Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248

[Anonymouswizard]

I tried American IPA.

...do they put anything in it other than hops?

[Bohandas]

I tried American IPA.

...do they put anything in it other than hops?

From the taste of it, possibly urine

Hey everyone I'm going to be on the PBS show called Table For All on Monday at 9 AM. 🙂😈👍🏿💪🏿🥰🐲🐉

Is it streaming anywhere? I unfortunately am not up on mondays at 9 AM because I work the night shift

[Peelee]

I tried American IPA.

...do they put anything in it other than hops?

I wouldn't know. I don't drink......beer.

[Bartmanhomer]

Is it streaming anywhere? I unfortunately am not up on mondays at 9 AM because I work the night shift

I'm not sure about that but it's going to be on worldwide.

[Peelee]

I'm not sure about that but it's going to be on worldwide.

I think you might be slightly overestimating the funding and reach of PBS.

[Bartmanhomer]

I think you might be slightly overestimating the funding and reach of PBS.

What do you mean by that?

[LaZodiac]

I tried American IPA.

...do they put anything in it other than hops?

They do not and this is why Indie Craft Brews are considered memetically terrible.

[Peelee]

What do you mean by that?

I mean PBS is a US-based non-profit broadcast corporation which broadcasts nationwide in the United States and in certain parts or Canada and Mexico. PBS has neither the money, ability, or likely even the desire to broadcast globally. The only way it could be "available worldwide" would be if it the content is readily available to view on the internet, which is more or less what the question "is it streaming anywhere" means.

[tyckspoon]

I tried American IPA.

...do they put anything in it other than hops?

You didn't enjoy Hopsimus Maximus? Maybe try out Hops, Hops, Hops, Hops, Hops, Grapefruit, and Hops, not much hops in that one..

[Anonymouswizard]

They do not and this is why Indie Craft Brews are considered memetically terrible.

The thing is UK craft brews are great, but this felt like this cut all the corners.

I mean PBS is a US-based non-profit broadcast corporation which broadcasts nationwide in the United States and in certain parts or Canada and Mexico. PBS has neither the money, ability, or likely even the desire to broadcast globally. The only way it could be "available worldwide" would be if it the content is readily available to view on the internet, which is more or less what the question "is it streaming anywhere" means.

So PBS isn't another BBC? But I was hoping Amazon would start an Ameribox streaming service!

[Rater202]

I wouldn't know. I don't drink......beer.

*gathers garlic, wooden stakes, and assorted religious iconography*

[Bartmanhomer]

I mean PBS is a US-based non-profit broadcast corporation which broadcasts nationwide in the United States and in certain parts or Canada and Mexico. PBS has neither the money, ability, or likely even the desire to broadcast globally. The only way it could be "available worldwide" would be if it the content is readily available to view on the internet, which is more or less what the question "is it streaming anywhere" means.

Ok. Now I have a better understanding. Thank you for clarifying Peelee as always.

[Peelee]

So PBS isn't another BBC?

I wish. And i say that as someone who likes PBS!

*gathers garlic, wooden stakes, and assorted religious iconography*

Happy to know the reference was appreciated.

Ok. Now I have a better understanding. Thank you for clarifying Peelee as always.

Any time!

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Also, started a new book on recommendation of a friend. We Are Legion (We Are Bob). I am loving it so far. Just got into space, and kind of sad to leave the world behind. It was pretty interesting and i wish it was explored more.

Rater, you'd either love it or absolutely horrified by it and I'd give the respective likelihoods as 20%/80%

[Rynjin]

The thing is UK craft brews are great, but this felt like this cut all the corners.

American IPAs typically just suck. They're brewed by amateurs to whom the phrase "hoppy" has nearly religious significance and their only goal is to make beer with as high of an alcohol content as possible that tastes like you're drinking rancid bread dough.

There's some sold beers brewed in America but typically it isn't the craft brews, it's the less popular brands. There's a pretty wide range of beers between the big trash light beer brands (Natural Light, Miller, Bud, etc.) and your generic "locally sourced IPA" with a name like "The Ill Beer of Hops-in".

Yuengling's good, Blue Moon is solid (best served with an orange wedge), Leinenkugels is great, especially their shandies. There's a couple more palatable ones but these are the three I'll generally buy if I want a "drinking beer" not a "cooking beer" like Guinness.

