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but they didn't include a picture of the back of the book on the back of the book now how am I supposed to know what the back of the book looks like

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I do very well at these games and then need to lie down afterwards. It's like double the masking.

that's what he named his son

Parts of it remain indecipherable without the social context, however, as the writer explicitly assumes a mutual knowledge of some set of unspecified rules.

Nice.

This triggered my geoguessr addiction, so I had to put off eating breakfast until I had figured out this was:

I found the exact location but I guess that's as exact as I can specify. The building on the left has bare brick on the older Google street view photo.

I did use some googling though, which I wouldn't if this was actual geoguessr. If not allowed to google, going on just this photo, I would say... uh... somewhere in the city that this community is about?

(My point is that anyone who guessed even just the area did better than I did, if they were able to do so without additional research)

cocktail sauce

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No idea about the movie, but I wonder if figuring out the exact quote would be a useful step in the right direction (making it easier to google, ask about, etc). The closest I've found so far is "The meaninglessness of suffering, not suffering itself, was the curse that lay over mankind so far", from Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals.

I assume that the movie used a correct quote, so it should be possible to find the quote without knowing the movie. If the movie invented a brand new quote, then the idea of using the original quote as a stepping stone towards finding the movie won't work.

It's been forever since I messed with this sort of thing, but could you use something like Wireshark to see what programs are sending network traffic? I see that you've already gotten a reply about pixel dungeon specifically, but if this is an ongoing concern for you it might be useful to know how to check yourself for an arbitrary program. Iirc you can just run it and it will show all packets being sent/received by your machine and which programs are sending them. I haven't used Wireshark in over a decade, but a quick google seems to show it still exists, and if it's like I remember then it shouldn't be hard to learn how to use it.

I feel like this pattern of people lying to doctors and doctors adjusting things to account for it really messes with rigorously honest people.

A little while back I was reading how when they ask you how much pain you're in, with 10 being the most pain imaginable, they pretty routinely have people calmly say "12". So, if you're actually using the scale where you've probably never experienced more than a 9 and would be sobbing at an 8, so you say 7, they automatically assume you're in basically no pain because you said less than 10.

Kind of wish we could just speak accurately and take each other literally instead of playing games where we try to figure out exactly what lie to tell to convey the truth, but I guess that's not how most people are wired.

It's always good to support the original publisher and encourage local libraries by reading a hard copy, so I could never endorse piracy, even for people who can't get their hands on a physical copy. Even though it's true that both libgen and annas-archive have ebook copies of this particular book (and can easily be found via google), I could never in good conscience direct anyone to such a site.

this was in 2015 btw
not that it's super important, just in case someone reads it as a contemporary news headline rather than fun historical trivia

Every time I hear this observation, I automatically hear Jim Carrey's voice in my head saying "It's dead people laughing! Those people are dead!"

I guess he said it in the 1999 movie Man On The Moon and the line has somehow been permanently lodged in the back of my brain for the last 25 years

Are you set on using light sources, or would you be okay with a shader that just creates the shadows without checking for specific light sources? It looks like this might do what you want, but you might need to modify it to work with your exact use case (multiple z levels).

Generally it seems like some kind of shader might be your best option, it seems like the 2d lights are intended for casting lights within a given z level rather than between them. If you want more complex shadows across multiple z levels, you might need to create your own light objects (just a position, color, and intensity) and pass them to a shader that does something similar to the linked example, but modified based on your lights list.

It's possible there's a simpler way that someone else could chime in with (I'm pretty new to godot), but as far as I can tell the built in 2d light and shadow systems aren't designed for different z levels, so you'd need to use something else.

Sweet vegetables. Anything that is unambiguously a savory main course plant, but has some sugariness to it. Peas, carrots, sweet potatoes, turnips, beets, etc. I can eat them, they're just even more work than most food (I agree with the other commenter who said that food in general is just a chore like brushing your teeth, although really good food is basically a neutral experience for me, where the enjoyment is about worth the effort)

Oh I guess now that I think about it maybe there are exceptions, like I think a lot of people would consider red onions sweet but I am fine with those. I think it needs some sourness or sharpness to offset the sweetness, the problem is if it's just sweet + savory and not much else.

What's the most you ever lost on a tumblr post?

I only know his most mainstream stuff, but his part of the roast of Bob Saget was basically him bombing on purpose. I'm pretty sure he was just bombing hard because he knew his fellow comedians would love it, and he didn't care one way or another about the general audience, although the general audience ended up loving it too.