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I can do it. I've done random sober months before, so why not?

That's nice, dear..

Anyway, my wife is allergic to milk. You might be amazed by how many foods have dairy in them. Everything from bread, to potato chips.

So a lot of the time we end up having to be extremely particular when cooking or ordering food. Basically no desserts are safe when eating out, unless they are explicitly vegan.

What I'm saying is, particular dietary restrictions are easy to accommodate once you get used to them. Well maybe not easy, but they get easier over time.

Honestly no. I can't even remember the last time I really thought much about a celebrity death. People die. It's just how life is.

I've literally never even heard of any of those.

Man, this topic is making me feel old.

I used to have a group of friends who were furries. This was probably around 2009-2010, when I was in college. I did not know what a furry was at the time, and was probably at roughly a similar level of ignorance as the TC.

Anyway, my recollection of this group of furries, in particular, is that they were basically just like cosplayers, only for some reason they gravitated heavily towards anthropomorphic animal type characters. They would all go to anime / comic conventions and cosplay, though they wouldn't exclusively cosplay furry characters.

Most of them owned at least one expensive custom fursuit that they paid a lot of money to have custom made for them. Those that didn't have one, either had just a head and paws, or were saving up in order to pay a fursuit creator to build them one.

I was into cosplay at the time, but I remember thinking that the dumbest part of the whole thing was paying so much money for a custom fursuit. Why would you drop over $1,000 to have a suit made of some random character that you just made up? Again, we were in college, and this was like 15 years ago. $1,000 was a shit ton of money to me at the time.

Only 1-2 of them were into the sexual side of the of the fandom. Interestingly enough, all of the other furries in the group thought that those people were very weird for treating fursuiting as a sexual endeavor. To them, I guess it really was just self expression / art.

I actually went out fursuiting with them a couple of times. I obviously didn't own my own fursuit, but we found an old gorilla costume in someone's attic that I guess was someone's dad's Halloween costume years earlier, so I wore that.

From what I remember, fursuiting basically consisted of the following:
- Going outside and walking around.
- High fiving children.
- Taking pictures with random people who were curious as to why there's a bunch of people dressed as animals in the park.
- Going into random businesses just to see people's reactions.
- Going bowling or mini golfing.
- Acting "in character" just to see people's reactions.
- Trying to see who could come up with the funniest sounding coded furry language and then chuckling about it (paw-lease = please, furr-iend = friend, purrfect = perfect, etc).
- Going over to someone's place afterwards to drink beer and playing board games.

Anyway, that's and just my experience with the fandom. I think I have an overall neutral, maybe slightly positive opinion of the fandom as a whole.

It's just people doing something that they find enjoyable / have an affinity for. It just so happens that this thing is something that most external observers find to be weird.

I'd do it. $10 million is enough to live on for life, assuming it's tax free. I would allocate at least a million to each to the following:
1.) Buying a home (maybe $2 million, depending on what I could find).
2.) Short-term investments.
3.) Retirement account.
4.) Liquid cash.
5.) A fund just to pay for friends to travel to Australia to hang out.
6.) Opening a small business.
7.) Giving away to friends & family (I would do this over time, not just all at once).

I'm sure Australia has plenty to do to entertain me for the rest of my life.

Dude, that isn't even bad, I know people who have spent thousands on individual games over a couple of years. When I asked them "do you know how many games you could have bought for this amount?" I'm usually met with something along the lines of "but I really like this one!"

It's no wonder that video game companies prioritize microtransactions over making quality games. It's extremely lucrative and much more long-term, for far less effort. If they can get one person to dump $1,000 into microtransactions for every 10 people who would actually pay full price for a full length game, they are making bank with very little effort. And Trust me, the number of people who will actually dump a bunch of money into micro transactions is probably higher than many of you think.

I had a case of mini cans. Still have 1 in the fridge. It tastes like vanilla coke with a weird aftertaste.

4/10

adjl posted...

If you're expecting potential partners to only ever have sex with people they're never going to break up with, that's going to be pretty limiting, especially that young. The vast, vast majority of people don't stick with their high school partners long-term, and most people have sex when they're in a relationship that they're currently happy with.

That's also assuming she had a choice in the sex, which isn't always true.

It shows their long-term plans include a kid. That's not necessarily a lack of planning, just not something you've planned for (which is a perfectly legitimate reason not to get involved, but it's important to recognize that that's a decision you're making for yourself and not a failure on their part).

Even used properly, birth control isn't 100% effective. It's certainly more likely that any given pregnancy is due to a lack/misuse of birth control and not just that it's one of the unlucky 0.1% of people that end up with an embryo that laughs at their feeble IUD, but there are still many, many pregnancies every year that are a product of perfectly legitimate bad luck when it comes to birth control, not any sort of negligence.

That's really the only definite one.

