u/ballistic503

I think this behavior is common enough to come up with a name for it; it was between “gaswhistling” and “doglighting” and I think the former is the better option.*

Have you ever heard someone say something that was clearly a dogwhistle but then when you call it out someone comes in and tells you you’re crazy for interpreting it that way? That’s gaswhistling.

For example I saw the other day someone saying “wealthy neighbors commit more crimes than anyone except poor neighbors” and when someone called out the dogwhistle, another person said “wow even the word ‘neighbor’ is racist now? You just completely projected your own racist mindset onto that”. Gaswhistling.

Or something I read in a YouTube comments section just now where people were talking about hippos being very violent when the context was African megafauna and someone said “how African of them”. Another person responded “I can’t believe you got even five likes for this, you’ve never read a book in your life have you” and a third person comes in saying:

“What’s crazy is they said nothing racist and you’re just applying your own subconscious racism onto their statement. Trying to destroy anything near you is very typical of African megafauna. Why would you think it means anything else?” Then doubled down with the gaswhistling in another comment about the person “projecting their own racist subconscious”. (I pointed out how it was funny that the person who said “you’ve never read a book in your life” actually never even said it was racist themselves… so if mentioning racism first is the metric then the gaswhistlers still lost.)

I think it’s good to have a term for this type of tactic because A) I have seen it used dozens of times and B) just as with terms like gishgalloping, concern-trolling and sealioning, the goal is to wear people down with endless bad faith arguments and insincere outrage, so having a term for the general behavior allows you to skip the most exhausting part and address the actual dogwhistle itself without the gaslighting about who’s actually reading too much into it.

*NB: I wish I were clever enough to come up with something more clever than a straightforward portmanteau but at the same time the meaning needs to be conveyed immediately which I think “gaswhistling” does, at least if the context is already that of a discussion about a dogwhistle. My goal however isn’t so much to push a specific word as much to identify a behavior that I think should have a name and give it one, so if another name catches on that’s great too. As long as you call it that when you see it I’m happy!

I think this behavior is common enough to come up with a name for it; it was between “gaswhistling” and “doglighting” and I think the former is the better option. (I wish I were clever enough to come up with something better than a straightforward portmanteau but at the same time the meaning needs to be conveyed immediately which I think “gaswhistling” does.)

Have you ever heard someone say something that was clearly a dogwhistle but then when you call it out someone comes in and tells you you’re crazy for interpreting it that way? That’s gaswhistling.

For example I saw the other day someone saying “wealthy neighbors commit more crimes than anyone except poor neighbors” and when someone called out the dogwhistle, another person said “wow even the word ‘neighbor’ is racist now? You just completely projected your own racist mindset onto that”. Gaswhistling.

Or something I read in a YouTube comments section just now where people were talking about hippos being very violent when the context was African megafauna and someone said “how African of them”. Another person responded “I can’t believe you got even five likes for this, you’ve never read a book in your life have you” and a third person comes in saying:

“What’s crazy is they said nothing racist and you’re just applying your own subconscious racism onto their statement. Trying to destroy anything near you is very typical of African megafauna. Why would you think it means anything else?” Then doubled down with the gaswhistling in another comment about the person “projecting their own racist subconscious”. (I pointed out how it was funny that the person who said “you’ve never read a book in your life” actually never even said it was racist themselves… so if mentioning racism first is the metric then the gaswhistlers still lost.)

I think it’s good to have a term for this type of tactic because A) I have seen it used dozens of times and B) just as with terms like gishgalloping and sealioning the goal is to wear people down with endless bad faith arguments and insincere outrage, so having a term for the general behavior allows you to skip the most exhausting part and address the actual dogwhistle itself without the gaslighting about who’s actually reading too much into it.

So I exclusively play on survival mode (PS5) and really wanted to do a raider playthrough but it’s not really practical to keep schlepping back and forth between Nukaworld and the other side of the map for this questline.

I thought the “Free the Vertibirds” mod (where you don’t need to be BOS to use the Vertibirds) would do the trick but for some reason the signal grenades are just not having any effect. At first it didn’t work and I read the description which said “if you’re updating make sure the ESP is deleted”. I looked and sure enough there was a separate Free the Vertibirds ESP that I could only disable, not delete.

Disabling the ESP didn’t work (I throw the signal grenade, nothing happens) so I just completely deleted and reinstalled the game. Unfortunately that didn’t work either.

Sorry, I’m not 100% sure how to post my load order, but I really don’t think any other mods I have are related to Vertibirds or would conflict. Anyone have any suggestions? I’m kinda bummed if it turns out I have to scrap this run because I did Nuka World in survival mode at like level 10 or so.

I am a recovering addict and based on advice from professionals I told her that she needed to be sober at least six months before I would consider getting back together with her. This was mid 2025 when she barraged me with texts about getting back together after she’d broken up with me because I told her she couldn’t move in with me after she got out of rehab (she had started day-drinking even in rehab, and I work from home) - she owns or I guess owned her own home but had wanted to move in with me for stability but I put my own stability first and I don’t regret it. Anyway she called me 3-4 months ago and I didn’t pick up but her voicemail sounded very drunk.

