What I mean is like, what do you think is unironically awesome, even if people now think its cringe or stupid?
Gender variance. Cosmetics can be fun, and sometimes women’s clothes are just so damn comfy.
Working out. Used to think it was too hard and I didn’t have time. Pushed myself, started exercising at home and it’s snowballed to protein loading, supplement taking, and lifting to failure. It’s good to feel like jelly.
Cats. I used to be a dog person until I rescued this little red oxytocin potato.
Saving money. I take pride in doing my research and getting the best deal instead of just stumbling into the first store I come across and paying for whatever the sales person talks me into. The latter wouldn’t even hurt me financially, it’s just a thing of principle.
Nickelback. I don’t know why they get so much hate, their music is actually decent
Nickelback had a VERY distinctive style, to the point you could mix their songs together “This is how you remind me to wish you’d unclench your fists” style and people wouldn’t notice. They’re relative lack of range caused them to wear out their welcome a LOT faster than average.
They deserve every last dollop of shit they got for No Fixed Address though.
Charlie Kirk getting fucking holed
They had the actual footage was on YouTube. Well it was this afternoon at least.
Will this be the new “Hey man, nice shot”?
Literally just got banned from the red place for saying “lol, I don’t give a fuck” for promoting or threatening violence.
If he’s so pro life, why is he dead?
If he was anti-vax why did get a shot?
Brave and contrary.
The ends of a loaf of bread are the best slices
Crust is the best part of any food intended to have a crust!
Now that’s a spicy take
I enjoy the heels (what I’ve called the ends of the loafs) because the crust helps with the structure of the sandwich. The fillings are less likely to break through the crust and spill out compared to the open pocket structure of the insides of the loaf.
Ok, hot take, you can’t judge the bread as a slice by itself. It’s the context around the slice that matters. For example, dry foods can be good when paired with non dry foods. But on their own, I’m not a fan of dry foods. I can see the end of the loaf being good when paired with the right filling. But in the context of a slice of buttered toast, I don’t really want the end of the loaf.
For sure. Texture is definitely important in context.
If you care, and I think you might, the size of the holes inside bread is called the crumb. At least, in some places I’ve seen(entirely too many bread baking videos at one point)
Useless information is still fun to share sometimes
Yeah, crumb was definitely the right word to use there. My brain gets a bit fuzzy with words sometimes.
I don’t think it’s super common knowledge, I only know it from watching vidyas on the net. I got the sense you enjoyed the bread so would be a shame to not say anything if you would have found it useful if you didn’t know it, but figured someone else on here might not have known it either
Especially toasted. So much crunch.
Bluesky and AT proto
The idea that you can just take your account and migrate it to different PDS is awesome.
Superman
A lot of people dismiss Superman as being “too powerful” or “unrelatable.” They’ll say Batman is more relatable because he doesn’t have superpowers. But seriously, how many of us can actually relate to being a billionaire playboy with unlimited resources? In contrast, Superman grew up in small-town, working-class America. He is as much Clark Kent as he is Superman.
People call him a “boy scout,” as if that’s a flaw. But that misses the point. The fact that he has the power to rule the world and chooses not to, is what makes him extraordinary. He sets an ideal for people to strive for.
Yes, in the hands of a bad writer he can become a walking deus ex machina. But in the hands of a good writer, Superman becomes the core of some of the most powerful and iconic stories in comics. His greatness doesn’t come from what he can do, it comes from the choices he makes.
He’s a power fantasy for those who if they had all the power in the world just want to use it to help
Superman probably pays more in taxes than Batman.
That is probably because Batman doesn’t pay taxes, Bruce Wayne does.
And Bruce Wayne is known for spending tons of the Wayne foundation on helping the poor and criminalized. Tons of charities, schools, orphanages, homeless shelters, … are funded by them.
And if Bruce gets tax breaks because of that, it is because that is how the law works, not because he wants them.
Bruce is far from the average Billionaire you get in our dimension.
I love Batman (currently replaying the Rocksteady games for the 3rd time) and I grew up with him and cannot really relate to Superman since I am not a farm boy. But it is very easy to see how Batman is in fact a fascist-capitalist fantasy.
A rich man who takes things in his own hands on a whim, infiltrating public order tech, hoarding personal data on virtually everyone in Gotham (at least) if not resorting to real-time surveillance by infiltrating personal devices (in The Dark Knight).
