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When you say that, I remember my dad's hammock when I was a kid as a torture device that slowly drew the two side kids on top of whoever was the poor soul in the middle, squeezing them like a hydraulic press pushing cheese into a mesh.

How much struggle is it to get the fabrics to lie comfortably in the hammock? Do you just have blankets on top (except for that winter under hammock blanket), or do you line it with a sheet?

We really need a 'highly polarizing opinions' community, but I'm sure it would end up in flames too often to want to be a moderator there.

I'm intensely curious now, because my joints don't seem to agree with any mattress, whether pillow-topped, air foam, springs, or whatever other fancy gimmicks they claim. Was it a one-and-done with the hammock, or did you test a couple of different ones?

Counterpoint: I had a grandmother who made the beds tighter than the mythical sailor's with their bouncy quarters, and was fastidious with her ritual of bed making as soon as you left the bed... and we still found scorpions on the regular.

Then she died, care of the house passed to the next generation (which was really my generation, since somehow that middle generation got the idea that kids were solely around at a vacation house to upkeep the house while said middle generation got to relax) and suddenly beds were rarely made. The amount of critters found in the beds went down. Maybe we were just better at cleaning the kitchen and making sure doors were closed, but I doubt it, considering dear grandma was like a beagle on a scent when it came to cleaning and making sure we didn't air condition the outside.

Lmao, matey. If you're defining class and comfort by the making of a bed, you might need to dial the resolution back even further.

people liking one game in the genre is a very poor predictor of whether they’ll like another one

I love survival/building games, and so do most of my friends. Even the terrible ones are usually fun. So I'd posit that it's the opposite with a caveat: liking one for more than its story means you'll enjoy the others.

I think it's more indicative of games/hobbies as a whole than the survival genre specifically. People who love the adrenaline of a motorcycle may not enjoy the thrill of going down a mile high mountain on two thin sticks, IF it was the rumble of the engine beneath them that they actually enjoyed. If it was the rush of the speed though (or in the case of survival/building games, the exploration and struggle to stay alive and not lose your stuff), then they'll likely enjoy the other adrenaline sports.

It's horror in the sense that Bioshock was horror, but much less so. There are some areas with 'tension' that you pretty quickly become accustomed to, just as you would in a game where there is a 'progression' of areas where each area you move into is quite difficult at first until you get the resources and build the new items from that area.

It would make sense for it to be canon in the subnautica universe. I think they were pretty much the epitome of authors with an anvil with the references to economics and governing.

I want to know what the fuck was going through the head of each person who was involved, from the ordering all the way own to the agents on board. How do you get so twisted? Sinking a ship that was protesting by merely placing protestors?

It's not a crime. You can use force to reclaim stolen property. Legally, it gets 'interesting' when you involve a weapon in your use of force, because some areas allow the threat of deadly force far before it can actually be used and you're probably going to expose yourself to legal avenues if the police don't like you when they show up. But simply kicking someone's ass after they stole from you? Perfectly permissible.

If you want to talk about the morality of it, that's a different conversation.

What's that old quote about the body being an example of a shitty civil engineer? Something along the lines of: "Only a new civvy puts the playground next to the sewer outflow."

From experience with these sorts of folks, they take positive things as the reply, and just don't think about negatives. The rare negative that they can't ignore gets blamed on other people who aren't believers, or whatever their version of 'the devil' is.

This isn't paying to see a concert, play, or musical. This is buying a book for amazon's e-reader, and them not allowing you to read the book anymore when they put out the book's sequel.

Only two weeks? I want my money back for that love potion.

In the realm of republican politics (also known as the fucked supreme court), only republican presidents are given total immunity.

Yes, but averaging is the wrong take here. I believe the actual amount of gun owners is under 40%, if I remember the studies. I personally witnessed a messy divorce, and the individual that had a personal stake in the gun collection moved somewhere in the realm of 200 rifles out of the house. I thought I knew gun nuts* before that, and it blew my mind. Those sort of folks are going to massively skew the guns per capita.

*I had seen collections of 50+, but they were rare and rich... most 'nuts' that I knew just liked their personal amount of 5-10 that they thought were the bee's knees.

I'm pretty sure I'd do the same thing as everybody else. Depending on just how narrow or deep you want to get in your time and visibility level, it's either going to be a breath, heartbeat, diapedesis, secretion, action potential, hydrolysis, oxidative phosphorylation, electron exchange, or wibbly-wobbly lepton-level quackery.

As an entire organism, I'd guess I'd either get out of bed or discover very quickly that my sometimes in-bed-morning-routine because of discomfort has now become impossible and there's a new set of discomforts that need to be rolled around until a comfortable position is found.

That one freaking kills me. I can only hope that the movement of some places onto mastodon might help be a gentle push and a guide that can be pointed to for other places to follow.

Smoke me a (non-processed) kipper, I'll be back for cancer breakfast!

I feel like the west virginia statistic may be heavily biased by what a poor family might feed a child. I remember my parents using hot dogs for 'cheap' meat that could be doctored into meals that my picky toddler ass would eat.