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| Topic | Attention: Proponents of Gender Reassignment Surgery |
| adjl 02/12/23 4:31:12 PM #37 | HornedLion posted... PMS = Period Menstrual Stuff Pre-menstrual syndrome. You should maybe learn what acronyms mean before trying to use them. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Attention: Proponents of Gender Reassignment Surgery |
| adjl 02/11/23 10:13:39 PM #8 | Characterizing people as "proponents of gender reassignment surgery" kind of misses the point. People exist who love the idea and want more people to have it just because they love it so much, but they're not a particularly significant demographic. Instead, what those you are calling "proponents" support is making sure trans people are able to access the care they need to treat their dysphoria as best as possible. In some cases, that includes surgery, but that's a decision they should make with their doctor, not something that needs to be promoted on its own merits. Mostly, it's not about encouraging surgery, it's about getting transphobes to leave the whole concept alone so science and medicine can do their job and help people feel better, whatever form that ends up taking. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | 24st meme topic |
| adjl 02/10/23 2:41:47 PM #180 | Zareth posted... Cream ain't gonna flow that fast Anything can flow that fast with enough pressure behind it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Tales of Symphonia Remastered comes out next week...are you getting it? |
| adjl 02/10/23 2:40:57 PM #12 | Entity13 posted... Also maybe the Synmphonia sequel burned in a pyre, publicly, but that's just me. Honestly, I liked the sequel well enough, but pretty much exclusively for the fun of building up a team of monsters. It was kind of a nifty Pokemon-lite sort of experience, and I did have some fun with it. As a successor to Symphonia, though, it fell totally flat and completely failed to explore the legitimately interesting premise of --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Men In Black reboot, but it's all women |
| adjl 02/10/23 2:32:08 PM #13 | Krazy_Kirby posted... yoga pants Nope, nothing consistent. All sorts of different legwear, except not a single one with tights. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Men In Black reboot, but it's all women |
| adjl 02/10/23 2:06:53 PM #11 | funkyfritter posted... Robin Hood: Men in Tights except it's all women. And none of them are in tights. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Can we get the damn chinese balloon out of our sky? |
| adjl 02/10/23 12:47:14 PM #98 | It actually entered through Alaska, but there isn't a ton of international water between Alaska and Russia, and shooting things down in or near Russian airspace would be an absolute disaster right now. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | New Zelda Game will be the 1st $70 Switch title... |
| adjl 02/10/23 12:19:18 PM #39 | Ferron posted... It is a game that started as dlc and appears to be using the same game world. Looks very lazy so far hopefully they show something amazing and prove me wrong I'm not getting that impression at all. papercup posted... Yes, games actually are cheaper than they used to be. Adjusting for inflation BotW would be $73 today. And not only that, but constantly inflating dev time and budgets, increasing the price tag was inevitable. That's not the whole picture. Simply adjusting for inflation, it makes sense, but that inflation hasn't happened in a vacuum. Purchasing power (which is a huge factor in assessing the appropriate price for luxury purchases like video games) has not increased by anywhere close to the margin by which other prices have inflated. Increases in game budgets have been offset by improvements in technology that make games cheaper to make, meaning that games are only actually more expensive to make when studios choose to make them more expensive. The game market as a whole has grown and sales have increased across the board in a way that mostly offsets (and, in fact, is the reason for) increases in budgets. Most significantly, most games already make quite a bit more than $60 each for their publishers. DLC, microtransactions, loot boxes, battle passes, subscription fees, premium editions... The simple fact of the matter is that the game industry's revenue has been growing since long before the usual suspects started whining about "needing" to increase MSRP to $70 to offset growing costs, and it would have been growing even if they stuck to $60. That MSRP increased is 100% a matter of wanting to grow *faster* (not just to turn a profit) and those publishers feeling like the market had reached a point where the extra revenue would offset the PR hit. Now, Nintendo hasn't embraced post-purchase monetization to the same degree as most other publishers, and given some of their history (namely the entire executive team voluntarily taking a pay cut when the WiiU and 3DS were struggling instead of laying off workers to recover losses) and the current cost of living crisis, I could believe that this is a matter of needing to increase their revenue because they otherwise can't pay their staff as much as they want to. It may also just be a matter of them feeling that this is a good time to get away with