[Keltest]

I had a guy from Austria come into the store I work at once and buy a ton of Yuenglings to take back home with him because apparently its decently liked where he's from.

[Rater202]

Be me.

See the term "executive dysfunction" used a few times in a fanfic.

Google it.

See a whole bunch of really, really familiar experiences and sympoms, mostly stuff you got in trouble for as a kid, described in uncomfortably familiar ways.

Find out that approximately 80% of people on the autism spectrum have some kind of executive dysfunction.

Realize that much is explained.

...Realize that a few prominent incidents of getting in trouble as a kid were literally for things you couldn't help. Like, even more so than you already knew about.

[Bohandas]

American IPAs typically just suck. They're brewed by amateurs to whom the phrase "hoppy" has nearly religious significance and their only goal is to make beer with as high of an alcohol content as possible that tastes like you're drinking rancid bread dough.

The one that tastes like bread dough is stout. IPA is the one that tastes like somebody drank a different beer and then peed it out. And then mixed it with some kind of unpleasant tasting medicine.

[Rynjin]

That's the "rancid" part, it tastes like sourdough starter that's gone off, but it does have a lot of that tongue numbing aspect like the dregs of oversteeped tea has. Depends on your palate which sticks out more I guess.

Stout definitely has a yeasty taste to it too, but it's a lot more palatable.

[Lord Raziere]

Be me.

See the term "executive dysfunction" used a few times in a fanfic.

Google it.

See a whole bunch of really, really familiar experiences and sympoms, mostly stuff you got in trouble for as a kid, described in uncomfortably familiar ways.

Find out that approximately 80% of people on the autism spectrum have some kind of executive dysfunction.

Realize that much is explained.

...Realize that a few prominent incidents of getting in trouble as a kid were literally for things you couldn't help. Like, even more so than you already knew about.

Wait you didn't know? My special ed college course covered that, I just haven't been following the ways to solve it real well because of my own depression for a while and character flaws about not taking risks.

Anyways, saw Dune part 2 today, now I understand Dune and what its about. Fremen are the most reasonable people there, Paul is arguably just playing into the Bene Gesserit's plans, and I question why Frank Herbert made Paul legit when this whole prophecy business was made up anyways and supposed to be a criticism of the whole idea of heroes and prophecies, seems to contradict ol Frank's goal.

[Rater202]

Wait you didn't know? My special ed college course covered that, I just haven't been following the ways to solve it real well because of my own depression for a while and character flaws about not taking risks.

I knew that dismotivation and occasional problems with focus and fixation both hyper and hypo was a thing but I didn't know that it was a scientifically known, diagnosable, and treatable symptom/co-morbidity that could have been managed with therapy that I had neither the chance nor the option to receive.

I mean, I got therapy, but not for that. In hindsight, most of what they called therapy was just playing games or watching videos which, while fun, did very little to actually help me. Also, and I've shared this, they didn't tell me it was supposed to be therapy the first time they just pulled me out of class and locked me in a room with a strange woman who wouldn't tell me why I had to be there and wouldn't let me go back to class. They thought I was racist for a bit because of that.

[Anonymouswizard]

Also, started a new book on recommendation of a friend. We Are Legion (We Are Bob). I am loving it so far. Just got into space, and kind of sad to leave the world behind. It was pretty interesting and i wish it was explored more.

Rater, you'd either love it or absolutely horrified by it and I'd give the respective likelihoods as 20%/80%

Oh, I've read like half of that. It's great, although I dropped it at the point

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Bob found primitive alien life and it was effectively furry humans.

I might go back to it, but I've got Inhibitor Phase to get through right now.

American IPAs typically just suck. They're brewed by amateurs to whom the phrase "hoppy" has nearly religious significance and their only goal is to make beer with as high of an alcohol content as possible that tastes like you're drinking rancid bread dough.

There's some sold beers brewed in America but typically it isn't the craft brews, it's the less popular brands. There's a pretty wide range of beers between the big trash light beer brands (Natural Light, Miller, Bud, etc.) and your generic "locally sourced IPA" with a name like "The Ill Beer of Hops-in".

