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| Topic | I'm going to replay all the Zelda games in release order this year |
| adjl 09/25/25 10:41:46 PM #490 | I still haven't played EoW. I've had it for a while, but my backlog clearing efforts have taken me other places. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Switch 2 acquired! |
| adjl 09/25/25 10:40:38 PM #105 | I feel like Bowser only just took the job, but I guess it's actually been quite some time. He didn't really have the presence that Reggie had, though that's probably compounded by Nintendo's shift away from having press conferences that the NoA president would need to present at. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Dou get flu and Covid vaccines this year? |
| adjl 09/25/25 6:20:11 PM #8 | Not yet, but 'tis the season. I believe the Covid shot is only available here for at-risk people right now, but I'll get it once it opens up. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why are there so many ugly people in video games now? |
| adjl 09/25/25 1:26:37 PM #63 | Falgos posted... I been called "prude" due to I don't like sexual stuff. I don't like dongs though. Sorry I find those gross. A lot of people struggle to understand the distinction between being ace and just being afraid of/embarrassed by sex. Heck, a lot of people just struggle to understand asexuality in general. It's kind of an issue. Muscles posted... I'm not into that, but I know guys who are. Shit, I know the standard for beauty is big tits but I find big tits kinda gross, so like, what's the big deal if someone likes things you don't? That's really the thing. Having a plus-size model on the cover of Cosmo does not mean "everyone must be attracted to plus-size women" any more than having a blonde on the cover of Cosmo means "everyone must be attracted to blonde women." It amounts to "this woman's attractiveness is what we're choosing to highlight this issue," which is going to land with some people but not with others. That, in turn, normalizes the fact that some people find that woman attractive, as opposed to reducing that preference to a fetish by deliberately excluding that look from the concept of mainstream attractiveness. It is "brainwashing" in the sense that it's a media platform attempting to shape attitudes and expectations, but that's no more true for including plus-size models than it is for excluding them. Excluding certain looks from "this is the look we're highlighting" delegitimizes them, and, conversely, including certain looks legitimizes them. It's all "brainwashing," whether it's somebody you personally find attractive or not. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why are there so many ugly people in video games now? |
| adjl 09/25/25 12:32:03 PM #59 | Waakira slide. bachewychomp posted... The point of body positivity around being overweight is that negative reinforcement (shaming) around losing weight doesn't work. When it does "work" (in terms of losing weight), it often pushes people into dangerous methods or bad habits that are worse for their health in the long run than had they just stayed fat. Pretty much (though, if we're being pedantic about operant conditioning terms, shaming is an example of positive punishment, not negative reinforcement). It's better for both physical and mental health for people to feel "I'm happy with how I am right now" and view any changes to their appearance as improvements on that baseline happiness than for them to hate and stress about their current state. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Meme 39: A Toast to The Internet |
| adjl 09/25/25 12:16:07 PM #158 | OhhhJa posted... https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a55b273c.jpg "Off with his head!" "Which one?" --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | "Cancel Culture" |
| adjl 09/25/25 11:39:40 AM #109 | ooger posted... Well, ABC kinda backed off after losing ~$4 billion from subscribers to various live streaming services canceling their subscriptions. Which is surprising, given that the main reason they kowtowed in the first place was the FCC chairman saying "that's a nice multi-billion dollar merger you're planning over there. It'd be a shame if something were to happen to it in the court that I oversee." I guess the risk to the merger ended up being worth less than the backlash cost them. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Always get takeout, never get a table at a restaurant |
| adjl 09/24/25 10:54:56 PM #55 | wwinterj25 posted... It's not my fault some feel entitled to a tip and even if they get one they claim it's not enough. If you held the door for somebody and they gave you a penny as thanks, would you feel grateful for it? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Tell us about what shows/movies you're watching! |
| adjl 09/24/25 9:11:15 PM #2 | Currently rewatching Avatar TLA. I talked my girlfriend into watching it for the first time a couple months back (I'd watched it like 15 years ago, so I was up for a rewatch), and she got super into it such that we binged all of it and Korra (which I hadn't seen before), she got all the comics, novels, and other supplementary material like the art book, she's binged the official podcast and is now following new episodes as they come out, and we've got tickets to go see an orchestral performance of the soundtrack in Buffalo in a couple weeks. We're rewatching it now ahead of that concert. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | My work mailbox is 99% full and idk what to do. |
