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Simon McNeil
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Artist, critic, weirdo pomo leftist.
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Hegeth, possibly more than anyone else in that administration, should face justice in the Hague. And hopefully his visit to the Hague ends about the same as that of Slobodan Praljak.
November 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Especially book Dexter has this image in his head that he's all the things on the first list. But the books make it clear he's a stumble-bum incompetent and the real thing that stops him from getting caught is his ties to the police.
November 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I will say that the moment in the first episode of Season 5 where the army think they're chasing Eleven but it's really some random 30-something woman was (unintentionally?) very funny. You know since Millie Bobbie Brown is literally someone's mom now.
November 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I came to peace with Stranger Things the second I started treating it like Critical Role TV shows - it's somebody's D&D campaign just re-scripted with a better production budget. But I kind of wish that the Duffer Brothers were more competent DMs.
November 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I'm OK with the later-season-Dawson's Creek levels of belief suspension that these people are high school students. Considering the stretch of believability of that I don't need to know exactly how Vecna made the Demogorgon or whatever.
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It's fine to let some things breathe, to allow ambiguity, to leave people with unanswered questions.
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Somehow just a different breed of the same basic animal:
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
But, yeah, most people would get fatigued hauling this monster around on their back:
November 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This means that a character with a strength of 24 can carry any one sheep indefinitely without fatigue and a character with a strength of 12 can lift any one sheep. 12 is slightly above average strength. 24 is beyond the capacity of ordinary mortals. D&D's lift and carry rules are somewhat busted.
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
So to determine the strength score necessary to lift an adult sheep we need to convert it to lbs first. So that's 99 lbs to 353 lbs. For Medium creatures carry capacity is Strength x 15 and lift capacity is Strength x 30.
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
XD
November 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Chinese also has a plethora of counter words. For instance you count bottles ping but cups bei. And many things are just ge so you have to be careful whether there's a special counter.
November 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A strong adult can pick up a sheep while a less-strong adult might find it difficult. That makes it a delightful edge case. XD (Fully grown sheep weigh 45-160 kg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Often the Japanese teacher summarizes it as being something that either rarely comes up in conversation or that Japanese native speakers don't really care much about.
November 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
and that the grammar was somewhat ambiguous. Such as, for instance, which adverbs to use when counting sheep compared to either small animals like cats or rats or to large animals like cattle.
November 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM