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You ever expect you'd be experiencing a worldwide pandemic?

Well, historically we were a bit overdue for one to happen...

The west in particular, since we live in a bubble.

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lmao

dog didn't give any fucks to the people and just wanted to ride again

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Physical attraction is just the opening presentation.
Emotional attraction is the actual contract I'm eager to sign.

Both are important for maintaining value in the long run.

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I don't care if someone's super awesome in helping the community better than I can. If they're legit, I see them as a beneficial force of nature, not competition. Their presence and contributions will eventually help people I care about anyway.

Jealous people who bitch about that are just pissed someone else (who fucking deserves it) is the star...

Good people learn to enjoy a supporting role as well.

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Doctor Who: Jodie Whittaker and Chris Chibnall wrapping up and leaving.

Don't get your hopes up.

You don't know who their top replacement candidates are.
They could be worse than the former.
The BBC rarely learns...

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Children do NOT need a site like that.

It's a slippery slope that would inevitably welcome vultures...

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I wasn't going to watch the new show anyway.

But for the record, Kevin Smith DID lie about the show much like how a politician tries to cloak a provocative yet marketable agenda under the radar of voters. I get the validity of the outrage towards his dishonesty, especially his arrogant responses towards critics calling him out. However, while people screaming about Kevin Smith being an obedient thug for radical identity politics have credit to their complaints...they got his primary initiative wrong.

Kevin Smith has been a marketing shill for quite a while now. This is no different. His motivation here is likely less about his politics and mostly $$$. Although we'll never know for sure from his own mouth since he's a confirmed liar for pay.

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No one's entitled to sex. However, modern marriage is statistically not the best option for when you want a frequent supply of it. The lucky exceptions do not make the norm...

If you're looking into marriage, you should be considering it for other reasons today (like raising a family). Otherwise pass.
Opportunities for casual sex can be called for without marriage, like delivery pizza. You just have to have realistic standards.
Society chose to break the traditional bond of marriage + sex decades ago. It's an outdated philosophy in the west.

I'm not saying that's how it should be; I'm saying it is what it is now. Adapt to the changes to prosper. It's literally how human beings survive.

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People here who aren't married and don't have kids, what do u do with your life?

Live. Life exists comfortably outside of "nesting" instincts. Always has.

No shame in raising a family. It literally keeps the species going. It's just not the only way to live a long happy life. Some modern innovations would never have happened if certain creative minds were locked down prioritizing family instead. Some standardized utilities depend on infrastructures that get heavy contributions from personnel who don't maintain a family life, but a solo one. We need the cooperative operation of single people too because the average human being only lives less than a century...

Don't shame the hardworking singles. They're a large part of the contributors making it possible for you to make babies in a living space with electricity, clean water, clothing, and food.


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What? You thought everyone over there does nothing else besides taking care of pandas?

Did you not know how many people they have...?

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hey ce wanna know how to get your IT people to help you ASAP? Here's how.

I reduced wait times over the phone and sped up service significantly by having sex with mine.

#lifehax

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Asmongold thinks most FFXIV players are female

There's a real possibility more female players have jumped to playing that game now compared to WoW. He's probably aware of that and was making a joke of it (he knows some female characters are played by dudes). However, anyone who's played a multitude of online games knows what features attract female players the most.

Lady gamers have a tendency to favor games where you can beautify (dress-up) the character, especially in games where it's not made into a grinding challenge to do that. Many Asian-sourced online games have known (and banked on) this for a couple decades now. Much like how many male gamers "pump up" their male avatars into a fierce looking macho warlord (regardless of class), a large portion of female gamers WANT to glamorize their avatars into a demigoddess that's "pretty, sexy, cute, or all of the above". FF14 offers that pretty well, partly because most of the playable races are "humanized".