| adjl 09/24/25 2:44:20 PM #2 | Save a local copy for archival purposes and delete the original from Outlook. If your work is such that old emails may be needed for auditing purposes, there should already be an archival/disposition policy in place. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Do you all remember when you couldn't even fine a Wii in stores (circa 06-07) |
| adjl 09/24/25 1:44:59 PM #45 | The Brawl board was a cesspool, but it was *our* cesspool. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why are there so many ugly people in video games now? |
| adjl 09/24/25 1:16:31 PM #36 | joemodda posted... There's still a large fixation on pretty characters. All you really need to see to understand is to look at the success between Concord and Marvel Rivals That's less to do with the characters being attractive and more to do with the characters being interesting and distinct in a genre characterized by its interesting, distinct characters. Before Team Fortress 2 even launched, the "Meet the ___" series gave us a taste of each character's personality and playstyle, and at least one pre-release trailer made a point of going through some of the ways in which each class countered others (ubered Heavy takes out an Engineer nest --> Sniper kills Heavy when the uber wears off --> Spy backstabs Sniper...). That caught people's attentions, and got them thinking about what it would be like to play the game with these silly goofballs and their ever-evolving game of rock-paper-scissors-flamethrower, and that meant people were interested in the game (helped by the fact that it was available very cheaply through The Orange Box and later for free). Overwatch did much of the same, running pre-release promotional material that established personalities and combat roles, as well as having distinct character designs that reflected their playstyles. Concord... didn't. What little pre-release promotional material there was did very little to establish the unique personalities and gameplay identities of each character, character designs didn't communicate this intuitively, and prospective players really weren't given anything to encourage or help them to imagine what it would be like to play the game. That kills hype, and when the game had a $40 price tag while established competitors that did a much better job of building hype were free, that was a recipe for failure. Marvel Rivals, however, didn't have to do that promotion because decades of comics, TV, and movies had done it already. The exact nuance of what role each character plays and how that feels still takes closer inspection or actually playing the game, but everyone knows who Ironman, Wolverine, and Thor are. They're visually distinctive, have expected playstyles, strengths, and limitations already attached to them, and people have already thought "I'd like to play as ___ in a competitive multiplayer game" before the game was even announced. Right out of the gate, they had a winning formula. Attractiveness played a role in the... unofficial marketing stream that is Rule 34 (and it was relatively easy to extract detailed models from Rivals with Blender, such that they probably knew full well that that was going to end up working in their favour), in the cases of Overwatch and Rivals, but TF2 characters are comically ugly. What made them succeed and Concord fail is not that they had prettier characters, it's that Concord's roster was far too bland for it to ever stand a chance of competing in the genre even if there hadn't been established competitors. jkay posted... I hope Playstation 6 will be good though, hoping. The PS6 is going to be the PS5, but with better graphics, just as 5 was 4 with better graphics, 4 was 3 with better graphics, and so on. I don't know what else you're hoping for. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Always get takeout, never get a table at a restaurant |
| adjl 09/24/25 12:30:12 PM #45 | OhhhJa posted... I would agree if you were dining in but this is for takeout. There is next to zero service for takeout. You're essentially tipping the register and anything extra is totally optional As I mentioned earlier, tipping for takeout amounts to voluntarily giving the restaurant a little extra support. Leaving 15 cents on a $40 order does not constitute "extra support," and acting like it should suggests that you think the restaurant is so desperate for your money that they should take whatever they can get. That is, again, using the tip jar as an opportunity to dispose of small change you can't be bothered to handle, not an actual act of generosity. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why are there so many ugly people in video games now? |
