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1mo ago
ER PPCs are good for a similar approach. My personal favorite (not best) setup Mech was in MW4, a Daishi crammed full of clan MGs. It's not necessarily the most powerful (though it does a surprising amount of work), but it's just so much fun to have that much dakka.
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More generally, "principal" means "first". Which I assume is the origin of principal as the head of a school, but IDK for certain.
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1mo ago
Interestingly, I just noticed that the current Friday fun thread was downvoted for me. I was confused because I didn't deliberately do it, and I undid that. I can only guess that while scrolling I accidentally pressed the down arrow (I browse the motte on my phone). Maybe that's what others are doing and they don't happen to notice after the fact?
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1mo ago
Can't say I have.
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Thanks! Weirdly the second iteration looks way better, because she actually looks female in that one. No idea what happened in the first game.
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I couldn't care less about elbows. The problem is that is straight up a man's face on a female body.
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Unfortunately your second link is broken (it goes to some decade old reddit post), so I still don't know what the Hades 2 version looks like. But it sounds like the devs are kind of slaves to the culture war, and feel the need to make everything reflect it. Which is unfortunate.
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How do you make the goddess of beauty look that ugly? She looks like someone drew a man and then added breasts. It's truly a remarkable feat of bad art.
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Er... I certainly think that. It is really toxic how people apply "Nazi" to mean "someone I think is authoritarian" and I think it should be reserved for actual Nazis. I also think you shouldn't be called a murderer unless you deliberately take someone's life.
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I think you'll find that it's not a dealbreaker for all women to be inexperienced, or even wanting to wait until you are in a seriously committed relationship to have sex. It will be for some, but of course they wouldn't be right for you anyway, so the best thing you can do is sincerely wish them well and part on friendly terms. But for the rest, you'll be ok. I was a virgin when I met my wife, and I was very up front about that on my profile. She said after the fact that she actually found it pretty refreshing to not have to worry that I was going to try to get her in bed on the third date or something, and that we could ease into having a sexual relationship. I'm quite certain she's not the only one out there, so try not to worry too much.
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1mo ago
Hey man, I'm sorry you have had to go through all that. It sounds really difficult. I think you are doing really well to be where you are in life, given the unhealthy environment you were raised in. So, give yourself some praise if you can, you have had to endure a lot which you didn't deserve and came out reasonably ok. That says good things about you as a person.
For your specific topic with relationships, I would strongly encourage you to not pin your happiness on the idea of a relationship to bring warmth into your life. It is great to have a woman who loves you and who wants to be around you, but it isn't fundamentally going to fix things for you. That is, if you're struggling with depression and messy feelings about sexuality now, if you get a girlfriend you'll still struggle with those things just as much. You don't necessarily have to wait until you feel like those things are fixed before dating someone, because after all we are never finished projects. But don't make the mistake of thinking that dating someone is going to be a fix for them, because it won't be. They are separate issues.
I also would encourage you to not just go after whomever will have you. It seems like you feel like you can't be picky, but you must be picky to some extent when choosing a mate. Not picky about superfluous stuff (like how pretty she is or how big her breasts are), but picky about character for sure. Going in with an approach of "I have to take what I can get" is likely to mean you will settle for someone who is a bad fit for you, and you'll be miserable with that. So try to have some idea going in about what flaws you can and cannot realistically live with. It's easy to go "eh I can live with it" when you are in the heady early days of a relationship, but over the course of years that stuff will wear you down.
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1mo ago
But, I'll reiterate, I've never actually observed this happening anywhere.
Literally the only place I don't see it happening is in progressive strongholds like Reddit and so on. Most people, in my experience, assume that you don't hate (insert group here) if you freely choose to hang out all the time with a member of that group. Which is eminently sensible. The progressive argument for how someone can hate black people while being married to a black person is a terrible argument that doesn't align at all with how people actually behave.
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Thank you. I don't really care if someone doesn't like Sanderson, taste in art is subjective and it's ok to like different things. And I don't mind if someone wants to give a detailed rationale for why they didn't like the book, have at it! But it is so uncalled-for to write a long post sneering at Sanderson fans as people who just haven't read much, or are midwits, etc. One can not like something without being a dick to those who do like it.
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He's a self-admitted mediocre prose artist, but he has a reasonably effective plot formula and has a genuine knack for writing fantasy action scenes, which make his books fun to read if you're into that sort of thing.
Also, there are plenty of people (hello!) who couldn't care less about his prose. I don't read to enjoy the quality of the words themselves (no shade on those who do, it's just not my thing), I read to enjoy the content those words convey. People love to dunk on Sanderson saying his prose is mediocre, but rarely seem to consider that not everyone values that the way they do.
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1mo ago
I don't agree with this. If calling someone "sir" is not subservient, then saying "yes sir" is not subservient. It's simply giving an affirmative answer while showing respect.
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you'd only say "Yes sir" to someone in a position of authority over you
I say "yes sir" to people not in a position of authority over me all the time. I even say it to people over whom I am in authority (e.g. people I hire to do work).
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Same. If /r/catholicism was representative of what the average person in the Catholic Church was like, I would have walked away a long time ago. Thankfully, that is not the case and people I interact with in person in the church are kind, gracious people who are a pleasure to know.
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1mo ago
It's true, but I didn't want to plagiarize such a great bit of description. Perhaps I should, they do say imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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I'm not proud of this trait
You should be. Modern art fucking sucks.
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1mo ago
Not that I'm aware of.
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Ah, George is posting about the beautiful women in his life, some things never cha-
The closest I can get to describing it is like when the prostate is stimulated during voiding--yeah taking you right out of the beauty of the moment, aren't I?
And they say you can't be surprised any more as you get older.
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I can't say I find my attention hijacked like you describe, but I share your distaste. When I see a channel start making videos with those thumbnails, it's a fast track to the "don't show recommendations from this channel" button. I refuse to engage with anyone who makes thumbnails that stupid.
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Started reading the Divine Comedy at the behest of a friend. It's going to be tough reading as I am not really a poetry guy, but I do want to persevere and read one of the most famous works in the literary canon. We'll see how it goes.
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The Unitarian universalist church is basically "church for people who don't believe in God". It's also extremely liberal. As such, it's pretty much the exact opposite of what you mentioned looking for in your opening paragraph. Go to another church if you want to get away from "godless progressive" communities.
Yeah I figured that it was the H2 version first, then the H1 version. So I did have the right order in mind when I said that the second iteration looks better.
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