I mean, kinda.

But it’s like saying proud only means a good feeling about the self.

Kung fu has shifted in meddling meaning to refer to (depending on how you look at it) a martial art “genre” and it’s original meaning.

It’s okay to use the word for both, ain’t nobody gonna misunderstand you, and only pedants will give you shit over either it’s original use, or that it isn’t really a single martial art at all.

I was thinking and trying to come to with something and I realized that I never got advice.

My path as a DM was essentially all “jump in and learn to swim”.

First from the old red box an uncle left behind when he moved, trying to figure it out (and bashing my face into thac0 until giving up for years).

Then, when I got fed up with the first DM I played under, I said “fuck it”, then finally figured thac0 out enough to run some d&d for friends, and decided I liked the mishmash my first DM used that was a gurps/d&d/marvel heroes/call of Cthulu abomination. I took the things I liked that he did, rejected what sucked for me, then gradually grafted on my own home brew stuff.

My group vastly preferred the near future, science fantasy setting I cooked up to standard d&d, so that was what mostly got played over the years until I essentially retired from running games (tried to run some here and there, with varying degrees of flake leading to aborted games).

So I never got advice. What I got was players, friends, giving me shit when things sucked and helping me cook shit up to fix what was broken. I call it “my” system, but the mechanics that weren’t lifted from established systems then adapted are only maybe 90% mine. Even the ones I wholly cooked up got adjusted over time by my friends input.

My best friend completely designed two magic “schools”, and had a major hand in coming up with racial abilities for our weird-ass wants.

And I think that’s the advice I got indirectly. Make the game, whatever system it is, a thing of creativity and fun. The system doesn’t fucking matter. The setting isn’t important. The people are. Time and time again, my best shit as a DM wouldn’t have happened without everyone being fully engaged, fully free to pull shit out of their ear and see what happened.

It’s the advice I tend to give when asked. And it isn’t just rule of cool writ long winded, because you don’t actually have to do that for an engaging table. You can RAWdog the fuck out of dice and rules as long as players and DM are invested in mutual enjoyment.

Reubens are one of a small number of what I call perfect sandwiches. Which is a lot to unpack, but it comes dish to being fulfilling in its most basic form without the need for extras, even if those extras make the overall experience better.

Not that that’s relevant to much, but I think it points to why your simple homemade Reuben is so good compared to your local stores. Everything simple, prepared well, and fresher than typical outside of a proper deli.

The Reuben is also, by a wide margin, my favorite sandwich. It’s also one of my favorite meals, period, though picking a single favorite is not realistic for me.

What’s great about them is that the basic form allows for personalization within a decent range while still being a proper Reuben. I tend to like to add little spicy mustard on mine alongside the dressing while using seeded kraut, seeded rye, and a young cheese.

I don’t really have the ability to corn my own beef, or make my own cheese. And, tbh, my attempts at kraut were less than stellar. But I would enjoy very much trying it, if I had the wherewithal just to see how finely I could tweak the ingredients to my preferences.

99% off topic, as I’m not doing the rewatch party, nor is my dad.

However, my dad has been binging TOS, and I remember hearing parts of this episode, which made the mental connection when I saw this post.

What makes something this off topic vaguely interesting is that his binge session is his first viewing of most of the show.

My mom was a trekkie (not a trekker), but my dad had no use for it and would find other things to do when it was on.

What’s even more interesting to me is that yesterday, he started in on TNG. That was another show he didn’t have time or interest for back when it was being aired originally the same as TOS (dude is 80, so it isn’t like he didn’t have plenty of chances after the original airings as well).

I haven’t asked him what spurred his decision, partly because I don’t want to interrupt his enjoyment, but I’m curious how far he’ll go. If he finishes TNG, is he going to do ds9, voyager, or enterprise? I know he’s a Bakula fanz so enterprise wouldn’t surprise me.

Anyway, sorry for off topic intrusion, but I figured if anyone would appreciate it, it would be the folks doing the rewatch

Man, if I ever find my books via their search, I’ll be so hyped

Holy fuck, is that great for me!

They’re pretty fucking solid too.

Hard rock, with the occasional harder or softer tracks.

A few of my favorites

https://youtu.be/BX6KILafIS0

https://youtu.be/rHBxJCq99jA

https://youtu.be/GWTNGMAH500

https://youtu.be/R4IBaMQEuuI

Not in any particular order, just a handful from the playlist.

Nah, down voting has a purpose that’s totally uncoupled from that.

It changes visibility in some sorting methods. This can serve as a way to filter out bad actors, bad actors trolling, and outright nutters.

It also serves as a partial safety valve. A lot of assholes are lazy assholes, and having them able to vote without interacting further is a very good thing.

Besides, nobody is obligated to engage at any specific level. Voting is a perfectly valid tier of interaction all its own.

It’s me, it’s always me.

Only dead ones

Hi, my name is salmon, and I’ll be doing your skin care today

One of these days I’m going ti watch the entire existing seasons. I’ve only caught some here and there, so this was totally new for me :)

Oh damn, looks like I’m about to stick my foot in it.

