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@Snackness said in Podcasts:

@Wizz oh just you wait until I can get on my laptop

@Snackness said in Podcasts:

@Derp I would happily listen to Dana Schwartz read a phone book.

I like Lore too, but I think he tries to be overly dramatic.

I don't do Sawbones. I listen to the dad and cousin on Court Appointed.

ETA: Goddamit, phone, you can either do autocorrect or predictive text, not both.

@silverfox said

I'm now listening to Slow Burn from Slate that covers all the little stories that surrounds the Watergate scandal.

Season 2 is Clinton. That one is really bonkers. Season 3 is Tupac.

Seconding Noble Blood. That one is fun. It's specifically about nobility that has a bloody story, starting with Marie Antoinette. The latest is Emperor Maximilian of Mexico. However, they also tie in various stories of these people and how they relate to the present -- the one on Lord Byron, which tells the tale of him and one of his lovers that just went super south and devolved into this really sad madness, also covers Ava Lovelace, his daughter and the world's first computer programmer. Well worth the listen. And yes, I would listen to the narrator read a phone book as well. Her presentation is lovely.

Philosophize This! - A history of philosophy, from ancient times to modern. It starts with the greeks and winds through the middle ages, and the latest episode is on Nozick. Another one that's well worth the listen if you're interested in philosophy at all. It's a super deep dive, but very approachable and broken down for complete newbies.

Future Perfect - A podcast about new (or old) ideas that have the ability to radically change the world as we know it.

Science Vs. - A podcast that looks into the science of various things we think we know about and sort of debunks them. One of my favorites is the Pandemic episode, which talks about disease vectors and how they tend to fire up -- and quickly die.

The Secret History of the Future - A podcast about historical things about modern ideas that people don't know. Likewise addictive.

Brought to you By - A podcast about how major companies have shaped world culture through time.

Nice Try! - This one is really interesting. The first season looks at the various (failed) utopias that have been tried throughout the years and how they still affect us today. Like how Biosphere 2 almost killed its inhabitants because they got the math wrong, and how Oneida made silverware to fund their utopian ideology.

WorkLife with Adam Gant - A podcast that explores various topics in modern work culture and how to ensure that you're making healthy and productive choices. Sounds boring but it's actually super interesting.

Crazy/Genius - A podcast that looks at interesting questions of tech and culture, like 'How the Far Right Took Over the Internet' and 'How Has Netflix Changed Entertainment'. Just scroll through the titles. It's a fun one.

Court Appointed Another one from the same family that brings you Sawbones (above) and MBMBAM, a lawyer/judge (Mike Meadows) and his non-lawyer brother-in-law (Tommy Smearle, father of Syd from Sawbones, IIRC), talk about various legal topics so that the layman can get a handle on how the law works. They tend to be pretty funny.

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Every company should send a rejection notice if they aren't gonna proceed after they interview you. Even if it's a form letter they just hit a button and have auto-emailed.

But if you take a test (coding test, writing test, whatever) for them? Then they abso-fucking-lutely should do this. It should not be a week after I interviewed and then spent a weekend on what was probably about ten hours of work on a writing assignment without hearing word.

This is bullshit.
You can spend two minutes to either acknowledge receipt, let me know you won't proceed, or scheduling the next interview.

Some companies take weeks to make a decision on who is going to move forward, especially if they have something intensive like that. You might not be out of luck yet!

@Aria said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

This is the point of tax season where I basically have all of our stuff entered.....

Save for our mortgage information, because our mortgage company's website sucks and works on exactly no browsers despite what they say, and one piece of paper from my retirement investments that won't come until more than halfway through February.

Fuck you guys. I want my refund.

Same, except I have all my stuff submitted and the IRS is like "90% of refunds are issued within 21 days*"

Unless you have the earned income tax credit and then fuck you, we think you are scamming us, you can wait until March

Not entirely sure where to put this. Not a peeve, but not ... anyway, so this happened to me today.

Me: peruses inbox at work (for a government agency)
INBOX: Top email subject line: INVITATION TO SHANG
Me: chokes on coffee, looks horrified, like WHAT THE ENTIRE FUCK. Tentatively click on e-mail.
EMAIL: INVITATION TO SHANGHAI BALLET
Me: OhthankyouJesus.

@eye8urcake said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

The baby (Isla) has 2 bad genes, so cystic fibrosis. They told my daughter and her husband, at their very first newborn 'well-baby' appointment that their child wouldn't live past 40 so that was fun.

It seems incredibly weird that they would say this. As someone who has been in a long-term relationship with a CFer that still has basically full lung function and almost no organ issues, along with his various family members that have it, and the people in the CF wing that have it in the rare event he gets a sniffle and they want to pump him full of kidney-killing drugs for two weeks -- this seems inaccurate. Especially if it's Delta F508, which it's statistically likely to be, since they have some kickass new drugs for that.

That seems like a doom and gloom prognostication since I know plenty of CFers over 40 and doing decent.

@JinShei said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@Macha never done it before! He pretty much said yes, this is this, keep warm, take drugs, keep moving.

@Livia said in Kraken's Playlist:

Asklepios is a familiar name from the HM days but I can't really remember anything specific.

Anyway hi!

Snakey dude!

@Auspice said in General Video Game Thread:

@Derp said in General Video Game Thread:

@Auspice said in General Video Game Thread:

It is gorgeous so I recommend that anyone who either has restraint or money play it.

But what if we like pretty games and have neither of those things?

Feel wistful like me.

@Auspice said in General Video Game Thread:

It is gorgeous so I recommend that anyone who either has restraint or money play it.

But what if we like pretty games and have neither of those things?

I all of you. I needed a laugh this morning.

@Ganymede said in Good Music:

Here's Florence + The Machine singing a cover of Stand By Me for Final Fantasy XV, which may not have been the strongest game but damn if it ain't the prettiest.

Agreed, though I'd put it at a tie with 10.

ETA: But I remember how stoked I was when I heard this song.

@Three-Eyed-Crow said in Faraday Appreciation Thread:

you can disagree with someone's game philosophy decisions and still like and respect them

Dude, have you read MSB? We prove this wrong like, all day, every day. Game philosophy someone doesn't approve of can get you on The List, man.

But anyway, repeating here -- @Faraday is awesome. She even takes the time to help me when I do incredibly stupid things, and even on the one point we disagreed on (removing the handles from channel names because I hates them, Precious) she was pretty patient and completely above-board. So.

Treat people decently,. and they treat you decently. News at 11!

@zKraken

I remember Asklepios, a bit. I don't think I know the rest of these.

@saosmash said in Faraday Appreciation Thread:

Faraday is a class act and a half, and she won't even take money for the work she does for this hobby even when people are trying to throw it at her.

I would, no lie, contribute to some kind of tip jar for her work.

I've personally found that @Faraday is extremely patient and respectful when approached respectfully. She's been pretty great. She does have some vision things that she wants out of it, and so I've asked for things and been told 'no' before, but it was pretty chill, all in all. She even engaged in some discussion about it when I asked (politely, mind you) why she chose to do things a certain way.

If approached like a reasonable human being, I've seen her treat people like reasonable human beings, so I'm not sure that a warning is entirely justified.

@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I would rather take my kids to a Motley Crue concert than a fucking Paw Patrol show

@Tinuviel said in Image Attribution & Creative Commons:

@Derp said in Image Attribution & Creative Commons:

that doggo has too much skin

It's a mashup of part of the cutscene from the opening of Resident Evil only redone with some kind of fuzzy pupper and done with a Dark Souls 'you died'.

Gawd.