I’m beautiful and tough like a diamond…or beef jerky in a ball gown.

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  • How the fuck can you expect to be inconspicuous when you’re bringing studio equipment to a restaurant?

    Lol, there’s a actually a trope for that: Refuge in Audacity. It’s probably one of my favorite tropes, TBH.

    Usually, when characters do something illegal or socially unacceptable, they’ll try to be discreet about it: keep their misdeeds small and subtle enough that either no one knows what they’ve done, or no one cares. Sometimes a character does the exact opposite — take their misdeeds so far over-the-top that there’s no way they can’t be noticed — and they still get away with it.

    The key is to be so audacious in how you violate the rules (whether they be laws or a moral/ethical code) that no one can believe you did it.

    Might need to dig up my old TV Tropes account and add this article to the “Real Life” examples.











  • I always start out with a random race, head in the opposite direction of Riverwood, eat everything I can pick up, and just start making and selling potions lol. Then I use the money to buy iron ore and start crafting daggers and selling those. Along the way, I may take a few side quests for extra cash. Then eventually buy or build a house.

    By the time I finally go to Riverwood to start the main game, I’m…a fully Daedric-clad stealth archer. Every time. lol. (I don’t quite have the patience to level smithing to 100 for dragonbone, so I upgrade that along the way of the main quest).




  • Not that this makes any of the other answers wrong, but the actual answer is that it was probably a 30-day temporary instance ban.

    When a remote account is instance banned, it’s automatically banned from any communities on the instance it has interacted with and uses the same expiration date and reason as the instance ban. Lemmy does that automatically in the backend.

    If you’re viewing the modlog from another instance, however, you don’t see the instance ban (only the community bans federate) so it makes it appear the mod is having a hissy fit.

    Again, and given the instance involved, this does not mean any of the other answers are wrong, lol, just incomplete.


  • glorify the rich & exploitation/objectification of women for massive profits.

    I get it. I almost feel like some of that was both lampshading the practice as well as exploiting it. Every time that would come up Maya would have commentary on it.

    They also mention Trump several times.

    Yeah, that made a modern-day rewatch kind of difficult. I intentionally skipped those parts. Having re-watched several old shows somewhat recently, sadly, the orange T-bag comes up quite a bit. Just is what it is (or was what it was?).

    Also ignore my other comment. I accidentally hit submit before I had anything typed out lol.