Varyk

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[–] Varyk 9 points 1 month ago (8 children)

you sound pretty chill, is that a result of your accident or were you pretty chill before the accident is well?

do you have any goals you want to reach like traveling or starting a business or anything at all?

[–] Varyk 7 points 1 month ago

ha!

this is such a surprising and good answer, I'm happy to read it and happy that you're happy.

[–] Varyk 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

when people ask me how Trump won, I explain that Americans care so little about women as a group that they're letting them die in front of hospitals rather than allowing them to have health care.

"allowing" them.

so the party hoping to elect a woman president is at an extreme disadvantage.

I also think domestic and international election interference election interference plays a much more significant role in American elections than people think and in hindsight and future history textbooks, people will be shaking their heads, not just at the electoral college, but at direct election interference securing Republican victories.

people don't think election interference is important because we hear the word gerrymander or social media bias or "Russian troll farms" and since they're omnipresent, they're dismissed, although they have direct practical influence on campaigns and election processes.

[–] Varyk 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Varyk 4 points 1 month ago

haha, thanks. 28 so far.

I really like podcasts and eating large dinners and then walking or bicycling after that, so I'll spend spend 3 or 4 hours a day learning something from a podcast and idly burning off all the great food I ate!

If you like walking games, the only other one I've really enjoyed is called "the walk", and it's sort of a serialized radio show, and every 10 miles or so you walk you'll unlock another chapter so you can hear the next part of the story.

it's a pretty cool story and very professionally done with a bunch of different voice actors.

[–] Varyk 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

a thousand gold ores.

that I'm determined to do through gold panning.

I actually really want to do gold panning in real life, and I aim to soon, so walkscape will be its proxy until I get the opportunity.

[–] Varyk 1 points 1 month ago
[–] Varyk 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

thank you, that's exactly what I'm looking for. appreciate it.

[–] Varyk 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

what specific things can you point out to dismiss the case?

would one clearly false sentence in a police report be enough?

[–] Varyk 1 points 1 month ago

I was looking at one of those a couple years ago, I've only heard good things.

thanks.

that's a really good point about being obvious when you're interviewing people too.

[–] Varyk 4 points 1 month ago

loops is now confirmed my new Vine substitute, thanks.

[–] Varyk 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

wow, Big change for him.

I always like his videos, I'm happy to see him so happy.

 

Apparently the Egyptians used to do this.

The mourning period is over after your eyebrows grow back

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Varyk to c/[email protected]
 

Update! Newpipe is working again after an uninstall and reinstall just now!

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I've been using newpipe for 3 years and it's never failed completely like this.

It's been a few days now that zero videos work and newpipe hasn't released an update or anything on their blog.

Cleared cache. Uninstalled reinstalled, reset phone, no difference.

Is new pipe still working for other people? I have an uninstalled reinstalled

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Varyk to c/animorphs
 

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Varyk to c/animorphs
 

Scary opening for a minute when nobody is answering Cassie and she thinks she's all alone on the mission.

Forrrreshadowing.

spoilerDefinitely written in 2000, a massive firefight erupts in an airport that everybody just shrugs off and things keep going normally instead of the entire place locking down, and planes in a baggage are left unsecured, just a regular transit station instead of a Homeland security nightmare.

Also, the most exciting opening for Cassie in a long time, that turns into one of the most consistently exciting adventures, with Cassie alone.

Non stop action.

The Australian outback is such a good setting for an adventure. I'd like to read a longer version of a story like this.

Actually there was that popular YA series "tomorrow when the war began", that was a great series.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Varyk to c/patientgamers
 

TLDR: I loved Borderlands two and I'm going to start a replay with a different character, which i almost never do.

I had fun with Borderlands 1, but was basically pushing through by the end trying not to fall asleep.

B2, on the other hand, I was very engaged in the entire ride through, although it seemed well balanced and the game ended when it should, even including the side quests.

Improvements -

The writing! I think I heard a reference to Anthony Burch writing in Borderlands 2 from hey ass. Whatcha playing episode, and he got some award?