| adjl 09/24/25 12:23:56 PM #30 | ParanoidObsessive posted... Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is another game that kind of shows off how that particular red flag can indicate a disaster waiting to happen. When they released concept art of what the female main character was going to look like, there were complaints that it was yet another frumpy, masculinized, desexualized ugly-girl meant to minimize the male gaze. Compounded with the years of development hell, the DLC controversy, and multiple other factors, it feels like there's very little chance that game is ever going to be anything other than a clusterf*** dumpster fire. And Star Wars: Outlaws is another example, where a lot of people were borderline disturbed by what the female lead looks like in that game (and the fact that there was no option to play as a male character instead), and in the end it turned out to be a game that had WAAAY more problems than just "ugly main character". So... cases where the significant problems with the games had nothing to do with how sexy the lady protagonist was? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why are there so many ugly people in video games now? |
| adjl 09/24/25 12:18:47 PM #29 | jkay posted... Whereas now with all the Hollywood money put into games now, it starts to be worse if thats the word for it? So don't play games that have Hollywood money put into them. If you want to get away from uninspired games that chase a mainstream ideal because a bunch of executives expect that will make shareholders happiest, look at the tens of thousands of games that aren't made by giant corporations. jkay posted... So i aint saying all modern games is bad, but the mass amounts of good games of the past is different than lets say "A handful of good games nowadays". Quite a few of my favourite games ever are less than ten years old, and going back to the "this isn't my favourite, but it's a fun time" games of my youth, they're not any better than modern games I'd put in the same category. It is not just "a handful of good games nowadays." The proportion of good games coming out now is more or less as high as it's ever been (especially if we ignore the bottom end, since shovelware is easier to churn out now than ever before, but just as easy to filter out). It's just not all coming from the same 4-5 companies you're used to following. jkay posted... But in compared to games from 1985-2012jkay posted... But in compared to a certain era of music, it just doesn't hold water to lets say the 50s-2000s.. I'm not sure you understand what "era" means in this context. "Almost the entire history of home console gaming/recorded music up until the point where I decided stuff isn't good anymore" is not an "era." --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why are there so many ugly people in video games now? |
| adjl 09/24/25 11:34:26 AM #26 | You seem to be under the impression that the existence of trends means you're expected to follow those trends. You're not. If you don't care for whatever is trendy, find something else to watch or play. In games in particular, the market is huge and incredibly varied (film, less so). If you can't find something you want to play, it's because you're not looking. Again, there have been many excellent new games since you decided video gaming died in 2013. You just might have to actually look at other options instead of exclusively playing Sony and MS' flagship titles and wondering why they're all so mainstream instead of being curated to your tastes. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why are there so many ugly people in video games now? |
| adjl 09/24/25 11:25:32 AM #24 | Yes, trends in media are a thing. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why are there so many ugly people in video games now? |
| adjl 09/24/25 11:20:41 AM #22 | Sarcasthma posted... You don't get it, adjl. And also I guess Left 4 Dead invented zombies. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Meme 39: A Toast to The Internet |
| adjl 09/24/25 11:17:55 AM #148 | In all seriousness, one of my favourite findings to come out of research into the connection between Tylenol and autism is that mothers that carry some of the genetic risk factors for autism are more likely to take Tylenol during pregnancy. I think that's such a fascinating connection to find, because it just upends the potential causal relationship entirely. Finding that autism may cause Tylenol is so much wilder than finding that Tylenol (or anything else) may cause autism, and way more interesting than the usual "we found a correlation but it turns out there were confounding factors." Unfortunately, any connection there might be has now become so heavily politicized that it's going to become a nightmare to get any more useful research done. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why are there so many ugly people in video games now? |
| adjl 09/24/25 10:26:22 AM #17 | jkay posted... i blame the downfall of video games from 2013 and outwards. The fact that only good ones are remakes is... is quite sad? This just tells me you aren't actually looking for good games. There have been tons of excellent new games released since 2013. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Always get takeout, never get a table at a restaurant |
| adjl 09/23/25 11:54:53 PM #42 | wwinterj25 posted... Extra money is insulting! Handing somebody an amount of money that you wouldn't stop to pick up and expecting them to be thankful for it is insulting, yes. It's similar to handing somebody the tomatoes you picked off of your sandwich because you didn't want them and telling them to enjoy the meal. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Always get takeout, never get a table at a restaurant |
