AnarchistArtificer

Damn, that's cheap. In my part of the UK, $80 would get you a quarter ounce of what my peers consider to be decent, but would probably be crappy by California standards.

I share this view. Someone elsewhere on the thread said that the best covers are ones that recontextualise the original, and this song/cover feels like the perfect example of it. I just can't directly compare the original to the cover because they're going for such different things

Oh, I love this version of Bad Guy.

Your playlist sounds fun, would you be willing to share a link?

I love Avantasia's "Lay All Your Love on Me" (Originally by ABBA). Metal covers can sometimes feel lazy, but this is an excellent rendition. It feels like the perfect coming together of two distinct parts of me: the me that daubs myself in rainbows to dance to ABBA at the gay club; and the metal/punk energy of the majority of my style and music taste. It always goes down well at parties.

Edit: I am having more songs coming to mind, but a weird one I can't help mentioning is Edmund Welles cover of "Hallowed Be Thy Name".. It's a clarinet quartet (+vocals) cover that I didn't know I needed until I heard it. So delightfully weird, and it has no right to go as hard as it does

Damn, I hadn't heard about her husband being abusive. It's striking to me that Giuffre was 41 when she died, and had been married to her husband for 22 years, meaning she was around 19 when they married. That's very young, and so soon after being sex trafficked by Maxwell and Epstein.

It's unclear how far back the abuse by her husband stretched back, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was present to some degree for their entire relationship. And surviving abuse at the hands of Epstein and co may well have made her more vulnerable. Fucking hell.

I agree, but "slight" is the operative word here. I'm autistic and there are some cutlery that feel so unpleasant in my hand that I can barely force myself to use them. In the past, it has even resulted in me hardly eating (when the lack of good cutlery was due to the nice ones being missing rather than just dirty). I felt very silly that I was letting myself go hungry over an irrational preference, but I find that some battles aren't worth fighting.

I have also found that other neurodivergent people often have strong opinions on cutlery, which has been a wee source of solidarity. I think that, in addition to the concrete reality of people's preferences, there's a reinforcing cycle where once a cultural thing becomes associated with a particular group, there will be in-group jokes made about that association, which reinforces the link. That is to say that the relevance of this meme somewhat transcends the reality of the relative frequency of neurodivergent people having strong opinions on cutlery

I'm not sure I understand what you're referring to. If by "three tiers", you're talking about pre-Hard-Mode, Hard-Mode, and post-Plantera, I don't think that falls under what is typically meant by "level scaling" (I realise you didn't use that term specifically, but people up-thread did). Level-scaling would be if a green slime, which dies in 2-3 hits at the beginning of the game, grew stronger alongside the player such that later in the game, it would still take 2-3 hits.

I'm not saying this just to be a persnickety asshole, but instead to make the point that Terraria is so great because it doesn't have the kind of scaling that Oblivion and many other open-world RPGs have. I love how Terraria has no qualms in repeatedly bitch-slapping you back to spawn if you insist on heading into areas you're ill-equipped for (and the tiered progression ensures that there's nearly always some such difficult place, even as the player levels up). I also find it interesting how the tinkerer's bench acts as a key driver of progression by allowing you to pack more accessory function into fewer equipment slots.

That is to say that unless I'm misunderstanding you, I completely agree with your points, except that I would consider this to be an example of good progression without level-scaling

I have a bunch of origami tesselations stuck on my window. They're made with translucent paper (similar texture to tracing paper, but lighter), so they catch the light beautifully

Bitterns are so silly

I'm increasingly convinced that being rich in general seems to be toxic for the soul. I went to a university that tends to draw a lot of rich and influential people, and I have a striking memory of talking to a posh girl at a party once. She was deeply lonely, and lamented that all of the people in her "social class" were assholes, but they also felt like the only safe people to be close to, because everyone else were suckups and sycophants. I got the sense that she was someone super important, but that the conversation was only happening because I had no idea who she was (I wouldn't be surprised if she was a princess or something).

I'm also reminded of an article by Abigail Disney a while back, that explained how the rich are taught from a young age that they must protect their dynastic wealth. It's quite a tragic thought to me, as someone who grew up in poverty, that even the rich seem to live their lives subordinate to money.

oh no

This is one of my favourite Lemmy communities. I always smile at posts like these (and I often have at least one friend who would enjoy such posts)