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    What's the psychology of people who slam their front doors in apartments everytime they go in or out?

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  • My wife's family was like that when I met them. Stomping around, chewing loudly, and TV super loud. When we moved in together, we got our hearing checked and it turned out she had a genetic issue that fused her stapen (hammer bone in the ear) into a fixed position which meant severe hearing impairment. Luckily a surgeon can replace the stapen with a titanium micro prosthesis that solves the problem.Just after the procedure she called me downstairs because she said she was hearing weird noises and it turned out to be the refrigerator compressor she had never heard before. After both ears were completed, a lot of the loud behavior stopped.

    I really think that some subset of these people just have hearing loss.

  • What's your favorite assignment you made while in school?

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  • I had to do a comparative religion project in secondary school. I completely forgot to do it, which was the custom at that time. It was Sunday at 7pm and I resolved to do the whole thing in less than an hour. I searched through the garage and found a small compressed cardboard reindeer that was painted gold as a winter decoration. I used tin snips to remove the antlers and wrote a paragraph on the Golden Calf.Most efficient B- I have ever received.

  • What’s something you own that has truly paid for itself?

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  • I bought my first one to do exactly that! The clip that held the spring in place to gently lower the door snapped twice and I saw that someone had a beefier one modeled and decided I would buy a printer rather than pay the $17 dollar for another part that would break.

  • What’s something you own that has truly paid for itself?

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  • My 3d printer(s). I bought my first one used for $100 ~10 years ago and offered to print a small model for someone's college capstone project. People learned I had a printer and started coming to me for all sorts of small things. I would only charge for substantial jobs but people would end up paying me anyway. I quickly got a resin printer and started selling miniatures for friends. I eventually got contacted by one of the major manufacturers who would send me return units and replacement parts so I could repair and tell them what was broken, if anything, then I could keep or sell them.Everything I have done with 3d printing has been subsidized by side jobs. It's a super fun hobby because 3d printing sits at the nexus point of basically every other hobby. I have done jobs for people building rat rods, model trains, cosplay, interior designers, hydroponics, brewing, architects, drones, and more.

  • What show or movie did you come to understand as a meditation on suffering and loss?

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  • Rocco's Modern Life

    "In November 1992, two months before the production of season 1 of Rocko's Modern Life, Murray's [the shows creator] first wife committed suicide. Murray had often blamed his wife's suicide on the show being picked up. He said, "It was always an awful connection because I look at Rocko as such a positive in my life." He felt that he had emotional and physical "unresolved issues" when he moved to Los Angeles, describing the experience as participating in a "marathon with my pants around my ankles."

    Rocco's Modern Life - wikipedia

  • What's the stupidest thing anyone has ever told you as fact?

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  • A roommate once told me that cows "have one hole for babies and pooping", i.e., a cloaca, but he didn't know that word. I told him that isn't true, they are typical mammals so they have the full complement of parts.I was sitting at my computer so I pulled up a diagram which he said was wrong. Then he asked to show me and started searching for things like, "cow hole", "cow butthole and birth canal", and "cows with just one hole" before I regained my senses and told him to go away. The worst part though was the next day when my girlfriend was using my computer and saw the searches so I had to explain to her the conversation and he came back in to defend himself and tried to look up cow smut AGAIN.

  • So what are they teaching in U.S. criminal or constitutional law school classes right now?

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  • For what it is worth, I took a constitutional law course in the latter part of Obama's second term.The professor spent a lot of time talking about the accretion of power to the executive branch and very clearly posited that it was a certainty that we would have an issue with authoritarianism in the near future. I remember sitting in class (naively) thinking he was overstating the problem.Good news though, that same professor has made a lot of headway in eliminating qualified immunity in a few states.

  • What's the funniest film you've ever seen?

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  • The movie that got the biggest response in the theater for me was Borat. It was the opening day and the theater was mostly full and there was someone laughing for nearly the entire film.Not to say it is the most objectively funny movie I have ever seen, but it certainly made an impression on me.

  • What's a piece of good luck you've had?

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  • Looking for things on the ground or the side of the road. Some notable items I have found:

    • Unmarked envelope with ~$400 in it.
    • Change purse filled with random international coins
    • Pair of knipex channel lock pliers that have dog bite marks on the handles
    • Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket i727
    • Ticket for a festival which I then attended
    • Several purses/wallets
    • Many sunglasses
    • Many pocket knives
    • Many cool rocks and sticks

    I do try and find the rightful owner to the expensive stuff.

