gary brolsma meet n greet

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I don't think there's a good word that means "servile" but as a complement and it seems odd to me

obsequious, sycophantic, unctuous- all pretty disdainful terminology

if you look up synonyms for "helpful" you get a lot of pretty weak matches like "pleasant" and "kind" that don't necessarily evoke actually doing anything, more just a demeanor
then there's words like "obliging" and "courteous" and "hospitable" and "accommodating" that are closer but connote being a good host or of a higher social status

there's "conscientious" and "considerate" and "gracious" and "neighborly" but those are all more about being mindful of other people, and not so much, like, going out of your way too much

like, what do you call a really great butler? like, putting aside "dutiful" and "attentive" and "punctilious", putting the "good at his job" aspect of it aside, what is a way to say somebody enjoys making other people feel good and helping them out with stuff? think of harvey fierstein's character on the simpsons. or like every video game protagonist in a game with a lot of sub-quests if you always choose the nicest thing to do. like a sadist but for inflicting joy and comfort and being good for people.
am I crazy? do we really not have a word for this? it feels like we only have insults. you brownnoser. you toady.

the closest I can think of are "eager to please" and "servant-hearted" but I want something implicitly complimentary without being condescending, a word that connotes "this is a good thing, I approve"
jesus washing his followers' feet was really ________
really bodacious
really cash money

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it's bro

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it's bro

bro... 🥹

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it's not loyal or empath but now i'm going to think about this all week

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i can't believe it's only been 25 years--that's 2.5%--and you already forgot it's the willennium

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if you thought the Chris Rock slap was a big deal, we're just getting started

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harry potter is the story of a wizard born to non-wizard parents who becomes the most influential evil in the world, on the platform of hating wizards born to non-wizard parents. it was written by jk rowling.


jk rowling has become the most influential evil in the world, on the platform of hating trans people.


q.e.d. t.b.f. f.y.i. er go: jk rowling's parents are trans. you heard it here first.

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it's so frustrating that you've got to know somebody to get anywhere in the film business. I've written to every studio and distributor I could think of, even the ones I don't really like, and not a single one of them has so much as acknowledged reading my screenplay for Messy Cowboys 4

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it's not who you know, it's how you use them

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a front yard is a backward backyard. a backwyard

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a backyard is a backward front yard. a dray tnorf

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i remember when drayt norfs came out in the first expansion

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thing currently blowing my mind: it's crazy that temperature is linear

heat is the... entropic transfer of kinetic energy at a molecular level, right?
but we were measuring temperatures before we knew that. and... (let's pretend no thermometers exist other than mercury, because I only have a little brain) we picked mercury to measure it against, just like as a comparator, an arbitrary marker, because it expanded in size smoothly, for the range of temperatures we were concerned with, and we liked that, the smoothness. water doesn't expand smoothly, it's like logarithmic or something idk. so we picked mercury because it was convenient

then Baron Centigrade Von Celsius came along and was like "well, let's just math that a bit, and make it so 0 is where water changes state from liquid to solid and 100 is where it changes state from liquid to gas, and say a degree is 1/100 of the way"

ok...
do I have this right? a degree is one one hundredth of the amount mercury increases in size in a little tube between the temperature where water freezes and where it boils?
but, if that's all a degree is... hm

then Dr. Stacy Kelvin, DDS came along and was like "ah, but we've figured out what heat actually is, and it's the amount of kinetic energy in a particle at a molecular level, and it so happens that the coldest that can get is -273.15°C. and on that scale the amount of energy from 1 degree to another is the same "

what? what just happened?

is it... even clear what I'm confused about? lol. I feel like a crazy idiot because I don't even know how to ask the question.
we were just marking lines on a tube with some goo in it, right? and we were like "ehhh this is '80' I guess, good enough" we just needed it to be consistent, not have any deeper meaning
and the change between the numbers we applied, the delta, right... those turned out to actually be equal to each other? the change in the amount of kinetic energy on a molecular level between 1° and 2° is ACTUALLY THE SAME as the change in the amount of kinetic energy on a molecular level between 98° and 99°? even though a degree was just something we made up to serve as a consistent reference point because we had no idea what was actually going on? the amount of kinetic energy in a particle is ACTUALLY the same as the rate mercury gets bigger in a little tube?????
that's like if Ptolemy's math for planetary motion was just actually correct, after we discovered gravity and heliocentrism, it turned out, no, just, the completely arbitrary "based on observation, they seem to do this?" model was totally accurate to the reality as understood through the fundamental forces

or do I have this backwards somehow? maybe we defined heat energy based on our arbitrary degrees scale somehow...?
I don't have time to learn about why this actually is and where I'm wrong, I feel like I have to be missing something. FUCK. I should've been an ENGINEER. or a FOLKLORIST, that sounds INTERESTING TOO

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yea man mercury gets more bigger because all the little atoms inside it are bumping around more. like they're moshing but they're going kinda hard so the surrounding atoms back up to give them more space

would love to know at what point we stopped using something else (food cook time? the length of a metal rod? subjective weather complaints? ???) and started listening to some Mad Hatter saying "no dude you gotta get some mercury. it's really good for measuring temperature, and felt hats, and 420 other amazing uses the government doesn't want you to know about"

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forgive me if I missed the point

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well, i guess we won the war on spinoff groups



any URL that starts at invisionfree dot com, even with a subdomain, takes you to a hentai... gallery? video host? it looks like "addicting games" from back in the day but I didn't want it to mine bitcoin or give me a virus or whatever computers do now so i closed it

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brought to you by me scrolling just a tiny bit down https://alphaman.newgrounds.com/news

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well, i guess we won the war on spinoff groups

you're welcome, everybody

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*draws hanzo steel*

oops

*puts hanzo steel back*


*draws gun*

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*draws hanzo steel*
*uploads it to the art portal*