Oh yeah, it was a recommendation. Having just picked up a stack of old SciFi pulp (Clifford Simak paperbacks this time), I’m gonna guess that our tastes align enough that you might like it. It is weird though and the character switching is a bit more intense. Not just the perspective changes, the whole writing style drastically changes and even the syntax changes to suit each character.

Flashbacks of Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying.

Somehow I get what you’re saying, but the grammar of that sentence is going to give English teachers a stroke.

You can still be a kind of garden hermit if you get certain jobs in science and ecology.

Lol. No you.

Yeah, language is rarely that literal, deal with it.

Legend of Zelda, maybe somebody finally had enough of me smashing all their pots and cutting all their grass. I don’t think those monsters are calling the cops for all the murder, they always seem to pop right back anyway.

Tell me you’re not really a fan of either franchise without telling me.

If you’ve ever seen the skull of a horned animal versus an antlered animal the difference between antler and horn is pretty clear. The center of a horned animals horn is bone and forms a single continuous piece connected to the skull, surrounded by flesh and hard keratin (like finger nails). Antlers grow more like a knuckle, not connected to the skull as one continuous piece.

Another horned oddity is the rhino, whose “horn” is more like a specialized fingernail (keratin again) than a true horn. A rhino “horn” is like a compressed lock of hair filed to a point, a hair shiv if you will.

Yet another weird horn like thing is the giraffe. They have bone knobby lumps on their head that are like something between a horn and an antler, being bone fused to the skull surrounded by flesh but without keratin.

Then there are narwhals. I don’t know anything about narwhals. But they are cool and have “horns”.

Like this one? Santa’s reindeer are probably all female.

Facetious - adjective treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant.

That part of the comment was facetious.

The comparison with IPAs is apt. For me an IPA is really only suitable when it balances the flavors of some other food. But, let’s be honest. People aren’t getting IPAs for the hops. They’re getting IPAs for the higher ABV. And, while I love blue cheese I never sit down and just eat it alone like I could disappear a block of aged cheddar. Blue cheese is always better when it balances the flavors of other foods like bacon, dates, cured meats, buffalo wings, cauliflower, salads, etc.

Truffle oil on the other hand might as well be snake oil. Truffle oil is never authentic, it’s just flavored oil. Just give me some damn mushrooms and if truffles aren’t available find another good mushroom and stop trying to make it an oil.

It was always that sweet. Everything we drank as kids was SUPER sweet, mostly still is. Once you break the sugar addiction and try those things again later the sweetness is shocking.

You forgot about the arbitrary “standard” pressure part and missed the point by a light second.

Practically every billionaire is born into the wealth, but they choose to be evil. Batman said fuck that and literally spent his entire fortune fighting corruption and helping the poor. I mean, maybe you could say that because of his pathos that was all still acting in his own best interest. But, what the fuck is wrong with being philanthropic because it makes you feel better?

Ok, now convince that your entire rant wasn’t just a language learning model’s hallucination of what sounds like a reasonable explanation, but doesn’t actually make any sense or have any grounding in reality. Because that’s what it sounds like. I was going to start picking apart your explanation, but there’s just so much wrong and inconsistent that I gave up.

The horror indeed. Everybody seems happy. Although I’m concerned that the sheep can’t give proper consent. But if they’ve mastered cloning, maybe that sheep is more sapient and vocal than I’m assuming a sheep to be. Then a gain the simplest explanation is that consent is just a conservative blondspot. I’m also very concerned that there is a certain lack of diversity here, but that’s probably just another natural blindspot for the conservative artist.

You know what else I don’t see in this picture? No homeless. No cops murdering citizens. No children being shot in school. No unregulated, untaxed, and unsafe drugs being sold on street corners. No surveillance on every corner. Obviously no shame about sex, but again I want to know how that sheep is able to consent.

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You are lying to yourself and to us. I’ve been around long enough to see lots of different kinds of racism and many of them genuinely do not see it in themselves. That’s not a good enough excuse to freely spout such nonsense in a public forum without repercussion.

It is full of racists just like you who think that their logical fallacies and cognitive dissonance somehow absolve them of such labels. Next you’re going to tell me about your Muslim friend right? Maybe you’re just confused because no one else in your grade school has stood up to your perverted “logic”? I’m not interested in having a conversation with you, just calling you out on your bullshit. It’s not fucking cool.