Signtist
@Signtist@bookwyr.me
Formerly /u/Signtist@lemm.ee
- Comment on Me with my first edition harry potter 3 days ago:
I had a lot of nose bleeds as a kid, so my sister would never let me borrow her books because I’d always give them back with drops of blood on random pages.
- Comment on Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had. 4 days ago:
I’ve recently gotten into vinyl, and what I’ve learned is that convenience is often antithetical to experience. When just about every song ever made is immediately available to me at a moment’s notice, I stop caring; I’ll listen to a song I like for a little while then move onto the next one without thinking about it, and I won’t form any lasting memories along the way. When music is something that takes time and effort to enjoy, I have a chance to form a memory about my enjoyment, and when I have to physically find a song in order to listen to it, it gives that song much more meaning than if I spent less than 5 seconds typing the name in on Spotify.
- Comment on Frying chicken? Taking a leak? It's a mystery. 🤔 4 days ago:
- Comment on Straight up spiritual 4 days ago:
I keep people guessing. Need something big and heavy? Try my dick! Need something short and thin? Try my dick! They both make my wife roll her eyes, so I might as well use them.
- Comment on Horrorposting 1 week ago:
Honestly, doing my best to hold back the incoming splatter while desperately trying to scan the crinkled-up receipt that I haphazardly stuffed in my pocket on the way to the bathroom because I didn’t think it was important sounds like such a traumatizing experience that I’d probably never eat there again, and would be a lot more likely to result in the mess that caused the policy in the first place.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Poor air didn’t stand a chance…
- Comment on Makes you think 🤔 🦵☕️ 1 week ago:
Yup. A lot of guys, especially teenage boys, would say that the left picture is normal, and the right picture is “saggy.” They’re the same people that look at a woman wearing plenty of makeup and say “You look great without makeup!” and when she’s not wearing makeup say “Woah, are you sick or something?”
It’s such a common occurrence on the internet that I honestly think the people who are “confused” about the post are just pretending not to know about it to appear even more separated from the idea than simply disagreeing with it.
- Comment on Did your wife ever go home to mother? January 19, 1949 2 weeks ago:
This is the “great” that the hats are referring to.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
From what I understand, her previous relationships had all been transactional, where the guy made her feel like she owed him for every nice thing he did. She’s still working on allowing herself to receive without feeling a sense of debt.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
My wife hates giving blowjobs, to the point where she doesn’t even want me to go down on her since she feels bad for not wanting to reciprocate. It’s like, I don’t do it because I want to get something in return, I just want to make you feel good, haha!
- Comment on Young Americans Aren’t Buying Old Narratives on China 2 weeks ago:
One can hope they’ll both fall, and Russia too.
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 2 weeks ago:
I spent a good few hours every day on a dating site, making sure to really read through profiles and think of something interesting and engaging to talk about. I might’ve just been lucky, but I got a good amount of responses despite my less-than-ideal looks. Found one girl I clicked with, and 9 years later she’s now my wife.
- Comment on Go ahead, take one 3 weeks ago:
Got a huge bag for Christmas one year and ate the whole thing in a few days. The inside of my mouth was white with canker sores for a good while.
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 3 weeks ago:
This is what people don’t understand. Those in power, whether they’re part of the government, a wealthy CEO, or a religious leader, will do what benefits themselves if they think they can get away with it. We keep talking about powerful organizations and what they could do to benefit everyone, but fail to realize that powerful people don’t want to benefit everyone.
They only do what benefits everyone if they feel like they can’t get away with just doing what benefits themselves. It’s our responsibility to make sure they don’t think they can get away with it, and clearly strongly-worded letters and quippy signs held outside their offices for an afternoon or two isn’t enough to do that.
- Comment on The green lean mean killing machine 4 weeks ago:
The damage is permanent on a cellular level - the affected cells will either die, or in the case of radiation exposure, can become cancerous instead. If you got a small enough exposure, and immediately sought medical attention to remove the toxin from your body in the case of amatoxin ingestion, then only some cells will be affected, and maybe your organs can continue functioning and eventually recover after the affected cells die off. If the damage is significant, you might survive if you get a liver transplant and dialysis, since the liver and kidneys are the most affected due to their role in filtering and removing toxens.
- Comment on The green lean mean killing machine 4 weeks ago:
It’s not just similar, it’s the same symptom - they both kill you through damaging your cells’ ability to create proteins, radiation through damage to the DNA itself, and amatoxins from deadly mushrooms through blocking of the cell’s ability to read DNA to create mRNA, which is necessary for protein synthesis.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can’t Trust His Testimony. 4 weeks ago:
I wholeheartedly believe that anyone who’s amassed more than 10 million dollars in this country is doing something unsavory to get it - we shouldn’t blindly trust anything they say about anything. Mark has orders of magnitude more than that; everything he says should be considered a lie until proven true from multiple sources.
