catshit_dogfart

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

For real, me and a friend went to a costume party as Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton back in college. It was hilarious, we even acted the parts. I'll admit I was a little nervous walking into a frat house dressed like that, but the cheers we got made it all worthwhile.

This is normal human behavior that the people he's with want to criminalize.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Moreover, Alexander H. Stephens and West Hughes Humphreys were never found guilty of a crime, there was no court case or conviction against them.

They participated in an insurrection, rebellion, and gave aid or comfort to enemies. (Stephens was the vice president of the CSA and Humphreys was a judge). Folks in congress didn't want to be sitting next to a guy who just a few months ago was trying to kill them, so they started writing Section 3. It did not require a crime to be tried or a court ruling to be made, they participated in a rebellion and that's enough.

Okay the constitution isn't written for people to wriggle out on technicality.

 

I've been playing BG3 since I was first able to find a torrent, using the fitgirl repack, and I think I'm going to buy this one. To play online of course, but also to support the devs for making a damn decent game.

Would really like not to lose my progress - think it'll transfer without any problems?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You know, it's kind of like Bigfoot.

In the 60s I'd say you could almost slightly believe that just maybe there's a big gorilla somewhere that's so remote that nobody ever discovered it.

These days just about every frickin dirt road in the woods has a trail camera on it, lots of houses have surveillance cameras, drones, satellite images, all that stuff. And not these old Polaroids either, not film developed in a darkroom with a shoddy enlarger, HD digital is pretty much standard for all devices.

There's just no damn way this thing could be walking around without something catching it on 1080p video.

 

Well I imagine it's gotta be the same for the sky. Military's got a lot of eyes on the sky for a lot of reasons.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thought I saw a UFO one time too, took video and posted it on a message board and everything.

They explained it was probably one of those paper lanterns that people let up at parties, which upon description completely made sense. Looked strange though, red light in the sky that was definitely way up there, not like an airplane but maybe where a low-flying one would be, too small to be an airplane though, irregular flickering, irregular movement.

Yeah, fully explained it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sometimes it seems as though only good people die young.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (8 children)

We might actually not know why magnets work.

The formula used to prove the functionality of magnets can also be used to prove the existence of a theoretical state called a monopolar magnet - positive or negative on both sides. So either monopolar magnets can exist, even if in some esoteric circumstance, or we don't know why magnets work.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

That's how I try to keep things in perspective, by saying - was I any different?

Yes I think it's all stupid and annoying, literally everything about tiktok which the kids are soooo involved with, minecraft, fortnite, however they're dressing these days. Stupid and annoying, all of it.

But hey there was a time when my dig-pet was the most important thing I owned, my beanie babies were "an investment", could easily play Halo for 12 hours straight, I wore giant jnco jeans with chains on them, and listened to Limp Bizkit.

So, was I any different? Nah, it's the same.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I am literally a Linux system admin, I bang on a command line interface for a living.

But I don't use Linux at home, it's just so much work. Every single thing is complicated. Last time I really tried in earnest to switch to a full Linux setup I was somewhere in the middle of a quick and easy 24-step process to get my webcam working, compiling the drivers from a modified source - and it was just a moment that broke me. Like, I've been working on this for an hour and I know I can do it but this is stuff I don't even think about with windows.

So I broke down and bought Windows 10. It's what I was trying to avoid, being a tight ass and didn't want to buy an new OS.

I just don't have the patience to troubleshoot every tiny thing like a big endeavor. I can, I just don't want to. Everything I install, every peripheral I connect, it's always a big deal getting it to work. Heck with that, not worth the trouble.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

See that's something else I liked about Sync for Reddit, it only showed gold awards. They never got on board with all the wacky shit they added later.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's exactly what I have! An X570-A-PRO. We'll see, haven't gotten around to messing with this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I had a similar experience with one of the more recent NBA games.

Like, shooting the ball was a whole process. First you initiate a gathering action or decide what kind of plant or pick you're going to make, there's a button for whether you jump or not, what kind of jump (fade away, in place, diving towards) and then timing for shot accuracy. God help you if you're going for a dunk.

Damn it all, what ever happened to one button for pass and the other for shoot!

I'm out here doing advanced Street Fighter combos just to throw a damn ball. It's easy as doing a tatsumaki super canceled into a neutral aerial shakunetsu hadoken. And that's just one thing, every damn mechanic in the game felt like this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely - a whistleblower goes to the authorities, not a political party.

 

I think the Grafton Monster is a hoax. Now, not that I believe any cryptids actually exist, but I mean a hoax in terms of culture and folklore.

In recent years the subject of cryptids from West Virginia has grown in pop culture, but there's one that stands out to me - The Grafton Monster

Originally sighted in 1964 near the Tygart River in Grafton West Virginia, it's described as a lumbering hulk with no head and white seal-like skin. There are buzzing and humming sounds associated with it, but it doesn't really do anything bad.

 

Except - I live in West Virginia, I have family in Grafton going back to my great-grandparents. I grew up and still live about 30 minutes from Grafton. Nobody I know has ever heard of this thing. Not as a folk tale, not as a hoax, not at all. Seems to me the whole story was dreamt up in recent years.

In 2014 there was a TV show called Mountain Monsters that did an episode on the Grafton Monster. They interviewed local people, actually did film in Grafton, it was rather a subject of local news that there was a TV crew in town.

Except the people they interviewed definitely weren't from Grafton. It's a small enough town that you kind of know everybody, and those folks definitely weren't locals. My uncle owns a business in Grafton and he knows frickin everybody, he could recognize whose farm they were on but that was not the guy who owns that farm.

Nobody, I mean nobody from Grafton knew they ever had a monster until a TV crew came into town and told us we did.

 

So I think it's bullshit.

Everybody knows the Mothman. I didn't think stories about The Flatwoods Monster made it outside of WV and apparently that's popular now too, but I've heard of that since I was a kid. These are established folklore, tall tales passed down the generations, and culturally relevant.

The Grafton Monster though, no, at least don't think so. Almost everything I try to read about the tale circles back to that TV show. There's a book that was published in 2019, numerous cryptid hunters have done stories on the subject in recent years. But I can't find anything on the subject prior to 2014.

Now, part of the story goes that the first sighting was made by a guy who worked for the local newspaper The Grafton Daily Sentinel, and he published a story on June 18th, 1964. That was a real paper (now defunct) but there's no online resource for back issues of it, maybe it could be found in physical copies somewhere. If I were to see that, then I would believe this was actual WV folklore and not some script from a reality TV show writer.

In the absence of evidence dating before the 2014 TV show, I have to presume The Grafton Monster was made up for that show and is now counted among WV's well known cryptids.

Like I said at first not saying I think any of these exist, but I strongly believe that folk tales of this kind have great cultural value. They're all "made up" but the others have history, Grafton Monster does not.

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