| adjl 09/23/25 5:57:22 PM #36 | Salrite posted... I agree with you one hundred percent. The thing is, tipping culture exists because customers are intentionally left with the burden of either ending it, or leaving the wait staff underpayed. Our compassion is used against us to perpetuate a predatory business relationship. It is true, the only way to end this is to throw the least well off under the bus. Pretty much. You're not wrong to say that customers shouldn't be pressured into paying an ostensibly-optional surcharge to ensure wait staff are fairly compensated, but if you choose not to tip, you're not solving the problem. All you accomplish by doing that is saving yourself some money and making it a little harder for your server to pay rent, while the laws and business practices that make tipping functionally necessary go on unchanged and uncaring of your little act of protest. Revelation34 posted... If you don't tip baggers at a grocery store then what makes this any different? Why are you still trying to attach a specific service to that support instead of answering my question about why you feel it's necessary to attach a specific service to that support? OhhhJa posted... I personally do tip for takeout and have also worked as a bartender and BOH in restaurants but thats such a ridiculous take lol. You better tip at the drive thru then so you're at least logically consistent. Don't just tip because its requested Sub-quarter tips generally carry the message of "I really disliked your service and want to make sure you understand that instead of assuming I forgot your tip." That's not offering a tip so much as it is using the tip jar as a means of disposing small change that isn't worth the effort of saving. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Always get takeout, never get a table at a restaurant |
| adjl 09/23/25 5:39:24 PM #28 | Revelation34 posted... They don't do anything other than bagging. What part of "give them a little extra support" requires the attachment of a specific service to that support? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Do you all remember when you couldn't even fine a Wii in stores (circa 06-07) |
| adjl 09/23/25 5:35:26 PM #41 | Revelation34 posted... Nobody would have played Wii Sports if it wasn't bundled. It wasn't bundled in Japan, and by May 2008 it had sold 3 million copies there (from my cursory search for regional sales data, which didn't find anything more recent). Beyond that, a non-trivial number of Wii owners only owned Wii Sports and bought the system specifically for it, and they could be expected to have bought it as a separate game (provided it wasn't too expensive). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Do you all remember when you couldn't even fine a Wii in stores (circa 06-07) |
| adjl 09/23/25 4:50:29 PM #39 | man101 posted... This feels like the proper solution. 50% off any game for that console that you purchase at the same time. However that does put the responsibility on the retailer to track that and do wade through the red tape to get reimbursed. And the deal would probably have to be limited to first party titles only, otherwise the console manufacturer would be on the hook for reimbursing the retailer for half the cost of a third party game. Could get messy. But in theory I like this more than having no game included or one specific game. The easiest option would be to charge retailers $30-40 less for the systems, letting them pocket the difference to offset what they'd lose selling the game at half price. It's not perfect, since retailers could abuse it by not selling the discounted game to customers that don't realize the deal is there, but it would cut out the logistical issues of requesting reimbursements. That, or it would just be a digital coupon, which is probably the more likely option. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Which would you rather play: OoT and MM or BotW and TotK |
| adjl 09/23/25 3:49:53 PM #19 | TheFalseDeity posted... Have not. Did hear it was a big improvement especially for sailing but was never motivated to pick up the game again. WW was a one and done for me. For me, the sailing changes and ability to check the map on the gamepad without pausing took exploration from being kind of a chore (which is a serious problem in a game that's so exploration-centric) to being genuinely fun, which made the game infinitely more enjoyable. Unfortunately, it's not like you can do much with this information now with WWHD consigned to the WiiU's dead eshop. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Which would you rather play: OoT and MM or BotW and TotK |
| adjl 09/23/25 3:30:23 PM #17 | TheFalseDeity posted... OoT, MM, and TP are the only Zelda games i actually like so its an easy pick for me. Have you tried WWHD? I was a little underwhelmed by WW's original incarnation, but the remake elevated it dramatically such that I think it's a serious contender for the best 3D Zelda. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | There's too many long-form video essays on Youtube |
