friggle.bsky.social
itsfriggle, xmaswar on old site
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I get making up a thing to be obstinate about, I got plenty of em. But I got a couple of Mike Mitchell fat birds hanging up in my house bc of you, so let me speak directly to your good taste and say: you'd consider the 2-3 weeknights it takes to play undertale well spent
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That said, I have steadfastly refused to ever look at or actually know what Homestuck is, probably since 2009 at least.
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I really don't like having to be this reply guy but both of those things still go great when first experienced at 35+
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Yup, this as disingenuous a framing as showing the US map with all the red states and claiming all that empty land outnumbers the populated cities of blue states
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Is this 70% by participation or by % of holdings? The former being 100 total shareholders consisting of 70 retirees with 1 share each and 30 brokers with 1000 shares each
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I get it. the fridge was too cold once as a kid and I poured a glass of milk with icy bits in it. I could never blindly trust a milk jug again
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Ask your employees whether they'd prefer you do your job yourself
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Matroishka dads, and they all love that bird more than their children
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Dads within dads within dads, and not a father figure in sight
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after I replayed chapter 1 to remember it, I felt I needed a break before starting chapter 2. And so the cycle repeats
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dirt cheap way to build hype during the 6 months before Vol 2 was released. There was a lot of lunch table discussion about this at the time. Once it was possible to watch them back to back it stopped being cool
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my mods got wiped out one day and I decided to just have a kid rather than set it all back up. so watch out for that
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Feeling it now doesn't make it go easier when their time comes. It's not a debt you can make early payments on. Do your best to turn those moments from feeling fearful to being an extra burst of love. It's okay to cherish them a little harder sometimes.
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Nobody wants to be the one to tell them Sliders is no longer on TV
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This is a wild topic to me here on month 1 kid 1. The changing table is the center of my universe. All things are measured by their distance from it. I'm not going to stop thinking about this question now.
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They don't. There's no further thought behind it than "we don't want to be the one to train you". There is no path for this.
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It's such a crime they expunged nearly all the early season side characters over writing room drama. The show hits such a good stride and then replaces it all with Seven of Nine
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Doing those tricks for remembering people's names but for my life-long friends' eye colors: Hey Steve it's nice to see those green eyes again. Have you played the new Mario Kart, which features Luigi? See you and those green eyes later!
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I'm a man and took my wife's last name, even though pretty much all my friends had always just referred to me by my last name. My stance was: married couples having the same last name is convenient, but just pick whoever's makes for better-sounding names
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I hadn't touched my Switch in a year, but then I had a baby and got back to playing Pokemon SV for something mindless & turn-based, and joycons are so much easier than a controller rn. Suddenly I'm so mad that I could be playing this without the terrible pop-in, and desperate to find one in stock
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So are you gonna approve the rollback PR or what
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Next year in Ibiza, my friend 🙏
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I was reading some of these earlier this week and it's amazing how many breathless, amazed pages they could write about essentially "if I wear a mask, you can't see my face"
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I've seen plenty of descriptors over the years that compare the *depth* of Wolfe to Wagner, but not sure I've seen anything direct. Until we get someone in here who's plumbed both, I don't know whether there is more to be said than that or not.
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Lol buddy we're talking Ring, not Rings - Wagner, not Tolkien.
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You've really encapsulated the Gen Z take on bars with this one: Why wasn't there a tutorial level at the bar entrance? Why should the bar I'm drinking at continue to exist? Couldn't this be a more rigid and impersonal experience?
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Their side is already as fast as it can be, the tech only makes the customer's part go faster. And the faster that goes, the easier it is to get away with not paying (since it is barely a visible action), so "watching your card go through" becomes a more synchronous demand on bartenders
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Your assessment of speed is only how fast it is for the customer to execute payment. Pay attention instead to how much the bartender has to interact with the POS to get you to that step, and then has to watch to be sure you do actually pay and it succeeds.
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Merchant has to pay a fee on each card transaction, so a tab bundles all your drinks onto a single transaction. It costs the bar X times more to serve tab-less customers, even if speed were not a concern.
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doing Will Graham shit to get inside the depraved minds of previous owners
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But I just had a baby and barely have the capacity to even write this reply rn. It took me 20 min to write this. tbh I've just been bookmarking your stuff for when I one day have the time again and otherwise am like wow kate really loves this. Can't wait to actually read any of it
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Book of the New Sun - ngl, you have gotten me interested in the ring cycle...but my interest is primarily in finding out to what extent it may have influenced the works of Gene Wolfe, so I can bring something fresh and unnoticed to the literary analysis table. A new thread of unraveling the tapestry
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They should actually have a plan this time though
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They should make the strip go from green to yellow to red like a weather radar
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Americans believe dying in a car crash they initiated counts as a warrior's death
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(building up to attempting another bassinet transfer)
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I'm doing a contact nap right this second and I assume the concern is from how easy it would be for me to nod off, if I weren't relentlessly scrolling to keep myself awake
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Embarrassing yourself as an obvious Faust noob
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Conversely, I just want a Star Trek version of Star Trek