CocaKoala

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by CocaKoala 4y ago
It eliminates the times you uncontrollably think about a past event - note that voluntary recall isn't affected. So it's saying that this lets you process the trauma in a controlled environment when you're in a position to de
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by CocaKoala 4y ago
I'll occasionally see cars like that - bright pink, or some other bright colour, and they always make me smile. I've taken to describing them as "a car that I'd never want to own, but I'm really glad it exists"
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by CocaKoala 4y ago
I disagree that it's bad advice - it can certainly be applied badly, but so can anything. You meet somebody, you become friends with them, you start dating them, you get married - that's an extremely natural arc. You shouldn'
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by CocaKoala 4y ago
The question was "how to get dates" - "how to get friends" is a different question. The easy way to get dates is to ask your friends on dates, and the easiest way to do that is to ask a friend to get lunch with you. What
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by CocaKoala 4y ago
Absolutely I'm trusting that stated expectations are the same as real expectations - if somebody lies to me about what they want in a partner, then we're not going to be a good match anyways and so that serves as a useful way to t
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by CocaKoala 4y ago
I'm sorry, I'm not trying to sidestep the argument but I'm also clearly not understanding what you're saying. I read your statement as "Women say they want emotionally available [etc etc] men and yet I see women pay
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by CocaKoala 4y ago
You are correct, the advice to achieve the third level of Maslow's Hierarchy does not address what you have to do in order to achieve the first two levels.
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by CocaKoala 4y ago
It's hard to say that somebody's expectations for what they want in a parter are reasonable or unreasonable - you're allowed to decide who you spend your time with, and if that means you don't spend time with anybody, yo
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by CocaKoala 4y ago
There's no magic bullet that will get you through "any door" - every person is different, and every person has different things they want in a partner. There are some people who will absolutely refuse to date somebody who isn
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by CocaKoala 4y ago
I'm honestly curious, can you point me to the lines that you think say "men suck" and "men should decide to stop sucking"? My read of it is that men should focus on their mental health and consider getting therapy i
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by CocaKoala 4y ago
Ask your friend if they want to get lunch with you - problem solved. "That's not a date" Why not? "My friends are all in relationships" Make more friends.
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by CocaKoala 4y ago
Curiously, that's not at all what the article says! > I hear recurring dating themes from women between the ages of 25 and 45: They prefer men who are emotionally available, good communicators, and share similar values. You'll
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by CocaKoala 4y ago
What's bad about the advice? It seems to flow pretty logically from the article. "Women want to date men who are emotionally available, good communicators, and who share values" means that your starting point to search for a
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by CocaKoala 4y ago
I had exactly the opposite experience! I drove an automatic Mazda3 for ten years, it was the car I bought straight out of college, and I never viewed it as anything other than a tool which got me from point A to point B. A couple years ago,
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by CocaKoala 4y ago
One of the things I think is really neat about F1, and which doesn't show up in any other sports that I'm aware of aside from other types of motor racing, is that F1 isn't one competition - it's two separate competitions
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by CocaKoala 5y ago
I had forgotten about this, but a friend of mine has been streaming his first playthrough of Secret of Monkey Island recently and he got to this gag yesterday. I completely lost my shit laughing at his expression.
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by CocaKoala 5y ago
You say "Many we know in our town have to pay for this. How sad." but then you go own to observe that "If you join this ministry you essentially get a 'tax' each month". So it's not that you didn't pa
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by CocaKoala 6y ago
> Who decided that Freedom of Speech _only_ applies to government suppression Which freedom of speech are you referring to? Because if you're thinking of the first amendment, then the people who decided that are the ones who wrote i
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by CocaKoala 6y ago
One of the things that I really appreciate about his blog posts is that they don't just cover the game design aspects like "what is a good card vs a bad card or a strong card vs a weak card", or even "How do we make card
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by CocaKoala 6y ago
> how would one _not_ take a political stance? A non-political stance would be one which has zero side effects on anybody other than yourself. As soon as the actions you make and the decisions you take have an effect on somebody who isn&
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by CocaKoala 6y ago
Christopher Tin also did the soundtrack for Offworld Trading Company, an economic RTS. The soundtrack is, if you haven't heard it, utterly amazing. I highly recommend it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giqNtBAukbg edi
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by CocaKoala 6y ago
A game with similar vibes that works really well over conference call is Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. Even better, only one person need own a copy of the game for others to play with them. For anybody who's unfamiliar, the game is
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by CocaKoala 7y ago
Now I find myself wishing Max Gladstone would feature venture capitalism in his next Craft Sequence book.
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by CocaKoala 7y ago
You could play Limited, where everybody gets six booster packs. Everybody opens one pack, takes a card, and passes the remainder to their left. Once the first pack is all picked up, everybody opens their second pack, takes a card, and passe
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by CocaKoala 7y ago
Yep, I've seen some ones like that too. The NN is quite good at knowing what people look like, but it's much worse at knowing what people tend to be next to and sometimes you get some horrors.
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by CocaKoala 7y ago
Yeah, you can definitely look at the list of schedule 1 drugs and get a strong sense of "one of these things is not like the other".
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by CocaKoala 7y ago
Getting permission to do research on a schedule 1 drug is pretty tricky, from what I understand? Since marijuana is schedule 1 it's termed as having a) no medical benefit and b) a high potential for abuse, which puts you in something o
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by CocaKoala 7y ago
If I had to rent a pickup truck on short notice, I'd hit up U-Haul, who has a bunch of them. Last time I had to leave my car in the body shop after it was hit, my insurance got me a rental car from Enterprise. The only rentals availabl
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by CocaKoala 7y ago
That might be the case! I haven't read SMBC regularly for a very long time, so if there was a name change in the past, i dunno, five years or something, I probably wouldn't have noticed!
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by CocaKoala 7y ago
Mild sidenote: How to Invent Everything is by Ryan North, the cat behind Dinosaur Comics; Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is done by Zach Weiner, a different person.

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