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2023-12-15, 05:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-15, 06:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
There's no point arguing about tastes, if you don't like coffee then that's - you, good luck to you, we all have our quirks. But if you add all that nonsense to it, there's no drink you can reasonably call "coffee" remaining. At most it's coffee-flavoured.
If the water is more than ten seconds past boiling, it's not hot enough. (The action of boiling dissipates heat very quickly.) If you serve it in a reasonable sized cup, it should be at a drinkable (edit: sippable, not gulpable) temperature in about five minutes.
Some people, such as my brother, being crazy, make it in a pint mug. Then it takes considerably longer to cool.Last edited by veti; 2023-12-15 at 06:29 PM.
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2023-12-15, 06:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
There's levels to coffee quality for sure. My personal experience:
Really good coffee - tastes good black, tastes really bad if you put ANYTHING in it, it's weird.
Good coffee - decent black but better with a bit of milk; doesn't like anything sugary added to it, somehow makes the aftertaste way more bitter
Average coffee - undrinkable black, good with milk, perfect for any sweet coffee drink like a Vietnamese coffee
Bad coffee - is bad
I keep a couple of different "qualities" in my pantry for just this reason. Folger's is great if I want something sweet, better quality stuff for other different moods.
Interesting. I was always taught to bring the water to a light (not rolling) boil or just before and assumed it was because by the time it boiled it would be too hot. Didn't know it was the other way around lol.Last edited by Rynjin; 2023-12-15 at 06:36 PM.
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2023-12-15, 06:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-15, 07:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 1
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2023-12-15, 08:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-15, 08:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-15, 08:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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As in home of the UK Office, and the movie 'An Education'
Yeah spent a fair amount of time there as a wee flumph
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2023-12-15, 08:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-15, 09:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2023-12-15, 09:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2023-12-16, 01:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-20, 06:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-20, 09:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-20, 09:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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I really feel like there should be a hard line between "Criticism" and "Insults".
One is saying "this thing you did is not to my taste for [x reason], the other is saying "you suck" while providing nothing of substance.
If you want something you say to be viewed as Criticism, you should A: Not insult the individual, B: Point out what part of their work you dislike, and C: Offer any amount of guidance or idea as to how what you dislike could be mitigated.
"I wasn't a fan of this video, you relied too much on the dissolve effect, there was a lot of background noise, and the subjects you covered weren't interesting to me. Perhaps you should try and expand your editing skills, looking into audio filters, and look into [X topic] instead?" is criticism.
"Your vids suck bro" is you being a dinkhead.
They are not the same.Avy by Thormag
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2023-12-20, 11:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
Indeed. And sometimes the latter can masquerade as the former if you put enough pseudo-intellectual language on your insults or couch them in "critique" language.
I took part in a theatre festival recently where audience members are allowed to post reviews and boy howdy let me tell you, the general public's opinion of the artistic process1 is worth about as much as a fart in a hurricane to me. Most people don't know how to provide meaningful critique, so they latch on to things they liked and decide those were good, and things that weren't to their personal tastes are bad. And that's the ones who are earnestly trying to give good feedback: the worst ones are the jerks who are clearly just there to tear down anything if they think it'll make them look smarter.
Honest critics, who have experience critiquing, are a lot better at approaching the work in the right mindset -- i.e. "what did the creator set out to accomplish, and in my opinion, did they achieve that goal?" Ideally you can trust them to set aside their personal taste (or at least acknowledge when taste is causing a bias), and you can trust them to approach it with the intention of "breaking down" the mechanics of the work to better analyze them, rather than "tearing down" just for the lulz.
Or, to quote Rich Burlew, it's the difference between "this didn't work for me, for XYZ reasons" and "THIS SUCKS, I'M HELPING"
1. Which isn't to say I don't value the public's opinion about the performance as a whole! The audience doesn't have to know all the complex artistic themes you were working with to know whether or not you succeeded in telling your story: it's the same reason "I'm a good communicator -- other people just suck at listening!" is a ludicrous sentence. It doesn't matter how knowledgeable you are about the craft of storytelling if that doesn't translate to a digestible message for your audience. However, just because the audience can tell you "this isn't working as a story" doesn't mean that they can tell you how to fix it -- usually their ideas for solutions are the worst you could possibly get.
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2023-12-20, 01:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-20, 01:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
I use braces (also known as "curly brackets") to indicate sarcasm. If there are none present, I probably believe what I am saying; should it turn out to be inaccurate trivia, please tell me rather than trying to play along with an apparent joke I don't know I'm making.
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2023-12-20, 03:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
Yep, though as Ionathus points out, there's also a category of "honest feedback", which arguably falls somewhere between the two.
Another thing that's not just insults is "trolling". Nowadays the word seems to have lost its meaning, it's become synonymous with arbitrary rudeness and viciousness, but real trolling is neither of those things.
It's an art. Real trolling is neither rude nor (particularly) unkind. I'm pretty sure it still happens, all the time - indeed, I saw at least two clear instances of it only yesterday - but it goes unremarked because there's no word for it any more.
I'm talking about posting (say) a list of mistakes in a movie, and including "This scene is ridiculous because it depends on the spaceship's shadow falling across another ship - but both ships are in vacuum!"."None of us likes to be hated, none of us likes to be shunned. A natural result of these conditions is, that we consciously or unconsciously pay more attention to tuning our opinions to our neighbor’s pitch and preserving his approval than we do to examining the opinions searchingly and seeing to it that they are right and sound." - Mark Twain
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2023-12-21, 07:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-21, 07:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2023-12-21, 07:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Every Fromsoft game I've played would be improved by having a got-dang map.
Except Elden Ring which had said map.
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2023-12-21, 08:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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2023-12-21, 09:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Or like if you took some of the snarky deliberately inaccurate trivia from the Things I May No Longer Do While Playing thread and played them totally stonefaced straight? Like managed to claim without cracking up that Ponyo was based on an H.P. Lovecraft novel or that the King in Yellow was definitely a character from Clue, not from a novel, or that the original ending of The Wizard of Oz had Dorothy being killed so that the wizard could harvest her brain, heart, and spine but the studio changed it because they decided it was too much of a dowmer
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2023-12-21, 03:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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The only one I feel like needed a map to navigate was Bloodborne. The rest are linear enough concentric loops contained within small areas that a map is pretty much redundant.
Mind you it'd be nice to see a visual representation of all the loopbacks, especially in DS1, but I doubt an overworld map like ER has would have helped you at all.
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2023-12-27, 07:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Here's a hot take about this forum:
When making a new post or editing one in regular browser, the additional options remain present. Show your signature, and automatically parse links.
But when using the mobile version of the site, the additional options are only present when making a post - not when going back to edit an error. And those additional options are locked to yes for parse, and no for signature.
So if I want to correct an error using my phone for a post, I am punished by my signature vanishing after I complete the edit.
WHY?! WHY MUST I BE PUNISHED FOR USING MY PHONE TO MAKE MY POSTS LEGIBLE?! IT'S NOT A BIG SIGNATURE, LET ME KEEP IT!!!If you think "interesting" is an anticlimax, I feel sorry for you because it means you don't really know about interesting.
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2023-12-27, 12:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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I never use the mobile version of anything, I always set my phone to load the desktop version. Mobile versions are always lacking key functionality
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