| adjl 09/23/25 3:04:19 PM #25 | Cruddy_horse posted... Probably wont save you though, other people tend to just ignore videos they don't like rather than hit the dislike button, Yeah, dislikes are mostly just "I'm mad about this and the dislike button is the only way I can express that." They tend to indicate more about how unpopular the person or things being said are than about the video's actual quality. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Do you all remember when you couldn't even fine a Wii in stores (circa 06-07) |
| adjl 09/23/25 2:54:45 PM #37 | The disc drive went on mine in the middle of a 5+ hour session of Xenoblade, during which I saved exactly once, about half an hour before it died. I felt pretty lucky about that, though not so lucky about having to pay $85 (iirc) to have it repaired. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Do you all remember when you couldn't even fine a Wii in stores (circa 06-07) |
| adjl 09/23/25 2:41:40 PM #35 | Snoregasm posted... Firmly believe that every console should come packaged with "a game". I can see either argument. The biggest issue is the question of what happens if the pack-in game is something a given prospective customer doesn't want. That means they either have to accept spending money on something they don't want, or are turned away from making the purchase because they don't spend that money. Avoiding that means that the pack-in game should either be unoffensive enough that most people will want it, or cheap enough that it doesn't meaningfully inflate the cost of the console (or both). That, however, means that people are still going to have to buy a "real" game to "really" use the console, so you haven't actually solved the problem mandatory pack-ins were meant to solve. Basically, let's be real: The people that bought a Wii who were happy with only having Wii Sports would have pretty happily paid $20-40 for Wii Sports. The people that bought a Wii and wanted more than Wii Sports still had to buy a more robust game. Packing Wii Sports in was a massive marketing win not because it saved people from having to buy a game, but because its universality turned the Wii into a cultural phenomenon as everybody shared funny stories about wiimote accidents and Queen Elizabeth playing tennis with her grandsons. Everyone that bought a Wii had some experience playing Wii Sports, becoming part of that cultural prominence. I don't disagree that including a game with every system makes sense, given that you need at least one game to actually use the system, but I think that's mostly solved by bundles, especially bundles that include really popular games like Mario Kart. Otherwise, it'd be neat to see console purchases include something like a 50% off coupon for one game of your choice, but I understand why bundles are preferred over that (they sell copies of games that people might not have bought if not for the discount, while people are more willing to pay full price for the games they really want if there isn't a readily available alternative). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | What is your favorite cookie? |
| adjl 09/23/25 1:44:35 PM #14 | Lokarin posted... pumpkin cookies I've got a recipe for pumpkin chocolate chip cookies I usually make a couple times a year. I guess we're getting into that season now. I should make a batch. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Samsung putting ads on their smart fridge |
| adjl 09/23/25 1:38:11 PM #22 | Metalsonic66 posted... Chocolate chips always get too brittle in ice cream I mean, I kind of expect them to fall apart when I bite them. "Too brittle" isn't really an issue I have with any food unless it's something I have to bite and that bite causes fragments to explode everywhere. captpackrat posted... Magic Shell is much better on ice cream than chocolate chips. It's fun and all, but more for the novelty than anything else. Taste-wise, chocolate chips are generally better (by virtue of being actual chocolate and not a compound product), and both chocolate chips and any option for liquid chocolate sauce are more versatile than Magic Shell, which really only works on ice cream. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | baked donuts are garbage |
| adjl 09/23/25 1:04:16 PM #23 | TigerTycoon posted... Baked Donuts are just donut shaped cakes. They don't use yeast, aren't risen, and aren't fried (they're basically dense cupcakes). There's no reason you can't bake a yeast donut. There's also no reason you can't fry a cake donut. In either case you'll likely need to tweak your recipe to ensure your dough has the consistency it needs to stand up to your cooking method of choice, but baked/fried and yeast/cake are two separate distinctions. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | baked donuts are garbage |
| adjl 09/23/25 12:37:27 PM #21 | SunWuKung420 posted... When I said many, I mean most of them, if not all. I can buy it from Amazon but I don't want to make my own donuts, I want donuts to be made with lard again so they are good again. And, like I said, that's not common because of how much more expensive lard is (among other concerns, like not lasting as long in a fryer, making the fryer harder to clean, and turning away vegetarian/kosher/halal customers). If you want lard-based donuts, your options are to either make them yourself or sit around twiddling your thumbs hoping that somebody opens a gourmet donut place that can charge enough to cover the added cost/practicality concerns. "They" aren't going to "bring it back" in the sense of re-establishing it as the standard, because it's not a matter of any discrete entity establishing oil/shortening as a new standard. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Mega Dragonite |