increasing their prices, especially on a high-profile title like Zelda that everyone will buy at just about any price. It's probably a bit of both. Either way, I'm more sympathetic to Nintendo wanting to increase prices than somebody like EA or Actiblizz. The bottom line, though, is that "games are cheaper than ever" is very much not the whole picture. At a market level, games are making more money than ever, so suggesting that a price increase is needed to turn a profit is more than a little disingenuous, in many cases. Krow_Incarnate posted... Lmao at people justifying this when the current industry is thriving and making more money than ever off garbage practices like the gacha business model that's snaked it's way into AAA titles on major platforms. While that's a valid criticism of the industry in general, unless Zelda actually has gacha mechanics or other such monetization, that's not a particularly valid criticism of Zelda specifically. papercup posted... I know it doesn't fit the narrative that game prices have always been $60, It's really only since the 360 that MSRP was standardized at $60. A lot of the fluctuation in prices for SNES games and the like was because of different cartidge costs (bigger games needed different cartridges that were just more expensive), but I remember even GC games varied pretty wildly sometimes. "Games must always be $60" is a relatively recent development, as much as people like to treat it like it's been true forever. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | New Zelda Game will be the 1st $70 Switch title... |
| adjl 02/09/23 11:02:21 PM #14 | Ferron posted... It's hilarious to me that this game is basically just $70 dlc for BOTW How do you figure? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Nintendo Direct tomorrow |
| adjl 02/09/23 10:50:55 PM #114 | Revelation34 posted... I hope they improve the weapon durability for Breath of the Wild 2. I still need to play the first one though. Honestly, the durability isn't as bad as people make it out to be. Early-game, it's a meaningful survival mechanic that you have to overcome intelligently, but it pretty quickly gets downgraded to little more than a minor annoyance, which gets increasingly minor as you progress. I'd still say it ultimately wasn't a very good idea (or at least, wasn't a very good implementation of what could have been a better idea), but it's not that bad. If it's totally absent from TotK, I won't miss it, especially where it doesn't look like we're going with the "build yourself up from nothing" start that BotW had. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | New Zelda Game will be the 1st $70 Switch title... |
| adjl 02/09/23 10:35:09 PM #8 | As much as the "game prices haven't kept up with inflation and we need more revenue!" narrative is largely bullshit coming from Actiblizz, Ubisoft, EA, and other publishers that have been stuffing their games with predatory monetization strategies that earn them significantly more revenue than the MSRP does (whether it's $60 or $70), at least I can kind of respect it coming from Nintendo, who has generally been pretty reasonable with their post-purchase monetization and not milking consumers for every possible cent. It's still lame, but the game will probably be well worth $70, so it won't deter me from buying it. If that becomes the norm for Switch games, though, it'll lead to me waiting for more sales or just buying fewer games (though really, I could maintain the same budget by skipping every 7th game I would otherwise buy, which isn't completely unreasonable). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Tales of Symphonia Remastered comes out next week...are you getting it? |
| adjl 02/09/23 10:20:44 PM #4 | No, though all the talk of the remake is kind of making me want to break out my GC copy and play through it again. It's been a while. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Labor Unions |
| adjl 02/09/23 6:19:55 PM #13 | Unions are fundamentally a good thing, but they are sometimes abused (especially in the US, where the laws have undermined their function to the point where they're basically just a middleman corporations that play favourites with their friends and let everyone else be exploited). Some people just have difficulties seeing past the abuses (not helped by substantial amounts of anti-union propaganda from corporations that would absolutely love to get rid of them). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Labor Unions |
| adjl 02/09/23 5:47:52 PM #11 | wpot posted... They shouldn't act like defense lawyers and defend people no matter what. Sure they should. That's their role: To make sure that if somebody's getting fired or otherwise screwed over by their boss, it's for a reason they can adequately defend. Now, the lack of a neutral third party to pass judgement on the case does throw a bit of a wrench into that, but the basic idea of defending people indiscriminately isn't a bad one. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Nintendo Direct tomorrow |
