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Hazuki
18hr ago
You just...you don't do that!
Yes... you do. I do. Almost everyone I know does. My 71 year old mother is getting a tattoo next month.
That's your skin! It's not a piece of paper!
No, it's a far more appropriate venue to express yourself than a piece of paper. It's for things that mean enough to you to have them etched physically onto you semi-permanently. You are a blank canvas, when you could be a work of art encompassing all of your being expressed visually. Not customising your body is like never changing the default desktop background on your PC. It speaks to a terribly boring person.
Do you want to look like the kind of person who gets tattoos?!
Interesting and attractive? Yes, actually.
Frankly, if you've never made any change to your body, no non-ear piercings, no tattoos, never dyed your hair, if you are a totally stock out-of-box generic human-brand-human, I'm just going to assume you're a dull as dishwater person. That you've never felt anything in your life strongly enough to wish to express it openly. You desire conformity, to fly under the radar, to get your head down and get on and never make waves.
This level of pearl clutching, in addition, suggests to me that you might be fairly repressed or sheltered.
FtttG
18hr ago
Their CEO had actually floated the idea of coin-operated toilets a while back, but was stymied by airline regulations.
Michael O'Leary is famous for playing the media machine like a fiddle, making outrageous announcements for Ryanair's latest cost-cutting measure which he has no intention of enacting but which get the company's name in the papers for a press cycle.
Tollund_Man4
19hr ago
- 1.5km
- 1.2km
- 6km for what looks like a vineyard in the suburbs and 9km for the really large farms.
- 5km for the nearest train (not tram) station.
- I don't think we have an equivalent in Europe but there's a supermarket 400m away and some bigger ones 2-3km away.
- 11km
FtttG
19hr ago
I've heard it's considered such an accurate representation of UK politics that some of its phrasings have entered the vernacular e.g. "omnishambles".
JTarrou
19hr ago
1: 65 miles
2: 85 miles
3: 30 yards, wheat this summer
4: 40 miles
5: 3 Miles
6: 5 miles (it technically has a regular flight to Canada), or 45 miles to an actual regional airport.
Ioper
19hr ago
Don't undervalue vigor. After meeting whatever attribute requirements for your preferred weapon you should level vigor to its soft cap of 40. Damage primarily scales through weapon upgrades before the late game so using your attribute upgrades for health is a good idea. It makes things far more forgiving and you won't be one-shotted, and you're not giving up much damage anyway.
Corvos
19hr ago
Polar bears would be Norway, but let’s say those are a marine mammal.
...makes arbitrary decisions about categories of aquatic fauna purely for convenience
...is trad Catholic
Yep, checks out ;-)
JTarrou
19hr ago
As with most new technologies, it destabilizes the economy, leading to outsize gains for those who were already in a good position. The dating market bifurcates, with more and more women using the tech to access a shrinking minority of men. Those guys are doing great. They did great in the sexual revolution, and they'll do great any time women are freed to pursue them en masse.
It's also a heyday for women to monetize their sexuality for the majority of men who are priced out of the dating market. Lots of lonely, horny young men to be milked for cash until they figure out AI chatbots are cheaper.
To be clear, most people are still going to pair up, this is all on the margins. But the margins are where movement happens, and the group of marginal sexual partners is growing.
SkoomaDentist
19hr ago
A moose once bit my sister.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
America has golden eagles, sea eagles, and bald eagles. How you measure wealthiest probably determines whether it, Australia, or Switzerland is the wealthiest country with lots of eagles- all three are way ahead of Japan, but there’s also Canada, Austria, etc in between.
You have a good point re- big snakes and Australia. The real question about whether Australia or Singapore wins that competition probably comes down to the definition of marginal.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
19hr ago
More people are choosing not to go out and do the work. Porn is easy, people are difficult.
Those who do are still getting laid.
StJohnOfPatmos
19hr ago
Like somewhere between 20 and 40%
RenOS
something is wrong
19hr ago
Dark Souls games (and ER is really just DS4) are generally designed so that they can be beaten with simple straight builds, broken weapons/skills and coop by even the filthiest casual, while a hardcore player can still challenge themselves with low LVL builds and meme weapons/skills. So absolutely everything is doable, it depends on how much work you want to put in. Mixed builds have a wide range from broken to meme depending on the details.