| adjl 09/23/25 9:57:14 AM #158 | Salrite posted... Walking Wake and Iron Leaves made no sense. It was just one random raid that threw in a couple extra Pokemon completely out of context of anything. There is no lore or association with the main game. But now anyone who happened to miss it is screwed out of a complete dex. I believe they repeat the raids periodically, though I'm not sure how often and it's definitely a pain to be otherwise done with the game but need to keep checking news for it to avoid missing the raids when they happen. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | baked donuts are garbage |
| adjl 09/23/25 9:56:02 AM #15 | So buy it from a store that hasn't stopped carrying it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Which would you rather play: OoT and MM or BotW and TotK |
| adjl 09/23/25 9:54:28 AM #13 | Right now, OoT/MM, since I've played TotK more recently (at launch, so I guess it's actually been over 2 years, but my last OoT playthrough was 2019ish and MM was probably 2-3 years before that), but they're very different games and any moment-to-moment preference between them is going to be based on what I'm in the mood for, not on any of them being more broadly better/worse than the others. hockey7318 posted... I haven't played TotK yet. Should I continue not playing it? I had a really good time with it, but if you've played BotW recently the exploration angle may fall a bit flat because of how much of the world got reused. Exploring is still fun, and the new traversal options mean it's a different core experience from BotW, but there's enough familiarity to get in the way of being excited about finding and exploring a new area. The building mechanics make for lots of fun, creative puzzles, though, and even if exploring isn't all-new scenery, there's still a lot to find and a lot of interesting updates to BotW locations. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Have you ever dated a co worker before? |
| adjl 09/22/25 11:22:58 PM #59 | OhhhJa posted... I dont disagree. Women in their 20s can absolutely be mature for their age and it's not incredibly uncommon. Still, very unlikely that their lifestyle/interests would align with someone like me approaching 40 Yeah, I'm not about to say "no early 20's girl will ever be able to appeal to me as a partner," but at 36, I can't say I have any intention of specifically seeking out women under 25 (and not just because that would be a bit rude to the partner I already have). There's no need to rule it out altogether, but to actively seek that age range and reject anyone older? To explicitly say "every man looks for that, they just don't always admit it because of the stigma"? Zeus is doing absolutely nothing to dispel the impression that he spends every day cruising around in a yikesmobile. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Have you ever dated a co worker before? |
| adjl 09/22/25 7:05:17 PM #55 | Accrovideogames posted... I haven't found one who fit all of my criteria yet, so I'm still single. It's tough, but it's better that than settle for less and waste my time with someone who will only make me unhappy. Try not to get too hung up on that. Having standards and not just settling is important, but it's also unrealistic to expect a hypothetical partner to tick every box on a checklist, especially if your criteria are particularly specific. Mostly, just look for somebody that's a net positive for you. If having them around makes your life better than it would be without them, they're worth having around. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | What happens when you move the control stick up? |
| adjl 09/22/25 6:38:23 PM #4 | josh posted... Character runs forward --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Have you ever dated a co worker before? |
| adjl 09/22/25 1:22:27 PM #47 | Zeus posted... You mean that time I asked you about your weird buzzwords in that topic where you claimed that men have an easier time finding short-term sexual partners than women? Would that be the one? And where you insisted only rich people cheat because... reasons? If that's what you got out of the things I said in that topic, you need to revisit it after brushing up on your reading comprehension. Though, given that you're not sure what "worthwhile sexual partner" could mean, that up-brushing might be a steep ask. Zeus posted... This is some bizarre double-talk. "There are issues, but they aren't unmanageable" is not double-talk. That's an accurate description of most ideas or situations. Zeus posted... But what you don't seem to get -- or purposefully ignore -- is that it only takes ONE person not acting maturely for it to be an issue.Zeus posted... I make no secret of dating younger (not 19, but generally 20s). If a guy can date in that age range, they generally do. I wonder if these two statements could possibly be related... You can usually get a pretty good read on