Iceland games bring an extra amount of “the players will come back for more in-game abuse” though. Eve Online and the (failed) Dust:514 are stand-out examples of totally unforgiving yet (somehow) rewarding gameplay.

If From Software contracted out to Icelandic game devs, the result would be a game that’s harder than diamonds and a lifetime achievement to complete.

Because that’s what people outside of a simulation would do.

Always has been.

Just wait for the annual “PEDMAS vs PEMDAS” discussion flame-war on any major social media platform.

Timeshare (and MLM) salespeople are well-known for their ability to attract and then box-in a potential client. Delivering a pitch while in a fast moving car? That’s next-level diabolical, even for those people.

Basically all of the things I see other drivers doing when I’m not in their car.

• Distracted driving (e.g. phone)
• Resigning right-of-way in situations that are unsafe, like on highway entrance ramps and inside traffic circles
• Doing unpredictable things (e.g. quickly weaving through traffic, merging/turning without signaling)
• Zero clue about safe stopping distance for their vehicle, weight, and speed
• Cutting off freight, especially at highway speeds
• Generally unaware of what others are doing around them, only to wind up upset with others, then driving angry/aggressive
• Driving fast enough to overwhelm the car’s suspension and traction (wheels leave ground, springs bottom out)

The last one is particularly nauseating and terrifying if you’re in the car.

Not going to disagree with your cross-comparison here, but have you tried Korean-style fried chicken yet?

Real talk: do people just go nude/semi-nude at home on the regular? I had no idea.

THIS right here. Mondragon is exactly what GP Is asking about.

If you’re reading this and thinking about starting an LLC, non-profit, co-op, or union shop, please give this a look too.

I don’t know enough to agree or disagree, but some citations would really help support your argument.

That’s such a laughably bad “unions bad” take. If there was such a thing as a kind of insurance where they fight to keep you employed, people would probably sign up and pay the fees.

Short distances should be meters, feet, inches, millimetres.

American machinists go a different way altogether: thousandths of an inch. So no binary fractions, but still imperial-ish. :/

And milk is often actually in litres and half litres, we just assume it’s in pints.

That one makes sense.

Are K-Cups bad for the planet?

TL;DR: they don’t recycle all that well, if at all.

https://action.storyofstuff.org/sign/amount-k-cups-have-been-thrown-landfills-could-wrap-around-planet-over-11-times

For me, I find the coffee selection for these things kind of bad and limited. There’s simply so much more out there and I profoundly dislike the idea of letting some corporation decide what will and will not brew in my kitchen. I suppose the re-usable k-cups are a good compromise though - I don’t know if Keurig’s have any kind of detection or lockout that prevents their use.

There is no burn like a “where are my grandkids” burn from your mom. OP doesn’t need an ambulance, they need a hearse for a trip to the morgue.

**For some reason Lemmy is adding a ‘25’ between the % and s. Those numbers shouldn’t be there, just fyi.

The URL as shown is actually valid. No worries there.

The value 25 happens to be hexidecimal for a percent sign. The percent symbol is reserved in URLs for encoding special characters (e.g. %20 is a space), so a bare percent sign must be represented by %25. Lemmy must be parsing your URL and normalizing it for the rest of us.

echo "text file content goes here" >> myfile.txt

DM here. I’m going to call this as a soft “yes”, but it’s gonna call for house rules.

Reanimation and necromancy in general, involves some enchantment of bits and pieces that had some mechanical basis in a living being. So we get the skeleton-zombie spectrum of reanimated remains. But break it down any further than that, and it becomes quite impossible - you don’t see choking bone dust clouds or jaw-less skulls rolling about the dungeon. But I would say that the distinction between enchantment and necromancy is the basic stuff of the object’s construction.

That said, one can enchant most anything with enough magic. So any inanimate object, even crude oil, could feasibly be turned into some kind of golem. That includes OP’s jello-mold-as-gelatinous-cube monster. The plastic parts idea is inspired - a monster that is spawned from a city’s midden (trash heap) would be truly dreadful and a sight to behold.

Also, there’s this:

This suggests that their reproductive cycle might take on some truly wild forms. Like melting into the floor only to come back as some kind of fruiting body that sends spores everywhere, then back again.

Exactly. It’s a local minimum/maximum optimization problem as applied to genetics and evolution.

When I worked in an office, I used to regularly take breaks with the smokers, even though I don’t smoke. Not unlike following a bird or deer through the woods to a source of food or fresh water, the smokers really do have a line on togetherness. That and getting up from your desk regularly to take a damn break.

I’m kind of blown away by this too. The sentiment here on Lemmy following the US presidential election was palpable by people in other countries, and how this might have ripple effects in Europe and beyond. I suppose it’s easy to underestimate the influence of US military, trade, and soft power abroad from within these borders. Still, the idea that politicians and leaders elsewhere would just freaking copy our homework, especially when we’re doing our best to fail the class, is mind-boggling.

It really exemplifies the fragility of democracy and civil rights, and the need for active defense of them.

Jefferson was quoted as recommending a re-write of the constitution every 19 years. So the fragility of all this stuff, and the need to keep with the times, was well-known by the founders at the very start. By that clock, we are decades overdue for some amendments. Then there’s the really famous quote:

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” - Thomas Jefferson

For the record, I appreciate how absolutely metal this quote is. At the same time, I greatly dislike it because it suggests that violence is the right choice right out of the gate. I prefer to take this advice as, eventually, violence is the only option remaining.