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  • Call of Daddy

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  • Well, other than it being all tacti-cool in aesthetics, standard baby gear is not as well arranged as what's in the picture.

    That gear in the pic would let you carry the baby stuff with your hands free and able to actually take care of an infant out and about. Waaay better than the usual shoulder sling or backpack options, and absurdly better than the kinds meant to be carried by hand.

    There's a reason surplus gear used to be wildly popular. It was mostly designed to work. It would be better than what you could get outside of a surplus store, even when what you were getting was years out of date and current issue was better. With companies making stuff that's built with stuff like molle in mind, following principles that make what's being carried leave hands free but be reasonably accessible, shit just works better, even though it looks ugly.

    If I'm toting an infant around, I don't need pretty, I need comfortable and capable.

  • People who eat beef don't give a shit about climate change

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  • Yeah, sadly.

  • People who eat beef don't give a shit about climate change

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  • It's low effort rage bait

  • Top tier bug friends

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  • That's a perfect example!

  • Top tier bug friends

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  • All I can say is that people be trippin. When I have asked people why they call them that, the usual is "I dunno, I guess they look like pumpkins, that's just what my family called them, so I do too".

    I suspect that it comes down to nobody really remembering why a bug is called its colloquial name, nor bothering to ask or explain, and after while, the mistake becomes the norm. Kids mislabel stuff a lot, and spread things faster than they do germs. Easy for weird things to slip in.

  • Destroy a Microphone

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  • In a pinch, some superglue liberally applied can either block reception or muffle it so much that anything it could send would be largely useless. Or you can open it up and remove it and hope nothing else breaks in the process.

  • Top tier bug friends

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  • We didn't have a single term around here.

    Most common was punkin bug, or pumpkin bug for you damn yankees.

    But, roly-poly, tomato bug, and pill bug were all in common usage.

    What's interesting to me is that they were also called doodle bugs, despite a completely different bug also being called that. Doodle bug is also used for ant lions around here; indeed, that's what they're called almost exclusively.

    They were both called that for the same reason, the little doodly tracks they leave in fine sand and soil, though if a punkin bug is on that, they're going elsewhere because they don't really like those conditions.

  • Romancing the gith

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  • Kinda surprising they didn't give the character more oomph for romance. She essentially starts out as the most versatile option for it, being able to mesh into pretty much any arc and remain interesting.

  • Romancing the gith

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  • I can imagine lol.

  • BEHEMOTH - The Shit Ov God [Poland, 2025] [FFO: Hate, Belphegor, Nile]

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  • Yeah, it being the title track makes it confusing as hell (play on words intended).

  • Romancing the gith

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  • She really is awesome. Her writing combined with the voice actor make her feel so damn real and likeable. When I got her second "upgrade" to her heart, the options I had included a hug, and it was so fulfilling. I wanted to hug her. I was smiling from it for a while after I'd moved on.

    For real, her voice actor did a phenomenal job on making the character feel real and relatable. The writers definitely did their job well with her, but the performance takes it to another level. I agree with you, top game character ever for me, even over Minsc lol.

  • Romancing the gith

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  • I've heard that shadowheart is really finicky to romance.

  • Romancing the gith

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  • I unexpectedly got minthara started by random clicking after a the raid playing the durge origin as a side thing when I need a break from act 3's tangled web of arcs. It was.. less romance than soft core porn, but if there's good development in act 2/3 it could be really interesting.

  • Romancing the gith

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  • Astarion is so high maintenance lol. I bet it's a wild ride getting him from A to B

    Karlach though, that's my homie. If she was real, I would hang with her any time. I can imagine her romance story being very sweet

  • BEHEMOTH - The Shit Ov God [Poland, 2025] [FFO: Hate, Belphegor, Nile]

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  • I dunno, that track is right up there, despite the album as a whole not being as consistent.

    Then again, I'm a fanboy to an extent, so I tend to appreciate the effort and intent as much as the actual songs

  • NSFW

    Ball stretching

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  • Well, you'd think I had, the way they hang nowadays, but it's gravity and decades that did the work ;)

    Also, you gotta be really careful with the real thing. The skin there is tougher than most people think, but not as tough as you might hope once you're pulling on it with any significant force. You can get these micro-tears and even smooth materials can abrade. You aren't going to cause serious injury unless you do really dumb stuff, but you can make yourself miserable for a week or two while it heals up.

  • Why were and are african americans called the N word? Where did it begin and did someone just come up with it on the fly or something? I mean why not call people Daisy Tulips instead the n word?

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  • Nah, iirc it was always negros (pronounced closer to nay-gross) in Spain at the time. No idea about the Portuguese, I just don't recall how it's pronounced or spelled, but afaik, their slang and slur words for black people were less focused on color, same as Spanish.

    Pulling off of memory, I wanna say that the general derogatory terms vary a good bit, like in English, but with none of them being so directly and singularly used the way the n word is.