This might make me sound like a stalker but I would look at the docket for her DUI arrest occasionally (every other month or so) to see if she was able to stay in diversion because she had lied to me before about being sober. I know what it’s like to be an addict so I wanted to give our relationship a fair shake if she was able to put the work in.

She had a bench warrant out for her arrest a month or two ago - somehow the docket only now showed her as deceased, but then in civil cases I found out that her ex husband’s child support order had been terminated months ago because her DOD was listed as less than a week after she last called me.

No idea what happened but I’m pretty fucked up about it.

The show was always completely half-assed on the mystery genre front and the dialogue was always pretentious. Any decent mystery should have at least one moment where you’re surprised this character turned out to have done that thing (whether or not it’s the crux of the mystery itself) and the only time in the entire show where I was even slightly surprised by an established character was when it turns out this one semi-relevant character has been banging this other semi-relevant character and it had no effect on the plot.

The thing that actually elevated Season 1 to one of the best seasons of television ever was that Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey put their entire souls into those performances. Yes, all the narrative devices and “genre-bending” (eye roll) elements made it alluring on a surface level, but while Colin Farrell is a fine actor, if it was him and Vince Vaughn in Season 1 I personally don’t think the show would’ve caught on the way it did.

By that I mean the button when you’re in a queue waiting for a match. I’m on iPad if that makes a difference. In general I frequently accidentally go into matchmaking with the wrong deck selected and cancel out - normally fine, but only since MSH does it feel like I need to mash the Cancel button for several seconds and then it either just doesn’t seem to register at all or the button lights up as if I pressed it but doesn’t actually kick me back to the menu. Anyone else having this issue?

I guess by most people’s measures it’s sacrilegious or disrespectful or something? But it would be kind of beautiful to see something so lively (as in “full of life”) after my own life has gone by. Honestly I have no idea if this is a 10th dentist opinion but I was reading something where people go to bang on a tombstone and it’s presented as disrespectful to the deceased. This opinion is of course assuming it’s like a couple in love - if it’s some married guy and a sex worker I’m haunting a motherfucker no question

And I’m gonna buy it right when it comes out, for reference. I’m normally the last person to be on some r/hailcorporate bullshit but honestly I don’t get how it’s such an outrage to some people.

Although let me stress first of all that this is the opposite of a “I can afford it, sucks for you if you can’t” spiel; that has nothing to do with the point I’m making. I know affordability in general is a major problem especially right now… when I say I like UBI, I’m not talking about Ubisoft.

When I was 8, in 1996, I (or rather my parents) bought Diablo 1 for $50. It had a budget of about $1.2 million. Even if we ignore the budget entirely, just in terms of inflation, that would be well over $100 today.

In 2013 I bought GTA V for $60 and it had a budget of $265 million. Now, 30 years later, in 2026 I’m going to buy a game with a budget of $1-2 billion for $80.

For comparison: a pound of ground beef in 1995 cost roughly $1.37. Now it costs about $6.70. Let’s not even get into the cost of eggs.

For some time now, the combination of inflation and the wildly inflated budgets of AAA video games has been offset through DLC and microtransactions instead of introducing that to the cost of the game itself, and people raise hell about that too. Guess what: when corporations can’t recoup to the extent they want one way, they find another. And if they can’t, they just shut the studio down.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m thankful that Battlefront 2 set off a revolt by consumers against absurd microtransaction costs tacked onto full price games. I’m not saying let the industry get out of control. Even now, when AAA games are generally $70, many games still often charge only $60, or even $50 in the case of Expedition 33. Games are still only going to charge what they think people will pay - GTA can charge $80 for its billion dollar game because it has the name of one of the biggest franchises in history, the previous entry having grossed more in its opening weekend alone than the global music industry grossed in that whole month in 2013. But passion projects like Expedition 33 can’t do that because people have such minimal expectations for what they’re expecting to pay.

And yeah, I know, times are hard. I don’t want working class gamers (or especially gamers in countries where $80 is more like $300, due to currency exchange, cost of living etc) to not be able to enjoy themselves. But video games are still a luxury purchase, and I think it’s better that they just increase the price on the main product as opposed to trying to recoup on the bells and whistles.

It’s time to let people have 150-200 decks. Maybe it could be a reward for an achievement if there’s an actual concern about… who knows, bandwidth or storage space or whatever. Obviously I’d like a lot more tools for sorting and organizing my collection as well but just upping the limit is necessary at this point.

When I say anti-vegans I mean the people who bring up vegans every single chance they get just to shit on them out of nowhere, or any time the idea of veganism comes up they get apoplectic and/or start making jokes as a defense mechanism. I’m not vegan in the slightest, today I had an excellent burger with bacon, chèvre and strawberry jam on brioche, but I live in one of the vegan capitals of the world and even here I’ve never met anyone in real life who actually fits the vegan stereotype. People might give you shit for eating, like, foie gras, but meat in general? Never met a vegan who was even 10% as annoying as the people who shit on veganism every chance they get. To me it’s similar to how evangelical atheists have become as annoying as evangelical Christians.

I see [[Fountainport]] in every other Brawl deck list and a ton of Standard decks as well. To me I’m wondering if it’s actually THAT good. It seems like decent enough value on its own but I feel like there must be interactions or value beyond the obvious that I’m not seeing to be as widespread as I’ve seen it to be. Are there specific types of decks/strategies that it synergizes particularly well with?