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| Topic | The FBI have raided Mar a Lago today |
| adjl 08/09/22 3:28:48 PM #37 | Jen0125 posted... "no shit?" i guess The very epitome of "working as intended." --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I think both "woke" and "anti-woke" have gone too far. |
| adjl 08/09/22 3:25:51 PM #17 | It's quite a bit more than just movies, but again, I can see the appeal in burying your head in the sand and ignoring that. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Be poor and surrounded by the wealthy, or wealthy and surrounded by the poor? |
| adjl 08/09/22 3:24:34 PM #51 | Jen0125 posted... crime rates don't frighten me. This is something a lot of people struggle to understand. Outside of really extreme cases, the odds of being personally victimized by crime (especially serious crime) are generally fairly low, so differences of even an order of magnitude often aren't overly meaningful in terms of personal well-being. That's not to say walking alone at night through a bad part of town is going to be a good idea, but it does mean being paranoid about relatively small increases in crime rate isn't particularly reasonable. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Be poor and surrounded by the wealthy, or wealthy and surrounded by the poor? |
| adjl 08/09/22 2:52:19 PM #40 | Eh, I'd say that crime rates are intrinsic enough to the question at hand that it can be inferred that you considered your local crime rates and decided that they aren't high enough to be a problem for you (which is most likely true, given that you still live there despite having the means to move). It wasn't explicitly addressed, but presumably it's already factored into your opinion. Now, the assumption that this either means your area has near-zero crime or that you enjoy living in a high-crime area is an example of Schmen's typical black-and-white thinking. That is indeed weird to infer. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I think both "woke" and "anti-woke" have gone too far. |
| adjl 08/09/22 2:50:08 PM #15 | Ignoring the world's problems does tend to be more pleasant than taking an interest in them, yes. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Be poor and surrounded by the wealthy, or wealthy and surrounded by the poor? |
| adjl 08/09/22 2:49:24 PM #38 | You always did have trouble thinking in moderate terms. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Plant based foods |
| adjl 08/09/22 2:47:48 PM #41 | grimhilde00 posted... tofu I think shines when it's just meant to be tofu, not trying to imitate other things Though, at the same time, you really need to do something with tofu to make it palatable. Most meats, you can get away with just adding salt/pepper and cooking it, provided you use a suitable method for the piece you've got. Try that with tofu, and you don't get much of anything because it's such a neutral flavour on its own. The flip side of that is that it's extremely versatile and you can season it with just about anything, and that's pretty nifty, but it does mean that people that don't know how to prepare it will often end up not liking it and staying away from it. In general, though, what you've said is my opinion on a lot of vegetarian/vegan imitations. Many of the imitations just end up trying too hard (often being pretty highly processed) and still don't end up being decent imitations. If I'm eating a vegetarian dish, I want to eat a dish that's not ashamed to be vegetarian and doesn't try to pretend to be something else. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Be poor and surrounded by the wealthy, or wealthy and surrounded by the poor? |
| adjl 08/09/22 2:36:48 PM #32 | Perhaps it would help if you shared your definitions, so we can at least understand what language you're trying to speak. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Be poor and surrounded by the wealthy, or wealthy and surrounded by the poor? |
| adjl 08/09/22 2:30:41 PM #30 | DietSchmendrake posted... So, it's just middle class, but your scale didnt slide down with reality, like I said before.adjl posted... If you want to move the goalposts to an extent that renders the word "destitute" redundant, sure, but most of the English-speaking world would disagree with you, so I'm inclined to say that's a rather poor communication strategy. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Be poor and surrounded by the wealthy, or wealthy and surrounded by the poor? |
| adjl 08/09/22 2:28:03 PM #28 | DietSchmendrake posted... Yo, if you want to take the time to condense that s*** into the sentence or 2 of actual content, I'm more than happy to read, but unlike some of the people here, I dont equate long winded with smart so your usual schtick has no effect. As I've pointed out to you before, if you want a TL;DR version of a piece of persuasive writing but haven't been handed one, you can usually skip to the last couple sentences for a summary of the conclusions. DietSchmendrake posted... So not poor then. If you want to move the goalposts to an extent that renders the word "destitute" redundant, sure, but most of the English-speaking world would disagree with you, so I'm inclined to say that's a rather poor communication strategy. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I think both "woke" and "anti-woke" have gone too far. |
