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Every dog is different. There are strong patterns in dog behavior, so it's best to teach them to never play with their mouths with humans.

On the other hand, I have a 15 year old husky that loves (well, until recently -- I don't think he has long left :( ) to play by pretend-nipping at my hand. The only time there's teeth to skin contact is by accident, it's not actually nipping it's just bitey face with hands involved. He's very careful not to actually make contact. Developed over time when I was scratching behind his ears and he'd move so I jerked my hand back, and over time it became a full on game that he just adores.

The important thing to note is that while it turned out OK, I should never have encouraged that behavior -- I just didn't realize what was going on until the game was established.

He was an ass to his own client in the very first scene. (To be fair, he's made a lot of progress and is getting better.)

That's S1E1, there's a pre-season 1 episode, FYI.

I think they needed the rhyme for 'living aspect of the infinite', but you'd think they could go with something else, like 'What's that in your pants, it smells like shit, 'cause I'm a living aspect of the infinite!' instead.

If you remove the lines "I'm so spooky, I'm the shit", I'd agree.

They just... ugh.

I think he's such a people pleaser, he was willing to do anything Sera asked of him.

She made the wrong assumption because she didn't consult Charlie first, but then you'd expect more from a king, you know.

Especially because it's made pretty clear that while he can't harm sinners, property damage is very much on the table. Instead of just using the V tower as a background piece to his entrance, use his power to evacuate it, and then destroy it.

Or make the Vees into a laughing stock. Collapse it into a single piece of material shaped like a column with a flared mushroom-shaped head, and three orbs each bearing the face of one of the Vees at the base. Maybe add a gas reservoir and some piping to put a flame at the top.

You know, I still don't understand why Sera didn't shut that down.

Because she's broken right now. She knows she was wrong, she knows Emily was right, and she's struggling very hard to balance herself anew, figure out how to atone for her error. (See confession song)

Frankly, I suspect the angels in heaven are simply unused in general to handling apologies and lack any kind of personal or institutional knowledge on how to do it, so they're struggling in general. See the entire "You're the only one" song, which demonstrates an incredible lack of basic mental health care understanding. They're too used to everything being perfect in heaven to understand how to handle when things aren't.

Probably any number of winners who were generals in their mortal life.

You forgot the 'exploitive' part -- the prices are outright abusive to the drivers, most of whom (because they're contractors) have no idea of the tax or maintenance burdens they're putting on their vehicles, and thus don't know how little they're actually making.

A heritage that consists primarily around the owning of other people as slaves so hard that they decided to make that particular 'state right' the wedge point to commit treason.

You know he won't be able to admit the state right in question was slavery, pure plain and simple.

That just hurts my brain.

Having been on the receiving end of some fraud attacks, the thieves may be using bogner.com in an attempt to test what stolen cards they have are 'good'. Sure, the credit card company might block it eventually, but for the few hours it takes them to do that the thieves can tell the card number.

There's... an upside down to it?

Enjoy the fireworks from a safe distance.

Most individual enemies don't have any time of healing ability. As a result, 'scratch' groups almost never get that.

But if I, as a GM, decide a group was built as a coordinated entity, there's usually at least a few support types in the mix. Sometimes a champion reaction type ability, or maneuvers, and of course sometimes a healer.

Virulent diseases and poisons would like a word :D

It's not a trauma dump, it's a reminder that these beautiful dogs are their own creatures and we need to be aware of their fierce independence and the dangers they don't know it represents.

I'm a programmer. This is much, much more than merely 'mildly' infuriating.

What gets even worse is name parsing. I am a FIRM believer of a single name field, and never, ever, ever try to break it up -- always use the full thing -- because you can't guarantee getting it right.

There are just too many edge cases to try and catch them all.

Wait... you clean the hair out?

Absolutely agree it was too much show, not enough tell. We get some showing in Camilla kicking her ass at the start of it — ‘angels wear no shields, little armor, and fight with reckless abandon’ — but nowhere near enough. Just explaining what I think the scene was meant to convey. Something that would have been clearer with a lot more screen time to work the message in with.

The deal is binding on them. Not on Lucifer. Lucifer should be able to take Alastor out easily enough -- Alastor is just required to try and go back.

I took it as less being about character arc and more about a mindset in how to fight. Vaggie was trained to fight with hatred, and Carmilla is telling her she needs to change that and learn to fight to protect what she loves. Call it a Sith Vs Jedi moment.