whether or not a prospective partner is mature enough to handle a workplace relationship before actually dating them. Dating a coworker is (or should be) closer to dating an existing friend/acquaintance than to meeting somebody new with the express intent of dating them, in that you spend some time getting to know them before your relationship evolves into something romantic. You aren't necessarily going to have gotten as close to them as you would a friend because people tend to segregate parts of their personality between personal and professional lives, but if you're close enough to consider dating you've likely seen a few cracks in that segregation already. If you don't think you understand people well enough to make those predictions, then you've identified that you're not mature enough to handle workplace dating. If you're taking things slowly enough that you can get a good handle on how well a prospective partner might handle a workplace relationship, and they still turn it into a problem, odds are they would have created a problem whether you agreed to go out with them or not. Reacting like that when you've behaved respectfully and haven't committed to more than you ended up giving suggests a combination of immaturity and malice that means they'd probably have just as likely lashed out at you for not asking them out or turning them down as for going on a date or two and breaking things off (and if we're going with "women can just make up whatever they want about how the men they date mistreated them and ruin their lives," as people like Zeus so often do, lying about being hit on is just as easy as lying about what happened on an actual date). Zeus posted... And, honestly, I said that more in the interest of fairness than anything else. "Backtracking," in this case, meaning "tacking that on for the sake of appearing fair and not just whining about how disadvantaged men are." So... exactly what you just clarified. Zeus posted... For the most part, whatever you're looking for in a relationship, you're going to have an easier time finding it with a younger woman than an older one. Emotional maturity? Education? Career progression? Life experience? Shared cultural experiences? Anything else that would amount to the relationship being an equal partnership? There are many people out there who are terrified of being in a relationship where they aren't needed, who will specifically avoid partners that could leave them too easily and work to ensure that whatever partners they end up with don't have that option. I categorically reject that. I want my girlfriend to be able to leave me whenever she wants. If she wakes up tomorrow and decides she doesn't love me anymore, I don't want her to have to worry at all about whether or not she could replace me with a roommate. I want the only thing keeping her in a relationship with me to be the fact that she wants to be with me personally. I want a totally consensual relationship between equal partners. It's certainly not impossible to get that with somebody younger (when we started dating, I was 28 and she was 22), but when you start talking about a significant age gap as an explicit preference, the subtext there is pretty obviously "I want a partner that hasn't established herself yet who will depend on me and/or is less likely to believe that she could do better," and there's just a wee bit of yikes happening there. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | baked donuts are garbage |
| adjl 09/22/25 8:55:59 AM #11 | SunWuKung420 posted... They need to bring back lard so we can have good donuts again. "Bring back"? You can still get lard and make donuts with it if you want. It's just more expensive than shortening, so most don't use it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | In video games, jumping is a necessity |
| adjl 09/22/25 8:42:14 AM #25 | SinisterSlay posted... It's funny that most animals including us jump to the same height no matter our size I suppose that actually kind of makes sense. We're all navigating the same macro environment, so any animal that does expect to be jumping in their efforts to get around is going to experience roughly the same distribution of required jumping heights, and we're all experiencing the same gravitational acceleration. I was going to say that it also makes intuitive sense based on the square-cube law (mass scales cubically with size because it's based on volume, strength scales quadratically because it's based on cross-sectional area of limbs), but I'm not sure how to reconcile that intuition with what I recall of kinematics equations and my first brush suggests that it doesn't work out, so I don't really know how to make sense of that thought or if it's even correct. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Samsung putting ads on their smart fridge |
| adjl 09/22/25 12:10:10 AM #18 | ParanoidObsessive posted... I wouldn't, s***'s disgusting. Well, yes, but you find no joy in food. I'm sure you can come up with a similar example of choosing to enhance something you'd enjoy without the enhancement for the sake of enjoying it more. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Do you remember |
| adjl 09/21/25 10:41:22 PM #4 | Everyone watches Sofie's show. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Samsung putting ads on their smart fridge |
