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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
8d ago
Depression: I think a major factor was having a job where I had to put on a fake face. The mind affects the body and the body affects the mind. Smile, and it will trick the treacherous mind into being happier. Though, that job also involved organizing stacks of heavy boxes, so it was simultaneously good exercise and a constant source of satisfaction for my 'tism tendencies.
For anxiety, the only solution I know if is to brazen through. Exposure therapy. IME, it really doesn't take that much.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
9d ago
Sorry, I meant to rephrase that so it was more clearly ranting at the hypothetical in general, and not you in particular.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
9d ago
Recommend not grinding. They're nice if you just want to play a quick game or two, without the stress of a pvp game.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
9d ago
Oh, are we ranting about Starcraft? Let me pour out a drink and ante up.
I don't remember StarCraft 1 being remotely that obnoxious and one note. Oh well.
Starcraft 1 had it in a much older style, that hews closer to "White guy gets accepted into alien culture" tropes. Think The Last Samurai, or every rip-off of The Last of the Mohicans. Once you get past the first Terran campaign, Raynor is estranged from Mengsk, so the story keeps him around by just letting him tag along with the Protoss.
"Greetings. We are the Firstborn, the sons of Aiur, the Protoss. Our people are advanced far beyond your ken, both technically and psychically. We have come to do battle with the greatest forces of darkness, wielding our eldritch might in the most ancient of our sacred warrior traditions.
Also, we brought our friend Jim. He is a kind of monkey-thing, militia, motorcycle-cop. We gave him a battlecruiser; it's hilarious."
SC1 is a lot funnier if you interpret Jim as the Protoss' version of Boblin the Goblin.
But yes, the plot for SC2 is fucking stupid all around. They can't alienate any players, so all three factions have to have Good Guys, though they all splinter so much that there's someone for everyone.
I forget which mission it was that finally broke me and caused me to switch to normal, but it was some defense mission where your allies start off covering your east, west and south entrances, and you get repeatedly hammered from all three directions.
My general love for Starcraft is matched and mirrored by my burning hatred for the damned defense missions. Why the actual fuck did that team think static defense missions were the best way to cap almost every campaign? And the LotV one was just actually offensive. You spend the whole campaign building up and unlocking Solarite powers, and then they take them all away for the final mission?! One of my angriest video game experiences.
Difficulty-wise, "hard" feels like the correct choice for all of them. Normal for the horrendous defense ones that feel terrible to try at.
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9d ago
MAGA is closer to "90's Democrat" than modern Dems are.
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9d ago
Is this stupid? Yes. If everybody were rational, we could all just pick Red and we'd be fine. But unless you're willing to bite the bullet and say that irrational or foolish or unlucky people should all die, even 80-20 in favour of Red, or 90-10 in favour of Red, is a nation-wrecking calamity.
I think the reason this hypothetical annoys me so much is that it's essentially set up to permit suicidally stupid people to morally and emotionally blackmail the rest of us by the threat of their own self-harm, and then self-righteously preen about it afterwards. It teaches bad - ruinous! - habits.
Real life coordination problems do not look like this! Real life coordination problems are made massively worse by this sort of intellectually cancerous SF Rat crap. Real life coordination problems instead look like "If you push red, the criminal goes to jail and then doesn't commit more crimes. If you push blue, we let them free and then they rape and murder a random person selected from among the reds and blues".
Unless you're willing to bite the bullet and say that stupid, or irrational, or congenitally anti-social criminals need to go to jail, then you are a nation-wrecking calamity.
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9d ago
Taken uncharitably, "Husband material" implies someone to settle for. "Oh, you're a very sensible decision. The no-dressing salad option at this steakhouse." Conversely, "baby daddy material" implies excellent genetics and/or sex appeal, even if he's a cad.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
10d ago
Based on her internet-prison romance with Howling Mutant, Holmes may be a true one-in-a-billion freak.
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15d ago
By contrast, lone wolf terrorists may be following some piece of political rhetoric to its logical conclusion, but people can pretty easily justify disavowing them because rhetoric, however incendiary, usually stops short of saying "go forth and kill."
Speaking of derangement, the common response I'm seeing is "I'm disappointed that the newest hoax assassination failed."
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15d ago
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15d ago
Shooter was supposedly active on BlueSky, and frequently replied to Will Stancil. No word yet if he was a supporter of the Stancilwaffen, or one of the people calling Herr Stancil a fascist.
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15d ago
Are you taking as a given that Democrats think of the opposition party the same way that right-wingers think of a hostile foreign nation that has been calling for Death to America for 50 years?
That would be a very concerning level of radicalization and extremism, if it were true. Perhaps Trump should close shipping to California and NYC in retaliation, just like heroic Iran-kun.
And to stop the cute Mottely bush-beating and speak plainly, for a meaningful subsection of the left that might even be a majority, it obviously is true. It was just this week that the venerable NYT sat down with leftist thought leader Hasan Piker and platformed his calls for leftist political assassinations.