| adjl 08/09/22 2:18:31 PM #9 | Blightzkrieg posted... That tells me pretty much everything I need to know about the motives. It's not even necessarily a misogyny thing. I expect more of it is "this is what the libs want so we oppose it." Now all we need to do is organize a campaign to advertise how much the libs like breathing, and the problem will solve itself. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | they need to make screens for car windows |
| adjl 08/09/22 2:11:51 PM #2 | https://www.homedepot.com/p/Phifer-36-in-x-84-in-Charcoal-Fiberglass-Screen-Kit-with-Spline-and-Roller-3024907/100391974 https://www.homedepot.com/p/Klein-Tools-5-1-8-in-Steel-Straight-Trimmer-7135-P/302589175 https://www.homedepot.com/p/Nashua-Tape-1-89-in-x-30-yd-300-Heavy-Duty-Duct-Tape-in-Silver-1529729/301079015 --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Be poor and surrounded by the wealthy, or wealthy and surrounded by the poor? |
| adjl 08/09/22 2:09:33 PM #25 | DietSchmendrake posted... I know its been a while, but you know I'm not going to read all that adjl. And you know I don't particularly care what you read. Ignorance is your choice, after all. DietSchmendrake posted... So what you mean to say is that it's not REALLY low income, and more like middle class, but your perspective of the middle class hasnt shifted down with the times. More likely, it's actually low-income, it's just not completely destitute. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I think both "woke" and "anti-woke" have gone too far. |
| adjl 08/09/22 2:05:35 PM #5 | They still think it's "woke" when people go "hey maybe blackface isn't cool." Unless it's Trudeau, then they all agree that it's terrible and consider it to be a good reason to remove him from office. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | People who seriously critique a story when the story is not meant to be serious. |
| adjl 08/09/22 1:31:05 PM #10 | Judgmenl posted... Not everything needs to be over thought to obsession. Axiomatically, nothing needs to be overthought. If it needs to be overthought, then that's not overthinking, that's just an appropriate level of thinking. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Be poor and surrounded by the wealthy, or wealthy and surrounded by the poor? |
| adjl 08/09/22 1:05:26 PM #18 | Generally speaking, dividing neighbourhoods by SES is a bad idea regardless of who goes where. At one extreme, you get ghettos. At the other, you get gated suburbs that disproportionately influence city planning in their favour at the expense of every other region (often actually making it worse for themselves because car-centric infrastructure also sucks for cars). Addiction, crime, and all the other issues associated with the poor are heavily influenced by the environment those involved grow up in: If you actually have parks and passable scenery and functional schools and readily available basic services and community activities, people are much less likely to be so miserable that they resort to drugs or criminal shenanigans just to feel something. That shithole you grew up in? It's a shithole because a bunch of rich people insisted that it not be anywhere near them. There are more factors to the issue than that, obviously, but the bottom line is that actually trying to solve the problems of homelessness and poverty is going to do a much better job of fixing those issues than pushing them somewhere else will. For all you complain about the problems you faced growing up, you've grown up to become part of those problems instead of trying to solve them. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Trump attorney "may" have been involved in voter fraud |
| adjl 08/09/22 11:39:42 AM #10 | Gaawa_chan posted... It's not entirely fair to blame voters in general when the nation is so heavily gerrymandered and does not operate off of the popular vote. While the majority of the general voting public isn't responsible, gerrymandering can only do so much, and the minority that is responsible is still a very significant one. Trump won with 46.1%, to Hillary's 48.2%, and you generally aren't going to see much larger margins than that. At best, you might see a 60/40 split, and 40% of voters is still a lot of people to blame. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Does Starbucks count as "fast food?" |
| adjl 08/09/22 11:35:43 AM #5 | It's kind of borderline. They do a lot to streamline the process of obtaining the product compared to non-fast alternatives (drive-thrus, parallel processing, more pre-made stuff than might be considered typical), and as a result tend to provide faster service, but at their core they are still a cafe and their primary products (coffee et al) are prepared more or less the same way they would be at any other cafe for which you wouldn't consider asking this question. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | People who seriously critique a story when the story is not meant to be serious. |
