CocaKoala

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by CocaKoala 26d ago
The full term is "thickheaded" but it can be abbreviated, as in "He's a bit thick, isn't he?"
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by CocaKoala 27d ago
The author, Bruno Dias, has a blog[1] where he often discusses games and game design, especially from a narrative perspective; he worked as a Narrative Designer for Failbetter, the studio that did the Fallen London/Sunless Seas/Su
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by CocaKoala 27d ago
Another really good and interesting film adaptation of Shakespeare is "Scotland, PA" - Macbeth, set against the backdrop of a 1970s fast food restaurant featuring a soundtrack that consists entirely of Bad Company songs (apparentl
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by CocaKoala 28d ago
I think I like the term "thickness" over "depth" here because thickness implies a sort of solidity, an ability to stand up to being held and examined, turned over and and handled. Depth can feel unapproachable (the ocean
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by CocaKoala 28d ago
Something I learned recently and which this article sort of hints at - look at the three drafts of Under The Wave Off Kanagawa. The composition is different, but also the colours are much more muted. In the first draft, the only colours hig
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by CocaKoala 29d ago
I think it comes mostly naturally. Babies have no guile or instinct to deceive; they literally can't even conceive of doing so because their worldview just isn't developed enough. So when your baby cries, you can have absolute fai
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by CocaKoala 1mo ago
Merriam-Webster seems to specifically disagree with you on both points: the usage of "a" vs "an" is based on the sound of the following word, and "hour" is preceded by "an" since it sounds like a vowe
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by CocaKoala 1mo ago
You may be interested in the novella "The Ballad of Black Tom", which is a re-telling of "The Horror at Red Hook" from the perspective of the immigrants in the New York slum, and why they decide that maybe dealing with e
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by CocaKoala 2mo ago
A lift would be rad, but I think we'd have to completely redo the garage doors to get enough vertical clearance for it. In a couple years I think we're planning to redo the garage so that it's more effective as a workshop, ma
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by CocaKoala 2mo ago
It looks like all three Borla ATAK catbacks for the GR Corolla are active exhuasts[0], so you can dynamically switch between quiet operation and loud operation. [0]: https://www.borla.com/2023-2026-toyota-gr-corolla-exhaust-
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by CocaKoala 2mo ago
When my wife was pregnant, our garage had an ND Miata (mine), a BRZ (hers) and an Elise (also hers). We pretty quickly decided that we were going to need some kind of car that we could reasonably put a car seat in, and while the BRZ nominal
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by CocaKoala 4mo ago
A quick browse of Sweetwater shows 689 different s-style body guitars, four of which are made by Fender under the Squier label. The other 685 different varients are made by companies that I'm not immediately identifying as Fender or Fe
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by CocaKoala 9mo ago
I think it is imprecise to say that the facts were not argued - they were! As the judge writes in paragraph 58, > The authorship or control of these accounts has consistently been strenuously denied by Dr Garrett. I have no evidence from
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by CocaKoala 10mo ago
More specifically, it's highly doctor-dependent. The FDA hasn't approved shingrix for people under 50; some doctors are willing to prescribe it without FDA approval, others are not. I personally had shingles in my early thirties a
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by CocaKoala 2y ago
Pilot Precise V2 got me through grad school and when I started journaling recently, a set of those was the first thing I went and picked up. Great pens.
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by CocaKoala 2y ago
I remember at one point a couple years ago, I saw a thread on the Bogleheads forum where people could basically call their shot on market crashes; they would post and timestamp when they exited the market and when they re-entered, so that p
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by CocaKoala 2y ago
Ah, see, my experience is exactly the opposite of yours; I don't listen to the ChilledCow streams, but I do listen to the Chillhop playlists (and in fact purchase the seasonal essentials collections on vinyl) and one of the reasons I l
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by CocaKoala 2y ago
If cooking involves boiling, what are you doing when you put a steak in a hot cast-iron pan? To the rice cooker point, I'd argue that an oven uses a heating element of some form (electric coils, gas flame, wood fire) to heat the air in
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by CocaKoala 2y ago
What's the difference between baking and cooking in your understanding? You can make bread in a rice cooker, which nobody has ever called a "rice baker". edit: and a rice cooker is definitely not a small oven.
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by CocaKoala 3y ago
With the caveat that I haven't done any sessions run by SpeedSF, the description for their AutoX events at Sonoma usually says something like "Show up and drive, we have dedicated course workers, you can expect to have 20-30 runs
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by CocaKoala 3y ago
You're imagining the Guilty Gear series, which gives you a variety of defensive options in the system - you can jump, double jump, or super jump to avoid something with different take-off timings, jump arcs, and speeds; you can block,
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by CocaKoala 3y ago
Eh, we're currently fighting to get some claims covered. Before a certain date, all the claims are denied; after a certain date, all the claims are approved. The claims are all for the same thing, related to the same procedure (physica
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by CocaKoala 3y ago
Ball is rolling towards the goal - if the attacking player touches it, it will be offsides: A player in an offside position has entered active play by "interfering with play by playing or touching a ball passed or touched by a team-mat
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by CocaKoala 3y ago
Interfering with the ball is sufficient to be called for off-side - you need to be in active play, but you can do that when your team doesn't have possession.
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by CocaKoala 3y ago
As long as a nominal defender (not counting the goalie) is in between you and the goal, I don't think you're off-side. So presumably it means you have to a) maintain possession of the ball or 2) clear the ball before all other def
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by CocaKoala 3y ago
Mazda's also one of the few carmakers that's independent, as opposed to being part of a much larger conglomeration!
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by CocaKoala 3y ago
You can indeed encode digital data onto a vinyl and then play it back meaningfully to a computer - http://boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vinyl-boot/ is somebody making a vinyl boot disk and using it to boot DOS.
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by CocaKoala 4y ago
As a teen I thought adults were boring because they didn't do any of the things I wanted to spend my time doing - as an adult, I have a bunch of hobbies that are pretty inaccessible to children and I think they're very neat hobbie
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by CocaKoala 4y ago
The current Miata (ND) has some fairly aggressive headlight styling but still maintains the wide grin "mouth" for the front grill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_MX-5_%28ND%29#/media/Fil... The
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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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