  • What is your absolute favourite track from a video game?

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  • What's the most challenging thing you've ever bitten through?

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  • I was at a bar with a friend years ago and he kept talking about how much he loves limes. He went on and on about it. Finally, I told him I would bet him $50 if he could eat a whole lime, rind and all. He couldn't refuse after spending 10 minutes talking about his love for them. The bartender was happy to offer a large one for the challenge. This kid tried for 45 minutes to consume the lime. The juicy interior was quickly consumed and all that was left was the bitter, leathery peel which had the surface area of a dessert plate. He was chewing on it like he was trying to get someone to guess "chewing" in charades. He, very begrudgingly admitted defeat while me and the bartender were breathlessly laughing.

  • Do you listen to music before sleep ? If yes do you wear earphones to bed ?

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  • I only offer this as an alternative, minority viewpoint because I struggled with selecting earbuds for bed - try bone conduction ear buds.Caveats being, side sleeping can be uncomfortable depending on head shape and pillow stiffness. Also the audio quality is not as good as traditional buds, but not an issue for most audiobooks or podcasts. For me though, it eliminated the uncomfortable pressure against my eardrum and didn't trap moisture if I chose to take a shower before bed. I also could hear in case there was something I had to respond to.

  • What are your favourite Lists?

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  • Just a heads up, this website is loud. So turn may want to turn down your volume before you click on anything. Very cool though!

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    What video game music do you avoid and not like to relisten to for reasons unrelated to if its any good or other value judgements but because of how you feel or how you expec youll feel during it?

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  • The soundtrack to Lisa the Painful is really well done. The music is reminiscent of the 16-bit era but is haunting, weird, intense, and sometimes wistful. I would liken it to Hotline: Miami meets Requiem for a Dream having a chiptune collab. The game itself was just a little too bleak though for a re-listen though.

  • Scarlet

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  • The short story of the same name is worth the read after seeing how red a Scarlet Ibis is.

  • What song can you relate to the most today?

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  • Which Video Game was most influential on you as a child, and why?

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  • Earthbound. The game itself is a quirky but endearing turn based RPG with enduring graphics and score. The game came with a full strategy guide that was set up like a tour guide to the various locations in the game. It was intended to be a companion piece to the story and fleshed out characters and towns. I was so excited to get it as a kid that I measured the box a video rental place with a tape measure and compared it my Christmas presents to make sure one of the wrapped ones was actually it. I replay it once every 10 years or so. The game was one of the strong inspirations for Undertale.

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  • I encountered him a long time ago and started watching him in earnest a few years ago. Really sad to see how he was affected by the Asheville floods but happy that he has been so resilient.

  • What was the funniest/dumbest/most embarrassing thing you or a friend did blackout drunk?

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  • As annoyed as I was I laughed when he deployed that one.

  • What was the funniest/dumbest/most embarrassing thing you or a friend did blackout drunk?

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  • In college, my roommate did the following one evening:

    • Drank the better part of a case of beer
    • Tried to get into a frat party but was rejected for being raucously drunk
    • Punched his way through a wooden fence in frathouses's back yard and ran into the party, breaking his hand in the process
    • Kicked in a hall closet door and found a can of black paint, opened it and threw it at a wall 3 feet in front of him
    • Got thrown out of the party again, covered in black paint and returned to our apartment
    • Woke me up looking like Ken Jeong from Community as a Dark Elf because he was having trouble taking his pants off (his boots were still on)
    • Got really mad that I wouldn't help him so he committed another act of closet violence and ripped all the shelving of his own closet
    • Called his ex-girlfriend and played the entirety of Amazed by Lonestar into her voicemail and yelled "Amazed at what a BITCH you are" at the end
    • Fell asleep in his clothes which he profoundly soiled with blood, piss, vomit, and black paint.
    • Woke up in the early morning to move to his bed, which received the same treatment
    • Got up the next day and bought a Condolences for your Loss card which he signed and delivered to me.

    He dropped out a few weeks later, joined the military, married his ex, and is apparently a sysadmin now.

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