| adjl 08/09/22 10:43:39 AM #8 | Revelation34 posted... People seriously need to learn that not explaining something doesn't make it a plot hole. If an inconsistency isn't resolved (whether by explicitly explaining it, or by having some other pieces of the plot do so implicitly), then by definition it is a plot hole, but some people try way too hard to find plot holes that are too irrelevant and/or trivial to be worth bringing up. In many cases, that's because they don't like the thing and are looking for some sort of objective basis for that opinion, but that's not really necessary. Subjectivity is a thing and people are allowed to dislike media just because. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | People who seriously critique a story when the story is not meant to be serious. |
| adjl 08/09/22 10:05:07 AM #4 | Judgmenl posted... like why? Just why? Because they find it to be an interesting, enjoyable intellectual exercise. Which is exactly the same reason anyone does the same thing for stories and universes you don't sneer pretentiously at. Just let people enjoy things. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | The GOP solution to all those forced births resulting from banned abortions |
| adjl 08/09/22 9:10:25 AM #39 | I replied to a present tense question with a present tense answer. I would have thought the corresponding future sense interpretation would have gone without saying, given that we're talking about hypothetical future problems, but I guess not. Allow me to rephrase: There isn't an influx, nor do I expect there to be an appreciable one. There's just already more demand than supply blah blah blah. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Rate this Hobby |
| adjl 08/09/22 9:08:05 AM #18 | Pretty cool, but too expensive for me to enjoy much of it on my budget. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | The GOP solution to all those forced births resulting from banned abortions |
| adjl 08/09/22 8:32:12 AM #37 | Jen0125 posted... So you want to revert back to a semantics argument because you were trying to argue it's not difficult to adopt a baby If by "semantics argument" you mean "pointing out that I'm saying the exact opposite of what you think I'm saying," sure. I'm not sure that's quite what those words mean, but so long as we're on the same page that doesn't matter. Jen0125 posted... where is the influx of people able to jump through all the hoops and expense for the extra babies going in the system compared to what there are now? There isn't an influx, there's just already more demand than supply, which means the adoption system can absorb a considerable influx of new babies without being unable to offload them. Turning every would-be abortion into an adoption would indeed overwhelm that, but the reality is unlikely to be anywhere close to as extreme as that and the situation wouldn't be nearly that dire. Jen0125 posted... No one was confused except you apparently I was never confused. You just went off on me because you thought I said the opposite of what I said, which sounds to me like you are the confused one. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | School district adds AR-15s to each school |
| adjl 08/09/22 8:18:59 AM #53 | Yellow posted... So after actually reading the article (I should have read it before posting tbh) it looks like the officers will get to the school, break the safety mechanisms, and then the police get the ar-15. It won't be the school staff that has the gun. Which means this still won't do anything if the police are afraid to enter the building. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Rightwing meme time! |
| adjl 08/09/22 8:09:29 AM #165 | captpackrat posted... https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/9/1/AAQwHjAADi4L.jpg Again with the "align more with Democrat policies, but doesn't want to vote for them because of lifelong propaganda and identity politics." --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I think the solution to the gun problem in America is more guns. |
| adjl 08/08/22 3:23:35 PM #4 | CarefreeDude posted... Make it so that everyone knows how to properly use and care for a firearm. That alone is several orders of magnitude more restrictive than the US' current approach to gun control. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | The GOP solution to all those forced births resulting from banned abortions |