Yuengling's good, Blue Moon is solid (best served with an orange wedge), Leinenkugels is great, especially their shandies. There's a couple more palatable ones but these are the three I'll generally buy if I want a "drinking beer" not a "cooking beer" like Guinness.

Ended up at an Irish bar today, told the bartender I liked IPA but found American ones too hoppy, and got pointed to an ale that, while still very hoppy, actually tasted of ale.

Like my standard beer in the UK is Brewdog Punk IPA, which isn't the best I've had (it's served in far too much of the country to be good) but is very much a solid order when you're uncertain.

That's the "rancid" part, it tastes like sourdough starter that's gone off, but it does have a lot of that tongue numbing aspect like the dregs of oversteeped tea has. Depends on your palate which sticks out more I guess.

Stout definitely has a yeasty taste to it too, but it's a lot more palatable.

I'm getting more and more convinced that Americans don't know how to brew beer.


I just casually met a GNC person today, just out in the street. It was nice, especially how they were just accepted by people.

[Peelee]

Oh, I've read like half of that. It's great, although I dropped it at the point

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Bob found primitive alien life and it was effectively furry humans.

I might go back to it, but I've got Inhibitor Phase to get through right now.

Just about at the halfway point now, haven't hit that yet. Is it on the

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twin planets? He's found life there but hasn't investigated yet.

Also, Rater, i take back what the percentages i tossed out earlier. This book is likely to send you into a full existential crisis. I recommend against for you.

[Rater202]

I'm sorry, I haven't ben paying attention to that convo.

I'm too busy either lamenting my childhood and/or trying to write a sixteen-year-old girl being intimidated by having a meeting with her girlfriend's parents and grandmother even though she's literally a god and they aren't.

[LaZodiac]

I read the webcomic Clown Corps today.

It's really good* so I recommend you all read it, but pretend someone you think has good taste recommended it instead so you'll actually do so.

*I can't **** with it myself reading it was at most mildly interesting, I just don't click with it and it's making me depressed again

[Rater202]

*I can't **** with it myself reading it was at most mildly interesting, I just don't click with it and it's making me depressed again

*hugs for Zodi*

[Peelee]

I'm sorry, I haven't ben paying attention to that convo.

Really, that's probably for the best in this case.

I'm too busy either lamenting my childhood and/or trying to write a sixteen-year-old girl being intimidated by having a meeting with her girlfriend's parents and grandmother even though she's literally a god and they aren't.

Why is she intimidated?

Answer that and you have everything you need to write it well! At a guess, probably just writing her as any 16-year-old girl meeting SO's parents is the way to go.

[Rater202]

Why is she intimidated?

Answer that and you have everything you need to write it well! At a guess, probably just writing her as any 16-year-old girl meeting SO's parents is the way to go.

Oh, I wasn't asking for advice I was just sharing.

but if you're seriously asking, she's intimidated partly for normal "having a sit down with the parents of your first serious SO for the first time" reasons(she's technically already met the parents once but that was before they tarted dating) and partly for complicated plot reasons.

also, she's a traumatized teenager coming off of a long sting of bad decisions and is dealing with some guilt over them so just general awkwardness.

I've had this more or less planned out for months, just... got distracted by the other story I impulsively started.

Kind of forcing myself to write a chapter for this in the hopes that it'll break up the block for that. Turns out rewriting the season finale of your new favorite cartoon to account for changes in your AU is a pain in the ass. Who'd have ever known?

[Lord Raziere]

I read the webcomic Clown Corps today.

It's really good* so I recommend you all read it, but pretend someone you think has good taste recommended it instead so you'll actually do so.

*I can't **** with it myself reading it was at most mildly interesting, I just don't click with it and it's making me depressed again

Reading it, and so far? I'm impressed they're making what is basically a clown superhero webcomic and they haven't made a single Batman reference once. thats my thoughts on it right now.

[Rater202]

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Subject: The Owl House

Topic: Irony.

In the later half of the second season, it's eventually revealed that series antagonist Emperor Belos is actually Philip Wittebane, a 17th-century English colonial witch hunter(from the same town as main character Luz Noceda, 400ish years apart) who has extended his life via vile and unnatural means and he's been manipulating the inhabitants of the boiling isles for centuries with ultimate goal of a total genocide of the inhabitants of the isles.