| adjl 09/21/25 10:18:28 PM #14 | captpackrat posted... A smart fridge has potential. You could use it to display notes, keep grocery lists, control other devices like a camera doorbell, etc. Heck, all of those functions can be achieved identically to how the fridge would offer them by just sticking a tablet to the door instead of integrating one. ParanoidObsessive posted... Nope. I wouldn't describe "there are no chocolate chips on my ice cream" as a problem that needs solving, but I'll still put chocolate chips on my ice cream. Most of the things we do to outfit our homes and everyday lives are not things we need. They're things we want, because they offer an improvement over the alternative. You talk about it being "laziness" to use a roomba to replace the need to vacuum the house yourself, but is it "laziness" to use a vacuum cleaner instead of sweeping everything manually? Windows closing automatically is just an upgraded version of calling home and asking somebody to close them when it starts raining unexpectedly, which itself is a higher-tech option than having to go home yourself because you have no practical way of sending a message remotely (to say nothing of how high-tech it is to have windows in the first place). Yes, there are some very significant concerns about the connectivity of many modern appliances, given that companies seem to be finding new and exciting ways to abuse that connectivity every day, but getting violently angry over the idea of anything being fancier than your status quo isn't remotely rational. The abuse of connectivity is the problem, not the connectivity itself. Connectivity from whose abuses you can protect yourself is perfectly fine and can be helpful. Though, by and large, I agree that there's pretty much no place for "smart" appliances in the kitchen. Programming an oven to turn itself down after a certain period is about as fancy as anything needs to get, and even for the handful of people for whom that's relevant it doesn't actually save a meaningful amount of effort (particularly where it's usually a good idea to check on whatever's cooking when you turn it down instead of blindly trusting a timer). That also requires zero connectivity. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Meme 39: A Toast to The Internet |
| adjl 09/21/25 8:26:30 PM #133 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1F36LvfVQg --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Samsung putting ads on their smart fridge |
| adjl 09/21/25 8:22:13 PM #9 | ParanoidObsessive posted... No, it very much is. There's value in smart things like thermostats, awnings, or lights that you can control while away from home to make home more comfortable when you arrive. Whether or not that value is something you want is obviously subjective, but you don't need to write it off entirely. Though, again, a smart fridge makes absolutely no sense. Maybe if you've got a choice of styles of ice cubes and you remotely request that it creates a supply of the one you want ahead of time, or if you have a need to remotely monitor temperatures to make sure nothing's going wrong (though wireless thermometers aren't exactly hard to find), but otherwise fridges are not appliances that need to be controlled or adjusted on a regular basis. ParanoidObsessive posted... and in exchange requires me to agree to things I will never accept. And that's my point: Whatever conveniences they might offer, those conveniences do not justify relinquishing control over the product you bought and opening yourself up to some significant privacy concerns. That's why I say it's a good idea to stick to smart appliances over which you can retain control. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Samsung putting ads on their smart fridge |
| adjl 09/21/25 7:21:21 PM #5 | ParanoidObsessive posted... Just reinforcing my decision to never, ever buy smart appliances. It's not necessary to go quite that far, but it's a good idea to ensure that any you do buy have options for custom firmware, local APIs, or other features that will allow you to keep using them unmolested if the company goes bankrupt (financially, morally, or both). There's nothing wrong with taking advantage of the features of smart appliances (though I cannot even begin to fathom what value those features could ever offer to a fridge). The problem is companies effectively claiming ownership of the appliances you've bought and tampering with them. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | In video games, jumping is a necessity |
| adjl 09/21/25 3:35:41 PM #20 | ParanoidObsessive posted... Urban environments are where parkour was invented, so not even there. You can jump around in cities, but the key point is that urban environments are generally designed so you don't have to. You'll get the occasional large puddle or barricade that's more practical to jump over than go around, but pedestrian passages are built with the expectation that people just want to walk and maybe occasionally climb some stairs, not with gaps or ledges that require jumping. The same is not true of many hiking trails or wilderness areas (the latter aren't designed at all, by definition). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
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