| adjl 08/08/22 3:21:53 PM #34 | Jen0125 posted... .... Note the first quote is "adopting out" and the second is just "adopting." The former refers to the supply end of the transaction, the latter to the demand. One who has surplus babies adopts them out. One who is infantilogically deficient adopts them. I feel like there's probably a better verb to use for the act of providing babies to those interested in adopting, which would avoid this confusion, but I'm drawing a blank on what it might actually be. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | The GOP solution to all those forced births resulting from banned abortions |
| adjl 08/08/22 2:38:49 PM #30 | Jen0125 posted... "The average cost of adoption is dependent on several variables, like the type of adoption, the adoption professional and other unique details of your situation. Each of these factors can influence typical adoption costs. Generally, for families adopting a baby through a private agency, the average cost of adoption in the U.S. is somewhere around $70,000. While costs may vary on an individual basis, families typically spend in this range on the adoption process." Adopting a kid is hard. For many of the same reasons, though, finding somebody to adopt a kid is relatively easy. It's a matter of supply and demand: There's more demand than supply, so there will still be sufficient demand even if the supply increases considerably. Though, as you touched on, that does make it more likely that less healthy and/or less white babies will be passed over, which is especially a problem given that a disproportionate number of the children given up for adoption will be less healthy and/or less white due to the socioeconomic realities of whether or not a given mother is able to raise a kid herself. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | The GOP solution to all those forced births resulting from banned abortions |
| adjl 08/08/22 1:54:56 PM #25 | Well clearly all of those women dropping their babies off should have thought of that before they had sex! Realistically, adopting out newborns - especially healthy ones - isn't actually that hard. The foster care system is hopelessly overwhelmed, but that's primarily by children that entered the system when they were older, rather than abandoned/orphaned newborns that have grown up. Newborns that are up for adoption get snapped up pretty quickly because there's so much demand for them that many would-be adoptive parents resort to adopting foreign children (often ones with health problems because they're all that are left over). The adoption system could absorb a pretty substantial influx of new babies without exceeding that demand, though that would have the effect of reducing the adoptability of children with health problems and killing the foreign adoption market (which would absolutely end up hurting those children). Of course, that would still come with additional infrastructure needs to support the administration of all of those extra adoptions, and none of that justifies enslaving unwilling women to produce babies for people to adopt, but it's fairly unlikely that a federal abortion ban would result in more babies being put up for adoption than can be adopted. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | The GOP solution to all those forced births resulting from banned abortions |
| adjl 08/08/22 1:37:17 PM #23 | Jen0125 posted... is there capacity for a million safety deposit babies per year? Obviously most of those would-be abortion-getters will discover the profound joy of motherhood and choose to keep their babies so there won't need to be any additional resources. That, or they'll just choose to be responsible and never have sex except for procreating, since that's obviously 100% their choice and clearly the only sensible course of action for a proper young lady. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | The GOP solution to all those forced births resulting from banned abortions |
| adjl 08/08/22 1:27:20 PM #21 | famfam posted... well, barrett and alito are buttheads =/ Unfortunately, they're buttheads who get to decide what should and shouldn't be law in the US. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why are people freaking out over this scene? |
| adjl 08/08/22 1:05:49 PM #58 | Revelation34 posted... I think the bigger question is why is a robot buying tampons? The same reason anyone else who doesn't have periods buys them: As first aid for bullet wounds. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Is it ok to go after a friend's crush? |
| adjl 08/08/22 12:35:00 PM #17 | Only if they're okay with it (and really okay, not just saying they are to be nice). While having a crush on somebody doesn't mean they've "claimed" them or anything, if you end up in a relationship with the person, your friend is probably going to end up spending at least some time together with you as a couple, and that's something they may not be comfortable with. Similar to the general rule that you shouldn't agree to be just friends with a crush/ex unless you're going to be okay seeing them date other people, you shouldn't say you're okay with your friend dating your crush unless you're going to be okay seeing them together. There are, of course, limits to how reasonable it is to not be okay with it, but you should still generally check to make sure it'll be okay for the sake of respecting their feelings as much as you can. If they're being unreasonable, resolve that with them then, rather than ignoring their feelings and forging ahead. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why are people freaking out over this scene? |