The idea that he “does good” by deciding a subset of all possible activities on which to spend his money and never spends himself on releasing that decision power to the public is exactly what brought the US where they are and what they hate viscerally about the EU (even if the sliding is real here as well).
By your reasoning, is also because Superman probably doesn’t pay taxes, Clark Kent dies
Bruce Wayne doesn’t exist, it’s merely a disguise Batman sometimes wears.
Superman has the ability to remove Capitalists from power and chooses not to. That is why I don’t care for Superman.
He doesn’t live in our reality. He was also invented at a time when government functioned at least somewhat, and social progress was being made.
Overly Sarcastic Productions has done a number of videos they call detail diatribes that have focused on Superman. The summary of many of them is that Superman is his most interesting when saving people and not when punching villains. Even in larger team fights, he could save everyone or hold off the threat, but he can’t do both so he needs the help of others.
I actually love superman being a normal dude who saves people with a smile. He should be a good person in stories, because his strength isnt the point, his willpower to help everyone is.
They’ll say Batman is more relatable because he doesn’t have superpowers.
Okay, but he’s a billionaire super-scientist who occasionally uses occult magicks. How does none of this qualify?
Superman grew up in small-town, working-class America
Sure, but how many modern day Americans could relate to growing up on a farm? Or getting a job in journalism?
The fact that he has the power to rule the world and chooses not to, is what makes him extraordinary.
I think superheroes are largely defined by their villains. And Lex Luthor - as an individual who regularly does struggle to dominate the world (and periodically succeeds with mixed results) - makes an excellent foil for this exact reason. Superman is, at his heart, just a guy trying to do the right thing. Luthor is an ego-maniacal fascist who cannot conceive of having less than total control.
The best Superman stories are ones that illustrate the practical limits of a seemingly omnipotent individual. It’s Superman’s struggles - his poor choices, his desire for human affection, his naive optimism, his inability to be everywhere at once - that make him relatable. The idea of Superman as a maximal human who still can’t do everything has a way of taking the load of us, comparably weak and vulnerable people, who strive for just as much as a fictional demigod.
Have you ever read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman%3A_Red_Son ?
I’m not a big fan of Superman stuff, but I found that one to be pretty interesting.
It’s a good one. That one and All-Star Superman are the two I always recommend to people.
All star Superman the DC movie is easily the most hilarious thing I’ve ever seen. Every moment is dumber than the one before it. I laughed so hard I nearly died. Seriously go get messed up and watch it with your friends!
It definitely wasn’t one of DC’s best adaptions. They really tried to squeeze too much in for the run time. They totally could have dropped the whole Atlas and Samson thing and concentrated more on the main story.
Honestly, if they fixed a few things it would just be an extremely mediocre and bad movie so it’s better off that it’s an unbelievable cavalcade of nonsense
I was gonna ask, thank you!
I’ve not read All-Star yet, but I keep getting it recommended to me. Thanks!
All-Star is what made me change my mind on Superman. I never really liked him when I was younger, and it was for all the same complaints that people have already listed above. But All-Star was a blast to read, not in spite of it’s (at times) cheesiness, but because of it. All-Star Superman is relatable because he embodies the best traits in all of us; he is incredibly intelligent and kind, leveled and patient. Without going into spoilers, I think what I love most about All-Star is that it shows that even the best among us have our weaknesses, and that it’s not the huge, planet-level threats that define who are and what we do, but the small, innocuous things that can most affect who we are in the moment.
High school of the Dead. I watched the anime because of that titty/bullet gif. I freaking loved that show.
Not so much the piss scene, but still.Yes the story is so fun. After the anime I also ready on in the Manga, which is also good. It’s so sad that Daisuke Satō died so soon. Now it will remain unfinished.
Yes, indeed, please share the source for that piss scene. Asking for a friend.
What piss scene? I Must have pushed it out of my Brain…
AMD > Nvidia
There’s simply no reason why a GPU should have proprietary drivers, when that is a core, basically inseparable part of a computer. You literally NEED one to see what you’re doing with your computer (yes, integrated graphics also count).
I mean, imagine if your sound card had proprietary drivers. The world would go nuts.
Printers should not need drivers anymore. There should have been a standard protocol for them by now.
You can USUALLY get by with HP universal PCL drivers for most any printers, regardless of brand.
Yes, I know HP is parasitic in the ink/toner department, but PCL is pretty universal itself.
