19641 pts ยท November 17, 2015
It is. And as far as I know it's mostly died out. But, evidently, a few folks do remember. Always glad when my utterly useless knowledge of something I'd have preferred to remain ignorant on can help clarify something.
The weird little gremlin ears it has look immediately off to me. They're simultaneously smaller and more sharply-defined than I'm at all used to seeing. Bizarrely huge for how young its features seem though. Nothing about this looks right to me.
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This is gonna sound far-fetched, but a few years back there were some fringe memes that spun off of a strange "black people don't replace their smoke alarm batteries" stereotype, and some folks got real weird about trying to substantiate it. You occasionally hear "beeping Americans" used to refer to black people as a reference to this meme. Weird, I know, but KnowYourMeme can substantiate: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/smoke-detector-beeping
Alleged trends just get more attention than one-off events, I guess. Some are things that happened once and were subject to extrapolation or telephone-game distortion afterwards.
Why are they always breeding kink exhibitionists?
Aw sweet!
I can agree with that. I don't trust a bunch of liches with transparent ulterior motives to decide on what qualifies as "sexually-oriented" on my behalf, however. Especially considering the long-standing trend of double standards for the exact same conduct in media, the public, etc. for things like same-sex displays of affection. For a lot of people, the exact same activities can flip from "awww, how sweet" to "this is literally porn" with nothing changed but the sex of one participant.
That was two definitions. Isn't the second one the one they're using?
While that is true, in US law, it's defined as "the conception and planning of an offense by an officer or agent, and the procurement of its commission by one who would not have perpetrated it except for the trickery, persuasion or fraud of the officer or state agent." Precedent hasn't really held that simply providing a target for a crime is the same thing as procuring its commission. Not that this type of crime is a type I particularly object to, to be clear; I'm just talking technicality.
Entrapment is when law enforcement causes someone to commit a crime they otherwise would not have.
It occurs to me, belatedly, it may sound like I'm calling out the OP, which I wanted to clarify I'm not. Until a helpful reply was provided (thanks @GRZMNKY), I had no idea what species this particular spider is, but figured it may well be one. (And it is indeed part of family Lycosidae, the wolf spiders)
I have noticed that! But I'm not 100% sure of the formal definition myself, I admit. As far as I know that's a behavioral label across spiders in several orders that use doors for ambushes, but I take it there are others that use them for other reasons and wouldn't qualify? Thanks for the species info by the way! I find spiders interesting but I'm not good at identifying them.
Ohh, now I see.
You ever notice it seems like some people think "wolf spider" just means "any visibly hairy spider"?
#3 Rouge? They're clearly white.
Absolutely.
I have heard "words are not violence" used to defend hateful speech. The crowds who espouse this most often, I've noticed, have a tendency to get real quiet when one of their own says the opposite. It's always worth pointing out heroes of theirs who disagree when it comes up.
"I don't see why people make such a big deal about money." - Anyone wealthy via inheritance.
It's pleasantly surprising what some practice can do.
I'm a pedantic person in the back, giving an approving thumbs-up from far away.
I think they meant Imgur staff. Your wizard staff is an excellent source of arcane secrets, but unrelated.
That's not a dog, it's a canine.
Hey now. Dragons hire tons of goblin minions to haul their gold for them and usually don't eat most of them. That's.... sort of like charity, right?
I should probably clarify I mean hunting down the boogeyman, not your child, but on the other hand the metaphor might still work that way.
#30 Poe's law has me over a barrel on this one.
That may be entirely correct. However, being the adult in the room means continuing to make dinner even when your child is scared of the boogeyman, not devoting your household's resources to hunting him down.
Hitting the wall was probably a foregone conclusion. I think the roll was just to determine how well it worked. Not that this is exactly how a natural 20 in D&D works under normal rules regardless, but I'm rules-lawyering a joke at this point.
As is often the case in gaming comics, Worf just announces what he's doing and rolls without specifying what's being rolled. If the phaser is being treated as an attack, a natural 20 would be a critical hit in D&D, though that's just double damage to the target. But if it's a skill check, true. D&D 5E has no special rules for a natural 20 on those.
The internet seems to believe that Deaf people are children who need to be protected from scary nono words no matter their age.
It is. And as far as I know it's mostly died out. But, evidently, a few folks do remember. Always glad when my utterly useless knowledge of something I'd have preferred to remain ignorant on can help clarify something.