| adjl 08/08/22 7:20:57 AM #36 | Ozmose posted... There's nothing weird about women buying tampons for themselves. There's plenty weird about a guy doing it. Spoken like a guy who's never been in a relationship with a female, romantic or familial. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | The GOP solution to all those forced births resulting from banned abortions |
| adjl 08/07/22 10:30:17 AM #14 | DespondentDeity posted... Theres literally discourse about how these abandoned girls can be used to propagate more birthed whites while ??? becomes the fate of abandoned males. I guess we'll start seeing human versions of those shredders that are used to dispose of male chicks born on egg farms. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | The GOP solution to all those forced births resulting from banned abortions |
| adjl 08/07/22 10:08:36 AM #10 | Yes, we agree on that. This is a half-assed solution to a problem that doesn't need to be created. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | The GOP solution to all those forced births resulting from banned abortions |
| adjl 08/07/22 10:05:51 AM #8 | Far-Queue posted... Because that's the only other option? Dumb comment. While all of that is true, I still wouldn't say that a baby drop box is necessarily a bad idea. Even if you make sure abortion is readily available, provide contraception to everyone that wants it, and improve health care to the point where there's zero risk associated with giving birth, there will still be cases of parents ending up in the position of feeling that they need to abandon their baby, for whatever reason. In those cases, having an anonymous option like this is going to be more comfortable for a lot of people than having to interact with somebody (given the feelings of shame and failure often associated with this decision), and this has the potential to be a much safer anonymous option than dropping the baby off in a dumpster or on the doorstep of a convent or whatever other options a desperate parent might otherwise choose. It seems ridiculous on the first pass, and it absolutely does not in any way excuse or justify anti-abortion laws (if anything, it draws even more attention to how harmful they are by highlighting the fact that they create the need for something like this), but I can see some value in it in a broader sense. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | School district adds AR-15s to each school |
| adjl 08/07/22 9:21:47 AM #24 | hera posted... and also potentially get them shot if they have a police force that actually decides to do the literal thing they are paid to do Fortunately, the risk of that is apparently very low. hera posted... can't wait for the lockpickinglawyer to show the 17 easy ways to get into the gun case that aren't even picking the lock Bonus points where I fully expect the district will just buy the same model of safe for every school, so once somebody publishes a vulnerability, every school in the district will be at risk of having that vulnerability exploited. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Could you have a girlfriend for 7 years and never have sex? |
| adjl 08/07/22 9:20:18 AM #30 | DirtBasedSoap posted... i honestly have no idea how you could have a real relationship with another person that youre not attracted enough to to not want to fuck. youre just good friends at that point. Romantic attraction is distinct from both sexual and platonic attraction, as much as we tend to assume that romantic and sexual attraction are inextricably linked. From the outside, it doesn't look like there's a lot of difference between an asexual romantic relationship and a close friendship, but there is in fact a difference when it comes to the emotions involved. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | School district adds AR-15s to each school |
| adjl 08/06/22 2:15:51 PM #13 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted... I'm now picturing one of these but with a rifle in it. Honestly, probably not far off the mark. I have little to no faith that the safes these school boards will buy will be secure enough to prevent pretty much anyone that wants to access the gun from doing so, given just how many gun safes on the market are virtually useless for keeping anyone other than a curious toddler out. They probably won't actually have easy-break glass doors, but I expect quite a few of them will open with a solid kick, let alone to a teenager that's watched five minutes of lockpicking tutorials on youtube. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | People suck |