Experience tiers, which I didn't initially like because it wasn't explained, but basically the quests are more important than farming enemies for experience, so you get much more engaged with the stories because you're following quests instead of trying to kill enough boring enemies in the same way to get high enough of a level to destroy future enemies.

In any case, the writing that I did like in Borderlands 1, was perfect in 2. Not too long, always funny, always engaging, every character very well defined, which brings me to my next point:

The voice acting was hilarious and perfect, again, very well defined and idiosyncratic for every character, just so much fun to listen to. Every time handsome Jack pops up. It's fun to listen to him be an a******.

The quests were so much more satisfying. At the end of the first game, I was basically just following marker to marker without caring what anybody said or what was written down just tapping through to the next wavepoint until the quest was finished.

In Borderlands 2, Even if I accidentally clicked through the introduction to the quest, I would go back and make sure to read because I know that the paragraph introducing and explaining the quest is funny and that the quest is going to be rescuing lab experiments and I have to find a particular valve or putting together a treasure map with a weird lure, rather than just find the bigger bad guy punch him to death.

Driving was huge - I was not into driving in Borderlands 1 and got really bored and irritated every time I had to drive. I felt like the aiming system was complete dog s***, and it was just not very fun to drive around in general, like the handling was terrible.

I loved driving around the Borderlands too and was actively bummed out whenever. I didn't get a car, but it made perfect sense and they used the car just enough so that the game wasn't too easy. But you could still boost and race around however you wanted, or chase down a beer van. So much fun driving, such a huge improvement from the first game.

Larger levels with more interesting landscapes in them, each level felt much more unique than the entire The first game to me, like each area had its own style to a degree I hadn't seen before.

I can't remember a single place from the first game, but I'm going to remember the different style of the underground bug. Bunker and the dust and all these other places that had an impact on the personality of the game.

Lastly, art is more efficient, not as many bold lines emphasizing the comic book quality, which is carried through more by the personality of the game instead of by the specific art.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Varyk to c/animorphs
 

Blech, always hate it when anyone has to morph a taxxon.

Also hate being confronted with tobias' torturer.

Probably not as much as Tobias does, though.

Great inside cover!

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Varyk to c/animorphs
 

Is this one a "yikes" for everybody?

Maybe they just needed a break from a book every month for five years.

spoilerMarco's heart exploding, or being exploded, is pretty harrowing, but the helmacrons combined with the trope theme is impossible not to roll my eyes at.

I still like the animorphs themselves within the story and I like Marco's initiative, but this book is odd and somewhat unsatisfying.

Maybe they needed some breathing room to get ready for the final run.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Varyk to c/[email protected]
 

TLDR: there are no qualifying limitations on presidential immunity

Not only does any US president now have complete immunity from "official" actions(with zero qualifying restrictions or definitions), but if those actions are deemed "unofiicial", no jury is legally allowed to witness the evidence in any way since that would interfere with the now infinitely broad "official" presidential prerogatives.

Furthermore, if an unofficial atrocity is decided on during an official act, like the president during the daily presidential briefing ordering the army to execute the US transexual population, the subsequent ordered executions will be considered legally official presidential acts since the recorded decision occurred during a presidential duty.

There are probably other horrors I haven't considered yet.

Then again, absolute immunity is absolute immunity, so I don't know how much threat recognition matters here.

If the US president can order an action, that action can be legally and officially carried out.

Not constitutionally, since the Constitution specifically holds any elected politician subject to the law, but legally and officially according to the supreme court, who has assumed higher power then the US Constitution to unconstitutionally allege that the US President is absolutely immune from all legal restrictions and consequences.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Varyk to c/[email protected]
 

I have one from a band called Massie that says "you work hard, I'll be sexy".

Makes me laugh every time.

I also have a t-shirt with a purple teddy bear under a paragraph of text telling a nihilist horror story in broken english about that teddy bear as if he were a real person.

Both winners.

 

I owned most of these books and this was one of the ones I reread the most because of how poetic so many difficult personal struggles and fears are faced and worked through so rapid fire, it's pretty overwhelming without being trite.

This book ends perfectly,

Title

the simple act of asking Cassie if she was okay when he didn't ask her like he should have the day before.

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