be a hot take.

Ah, yes, thank you. Mirepoix. But no, I recognize it in tons of dishes at restaurants I’ve tried over the years. Maybe they all source their dishes from one source, but it sure seems like everything has been basted with a sauce using that combo, or the side dishes have been steeped in it. I’m not saying every food, just a ridiculous amount.

I’m pretty sure I made it from elementary to nearly the end of high school without having to go at school. There’s just way too much opportunity for people to fuck with you when you’re in a stall.

(most) Fursuits are way too expensive to muck up with biological matters. I think the fursuiters I know would smile, close their eyes, and gently pat you for your joke, only to grow aghast as they realize the reality of the suggestion of something that could fuck with their gigantic investment.

Whoah, share that wisdom with the rest of us. I’d just like more regularity in my life. (and don’t tell me to eat more fiber. I eat enough fiber. Beans are cheap, and cheap is important right now.)

Oh, hey, that reminds me of skyrim, the little portion north of windhelm, where septim tiberius the… Ah, god, I couldn’t keep it up.

The flights are probably a mixed bag. There are also cases where they just open up the lines and let everyone through without passing through security screening. It’s happened a few times, though I’ve never gotten so lucky.

Right? People seem to forget that ~50% of voters went for dump. That’s not 100% rural and 0% urban, 100% rich and 0% poor… There are a lot of assholes who have money (lawyers, doctors, small business owners, engineers, teachers, nurses, police, firemen, emts, pilots, office workers in healthcare, government bureaucrats, etc., etc.) that think they ‘earned’ all that money and ‘the left’ (super big air quotes with a funny voice on that one) just wants to take it from them and give it to the stoner living in the basement of his grandmother’s friend who looks at him funny on sunday nights when she asks him if he wants to share some of her beef stew. There’s also a lot of folks who are in a trailer on the property that their great-grandparents once owned, along with their 3 siblings, 7 cousins, and 11 second cousins in their own trailers, while their father and aunt and uncle fight over who gets to keep living in the actual house after someone clogged the septic system over the weekend, and sure, they vote republican and will never get on a jet, but they’re likely the minority, humorously enough.

Oh, hi hexbear.

What’s that trifecta that is taught as some holy scripture at culinary schools? Celery, onions, and something else. Once you recognize it, the damn taste is everywhere and really, it’s NOT some god tier make everything taste good hack, you no talent piss pouring oven abusers, it’s just a particular combination that can be good! Stop putting it in everything as if the dish has to have it or be bad!

Our property.

My company has started using AI voices/figures in the videos. Like they weren’t bad enough already…

AI watching AI to AI some slop to satisfy the AI the HR is using. Ugh.

Grumble, bumble, stay quite humble,

for invisibility is NOT how we tumble.

Also The Culture: We have nearly as many citizens living in virtual realities as we do interacting with the physical world as their primary mode.

Also Also The Culture: How we learned to stop worrying and love the AIs that guide the ‘economy’ and everything else.

Also Also Also The Culture: Our AIs can do really cool subspace explosions around themselves and survive, leading to a shortening of the war by (I actually forget the real number) nine months.

Also Also Also Also The Culture: You want a tail this week? Cool. You want a penis next week? Cooler. You want to breed by sporulation while eating the flesh of humans? Dude, absolutely sick, and not telling us we were eating humans until afterwards? Siiiick joke, dude! (This is well done in context, I’m just funning)

(And, finally, sadly, in relation to our current times…)

Also Also Also Also Also The Culture: Oh, the war has you bummed out, man? Just hop into animated sleep for however long you want - yeah, current average time is 200 years it looks like - and we’ll wake you up to see how things are.

The Culture was a great set of books.

I personally love when it backfires and HOAs bankrupt themselves with lawyer fees.

Two reasons (and a bunch more, but a big two): (1) The thing that lemmy claims to love but mocks in cases where it actually happens: community, and (2) It’s a very accessible game with a very high skill ceiling.

For (1), the only other game that really compares is golf. Maybe street basketball in some places. The games are relatively short, and the way the communities set up is that after you play a game, you walk off the court and let the next group of four play a game. While waiting for a court to open up, you mingle around with all the other people waiting. There are usually several ‘stacks’ of paddles (literal stacks here, of four for how many players in a single court) that determine who gets to play next, and most people don’t play with the same four over and over again, so you’ll get to play with a bunch of people, talk with a bunch of people, and generally have a pretty good community feel. The more ‘elite’ areas are sad in that you generally see the same four people putting their paddles together and never mingling, but the VAST majority of places will have you mixing every time. Most places get a natural 1:1 play:sitting time, as people leave if there is too long of a wait.

For (2), I would describe the advanced level as a tactical-chess-tennis game. Where in tennis greater skill equates with hitting the ball harder and not having it fly off, pickleball (doubles, that is, singles is just a stupid weird tennis) quickly transitions to a game of soft shots that can occasionally speed up. This lets 80 year olds play very successfully against younger groups, from beginner up to semi-advanced skill levels. I definitely got my ass handed to me by some octogenarians when I was a few years into the game. It also makes it simple for a very advanced player to play with a beginner/intermediate skill level without being bored or an apparent jerk. I tell people (now) that you don’t even have to hit the ball hard to win. It’s much more fun to slowly separate your opponents and then simply hit it between them where you can’t hit it. It’s much easier to learn than tennis or badminton. I think I remember a person asking here on lemmy about a company tennis competition, and someone said that it would take months to even stay on the court with someone who routinely plays tennis. Pickleball, meanwhile, would probably see the average person being able to play a game with most others inside of a week. The equipment isn’t cheaper, but I guarantee you that you would be offered a dozen paddles to play with if you went to your local park and found people playing and told them you wanted to try/learn how to play. This translates back to the community bit. If you can play with everybody out there and have a good time doing it, you’re guaranteed to come back again and again. Contrast that with tennis or badminton where you are likely to be asked to find people at your skill level, because playing with you isn’t fun (and most people bring exactly the amount of folks they need to play in both of those).

Other minor reasons include it’s inherently a silly and fun game. You’ll hear all the tennis players mocking pickleball because it’s a (modified) whiffle ball, and the paddles are like giant ping-pong paddles, and so on, and you know what? They’re right. It’s an incredibly silly game, just like every other game we play but without the decades or centuries long traditions of ignoring how silly the games are.

Women don’t want you to be mysterious, they want a dick (or strapon) made of chocolate that ejaculates money. Hell, I want a dick or strapon made of chocolate that ejaculates money, and I’m a dog!

Oh, shit, I wasn’t supposed to let ya’ll know dogs can get on the internet.

The species in question is a species of snakes.

I mean, describing it as providing “a service that people enjoy” is probably the weirdest bit. We’ve got to remember that the outspoken ones, at least on areas outside of major social media, are nerdy introverts for the most part. There are people that are ‘chameleons,’ where they have a group of tennis friends (I probably need to update that description to the more popular pickleball, now…), a group of mall-shopping friends, a group of partying friends, and it’s possible that it isn’t always the case, but almost always ‘never the [thrain] shall meet.’ The various groups would probably not have much in common. The nerdy introverts, though? They’re the opposite, where their small, core group of friends are likely all similar and share a lot of activities together.

You can imagine that the majority of ttrpg groups fit the second group more than the first. Not all of them, but most.