SteposVenzny

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[–] SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The argument against cars also holds that people should live in places where cars aren’t necessary to avoid hermitude in the first place. You don’t need cars to socialize if you can walk to where people are, you don’t need cars for supplies if you can walk to where stuff is.

Long distance travel can have non-car solutions but also it shouldn’t be the default distance to be away from society.

[–] SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 18 points 2 weeks ago

I keep my head down. No legal consequences isn’t the same thing as no consequences.

[–] SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Would you think less of a potential partner if they had momentarily lapsed in their reading comprehension?

[–] SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (10 children)

Would you think less of a potential partner if they didn’t know how to chew properly?

[–] SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 6 points 3 weeks ago

A lie about having a girlfriend that spiraled so far out of control that it made the world a better place.

[–] SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

It went EVEN BIGGER.

[–] SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

There is something about my hatred for the Enterprise intro which compels me to endure it.

[–] SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

Spoilers for the newest game.

spoilerThe frame story of Returns, where Guybrush is telling an account of his life story to his son, is that a filter we're now supposed to retroactively apply to the whole series? The end of this game, another "it's all just Disneyland" ending like Revenge had, felt very pointedly like a cover-up.

The whole story is low-key building up this theme of Guybrush actually being a terrible person and his quest being both personally unhealthy and harmful to those around him, with little things like the game silently marking off the checklist of horrible things he did on the how-to-be-evil pamphlet he got from LeChuck and big things like Elaine confronting him with his actions while they travel together, so when the ending turns into such an anti-climactic non-sequitur it reads like he can't bring himself to tell his son the truth of what happened and you hope it's because he actually gave up the quest and knows that isn't the story kids want to be told but fear it's because shit got real in a different sense and he doesn't want Boybrush to view him in that light.

With that in mind, now I can't stop wondering if that's what the Carnival of the Damned always was: an act of self-censorship by the hypothetical storyteller.

[–] SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Other people writing it for you and the openness with which I heard many other students discussing that they weren’t writing their own stuff.

[–] SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I am entirely certain that it’s the same amount of cheating as it always was and the only thing that changed is that AI is how they’re doing it.

[–] SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago

I’m down for anthology series by default.

[–] SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Make sure to get a pair that actually fit your head. They shouldn't squeeze your temples, the ear bends should actually be on your ears, they shouldn't slide around on your nose.

I wore glasses for like twenty years before I finally realized the source of every single problem I had with them was actually me picking the wrong frames and not inherent issues to glasses. Now that I'm aware of it I notice other people wearing ill-fitting glasses all the time.

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