A bit more of a Champions campaign. Our GM told us he’s not been so excited about world building for a while. He’s got some trouble with depression and seeing him be so into it is great.

If a woodchuck could chuck wood, a woodchuck would chuck what a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

That’s some nice cable management except for that orange mess on the left.

That’s on the shirt I’m wearing right now.

Groundhog Day in October. Jk, early February is the yearly watch.

Golf balls, of course.

I wish the p was silent.

I wanna see a horse get suplexed.

Gymnastics already has horses

An first I thought the ATM had a biometric scanner for their butts.

Do modern file systems actually remove it from disk? It’s been a while since I did any forensics and didn’t do much of it, but I remember being able to batch restore files from inodes as long as that part of the disk hadn’t been overwritten. That’s why you’re supposed to overwrite disks with random data if you want to data gone.

I just want to get both my knees and shoulders under the water.

I mention it in another comment, but the one of mine I’m referencing was a clever way a woman gave me her number. I can think of a few other ways I’ve witnessed it. My partner does burlesque and recently got asked for her signature for the first time. A wink or blushing could work as a compliment about your attractiveness. Somebody letting down their guard around you could be a way of telling you they feel safe around you. Even better if it’s a cat. Going for seconds of your cooking. For me, there’s a certain reaction when I throw somebody at the dojo that means: nice one! One of my friends gives rocks. Etc etc.

Aw, thanks. One more for the shelf.

One of my favorites wasn’t done with words. Any non verbal compliments come to mind?

I’m a guy so they all get put on the core memory shelf. Three from the top row:

Recently went to Japan to participate in an international gathering. Part of that was people doing short demos, maybe 5 techniques unplanned. Once I got back to the US, I spoke about it with my teacher who had also attended. He said, “Proud isn’t the right word but” and I understood that to mean the result of his instruction and my efforts over the past 20 years had been gratifying.

The other two both had to do with getting hit on and neither was a direct one.

First was when I was chatting with a woman while we were waiting for baggage at the airport. Once she got hers, she came back to me to say bye and ripped off the tag that had been attached to her bag and gave it to me. It had her phone number on it.

Second was a simple exchange: “Are you single?” “Nope.” “Are you available?”

You don’t have to force yourself to watch movies you don’t enjoy because all the cool kids do it.

That being said, lots of those types of movies have tons of things to pay attention to in terms of direction, acting, set, framing, all the technical actions like panning, zoom, tracking. If you learn that “language” then there’s a ton of interesting things in any given scene. Do you enjoy that sort of thing?

Anybody else read this in Jeff Goldblum’s voice?

That there are decent people doesn’t change that a few that aren’t can asymmetrically harm others. With disease, intention doesn’t even have to enter the equation. COVID wasn’t just hoarding, but causing death. Millions of people. I’m not talking about toilet paper.

With guns and mass shootings a thousand people being good doesn’t stop the shooter. Even in smaller environments completely separated from systemic forces, bad behavior exists. I’ve known too many people that have been abused or assaulted. You probably do, too, even if you aren’t aware.

That bad behavior is used as an excuse to exercise power is one thing, but to minimize it to the point of ignoring it is a position that lacks nuance. Anyway, won’t be responding further. We won’t convince each other, especially not with the kind of arguments you’ve presented.