- Comment on Me in my home office at exactly 5:01pm everyday 4 weeks ago:
That was an issue for me as well when I started working from home, but I was able to slowly start getting myself to do things on my own, instead of needing to tack them on to preexisting commitments like going to work, which has actually helped me out a lot. The trick was for me to do the smallest possible thing, and ramp it up incredibly slowly. I started working out again by literally doing one sit-up a day. For weeks that’s all I did, but eventually I moved up to 5, then to more, and added more exercises until now, where I’ve got a whole weekly routine.
I did the same thing for other chores that needed doing, and it’s been long enough now that I can just decide to do something that I need to do in the moment, instead of always saying “I’ll do it after work,” which would always turn into “I’ll do it after work tomorrow” when work actually ended. It makes outings more fun, too, since they’re not always filled to the brim with all the things I was putting off doing.
- Comment on everyone agrees 4 weeks ago:
I like that people like dogs - they deserve a good home and loving owner - but they make me nervous. I was almost attacked by a dog on the street as a kid, and my dad had to take the bite instead to save me. 2 other kids in my family have been bitten by dogs as well, both times by dogs they had spent a significant amount of time with, but that suddenly got triggered by something out of the blue and attacked. I just can’t trust that they’ll always be friendly, and even one second of aggression is enough to cause some real damage.
- Comment on BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, annatto is a traditional cheese dye, but outside of the US cheddar doesn’t often have much annatto if any, so it’s not usually died orange. Here’s a video of someone making a marbled cheddar cheese where one part has annatto and the other doesn’t, so you can easily see the difference in the final product.
- Comment on W for Uncle Ted 5 weeks ago:
Pretty sure that was the joke - a guy randomly trying to kill people did more to punish members of a pedophile ring by complete happenstance than the governmental body whose job it’s meant to be to do so.
- Comment on Dragon Quest VIII is so charming 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, if you’re like me and like the fun dialogue the most, I’d just focus on DQ8 and see if you like it enough to finish it. If you do, I’d suggest giving 11 another go after that, since that’s definitely the most similar title in the franchise. If you do want to try getting into the custom characters games down the line, 7 reimagined would probably be a decent starting point, since they have some customization while still having distinct characters with personality and voice acting.
- Comment on Dragon Quest VIII is so charming 5 weeks ago:
It’s somewhat divisive. Some people liked it a lot, but I thought it was a bit of a downgrade following DQ8. Since it’s a 3D game on the original DS, it’s a little bit low on the graphics side, and there’s no voice acting or anything. You also get to create and customize your party members’ looks and class, which is something it shares with other games in the franchise like DQ3; some people really like that, but I think it takes away from the interesting party banter like what you get in 8, since the customized characters don’t have dialogue and end up feeling samey. The story is still on par with any other dragon quest game, though, so if you can look past all that, it’s still pretty fun.
- Comment on Dragon Quest VIII is so charming 5 weeks ago:
Good choice to start - DQ8 is my favorite of the mainline titles! 11 is a close second, though. I’ve been playing 7 reimagined, and an really enjoying it as well. I tried playing 7 back on the 3DS and couldn’t finish it - it’s really long - but now I’ve blown past where I stopped back then and am still invested, so it’s shaping up to be a good choice, too!
- Comment on Always works and tastes better 1 month ago:
My dad’s got that exact style that he uses when camping. I didn’t drink coffee, but he says it’s great.
- Comment on You are allowed flavor 1 month ago:
A Hawaiian corset tests hundreds; indie hero icon hence absolved.
- Comment on If vegetarians eat vegetables, and humanitarians eat humans, what do Bavarians eat? 1 month ago:
Bavarian cream-filled donuts
Source: I’m classified as Bavarian by diet
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I specifically chose my instance by what content they did and didn’t choose to block. I turned away from several otherwise appealing instances because they didn’t block some of the content I would’ve wanted them to. I know I can do it myself, and I do when I need to, but I want an instance that aligns with my interests enough that I don’t have to worry about blocking every problematic group as they pop up. If something changes and the instance ends up blocking things I wouldn’t want blocked, I move to another instance. It’s as easy as moving to another seat on the bus - barely an inconvenience.
- Comment on Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Good to know, thanks! I’ve seen a lot of good things about Hyundai as well, though I do get concerned given how many issues I’ve had with my 2 Kias over the last several years. I was considering waiting to get an EV Corolla when they apparently come out in a year or two, but I also don’t know if I want to wait that long.
- Comment on I would also be confused 1 month ago:
Usually when someone is contacting someone else while working on making peace with their feelings about that person’s behavior, it’s because they want to have a discussion with them about it. It’s unusual for it to be a one-and-done text without expectation of a response. But if a response is expected, it’s then unusual to follow up that text with another concerning a completely different topic. If I were in this situation, I’d find it hard to begin a discussion about her annoyance, which is valid and deserves to be explored, when the current topic is now a winery van.