You sure it was a typo?

Yes, actually, there still will :(

The delay comes from the need to pre-fill the machines. Even if the belts are already fully loaded, the machines they're connected to aren't.

You would be excessively reliant on natural 20s to hit, and to make a meaningful challenge you'd need enough goblins to bog the combat to a halt.

Create a custom goblin troop instead, and describe the party literally hacking them apart by the dozens with each swing.

I honestly thought that was a kick. Holy fuck. That's just... wow.

When I see idiotic teachers like this, why did I think homeschooling is a bad idea?

Because socialization and dealing with idiotic bureaucracies are also important parts of childhood education.

Also $900 extra for an extra legroom seat? It’s like £35-50 on any flight I’ve been on

I suspect it depends heavily on airlines. I don't think United, for example, has 'extra legroom' seats. Also, depending on build, extra legroom won't help, you need extra width as well. Which means upgrading to first class, which very much means the $900 extra. I'm not aware of any airlines that provide 'extra width' seating short of buying two seats, which is NOT a comfortable solution either.

That feels like it might encourage a lot of, uh, interesting content. "I know you probably don't like dick pics, but I know the cops are watching your mail, so... enjoy my little hoggies"

Hence why he needs to be able to hear the door scratch. If it were a purebred husky, I wouldn't have added that.

Honestly, I felt like it enriched their past actions. She was grinding his face in things every time she called him dear and was nice, while they both put on a wonderful act for Charlie.

The key is going to be in the follow through, IMO.

Too cold is when she scratches on the door to come in. Just make sure you can hear it.

Huskies are good down to... well, they live in regions where below zero is the high. I don't think a measly 31F is going to hurt them.

Given that this discussion is about areas where non-HOA homes are hard to impossible to find, I think you may have responded to the wrong sub-comment. (I had a friend who lived in one of those, have a message off to him to see if he can remind me the name of the town. I think it was one of the towns that require all new construction to be in an HoA, but not sure)

For those of us living in cold weather regions, a thorough brushing is all that's needed. A haircut is actively counterproductive because they'll need the extra warmth in the snow.

No, but there are people who live in areas where homes not in HoAs are rare at best, and impossible to acquire at worst.

My personal favorite!

No worries, your usage wasn't wrong, just unintentionally ambiguous. Mad can be used to be insane or angry, which can be very confusing especially for non-native speakers.

Given the context, I'd go with 'insane' over 'mad', since 'angry' and 'mad' are often synonymous. She's angry, she's in grief and denial, and she is batshit crazy.

A whiplash amply demonstrated by her scream of pure "WTF?!" after Emily left.

The process is so broken that a guy like Pentious damned himself for all eternity for not speaking up when he saw a crime in fear of retaliation,

Calling this out because it irritates me every time it coms up. Pentious himself said he didn't know if he failed to report it out of fear or apathy. His shame definitely suggests the former, but I think he has enough self-awareness in the trial scene to suggest we need to give at least some credence that there's at least some of the latter involved.

Glad to see another person who forgets to check timestamps.

A lot of people will -- accurately or otherwise -- spin it as "If Trump had been on the ballot, more people would show up to vote for him, so that would have changed the results."

The worst part is I don't know if that's an accurate representation of Trump's megalomania or if he's just gotten that far into dementia now.

Section 12 (Appropriate Behaviors), paragraph 4 (Insults), subsection 3 via implication): Insults done via implications are considered equally severe as outrightly stated insults. E. G. rolling eyes at an employing having difficulty understanding a complex task is no different than calling them an idiot to their face. This also encompasses knowing looks between yourself and a third coworker and 'oh, bless your dear heart' type statements.

Perfectly 'normal' behavior for parents in the 80s and 90s :(

'Was'? My mom was still getting me to do that ten years ago.

Attempted murder means he was actually attempting to kill the biker.

My complaint is that we live in a world where it is a completely 'legitimate' viewpoint that there was no intent to kill at all. It was just a minor fender bender, leaves him with a few bruises and nothing important. Or rather, would if he were in a car.

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Or to put it another way, my beef is with the stupidity that it's completely reasonable to believe that this guy didn't understand the severity of his asshole, murderous actions.

My point had nothing to do with what actually happened, but rather with the fact that people can consider deliberately hitting someone else with a vehicle something other than an act of murder.

