Nacarbac [any]

I am trying to work out how to read on my partner’s old smartwatch because I got snitched on! Blindsight’ll be a good test book to try.

Even the price doesn’t seem to have changed all that much over the decade

They’re heavily subsidized to get people into the Amazon ebook ecosystem, where they can make massive profits through not having to provide a physical object.

I think the tantric side of Daoist mysticism/alchemy has semen retention as a way of preserving vital energy, but… as to whether that has its own terminology or not I am also not going to investigate.

I did read a few cultivation webnovels a while ago, and I recall a few jokes to the effect of “The great sage has been furiously seeking immortality in his cave for days now”.

Garrett Wang (Harry Kim) and Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris) did a podcast called The Delta Flyers where they do a full episode-by-episode rewatch of Voyager and often rant about the many problems of the show (and about the bits they enjoyed, as well). Didn’t get through it all, but it was decent travel listening.

Both of them are pretty often annoyed about how their characters (and most of the others) were stuck on a writing treadmill to obey that absurd syndication demand of an eternal moment, such that new viewers can drop in without feeling like they’ve missed anything.

Buddhist position of the empty nature of the self based on dialectical materialist epistemology

I’d be quite interested in any texts along these lines you might recommend.

An interesting-ish and anti-verifiable thought about nonexistence is that since we cannot perceive nonexistence or time “while” nonexistent, and all things necessarily change… stretching that then any kind of law or logic or universal pattern that decrees we are dead may also eventually change and we just reappear. No matter the infinite infinities that may need to pass. And not just “an exact duplicate of ourself”, but “ourself”.

Which is to say: isekai is, alas, inevitable.

The visual quality of set and costume design in general has been getting really fucking cool for a while now. But the writing attached to whatever adaptation they’re butchering this year has rarely kept up with it.

Perhaps as the guns that make it so easy will never be controlled and the social care will not be funded, there must instead exist a constant baseline terror of other people. So the people need to be controlled instead. They need to be kept in line. And the more they need help, the less they deserve - the victim is the threat.

Not that I think there’s any actual conscious intention there, per-se. More of a general structural disinterest in making healthy people (capitalism being antithetical to the health of the masses) that has various specific manifestations.

Been playing some Skyrim - namely some mods that were recommended here, VIGILANT and The Forgotten City so far. The later was fine, nice concept that doesn’t work well in Skyrim - might check out the indie game version of it.

VIGILANT however… Now that’s a diamond in the rough, a heavily Dark Souls inspired Skyrim story that reinterprets a lot of the background material - and has genuinely engaging in-universe books. The strongest parts were where it went beyond either Souls or Skyrim’s style - the cryptic in-setting books that are actually relevant, the memory sequences of ancient souls’ greatest triumph or torment - a1nd the weakest were the various expy armour sets from other franchises stopping it from really settling into its own aesthetic (not that I didn’t collect them all). A near railroad of a story, but the different choices made really do dramatically change the details, if not the end result (which itself is part of the story of reclaiming something from a vast and uncaring cycle of time and powerlessness… I think).

Just started Glenmoril, the sequel, which takes a different tack by having the prologue establish important ties to a few characters before getting all Bloodborne-ey. The mod maker’s clearly experimenting more with it, and it’s cool to see.

“The police are looking for a Mr John Kler…”

But a little cleverer.

He’d be a great DM (Dungeon Marx) - I just wanna play a tabletop RPG game without the default feudal/capitalist anachronisms.

My level 3 Flaxman casts Thresh the Chaff and- wait, I also want a Magical Labour Theory of Value addenndum, because that was something that came up while discussing a rather interesting homebrew setting elsewhere which is trying to hash out a basically-democratic mageocracy with an economy that isn’t just Wizard!.

Reddit speculation was going wild over the idea of it being an expensive and easily traced welrod, so I wonder if the police just got the idea from them…

18 and 22 are closest, but mine is even flatter at the base. Very stable, and mine doesn’t seem to slosh around much.

Goon getting instantly spun around.

The entire field of popsci business insight is just a stream of Jabberwocky, in hopes your connections sell a ton of garbage to some of the most credulous and desperate rubes on the planet - mid-level corpos. The place that I work in, uses the Net Promoter Score idiocy, which didn’t even work for the niche it was intended for, but they now misapply to customer ratings.

Some of that is possibly from the functional use of invalid metrics - as they invariably produce “underperforming” results which can be used as a whip against stores and store management. A single “detractor” causes a tick up in baseline stress and overwork.

Huh, there’re actually some good effortposts in the YouTube comments.

Well, it isn’t an actual language (and thus is very easy to do), but it’s been useful to learn Elian script (just an alternate way of writing the alphabet) so I can write random ideas at work without anyone being able to read them… they must never see my stupid notes…

My vote is inexplicable alien contact event from beyond our comprehensible reality - The Zone, but underwater.

Or literally anything that reduces their liability.

A breathable weave of flax.

I just use my safe can opener on those as well, works fine. It uses pressure to split the rolled over seam around the edge, so it doesn’t matter too much what kinda can it is.