| adjl 08/06/22 1:51:48 PM #27 | Judgmenl posted... What's wrong with trying to make your current job environment better? Theoretically, nothing. When you've been trying and getting nowhere because the company doesn't want your job environment to get better, though, and that persistent failure is taking a toll on your mental (or even physical) health, you need to accept that you aren't going to be able to improve it. Move on to something that either is already better or gives you the opportunity to cultivate the environment you want. Beating your head against a wall that won't break is only going to give you a concussion. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Could you have a girlfriend for 7 years and never have sex? |
| adjl 08/06/22 1:30:36 PM #15 | JixHedgehog posted... Yeah, hence the "all sorts of things", but sex is an important part of a relationship (unless the couple mutually agree on abstinence) Sex is an important part of *most* relationships. There are exactly two criteria that matter in assessing whether or not a relationship is good: Whether you're happy in it, and whether your partner is happy in it. Nothing more, nothing less. If you're mutually happy, you're doing it right, no matter how unhappy somebody else thinks they'd be if they were in your shoes. It doesn't matter how you get there (obviously it's bad if you're hurting other people, but that's bad because it's a bad thing to do, not because the relationship isn't good). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Can someone answer a Xenoblade 3 question for me? |
| adjl 08/06/22 8:48:00 AM #3 | KOS-MOS and T-elos were more cameos in 2, rather than genuinely significant references. I haven't encountered anything similar yet in 3, nor do I expect to because it doesn't currently have any game mechanics that lend themselves to fanservice cameos the way 2's Blade system did. Once the Challenge Mode DLC comes, there may end up being some references there (probably in the form of heroes and their associated classes), since 2's Challenge Mode was where Shulk, Fiora, and Elma's cameos were found, but that's about it. Story-wise, I haven't encountered anything yet that links the universes, nor do I expect to. 2 did introduce an artifact that looked an awful lot like the Zohar from Gears, but there wasn't any explicit connection there, and I don't know if that has any significance in 3. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Is weight loss really just calories in vs calories out?? |
| adjl 08/06/22 8:40:10 AM #17 | Fundamentally, yes, all you need to do to lose weight is ensure that your caloric intake is less than your output. The nuance of that arises in that most of your output (unless you're extremely active) comes from your basal metabolic rate, and there are a ton of factors that can increase or decrease that to affect the "calories out" figure in ways that can be unexpected and/or hard to predict. To keep that as high as possible, you generally want to be at least somewhat active (regular physical activity will increase your BMR beyond the active calories you consume), make sure you're getting a reasonably balanced diet that includes all the vitamins and minerals you need, and not restrict by more than about 10% of your energy needs. Of course, the other issue is that counting calories is harder than a lot of people realize (especially when most figures you see are very rough estimates, often with margins of error greater than the margins by which you should be restricting) and can very quickly turn into a disordered obsession if you try to take it too seriously. Instead, try to get more active, make sure you shore up any nutritional deficiencies you have, and slow down your eating so you can get better at stopping when you're satisfied. Once your caloric demands stabilize, then you can start eating slightly smaller portions of everything. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Could you have a girlfriend for 7 years and never have sex? |
| adjl 08/06/22 8:25:53 AM #6 | Certainly, if one/both partners are asexual and/or just don't value sex that much, or if they have some reason to want to wait. That said, that doesn't mean you have to accept it. If you want a sexual relationship and your girlfriend doesn't, there's nothing wrong with breaking up with her to find somebody whose interests align better with yours. The point of a relationship is to be happy with another person. If one or both of you aren't happy, you should try to fix whatever issues are causing that, but if that's impossible, don't feel obligated to resign yourself to being unhappy for the sake of preserving the relationship. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why do you still post on GameFAQs? |
| adjl 08/05/22 2:47:39 PM #7 | Force of habit, more than anything. It's been a staple activity for such a long time that it would feel weird not to hang around. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Mislabeled self-serve food items. (taquitos) |
