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[surreality]

@aria It may have something to do with where your local datacenter for your ISP is. I get some weird results that keep telling me I really really want the Lowes or the Home Depot or the Bloodbath and Beyond and the Target and all that half an hour downstate, while there's locations a spitting distance from here.

(This would be less annoying if it hadn't screwed me up more than once checking to see if something was in stock before heading out... only to now have to drive 40 minutes south to fetch it because it auto-selected my ISP's local location rather than mine... )

[RnMissionRun]

It seems to depend on your ISP.

I have noticed that whenever a webpage tries to use geolocation on my IP (Verizon DSL) , it thinks I am in Washington, DC (which is a couple of hours north of my actual location).

The same with my Sprint V20 cell phone, when I go to the weather channel homepage, it always thinks that I am in Towson (which is nearly 1.5 hours away).

I'm guessing it's things like this that are the reason why Google freaks out when I turn off location services (OMG YOU TURNED OFF LOCATION SERVICES YOUR PHONE MIGHT EXPLODE DO YOU REALLY WANT TO DO THIS?!!!!)

[ThatGuyThere]

I use Verizon for internet and yeah my location bounces around my state pretty regularly.
Heck yesterday I was trying to get info on the Panera bread less than a mile from my place and it was pulling locations roughly two hours away. I have gotten to where i ignore the location stuff and just put in the zip code and the business name to search.

[Arkandel]

Good read.

https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-pop-culture-obsessed-with-battles-between-good-and-evil

[Ortallus]

@arkandel said in Random links:

Good read.

https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-pop-culture-obsessed-with-battles-between-good-and-evil

"pop-culture"? Shit, that story is as old as stories are. Iliad comes immediately to mind.

[Miss Demeanor]

@ortallus said in Random links:

@arkandel said in Random links:

Good read.

https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-pop-culture-obsessed-with-battles-between-good-and-evil

"pop-culture"? Shit, that story is as old as stories are. Iliad comes immediately to mind.

Still pop culture! Just ancient pop culture.

[Tinuviel]

@miss-demeanor We call that 'classical'.

[Miss Demeanor]

@tinuviel I call it 'old as fuck'... but sure, whatever floats your boat, cupcake.

[Auspice]

@ortallus said in Random links:

@arkandel said in Random links:

Good read.

https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-pop-culture-obsessed-with-battles-between-good-and-evil

"pop-culture"? Shit, that story is as old as stories are. Iliad comes immediately to mind.

I see your Iliad and raise you Gilgamesh.

It's just what we do. Good vs evil, Hero's Journey, etc etc.
Stories follow a pattern. Break that pattern and it just doesn't really work.

Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. World, Man vs. Self.

The "evil" itself can be relative, but it's baked in somewhere.

[Ortallus]

@auspice said in Random links:

@ortallus said in Random links:

@arkandel said in Random links:

Good read.

https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-pop-culture-obsessed-with-battles-between-good-and-evil

"pop-culture"? Shit, that story is as old as stories are. Iliad comes immediately to mind.

I see your Iliad and raise you Gilgamesh.

It's just what we do. Good vs evil, Hero's Journey, etc etc.
Stories follow a pattern. Break that pattern and it just doesn't really work.

Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. World, Man vs. Self.

The "evil" itself can be relative, but it's baked in somewhere.

Also, Grimm's fairy tales. I mean, c'mon.

But, in fairness, in classic Greek literature, there is often no defined good or evil. ESPECIALLY when dealing with the gods. Classic pop culture depicts Hades as a royal bastard often times (See Disney's abomination of a Hercules translation), but in the old stories, he was actually very compassionate, loving, in a creepy obsessive sort of way, and forgiving.

Edited to add this link. This.. horrifying, horrifying link:

Edited again to add this one. Sorry, could only find a Facebook link, not on YouTube I guess.

https://www.facebook.com/therisingwasabi/videos/947161722110650/

[Arkandel]

https://km-515.livejournal.com/1042.html

[Arkandel]

Reddit came through today with these gems. I... I lack words.

[TNP]

@arkandel Haven't you ever seen Superdickery? It goes back years.

[Lisse24]

I never thought there was much to think about with treadmills. This guy disagrees.
https://www.treadmilldoctor.com/treadmill-review-brand-index

Among the highlights:
"It can make you feel better if your level of working out is buying exercise equipment and sitting the treadmill in your home. Otherwise, with the elevated blood pressure this machine has the potential to cause, your health might be better off without it."
"a tiny little machine that does little to keep you healthy but does a lot to masquerade as a treadmill while performing as a piece of junk"
"Burning up $200 on one of these might be more entertaining if you simply get 200 $1 bills and set the pile of money on fire."

[Tinuviel]

@lisse24 Rule 3 of the internet. If it exists, someone somewhere will have strong opinions.

[Mr.Johnson]

@lisse24 said in Random links:

"Burning up $200 on one of these might be more entertaining if you simply get 200 $1 bills and set the pile of money on fire."

You know what I DO think that sounds like a great idea. Burning money sounds a great passtime

[Auspice]

"In addition to training mode you can also try Spell Practice, where you and a friend race to get a spell right, Dumbledore’s Army mode, described as a magical take on Rock, Paper, Scissors, and the most competitive sounding game, Wizard Tag, where you try to out duel your foe by draining their wand’s “power” by casting spells on them. So basically a playable form of Harry Potter laser tag, a sentence that makes us tear up."

[Bobotron]

Huh.

Someone tabletop-ified LAMUSH apparently?

https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?801156-Vampire-Degeneration-An-alternate-system-for-Vampire-The-Masquerade

http://forum.theonyxpath.com/forum/main-category/main-forum/the-classic-world-of-darkness/vampire-the-masquerade/1068220-vampire-degeneration-a-custom-rules-set

[Auspice]

My need for VR just increased tenfold.

[Auspice]

Decoded: Rogue

Relevant since we were discussing roguelikes the other day.