| adjl 02/09/23 5:44:20 PM #109 | streamofthesky posted... And then they made That's... a reach, to say the least. I also really don't know what you're talking about when you accuse XC3 of being riddled with "anti-XC1 bias," and I say this as someone who considered XC1 to be his favourite game ever before 3 managed the monumental feat of dethroning it (i.e. not exactly a fanboy of 2). streamofthesky posted... Extra uninterested in learning about Bayonetta's past now for the same reason I didn't give a s*** about That's not a particularly sensible reason to be disinterested. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Which of these countries has the best potassium? |
| adjl 02/09/23 8:08:39 AM #2 | Only one of those has more than one K. I think it should be obvious. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Nintendo Direct tomorrow |
| adjl 02/08/23 10:53:46 PM #96 | ReturnOfFa posted... it's baby money compared to most other subscription crap. I get the frustration but it was very cheap initially and still damn cheap for a whole year. As prices go, it's dirt cheap, but it also doesn't exactly give a lot for that price. I'm generally okay paying for base NSO when I want online play, but I let it lapse after I finish with those games and I don't really miss anything I lose when I do so. The higher tier is even harder to defend, given that it only gives access to a handful of extra retro games and DLC for games that I don't even have/still play. ReturnOfFa posted... it is lame how much Nintendo drip-feeds their old content to us though. It really is. I'd gladly pay $50/year for the ability to stream any of Nintendo's retro games at will, but the way they make 99% of their retro library unavailable is just stupid. It's also kind of lame that we aren't getting more GC or Wii games lumped in with "retro," despite the fact that the Wii is now as old as the SNES was when the Wii launched (and the Wii went up to N64 games). GC games are getting remakes and ports and whatnot, but nothing in the vein of the Virtual Console (presumably because those remakes and ports are making more money than VC releases would). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | How is Powerslap legal? |
| adjl 02/08/23 10:42:17 PM #9 | I'd guess because it's between consenting parties and has virtually no chance of collateral damage. About the only comparable thing that is actually illegal is duelling, and that has the potential for collateral damage, pretty much guarantees there'll be a dead body to deal with, and can be hard to differentiate from a plain old murder because the loser can't exactly tell police that it was consensual, all of which add up to make it clearly much worse. It's stupid, obviously, but stupid isn't illegal. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Nintendo Direct tomorrow |
| adjl 02/08/23 9:42:41 PM #93 | agesboy posted... Wave 4 looks hype as hell. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | unpopular opinion: ALL canned soup is mid |
| adjl 02/08/23 9:34:20 PM #11 | Canned tomato soup made with milk instead of water and with a tiny splash of red wine vinegar is legitimately pretty great. By and large, though, canned soup is indeed not great and its value comes mostly from the convenience and not the taste. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Remember in the early 90s when games would just end early? |
| adjl 02/08/23 9:32:02 PM #20 | Zareth posted... Did knightoffire just out himself as the owner of MagicalPrincess? Kind of looks that way. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Nintendo Direct tomorrow |
| adjl 02/08/23 9:27:18 PM #91 | Xenoblade wave 4 hype. Those like 5 seconds kind of overshadowed the wave 3 reveal, which is plenty cool in its own right, but the wave 4 tease gives such an absurd amount of speculation fodder and fanservice and December (or whenever it launches) really can't come fast enough. That Fantasy Life sequel came out of nowhere. That's a game I hardly ever see mentioned, but I loved it. Pretty hyped for that one. Also a port of *both* Baten Kaitos games, which is great because I never got to play Origins. Also Katamari 2. Ghost Trick is another surprise that's really cool to see, even though I won't be grabbing it because I'm lucky enough to already have a DS copy. All in all, not a bad Direct. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why is the divorce rate so high? |
| adjl 02/08/23 3:29:53 PM #59 | It's accurate to frame divorce as a failure of the marriage. What's less accurate is framing it as a personal failure. Sometimes, marriages just don't work out for reasons beyond either partner's realistic control or ability to predict. People often resist the idea of divorcing because they view it as a personal failure and don't want to accept that, but that's often not a very healthy way to approach the issue. Try to fix whatever issues are threatening a marriage, certainly, but if the best option for everyone is to divorce, don't be afraid of taking that option instead of resisting it for so long that there's too much resentment to divorce amicably. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | do you think they will announce super mario rpg 2 today? |
| adjl 02/08/23 2:49:10 PM #3 | Paper Mario is Mario RPG 2. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Nintendo Direct tomorrow |