The weird little gremlin ears it has look immediately off to me. They're simultaneously smaller and more sharply-defined than I'm at all used to seeing. Bizarrely huge for how young its features seem though. Nothing about this looks right to me.
*plus purchasing fee, small order fee, transaction fee, meta-convenience fee, payment processing fee, purchase protection fee, shipping and handling fee, and gratuity for parties larger than zero, billed as a recurring monthly subscription. Cancellation available by written request to customer support. Subject to mandatory arbitration clause.
This is gonna sound far-fetched, but a few years back there were some fringe memes that spun off of a strange "black people don't replace their smoke alarm batteries" stereotype, and some folks got real weird about trying to substantiate it. You occasionally hear "beeping Americans" used to refer to black people as a reference to this meme. Weird, I know, but KnowYourMeme can substantiate: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/smoke-detector-beeping
Alleged trends just get more attention than one-off events, I guess. Some are things that happened once and were subject to extrapolation or telephone-game distortion afterwards.
Why are they always breeding kink exhibitionists?
Aw sweet!
I can agree with that. I don't trust a bunch of liches with transparent ulterior motives to decide on what qualifies as "sexually-oriented" on my behalf, however. Especially considering the long-standing trend of double standards for the exact same conduct in media, the public, etc. for things like same-sex displays of affection. For a lot of people, the exact same activities can flip from "awww, how sweet" to "this is literally porn" with nothing changed but the sex of one participant.
That was two definitions. Isn't the second one the one they're using?
While that is true, in US law, it's defined as "the conception and planning of an offense by an officer or agent, and the procurement of its commission by one who would not have perpetrated it except for the trickery, persuasion or fraud of the officer or state agent." Precedent hasn't really held that simply providing a target for a crime is the same thing as procuring its commission. Not that this type of crime is a type I particularly object to, to be clear; I'm just talking technicality.
Entrapment is when law enforcement causes someone to commit a crime they otherwise would not have.
It occurs to me, belatedly, it may sound like I'm calling out the OP, which I wanted to clarify I'm not. Until a helpful reply was provided (thanks @GRZMNKY), I had no idea what species this particular spider is, but figured it may well be one. (And it is indeed part of family Lycosidae, the wolf spiders)
I have noticed that! But I'm not 100% sure of the formal definition myself, I admit. As far as I know that's a behavioral label across spiders in several orders that use doors for ambushes, but I take it there are others that use them for other reasons and wouldn't qualify? Thanks for the species info by the way! I find spiders interesting but I'm not good at identifying them.
Ohh, now I see.
You ever notice it seems like some people think "wolf spider" just means "any visibly hairy spider"?
#3 Rouge? They're clearly white.
Absolutely.
I have heard "words are not violence" used to defend hateful speech. The crowds who espouse this most often, I've noticed, have a tendency to get real quiet when one of their own says the opposite. It's always worth pointing out heroes of theirs who disagree when it comes up.
"I don't see why people make such a big deal about money." - Anyone wealthy via inheritance.
It's pleasantly surprising what some practice can do.
I'm a pedantic person in the back, giving an approving thumbs-up from far away.
I think they meant Imgur staff. Your wizard staff is an excellent source of arcane secrets, but unrelated.
That's not a dog, it's a canine.
Hey now. Dragons hire tons of goblin minions to haul their gold for them and usually don't eat most of them. That's.... sort of like charity, right?
I should probably clarify I mean hunting down the boogeyman, not your child, but on the other hand the metaphor might still work that way.
#30 Poe's law has me over a barrel on this one.
That may be entirely correct. However, being the adult in the room means continuing to make dinner even when your child is scared of the boogeyman, not devoting your household's resources to hunting him down.
Hitting the wall was probably a foregone conclusion. I think the roll was just to determine how well it worked. Not that this is exactly how a natural 20 in D&D works under normal rules regardless, but I'm rules-lawyering a joke at this point.
As is often the case in gaming comics, Worf just announces what he's doing and rolls without specifying what's being rolled. If the phaser is being treated as an attack, a natural 20 would be a critical hit in D&D, though that's just double damage to the target. But if it's a skill check, true. D&D 5E has no special rules for a natural 20 on those.
The internet seems to believe that Deaf people are children who need to be protected from scary nono words no matter their age.