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15d ago
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15d ago
Zero. His social media is full of Abolish ICE and Trump is a Nazi slop. If he found his way here, he'd have flamed out faster than a vampire under the noon sun.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
16d ago
Writers are sometimes broken into two categories. Architects plan everything in advance, and then go fill in the outline. Brandon Sanderson is an architect. IIRC, his writing process is something like "set up the outline with all story beats, then a more detailed outline, then fill it in with descriptions, then produce a beta manuscript, then a real manuscript, then five editing passes".
The other category is Gardeners, who plant a seed and just see where the story takes them. GRRM is a gardener, and there are a thousand essays comparing him with Brando Sando on this regard.
For your case, it might not be that the plot "sucked", as that the characters weren't quite right for it. You probably have to alter one or the other to make it fit right. This is where the "kill your darlings" advice comes in. Sometimes hard choices have to be made, but you can always recycle anything you cut.
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16d ago
If the seven year old shows any interest in athleticism, there are a ton of great old sports movies that may be more tolerable. The Mighty Ducks trilogy, Sandlot, Rookie of the Year, Little Big League.
In this house, we watch Remember the Titans on loop.
Shaolin Soccer was also a big hit with my kids, and it's so goofy that it might slip through the scariness.
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16d ago
You make some good points, but I don't think it quite addresses the, as you say, unseriousness of the anti-gun left. They used to lean much more deeply on the crime angle, but there are too many fatal weaknesses to that take for it to be effective in a less controlled/favorable media environment. The normies get upset about spree-killings, but not in a way that obviously and naturally leads to blaming the tool. One can easily imagine a slightly different world where the mass media blame was displaced onto, say, SSRIs, possibly with a "greedy, overprescribing pharma companies" angle. But the pattern for sprees is something hitting the news bigly once every 2-3 years, with maybe a few copycats in the following weeks, and then most everyone goes back to not caring. That doesn't translate into political will.
The reason there are safety people at all seems much more driven by outgroup dynamics. Gun are red tribe totems, and attacking enemy totems is always a fun time.
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17d ago
Most aren't quite that big, and only one that I would walk to instead of taking a 5-15 minute drive. But they all easily exceed the "many nice, varied trails that you can wander in deep enough to smoke a joint in total seclusion" standard that I have in mind for Central Park. The biggest is twice the size of Central Park, and it's extra nice because I can walk all the way from the museum at the front and end up in my best friend's backyard 4 miles away.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
17d ago
Sunlight was worse.
This seems crazy to me. Maybe in a choice Manhattan skyrise. Most of my experience was Brooklyn on the 14th floor and sunlight was about as rare as integrity in a congressman. Being high up isn't a boon when all the surrounding buildings are even higher! Most people don't get to live on the top floors.
There was nothing to do. I hated it.
This I'll give you. For certain categories of "to do", NYC can't be beat.
But, Brooklyn and Queens have a ton of green spaces.
This I disagree with. I'm a walker; I feel claustrophobic if I can't go for a walk for a few hours every few days. The weeks I spent in Brooklyn felt cramped and dismal, cloying and choking.
Manhattan is marginally nicer. Central Park is fine. But my small town has multiple comparable parks in easy distance, and just walking down the street feels closer to a "green space" than a city. Admittedly, it helps that I'm in what is basically an old colonial suburb, not some Arizona step-and-repeat.
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18d ago
Apartments have better sunlight and ventilation than SFHs because they sit higher up.
This is emphatically not the case for every NYC apartment I've ever been in. The dismal, exclusively artificial lighting and contant stench of foul, artificial scents are the two biggest reasons I would cite for never wanting to live there. I married a NYer, and the time I spent either visiting her or with her visiting family were just horrid on that regard.
Have you ever actually spent time in a decent house on a decent lot with actual trees? This might be a "fish doesn't know what water is" situation. I've literally come home from day trips to NYC blowing black snot.
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19d ago
This was exactly how I did it. The easiest part was the way 0mg juice gurgled all wrong.
But there have been crackdowns of all stupid kinds, and AIUI, the community of home-brew stores that would make you custom blend juices are not so much a thing anymore, so it may be harder to manage a gentle decline.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
19d ago
The NPD version is more manipulative.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
19d ago
I would suggest for, um, reasons, that Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a bigger risk. That thing where they decide that you are The Good Person and then chameleon-cloak themselves to appeal to you is super effective against quokkas.
This is why gatekeeping is super important. "Oh, you're telling me you're really into Curtis Yarvin after I mentioned him? Name 5 kings you'd grant absolute sovereignty."
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20d ago
A willingness to debate requires a degree of disagreeableness. The same brain chemicals that make a man more eager to get into an argument also tend to make him more right-wing.
There's a notion on the right that leftism is a biological phenomenon, and I do think there's abit of truth to that idea.
That gets worse. There's a point where the very redditor author seems to realize the, let's say, meta-social implications of his worldbuilding and has an on-page freak-out about it.
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