u/Diastatic_Power

I've never really given it much consideration, but I've had my car towed before, and they checked the registration. And a friend of mine used to have cars towed from his designated parking spot all the time.

I was just watching a YouTube short where someone had a car towed from a public parking place for being "abandoned" when actually it had (probably) only been there for a matter of hours, and they just didn't like a car they didn't know being parked in front of their house.

So, do towing companies actually have to follow pretty strict guidelines, so they don't accidentally commit car theft, or do they have some kind of qualified immunity?

Thanks.

[I did it. It was super easy because it wasn't just a big open room.]

[Cleared W:1 and almost died in W:2.]

[Escaped with the orb. 4 runes.]

I've got all the dungeon branches cleared, and this game has just been giving me everything. I'm a MiFi of Gozag, and I've been tabbing my way through most of the game. I haven't done Zot yet, but V4 was really easy.

I have 22 Heal Wounds (somehow) and a few scrolls of Torment. Scrolls of Poison, Blink, Tele, Immolation.

Obviously, I don't want to YASD, but am I overthinking it? Should I just go?

Everyone else (the teens) is pretty meh. Good not great. Zuko's actor is pretty good so far, though. Obviously, the adults I recognize are really good, but Sokka's portrayal is super spot on. Like, he even gets the original voice actor's inflections right.

I liked Sokka a lot in the original series, so I'm glad they were able to be so faithful to the source material.

I got Maces & Flails up to 12, and I want to get Staves up to 12, too. They're both +2. XP-wise, is it cheaper to train M&F so that Staves cross-trains to 12, or is it quicker to train Staves?

I'm not really sure what math to do to figure this out for myself since xp isn't shown.

Thanks.

It used to be 5 Shields skill for bucklers, 15 for kites, and 25 for tower shields. I don't know what the suggested Shields skill is anymore, but is it still worth upgrading from a buckler to either a kite shield or a tower shield if you don't train Shields skill?

Thanks.

[Well, at least it's unpopular.]

I don't know how easy that kind of thing would be to prove or enforce or fake, but if you could see that the idiot you're arguing with is 16 or whatever, it would be a lot easier to dismiss them as the inexperienced person they are.

Removing the general anonymity of the internet might be a better way to do it. Like I don't want randos knowing where I live or anything, but having some information about the person like their education or their qualifications on the topic being discussed would go a long way toward deciding whom you should be listening to on the internet.

Just having a person's age displayed would be a huge step, though.

[Thanks. I got some really close ones, but I'm not 100% if they were the exact word. Bloviate and anodyne were the closest.]

I saw a YouTube short about this a while ago, and I knew I should have googled it or saved it in some way.

I don't mean filler words like "um," and it's not playing devil's advocate. Devil's advocate is arguing a side that you don't necessarily agree with, but you're actually contributing intelligently. The word I'm looking for is when someone just basically uses their skill at the English language to respond with a grammatically appropriate but vapid response. It lacks any meaning, but it might sound profound if you're not paying attention.

I believe the meaning of the word or term isn't necessarily obvious like the term cognitive dissonance isn't necessarily obvious exactly what it means. It's a clinical term like that, so it isn't going to be anything like banal or vapid.

It's like the word is inter-faux-cutor (fake interlocutor,) though not necessarily a pun or whatever that was.

Thanks.

I watched the video a few times in, I think, the late 2000s or early teens. It was live action, and the song was EDM, I guess. Not sure about the precise genre.

It followed a girl who was some kind of maybe robot slave. I think she escapes at one point, and I think they get her back. At some point, she gets plugged into this big cable, and she's compelled to dance for someone I swear is Eric Roberts, though that could just be my memory of Mr. Brightside bleeding in.

I was listening to the song Dance by Slayyyter, and it made me think of it, so the songs might be at least vaguely similar.

I can't think of any lyrics, and I couldn't even tell you what language it was in or if it even had vocals.

Thanks.

I'm going to make a backpack out of leather, and I'm hoping this is the right place to ask my questions.

What would you put on the back part? The part that touches my back. I'm just going to walk a couple miles to get groceries, so there won't be pots and pans, though it may be heavy. Is just one layer of leather, maybe 2 depending on thickness, going to be sufficient? Or should there be a bit of padding?

Should there be a rigid frame, or would that just make things worse? I know there are ergonomic/camping hiking backpacks with frames, but most of the backpacks I saw on Google didn't have one I could see.

