The Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi, Florence. "Struttura sì grande, erta sopra e' cieli, ampla da coprire con sua ombra tutti e' popoli toscani".

grassytoes · 2023-08-05T18:50:07+00:00

First thing I thought of too, despite actually having been there in real life. Being able to scale it in the game gave it a different type of intimacy that I didn't have when visiting. Not better, just different.

grassytoes · 2023-08-04T16:36:48+00:00

Well then he needs to take that up with the performers that like to have people in the parade around their floats.

Downvote me all you want, but I'm glad it is the way it is, and I'm obviously not the only one.

grassytoes · 2023-08-04T13:04:03+00:00

We've been going to different caribanas then. I have literally been invited into the parade by performers on the floats

grassytoes · 2023-08-04T04:53:30+00:00

But that might just be for us english-native speakers (assuming you are one too). But when I think about how the word would be spoken in french (which I only learned as an adult), it would sound like what we've heard this past week.

So I'm guessing that's how it's always been pronounced among francophones.

Edit: and using the french pronunciation seems to be an easy way out of problematic word associations, so I guess that's why we're hearing that version now, instead of what we grew up with.

grassytoes · 2023-08-04T03:49:03+00:00

FWIW, I grew up pronouncing it nigh (as in "the end is nigh") and ger (like the first 3 letters in germ).

But, apparently that's wrong. What I've learned this past week is that it's more like knee-jare, where the j is really soft, almost, but not quite, like an "sh" sound.

Which makes sense, since it's a french-speaking country.

grassytoes · 2023-08-04T03:20:27+00:00

Well, that's kind of how it's supposed to be; not the unsafe part, but rather, the crowd participation. It's not supposed to be one of those parades where spectators stand behind the fences and watch. They want people dancing inside the parade.

It didn't even used to have fences, but when they added them, it was kind of a joke. I've never been to a caribana where I didn't merge with the parade.

grassytoes · 2023-08-03T20:53:16+00:00

Just something I heard, but I was told he was pretty butt-hurt over how little influence he got in the Obama years. He saw himself as a big name who should obviously have some clout in the first black president's circle.

So maybe this current thing is just his hurt ego taking charge.

But yeah, whatever the reason, I've also lost respect.

grassytoes · 2023-08-02T00:27:20+00:00

Wow, thanks for posting this; I thought I was going crazy. One minute everything is working; I take a break for an hour, try to come back to the game and get this same problem. And I hadn't even rebooted or updated anything.

And thanks, of course, to u/Leopard1907 for the answer.

grassytoes · 2023-07-27T21:14:55+00:00

The person you replied to specifically mentioned the US. Remember? It's the part where they said "both were bad and should be acknowledged but one has more lasting consequences than the other especially in the US".

Then you asked what the point of that statement was, and I answered in the context of the US. In the US, it is not as important for other slave trades to be acknowledged and remembered.

Now do you actually have a counter-argument, or just something else dumb to say?

grassytoes · 2023-07-27T18:53:13+00:00

The point is that the slave trade towards the US needs to be acknowledged and remembered in the US, while for other slave trades it isn't as important to do so.

grassytoes · 2023-07-26T04:55:17+00:00

Human Work is going to go away. How bad that is for the common person depends on the country.

For some people (even non-rich people), that's a good thing; AI and robots work for the people. "No jobs" isn't a bad thing if the product of the AI/robots is distributed to everyone.

But for a lot of us in the countries where everything has to be owned by someone, and only shared for a profit, AI/robots will mean an end to many of our livelihoods, and eventually, our bloodlines.

grassytoes · 2023-07-24T07:25:58+00:00

get it Buckwheats

Just curious; what's that mean? I searched for this phrase, and google brought me back to this comment.

grassytoes · 2023-07-24T06:09:06+00:00

Interesting and/or weird; today was also the last day of Tirgan where there were many Iranians who are openly hostile to the Islamic "Republic" of Iran, and any sort of religious authority in general.

I guess the overlap of people who went to both of these events is pretty small.

grassytoes · 2023-07-24T04:52:20+00:00

This may not be typical, but I did want to be really muscular, like the absurd superheroes that I saw on TV. And one can find other men who were influenced in the same way at any given gym.

As I got older, I stopped trying to bulk up and do the weights, and got more into cardio and general fitness. As a result, one day, while looking in the mirror, instead of seeing just a skinny dude, I saw Spiderman. Which felt pretty good.

I know the problem is worse with girls, but us boys would have been better off with less Thor and more Peter Parker.

grassytoes · 2023-07-22T15:00:33+00:00

Douglas Adams helped write the movie script and was responsible for some of that "butchering".

https://www.quora.com/How-much-input-did-Douglas-Adams-have-in-the-film-adaptation-of-Hitchhikers-Guide-to-the-Galaxy-before-he-died/answer/Yoz-Grahame

https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/06/21/douglas-adams-turns-in-new-draft-of-the-hitchhikers-guide-script

grassytoes · 2023-07-22T04:35:16+00:00

NFL is better because of better players (because of better pay), but worse in other ways. NFL has more stoppages of play, more time standing around, and less passing.

While CFL has

no fair catches (no boring ends to a kickoff)
rouges (missed field goals have to be run out of the endzone, or else the kicking team gets a point)
drop-kicks (kick a field goal on the fly)
a wider and longer field (more room for passing).
clock stoppage for most in-field tackles (no running out the clock when there's several minutes to go)

grassytoes · 2023-07-21T01:21:59+00:00

Not an answer to the question, but from what I've read, it is very hard to take too much vitamin D. Like, you'd have to take many, many times the recommended daily dosage. So if I think I'm not getting enough naturally, I just take the daily dosage and don't worry about tests or my exact level.

grassytoes · 2023-07-19T23:46:47+00:00

Probably the same way Rob Ford would; "my heart bleeds for them when I hear someone gets killed. But it's their own fault"

grassytoes · 2023-07-19T23:40:20+00:00

Exactly. The driver's immediate response was to do the normal human thing and brake when there was someone immediately in front of him.

Then his consciousness takes over and he accelerates into the cyclist. The initial brake, then acceleration is even better proof of malicious intent than the long period of no braking.

grassytoes · 2023-07-19T21:24:10+00:00

The brake light action makes it painfully clear that the driver did brake at first, then decided to accelerate into the cyclist, and didn't brake again until they had completely run the cyclist over.

grassytoes · 2023-07-19T03:11:40+00:00

In my head, Portal Stories: Mel is canon. It was so well done. Soundtrack was amazing too.

grassytoes · 2023-07-15T16:55:31+00:00

Showing my age here, but I remember clubbing in that building that's now a refugee shelter. RIP club district.

grassytoes · 2023-07-11T19:41:28+00:00

I was wondering if the longitude/latitude lines have to be so... warped (for lack of a better word) in order for the oceans to appear as one, and found this page:

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/756bcae18d304a1eac140f19f4d5cb3d

which seems like an interesting read (haven't finished it yet)

grassytoes · 2023-07-09T07:18:37+00:00

May: "Is the infrastructure/code ready to go and has Musk done something stupid this month?"

"Sorry boss, while Musk has done something stupid this month, the code just isn't ready".

June: "Is the infrastructure/code ready to go and has Musk done something stupid this month?"

"Sorry boss, while Musk has done something stupid this month, the code just isn't ready".

July: "All systems are a go boss!"

grassytoes · 2023-07-08T05:30:03+00:00

You can turn the survival elements off now. No scrounging for sustenance just to continue playing.

Even without the survival elements, it's still very much the kind of game you're asking for in your post. An amazing game, but can only be truly enjoyed once.

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