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Belly rubs, stat!

I see a belly like that and I just want to pet it

No worries man, we all have days like that. I certainly do!

I'm the same way with food snobbery tbh. I see even jokes about it, and it just gets under my skin, even when I am fully awake and can tell it's a joke. There's that flash of "this motherfucker" before I exert control of my brain. So I totally get it.

I'm just sorry I picked a bad joke to try. Like I said, they can't all be winners, but looking back at it, it was a lame attempt.

Hey, sorry that didn't hit right.

Since the post was in a meme community, I didn't take the post as a serious complaint. Memes bring out jokes, that's part of the point of them. I intended it as a form of commiseration with a bit of tongue in cheek playfulness. If I'd known you were making a real complaint rather than playing with a trope for laughs, I would have made a totally different comment.

So, here's what I would have said if I had known you were experiencing distress over the issue.

I get it. Back when 3.x was a thing, the old ad&d diehards made the same kind of statements. Now, 5e devotees make the same kind of statements about 3.x, and even ad&d, as well as the ongoing new version coming out. It's a fairly universal thing.

When it's said in a lighthearted, unserious way, it can even help bridge players and DMs that are more entrenched with one version or another because it acknowledges that there's not always compatibility between versions, making play groups harder to arrange since very few people really enjoy learning a new system to play what is (at its core) the same game.

Me and my kid make the same joke to each other, both of us aware that we have played both systems and have a different preference. Me and the DM of my kid's group talk shit about our preferred versions too. And we piss and moan about the difficulties of running games with players that are most familiar with one edition and having trouble adapting years of play experience in one to a different one.

Like, I've got over a grand in 3.x books. At least that, maybe more, I lost track. So I'm not going to pony up a dime to get the equivalent library in 5e, or any future editions. But I've had players from 5e, and ad&d in my games (though I haven't DMed in years at this point). There's always a learning curve to a different edition. It places an artificial barrier of entry to the underlying game. So most people will commit to one version and stick with it.

When they do try others, what they see is changes that are a pain in the ass for fairly minor benefits, along with one or two great ideas. Us 3.x folks look at bounded accuracy, or advantage/disadvantage and drool a little, but there's no way we'd switch just for that when the rest of the edition is just different, not better. 5e folks look at the 3.x prestige classes and how easy they are to home brew and really make a unique character but look at all the imbalances in the base classes and nope the fuck out

And don't even ask about how newer players stare blankly at you while you try to explain thac0. Or how a black hole of despair forms and sucks your brain in trying to explain a truly awkward and counterintuitive system like thac0 in the first place.

There's no such thing as a perfect system. They're all approximations of fantasy settings (I'm talking about standard d&d here, but there's no perfect system in other types of games either), and approximations simply can't fit every situation every time.

So, when some asshole is being serious about "your edition sucks, play a better one", fuck them. It's bullshit, and if they don't know it, they're going to be a shitty player or DM anyway. They're not worth the time and effort. But the rest of us kinda have the shorthand of the trope as a way to say "the problem exists, but we can't fix it". You either put the effort in to learn the details of each edition, or you stick to the one you like best and deal with having more trouble finding stable groups.

No bullshit Stamets, my entire goal was to join in on what I thought was your joke along that same line. I thought you were poking fun at the trope of it, and that's what I was doing. The little winky face ;) didn't do enough to convey that, or maybe your stress over the subject meant nothing would have conveyed the intent of shared recognition of how silly it all is to edition snob. But it definitely failed to convey the intent, no matter why it failed.

Sorry about that. They can't all be winners ¯(ツ)_/¯ but I swear it was meant to be something we'd both have a chuckle over.

My chaps are large, thick, and pendulous too

Gotta be GI Joe. There's a lot of shows that could be in the #2 slot, but that cartoon more than any other really was my childhood favorite. Since I can still watch it without rolling my eyes (though not without some laughter at the silly, cheesy parts), it's gotta be top of the heap.

I'd guess Spider-Man and his amazing friends could almost bump GI Joe off the top spot then, but some of the writing is eye roll territory now. Same with Super Friends, though it wouldn't compete with Spidey.

If I picked a modern one, it would come down to exactly what you think of them in terms of being for kids. But it would be either Johnny Bravo or Powerpuff Girls (but only the original run). Johnny, it's dubious if it was really meant for kids or not, but I laugh at it more than PPG. But the girls hold a special place in my heart just because it was so well done as a kid's show that was watchable as an adult that didn't have kids. I'd watch PPG out of my own enjoyment, where I wouldn't with spongebob or most of the kid's cartoons of that era.

Everything is a dildo if you're brave enough

Dammit!

Anon is totally gay, but the realness present in this text has broken my brain.

Also, that song is still fucking awesome.

Oh hell yes! That's what I'm talking about!

Well, generally, the answer is a no. Nails and intestines do not mix well, and once you're past the anus, that's what you're dealing with.

It isn't impossible to modify the nails to be less risky, but never to the degree that I'd be willing to have them up my rear, even if I was into that. There's reasons that nurses and nurse's assistants are often expected to keep their nails short, and that's one of them. We don't go wrist deep, and it's still too big a risk.

Way I see it, you have two options. One is to cut them back to where they don't extend past the end of the fingers, then use two nitrile gloves over your hand that's doing the work. You can still keep pretty nails like that, they just won't be as showy

The other is to take the risk, and wrap the nails in something like gauze, then tape them, then glove up. I've heard of people doing that with no injury, but it is still risky.

