Trump-free Open Thread for Not Talking About Trump

I, too, would like to hear ((((Zero))))’s story of getting banned from Pizza Hut.

No Man’s Sky just dropped a big update, adding base building, freighters for hire, reducing the frequency of resources, and tweaking the UI, among others. I might have to check those out.

Babies Update: They’re going to be 4 in February. They’re talking very well, although my girl throws the curve off because she has a lot more phonemes than my boy. They can climb and jump and swing with the best of them. We might trade up from the balance bikes to bikes with actual pedals and training wheels soon.

@kupo, I haven’t even tried Stardew Valley.

I have made some progress on my Final Fantasy 3 game, though.

Also: My girl looks at the pre-pupal stage of the butterfly and/or moth and says “Callerpittar!”

So yea, that discussion about the Blood Bowl re-release?

While shopping on my birthday this weekend (40! Fuck Everything!), one of the geek shops happened to have the new board, the Skaven team and a black friday sale that made both with tax cheaper than ordering the game alone off the website before ax and shipping.

Now I just need to buy paint. Yikes.

I’ve been lurking here for a while but figured that if you’re sharing music you’d rather appreciate this performance by the objectively awesome, objectively I say!, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead…

I think when MGTOW first heard the slang term “ham wallet” they took it too literally and assumed that vaginas grab, store and dispense cash.

Not that I’m saying that there is anything wrong with being a prison guard. See what I mean? The balance between effective speaking to an audience and conveying an experience can produce less-than preferred non-literal language. I sometimes hate being hyper-analytical.

@kupo:

You are on a feminist blog, and as we know, feminist blogs are entirely populated by women, and women are really into flowers and into fashionable things. Therefore, it’s only sensible that advertisers (to maximize profit) buy ad space to disseminate information on seven (because list articles themselves are modish at the moment) of the most fashionable flowers.

The above paragraph contains at least 70% sarcasm.

@ Brony SJC, thanks for replying. I can certainly relate to the feeling of paralysis, especially while your analysis is incomplete and you feel cut off from the ability to complete it. [inserts platitude here].
Your hyper-analytical nature is often a joy to bystanders like me, and often an education too, so I hope your final synthesis recognises that.

@kupo

I gave it a try this morning and realized I wasn’t stranded anymore. I forgot that I’d fixed this problem (and built a large pool of the resources needed for those specific repairs, just in case).

Got a new problem though ! I got me a freighter, set up a terminal for a Builder and went to the space station to recruit the staff member… and when I came back, the room with the terminal was completely blocked to me. Like, a wall where the door should’ve been. I bypassed that a first time by building rooms above to go around the block, talked to my Builder, went to get the supplies they wanted, and when I came back the new openings I’d made were blocked as well. This time it doesn’t seem like I can go around, so I guess all I can do is wait for a fix.

I’m also a little sad that this update (and those base-linking teleporters I had long awaited) happened long after I found my favorite planet yet, and I can’t go back there to build a permanent base on it. Oh well. I’ll find an even better one eventually.

To be fair, at any rate I’m more interested in whatever future content this update is supposed to be a “Foundation” for. I love the non-base-related changes too. Looking past the initial disappointment at release, it seems like there’s a lot of hope for NMS yet.

@John
That sucks! Hopefully they fix it soon.

On another topic, this article males me happy and sad: http://nyti.ms/2gAGo2g

Hmmmm…How to make this non-serious. Most people don’t realize just how much fun I have taking scientific literature and lining myself up with it. It’s hard learning to subtract yourself from the equation (sometimes literal nowadays in brain science) and still speak casually, but it has benefits. You can have fun with this stuff and work on having fun with other people as a skill.

@Croquembouche of patriarchy

I can certainly relate to the feeling of paralysis, especially while your analysis is incomplete and you feel cut off from the ability to complete it. [inserts platitude here].

I get what you are saying. Platitudes are complicated like that. They are true, but in the same way that equations are true. My dependent variables are different, but the independent variables still have things in common. I like platitudes, about 50%.
At a neurodiversity level an experience that reminds me of that is how when I try to mention social difficulties related to Tourette’s Syndrome I often hear “that happens to me too”. Half-true, mine is shaped differently.

Your hyper-analytical nature is often a joy to bystanders like me, and often an education too, so I hope your final synthesis recognises that.

That is nice to know, I appreciate that. I don’t go looking for praise much since that tends to be difficult in terms of social strategy so I appreciate that. Final synthesis works as a term, but in personality terms that is a part of me that I try to cultivate.

It’s just that I’ve learned that I’m little different from the people this blog criticizes in form. I have the same urge act authoritatively in a social context. I’m very determined to find a way of categorizing my social world, including for defensive and offensive purposes. Fear is a motivator for me, as well as other things like anger, joy, anticipation, trust, surprise and disgust. I am very sensitive to social symbols and I am socially impulsive. I socially manipulate. It’s why I know so much about them, I am like them.

We are different because I make different choices about what I watch for in social situations, what I try to remember, and how I choose to proceed. I am very strict with myself because I genuinely like people and am friendly and passionate in person. I don’t like making people feel negatively, it’s just that I don’t like people making each other feel negatively more. When I analyze and dissect apart people’s words it feels like an aggressive act of a kind that so many trolls use here. I get impulses in my mind that are seeds of the kinds of things that the commentariat here cares about. Neutral at a species level, but you have to make them into things that can be called good. I feel very similarly to many trolls and have problems that result in things like a miserable sex life. But I have to make sure I attack the right targets. Anger, hate and fear are tools. I don’t let myself hate people, I make myself hate beliefs, behaviors, actions and ways of communicating. I control my “grouping people function” because hate, fear and anger are too often sloppy and I am one of the sloppiest.

It’s very often hard and lonely because of the way society is set up and the habits I have fallen into over the years but it’s what works. I’m always trying tot modify it.