Do you have any other general backpack advice regarding comfort?

Thanks.

For some reason, it always seems to want to add a violin. It's a terrible sounding violin, too. If it sounded good, the addition of a violin would be appropriate to the music I'm making, but I didn't ask it to, and in some prompts, I've specifically told it not to.

If I use the same prompt multiple times, I can usually get what I'm looking for, but it's really not inspiring me to pay for the upgrade.

I've used an ai art program a bit, but I'm otherwise not familiar with ai programs. Is there a manual somewhere with prompt/negative prompt examples? Or is ai music just not there yet?

Thanks.

I don't have a ton of equipment. I have contact cement, and I think there's some wood glue somewhere, maybe. I have a couple 2x4s, but they're currently holding up my work bench, but I can shift stuff around if I need to make some kind of press out of them.

I already have a wood sheath, and I want to cover it with leather. I've come up with a couple measurements for the stitch holes, but one is so tight it tears the holes, and the other is loose, so that the leather shifts around.

Can I just glue it?

Will I be able to wet form(I believe it's called) it?

Thanks.

One that doesn't require embouchure, and one that is played from the pointy end, and the big end is not blocked off.

Either with a fipple carved from the pointy end, or with whatever "reed" thing ocarinas and common transverse flutes have.

At first, I thought Sally was just being poetic. She just met this dude like 5 minutes ago, and now he's old.

"It was raining like this when we met."

"It's the same rain."

It's still raining.

On my first watch, I just thought it was some artsy way to refer to London weather. Duh. It's literally still raining for Sally. DI Shipton had to take the slow path back to it. I'm sure I don't need to explain it.

I facepalmed myself the next time I watched it. Like, duh. It IS the same rain.

I just call it the 3 levels of understanding. It, at the very least, includes or is a part of the Dunning Kruger effect. Or something.

There's level 0: complete ignorance, where you honestly never considered something like the fact that the Earth orbits the sun. It's probably pretty impossible for that specific example.

Level 1: Indoctrination. I think it's an appropriate word, though none of the other 2 tiers have cool names.

So this is the level most people are at where you learn that the Earth orbits the sun. It's stuff you learn in school.

Level 2 is when you go to college or maybe just research it on your own, and you learn that actually the Earth doesn't orbit the sun, but the sun and the Earth orbit a common center of mass.

Level 2 people have the potential to be insufferable pedants. The "um, actchually" crowd. They're usually the type who learn factoids off the internet and think they're super intelligent for it.

Level 3 is where you actually have an education(probably), and you know that the common center of gravity between the Earth and the sun is literally inside the sun.

And the real kick in the pants is that the level 2 pedants, the armchair experts, think the level 3 people are the level 1 people. That at least is pretty textbook Dunning Kruger effect.

I don't know if this specific concept has a name, or if it's just a facet of the Dunning Kruger effect, but it's something I've noticed.

I'm using the term "lately" pretty liberally, btw. Like maybe in the last 20 years.

I saw Lone Wolf and Cub in the 90s. It ws okay. Good not great. Then The Mandalorian came out, and I was like, "hey. I recognize this story." They even did the weapon vs. toy choice scene, which was cool.

Then there's The Last of Us. And TWD game with Lee and the child, who I believe goes on to be the protagonist of the sequel where she gets to LWaC a baby they found at the end of the first game.

There have been a few other games that use the adult cares for found child story that I haven't played, including the new one with a dude in power armor and a robot child in a big poofy coat.

It's a cool story, but is it just me, or has it gotten a lot more popular all of a sudden?

Hopefully, this is the place to ask.

This lot in my neighborhood has been empty for over a decade. I've lived here for 15 years, and I'm pretty sure it's been empty the whole time.

I'm not some kind of investor, and I don't have land-buying money, but is it possible to obtain the land for free or for cheap?

I believe I've found the owner. I'm not 100% since I've never done anything like this before. If so, I can obviously contact them, but I'm curious if this is even a thing. Like would they rather give it away than pay property taxes on a lot they're not using?

I walk by it every day, and it's just something I've been thinking about.

Thanks.

I have a tiny guitar that's missing the g string. If you change your strings, or if you have one lying around, can I have it?

I got it from St Vincent's for like $5, so I don't really want to buy a brand new string.

Thanks.