Furbag
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- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 4 days ago:
Begging your pardon for that, sorry.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 4 days ago:
Well, 2026 is easy because neither of them will be on that ballot. That’s why midterms are tough for incumbents, because there’s less motivation for their party to turn out, but the aggrieved opposition are highly motivated to turn out as a referendum on the current administration.
2028, who knows man. Anything can happen between now and then. I feel like if someone voted for Trump in 2020 or 2024 then they are terminally stupid.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 4 days ago:
Thanks Uncle. I’ll meditate on your wisdom.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 6 days ago:
I tried doing Ironman a while back. Not even on classic, just on whatever the latest patch was. It was only getting easier with time and I wanted my name on that leaderboard. In my mind, it didn’t seem like it would be that difficult as long as I played carefully.
I gave up after level 20. I didn’t die, but I had a few close calls and figured it wasn’t going to be worth it to grind out 90+ more levels using the worst gear in the game and no healing or stat boosting items.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 6 days ago:
That dominoes shit makes no sense to me. I’ve tried to look up the rules multiple times online and then I go into the game and try to make a legal move and the game won’t let me.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 1 week ago:
I miss my Blackberry Pearl…
I fear that that design of phone layout/UI will never make a comeback.
- Comment on What a great idea 1 week ago:
The most oblivious people on earth gather at Costco, I swear.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
So, these idiots didn’t learn their lesson the first time with the colossal flop that was Stadia and now they want to convince us that, this time for sure, we really don’t want to own our own hardware and cloud computing is the future?
These guys should not be getting a single bent penny for convincing people to switch over to cloud computing when their AI slop machines are responsible for the scarcity that is causing hardware prices to be completely uneconomical.
- Comment on You shall not cut! 1 week ago:
This sounds insane, and I used to think so as well until my ex did just that in front of me one day and then I tried it the next time I cooked a pizza at home. 1000% a better tool than a pizza cutter wheel. I’m a convert.
- Comment on A complete tier list for our solar system 2 weeks ago:
Ganymede and Titan are an easy shoe-in for A tier.
- Comment on Unquestionably high class 2 weeks ago:
Agreed. Fill it with frosting or whipped cream or something, not Greek salad… wtf.
- Comment on (A)lbert e(I)nstein 3 weeks ago:
Your code sucks. I don’t even need to see it, I just know.
- Comment on Priorities 3 weeks ago:
That advice was likely a holdover from the time when wedding rings were essentially insurance for the wife if her husband died suddenly - sell the ring and be able to live for a while on that money while you search for a new husband.
Now that women are, y’know, allowed to work for a living rather than being forced into homemakers, it makes a lot less sense for the wedding band to be outside of one’s means to purchase.
I just tell people to buy what looks nice to them and is in budget. My wife has a gold band with some inscribed decorations, and I have a band of silver and inlayed meteorite. They were both under $1000. No need for flawless diamonds, rare stones or precious metals. We’re happy.
- Comment on wisdom 3 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, I found the phylactery.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I think even Dhalsim would be impressed by this level of yoga.
- Comment on Sweet ancestry 4 weeks ago:
We all came from the same slimy creature that slithered out of the primordial soup and never looked back.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 4 weeks ago:
Oh, I completely forgot about that. You’re right, that 10 point deduction would have caused the grade to fall to exactly 0.
I was trying to be magnanimous, but ultimately I think both professors have the right of it. This student never intended to participate in the class in good faith - the barbed submission was intentionally baiting out a failing grade and negative response from the professor so that it could be used as fuel for the political culture war.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 4 weeks ago:
An attempt was made. It’s clear that at least the student read the article from the assignment, and turned something in. The fact that it doesn’t answer the question and is generally substanceless from an academic standpoint is where the points should be deducted from.
A zero is probably too harsh. I would grade it as a fail, but give the student extra time to submit a revised version. Using the professor’s grading scale, that would be a 5 for #1 (she did read the article and her reaction to it had some tie-in to the subject material, it was just insufficient), a 0 for #2 (She avoided summarizing, but failed to provide a “thoughful reaction or response”, as most of her writing was merely dismissive and not constructive) and a 5 for #3 (It was clearly written, I’ll give her that much). So 10 points out of 25 total, or 40%, which is a fail.
I think this student would be happier in seminary school, not university.
- Comment on Construction magic 5 weeks ago:
Ribbon cutting ceremony? Groundbreaking ceremony?
All rituals to please the eldritch crane God, so that a suitable avatar can be summoned to the material world. Praise be.
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 5 weeks ago:
Ok, now I’m inappropriately laughing at work. Thanks 🤣
- Comment on until next year 1 month ago:
There’s a version called the One Piece Omnibus Supercut that also eliminates the intros and outros, except for the first time they are shown. It chops the episodes up and stitches them together to make them about movie length each.
- Comment on until next year 1 month ago:
Oda said once upon a time that the One Piece is a physical object, not metaphorical or figurative.
But he may as well have said that a million years ago at this point.
With One Piece entering it’s “final chapters”, I wonder if Oda is going to be able to stick the landing.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 1 month ago:
Two people, in fact. First was a Hell’s Angel’s enforcer. Had lunch at a Chinese restaurant with him and a few other people from my former Kung Fu school. Apparently he was a former student and credibly accused of murdering a rival biker gang member, but the jury was hung and couldn’t convict.
Second was none other than Shrimp Boy, after he got released from prison for the armed robbery but before he got locked up again for the racketeering charges. Met in in Chinatown literally a few days before the feds closed in on him. Shared a cup of tea with him without knowing his identity and didn’t find out until someone present told me who he was days later.
- Comment on Hot Mouse Ass 1 month ago:
Thought I was in /c/yiff for a sec, lol
- Comment on My Religion 1 month ago:
I think because most religious tenets are more restrictive rather than permissive, it’s easy to say “everyone should have the freedom to practice their own religion.”, but the part that gets left out is “including no religion at all.” and that is an important distinction.
Whenever I meet these types of psycho Christian nationalists who think it’s A-OK to impose their own regressive views on others by rewriting the law to be a reflection of their holy text, I just fire back with an even more regressive, barbaric interpretation of a religious commandment.
“I worship Ba’al Hamon, and my religion says I must sacrifice an infant child to gain his favor. I will lobby my congressmen to change the law to add an exception to infanticide when performing a ritualistic blood offering. Oh, what’s that? You don’t like that? Gee, and you were so gung-ho about forcing people to abide by your religious demands a second ago. I thought we were cool with forcing our beliefs on other people?”
If your religion can’t coexist with nonbelievers without forcibly bending them to your rules, it’s a shit religion.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 1 month ago:
I’ve been calling it Handegg for over a decade now. My Handegg-loving friends hate it.
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 1 month ago:
I’m appreciating the silence while it lasts.
- Comment on The President of the United States of America 1 month ago:
If nature has its way, soon we will all become crabs in beautiful carcinization. 🦀
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 1 month ago:
The nemesis system patents and Namco’s loading screen mini game patent are two examples of why game mechanics and features should never be granted an exclusive patent.
Of course Namco’s patents expired in 2015 at a time when seamless load screens had become the industry standard.
Who knows what the gaming landscape will look like when people are finally able to get their hands on the nemesis system again?
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 1 month ago:
Couldn’t agree more. That’s generally the philosophy I live by.