Posts made by WTFE

Tell me more of how you're blocking things here, @HelloProject? If the board can't do it, maybe outside tools can!

@il-volpe said:

As far as how other sites view our advertising weekly updates to content, none of them have said a single word in protest about it ...

I'm a bit surprised, but some places tolerate that sort of thing.

Some places also have "ignore thread" and "ignore user" capabilities. Just sayin'…

@il-volpe said:

Personally I think it's because of the huge number of people who fall waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay on the autistic side of the spectrum in this hobby.

As an autistic person myself, I protest.

I fall into the autistic side of the spectrum myself (if only barely). This is why I qualified it with "waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay" there. I've met people who are so completely unable to grasp social interactions that they genuinely believe that if it's not written it's not real; I don't mean in the sense of "assholes" either, but in the sense of "genuinely are incapable of understanding".

NT kids are always doing that, too.

NT?

@il-volpe said:

• There are a whole bunch of other standards of behavior! OMG. And you have to learn them organically, because they are manners, see. On this board there are not rules against acting like a dick. You are allowed to act like a dick. But you also get the consequences of acting like a dick. It's magical.

This is something I laugh at every time I see it on MSB, and every time I saw it on the various incarnations of WORA/SWOFA/whatever: this appeal to legalism.

If you go into some public space, like let's say a restaurant, and start, I don't know, farting loudly and smelling up the place you'll be asked to leave. Asking "please show me in the written rules where this is not allowed" will only be met with derisive laughter and increased impetus to leave. Perhaps with the assistance of bodily force.

So why the sudden expectation in an online forum for everything to be spelled out? Why this appeal to legalism?

Personally I think it's because of the huge number of people who fall waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay on the autistic side of the spectrum in this hobby.

• A good standard of behavior to adopt when entering a new community is to acquiesce when people ask you to conform to some standard of behavior.

An even better standard is to stop and watch for a while to see how people interact before jumping in yourself. As you said…

But actually look at this advert board, and you will find that nobody else posts weekly updates. You want to be special.

@Three-Eyed-Crow said:

It smacks of idiotic human resources bullshit signifying nothing, but meh.

Nothing idiotic about it. The best way to control your employees if you can't motivate them is to have them live in fear. One of the best ways of doing that in a buyer's-market economy is to hold over their head a threat of losing their job constantly.

Setting unreasonably high standards and then making (direct or indirect) threats for not meeting them keeps employees afraid and thus malleable. And it has the added bonus of giving a paper trail should someone decide to fire an employee because they don't like his skin colour, her medical history, or whatever.

Cynical? You betcha. You get that way when you see sausage being made over and over ad infinitum.

The pattern seems to be whoever last said something they didn't like is symbolic of all that is wrong with MU Soapbox.

Space:1999.

There. I said it. You may mock as you will. I still want one.

edited to add

My character would be one of the guys responsible for scratch-building the Eagles to keep up with the exploding ones.

@Lithium said:

Then you came here and throw more gasoline on the fire, on purpose, and expect things to get /better/.

That's just beyond stupid. I almost don't have the words.

Please, allow me. I live to serve.

Michigan man and girlfriend sued for $2,000,000 after damaging apartment complex by cooking a squirrel with a blowtorch.

You know, I'm not a forensic accountant or anything, but ... I strongly suspect these two do not have two million dollars.

Well, @crayon's backslide means we're going to need something harder.

Yesterday's hooch was nasty, rude stuff, but it still had a discernible taste through the raw burn. This stuff ... is not that way.

While it is technically a "五粮液/Wuliangye"-style drink (Wuliangye being the largest brand of liquor in China), and while it is made from the signature five grains of Wuliangye (sorghum, corn, wheat, rice, glutinous rice), this is emphatically not the delicate, complicated flavour of true Wuliangye. The reason why should be apparent when you look more closely at the side of the bottle.

Yes, that's really saying that it's an 85%/170 proof liquor. There ain't nothin' surviving that alcohol content flavour-wise.

This is not a drink for sipping. This is not a drink for slamming back and waiting for the explosion in your head. This is a drink for playing chicken with your brain and your liver at the same time. Nobody drinks this for the taste. You drink it to show how tough you are.

Or, of course, if you want to dull the pain of watching the single most incompetent advertisers in history sinking lower and lower and lower into the ground with each post.

@TNP said:

@WTFE Which part of that are you questioning? The donut bacon cheeseburger?

Yes.

OK, now we're going to take a turn for the harder stuff. The most powerful stuff I've shown thus far is the comparatively wimpy 52% mare's milk hooch. Let's talk something more brain-damaging.

This stuff is 68%/136 proof of raw jolt. It's a sorghum and wheat liquor. This is not sipping liquor. This is toss it back and wait for it to explode inside your head liquor. Drinking it is like having your brains liquified with a blender. I ordinarily describe Chinese sorghum liquors as "what diesel would taste like if diesel tasted good". This is just what diesel tastes like. It is not a subtle booze I guess is the point I'm trying to get across. (I should note that its nickname is "liquid magma".)

And yet, despite all of what I just said, this drink has its followers and adherents. I'm even one of them (in small doses and only occasionally, which is why I didn't gift you with a picture of my own bottle; I haven't had one of these in my home in over a year). Through the throat-clenching pain and stomach-churning impact there shines some unexpected subtleties. You need practice—oh GOD do you need practice!—with the alcohol burn to spot them, but once you do, this hooch can become somewhat of an obsession.

WTF America!?

Would they get a shave there?

Kung Fu Fighting Drills Don't Work

I just find the concept of tying "elitism" to "pretendy fun time games" utterly hilarious.

Nobody (self included) can ever just say "I don't like <X>." They always have to make it some moral or mental failing in The Other for liking something different.

I shared booze. This wasn't nice?

I've talked about cassia wine before, but I thought I'd share the other brand of it I've got. As with grape wines, each cassia wine has its own distinctive flavour. It may not be quite as diverse a field as grape wines, but it's still enough that I'm going to have to slowly work my way through several wineries' outputs.

It has a lovely (to my eyes, at any rate) colour:

@Jaunt said:

We're not invaders. We're advertisers.

I don't understand. "We're not invaders. We're invaders." What are you trying to say here?

Don't take my lack of responses over the next couple of days as a sign that I'm unwilling to continue to engage in dialogue, whether it's amiable or trolling. I'm just busy. I'll get back to you.

Well, at least it'll give me time to restock on my booze after your whole "I'm only here for my amusement" round emptied my cabinet. Talking of which…

Yogi Berra.