His show was the number one rated show throughout the 80’s, and anesthesiologists are trained to keep people talking so they can better guage the anesthesia’s effectiveness (and reduce anxiety, but we can see how that played out lol).

I’m sorry that something like this happened, in hindsight it would be something that would visit my brain just as I’m falling asleep as a fuck you from my subconscious. That said, though, there is reason to believe it was just very poorly informed small talk. Again, I’m sorry — that genuinely sounds creepy as fuck when it’s put together with hindsight.

The only time I’ve been put under was for my wisdom teeth removal, and I woke up in the middle of surgery. I distinctly remember opening my eyes and seeing blue, I guess they had something over my eyes. I also remember moving my head, but that was around the time I went back under. I woke up with extra stitches in my mouth and not a single person would address what I was saying. In hindsight I should have had my mom hire a lawyer and sued the shit out of them (I was 12, couldn’t really do it myself).

All of this to say: fuck anesthesia and anesthesiologists. They’re basically playing a guessing game between going to sleep forever and waking up during surgery.

If you leave your mouth open for long enough, you break the vacuum holding the shit and piss stink in and you’ll start smelling.

I think if you examine the quality of the dialogue itself — yes it was rather boring. However, the reactive aspect was neat — a character remembering the thing you last said and using it to justify their position is good. Even if that position ends up being boring due to poor writing, it seems more dynamic and real — cuz people typically remember what you say.

Right, hence my question — 65 character slots doesn’t really mean much if you’ll only ever have the time to play one.

Has WoW actually become alt friendly in the recent expansions?

Odd, Firewatch was entirely forgettable for me — I don’t think I agree that it should have sparked a subgenre.

Should it be influential? Yes, I think the only thing they did a very good job with was the dialogue. Am I surprised there aren’t ‘Firewatch-likes’? No.

Fuck, you made me laugh cough with that last bit.

I guess that’s true, I have actually mentioned it to a few of my coworkers – they all had a reaction that more or less spoke ‘there simply isn’t enough time for that’ lol.

Tangentially, there’s also this bilibili show called ling long reincarnation that, whether I’m stupid for liking it or not, is awesome. The thing about it is that I’ve always felt like there’s something lost in translation about the show, or there are themes that I’m simply unaware of due to… well an overall lack of knowledge about Chinese language and culture, I suppose.

Idk, full immersion would be best like you said — I just have no idea where I’d find that in California. I’m sure there are places, but then there’s the extra layer of somehow finding enough time to actually absorb the language through immersion. Perhaps I’ll just take up Spanish lol, I always did well in it in school and it’s close enough to English. I think it would probably be much easier to find people who speak Spanish here.

Well, to answer your primary question — many of the people on the team I work with speak… it’s either Cantonese or Mandarin, I think they told me Mandarin but I’m not entirely sure. It isn’t something that would necessarily help me on a professional level, but it would help me on a personal level with many of them.

That’s genuinely my motivation, I don’t really care about ‘seeming’ bilingual — this is mostly to bring me closer to people who have helped me at work.

We have been here for years, the NSA has been recording everything we say here in the U.S. for… a long time. I’m not actually clear on how long they’ve been doing it.

Also, I can buy a camera no wider than a penny and have it quite literally anywhere on my person without you knowing — unless nudists also have a rule where they drive to the nude beach naked, you’ve kinda been shit out of luck for a while there too.

Edit: sorry, sorry — I lied. It is slightly larger than a penny.

Since Lemmy apparently has a ton of people who are bilingual — how do I as a 31 year old man that knows enough Spanish to say ‘Thank you, where is the bathroom?’ and frequently watches anime in subtitles gain another language? I’m open to all suggestions, except bad ones. Specifically I am interested in learning Mandarin because I hate myself.

They’re right, we know exactly the kind of damage snorting powdered drugs has on your nose and heart. They were taking a calculated risk, you were just rolling the dice with your health. Owned again, liberal.

(I AM JOKING)

Ok, but do you have weed?

For reference, I look like John Lennon with longer hair and I definitely have weed. So the stereotype about me is 100% true.

Uhhh

No issue with that at all, merely sharing my perspective.

Yes, though I think of them more as the times I unknowingly supported a company that was actively contributing to the death of digital literacy in the western world.

So, tomato potato — or whatever.

No issues, just become a master craftsmen and compete with other master craftsmen. Easy.

Or get used to eating burnt food, that worked for me

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