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Well sure, and I get that, but the map we’re looking at clearly has a W-E line marked, presumably on the prime meridian. It’s pretty westerly in that regard which seems like a pretty sensible perspective to me on how to navigate at the south pole.

If you handed me this map and told me to go North I would go to Dronning Maud Land.

the peninsula is considered the north side

look at the peninsula

it’s on the west side

“Oh, you’re shooting at us! Release the bees.”

Okay, I’m about to completely go off on Undertale in this random comment section and I don’t really expect sympathy about this but I have to talk about it.

Undertale is a great game. I respect it as a work of art and I respect how popular it is, and I think the story is genuinely interesting underneath the three layers of meta knowledge that hides the actual story from the player.

But dear God does it have some trash game design in some places.

I didn’t personally get too far in to Undertale because I managed to make a “bad” decision right off the bat without even knowing about it. I was at the beginning of the game where Toriel tries to stop you from leaving. I knew going in that this was a game that was going to judge you on your choices, and that you don’t want to kill unnecessarily. So I really didn’t want to fight her.

Tried to just leave, this does nothing, she just jumps you again when you talk to her again.

Tried to talk to her, over and over again. She just kept repeating her dialogue. Clearly this wasn’t getting anywhere after like the 8th time I tried it.

Had no items to use with the Item command.

So, I knifed her. Seemed like that’s clearly what she wanted, nothing else was doing anything, and she kept egging me to prove I could fight.

This was, apparently, the wrong move. The correct answer, in case you’re wondering, was to continue to talk to her and have her repeat her dialogue 11 times in a row, and then she’ll finally give up and let you pass without violence. You’re expected to know this, or figure this out, with exactly zero player guidance. Even something so simple as having unique dialogue for each of those 11 times would have signposted the intended result. But no, you’re just expected to bang your head against an option that is showing no signs of productivity whatsoever, until it eventually works.

Remember this is the very first combat in the game. I could forgive this later in the game once the player is more familiar with what they’re actually able to accomplish in “combat”. But this first encounter is designed specifically to prey on a new player’s expectations coming from other RPGs and will make you “ruin” your entire first playthrough before you even have the opportunity to know that you’re doing so.

Or maybe I’m just the idiot, because when I complained to my friends that I had to give Toriel a lil stabby to progress, they all looked at me like I had just curb stomped a puppy.

Yeah I never bothered trying to fake being sick because accepted practice for being sick was “you will lay in this bed and sleep until you are better.” Been sick in bed for 36 hours? Sucks, tough shit, go back to sleep. No you can’t watch TV. No you can’t read a book.

Any hiring manager who hears that is going to hear it as “this employee will up and leave us without warning at any time”

Not saying they’re right, but that’s what it is. Most people are looking to hire permanently if possible, you’re telling them straight up that you are not going to be a permanent employee.

Lost my job around 2017 and it was real difficult to get a new one in the tech sector without a college degree. I lucked in to the one originally through professional connections. No such luck the next time after I got downsized.

So I ended up working at my local auto parts store to make ends meet in the meantime, and figured out that I actually really like fixing cars. It exercises the same sort of problem solving capacity but the problems you solve are usually a little less arcane. Made a few new connections including a guy who worked at an actual garage, got offered a position at that garage if I wanted it, and the rest is history.

I still dabble in programming as a hobby, but I enjoy working with my hands and the feeling of fixing a physical object is more fulfilling to me than fixing software. So here I stay (for now).

Not OP, but the answer to that is going to be “having a work transfer”

If you don’t already work for a company that’s willing to relocate you out of country, or don’t already have citizenship rights in another country that you can cash in, you’re not going anywhere. Not one single place in the world wants American refugees right now, and unless you’re a rocket surgeon, you’re going to be immigrating illegally if at all.

Best move for regular people right now is likely just getting a travel visa and then quietly overstaying it. Just don’t get caught.

I used to be a programmer and now I fix cars professionally, I feel like half of my professional life has been gazing upon some ancient work of dark magic and cussing loudly because I know I’m about to have to go in.

The line between jank and wizardry is sometimes blurry. The best magic has a little bit of jank in it, and the worst jank is sometimes a little bit magical.

One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist.

Insulin manufacturers?

Haven’t posted anything in ages, but I still semi-frequently check up on SomethingAwful. I keep it as my browser home page. It is alive and well.

You would have fought him in Brannoch Castle shortly before finding Beigis and Bartholomew and going to Mammon’s World.

Guilty got moved from being a story boss to being a secret superboss more befitting his actual lore, that’s all. References removed from Brannoch because he isn’t there anymore.

Quest 64 Hard Mode makes an attempt at fixing this. I’m not real far into it yet (Dondoran) but I’m enjoying what I’m seeing so far. I’m not sure how hard the “hard mode” is going to be late game though… Regular mode was already pretty oppressive without Magic Barrier.

Here’s my entire credit card and I’m bringing my steel-toes

I don’t really disagree with your other two points, but

You can plagiarize with a computer with copy & paste too. That doesn’t change the fact that computers have legitimate non-infringing use cases.

They sure do, of which that is not one. That’s de facto copyright infringement or plagiarism. Especially if you then turn around and sell that product.

It’s quite easy, when you read “drag”, it means “I”, that’s literally the extent of it.

But let’s dig into this a little. Your argument covers literally half of all words. Let’s take this comment as an example, we want to strip everything out of it that doesn’t communicate.

Tedious. No insult, but. Many words make sentence long, add no value.

No one adheres to this because it makes you sound like a damn caveman. But if you feel so strongly about this, that’s how you prune all the unnecessary cognitive load from your speech.

But if replacing one meaningless pronoun with another meaningless pronoun is so arcane that you can’t parse the meaning of the sentence afterward, there’s always the option of just not engaging with it. It doesn’t harm you or anyone else and it isn’t hate speech so just let people express themselves how they want to.

I also find Picasso’s cubist paintings to be tedious to look at but you don’t see me trying to tell him that he’s painting The Weeping Woman the wrong way.