That's part of #2, and there's no reason career/life planning can't include an early kid. There's an argument to be made that it actually makes things easier, since you get the more demanding early childhood part out of the way before you start establishing a career and therefore don't have to disrupt it once it's established (an especially important consideration in a country with no guaranteed mat leave).

That's true of literally every single person who's ever been in a relationship before. And then for everyone who's never been in a relationship before, there's the question of whether or not something about them is the reason they've never been in a relationship before. Kids are entirely ancillary to that question.

Again, that's fair, but frame it as you not wanting a lifestyle that involves a kid, not assuming some kind of personal failures or undesirable traits on her part. That's all you need to justify your decision.

It's so weird that you're taking up for random person mentioned in a story that you've never heard of before. And then using extreme edge cases, like the 0.1% of times birth control isn't effective, to justify your overly assumptive and strange arguments.

This person can't simultaneously have gotten pregnant from a random sex partner, decided to keep the kid, is smart in selecting partners / possible fathers, have a great life planning skills (and then you also bring up the possibility of the sex being forced, wtf), and also have a great life path, being an unemployed 20 year old single parent trying to spend time hitting on a random 19-year old who isn't interested instead of taking care of her kid.

adjl posted...

Yes and no. Certainly, I'm not going to want to date somebody who doesn't share my philosophy that it's important to at least get along with their kid, because that's a pretty core value that I don't want to compromise on, but it's often not so clear-cut as that. They may be hoping that the kid comes around, particularly if they believe that the difficulties are a matter of the kid deliberately acting out to sabotage their parents' dating and they'll stop once they've had enough exposure to the idea to realize it's not so bad. That hope may be misplaced, if the kid just needs more therapy or to grow up a bit before trying the "you'll get used to it" strategy, or it may be more reasonable than it seems at first glance, such that I'm inclined not to jump immediately to "you suck because you're trying to date me even though your kid isn't happy with it." If it turns out that the relationship with the kid isn't salvageable or that the parent just doesn't care how they feel, that's when it becomes more of a dealbreaker.

This is, of course, assuming it's a younger kid. If the kid's grown and out of the house, they're functionally not that different from any of the person's friends or other adult family and the need to get along with them evolves accordingly: Active animosity is bad, since you don't want your partner's friends/family to dislike the idea of visiting them in their home because you'll be there, but so long as there's basic civility there it's not really a problem.

Arguably, the only traits is shows are "had sex as a teenager" and "the mother chose not to get an abortion." There's a fair chance that it also shows that they just didn't bother with birth control, but I'm also inclined to trust that somebody making that mistake as a teenager (a demographic notoriously bad at personal risk assessment because they're collectively a walking Dunning-Kruger effect) doesn't necessarily mean they're still making it as an adult, plus there's a non-trivial chance that they did use birth control and it just failed. Choosing not to get an abortion may be an irreconcilable difference of values, if you're of the mind that you'd rather get an abortion than move forward with a pregnancy before you're ready to have a kid together, but otherwise being sexually active as a teenager and not remaining in a high school relationship aren't really red flags on their own.

Now, multiple kids from multiple different parents at a relatively young age? Then you start getting into questions of gambler's fallacy, baby trapping, and other issues that are a lot harder to look past. It's also entirely legitimate to just plain not want to dive into parenthood in any capacity before you feel ready for it. Even if, ostensibly, they aren't going to expect you to be a parent, forming a relationship with their child will inescapably come up if the relationship with them goes anywhere, and them being a parent means they're going to be limited in what they can do by their parental obligations (both time-wise and money-wise).

To me it shows, at the minimum:

1.) Poor choice on who to have sex with.
2.) Lack of long-term planning.
3.) Not using birth control, or carelessness when using birth control.
4.) Unwillingness to get an abortion.
5.) Being completely hamstrung when it comes to career and life opportunities.

Plus it also raises the question of, maybe she was the reason the relationship didn't work out. Just far too much baggage for a 19 year old to want to deal with.

I remember there was this girl with a kid who was interested in me when I was 19. I completely noped the fuck out of there, but she kept pursuing me because we had mutual friends and would hang out in the same group sometimes. I told her straight up that I was not interested because she had a kid. I distinctly remember her saying something like "I wouldn't ask you to be like, a father to him."

I was of the mindset that if you are 20 and already had a kid with someone you were broken up with, it shows a number of traits found in someone who I wouldn't be interested in getting in a relationship with.

Nowadays though? I'm in my 30's. If I was single I wouldn't immediately rule it out. There's lots of people around my age who have kids and are divorced. I understand that people just grow apart sometimes. The person would need to have a stable life and be someone whom I thought I was legitimately was compatible with.

Watching the announcement video gave me bad vibes of like, 15-20 years ago. Sony came off arrogant, and also dated in what they talked about and how they talked about it.

