TitaniumButterfly
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TitaniumButterfly
21d ago
So I'm open to this but I don't think that's how that works. Any blood collected before a doctor pronounced him dead counts as antemortem if I understand correctly. Would need much more than this to change my position.
TitaniumButterfly
23d ago
I suppose it would be gracelessly American of me to react in shock at foreigners not recognizing that we have a culture.
TitaniumButterfly
23d ago
Oh cool, you're taking on BurdensomeCount's mantle. I'm not in a place to argue with you right now (and wouldn't if I were) but gosh that's kinda neat.
TitaniumButterfly
23d ago
Kudos! Let us all follow your example. And since I'm exhausted enough to be effectively drunk at the moment, allow me to further, without license or invitation, tell you that I think fondly of you in general and am always happy to see your name show up.
TitaniumButterfly
23d ago
I've reached a point in my development as a man that I can appreciate a truly excellent villain, and should consider his departure a great personal loss.
TitaniumButterfly
23d ago
No, those hundreds aren't.
Seems to be going on in London, and many small towns in the US with which I am personally familiar.
No idea if it's going on in this specific case, but NYTReader is pointing to the problem in a broader context and suggesting that 'bringing back' business to America is actually a bad thing if it means staffing that business with foreign labor.
Given this, your insistence on picking at micro-scale technicalities occurs to me as pedantic and obnoxious.
TitaniumButterfly
24d ago
Is Count gone for good? I hated hating Turok but loved hating Count.
TitaniumButterfly
24d ago
I don't know why I keep getting replies which assume that I agree with this position when I specifically began my second paragraph with "Let this not be mistaken for a pro-open-borders argument on my part".
Expectations versus reality moment. Important lesson. This is one of the, if not the, best places on the web for this too.
Back when we were on reddit I'd occasionally get bored and post in some other sub and pretty soon my blood pressure would spike and I'd crawl back here and be grateful for the levels of hostile and incompetent reading comprehension we somehow manage to maintain.
TitaniumButterfly
25d ago
Crazy like a fox. 🦊
TitaniumButterfly
25d ago
Seems like a question of enforcement. How would they know I died?
Now I'm imagining my kids having to deal with this when my putative lifespan is getting so high, including future medical advancement, that it's no longer plausible. And I think, if I could take that deal I would, because it implies an acceptable future. Wonder how the monkey's paw would take effect though.
Also presumably at that point no one would care if they're pirating a 70 year old game anyway.
TitaniumButterfly
26d ago
I have literally hundreds.
Question on my mind a lot is whether my children can, and will care to, inherit.
TitaniumButterfly
27d ago
I'm picturing a medieval jousting tournament. What are you- oh. Yeah. Well, they have a lot of protective gear and the point isn't to actually harm others, but then that was true of medieval tourneys as well, and in both cases people do get pretty badly injured or even killed.
TitaniumButterfly
27d ago
IIRC the Aztecs achieved higher rates of industrialized killing than the Nazis, at least over short periods like three-day religious festivals. Just march everybody up to the top of the pyramid and process them as they arrive. Stone tools only.
I think about this every time I see one of those "All religions welcome here" signs.
TitaniumButterfly
29d ago
I think a more interesting question is how many men have sons who also reproduce. Read somewhere that due to stochasticity the genetic contribution of almost all men has been wiped out within about five generations.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
How's that going for you?
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
If you ever want to have some cynical fun, look up a list of accomplished black people sometime and see if you can find any without at least one, and more often two, white grandparents.
There are some.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
I don't disagree, but why do you think so?
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
What's particularly Nazi-like about it? I'd associate that more with communists though I guess Nazis were prone to it as well.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
Here you go. Timestamped!
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
He called the local game commission who told him that it didn't exist and that shooting it would be against the law.
I've received similar admonitions from government on other matters.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
That's the second strong recommendation I've had for Blue Prince. The first told me to go in as blind as possible so I know almost nothing else about it except that it should indulge my predilection for keeping a hard copy journal as I play.
Guess I will!
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
Yeah, idk when the realization hit exactly, but the day was odd when it occurred to me that we would no longer be allowing Disney anything in our home. At least nothing made after the year 2000, with the occasional ad hoc exception.
TitaniumButterfly
1mo ago
Andor was actively incredible though
Haven't looked into it at all. I know redditors who enjoy it immensely so I assumed it was pretty soy.
Crem says he was alive in the ambulance on his way to the hospital. That was 27 minutes ago, no further updates atm.
ETA:
Bennett's Phylactery now says dead. DELETEDLord, have mercy.
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