First, it’s stupid that this is a criminal matter. If home boy is allowed to shoot a deer, cut it up, eat it, and make shoes out of it, who gives a flying fuck if he fucks the body first? Yeah, it’s gross, but does it really need to come to jail time? It’s a fucking waste of resources. Nobody fucking a dead animal is going to be rehabilitated by jail, period. Ain’t happening.

With that out of the way, lemme step into the way back machine.

Now, there used to be dark corners of reddit, and there have always been dark corners of the internet.

So, for anyone that never took a shitty energizer flashlight and went poking into those dark corners looking for entertainment and/or education, I am the proud bearer of bad news.

This ain’t a one-off event. People fucking their dead prey is sooooo not a new thing. While it’s fair to call it rare, it’s not exactly a 1 in a billion thing either.

On reddit, there were multiple people willing to admit to this behavior, and back in the early days of the internet past the aol era, there were a ton of chat rooms where the ugly side of humanity was there for the viewing. If one is able to stay relaxed and non judgemental in their responses (no matter what’s going on in your head), people will open up about anything.

When it’s something this deviant (and I mean it in the literal sense, not as an insult), you might be amazed how many people want to share their darkness.

So I’ve talked to people for whom this is a fantasy, as well as those that have done it.

Most of them, and they were all men except one, talked about the adrenaline rush of hunting leading to heightened arousal. In that sense, it’s really the same underlying motivation as people fucking after their team wins the Superbowl, or after their own sport victory (and lemme tell you that arousal after contact sports or martial arts training is a very potent thing and can lead to much fun).

It’s only the detail of it that’s deviant, not the underlying mechanisms. It’s wanting to fuck an animal, and wanting to fuck something dead that’s unusual, not the wanting to fuck after a big spike of emotions and chemicals. Couples that hunt together are a perfect example, because there is plenty of fucking in camp when people succeed in their hunt. Hell, doesn’t even have to be a hunt. Fishing camps can be a fuckfest. Birders cam get frisky when they find something rare to point their binoculars at.

But, a lone hunter feeling that arousal on doe days? Yeah, I’m betting it happens way more than even what I’m aware of. I know there’s guys that have shoved their things into bucks to begin with, so a doe with an actual vagina? Anyone without a very tough inhibition filter that also isn’t bothered by the idea to begin with is a deer fucker waiting to happen.

I’m not saying I approve of it. I’m not even saying that it isn’t a sign of some serious issues. I’m just saying that humans like to fuck. And there’s a very primitive part of us that doesn’t really care what. The barriers to fucking things other than sexually mature humans are largely learned, not inherent in our brains.

You ever hear the saying that every mouth feels the same in the dark? In terms of raw sensation, our most primitive segments involved with arousal and orgasm have zero concern about what’s providing the stimulus, only that it’s there. There’s a reason that victims of sexual assault can not only experience physical arousal no matter how much they hate what’s happening, but can be forced to orgasm. It isn’t a purely voluntary process.

So, if someone is already willing to ignore social mores and standard ethics or morals, the step from being willing to fuck some random animal to fucking a dead one isn’t a big leap.

And those folks that were willing to talk about their urges to fuck their prey? They weren’t usually freaks in general. They held down jobs, had families, had friends, they just got caught up in the rush of it. It’s like those folks that will escalate risk taking to the point of self destruction just for a buzz from it. Yeah, there were truly antisocial people doing it, but they weren’t the majority.

Now, this guy? Dude very likely could benefit from extensive therapy. Might even be the sort to let his inner self switch from animals to human bodies. No clue, but I still don’t think jail is a useful solution to the problem he poses. Mandatory treatment? Yeah, maybe, and that has to go through criminal proceedings, but it’s really closer to something like alcoholism in the way it needs to be sentenced.

Scree

It’s just a gnarly word. It’s like something a kaiju expels as a battle cry

Yeah, because that’s a useful community

No, I who. dehumanization no good

What? You’ve never been distracted by a chicken before?

Fap-fap-fap-fap-fap

You solve for it.

If the answer you get is right, you’ll be able to apply it to every trio and get the number on the “line”. It’s kinda like how you can plug in your answer into a quadratic equation to double check you got it right.

It depends on how you’re accessing lemmy. Different apps render the markup weird.

Being real, if this post hadn’t made it clear that the solution was non obvious, I likely would have given up before getting it, just because my chicken is being more interesting than usual.

But, knowing that there was a “trick” to it, meaning that it takes some lateral thinking, I didn’t take my usual approach to number puzzles, which means it only took one look at the upper left for the likely solution to be visible. Then it was just running down and testing with the rest, then plugging in for the solution.

No way in hell I would have had the patience for it when my baby bird is being a silly dinosaur without that front loading assumption the solution wouldn’t be evident with a systematic approach. Oh, I’d have given it maybe fifteen minutes, but with a fuzzy butt in play, that would have been it