| adjl 08/05/22 2:36:46 PM #6 | Muscles posted... I accidentally ate calamari once too, had to spit it out though, the texture made me gag It may have been poorly cooked. It's very sensitive to overcooking and turns quite rubbery if you get it wrong, which is unpleasant. That said, even perfectly cooked stuff is still a little rubbery compared to most other foods, so it might also just have been not your thing. It might be worth trying again, but it also might not. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Xenoblade Chronicles 3 comes out next week...are you getting it? |
| adjl 08/05/22 2:33:25 PM #71 | streamofthesky posted... A lot of the "pick a side" skirmishes on the field have a choice between affinity for a colony or nopon silver coins. He's playing XC1, so I was talking about affinity there. I'm not sure how to pick between Affinity and Nopon Coins in skirmishes in 3. I pretty quickly opted for Nopon Coins over bonus exp, especially once I heard how much being overlevelled sucks, but I don't know how feasible getting further affinity is going to be or how much their respective sidequests will offer (I've generally just done the hero quest and moved on, mostly to avoid overlevelling). So far, I've mostly just used Nopon Coins to get meals for free and that still hasn't kept me from almost capping them, so affinity will probably be the way to go in most cases. I think the cost to use them to buy gems scales up too quickly to make them a viable option for rank X ones, but admittedly my hoarder instincts have kept me from seriously considering that and I don't remember off-hand what that would cost. Given that I'm almost capped and there seem to be plenty around, I might splurge and buy a high-rank copy of the gem that gives extra damage on attack cancels, since that's near-universally helpful and the Rank X boost is a whopping 70% for a very easy condition. On the overlevelling front, it sounds like the best way to grind CP is to overkill unique monsters near your level, and I don't think there's much risk of ever not being able to find one of those, so those concerns might be a bit overblown. It would, however, interfere with making meaningful class gains while playing through the game normally, and given that I'm really enjoying that process (I've basically stuck to controlling Noah and then just played as whatever class he's currently working on, rather than switching between characters for some variety), I'm not exactly rushing out to spend my bonus exp. PK_Spam posted... Been playing it when I can and LOVING it. Still in chapter 4 after a week Same, pretty much exactly. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Xenoblade Chronicles 3 comes out next week...are you getting it? |
| adjl 08/05/22 1:21:35 PM #66 | Revelation34 posted... I messed up a little since I didn't know affinity would go up by just accepting quests and I had soloed a lot of them before getting my party members. That's not a huge deal. The affinity boost from quests is handy, but there are like 500 quests in the game, so failing to min/max 5-10 of them isn't going to cripple you in the long run. However diligent you are about rotating party members to maximize affinity gain from quests, you're still going to end up grinding some if you want to max everyone out, and the best way to do that opens up around level 85-90. You also don't really need to max out everyone's affinity. You should max it out for the party you're using, since it's massively helpful for chain attacks, but that happens pretty naturally just by playing the game with the same party, and otherwise it's only really useful for gem crafting (you won't need to min/max until you're into postgame stuff). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Go with new Internet or stick with Optimum? |
| adjl 08/05/22 10:27:10 AM #8 | rexcrk posted... My main concern would be how long theyd offer the discounted price. Generally speaking, if an ISP offers a discount, they tie it to a commitment period where they won't change the price, but you can't cancel without paying a penalty. That period is usually on the order of 1-2 years. If you don't mind shopping around periodically, you can often bounce between different ISP's promotional prices and avoid ever paying market rate, sometimes even without having to switch (as is the case here, where they're offering a competitive price). If you're unsure about the promotional price, the rep will be able to tell you how long you'll have it. Then there was my experience, where when we initially set up Internet here, the rep quoted us a price without telling us it was a promotional price, that we were locking ourselves into a commitment period, or that the price would be going up by 52% once that commitment period was up (from $85 to $130). I only realized it because I happened to read the fine print on one of the few paper bills we got. We just switched to a different provider that is cheaper out of the gate, doesn't have a commitment period, and didn't have a sales rep all but lie to my face, which is nice. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
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