I’ve only played Witcher 3, and I thought it was obvious that it’s Ciri’s story being told from the perspective of the supporting cast, and that is an incredibly cool literary device.

You wouldn’t be calling it “slop” if you thought a human made it in photoshop, which means your judgement isn’t actually based on the quality of the image.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=photoslop

Man, they’re taking the “dark ages” part seriously.

Weevils!

You’re asking about something called surveying, if you want a term to search for. Modern surveying equipment uses lasers to measure the land, then they do a bunch of trig to create an accurate map. Once you have an accurate map that’s keyed to known reference points, you can design the roundabout. When you’re ready to build it, it’s just following the map and using the reference points to measure it back out.

I’ve got the best way to make coffee. You take the absolute cheapest instant coffee you can find, and a bit of salt to make it palatable. My grandpa says they made it like that when he visited Vietnam, so it must be pretty fancy, right?

Yeah, you don’t pay for software, you pay for support that won’t insult you. Seeking support for FOSS stuff is like running a gauntlet of people who insist you’re too stupid to use it.

If we want normies to use FOSS, the community needs to stop saying normies don’t deserve FOSS.

Yeah, Duterte just got reelected, and he’s in prison at the Hague rn.

I don’t see why I should be okay with that either.

They should serve manicotti at the mancott

Nah, I ran into it going on thyroid hormones too. My parents had a couple church friends that were absolutely adamant that I needed to take the ‘natural’ desiccated pig thyroid instead of the ‘unnatural’ synthetic thyroid hormones. Their faith said that their god doesn’t make mistakes, that either he wants you to have this condition, or he’s provided a perfect natural remedy, so synthetic medicines existing is hubris.

It’s more common with mental health meds, but it’s not like there’s a law saying it’s the only meds people can be shitty about.

I dunno, I wound up with a Model S via uber once, and the back seats felt like rocks.

Yeah, “author” makes the most sense. They’re usually pro-grammar.

That’s probably why it’s stuck around now that we don’t have wood fired stoves, but lifting a lid to check on a pot really does cause heat loss and makes it take longer to boil.

I think I’m the reason my high school installed security cameras.

So, we had mandatory parenting classes in lieu of sex ed, but the school didn’t have the money for those rubber babies and just made us carry around hardboiled eggs for a week. I still don’t understand that logic, but hey that’s conservative america for you.

This went, predictably, very poorly. Lots of ‘babies’ got stolen, smashed, and/or thrown out of windows, and this one guy in particular kept being weirdly pervy about it. Being conservative america, the teachers did not care that he was harassing girls about their eggs.

This guy wanted a girl’s egg so damn bad, I watched him put the combo into his locker, peeled my name sticker off the week old egg, and left it in his locker over the weekend.

The next week, there were cameras in the hallways.

We need to get rid of the month/day and just refer to days by number. Today is day 121 in the year 2025, it’s super clear.

I mean, I’d be pretty mad if I asked for bread and he brought home a beagle too. I’m not using a dog for sandwiches.

Okay, but if I told the bf to get bread on the way home, and he got donuts instead, we’re breaking up

Where do you live that bread is sweet and greasy?

Okay, so as a teenager I was a super nerd and got into swords. I took olympic style fencing lessons first, then got into the ren faire and also did some stage combat. Sadly, I have health problems and I couldn’t keep my knees in place, and had to quit. The difference between those is probably the same difference between WWE style wrestling, and BJJ. One is done with choreography, one is a competition.

They’re both sports. I don’t understand why people think the choreography somehow means it doesn’t have skills or rules? It was the same skillset, different rules. Stage combat was unpadded and used heavier weapons that left more bruises when we fucked up the choreography. They’re different, sure, but the amount of overlap is underappreciated.