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jjba·JoJo's Bizarre Adventurebyagamemnonymous

What's with all the SBR outro music hate?

Seems like the fandom violently hates it, but it slaps. Yeah I've heard people say it would've been The Chain by Fleetwood Mac, but I've seen the edit and while it syncs up well it doesn't feel like JoJo. It's so solemn, which is probably the least appropriate tone for JoJo.

You know what is appropriate for JoJo? Weird goofy shit. You know what's weird and goofy? Japanese cowboy trap. I don't even like trap, but the outro slaps. The horse whinny samples are just chef's kiss.

Are people just hating because it's an original song?

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nostupidquestions·No Stupid Questionsbyagamemnonymous

People who get "happy ending" massages, is there like a common keyword or process?

I know this is gonna sound like the "Where exactly, so I can avoid it" meme, but I'm sincerely trying to avoid it.

I am pretty physically active, and get massage every six months or so. I have a massage therapist I usually go to, but every once in a while it's an emergency and my go-to is booked up, so I get a sketchy strip mall massage.

About half the time it ends with a happy ending attempt. Not that I'm against the concept, but I refuse to pay for sexual contact on principle. Also that cuts into the time spent on the actual massage I came in for, and pressures me into a huge tip for something I don't actually want.

At the same time, I don't want to assume. It seems pretty rude to start off with "I know you're gonna wanna give me a handjob but I'm not interested". So is there some kind of standard "initiation" ritual that I can turn down when it comes up?

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Weird/surreal/esoteric/mind-bending comic recommendations?

Title. I like weird stuff that challenges the way you think. Not much of a traditional comic book reader, but there are some that have really gripped me lately (particularly the more out-there stuff by Moore or Morrison), and I'm looking for more stuff like that.

In the last couple years I've read:

The Invisibles
The Filth
Flex Mentallo
The Sandman
Promethea
Morrison's Animal Man
Transmetropolitan
The Incal

On my to-read list so far are Moore's Swamp Thing and the new Absolute Martian Manhunter. What else needs to be on the list?

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piano·Piano And Keyboardsbyagamemnonymous

Decent budget compact keyboards?

I'm not much of a musician, but I do like to fool around a bit from time to time. I have a small space crammed with instruments, passed through a loop station.

For keys right now I have an old Yamaha PSR-262, but honestly it's pretty bulky for the space. I'm looking to replace it with something a bit more compact.

Again, not much of a musician, so I don't feel the need to get something high quality or packed with features. I just want something that fits in a ~36" space and doesn't outright suck. And cheap, I'm not really serious about learning and I can't justify spending hundreds of dollars on what's essentially just a toy to play with when I'm bored.

What compact keyboards provide that kind of value? So far I'm looking at the Casiotone CT-S200, which is still at the high end of my budget. I'm sure there are other decent budget keyboards cheaper than that, but in that range it's hard to tell what's cheap because it's just very basic, and what's cheap because it's useless crap.

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Multi-material joints

I've been thinking about print-in-place joints, and playing with my new multi-head printer.

Has anyone been playing around with making one half of a joint from PLA and the other from PETG to get snugger PIP joints? Seems like that would be a good way to get real right tolerances without bonding.

I did a casual search and I couldn't find anyone talking about it.

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Multi-color FDM recommendations

I think it's finally time to upgrade from my Ender 3, and the market has... grown substantially. I'm a bit out of my depth.

Definitely looking at a coreXY, and definitely prefer a multi-color system (multi-material really). My budget is around $600, but that's a bit flexible.

The Elegoo Centurion Carbon 2 looks attractive, and it's on sale. But I've heard good things about multi-head systems, particularly when it comes to waste from purging. Granted, that stretches my budget a bit.

What's the move? It seems like so many of the options (coughcoughBambu) have pretty gross anti-consumer practices. Are there any good options out there?

Update: Alright, I pulled the trigger on a Snapmaker U1. It seems like it's going to be the Ender 3 of tool changers: the open source darling that becomes the de facto standard for the mod community.

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Streamer Politicians

No credentials, no qualifications, just a live stream of everything that isn't classified.

"Hey chat, these guys just said some wild shit about foreign policy. Is that legit? Lawyers in the chat, what should I say?"

Every citizen can join the chat, decisions are based on polls. I foresee equal parts "Whip ur dik out" and "Bring up the provisions of Ch. 4 Subsection III, highlight the intersection of Art. VI with Johnson v. Hackensak"

Not ideal, obviously, but compared to the current state of things? Could definitely be worse. Why not, at this point? At least it's transparent.

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PLT·Pragmatic Leftist Theorybyagamemnonymous

Jesus was based af, actually

First, I know what most of you are going to say. I myself was an internet atheist 20 years ago, quoting Dawkins and Sagan at magic-sky-daddy believers. But this isn't about convincing anyone to believe.

