When I was in high school early 2000s I got a video on kazaa of a mario 3 speedrun in about 11 minutes and it was nuts. I tried to imitate the guy’s run on an emulator and the jump he did over the piranha plant one second into the first level was almost impossible, I tried it like a hundred times and I did it successfully once. I gave up on that and moved onto the second level and it was basically the same experience, hitting the first two jumps to be perfect tiny hops so you’ve maxed your speed bar by the end of the pipe at the level start is absurdly hard.

You’re not wrong, but I’m pretty sure calling out factually incorrect memes is what the report button is for.

Sorry, I just realized from the OP it’s very clear you’re venting and not seeking opinions. I read the top-level reply and lost track of the plot, wasn’t trying to condescend.

I was born by C-section! I’m glad we finally have an explanation for how I ended up less stupid than Elon Musk, we got to the bottom of it guys.

And just to clarify, the more aggressive escalation, i.e., the talk of blocking, didn’t even happen that same night. It came the next day, in the afternoon, when he had plenty of time to reflect and respond more calmly.

I did pick up on that, I just meant that I saw this as something where the likelihood he’s still annoyed the next day is increased a hundredfold by escalating it while he’s still half-asleep and cranky. I have a relationship in my life with someone with a temper and if I had this conversation with her she’d remain pissed the next day, but if I told her in the morning that I didn’t like the reaction I’d get a genuine apology. In the first case, if I was mad at her for still being pissed it would drag on. If neither of you are in a place where you’re capable of de-escalating, maybe it makes sense to take some time away from each other. Arguments don’t always have to be someone not doing their best, everyone has personality flaws that they’re not in full control of and sometimes those mesh really badly. I don’t think my friend chooses to have temper issues, even if it would be fair for me to react badly at times I value the relationship enough to not call her out when it would hurt our friendship to do so.

But yes, having a history will definitely affect the dynamic and what’s reasonable to expect, and often it’s impossible to convey that history in a small text summary.

The core issue for me wasn’t the boundary itself, but rather the tone and delivery, which read as passive aggressive and a bit accusatory for something that had never been brought up before.

I mean, I like to believe I wouldn’t respond like this to people I care about, but I definitely feel irrational and cranky sometimes when I’ve just been woken up. If this were a person who I value I think I’d give them benefit of the doubt and prioritize not escalating. I think if you had waited until he woke up later to express your annoyance the discussion may have gone better. Easily possible there is context in your relationship that’s not written here, but without that context this comes across as someone generally annoyed at being woken up and then getting annoyed with you personally only after that’s received as a personal attack. I think this is a situation where voicing your hurt right this instant is a show of disrespect, I can’t picture an outcome to it other than escalating. It upset you, you don’t and shouldn’t need to let it slide, but you should wait until after he wakes up to start that discussion.

This is a false flag to associate criticism of Tesla with redditors.

Thanks for allowing me to continue pretending I have a sense of humor, you’re a real one for that.

This doesn’t read like ignorance to me. Like a lawyer prompting a witness, this seems like someone asking the questions that allow the interviewee to give the most effective replies.

I can’t read the “reply was devastating” line as being personally devastating to an ignorant journalist, because someone in that position didn’t need to write that and put it on show. Instead I read it as being devastating to the naive sentiment, perhaps held by the reader, that Vietnam’s only legitimate response was to run to the UN.

Thanks, I got this impression reading it too but I wasn’t going to investigate myself so straight to the comments in hopes that someone has already validated my intuition.

I feel like over the past few years I’ve seen a hundred different comics by this author and I have never once gotten the joke.

I kind of feel like if my child died as a direct result of my own stupidity and negligence I probably would find a way to remain in denial over that too. Maybe not for forever, but I don’t think I’d be capable of facing that right after.

Not sure if that says something bad about me.

Did the Gexposter just lose interest? I remember Mary Worthposting started like a full ten days later and then all of a sudden Mary Worth is catching and passing Gex.

Absolutely loved those games. I never played all the way through 2, but I beat the first game, including wobblewok and milked 3 for more playtime than anyone should reasonably put into any videogame. I am still mourning the loss of ykw3 pvp. It was almost dead for basically the full run, but it was such good shit that I’d just hop on and leave it searching for a battle and do something else and usually someone else would get on an hour or so later. Might have been the most fun I’ve had playing any game. I hit S+ but was stuck there for the last couple years before nintendo shut down the pvp. I almost 100%ed that game, the only things I couldn’t get done were getting to S++ on ranked battles, getting the last orignyan voice that was a prize for reaching S++, and getting the trophy for finding pandanoko or starry noko in the VIP room (very rare streetpass, almost impossible to get legitimately without living in downtown Tokyo to be nearby a lot of people who have the game).

Here’s the hexbear post I made on yo-kai a year ago.

I loved how weird Hazy Lane was, amazing feature. I think the infinite tunnel in 2 was essentially the same thing, but I never did much of that one.

Also one time I was trying to look up how a game mechanic worked and I stumbled on a twitter post that was like five months old about being really impressed with a creative strategy someone used in pvp and they gave a screenshot of my profile and finding that might be the biggest high I’ve ever gotten from a video game.

Gonna be honest they did the person woman man camera tv test with me when I was in the hospital with sepsis a couple months ago and I only remembered three of the words at the end, I couldn’t get the last two even with reminder hints. Oh well, we can’t all have the best brain.

I was almost positive op had some form of “he’ll conclude vaccines are the cause” under the spoiler.

Subject to change over time

Source for that claim?

Will you all stop bragging and just explain the damn thing?

Correct approach, it’s the only way to browse this website. We’re all in this together.

To answer the question on everyone’s minds: No, Joe Biden does not have a doctorate in foreign affairs.

He’s just that fucking good.

My mind went through different aquarium creatures. I only got clued in on re-read when I was wondering if the (20) was meant to indicate the manatee’s age.

It’s terrifying because what if Hamas trains their Israeli manatee hostages? What if they take this war to the bottom of the sea?