Then the price tag was the final nail in the coffin. I understand things are absurdly expensive nowadays, inflation, etc. But you can't charge significantly more than your direct competitors and expect to get away unscathed.

I used to hate Limp Bizkit back in the late 90's / early 2000's, but that was mainly due to Fred Durst. After actually listening to their stuff in the early 2010's, I became a fan because the band can actually write some great hooks / music.

Despite the fact that most Fred Durst lyrics are still pretty cringe, it makes for an enjoyable listening experience because you can laugh at the vocals while grooving to the music.

I would just think meh, who cares, that was 17 years ago, and we were children. Besides, I'm pretty sure that most of the people who bullied me in high school are and were in a pretty shitty situation in life.

I was at my 10 high school reunion a few years back, and while there wasn't anyone there who bullied me specifically, there were definitely some people there who were accessories to the bullying. Some of them just avoided me. One guy came up to me and said "wow, you've come so far, what caused you to come out of your shell?" Basically implying that it was perfectly fine that everyone treated me like an outcast when I was in high school because I was weird, whereas now, I'm much more social, good looking, and successful, therefore I'm worthy of being treated like a human being.

I would obviously go with the ps1, as I was never super interested in an N64. Which is weird, because some of my earliest gaming memories were playing an SNES at my uncle's place. But I was still much more interested in what the PS1 had to offer.

Everything the N64 had to offer, I either wasn't interested in, was also available on ps1, or the PS1 had as well. Like for example, Mario Kart. I thought (and still do think) Crash Team Racing was better. I'd rather have Crash and Spyro to Mario. Resident Evil was also on PS1, and at the time I didn't really understand or see much difference between either version, though I hear some people think the N64 version was better (still not sure why though?) I had zero interest in Zelda at the time, and many of Nintendo's other exclusives I was just unaware of, or didn't have interest in.

Usually between $20-$100. If I have more, I'll deposit it in the bank or stash it somewhere.

Better or worse than this:

https://youtu.be/oDEPd7ygIII?si=j1zZujDJDeHchBd7

adjl posted...

I think it's fairer to assume the incident didn't even happen at all and TC made it up because he expected it to earn him some sympathy points, but secondary to that I am inclined to assume that "grabbed her shoulder" doesn't mean "gently tapped her shoulder to get her attention."

To be honest, if what he says is actually true, the girls reaction would likely be considered assault and he could actually have her arrested for it. My understanding of the law is that the girl would essentially have to argue that kicking someone in the groin and pepper spraying them in the face is proportional force in response to someone grabbing her shoulder. I feel like it would be very hard to argue. I've been to busy clubs, and people get bumped, and jostled on dance floors all the time. It would be a pretty uphill battle to argue that her response would not constitute excessive force.

This is assuming the very unlikely scenario that this actually happened.

GranTurismo posted...

Why were you homeschooled, before?

My parents just wanted to do it. I honestly never got a good explanation for why they started.

I got a good explanation for why they stopped through. It was because they were having a hard time keeping up with what they were teaching me, and the lessons got too time consuming for their liking.

I worked out on Friday, and I'm going to be working out again today, so I put "day before yesterday". Usually that's the longest space between workouts for me.

Mystery_man2 posted...

Not a lot in elementary scho
High school was ok but was still picked on, mainly for how I dressed. It was another Christian school and the guys wondered why I never dressed nice.

It's so weird and random what kids would pick on you for. I got picked on in elementary school because I dressed TOO nice. I was homeschooled up until 5th grade, so when I went into public school, I used to always wear these nice collared shirts because that's what my mom taught me. Whereas everybody else at public school would just wear stuff like t-shirts, shorts, and jeans.

It's like "He doesn't conform, get him!"

Zareth posted...

Uzi nine millimeter

Phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range.

TimeCrisis posted...

Hey just whatcha see pal

Yes, frequently. The first time I remember in public school was when a girl on my bus in 5th grade used to tease me, and physically hit me frequently. No one took it seriously because it was a girl being physically abusive to a boy.

In middle school, there was a larger kid who used to frequently make fun of me for... various reasons. Whatever he could come up with that he thought was hurtful. I think he physically hit me a few times too, but it wasn't as frequently.

Then in high school, also on the bus, there was this older kid, I believe he was a senior when I was a freshman. Used to bully me occasionally, but often was too distracted with his older friends to pay too much attention to me. I remember one time he punched me in the balls so hard that I ended laying on the floor for about 10 minutes because the pain was so bad.

Oh, there was also this kid who used to bully me in gym class and call me fat, plus make fun of me whenever I didn't do anything physically well. Looking back, I wasn't even particularly fat or bad at sports, this kid just had it out for me for some reason. I think this would have been 10th grade.

There were other instances, but those were probably the 4 most memorable.