Basically the more "pretty" customizations a popular online multiplayer game offers, the significantly higher chance of luring in female gamers (and keeping them). A long-going joke about WoW over the years was the noticeable gender gap between the Alliance and the Horde. More female gamers had a higher tendency to pick the Alliance as their first choice because the faction fit closer to what many of them considered "norm cute", while the Horde looked more like a band of ugly mutant misfits by comparison. The fact that the Alliance offered the Human race as a selectable option made THAT big of an impact in their preferences (it was familiar). Alliance also offered an assortment of alternate races that were basically just other flavors of humans and could have similar appeal. By comparison, not a lot of female gamers were racing to play a goblin, troll, orc, or giant cow woman on Horde...

WoW has retained it's trademark cartoony appearance over the years (along with faction race restrictions), while FF14 looks more like playable anime with an adult tone. And while WoW offers a huge system of collectable appearance items to work for, FF14 offers flat out actual fashion pieces (relatable to real-life outfits) which has become a popular staple in other Asian-sourced games. Guess which system the lady gamers tend to prefer...

So while Asmongold's commentary might have been a comical generalization, anyone suspecting that FF14 has some appeal to female gamers is paying attention.

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There seem to be an excessive amount of people on the internet who obsess over defending Amber Heard despite evidence she's a domestic abuser along with perjury and they are weirder.

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Doomsayers have always been whining that there was a huge disconnect between the WoW playerbase and Blizz developers practically every expansion.

But with the latest expansion, I would argue that it's more of an issue with investors calling the shots at Blizz/Slacktivision and devs being forced to follow through. Blizz is just milking a corpse that they already know died a couple years ago. It was an anomaly to have lasted this long to begin with...

WoW's not a juggernaut like it was over a decade ago. Lots of comparable, mobile, and graphically superior competition now.

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South Park rips on everyone and everything lmao.

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The after pics look like he couldn't decide if he wanted to be a cheap knockoff of Scarjo, Emma Thompson or Draco Malfoy. So he just said do all 3.

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girl who seems very interested

but takes days to respond

If you don't know, these points contradict each other.

No, "being busy" in these situations is actually NOT a valid excuse for a total lack of communication in 2021.
Simple text messages in 2021 are not rocket science...people are even casually sending them for pizza delivery now.
The point is if she was legit into you (her lead choice or runner up), you would not be waiting 4 days to get a response.
You're not entitled to a response, just know that she's likely "not interested" if there's that much delay.

If you think she is legit interested, but "playing games" or she's putting you on a waiting list with other dudes....forget her and move on. That's not a sign of a mature woman interested in commitment. Have some self respect for your time.

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CM_Ponch posted...

Literally, also it looks bad

Ironically it's already getting dumped on HARD by the demographics it's supposedly representing.

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2 rules:

• have charisma in at least one of multiple forms (style, cunning, sass, boobs, status, etc)
• don't be uncharismatic.

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Can an average intelligence person get a PhD?

Short answer: yes.

How useful that PhD might be: debatable.

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kinetika_ posted...

The beaver lmfao

I expected him to prefer wood.

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Chris Brown's had a known rep for years.

Proceed at your own caution.

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power trip

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Use it like having an actual account? Nope.
Occasionally googling it for specific MMORPG related tips and experienced opinions I can't seem to find elsewhere? Yes.

And that would be about all I bother to use it for now...

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AlisLandale posted...

If a straight person will date transgender peeps, theyre New Striaght.

If a straight person wont, theyre Straight Classic.

and if a straight person is depressed, theyre Dire Straight

Don't forget new Cherry and Diet Straight.

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It's a tale of 2 masochists.

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Your thoughts on women who try WAY TOO HARD to get in your pants?

She either does not smell the gay all over me or is deliberately overlooking it.

One of my coworkers liked randomly slapping my butt to make it bounce. She was telling the other girls to "pass hints" that she wanted me to ask her out. Smarter girls obviously rolled their eyes at her and just let me in on the secret. Coworker finally got the message when she saw my bf shaking his junk at me on my phone. She laughed at first thinking it was "one of my bros" pranking me. I said no honey, its no prank. Its an invitation for what he and I were doing that night.

It was like a 404 error flash across her eyes. She hasn't touched my ass since now that she knows someone else has been in there lmao.

