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[hops]

It's also the noise you make after your plastic surgeon commit malpractice.

[overseer05-15]

It's also the noise you make after your plastic surgeon commit malpractice.

It's also the noise you make as you start your

*snaps latex glove*

EXAM.

[Frumple]

E: I thought calling psychologists shrinks was like calling police officers cops. As opposed to calling them pigs, for example. Slangy, but not really malicious.

Eh... shrink is kinda'... diminishing? It's less respectful than the police->cop thing. Very common slang, though, and usually not intended to be insulting, per se. Just sorta' downplays/mischaracterizes what they do, a bit.

... not enough to get me to stop using the word as an off the cuff reference, mind, mostly because it's a much, much shorter and easier to type word than psychologist or psychiatrist, but still. Shrink's admittedly a small disservice to the people it's referencing. Quite small, but still there. Crude's a decent enough word for it.

[Avis-Mergulus]

E: I thought calling psychologists shrinks was like calling police officers cops. As opposed to calling them pigs, for example. Slangy, but not really malicious.

Eh... shrink is kinda'... diminishing? It's less respectful than the police->cop thing. Very common slang, though, and usually not intended to be insulting, per se. Just sorta' downplays/mischaracterizes what they do, a bit.

... not enough to get me to stop using the word as an off the cuff reference, mind, mostly because it's a much, much shorter and easier to type word than psychologist or psychiatrist, but still. Shrink's admittedly a small disservice to the people it's referencing. Quite small, but still there. Crude's a decent enough word for it.

Eh, as a native speaker, you probably know better.

[Caz]

Reading that story, Caz, made me go all awwwh
Any local radio stations you can go to to announce this, or the police, or other people who can disseminate information quickly and such?
_{Also you're really good at taking pictures as far as I've seen. That aesthetically pleasing angles :I Much light \o/}
But a vet would help a lot there--cheers for its first night with you

I fed it breakfast of dry lentils and water and launched it into the air. It flew into the horizon.

[martinuzz]

Nice! Don''t be surprised if it comes back one day. Pigeons remember their pit stops, which makes them excellent message carriers.

[IcyTea31]

It'll probably come back the day they come for you, distracting them just long enough for you to make a heroic escape.

[Arx]

... not enough to get me to stop using the word as an off the cuff reference, mind, mostly because it's a much, much shorter and easier to type word than psychologist or psychiatrist, but still. Shrink's admittedly a small disservice to the people it's referencing. Quite small, but still there. Crude's a decent enough word for it.

This is why you should use 'psych' instead. Only diminishing in the sense that the word itself is diminutive (meanings within meanings), but even shorter than 'shrink'.

[Sirus]

So far this week I've spent more time sitting around than I have driving. Quite a bit more, actually. It's bizarre.

[Greiger]

Don't worry your partytruck will surely be needed soon.   Besides aren't you seated while driving anyway?  Just get an old game controller steering wheel and set it in front of you.  You'll feel right at home.

Just with fewer suicidal drivers around you.   And fewer kids in other lanes wanting you to honk yer horn.

[overseer05-15]

Where did sirus having a party truck come from? Like yeah a trucker but what about the party? Many times I have seen this referenced?

[Sirus]

Yes, but there's a difference between sitting while driving and sitting while doing nothing. I've been doing more of the latter.

The meme or joke or whatever you want to call it started because my very first load was a delivery to Las Vegas, and people assumed I was transporting prostitutes. Things snowballed from there 

[Frumple]

Siralim 2. The... it has a family of monsters called waspids. As one might imagine, they're basically giant demon wasps. Today my summoning creature called one up.

The sound they make when they attack.

Is dead on.

For a wasp going right by your ears.

I had not realized how much I didn't want this in my life. Why, game. Why.

[Lord Shonus]

Is that a fusion between Pokemon and RL games?

[Frumple]

It's more like a modern gameboy era Dragon Quest Monsters, tbh.

... which is kinda' like a fusion between pokemon and roguelikes that's not a mystery dungeon style game, yes.

E: Well, that with a side of "Rules Lawyering, Breaking the Game Edition". One of the bigger features the game has is that every single individual monster type has a unique special ability. Some are similar (particularly within families), but none are identical. Checking, there's at least 536 of them. And most of them aren't exactly trivial, "Here, have some extra stats" stuff.

Spoiler: My current team, for example: (click to show/hide)

Starter rapturous ghoul, which gives extra damage based on its speed stat.
Starter abyssal spectre, which sets Attack, Int, Defense, and Speed, of anything it lands a hit on, equal to the target's lowest stat.
Sphinx justicar, which sets the entire team to a single class at the start of the fight. The trick here is that the change also completely removes class weaknesses from my entire party, in exchange for making it strong against just one for a fight.
Crypt bat, which whacks anything any of my other party members attacks for reduced damage.
Vicious wolpertinger, which casts a random sorcery spell any time it attacks or is attacked. It's also set up with a summoning spell, which one of my personal class based perks lets it summon for free at the start of a fight, filling my empty sixth slot with a random, stat buffed, nature creature.

And... most of these are fairly straightforward. There's also sorts of other interactions, with specific types of monsters, with specific sorts of actions, with deaths, with particular status effects, and on, and on, and on. And then there's spell gems (which lets your monsters cast spells and can have random properties -- including proc chance on hit or being hit), artifacts (which can have, among other things, traits themselves, effectively giving the monster wearing it two special abilities), runes (which are always on modifiers to various things), consumables (including meals that have effect for multiple dungeon levels), various temporary in-dungeon modifiers, mechanics changes unique to your class specific perks, probably stuff I'm forgetting or haven't encountered yet... there's just a whole honking load of stuff to tweak around. And did I mention there's a breeding system? Because there is! Also every single enemy in the game has access to exactly what you do, save the personal class unique perks (I think, anyway). Game's friggin' great, and 2 is a definite and pretty substantial upgrade over the first.