I absolutely HATE the fact that manslaughter is a reasonable outcome here. The idea that this jackass credibly didn't think that his actions would have the potential and intent to kill another human being by deliberately hitting them with his vehicle is fucking INSANE.

because Sera would e scandalized if Emily heard Pentious say "Im having sex with everybody!"

I love the implication that swingers can't get into heaven :D

That one line always hits the hardest in the entire scene. It made the scene, it made the episode!!!

The most important part of the sentence even

Actually, we all know it was Sebastian :D

Bad perspective on the camera is masking a dip in the side of the basket.

Does it solidify?

If you're asking if it forms tiles, no. If you're asking about debris, it turns to debris very quickly.

How do you control the amount of magma dropping there?

Magma blade, just like yours. I have a quick imgur guide on a volcano tamer, very easily adapted to petroleum boiling instead. Note it was built in a scenario where I had two volcanoes in relatively close proximity and had some design flaws, but it illustrates the principles pretty well.

I already use a similar design, but instead of a liquid metal pool, the entire landing pad is steel and part of the heat injector.

Or you could try being polite.

Had to google it after his challenge, but he's actually right. It's about thermal mass. With a lot of ice in the cup, the soda is reduced to freezing temperature but not quite past it due to latent heat (very basically, to freeze something you need to bring it down to it's freezing point by removing energy, then remove just a little bit more to actually freeze it).

End result of having more ice is that the soda isn't able to absorb as much cold from the ice (or, rather, conduct heat energy into it), thus not triggering phase changes.

The same reason as heat rises: density.

Water, for odd reasons, is actually at it's most dense just above freezing. Rather than becoming more dense as it freezes, it becomes less dense, leading to ice rising above water.

Most gases, on the other hand, become less dense as they heat, leading the phenomenon known as 'heat rises'.

Fairly typical mindset for a capitalist though.

There's a shred of truth here, but I don't think Silk is a typical capitalist. They're greedy for the sake of greed. Silk just enjoys the game.

You get very similar results in many situations, but Silk isn't out for money for money's sake, and I think that's an important point. Your normal capitalist probably wouldn't have argued with the ferryman, not worth his time which could be better spent elsewhere. Silk argued just for the joy of winning.

Where is this from? I'm going insane, people keep posting reactions / clips from / responses / analysis of new material that I can't find. Sir Pentious's trial was apparently teased, but where? Now this?

Kind of utterly a waste. It never got an update on the Remaster which is sad, but also Continual recovery shouldn't be a feat tax and should be default.

I feel like non-combat healing is a huge design mess right now, leading to me being very much of two minds on this myself.

There are a ton of non-combat healing options that operate on a 10 minute period via focus spells (Lay on Hands from Champion / Blessed One, Cornocupia from plant druid are the big ones that come to mind) or other class features (Exemplar level 3 radiant choice). Having treat wounds not function on that cycle creates a rather weird structure that makes the focus point based ones look OP to a lot of DMs. This also makes continual recovery non-optional for a primary non-combat healer, rather than being a benefit.

Frankly, as currently structured, IMO continual recovery + ward medic aren't really optional on your primary non-combat healer. I think that's the opposite of what this design space should be. Personally, I'd like to tie them into battle medicine somehow -- maybe reduce the battle medicine cooldown from 1 day to 1 hour, with ward medic letting you treat 2 people at once as long as they're adjacent.

... OK, I like that idea a little too much.

Right up until you confidently assert that at the dog park, only to have the husky in question prove you wrong.

Has there been another trailer or something I missed?

Not his fault he got assassinated.

I'm flying that day, so I have the exact same question, because it would be lovely to watch that while I'm waiting on the plane.

But the fact that the Wizard who just learned Knock is just as useful to opening a king's vault as the archmage is just kinda unimmersive

A level 1 wizard would have a +5 to pick the lock; a level 20 wizard would have +24. (assuming no proficiency)

Big difference.

When did she orchestrate Adam's death as part of a deal with Lilith? In the pilot?

It feels to obvious to have her be a female Adam. Especially when she had a child with Lucifer.

Earth is not attractive to replicators.

Ancient outpost in antarctica might disagree. Maybe they found a threat that suggested ancient tech at Earth, and decided to check to see if the Asgard had missed there being more?

