Decoy321

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Dresden Codak is the shiiiiit! I’ve been reading how comics for decades now. The sheer amount of clever world building he does is amazing. He rarely updates, but they’re always nice surprises.

Speaking of updates, a new one just posted!

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a quick search yielded this result.

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Hello fellow liberal gun owner! It’s good to see more of us out here. It fucking annoys me to no end whenever we get lumped together with that nonsense.

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Well, are you?!?

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This is a good question! Honestly I can’t even think of a time. Usually when someone says something insulting or hurtful, I just lose respect or consideration for them. After all, it says more about them than it does about me.

To add an example, I recently got told to “go back to my country you [lazy racial slurs]” by a MAGA loving shithead neighbor.

I was born here, and the old asshole who said it emigrated here less than a decade ago. It was a flabbergasting experience.

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Can confirm, Lexis Nexis is the shiiiiiiit! I felt like a freaking wizard when I used it back in college.

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What the hell even is an evisceration plague? How do the bacteria somehow remove ones internal organs?

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Well that’s pretty fuckin metal

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You don’t pick out the bones first?

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Plastic surgery on a double for public appearances. Deepfakes for videos.

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My dude, no one is as self aware as you think you are. You do yourself a disservice by thinking so, it means you’re ignoring an exploitable weakness.

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Fire. He means fire.

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Nah, it’s 2020s, the proper term is pokepersons.

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There’s also the opposite problem, when you can’t sleep because you don’t want to fast forward to all the bullshit you’ll have to get back to tomorrow.

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It’s fuckin annoying. The whole time I thought I was Gen X up until a decade ago. Then all of sudden other people are telling me I’m this bullshit.

For fucks sake, I remember using rotary phones and fucking with TV antennas to get better reception. I remember when no one had cell phones or the Internet. If you didn’t know an answer to something, you just made your peace with that.

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Definitely as a millennial I’m of the last generation that will remember arranging to meet up somewhere in advance and sticking to that plan (or rearranging over landline with more than a day’s notice…)

This is related to an interesting phenomenon I noticed while chatting about this with my parents. The question “where are you?” was hardly asked back in the day. With landlines, you already knew where they are. The only time that question was asked involved payphones. And those barely exist anymore either.

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Did… Did you already forget what generation we’re talking about?

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Man, those were interesting times. It’s funny, elsewhere in these comments I remarked about a question people didn’t ask back in the day. “Where are you?” was hardly ever asked because of landlines.

Your response reminded me of an inverse question, one that’s rarely asked nowadays.

“Where am I?”

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Indeed, they were always perfectly acceptable. I was just commenting how you usually knew the location of the person you called because you knew to call that locations landline. You still wouldn’t know receiving calls off the bat, at least until caller ID.

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Stamets, you’re a god among men. Thanks for all the laughs we wish you the best!

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Fuck yeah this looks epic!! I will absolutely be rewatching part 1 the day before just to catch up and get myself psyched.

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Fred Savage was 35 years old when Peter Falk died in 2011. He was 83 at that time. Poor dude had Alzheimer’s for those last few years.

They could’ve definitely filmed a reunion scene in the 90s, early 2000s though.

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The one with the fastest internet.

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It’s definitely cultural. I know people who consider it abhorrent. Other cultures teach their kids how to help serve the alcohol. For example, I learned how to make mojitos once I was old enough to carry the pitcher.

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Not only do I agree, but also recommend looking up supplementary info, like the companion website while rewatching to help connect dots.

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If anyone is missing the joke, this is probably a reference to Altered Beast, a damn fun beat-em-up from 1988.

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Hah! Nice comics! Gotta love the attention to detail with all the elves, that little nut puncher is quite the bastard.

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It’s quite fitting! If you ever bring him back, I’ll hear the theme song in my head while reading

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“All the Small Things” came out 24 years ago, in 1999. Meaning it came out last millennium!

I remember getting this CD at a virgin records store. We’re getting old, you fuckin whippersnappers.

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It’s presumably in one of the bags.

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You cut your power cables?

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Thank you for that interesting read. Seems like quite a lot of effort and risk for a cheap toaster.

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Ah, this brings back memories. I spent hours doing that to Mario’s face.

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This is the way.

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Understandable. Dude was the first, I’m sure his odds at the time warranted a few shots.

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Rest assured, I’m in agreement. I’m just joking that the dude who was the first to use an explosion to leave the planet might have some nerves that needed calming.

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The solution here would be to just domesticate them.

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You can actually do it on a much shorter time scale, depending on the species in question. A Soviet scientist in the 50s started it with foxes and had noticeable results by the 4th generation, less than 2 decades later.

The real catch here is in the semantics, defining your terms and expectations. How much genetic drift you’re aiming for, and what traits you select, what results are functionally “good enough”, etc…

In this example, we probably don’t need fully domesticated animals, some tamed generations should be good enough.

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Why do you have a bathtub in your bedroom?

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Indeed, that would be a reasonable assumption. But then how would I make my silly joke?!

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You don’t happen to need glasses, do you?

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The counterargument for this line of thinking is that it’s just theoretical. You don’t have actual experience with the scenario, so you can’t truly know how you’d behave.

We all like to think we’re paragons of virtue. But when the chips are down, most people behave in ways they never expected to.

In the words of an eminent poet, “Everybody got a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”

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slaps roof of ship

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I just assume all these “revival” projects will be as abject shit as Duke Nukem Forever. That way I’ll be pleasantly surprised if they’re actually decent.

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My mother and sister fucking looooove these movies, despite how low effort cookie cutter they are. My favorite game while they’re watching is “count the POC.” The last one we saw together, I got to 1.

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Two.

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But they can’t refuse…

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