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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

yadda yadda didn't read :)

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

Or any other amount of THE_[RANDOM CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL] accounts I've seen around. I think I confronted "one of them" with it and no, tOtAlLy NoT ThE sAmE PeRsON. Sure, buddy/ostensibly buddies.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Rekt

... but no, no, I'm sure the ban was due to the relationship advice. 8)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A stupid dipshit of an "influencer" or whatever. That is as much as I ever need to know about the guy.
(Apparently I have been conflating him with his brother, which would normally be a mistake but... seems fine, actually.)

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

None of that shit was good, it was just free-/crippleware/the only thing people bothered with. OBS is not perfect either, but thinking back to Fraps and dxtory makes me glad those days are over. The fact that it's FOSS is pretty awesome.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

House is not canonically autistic as far as I know. Of course, in TV writing, autism tends to be sloppily coded as "being an asshole" instead, and he definitely is that in spades. He does seem to slightly play into it in one random episode, and his boss says something along the lines of "you don't even have Asperger's!" The only unambiguous autist on House that I remember is the kid from that same episode, who is nonverbal and melts down over the slightest thing. As far as representation goes, that's fairly narrow and not all that positive.

I watched The Good Doctor for about two and a half seasons. Eventually it started grinding my gears because it keeps being the exact same conflict over and over. (Ironic given I watched House, I know. Multiple times. Still.)
While whatshisface might be understandably "stuck", all those highly trained medical professionals and romantic interests around him should probably eventually have gotten a clue about that whole autism thing. As representation goes this guy is also relatively out there, and plays up a lot of stereotypes that don't seem entirely positive.
I do think the pandering/romanticization is kinda obvious in this, though: it plays up Super-Autist ideas, and makes sure there's no shortage of pretty girls around - who tend seem rather more into autistic guys than I daresay seems likely in real life, for some reason.

BBT I found mildly clever for like 5 whole seconds at the very start of episode 1. I don't know why I watched a few seasons further.
I dislike Sheldon's character. He is the archetype of the lazily written Hollywood "autist/smart guy/douchebag" pigeonhole, heavily playing into truckloads of strictly negative stereotypes about autists, smart people, geeks etc. and any combination. You know he's smart because he has the whiteboard with Physics on it, and because he's an asshole - one of very few ways TV writing tries to show intelligence at all.
Now I might seem butthurt - that would be because I started out with actual expectations of a "smart, geek-friendly" comedy show. Eventually I got more a bait&switch "cringe comedy" feeling (a genre I hate) with a superficially "geeky" paintjob.
Seems a bit pandery to me, mostly along the lines of antiintellectualism and "anti geek sentiment".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That makes sense. For some reason, I thought it was something like "no reason to do what I did". So basically "Sure, totally no ulterior motives here, by the way!", which seemed kinda weird to me.

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

"Ah, {countryName} switched out their authoritarian ruler for someone who thought FNV's Caesar's Legion were a pretty cool bunch."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you happen to know why it's "keine Ursache"? That is a thing in Danish and Norwegian too ("ingen årsak") and I always thought it was a weird phrase.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (8 children)

"De nada"? Which is really confusing as that is Spanish and "Danke" is from German.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not an Italian but have heard all of it before. Mostly good advice.

1: Recipes often use pasta water for thickening/texture and seasoning. Using lots and lots of water dilutes the starch content but not the salt, which is something to be aware of.

3: Probably use mass units (grams or ounces), as "salt" can mean anything from superfine to huge freaking flakes of the stuff, and they didn't specify which. This could completely murder your dish.

6: For what it's worth, I don't babysit it throughout. I make sure things are well separated, and that the boil keeps it moving. After that I've never given a shit, and never ended up with any sticking either, in a stainless pot. Spaghetti, elbow macaroni, fusilli, whatever.

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