throwaway-7743
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throwaway-7743
9mo ago
Hard to say. Depends on the situation and the people involved. Some people want the truth no matter how painful. Others would rather live a lie and/or shoot the messenger.
Have a specific situation?
throwaway-7743
9mo ago
Not so current any more, but I think I and virtually everyone here understands Superman better than Zack Synder. I think we all could answer the question: "Do we make Jimmy Olsen a brunette CIA agent and shoot him in the face? Y/N?" correctly.
COVID-19 and streaming services training people to stay home and wait for a streaming release instead of going to the theater. Folks tightening their belts due to the economy and inflation and spending less on entertainment in general. Competition with Youtube, Twitch, TikTok, Steam, Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo, Spotify, etc. Crowded release schedule. Particular IPs and/or franchises overstaying their welcome (DCEU, Indiana Jones, Disney Remakes). Certain diversity castings not going over well (The Little Mermaid possibly). People tired of mediocre films.
throwaway-7743
9mo ago
Listening before speaking. Reading before writing. Best way to learn a language is by listening, but there needs to be some context to what you're hearing, similar to how we learned language as infants. Audiobook + physical book + translation dictionary is your best bet. Lots of illiterate people can speak a language. Lots of jazz musicians couldn't read sheet music.
throwaway-7743
10mo ago
This too shall pass. Eat healthy, hydrate, prioritize sleep, walk or exercise, meditate, etc. Treat yourself well. You'll get through it.
throwaway-7743
10mo ago
I read it back in high school during the mid-aughts. I remember liking The Navidson Record, but not particularly caring for the Zampanò and Johnny Truant elements of the story. I was too impatient at the time to fully investigate the footnotes.
I found the story structure more interesting in theory than in execution. It felt like a critique or deconstruction of something I was unfamiliar with.
It was okay. Kinda gimmicky. I think The Navidson Record is a nice little horror story.
throwaway-7743
10mo ago
Nations as far afield as Hungary, China, and Iran are trying to save themselves from declining birthrates... Should they try to import American Country culture?
Countries will try what they can to reverse declining birthrates, but it won't save them ultimately. There are macro reasons for declining birthrates, larger than countries or culture. You can't have infinite growth on a finite planet. You'll eventually run out of resources and/or your toxic byproducts will kill you. And people are already feeling both. Everything is becoming more expensive. That trend won't stop. People want to maintain their standard of living. So they'll have fewer children. Because children are expensive. And they might actually care about the quality of life of their children. And of what use are children if there is no environment to sustain them?
Miscavige strikes me as someone with full-blown narcissistic personality disorder. And narcissists don't think like non-narcissists. They really don't care about objective truth. Words are merely a means to an end. They're tools or weapons, like teeth and claws. Used to manipulate their environment in order to get what they want: narcissistic supply. They'll tell a useful lie and then instantaneously believe it. It's more convincing if it's believed.
"Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia."
There's no inner core. They're predators running on subconscious protocols/impulses.
Think of narcissists as solipsistic alien hiveminds. You are merely an extension of them. A conduit of their psyche. The leg does what the brain says. That's why when Jim Jones decides it's time for him to commit suicide, it's everyone's time to commit suicide. Cult leaders and family annihilators have the same thought patterns.
I'm rambling, but I would say he doesn't think like you or me in the same way that spiders don't think like you or me. His beliefs are useful delusions. He doesn't believe in the mythos in the same way that I believe the Sun rises in the East and sets in the West.
EDIT: Whatever is useful in the moment, he believes. They're amorphous.
throwaway-7743
10mo ago
If you're monogamous, look for a hetero-/bi-/pan- romantic asexual woman.
https://www.asexualcupid.com/ might work.
I don't think you can screw things up too badly doing a 16:8 diet. The alternating days diet seems more sketchy to me, but maybe I'm wrong. Cut sugar out of your diet as well as processed grains. Drink enough water each day. Make sure you get all your electrolytes. Get high quality sleep. Don't eat or drink 2-3 hours before going bed. Don't look at screens or artificial light 1-2 hours before bed. Get a sleep study done. Get an oral appliance and/or CPAP if needed. Exercise and not too intensely before bed. Blah blah blah.
throwaway-7743
10mo ago
I like Mourning Doves because their call reminds me of home. They're clumsy dum-dums.
Blue jays are radiant, territorial dickheads. They're characters. I like 'em.
throwaway-7743
10mo ago
Darn. I think I used to think it was "toeing the line," as in not crossing a red line or a line in the sand, and then erroneously changed it to "towing the line," like carrying the water for [blank]. Thanks for the correction.
He's not unlike Jordan Peterson. Both likely have Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Low empathy. Emotionally dysregulated at times. Delusions of grandeur. Paranoid. Both think "they" are out to get them, to silence them. Peterson thinks he's a prophet of sorts and has a politically conservative, Christian-ish agenda. Tate's more of a hedonistic grifter who plays the "top g" character. Both are very theatrical. Very performative. Clownish at times. Not unlike Trump.
And yet, at times, they've delivered far more truthful statements than the vast majority of adults in my life personally.
Would I want to hang out with Tate or have my sister date him? Hell no. But I view him like gore websites. Not particularly healthy to view, but offers a closer depiction of reality than MSNBC, CNN, or Fox News. And even gore videos can have agendas (America bad! Ukraine bad! Russia bad! China bad!). But the bias is out in the open. And you can take what's truthful (human nature) and discard the agendas (political or religious or financial or whatever).
throwaway-7743
10mo ago
If you're referring to his critics, they dislike him "using multiple women" because they either genuinely believe the women are being used, or they cynically think he's exposing women's nature, warts and all, and they want him to stop for some self-serving reason, real or imagined.
If you're referring to his followers, they think that women "want to be used" (or led) and that his success with women proves his thesis about how women are. They respect him for walking the walk.
I find him difficult to summarize succinctly, but his wikipedia page does a fair job. He's a notable figure in the manosphere. A portion of (conservative?) Millennial and Gen Z males look up to him.
Calls a spade a spade. Speaks about the competitive, hierarchical nature of today's global, capitalistic society as well as the hypergamous nature of women. Doesn't sugarcoat reality like mainstream media. Mainstream media dislikes him for not towing the party line and, worst of all, being popular. Mainstream media tries to discredit him.
He tells the worker drones the truth. Can't have that.
EDIT: More specifically, he's discussed how marriage, divorce, child support, and alimony are rigged against men. How men are disposable cannon fodder, and how the state (and women) don't have men's best interests at heart. How, outside of specific degrees and/or career paths, college is a scam. Things the state doesn't want to be common knowledge among the populace.
EDIT 2: The college bit might've been his brother Tristan. Though Andrew may have spoken about it at some point, I don't know. Also he's not against marriage or divorce or child support or alimony in theory, but he thinks the current laws in the west favor women too strongly. And he's not anti-women, he's just realistic about their nature and biological imperative, which isn't the same as men's.
I like Justice but it might be on the heavier side at times for small children.
Yellow Magic Orchestra might be good but I haven't listened to any of their albums all the way through.
throwaway-7743
11mo ago
I currently am not because my new license-plate doesn't fit my old license-plate frame for some odd reason, and I'm too cheap and/or lazy to purchase a replacement.
But I echo @MollieTheMare's sentiments.
When ads get that distracting, I'd rather not consume either product (NBA or Ruffles). Strangely, I'm okay with product placement when entertainment leans into it like Wayne's World or Idiocracy, or like the KFC dating sim.
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury. New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Depends on how many players. If only two, there's probably more.
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