Generally, in DS games it's easiest to make builds by starting with a particular (upgraded) main weapon you like and maximizing its scaling + put as much as you need into survival. Then you can also use some supporting weapons, skills and spells that happen fit into that scaling, with maybe some accomodations for min reqs. There are also some melee weapons with ranged skills. Generally for lower lvls I like to put more into survival and use a high base dmg weapon with poor scaling so that I have more flexibility later on if I find a weapon I like. But if I remember correctly ER has some reskilling option so you should be able to switch entirely even if you chose poorly.
I can also give you some more concrete tips if you have something specific in mind. Later I might post my own mixed build for ER if I find the time.
quiet_NaN
20hr ago
Sounds like the streamers and their watchers really deserve each other.
Personally, I have never really gotten watching other people play video games. I can certainly believe that people, despite having literally an internet full of all sorts of porn at their fingertips, nevertheless prefer hot women streaming video games. I can also see a race-to-the-bottom dynamic happening where the best point to make money ends up being just shy of violating the content policy of your platform.
I think that the starting point of sex work is debatable. It is well known that people on TV are on average hotter than the general population. In the broadest sense, this could already be called sex work -- of you got a job reading the news because you are a nine rather than a five, then part of your job is just looking hot, and there is a continuous path from that into softcore and eventually hardcore porn. If you are streaming while wearing makeup and elaborate sexy clothes, then you are already accepting that part of your appeal is that guys will be aroused by your videos.
Presumably, a large part of your income will not be from the people who watch one or two videos of you gaming, but from the small minority which develops an unhealthy parasocial relationship with you. By not having a paywalled explicit channel, you are likely leaving most of the monetarization opportunities on the table. So getting an explicit account where you sell videos of your feet or tits likely has a big payoff.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
20hr ago
FWIW, tramp stamps, especially the pointy "tribal" ones, have the much more accurate name of Arschgeweih in German. Ass antlers.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
20hr ago
Also, it quit Warsaw Pact in 1968 due to its alignment with PRC.
Corvos
20hr ago
I’m not making a legal case. I’m observing how, in practice, events and associations change public perceptions. And of course those perceptions change most sharply in the violent and unstable.
I'm getting a 403 from the website
I wonder if it's a region-locked thing. Annoyingly, Internet Archive doesn't have it. Here's the full text anyway.
can we get a check on Coulter's law? The quoted parts seem a bit cagey about the identity of "the assailant".
Yeah, I'd be curious about that myself. I would be surprised if the assailant turns out to be a white Irishman, but I can't say it's wholly outside the realm of possibility.
AmericanSaxeCoburgGothic
Happy to be here! Goal is to post the most exclamation points.
20hr ago
A quibble but Albania was just communist and was a member of the Warsaw Pact Member, so was aligned with but was never a part of USSR.
I am prejudiced against jews, for well covered , mundane rightoid reasons, my grandfather being a pretty devoted 'antisemite' about the only notable one. And so I am less likely to be open to Jewish singers.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
21hr ago
I'm getting a 403 from the website, can we get a check on Coulter's law? The quoted parts seem a bit cagey about the identity of "the assailant".
A few weeks ago, my dad quoted some Israeli politician (whose name escapes me) at me who supposedly claimed that his proudest achievement was drawing an equivocation between anti-Zionism and antisemitism in the public consciousness. I accept that the two are not strictly equivalent, but I don't think anyone can dispute anymore that the former can often serve as a cover for the latter,
Another way to look at is: if you can't be anti-zionist without being antisemitic, because someone decided to draw an equivocation in the public consciousness that they're extremely proud of, there might come a point when they say "well, I guess that means I'm anti-semitic now".
That said, yeah, I feel the vibes have shifted on this, and it does feel kind of spooky.
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
21hr ago
Yet another advance of the digital panopticon justified by anarcho-tyranny.
You'll get digital ID for the same reasons, you'll see.
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
21hr ago
I'm well aware Americans have a longstanding hypocrisy about pornography not being art along criteria that even their Supreme Court refuses to explain, but if documenting historical machineguns or how to build 3D printed guns doesn't count as speech, then this conversation is indeed over, because all that's happening is that you don't like when the tools of censorship apply to things you like.
It's a popular position, but don't come and pretend to have any attachement to free speech as a concept if speech is narrowly restrained to the content you approve of.
If all you have to post is a low-effort snarl, put some more thought into it or just keep it to yourself.
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