    One that I vaguely recall was essentially calling them shit arabs, or shit moors. And I wanna say that another translates to goat fucker. That's Spanish, again I'm not as familiar with Portuguese terms on this because they never had as much presence here in the US. Means that the Portuguese terms didn't seep into the French and Spanish, much less English. A lot of the slurs for black people here in the US come from French or Spanish to some degree, though English speaking oppressors came up with plenty of their own as well.

    But, yeah, negro just means black, so the word is still in use, and doesn't have a bigoted context directly. There's even variants that are considered nice, like negrita, which is often a pet name between couples where the woman/girl is black. There's a different weight to it than just saying "black" I'm English when derivatives like that are used.

    Strangely, some South American Spanish speakers use blanco as a derogatory term for whites, though it isn't super common, as there are better ones in use.

  • Man it hurts.

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  • Amen!

  • [OC] Personal opinion on Jackson Pollock's drip art

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  • Well, you absolutely have control over splatters once you understand the way they happen. A liquid at a given viscosity moving at a given speed will have predictable, but minutely variable, outcomes.

    In other words, every raindrop hits in a predictable way, and the only reason you can't predict exactly how the resulting splash will look is a lack of ability to make the same predictions on a molecular level. But, if you could see and hold in the human brain, the outcome is absolutely predictable even at that level; we just can't pull it off without outside assistance.

    Look at airbrushing. It's tightly controlled spatter. You're using air to make the drops so small that we can predict and control the outcome so that it can be used to give a range of end products. But if you get in really tight to what's going on, it's high speed splattering.

    I would also disagree that a happy accident can't have depth visually. But I think you likely misread how I was emphasizing, so it isn't really useful to say more than that.

    However, Judge for yourself if he was bullshiting about his degree of intent in his efforts. It isn't like there aren't other interviews and information about what he did, on both technical and analytical levels. Him saying he has intent doesn't mean he's speaking truth, nor would it being truth change whether or not one agrees with his intent, or how successful one feels he was in achieving it.

    But he at least came up with an explanation of intent, and his movements when working are controlled enough to indicate he at least thought he was working with intent, and isn't that the same thing as intent on a practical level?

  • Is it okay to eat after brushing in the night

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  • Eh, short term it's no big deal. Teeth are durable as hell and won't get fucked up by anything that minor if it's a rare thing. But, the more you do it, the more damage accumulates over time. A few times a year over decades? Never gonna notice it.

    A few times a month, and it'll be a decade or two before it would be a problem.

    A few times a week, and you'd better have dental coverage and/or good income, because you're looking at a few years before it starts showing up as carries. Less if circumstances are bad, or you didn't start out with very good teeth.

    There's also the fact that keeping in the habit of brushing after eating stays a habit better if you don't deviate from it without an important reason. In my mind, if you're awake enough to eat, you're awake enough to brush afterward. If you aren't awake enough to brush, then you probably shouldn't be eating either. Fucks with digestion and metabolism. It's better to just stay on track and skip the snack, if you dig me.

    But nah, if it's a rare thing, you'll take more damage from a soda than a single night skipping brushing after a midnight nosh. It's all about the acids.

    Now, if you can't be bothered to at least swish out with some water, I'd say you've got worse things to worry about because you can do that on your way back to bed, swallow it and take zero extra effort beyond the mouthful of water. If your energy is that low, or there's some other impediment involved, focus on that.

  • Marvel Future Fight @sh.itjust.works
    southsamurai @sh.itjust.works

    we got our monthlies

    forum.netmarble.com /futurefight_en/view/2196/1795144
  • Marvel Future Fight @sh.itjust.works
    southsamurai @sh.itjust.works

    July sneak peek 2. dayum

    forum.netmarble.com /futurefight_en/view/2227/1794886
  • Connect for Lemmy App @lemmy.ca
    southsamurai @sh.itjust.works

    not a bug, but slightly strange

  • Connect for Lemmy App @lemmy.ca
    southsamurai @sh.itjust.works

    feature request

  • Connect for Lemmy App @lemmy.ca
    southsamurai @sh.itjust.works

    weird issues with logins and account switching

  • Marvel Future Fight @sh.itjust.works
    southsamurai @sh.itjust.works

    patch notes for spidergwen

    forum.netmarble.com /futurefight_en/view/2196/1794321
  • Backyard Chickens (and Other Birds) @lemmy.ca
    southsamurai @sh.itjust.works

    she's silly, but sweet. kinda surprised tbh.

  • Marvel Future Fight @sh.itjust.works
    southsamurai @sh.itjust.works

    Patch notes, 6/27

    forum.netmarble.com /futurefight_en/view/2196/1793529
  • Marvel Future Fight @sh.itjust.works
    southsamurai @sh.itjust.works

    fix patch was there today.