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Not many people want to take a position where you're at risk of getting falsely accused and fired/sued over actually doing your job. Even being legally cleared will not prevent employers from hastily axing you for the mere accusation and potential Twitter mob.

Lifeguards are typically the designated authority figures at public swimming areas. Which means they have to deal with crazy Karens, their loser baby daddies, and their worthless spawn. If you were not aware, designated authority figures actually following protocol and enforcing rules were definitely not popular in 2020...

Now attach a pitiful minimum wage to it with next to no option for advancement and remember that the position we're talking about basically tasks you with babysitting stupid, arrogant, entitled people hellbent on injuring themselves and others near a slippery crowded pool of water. Times that by 10 if it's a big city pool. You might as well be a burger flipper; less complicated and typically better hours.

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Uhh so what I gather from this is that a nice looking pair of shoes in the Bronx is like that episode of American Dad where people are killing each other for Roger's golden poop...

Is that about right?

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More like marketing...

After June, a bunch of the company rainbows get dumped in the trash until next year.

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unnamedsoldier posted...

Second, it teaches that sex is merely a bodily function, having no special significance. When the essential connectedness of sexual contact is denied, the physical or emotional needs of a partner have no relevance.

LMAO oh please.

Porn isn't the top contributor to that today. Mainstream shit like Tinder is. People order each other like delivery pizza now and casually bounce...

The article reads like something out of a preachy church pamphlet.

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MorbidFaithless posted...

This is what I do not understand. Why must worth be tied to ability? Isn't it enough that a person is a person doing a valuable and necessary task?

No.

The immense time studying, training, and paying to get through medical schooling needs to be accounted for. Many applicants drop out because the cost and stress of schooling can be brutal, more so for certain medical fields. It's typically a long haul before being accredited and licensed. It's not just the potential income that makes particular medical careers impressive...it's also the notable degree of difficulty in achieving them in the first place (meritocracy). Part of the favorable status of succeeding through medical schooling is the work put in. The average slouch is generally not going to make the cut...

That slouch can, however, manage to succeed at being a decent sanitations worker with nowhere near the average amount of cost and study required to become a licensed doctor. Garbage clean up is also an important service within a city, but it's laughable to ever imply that becoming a sanitations worker is an almost equitable achievement to succeeding in medical school. HUGE disparity between the two.

There's also the factor of supply-and-demand. There's more applicants fit for succeeding at becoming a sanitations worker. The bar is comparatively low at affordable cost. There's significantly less people fit for getting through medical schooling and moving into vital medical careers. The bar is comparatively high at substantially more cost. It's easier to find, train, and license applicants suitable for sanitation work than it is for an assortment of high end medical fields. The point is it's commonly accepted that the latter deserves the higher pay and status not just because of being a vital service, but also because the supply of fit applicants who can make it through the challenge of schooling is noticeably much lower.

Besides above, another part of the reason a sanitations worker does not (and should not) earn as much as a licensed doctor is simple economics. If both career fields made approximately the same, you would see a huge drop in applicants bothering to enter the harder route of medical fields. Sanitations would be the significantly easier route for similar payout, eventually leading to a scarcity of doctors. That's bad...

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Friend from HS of 18 years told me that you have to take risks to make friends

True.

That does not mean you're obligated to endure bad deals or abuse. You're just going to have a considerably harder time ever experiencing the better parts of social life without stepping outside your safety zone, because the good is often mixed in with the bad. That's life. If you shelter yourself completely to avoid all discomfort, even short term, you're going to miss out on hundreds of good fulfilling opportunities because fear bullied you back into your shell.

Don't fear discomfort. Toughen up to endure it so you crawl past to the better parts of life that can strengthen your confidence and enlighten you. Eventually you won't even notice the mild bothers anymore, except to dust yourself and laugh as you brush them off.

Think of it like leveling all the way up to endgame in an RPG and then doubling back to the beginning zones that used to be a challenge for you. You endured a little punishment to reach rewards that strengthened and enabled you to adventure beyond those limits. Revisiting those old hazards should no longer make you flinch.