I started getting some of those too. It might just be what's hot on the algorithm right now and everybody's getting them.

captpackrat posted...

I would add that if an intersection has a traffic light and the lights are non-functional, it should be treated as an all-way stop.

It's amazing how many people don't know this. I live in a large city, and every time a traffic light goes out, there's people going 3, 4, 5 cars at a time (or more) instead of treating it like a stop sign.

It's like they must mentally think "oh, the car in front of me is moving, I need to keep moving too!" without even a second thought.

Jen0125 posted...

Under the care of a medical professional. Alcohol withdrawals can kill you.

If the issues you're having really are that severe, this is sound advice.

In 1999, over 90% of the user base was under 25.

Now less than 4% or the user base is under 25.

I used to, but ever since I moved into a condo in a big city, doing it on my own is more hassle than it's worth. Since I don't have a driveway or garage, I'd either need to do it in visitor parking or in my parking spot. And I'm pretty sure that's frowned on.

KJ_StErOiDs posted...

Craig Ferguson.

And Vanna isnt host material - she proven that when shes filled in for Pat.

Craig Ferguson would actually be a great pick.

I'd say thin crust is more of something you can eat more regularly, whereas deep dish is more of a special occasion type thing.

Sure, why not? Been together for over 10 years at this point, and she's seen it all. I don't really post that often though, so I'm not sure there's going to be that much embarrassing stuff, even if some of it from like when I was a teenager would be a little cringe.

This post feels so like... 2006. I feel like the hype around these types of events is just non-existent anymore. Nobody really treats them seriously since E3 died.

Melody_JR posted...

100% every single person who follows TC's style of advice is being a creep, and annoying about it.

If they're following it based off of this topic, or with similar intentions, probably.

joemodda posted...

^from my observations its usually the older folks that are less respectful of people's time and more prone to make inappropriate comments. I think younger folks generally have better respect for other's personal space and time.

I think this is a inaccurate generalization. I see many young people jabber jawing with other young people, and many old people who keep entirely to themselves. I would say though that I generally see old people as more likely to approach and to talk to young people rather than vice versa.

Melody_JR posted...

Ill pass. Im not going to bother women trying to get their workouts done. The gym is not a place to be approaching people.

Meh, lots of people like talking and being sociable at the gym. It's perfectly fine, as long as you're not creepy or annoying about it.

If you have the receipt and you actually bought it from a legit place, and not used, they should honor the warranty, regardless of when it was manufactured. Unless Apple has some stupid rule hidden in their terms, which the probably do, because they're Apple.

Not sure if op is serious or sarcasm.

Maybe it was because I watched it at home and not a theater, or maybe because I was over the age of 15 at the time, but I found that scene to be cringy af. They obviously meant it to seem like a powerful moment, but it hit about as hard as Jared Leto's Joker to me.

It's so strange to me that people actually care about this. As someone who thinks that celebrity gossip is literally one of the most pointless and stupid things to waste your time on, can someone please explain this to me?

I think the increased cleanliness procedures were in many ways a good thing, especially in the food industry.

I also like to be idea of doing work that doesn't need to be done in person over the internet or hybrid. I feel like the pandemic pushed people into being a lot more comfortable with this.

Finally, on a personal level, I liked that several of my friends from years ago all got together and would watch movies and old TV shows on discord together, since nobody could go out and do things in person. It actually brought together people that I hadn't seen in a long time, which was nice.

**I guess one more thing that was pretty nice was the fact that I didn't need to get up super early in the morning most days, as I could work at my own leisure most of the time.

Nirvana immediately comes to mind.

They only had 3 studio album, only 2 of which were commercially successful at the time, and yet they are regarded by many as one of the most influential bands of all time.

Get drunk and then you'll forget all about it.

I liked Crash back in the day, but over the last 2 decades they massacred my boy, so I just put other.

Back in the day before it was canceled it was official PlayStation magazine for me. Loved those demo discs.

Revelation34 posted...

The paintballs wouldn't fuck with you for years.

They could cause permanent internal damage, or possibly even kill you. 1000 successive micro traumas to the stomach could probably puncture your stomach.

The obvious answer is sticking your head deep inside of a used Porta potty. While it may be completely terrible and much acutely worse than pretty much all the other options, it is over far quicker than things that would literally be fucking with you for years. I do that once, take a deep shower/clean of myself, and then enjoy my wealth for decades to come.

Too bad you all drove him off with your lame sensibilities!

But do they call you a space cowboy?

I've never played it myself.

THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

It literally breaks down your fat

No, it doesn't.

Ketosis uses dietary fats, unless you are in a calorie deficit, then it will utilize stored fats. A calorie deficit can also be achieved with any diet, including but not limited to the keto diet.

Why do you care if you're in ketosis? It basically has no impact on whether or not you're going to lose weight.