Can someone explain what I'm missing?

I don't think Alastor's job was to hurt Adam -- it was to distract him, keep him busy. Keep the Angel's 'big gun' from targeting the group while they fought with angels. At least that was my impression.

Hurting Adam might have achieved some of that, but it might have just shifted the battlefield in ways they didn't want. So instead, he did a bang-up job taunting Adam instead.

Yes, it's pretty explicit that the wormhole threw them a day 'ahead' over 30 seconds ship time.

Batman would easily beat The Doctor in the fistfight, and lose the conflict.

Bots probably downvoting it.

While there may be some truth to this, never underestimate the ability of vile bigotry to simmer away under the surface where it thinks it can't be seen or held accountable.

Of course it's still common.

Just look at the current state of the US. Hatred and bigotry were driven underground, but are coming right back as soon as the lid was taken off.

When Data has to dress down Worf in the ready room, ha-cha-chah!

The entire thing is perfectly done. Data decides to dress down Worf, asks for him in the ready room in a tone that alerts no one to the shitstorm, waits precisely for the door to close, then spins on a heel to address the issue.

Then two mature adults have a mature conversation about a genuine problem, both of them courteous -- if, in Data's case, extremely firm -- in every way.

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And I mean perfectly as in the incident was handled properly from both perspectives, in character and out. In character they do a wonderful job of showing how to handle a workplace dispute in a hierarchal environment without bring character into it. Out of character, and just as perfectly, Brent Spiner manages (somehow) to both maintain Data's complete emotionless state while also projecting a firm displeasure in an acting performance that achieves the impossible.

Husky. I'm shocked you need more than that.

permanently exterminating their souls from existence

Except clearly killing someone in hell doesn't permanently remove them from existence. If Sir Pentious came back, that shows that some other mechanism is at work that neither angels nor demons know anything about.

Maybe a redeemed soul in hell is sent to heaven while an unredeemed one is just lost. We don't know.

In what way are the lights that come standard on a vehicle not normal then?

Paramedic put her in a stretcher designed for pickup. Helicopter hovered and used a winch to lower a line with a hook. Line was attached to stretcher. Line was winched up, pulling her up.

I agree, this thread is crazy in that the top comments and all replies are all so positive, I guess nobody read further down.

Heck, I came here specifically to look for the people nay-saying this BS. While I am not a horse expert myself, I read books written by people who actually are. Horses don't like things on their legs. They really, really don't like them. Broken leg is usually a death sentence for a reason.

My first thought was no way is this prosthetic good for that poor horse, and the people who know what they're talking about validated it.

I'm guessing the helicopter didn't land to pick her up.

I've always had a hard time putting my thoughts on this topic into words (and, strangely, it's something I've thought about in the past).

The key component isn't about 'punishment'. I'd say it's symbolic, but it really isn't pure symbolism. The point of the atonement isn't to make up for past misdeeds, or be punished for them, but for lack of better words to cement the change. To go past "I know I was wrong" via a not-quite-metaphorical alchemy to "What I did was wrong, what I am now is not".

The best analogy I've ever come up with was tempering steel. It's about tempering the change, strengthening and hardening it, solidifying it into something that's more that just thought and into actual transformation. A choice to be better is critical, it's the key to the entire thing, but it's not enough to choose to recognize that change. You need to step past the choice, because a choice can be re-chosen, and into something more.

Sorry, I know it's a confusing mess of words. I've quite literally been working on the idea for years and not made much progress in finding the right words for the concept.

LED headlights are normal headlights.

The problem is with aftermarket, extra-bright lights.

It seems to me there are two possibilities here. Option one: your calculations are wrong, and your generators aren't using as much as you think they are. Option two: you've got sloshing keeping the full fuel amount from going where it needs to go. I'd check both of these.

I almost always go 6 walls (24 meters) high, with a 1 foot floor on the top wall (so only 23 meters).

Pure head cannon, but the reason they don't have problems is because their 'bodies' are actually their souls. They've spent their entire lifetime shaping it to be exactly what they 'want' it to be.

I mean, sure, they may be a little unhappy with their choices after the fact, but this is them, more so than any normal human body. Dysmorphia isn't a thing because their 'body' here fits them in a way that wasn't possible in life.

Magic.

For whatever reason, they need to channel their power through the medium of human memory -- more likely, human belief -- of them.

Still spiders!