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[dragdeler]

Succubi?

[Frumple]

Nah, they're not usually depicted as missing any internal bits or weird junk like that. Whatever it is I'm half-remembering, it's odder than that, probably from european or asian folklore stuff.

[Loud Whispers]

Nah, they're not usually depicted as missing any internal bits or weird junk like that. Whatever it is I'm half-remembering, it's odder than that, probably from european or asian folklore stuff.

COS I AINT NO HOLLABACK GIRL I AINT NO HOLLABACK GIRL

I think there is a Japanese one where they have the whole body, but are missing the back. They look very attractive from the front but will kill you if you look at them from behind where you can see, they are in fact a hollow back girl

[scriver]

Swedish folklore has the Skogsrå or Skogsfrun (Forest-Ruler and Lady of the Forest respectively), which is a spirit that appears as a beautiful, possibly naked, woman with a few telltale traits that she isn't human such as a troll's tail. Often she is depicted as hollow, in the way that a hollow tree is hollow, which could only be seen from her having a hole in her back that she would hide. She was a dangerous creature that enjoyed playing with people and could make them wander lost in the forest, trick or hurt them.





I'm not super certain but i think it is likely that as her name implies in earlier permutations of the myth she was the personification and/or ruler of the forest itself, but in much of the later (ie 17th-19th century) folklore that was preserved she has lost some of the "regality" that would imply. She has a few "sister spirits" like for example the Bergsrå/Bergsfrun (Mountain-ruler/Lady of the Mountain respectively) which retained their "we have to respect and revere these spirits and they will aid us or else they will become angry with us and hurt us" atmosphere.

[Frumple]

Why. Just... why. Is the windshield wiper controls not also light controls. There's, like. No. Situation where your wipers should be turned on and your lights off.

So, just. Take that out of drivers' hands, it's clearly too many steps for like half the people on the road. Turning on wipers should also turn on lights.

[McTraveller]

What? No, please do not encourage coupled controls.

Also, apparently you don’t use your washer fluid or have a car splash a puddle on you: there are *many* situations which warrant a swipe of the wipers without a need to change wiper state. Plus daytime running lights are pretty bright these days.

And nighttime lamps, even low beams, are now bright enough that they should be regulated… oncoming traffic is basically a hazard now at night with the LED lamps.

[King Zultan]

I hate the LED head lights, damned things are like having the brights on even when they aren't.

[McTraveller]

It's crazy - I will often flash my lights at people thinking they have their brights on - and then they flash their brights back at me.  Because of course I didn't need what little vision I had...

[dragdeler]

They need those lights.
That's why you are in direct competition with the rest of society.
Because if it's not you it will be them.



You can substract every individual's personal drama from the sum of things, it's irrelevant at scale, the entirety needs to be thought of in terms of game theoretical advantages. That's why we can't have nice things, that's why we don't deserve to be saved.

[King Zultan]

I will often flash my lights at people thinking they have their brights on - and then they flash their brights back at me.

I've never really tried to do that since most of the people that do it to me do it right as I'm passing them so they purposely blind me.

[Magmacube_tr]

I just realized that I am the 428th in the post count list.

[dragdeler]

oh no


i need to be overtaken by at least a few thousand users.. the posting button is on the bottom right folks

[McTraveller]

Took me a while to figure out how to find that count... I'm 537.  Huh.  Really low on posts per day though

[Frumple]

Thing I noticed is if you sort the member page by post count, I, uh, am the one on the first page with the oldest registration date.

Next oldest is toonyman, a few months later in '08.

There's some other '07s on the second page, though. Didn't check to see how far back you have to go to find '06 or earlier...

[King Zultan]

I noticed that I'm the newest member on the first page of the post counts by having joined in 2017 with the next newest guy having joined in 2015.

I'm also right under Frumple on that page as well.