Recent content by Spiridion

I received all of the vaccinations I was recommended/required to when I was a child. According to the internet that was DTP, Hib, Polio, and MMR at the very least. I also received a tetanus booster after I was cut by an old nail around 5 years ago. I've never bothered with flu vaccinations...

As an American, I do. Although, I live in a state where the tipped minimum wage is the same as the general minimum wage, so I will sometimes hold back part or all of a tip if the service is unsatisfactory. Barring that, I usually tip 15% or greater. In coffee shops I generally only round up to...

Well, for one thing I was born in '93, so I would imagine that you may have witnessed a bit more of the changes in the housing market, while I grew up to find the results. I can see where a lot of the gentrification has happened in North Portland (where I grew up and still live), and in the...

As a native to the state of Oregon, the general attitude I hear regarding California is that we're pretty okay with them... as long as they don't try to move here. That's when we start to dislike them, since it's hard enough to find affordable housing in Portland already, damn it. Also I work...

Gamagori and Jakuzure are pretty much perfect, to me. Everyone else is kind of just okay. Except for Senketsu, he has clearly lost his way. All things considered it's not bad, but it doesn't really stand out. I could probably stand to watch it in English, but it's not making it onto the list...

I pretty much just watch MLP on my own or with friends and don't interact with the larger fandom much. So while I'm aware that she has something of a cult going on, I chose her as a favorite more for these reasons. She doesn't show up very much, but I always enjoy her presence when she does. She...

I would most likely be pro-mutant or neutral. Not sure which since you haven't qualified exactly what stance either of these would indicate. As far as I'm concerned, mutants are just another type of people. If an individual mutant deliberately harms or threaten others then obviously steps should...

At the end of the day it's really down to what you're comfortable with people seeing on your phone screen. I do know a few people that have/had pinups as their background. I generally choose pictures of women that show less skin, at least, when I'm choosing designs. That or something abstract or...

Well, yes. It's basically just a form of internalized oppression. Women can, unfortunately, be quite verbally abusive towards each other for a variety of social reasons. This will often take a more passive-aggressive or behind-the-back form in meatspace; but given the general agreement that the...

I convinced one of my coworkers to eat a decent-sized chunk of crystallized ginger. Their face was very amusing. She's just getting over a period of illness, so really I was just being helpful. Seriously, though, the faces she made... I actually had to stop chopping said ginger I was laughing so...

Besides the fact that that seems fairly impossible to coordinate... I feel a (well-designed) character's appearance can communicate a lot about a character, and uniforms would limit that. Also, there are many settings where characters would simply have no reason to wear uniforms. Having said...

Dark chocolate, definitely. Milk chocolate tends to be too sweet for me, I prefer the richness (and bitterness, if it's awesome and is mostly cacao) of dark. Although for some reason M&M's are an exception, I like them even if they're milk chocolate. White chocolate is obviously my least favorite.

As someone that doesn't really date the opposite sex, I prefer systems that work regardless of the sex/gender of the people going on the date. So generally I have a preference for going dutch on the first date. I also have friends who prefer to have whoever did the inviting or picked the...

And then later her heroically aired his grievances with her on Twitter. He had already been kind enough to shut down and refused to consider her experiences several times, it's really just unfair that she would continue having a perspective on issues that she's more personally familiar with.

I have no particular objection to incest as long as no children are produced and everything is consensual. Having said that, I am particularly wary of coercion being a factor in incestuous relationships because a family member is likely to have more material for emotional blackmail. If that were...