| adjl 02/08/23 2:18:08 PM #28 | I'm marginally more sympathetic to Nintendo doing that than publishers whose games are riddled with DLC, microtransactions, battle passes, and other predatory monetization that completely dwarfs the revenue from the initial purchase price regardless of what it is, since then at least there's some ability to legitimately claim that their revenue hasn't increased to cover increased production costs. Marginally. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Remember in the early 90s when games would just end early? |
| adjl 02/08/23 12:51:09 PM #15 | MagicalPrincess posted... Why because I wasn't too good at the final battle or because easy mode ended early? Hmm... --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Remember in the early 90s when games would just end early? |
| adjl 02/08/23 9:29:59 AM #11 | Bloodstained kind of did something like that, with an "ending" that very clearly indicated that you had more to do. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Nintendo Direct tomorrow |
| adjl 02/08/23 9:26:06 AM #22 | Yellow posted... Source? I don't remember where I saw the point that there are technical issues preventing a straight emulated port, so that may have been me reading between lines, but some quick digging is bringing up several articles that reference an interview with Takahashi from 2018: https://www.gameinformer.com/2018/10/18/monolith-soft-says-a-xenoblade-chronicles-x-switch-port-would-be-too-expensive Basically, a rerelease would involve remaking enough of it that it's prohibitively expensive and kind of a gamble for the series' worst-selling entry. That it's the worst-selling isn't necessarily X's fault so much as it is the WiiU's (in terms of how much of each system's install base owns each game, X is actually the highest in the entire Xeno franchise by a huge margin), but it's still a very different game from the other three and would not be a cheap port. Maybe something has changed since 2018 (like Monolith learning how to milk every drop of performance they could out of the Switch for 3 and being able to apply that to port X more efficiently, or DE showing that there's plenty of potential for a Xenoblade port to outsell the original with a stronger release), but I kind of doubt it. I do, however, expect an X port on whatever Nintendo's next system is, especially if the post-3 direction for Xenoblade is to pick up where X forgot to end. Presumably, making the game work won't be as difficult with an extra generation of oomph behind it. LinkPizza posted... Somehow, I dont remember playing a lot of Xenoblade 3 because I had others games that also came out around that time. But it was somehow my most player game last year I think I either didnt play my switch much, or played too many games, which split the time up It was my most-played game, at 207 hours. My second-most was Xenoblade DE (140), and my third-most was Xenoblade 2 (111, probably including Torna). I had a bit of a theme going last year. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Can we get the damn chinese balloon out of our sky? |
| adjl 02/07/23 7:16:55 PM #91 | captpackrat posted... I don't understand why they didn't use the 20mm Vulcan cannon to shoot it down instead of wasting a very expensive missile. Shooting up the bag with the cannon would probably cause it to come down much more slowly, so more of the payload could be recovered. Probably altitude issues. 65,000 feet is the absolute maximum altitude an F-22 can handle, so cruising at a more comfortable altitude and letting the unmanned, less expensive missile handle the last few thousand feet was probably a less risky option than trying to gun it down. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Nintendo Direct tomorrow |
| adjl 02/07/23 7:11:43 PM #15 | I held off on committing to calling it a GOAT right after finishing it because of recency bias, but that was like four months ago and my opinion hasn't dulled at all, even through plenty of discussion with people who want everyone else to hate it. I've been following Harry McEntire's playthrough of it on Twitch, which I pretty much never do for games like this (if I watch any game being streamed, it's something where I can enjoy seeing build variety), and it's just as amazing watching it through again and is actually making me want to do a NG+ run so I can go through it again. Wave 4 will be a day 1 buy if I haven't taken the plunge on the other two batches before then (which I might, because I just want more Xenoblade 3). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Can we get the damn chinese balloon out of our sky? |
| adjl 02/07/23 7:03:36 PM #88 | Yeah, given that shooting it down involved one of the air force's most advanced fighter jets and an AtA missile, rather than any sort of surface anti-air weaponry (even the stuff available to the military), I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that no consumer-grade firearm is going to come close. The world record for a confirmed sniper kill is like 3000 metres, which is only about 10,000 feet, and that's more or less a level shot. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Nintendo Direct tomorrow |
