CentipedeFarrier

You don’t have Kroger anymore? We do up north now, so figured it was still down there.

Too many eyes

That’s the preferred order. It’s much harder to throw a community at a cop.

Another comment gave probable context for that :)

https://slrpnk.net/comment/19387527

Oh! I bet that’s where the name of the thing comes from! If you go back into the link, Lena is at the top of the page, and the original draft shared the name.

Thanks for that added context!

No idea on the naming, I haven’t really looked into the author or their writing beyond this tbh. However if you click on the links at the top, it takes you through more of their work and author info, it might be buried there somewhere.

And the spoiler request is just because it’s really not that long and those are the juicy bits ;) I think it’s way more impactful inside the greater context, but I mean maybe I’m wrong on that, and have weird preferences.

You should put that in a spoiler tag :)

I’ve not read it; any good?

It is. If you like the concept though, the animated show Pantheon starts similarly, but goes an entirely different depressing direction :)

Whenever I see this post, I think of this short story. I don’t see it linked here yet, so here ya go.

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

(Wrong copy linked, updated)

I get the pleasure of a conversation-ending comeback. I wield it sporadically.

“She died 20 years ago so that’s pretty nasty, but I’m proud of you for admitting your kinks so publicly!”

If they stop and think about it they realize I was young when it happened and it shuts them down HARD. If they don’t, I upped the ante in such a way as to be largely un-toppable.

No avatar because I can’t be bothered. I don’t see them on my app anyway. As far as I can tell, nobody has them.

I was watching some movie, and I was like ooh, centipedes would make good farriers; they can use their body along the hoof to draw a stencil by just passing a pencil along all of its feet!

And that was silly so here we are.

Nothing, and I don’t plan to buy anything except normal stuff through January, either. I’m not doing Xmas this year, so very easy to avoid the spend.

I don’t recall saying all attackers were necessarily from different countries, because that’s not true at all. I said it’s unlikely they are from the same one, because statistically that is true.

Even if they did track them down, then what?

The world is huge, it’s unlikely that a particular attacker is going to be from the same country, so how are they going to do anything about it, really?

The victim can report to the government local to the hackers, but that local government is under no real obligation to do anything about it.

Same in the regions of the US I’ve been to. Usually little cocktail weenies in pastry here, bacon wrapped is just called bacon wrapped, though.

A science book and a plant.

If it makes you feel better, the people who stick their arms in aren’t allergic to mosquito bites. Doesn’t bother them to get bit beyond the feeling of being bit.

I mean I guess it could happen that they are just masochistic, but typically not.

Similarly, granular audio options that separate dialogue from ambient from music from system sounds. Definitely don’t need my ears blown out just to hear dialogue.

I like having the background music very low, but not off, system sounds a bit above that, sound effects higher than system but lower than dialogue, which is maxed. And of course ambient sound levels really depend on the game and what kind of ambiance it has.

Same thing with granular contrast/gamma/etc. Don’t just provide a few preset options, especially if they can only be set before you start the game (also they should never only be set from the main menu, never). Let the player choose whatever they want on the fly. I love playing with everything bright so I can see wtf I’m doing, I don’t give half a shit if the devs think it should be so dark it’s not navigable. I disagree.

Before reading the post body, I was trying to think if I’d ever seen apple orange juice, because I thought it was a weird juice combo thing… like the joke that apple marketing is fantastic because it’s in every other juice.

So genuinely thanks for the explanation lol