Supposedly Microsoft will be dumping printer drives here soon anyway for IPP connectors.
Exactly, like, I don’t wanna have to uninstall and reinstall these drivers just with a printer upgrade.
Not only that, but printer ink is still absurdly expensive.
I actually bought a little Pentium tablet so I could have something in the shop running FreeCAD instead of printing my drawings on paper because HORSE FUCK ALL OF THE PRINTERS.
Gun Control lol
Charlie Kirk would approve… Well, he would now I mean. SCNR
Too soon?
someone shot charlie kirk?
goddamn the trump admin will do ANYTHING to distract from the epstein horrors
I saw someone say charlie kirk used the getting shot tactic to avoid the question.
💀💀💀
The shooter did demonstrate excellent control of that gun. Put a bullet through a carotid artery from beyond “saw it coming” distance.
You would be surprised with how many old timers would agree with you if they weren’t in a self enforced social isolation bubble. I’ve heard farmers at two separate gun counters completely dumb founded when they find out they don’t need to fill out any paperwork to sell a gun to a friend. And that’s just meandering around in my day to day. I can’t imagine how regularly often Atwood’s has to deal with them.
Modern magic. We tricked crystals into thinking by drugging them and zapping them with electricity. Then we used those crystals to trick matricies into hallucinating by forcing them to guess the answer to math questions and smacking them when they get it wrong and kept doing that until they get it right. Ethics and hype aside, it’s pretty fucking wild.
At first I thought you would talk about Magic the Gathering. My confusion increased with every sentence.
What?
They’re talking about computer chips. We dug up rocks, melted them down, and extracted the parts we wanted. Then we engraved arcane and imperceptible runes on and inside of them, using an extremely expensive and delicate process. Then we trapped lightning inside of them, and told them to show us videos of cats.
Okay, when you put it like that lol
You missed the bit before engraving them where we grow the rocks into crystals and “drug” (using the OP’s term) them by infusing them with the essence of different rocks, to turn them into slightly different kinds of rocks, which need to be very precisely combined for the engraving to produce the intended result.
Computer silicon and transformer models
transformer models
Surely, more than meets the eye!
I was an early adopter of No Man’s Sky (long before the shift in public perception), and I fucking loved it back then, and love it now as well. But admitting that in public a few years back was tantamount to saying that stapling your child to a rabid badger was a great alternative to hiring a babysitter.
stapling your child to a rabid badger was a great alternative to hiring a babysitter.
lololololololololol
I actually preferred the early days, I don’t like most of the recent updates and I haven’t played in probably a year. I can’t really explain why except now it feels too busy.
Dude, next time use a healthy badger and you’ll only have to deal with blowback from NMS.
What is no man’s sky
A space exploration video game. It had a famously bad launch, because the director had over-promised on basically every single feature. It was massively anticipated because the director had hyped it up so much. And when it launched, players quickly discovered that many of the promised features were only half finished, or were missing entirely. The backlash was swift, but the company said they planned to keep working on the game.
And now many years later, the game is actually fairly solid, and basically meets the original promises. But at launch, it definitely didn’t.
I’ll forever be mad about it because I thought I was buying a planetary physics/ecology simulator and I got “we have Spore at home.” I don’t care that it has Minecraft in it now, it still doesn’t do the thing I cared about from the early hype.
I have a lot of respect for the Devs, as shining example of “how to recover from a mistake and make it up to your players”
Many other dev teams would have probably taken their payday and disappeared into the wind after that launch.
Steven Universe. The online fandom was insane. The actual show was incredible.
Yeah, the fandom is… Not great. It’s basically just an American anime, but the online fans are rabid.
It honestly reminds me of the fandom for Undertale. If you only ever play the game, you’ll have a wonderful time. But if you ever do some online searches to try to dig into it further or find people to discuss it with, you’ll quickly discover that the online fandom is extremely toxic.
I think the fandom is so crappy about it because the show had to cut out most of the redemption arc of the big bads because it was prematurely cancelled. If so that’s pretty silly because it came about after the creator stuck up for a lesbian wedding being included.
I tried so hard but it just didn’t click with me.
That’s OK. No piece of art or media is gonna be everyone’s Thing.
My daughter introduced me to that show. I enjoyed watching it with her.
Greg fucking rules.
I’d say the same thing for generation 4 of My Little Pony.
