One time when transporting my piggies, I forgot to cover the travel cage since we were just going from one side of town to the other. Hawk flew over the car, and poor Snickers lost his mind. He tried to shove his face under Oreo, like a great dane trying to hide from a thunderstorm under a couch.
Personally, tears are a turn-off for me. As soon as the enthusiastic consent is gone, the pee-pee is no longer hard
Tangent: I swear by orange juice in coffee instead of creamer. It deals with the bitter coffee taste by just making it Very Taste. It doesn't taste good, quite the opposite. (My fiancée accidentally tasted my coffee once and immediately puked.) But it certainly does taste
Sorry, accidentally hit post while I was still typing. Pretty sure I'm done now
So, back in January the mods of [email protected] announced they were packing up the community and moving to [email protected]. To assist in this, they closed [email protected]. For simplicity, I'm going to refer to them as the .world one and the .blahaj one.
Now, there were lots of other things they had done that were dick moves, but whats most important is the sheer entitlement of thinking you can just pick up a community and move it, like they own it or something. This pissed off the community here, so one guy created [email protected]. Within an hour, this community was more active than .blahaj had honestly ever been, and it has sustained a more subdued version of popularity since.
The mods quickly realized that they had shot themselves in the foot, and backtracked with an apology that read like "we are sorry that you peasants were mad about the completely justifiable decision we made, and we hope you feel better soon. Here's your emotional support sub back." This just pissed off the community more, and the more we found out about their actions behind the scenes the more pissed off we got. It was a real mask-off moment where we got to see how shitty the mod team was, not just to the community but also to Ada. Personally, the part where I decided to never come back was when they cited an accidental ban followed by a successful appeal as a bad thing that was also Ada's fault for some reason. Do they think they are above making mistakes? Or do they think they should just not ban trolls because they might hit innocent bystanders by accident? Either interpretation makes them look really bad to me.
So, the end result of this was that .blahaj's most active users were burned on the old mod team and hopped to this community. That's why there are three now.
Talking in terms of hope or wishing them luck is a good substitute. Serves the same purpose, but doesn't carry the god baggage. It also has the extra benefit of sounding more sincere, since it's just non-standard enough to give the impression that you actually put thought into your well-wishes without sounding seriously unusual.
My go-to is actually variations of "I have faith in you" and then encourage them based on whichever one of their strengths is most applicable. For example: "You're smart. I have faith that you'll spot whatever opportunity presents itself next."
And of course, there is the classic atheist thing of replacing the thoughts and prayers with actual help. A lot of the instances where thoughts and prayers are actually appropriate include times where they need emotional support, which costs nothing but time and energy.
It's a reference to the Wug test. Specifically the prompt "This is a man who knows how to gling. He is glinging. Yesterday he ______"
At the time the test was developed, it was commonly believed that children need to be instructed on how to conjugate each individual word they learn, or else they will end up englishing very ungoodly. The test showed that even young children have a grasp on how to pluralize and conjugate even unfamiliar words, and can make guesses on the meaning of new words based on context clues.
@[email protected] draw me a picture of this guy's dad snorting snow off a lady's back on a cruise ship
None of these look even remotely like static lmao
@[email protected] draw for me a picture of static without a tax return in the middle
Personally, I think best of all time is the Shields system from Duel Master.
Each player puts five cards from the top of their deck face-down at the start of their game; these are their Shields. Whenever a player takes damage, one of their Shields breaks and goes into their hand. Many cards would have "Shield Trigger" effects that would allow them to be played after entering your hand this way. Some, such as Holy Awe, could turn the tide of the match.
Explanation: When a Byzantine Emperor was deposed, they would be mutilated in some way. Justinian managed to get another term after being deposed, so to hide that his nose was lopped off he wore a gold nose
cross-posted from: https://dice.camp/users/Shkshkshk/statuses/113867052735513927
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If this is how we look today, just imagine how we'll look in 20 years