Stepping lightly, while his religious official is never stated, his origins and a few comments he makes make it pretty clear what they were and that's all I'll say here.

Which means that he's working on a very specific definition of what a witch is.

Nameless, someone who makes bargains with demons or evil/unnatural spirits, who meddles with forces best not meant for human knowledge, who gains power via the sacrifice or consumption of innocents and/or small animals, and who is warped into something inhuman in the process.

None of the witches in the show meet that definition.

...But Philip does. By carving the glyphs into his own body he suffers seemingly catastrophic consequences. He frequently made one-sided deals with both demons and a powerful spirit known as the Collector(though, ironically, he was the one screwing them over) a not insignificant portion of his power comes from devouring the souls of Palisman to extend his life, with Palisman being innocent creatures, often resembling small animals, whose soul purpose is to be a friend and companion to the witch they were created for. This consumption of Palisman, his ill-advised experiments with the glyphs, or both have warped him in body into something that's only human by the strictest definitions and certainly doesn't look it—in fact, by the third season, he's been reduced to little more than a parasite.

The irony goes deeper, however: In fairy tales and similar folkloric stories, wicked witches are often defeated by a plucky child who outsmarts them and/or uses the same tricks the witches use against them, sometimes with the help of more friendly supernatural creatures.

General: Luz and Belos use the same kind of magic, the Titan Glyphs, but whereas Luz was gifted/guided to them via a combination of connecting to nature and the Titan's spirit liking her character and her mastery of them was obtained via practice and genuine appreciation of magic, for Philip they were hard-earned (tellingly, he never learned the light glyph, despite that one being clearly visible as constellation in the night sky) and he saw them as merely a means to an end. Thus, while Belos remains more experienced that Luz, in terms of actual mastery of the magic Luz progresses at a far greater pace and is able to hold her own against him despite a clear disadvantage.

Season 1: As Belos establishes that he's not worth his word, he offers to let Luz rescue Eda in exchange for the portal to the human realm. Luz gives him the portal to the human realm... but places fire glyphs on the portal and sets them off just as she's leaving, destroying the door and delaying his plans significantly.

Season 2: When all seems lost and Belos is planning to flee to the human realm while his draining spell kills everyone, dreaming of being hailed as a savior of humanity and the "witch hunter general" Luz appeals to his ego by pointing out that a lot has changed int e centuries he's been gone and that no one will believe him and agrees tobe both his guide and a living witness if only he spares her friends which he agrees to... and when they shake on it, she brands him with one of his own coven-sigils, consinging him to die with the inhabitants of the demon realm unless the draining spell is stopped.

3: In the series finale, Belos attempts to steal power from the corpse of the Titan. In response, Luz is gifted the last remaining bits of life and power by the Titan's spirit to defeat him once and for all. For Belos, who hates the demon realm, the Titan's power manifests as cancerous corruption and destructive blasts, while Luz who truly appreciates the Demon realm, warts and all effectively becomes a Titan and uses the power as it was intended and proceeds to wipe the floor with him.

...Now, three for three: We've covered how Belos is both a historical and a folkloric witch, but... In terms of literature.

The seas and rain in the demon realm are boiling hot. Just the steam off of the shimmering shoals is enough to quickly cause third-degree burns and getting caught in the boiling rain without protection is basically a death sentence. After Beolos is defeated and tries one last time to manipulate Luz into sparring him, assuming his original human form and lying through his teeth about having been cursed, a localized storm of the boiling rain manifests and burns through first his disguise, revealing the monster inside and then dissolves him down to almost nothing...

In other words, much like the wicked witch of the West, he was melted by water.

(granted, this didn't kill him. He was finished off via being stomped to death by some of his attempted victims.)

[LaZodiac]

*hugs for Zodi*

Thank you. I was feeling really bad for a bit there but am recovering.

Reading it, and so far? I'm impressed they're making what is basically a clown superhero webcomic and they haven't made a single Batman reference once. thats my thoughts on it right now.

It hadn't occurred to me but yeah, they don't do that huh.

Anyway hey; people who are a fan of my writing? I don't know when it'll be out, but there's a project in the works that you may want to keep an ear out for. I'll be more vocal about it when I can.