psycotica0

I'm sorry you had to find out this way, but yes, you were an extremely unfuckable kid. I hacked into their mailing lists, meeting minutes, and records, and you would not believe how much time they spent talking about you. One of them said he was feeling very desperate once, and had an opportunity with you, but before he could go through with it he realized he was better than this and it turned his life around and fixed his low self-esteem. The meeting minutes made a point of highlighting that when he was discussing his rock-bottom moment, that he may stoop so low as to assaulting you, the assembled people audibly said "eww" and gasped. When he said he couldn't bring himself to do it, everyone applauded.

Sorry champ. But the good news is you grew out of it, like that classic kid's story, The Unfuckable Duckling!

Smoke up, Johnny!

Wait, aren't you a blahaj user? Doesn't that mean they didn't need to block you because they already blocked that whole server you rode in on?

Or did I misunderstand your comment...

Turns out the open source code was downloading a list of patterns from a hard-coded server path on load. So that file can't be edited by you. But you could write a patch to change the path to a different file you edited to block yourself!

Right right right, sorry, I wasn't trying to make the claim that this was "good for the economy" or something. All I was saying was that the money didn't disappear, it was given to someone. And it wasn't Iran. Well, maybe some of it was Iran... but most of it might as well have been printed out on a giant novelty check and handed to some rich dudes.

I know that people probably know this... but I still think it's important to point out. When they say they spent $37.5 Billion on the Iran War, it's easy to imagine a large pile of money burning. And that would be frustrating.

But that's not what that means. The money didn't go away, it was spent on things, and then those things went away. And when we say it was spent on things, what that means is that companies that make those things were paid to make things, they did make those things, and then those things blew up and were gone.

So it's not so much that $37.5 Billion was spent on the war, as it is that $37.5 Billion of tax money was moved to the revenue line on the income statement of defense contractors. That's where the money went, that's who has it, not to the missiles and the dirt. And that's somehow more frustrating, but it's a lot less confusing...

Do French people generally know what a Halberd is? Because I think at least in Canada only RPG nerds and medieval history nerds have ever heard that word before...

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Neat! But I feel like this also wasn't as obvious about the actual cheating part, because they were just dealing into a single pile. But I assume the point of the technique is that I'd be dealing out poker hands to each player, or some other card game, and if I had a memory trained for this kind of thing I'd be able to remember what each person had. Is that right?

It wouldn't be about choosing which cards go where, because that would make my dealing look really erratic, but instead just knowing what people have, so I can bet appropriately?

I've experienced one just like this in person, and it's trippy as fuck even in person. Maybe moreso because you know it's not a lens trick or camera something something. It's just me and my eyes, and they're doing weird stuff.

Nah, respectfully, I think you're wrong. Or at least you and I don't agree on what's the funny part.

In the original the comic introduces the guy died, we learn about the tattoo, and then the joke is that Death is bashful or whatever. And the extra panel doesn't really move that joke forward at all, or enhance it or build on it. It kinda undermines it by leaving us with a feeling of "none of that mattered though" rather than leaving us with the image of embarrassed Death. It's still in there, but it's no longer the final image that lingers.

But the thing I find interesting is that you're not alone... I've seen jokes and comments before that I felt were just one panel, or one line, too long. We had the punch, and then there's just something more after. And it's happened enough I feel like it's got to be like a "kind of person" or "sense of humour" rather than just "skilled vs unskilled", you know?

Because your version does have a kind of subversion to it, a sort of second twist... but I think for me it's a twist back to where we already were, so rather than feeling like it's adding to the scenario, it instead feels like it's unconfident in its punchline. Like the comic equivalent of asking someone out, but then hedging with "as a joke", because you wouldn't want to be seen taking a risk and failing. But by not sticking to your guns you've also weakened your initial pitch. In this case they made the joke that Death is excited and shy, that's the bold premise, and the new panel instead says "but whatever though he's still cool and unmoved and the same thing would have happened whether the guy had the tattoo or not, and the joke is actually that you'd think it would even matter nevermind"

Well, that's my unsolicited critique! Sorry I just happened to read your comment while I had time and was feeling "typey" 😛