| adjl 02/07/23 6:58:40 PM #12 | LinkPizza posted... I wish But that might not come My roommate mentioned how they would basically have to rebuild the whole game And it might not work as well without the Wii U gamepad, tbh My understanding is that the Switch actually isn't powerful enough to port it. X pushed the WiiU to its absolute breaking point, such that without rebuilding it entirely from scratch (to avoid having to run a WiiU emulator on top of what the game requires), the Switch can't handle it. The Gamepad functions would be missed (along with WWHD, that was a game that benefited hugely from having a gamepad map), but it wouldn't be the end of the world to not have them. Still, though, I'm not holding my breath for a port. I'm mostly just hoping for Xenoblade 3 DLC news, especially anything about the final part. I'm not expecting much, though, since wave 4 isn't scheduled to come out until December and there's still wave 3 to announce. I don't remember when Torna was first announced, but I'm guessing it was closer to its release (possibly around E3, for a holiday release). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Can we get the damn chinese balloon out of our sky? |
| adjl 02/07/23 5:21:09 PM #83 | BlackScythe0 posted... I just got modded for ating Zeus. He's particularly fragile when it comes to people trying to get him to own up to saying stupid things that turn out to be completely wrong. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Do you want purple drapes? |
| adjl 02/07/23 1:51:15 PM #6 | Depends. Will they match the carpet? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why is the divorce rate so high? |
| adjl 02/07/23 12:49:25 PM #43 | Ozmose posted... I'm not sure how you got abusive from inconvenient. I was mainly expressing that when hard times come, or you hit a rough patch in a relationship, people tend to just flake rather than put in the effort it takes to work through it. Except they don't. The stats were linked in post #2 and show exactly the opposite of what you're suggesting: Divorces are relatively rare (~1.5% of marriages), the rate is declining overall, and the proportion of people getting divorces later in life (which doesn't necessarily mean after longer relationships, but there's a pretty strong correlation between age and marriage length) is increasing. If anything, people are now more likely to put in the effort to work through rough patches, instead of divorcing at the first sign of trouble. shadowsword87 posted... I do like how I posted that, surprise, it's not the numbers anyone assumes or talks about. Why argue and speculate about reality when you could argue and speculate about made-up figures nobody can agree upon instead? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | is it okay for men to drink water? |
| adjl 02/06/23 11:52:20 AM #13 | I have reason to believe that every single gay man has taken a drink of water at some point in his life. Is that really a risk we should take for America's youth? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Can we get the damn chinese balloon out of our sky? |
| adjl 02/06/23 11:02:37 AM #77 | Revelation34 posted... By your logic shooting it down at all are "war like activities." Not at all. Shooting it down as a first choice would be a largely unprovoked act of aggression. Shooting it down when it became clear that it was suspicious and the owner refused attempts to resolve the matter diplomatically is no longer unprovoked and is instead a simple matter of protecting the country (though, again, I don't know how much of a genuine threat this one balloon was among the myriad other forms Chinese espionage takes). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | is it okay for men to drink water? |
| adjl 02/06/23 8:13:23 AM #6 | This one time, I drank some water, and within minutes I'd gained four cup sizes. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Can we get the damn chinese balloon out of our sky? |
| adjl 02/05/23 2:40:40 PM #64 | Muscles posted... Why not shoot it down before it makes it to land then and not after it goes all the way across the country? Why would they? There wasn't really reason to be suspicious of it until it started meandering over various inland sites, and shooting something like this down isn't exactly free (both in the simple cost of dispatching a plane and in the diplomatic sense). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | 24st meme topic |
| adjl 02/05/23 10:45:54 AM #104 | Nichtcrawler-X posted... Saying "we should tax the rich less", without explaining that just means other people need to get taxed more, just seems incomplete and insincere to me. Welcome to right-wing politics in crazy countries. Not to say that left-wing politics aren't also incomplete and insincere at times, but the whole concept of "trickle down economics" is one that Reagan popularized in the 80's and the GOP has been frantically humping ever since because it makes them the best friend of many of the richest voters in the country. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | 24st meme topic |
| adjl 02/05/23 10:36:24 AM #102 | Nichtcrawler-X posted... Brilliant troll. Please tell me "Turning Point" is political satire. Close: It's a non-profit dedicated to preaching right-wing politics (often pretty far right) to young adults, effectively acting as a propaganda arm for the GOP that specifically targets impressionable new voters. All the same ludicrous insanity that you usually get with political satire, but none of that "not real so it doesn't hurt anyone" business that makes actual satire so boring. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | There's only like 1 anime on Disney+/Star |
