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I wonder whether the fact that peppermint is a deodorizor has anything to do with why ants dont like it (as they rely on pheromones for a lot of things)

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Obseevation: Alastor's perhaps a wee bit fae coded - pedantic, stag design, tricks and murders presumptive assholes, be careful of the food he offers, keeps people as pets, does things in the interest of his own amusement, wild at parties, etc etc

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No beta we die like Ethan nakamura, a character with actual intrigue, unlike Jason grace who im glad died - the narrative equivalent of wet toast - who made me give up on finishing the heroes of Olympus series with his opening pov chapter of the book following anabeth and percy in tartarus because he's the narrative equivalent of a soggy biscuit on top of my preexisting difficulties reading Rick's works; couldn't really skip it, cuz it was the first chapter, there to set up context, and a completely different setting than where the last one left off. Made me miss out on actual Nico POV, a character who ive adored since his first appearance as a dorky kid way back in the quest to atlas's mountain. Fandom makes a big deal out of his death, but really, it sounds to me like it was narratively satisfying for the way his character was set up, and I rejoice at the end of a character I hated reading

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Used to be confused why a glass of milk was treated like a snack in the sims

I get it now

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Current status: trying to convince my printer it doesnt need to be connected to the internet to work

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Videogame from my dreams:

Friend is obsessed with a new hit indie game that came out and hasn't logged off to do real world stuff in a while

Player tried to convince him out by talking with him, tried playing a round with him to help defeat the opponent he's been obsessed with (player is brutally beaten quite quickly, makes numerous attempts before friend gets mad and kills player's character himself)

Player returns to room to do some digging into the game, finds sad indie startup story and weird thing about it getting taken over by creepy algorithm

Player goes to type code to pull up the game's bones and is interrupted by true villain taking over screen, evil evil wanting to keep people 'sucked into' the game, not willing to let friend go, actually sucks player conscience into the game

Player is now in the game as the game villain who friend has been hunting down between his other combat scenes

Player runs around trying not to harm the innocents in the game, but keeps causing harm by accident in events that seem contrived to set him up for it (and because he is a giant)

Eventually get back to home base lab and start having cutscene flashbacks (gets split from friend's pursuit for a while in elevator that has 2 sections that open and close - one for villain and one for friend)

Catches up to you in the villains lab where it is revealed that protagonist and villain are the same person, and the thing that's causing harmful transformations happened when the lab got forcibly taken over and aggressively shut down without properly shutting things down

Cutscene with Pamela, the character's wife, kicking ass trying to hold ground during invasion and dog adventures as the residents' puppers get out, character's hairless chihuahua staying behind to help Pamela while bigger dogs lead the other pets out

Then I woke up, not entirely sure how the same person in 2 bodies thing resolved nor whether player ever manages to convince friend of the situation

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Listening to random old wtnv eps, sometimes you get hit with throwaway lines that have more relevance than their delivery implies

Sometimes they are directly relevant to an ongoing plot, or a running gag,

But sometimes you really can't tell if the information is ever going to become relevant at all or if its just one of the writers' brain worms that keeps coming up every now and again

And anyway, I was listening to the strangers episode, and there was a throwaway lines about scientists believing that the 30% of the world that wasn't water was a great sea creature

And usually when Cecil say scientists, he usually means Carlos

And it was mentioned in one of the university of what it is series, I think it was Carlos, explained, that Carlos originally studied marine biology (i think, I remember it had something to do with marine cuz it struck me as a little quirky

And Carlos is out in the middle of a desert doing his research (and sometimes its a little bit implied that he studies science itself? Sometimes I wonder...

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Thinkin bout how Carlos spent 10 years in the desert otherworld before he was able to re-enter night vale proper bc he wasn't considered to be a citizen of the town, and how Cecil made a big event of Carlos having lived in night vale 10 years bc it officially made him a resident of the town, not knowing he'd spent 10 years in a time dilated desert other world, and that the likely reason Carlos was able to return to night vale proper after those 10 years that Cecil didn't know about was that the town recognized him as a resident after those 10 years to allow him to return

And just,

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One man's magical girl experience is another man's horror story

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My internal dialogue every time I reach for a sheet of printer paper to check how big my circle pan is:

Fuckin Americans, anything but the metric system for a measurement

Dude, you literally wrote an argumentative essay back in high school for the use of the metric system in America while you actively didn't own a measuring cup and were guestimating baking measurements using random other tablewares, why are you like this

Dude, you know that's a 9 inch pan, you have a good grasp of measurement by now, you don't need to check it, you're not even sure you saw an 8 inch pan available at the store when you bought it, this is America, why would corporations pass up selling you more than you need with no consideration for excess material and space waste

The short side of printer paper is conveniently 8.5 inches long, so if the diameter of the pan is larger, it's a 9 inch and if it's shorter, it's an 8 inch

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Normally when my dreams wake me up at 2am it's because they start to take a dark turn that I don't want to think about

Today I wake up at 2am because i finished drafting my argument for possible reasoning for certain places being closed on the week of local elections (situationally in the dream they were having an emergency election due to the mayor dying) in the town it took place in (no way is this factual in any way) (if you're curious, it was tge local liquerstore/grocers, dammit I forgot the second one, and the office responsible for taking votes) (in the context of the dream, this was for some kind of unprepared debate contest thing in a small town)

Anyways, I woke up cuz I started thinking too hard about the Edgar allen poe possible death by voting sceme where thugs dress you up in a bunch of different clothes and send you back to vote multiple times, back before there was anyway to verify your identity at the voting box, and the voting people gave you a commentary celebratory drink before you left