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comfortable
1d ago
The cost is turning your heart towards God. You cannot be redeemed and an unrepentant whore. God does not redeem the unrepentant.
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3d ago
Well, as long as you can see multiple cars ahead it's a little safer.
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1mo ago
Well, I don't want my only comment in this thread to be about Redo of Healer, so here's some thoughts on something else and a recommendation.
Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, episodes 15-28
I remember watching this when it came out. The Endless Eight portion was not received well. I'm someone who, like you, got really into the series with the first season and then read all the fan-translated novels. It took the author 4 years to release the first part of Surprise after Dissociation, and by the time it came out I had moved on to other things.
As a recommendation: if you haven't seen Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, I would highly recommend it. The setting is pretty "standard Japanese fantasy", there's an evil demon king terrorizing the world and a hero and his companions go out to kill the demon king. The story of Frieren starts as the hero's party is returning home after killing the demon king. It follows the titular Frieren, an elf mage and member of the hero's party. There's a lot of world building, character examination, and a bit of action here and there.
After hearing a lot of praise about the anime, I read the manga first. I really enjoy the manga, and I think the anime is a very good adaptation.
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1mo ago
Redo of Healer, -1. What about the promised secondary sexual characteristics? The series is surprisingly chaste, preferring to clumsily tell instead of showing even when whatever is happening is within the range it considers acceptable. It's not "hentai with a plot" at all, and there's hentai with better plot out there.
Huh, either I'm a bit more squeamish than you (very likely), or the anime is quite a bit different than the manga adaptation (also likely). As an example, in the manga, (if I'm remembering correctly) there is a part of the story where he takes one of his (lesbian) abusers, partially paralyzes her, and sets a bunch cannibal zombie guys on her. I wonder if the anime didn't cover that, or if they didn't depict it as explicitly.
I wouldn't recommend reading/watching it, though.
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2mo ago
I suppose that's true. I never finished the story, but there was a fair amount of pragmatism in the protagonists in what I read.
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2mo ago
Huh, from my memory, "Worth the Candle" has a lot of modern-day virtue signaling.
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2mo ago
What rule do you think is not being enforced enough?
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3mo ago
If you're hunting birds with a sling, it's hard enough to hit one bird, let alone two, let alone actually manage to kill them. So "kill two birds with one stone" implies something highly improbable.
I believe it's actually meant to imply something that's highly efficient, not improbable. You are killing two targets with one shot. From what I understand, slings can be very accurate and hitting a bird might not be that difficult.
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4mo ago
I think that's a pretty terrible idea.
If you're having a back-and-forth with another member, responding with just "I agree" shows that you agree with their last point, but have nothing to add.
Not responding at all and just upvoting conveys nothing to the person you are communicating with, and it just looks like you're ignoring the response (or similar). Just upvoting would only be sufficient if votes were not anonymous (which I have seen on some forums) which is not the case here on the Motte.
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5mo ago
But then it’s like he lost sight of the difference between character flaws and DSM entries. Which leads to cringy writing but also causes problems because you are not allowed to treat DSM issues as things that can be overcome.
That's exactly why I decided not to bother continuing after Rhythm of War.
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6mo ago
I liked Kaladin in the first book
I thought, initially, that I was reading about a depressed man. It turns out that Kaladin is actually a man "suffering from depression", which is quite a different thing.
I'm not sure if I'll read book five. It's just too tiring for me.
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6mo ago
although as long as they’ve got some workaround allowing me to still consume a comparable amount of caffeine I could manage it
Caffeinated soda and energy drink are, as far as I know, not against the official rules.
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7mo ago
I generally think it is smart and well produced, except for the use of the term "Trimester" which is obfuscating for most people who don't think about abortion much, I think it would be more clear to say "after six months." I'm sure there's a focus grouped reason not to do that. Every time I talk to an abortion activist, pro or anti, they always talk in trimesters or weeks, instead of in months.
I would imagine that most people don't actually know how long a trimester is. I don't actually know myself, but from context I assume it is three months?
Abortions after six months sounds extremely late to me, given that a pregnancy is nine months long (usually). I would suppose that using "six months" also sounds very late to most people who aren't familiar with pregnancy. Meanwhile, a trimester could be anything to the common person. Three days? Three weeks?
So using "trimester" probably keeps timelines ambiguous, and "weeks" sounds a lot shorter than months (how many weeks are in a pregnancy? I think most people couldn't answer that without calculation).
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8mo ago
Thanks for sharing your experience.
I'm managing to struggle through the writing of it. Maybe I'll regret it in the future.
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8mo ago
I find myself needing to write a "Statement of Past and/or Planned Future Contributions to Advancing Diversity and Inclusive Excellence" (a.k.a. a DEI statement) in order to apply for a university teaching job.
My understanding is that this is a kind of ideological litmus test, designed to make sure that applicants at least know and are willing to state the approved beliefs. I'm fairly conservative, so I'm not sure I actually know the correct lingo to use and what the minimum viable essay would look like.
If you have been in my position, how did you approach writing it? Does anyone know of any current examples of acceptable submissions I can study for wording and content? Ideally I would be able to deliver my actual beliefs (or a subset of them) in a way that passes scrutiny from the people reviewing it, but I'm not above just parroting the approved lines (I need the work).
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10mo ago
I can perhaps accept an argument that we should be more accepting of the death of the elderly, but I don't think it is moral to encourage it. A culture of maybe taking a more serious look at what kind of life you might have remaining, and accepting a person's decision to no longer prolong it through medical procedures -- I can maybe accept that. But not intentionally ending (or pushing for the end of) someone's (or your own) life.
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10mo ago
Thanks, I appreciate you finding that for me.
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10mo ago
That clip got copyright struck, it seems.
Let me guess, it was really bad?
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11mo ago
I'm pretty sure the guilt was supposed to be because Tony in his hubris made Ultron.
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1yr ago
If i want to harm then first you have to convince me not to want to harm, then convince me to want to help, then convince me of a way to help that actually helps. You have much more to do.
If the goal is to stop the harm, then for a person who is harming people because they want to cause harm, you only need to convince him to not want to harm the people anymore. With no desire the harm the people any more, naturally he will stop (except, I suppose, out of habit).
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1yr ago
Isn't conscription itself evidence that there is a fairly significant portion of people who don't want to fight?
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1yr ago
The expectation that everyone cleans the dryer lint before using the dryer is one where someone else not doing it means nothing to you (just fluffier lint, I guess).
In my experience with dryers, fluffier lint is even easier to clean out, so I don't even care if other people aren't doing it.
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1yr ago
I assumed it was some kind of reference that I just didn't get.
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1yr ago
Those are neat videos. I then got recommended https://youtube.com/watch?v=4Nr1AgIfajI, which is from the same channel about an 18th century ship of the line.
I was able to understand most of how these vehicles worked thanks to these videos, but I definitely didn't realize before just how much had to be considered and engineered for these things to work as they did (do).
Eh, if the lane ends with a forced merge into the lane beside it, waiting until the end gives a predictable time and place that the merge will occur. In times of heavy traffic, it also maximizes road usage (and if you don't drive until the end, someone else behind you will, so you might as well). If the lane ends with, for example, a forced turn off the highway, then I agree. I especially agree in times of heavy traffic. Don't make the people who actually want to use that turn off the highway wait because you want to squeeze into the heavy traffic later.
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