What were you playing?

Someone sent me what they referred to as a self-help DVD that was just some motivational speaker type of person invalidating my issues. A virus in the DVD also temporarily destroyed my friend’s DVD player in the process of playing it.

They focus on finding other people who fit them and not adjusting to fit other people.

Roughly translated: “If you don’t understand now, maybe you will someday that with the end of this illness, I emerge greater, not lesser. Carry me with you, and I’ll live more completely in essence than I lived in substance. This is your journey, steer the way for us.”

When in doubt, ask. Only the provider can speak for that. Maybe the shirts are fragile. Maybe they aren’t as reusable. Maybe the provider is foreign and doesn’t understand local customs. I actually just bought some clothes (black sleeveless sweater, white plaid shirt, and faded pants that might as well be a skirt, wearing these now) at the laundromat shop reasonably because I’ve been in a clothes management situation for a while, and I learned most of it in this case is for advertising.

Unless trial and error come into play, which is why I brought up popcorn. I honestly wonder how many of those complaining about this actually do laundry. Too much detergent ends up making the clothes seem like they went through a car wash, so if too much was being used, it’s not like the person wouldn’t know. There also aren’t as many hard rules about it as people think there are to base the idea of some of the purportedly “wrong” specifications on.

You say that like that confirms their intentions or that detergent volume would ever be seen as a universal rule anyways. It’s so circumstantial it challenges the point.

It’s not like they’re stealing it. They’re just guiding you on how to use detergent.

It’s like saying the people who make microwavable popcorn are extracting money from me because they struggle to take into consideration how the microwave works.

I’m sure even the most hardened of Vikings would have preferred their Christmases green so they can go from place to place easily.

Typically one trusts the instructions, but it does depend on the kind and quality of detergent, the quality of the machine, and the amount and types of clothes. I myself just entered an era of having no working machines for two days (on my third and am surviving on a pink hoodie over purple plaid shirt, jeans, and temple garment bra/panties which is my “last life”) because the slots are broken on both home and public machines and do a half-effective job.

What if certain sources from other languages were followed?

How so?

You can advocate for the good aspects of a nation and still condemn the bad ones. Never did I say I advocate “for Amerikans” in the sense that I believe in the nation unconditionally and as one construct (there’s also the fact every state in the US is different and speaks for its own voice). I condemn all needless death. Not only did Luigi’s actions amount to overkill that is itself overblown and overrated with the unrest being expressed in some unrealistic ways, but it was also a pointless one, as he simply removed a part of an entity that can regrow with another person in Thompsons’ role. Just as with the condemnable American settlers, if someone absolutely had to carry out an act of defiance, there are many options, some more roundabout/effective/considerate than others.

Why not take in many sources and then average out what you hear?

Well it was uncreative and inhumane. Why would I advocate genocide? And by extension, why are we using that as a justification for more death?

No, I have standards (and a mobility-related disability). Murder is for those without an ounce of creativity and no humanity.

Technically you could always run it by !casualconversation@lemm.ee

This is a trick question in my case. I have the energy but not the ability. My mind has no idea how to respond to things if those things don’t have a set answer, at least in time for the conversation to not be dead. So people don’t typically try with me.

You mean like those drawing robots they used to have at Chuck E. Cheese that took a snapshot of you and then sketched you?