| adjl 02/04/23 10:58:37 PM #6 | keyblader1985 posted... Do they not have Ghibli stuff? I thought Disney had the rights to those. In Canada, Netflix still has at least most of the Ghibli catalogue. I'm guessing the licenses just haven't expired yet. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Velma sucks, but why didn't anyone dunk on Big Mouth like they have with Velma? |
| adjl 02/04/23 10:45:09 PM #8 | Zangrief posted... Especially considering the original characterizations were rife for conflict. Instead they just made up new characters and then called people racists for not liking the show. Great way to garner a fandom. Indeed. There was tons of room to make a more adult series about Scooby Doo and the gang while remaining true to what's been established, but they just didn't do that. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | How do you deal with self centered loved ones? |
| adjl 02/04/23 10:39:20 PM #19 | Tell her you either need to start charging her for the time, gas, and car wear, or she'll have to figure out a different way to get to work. You can give her some time to sort things out, but ultimately you need to say no to her. Yes, that'll result in her leaning on your mom/brother instead, but preventing that isn't your responsibility. Support them as needed to also say no to her, but don't let your desire to make things easier for them leave you stuck with the burden of dealing with her. The bottom line is that you can't stop somebody from being selfishly codependent by enabling their selfish codependency. You have to tell them there's a problem and work with them to solve it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Velma sucks, but why didn't anyone dunk on Big Mouth like they have with Velma? |
| adjl 02/04/23 9:01:16 PM #4 | Zangrief posted... Big Mouth being a new IP versus taking an existing IP, claim youre placing it into adult situations, but then strip everything out of it to make it recognizable to the original IP Pretty much. If you try to capitalize on an existing franchise, forcing it to be something that's completely unrelated to that franchise outside of the names and vague character designs is mostly just going to bother people. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I need a complex and intricate planner(app) |
| adjl 02/04/23 8:57:04 PM #8 | HornedLion posted... I need to enter in a name and contact info and it automatically remind me to contact them at these intervals: It's not exactly a planner app, but you can configure Excel to do that for you pretty easily, then just check a dashboard at the start of every day for a list of who you need to contact that day. AwesomeTurtwig posted... Literally just calendar reminders in outlook. Also that. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Is it sus for a retiree to go to Thailand every 4 months? Alone. |
| adjl 02/04/23 9:29:14 AM #39 | Psythik posted... Why are you bringing underage children into the conversation? I have no problems with sex tourism, so long as it involves consenting adults. Because underage sex tourism is quite common in Thailand, to the point where there's ample reason to suspect that any man travelling there alone - especially on a regular basis - is going for that reason. That's what this topic is talking about. It's not a strawman, you just didn't understand the topic at hand well enough to realize what you were suggesting. Psythik posted... Don't judge someone unless you have proof. He isn't being judged, he's just being suspected. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Can we get the damn chinese balloon out of our sky? |
| adjl 02/04/23 9:02:40 AM #37 | Count_Drachma posted... I mean, having a spy balloon publicly flaunt your sovereignty is a pretty big f***ing issue and the current inaction is setting a pretty lousy precedent for how these things will be handled You say this like both countries don't have plenty of other spy equipment already running. US-China espionage is a very open secret, and only the most serious threats are ever acted upon because employing violence to deal with more minor threats would be diplomatically unwise. This balloon is less a serious espionage threat and more a little bit of nationalistic dick-waving. The only thing genuinely at stake is the egos of those involved, and the fact that you seem to be personally offended by it says a lot about your priorities. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Alex Murdaugh trial |
| adjl 02/03/23 8:20:28 PM #20 | BUMPED2002 posted... I said Super heros should not be transgender and they shouldn't so sorry if I hit a nerve. My dude, the words are right there. We can all read them. Trying to pretend you were only being a transphobic turdmuffin instead of also being a homophobic turdmuffin isn't going to work (to say nothing of the fact that nobody giving you a hard time for this thinks that's any better). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Alex Murdaugh trial |
| adjl 02/03/23 8:18:00 PM #16 | To be fair, I do generally rank murderers higher on the dinglenugget scale than homophobes, so the comparison isn't entirely justified. Though homophobes are still at least a solid 478/dinglenugget. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
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