Skulldrinker
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Skulldrinker
1yr ago
If the game is so hard that Pun-Pun nonsense-jank is necessary to beat it, then it isn't encouraging people to explore a wider space of options. Everything converges on the one broken nonsense build, and "cookie-cutter" archetypical builds become, perversely, rarer. everyone is a GensaiWarlockPaladin
My typical self-imposed challenge in RPGs is to find a sub-system or strategy or archetype that I LIKE or isnt used by Power builds and make it work anyways.
Skulldrinker
1yr ago
Oh, that's a great call.
Can anyone direct me to some useful writings about the experience of psilocybin? Effects of persistent use, personality changes, therapeutic stuff. I find myself frustrated that clinical discussions are too clinical to convey much actual insight, while most other writings about shrooms are Wellness gibberish about auras. The most useful text I've found on Shrooms has so far been Dune, which says more about me than it does about hippies.
Examples: I've found myself accidentally rattling people by inferring personal details in conversations with them. I've started to experience what I can only call "visceral intellectual distaste" towards lots of specific things, but a common theme is people having their social instincts exploited. Slot machines, chatbots, any automated voice that "pretends" to be human, (which has now spread to include actual human people who speak in slogans, talking-points, or cliches.)
I'm not sure how much of this is specific to me, and how much is just what happens to Melange users.
Skulldrinker
14d ago
I should have been more specific: The above ALWAYS happens. It doesn't happen sometimes, it happens inevitably with every Hinge match.
Skulldrinker
15d ago
ATVing in wisconsin north woods. Turned a corner and there was what looked like a large black dog in the trail. It was sitting oddly, like a human would. Then it got up and lumbered off. "Oh, that was a black bear. Cool."
Skulldrinker
2mo ago
Probably an ex.
Skulldrinker
2mo ago
At this point, I get my film recommendations either from RedLetterMedia or the MauLer Clique (the Efap podcast), and even with the latter, only the core three plus maaaaybe Critical Drinker; too many partisan hacks further down the ladder.
Skulldrinker
3mo ago
I buy frozen chicken thighs from Aldi, pour Italian dressing in the bag itself, add a bit of grape seed oil and lemon pepper and slap one down on a panini press, takes three minutes. I do the same thing with spinach and eggs.
Skulldrinker
3mo ago
The being stood up part or the Infinite Rescheduling part? If either only ever happened once to you, then I'm even sadder now than I was before.
The only women who will entertain a conversation in public with a stranger all have boyfriends and are desperate for attention. The ones who are single will say "Ihaveaboyfriend" as you open your mouth.
I've heard people in real life refer to dating apps as the only socially acceptable way to meet people, unless you're in a group of friends and they're in a group of friends, otherwise you're a creeper. Direct paraphrase. Mind you, I was also present for some uber-progressive woman making fun of dudes' pictures on Hinge, then saying that she'd never go on a Hinge date because she doesn't want to get assaulted. Someone asked her why she was on Hinge then, but by that point I had checked out of the conversation and that entire social circle.
Skulldrinker
5mo ago
Wait, the public school system is that easy to get in to? I have a degree and aren't on any registries that I know of.
Skulldrinker
6mo ago
What about Bruges? How accurate was the film?
Skulldrinker
8mo ago
I found the series less pleasant as it went on; the past few books left me cold.
Skulldrinker
8mo ago
Is it reasonable/possible to establish a "We Don't Negotiate With Terrorists" rule regarding suicide threats?
Skulldrinker
8mo ago
Outside of social justice communities most people have experiences with a person like this and kinda get the vibe.
Why are social justice communities so immune to noticing BPD?
Skulldrinker
10mo ago
DS9 is actually my favorite Star Trek series. I acknowledge that TNG is Better, I just like DS9 more. It's the side characters; people are allowed to be flawed and have conflicts. Garak and Odo and Quark make the whole series for me.
Skulldrinker
10mo ago
Then he made TENET, though.
Skulldrinker
10mo ago
I checked out of Dresden Files after...Skin Game, I think. Couldn't get through the next book, and not even sure why. Is Battleground a big turnaround?
Skulldrinker
11mo ago
I looked up Edith Tolkien and JRR had good taste.
Skulldrinker
1yr ago
I'm going through another bout of anger over my experiences of "dating" in my 20s.
During, and post-college, the worldview I was presented with by my friends, social circle, and the women I encountered was that the explaination for all behaviors of women was "Feeling Unsafe." If something didn't go well on my date, it was because somehow I made her feel unsafe. If a woman didn't respond well to me flirting with her, it was because she was afraid I was about to assault her. The reason that a woman said "I've got to go to the bathroom, wait here, I'll be right back" was that she felt unsafe and was trying to escape in a way that wouldn't make me fly into a rage. Stood up? She Felt Unsafe. Woman I'm on a date with leaves with another man? She wanted the other man to protect her from me.
In my social circle, women's favorite topic of conversation was how much they hated men flirting with them, speaking to them, or even looking at them. Every outing to a bar was presented as a desperate struggle to Just Hang Out With Their Friends.
Then I got a little older and moved away from my college town. I had two relationships with women who actually HAD run into dangerous men, who had genuine trauma in their history. They didn't talk about Feeling Unsafe, they didn't go through life claiming constant fear of men, and they were universally confused at my low-self-esteem. One of them ran into a woman from my old social circle and was left aghast. "I didn't think all that stuff you said was real, but holy crap, is that what you were running into before you met me?"
Now, at 34 and stuck "dating" again, I just feel emotionally crippled and incapable of putting myself out there anymore; every time I do, I get flashbacks and all the old pain comes back, combined with the new pain of having loved and lost.
Skulldrinker
1yr ago
Now, bear with me here, my public school experience was overall good. But if you're talking about preventing the abuse of children, I think you're going to run into the problem of Child Abduction Is Not Funny. As much ideological weirdness happens in schools, and as infuriating as these incidents are, they're infuriating because it's public officials that are supposed to be accountable being unaccountable. Like being killed by a seatbelt or airbag or police officer.
But, most child abuse happens at home. It's mostly the parents and close family doing it, and at school there's people who will notice bruises, and so long as the parent isn't too Intersectional, they will investigate. I'm just not a fan of widespread homeschooling; the more of it there is, the harder it becomes to audit, and I don't trust un-audited homeschooling
The natural state of children is to be with other children doing children stuff. It's unfortunate that school is the main place where other children are.
Skulldrinker
1yr ago
And Whitewolf let themselves die and completely fail to capitalize on the D&D craze and the Vampire trend because one guy had a few 1488 jokes hidden in the text of the new edition.
I thought accusing people of dogwhistling and being crypto-____-ists was retarded hysterical crap that smart people should ignore.
Skulldrinker
6hr ago
Agree, I think this is less to do with misplaced maternal feelings and more to do with fads and trends and following them.
Not quite a nootropic, but I find psilocybin does similar stuff long after a mild dose; clarity of thought, insight, integration of logical reasoning with emotional reasoning; I find myself "trusting my feelings" in the Jedi-y sense.
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