If you can't/won't do either of those, call it done and get a fist dildo.

I mean, that's true.

5e sucks and you should play a different system ;)

Wait, wait, wait,

What kind of helicopters?

Well, the opinion is definitely unpopular!

I would also argue that it is on the weak side as opinions go. A lot of what you're citing as reasons for it not being "up for challenges" just aren't true in real world usage. Particularly the durability factor. I've yet to see a cable fail because of the connector itself, and ports only fail after unusual abuse that I've seen, and I'm the family default for android device troubles.

As an example based on your points of objection. This year to date I've gone through two different micro usb cables because the connector end failed.

I haven't had to replace a usb-c at all this year, and only two the entirety of last year. That's despite a lot of plugging and unplugging because I'm up to six devices on USB-c that take charging daily ( plus some others that need charges less often) and only keep two cables in use at a time.

Last year, I went through maybe three micro usb for two devices total. Back when everything was micro usb, I would go through one of the anker cables with the woven wire cover about every three to four months. Sometimes faster, sometimes slower, but around that.

It's veen my experience that the ports in usb-c are also less prone to getting loose, and they're definitely less prone to damage when the cable gets jerked out.

Majestic as fuck!

Yeah, not an asshole to draw clear boundaries about forms of address. It's a known issue in the world, and it's a social necessity in text formats to make such things known. Hell, it's sometimes necessary in voice, video, or in person as well. Doing so isn't asshole behavior. An individual may or may not be asshole about it, but the fact of doing it isn't assholery.

Nor is being assertive about it assholery. Assertiveness definitely isn't assholery on the first time establishing forms of reference. It can't be. Aggressiveness could be, but not assertiveness.

So you're in the clear on this one assuming the wau you presented it here is reasonably close to the way you presented it there

How is this terf related? The user name seems to be redacted, so if that's the link, it's kinda confusing.

I'm not saying the statement in the image isn't extreme, it definitely is. But there's no TE to the comment, just RF, and not all radical feminists are trans exclusionary.

Bigger isn't inherently better with bread. It can be, but it depends on your purpose.

As an example, take your basic blt. You've got a limit to how big tomatoes get, bacon slice lengths and the size of a leaf of lettuce. So if you go too big on the bread slice, you run into issues getting each bite to have the right amount of each ingredient the same as you would if you went too small.

Plus, it makes guesstimating calories more difficult. You change the size of the slice, the difference may be small, but it is there. Over time, that could cause issues. Niche to people needing to count calories, but still.

Not that it's a bad thing either! Just that it's a variable

It doesn't have to be a 1:1 equivalency

It absolutely works because it's about holding onto an emotion, not a specific expression of that

It really was a great era for CG.

The problem is that to get the look of chalk, you have to use something that applies at least close to the same, and nothing that would be waterfast or similarly durable is going to apply the same. Like pastels, they're basically in between chalk and crayon in the way they transfer to a surface, but you can tell at a glance that it isn't the same effect. The livers lines look more structured, fill in the valleys of something like cement or concrete more than chalk. And asphalt isn't much different.

So you have a few choices. First is to go with chalk and a fixative. If you're going for something artistic, that's your best choice. It won't last forever, but it'll look like chalk while it lasts.

Second is to use grease markers. They'll still smear, but should last through rain at least. It won't look like chalk, but it'll still have a similar enough vibe to maybe carry it off. You'll have a limited palette unless you make your own, but you can get similar effects with something like cray-pas. It'll be expensive as fuck though with pastels and such, that stuff isn't meant for big projects.

Then there's temporary marking paints. Like the guys that mark power lines use. Won't last forever, but it'll take some wear before flaking off the surface. They won't look like chalk at all, but if you're doing something more like hopscotch lines, it'd be a better pick imo.

It really comes down to your project. Like, I used to do fairly frequent sidewalk art on my own sidewalks with neighborhood kids. They'd do their thing, I'd do something a bit more complex. There's sidewalk chalks that will hold up being walked on lightly for a few days as long as it doesn't rain. Better than your typical chalk you'd use on paper or a chalkboard at least. Crayola was actually pretty reliable in that regard, but the colors were all primary or pastel; so you'd have to pick up anything else as regular artist's chalk, which is a thing at most hobby and art supply stores.

But if I wanted a section to last longer for some reason, I'd usually make my own parafin or beeswax blocks. A little cheap pigment (like tempera powder as one example), some heat and molds, you have a slightly crumbly chunk of color that won't get rinsed away in the first rain. It'll melt and make a mess in the summer though, so you won't want it where you'll walk on it much.

Tempera paint actually does decent for very temporary but more wear resistant sidewalk art. Once dry, people can walk over it a little without it being wrecked. Rain makes it run though.

Damn, I just realized I miss the fuck out of those days. Come home from work, and there's a gang of kids waiting. Break out the boxes of chalk, and everyone is just making happy pictures all over the porch, the sidewalk, even the street if there were other adults to run interference with traffic. There usually were, but not always. Rule was that if there weren't two adults that could manage traffic, the street was off limits.

Since it kinda turned into a thing, there were days when not only my house, but houses all up and down the street would have suns and houses and stick figures under trees all over the driveways and such.

Anyway, old man memories aside, it depends on what you're doing.