This is about pragmatics. And, pragmatically, the single biggest enemy right now is the conservative Christian right. Anything to fracture that coalition benefits the left.

Luckily, their gospels are pretty left-wing. So, I offer for your consideration, the Christian angle.

I encourage those of you who went to Sunday school to brush up on your Scripture. Matthew is a treasure trove. When you're talking to someone on the right, start hitting them with chapter and verse.

If nothing else, this is initially shocking. They're supposed to be the Christians, and you're some filthy commie reminding them that Jesus called the wealthy priests hypocrites, and told us to feed the hungry and aid the sick.

They have defense mechanisms against your crybaby commie talk. They don't have defense mechanisms against their own scripture. At worst, you shake them loose from their script and confuse them, giving you openings for gentle deprogramming.

At best, they might reflect on their leadership and how closely they follow Jesus' commands. Anyone who really believes in him and really reads the gospels is going to wind up a leftist, whether they call it that or not.

Just food for thought. Read up on what Jesus said, use that against the people who claim to follow him. You don't have to believe yourself to recognize a powerful rhetorical tool.

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Decent 3d scanners under $1000

I'm looking to get a halfway decent general purpose scanner, and the market is all over the place. I don't need anything with industrial engineering precision, but I would like to be able to scan broken parts around the house to print replacements with at least decent precision.

I expect most of my use cases would be in the 1cm³-1dm³ range, but it would also be fun to be able to scan bigger subjects. Mostly people, so I can make personalized tabletop minis, but I also like the prospect of miniaturizing other things.

Blue laser looks super cool, but also very pricey.

What are the best options in the $500-1000 range? I'm kinda outta my depth here.

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loadbearingwisdom·Load Bearing Wisdombyagamemnonymous

What is this weird feature?

Not actually my house, it was an AirBnB outside Seattle, but it's mysterious and I'm hoping someone here might know the function.

Inside the main closet in the master bedroom is a weird giant staircase leading to a square hole that looks into the area outside the bedroom. Here's the other side:

The inside of that cupboard beneath is just a small empty space, much smaller than the staircase, tiled at the bottom and possibly sized for an electric fireplace or something.

My friends and I could not figure out what it was supposed to be, and it's driving us a bit crazy.

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PLT·Pragmatic Leftist Theorybyagamemnonymous

A fissure is forming on the Right

The Republican base is an increasingly unsteady partnership of tech-bro, white nationalist, red-pill MAGA nuts, and salt-of-the-earth conservative types who vote R because that's what their pappy did.

This community exists explicitly as a byproduct of leftist infighting, which was very possibly engineered by malicious parties to divide and conquer.

I say, let's flip the script.

As the current administration becomes more unsavory, conscientious old-school blue-collar conservatives and libertarians are finding the pill harder to swallow.

Leftist policies are extremely popular, even among the "right". It's Leftist terminology that sours the deal. The American people have been submerged in anti-left propaganda for a century, at least.

There is a massive opportunity to fracture the right by introducing a third party that mimics right wing terminology to promote a leftist message. 'Murica is about Freedom and Jesus. We can define Freedom, and dive into the teachings of Jesus we were talking about, after the election.

Or never. Voters don't typically peruse their representatives actual voting record. All they really care about are soundbites, and it's not hard to hit the right notes.

Honestly I think that if we're clever about marketing, we can peel off a significant portion of the Right's base. Hopefully, a couple cycles can bury the alt-right shit and replace the Republican party with the Patriot Party, or whatever.

Ideally, savvy leftists will figure out the ploy, and pile in once the scale starts to tip. But it has to start with the blue-collar Right. The Republican party is enemy number 1, the Democrats have enemy-of-my-enemy status until the Patriot Party (or whatever) is established and displaces enemy number 1.

On an unrelated note, here's a fun game:

Describe a leftist policy in the most right-wing language possible. Try to guess what it is in the comments! If your description stumps the commenters, you win 1,000 Internet points.

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unpopularopinion·Unpopular Opinionbyagamemnonymous

I actually kinda like when curse words are censored

"Censorship is bad" yeah, sure, I agree. But the fact that you still know it's a curse word means it's not really censoring anything.

Curse words are so common now that they've lost a bit of their oomph. They're supposed to convey intensity, but they're used so casually that they're basically lazy filler.

A strike through line, or a box that doesn't quite cover, reintroduces a bit of the taboo. This is a bad, naughty word, you shouldn't be reading it. You know what it is, but attempting to cover it draws attention to the fact that it's something some people want to cover, which reintroduces some of the oomph.

It's kinda like sequined pasties at a nudist colony; it turns something that was once taboo, but had since been normalized, back to taboo again to reclaim some of the intensity.

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