Same can be said for making friends. You have to socialize to develop your interpersonal skills to keep friends. Practice practice practice. That means enduring occasion newbie embarrassments that, with time, you can evolve past and eventually not fear thinking about. Fear of embarrassment is an extremely common gatekeeper that can frivolously stunt a person's social growth. Learn to fight against it; learn to brush off embarrassment and remember that you are not the only human being who fears it. Take strength in that realization. You know you've made it when you can sit back and laugh with friends about the stupid stuff you did when you were younger.

Shyness as a child is natural and can be grown out of with experience.
Shyness as an adult is a symptom; it should not be who you are...it's wasted potential.

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Would you date a girl with an OF account?

The apparent controversy is not going on a few dates with said woman. That can just be hookups.
The real issue is men feeling comfortable sticking with her as a long term prospect...

Dating: most guys would still say yes if she's pretty enough. Again, dating =/= commitment.

LTR: that's when the real discrepancy becomes visible. Plenty of modern men will tell you they ain't down for committing to a gf they're expected to "share" on IG or OF. Any income she reels in is generally NOT a selling point for the boyfriends. The higher value men (who have their own reliable income) will usually bounce because they notice those are legit red flags when looking for a long term commitment. They're not looking for wives who mess with that, again because it's a glaring red flag.

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Wasn't the general plot about the dangers of deforestation and pollution?

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Do you know any trans people in real life?

Yes and I have known a few who were considerably more down-to-earth and sane compared to the trigger-happy echo chambers online (some of them detest cesspools like Twitter). Mostly trans women, but I've had pleasant conversations with trans men too. To me as an outsider, there seems to be a surprisingly broad spectrum of views within trans communities, partly because of the diversity in where individuals come from. And by diverse I mainly mean they're not all stereotypical far left extremists hellbent on doxing and burning at the slightest disagreement. Quite a few of them speak out against that shit. And some of them take no offense to hearing someone politely imply they're not interested in dating trans partners. Most trans folk would prefer to date someone who accepts them in their entirety anyway...as they have their own preferences too.

It's those reasonable and relatable interactions I was lucky enough to have with trans folk that taught me many of them are more than just political caricatures who all think the same. And I try to give those I know personally the benefit of the doubt when some other trans person says something closeminded or acts repulsively stupid. 9/10 times there's a bunch of trans folk shaking their heads at shit also.


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Fun times in the microwave.

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Which CEusers NEVER apologize?

What would be the point?

Most people online are not going to give you praise for admitting you did wrong. And that's exactly all apologizing says: admission you did wrong regardless of actual fault. Online critics will just use that as more ammunition and call it evidence for later accusations. They're never interested in giving you redemption; they want you to rot (especially strangers who have never actually met you). Unnecessary apologies are just bending the knee to further punishment. Online, it's tactically self destructive. So if there's no clear evidence of you doing something wrong, it's stupid to bother apologizing.

If you have an awkward reflex of immediately apologizing after someone else gets upset over a simple disagreement...grow a pair. Stop being weak in response to their weakness.

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Why... why does Samus look so absurdly buff here?

She's supposed to be a 6+ foot tall mutant space amazon with reinforced alien blood from a race that's huge themselves.

It would be more absurd if she was a short skinny cheerleader under 120lbs.


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Sequel sounds like some glorified dream sequence shit lmao.

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When is Gamefaqs getting it's own offical app?

Is it still relevant enough to have one? Would enough people bother using it?

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What do you do when you are walking behind a cute woman with a big bouncy ass

Upstage her with my big bouncy ass.

#ThiccBrosLift

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How do you cheat in Banjo Kazooie?

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Were you wearing a condom when you lost your virginity?

what
fuck no

I was a gay sexually repressed teenager with raging hormones.
Cute guy I was crushing on said he wanted to bang me.
I would have been fine with him wrapping grocery bags around his rod and filling me like a recycle bin.

Because I was a gay sexually repressed teenager with raging hormones.


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Like most Sonic titles today, it's for little kids.
It's simple because little kids typically do not demand complexity in their fun.
This means modest production values can still provide success when catering to child audiences.

Adult consumers, who tend to be more knowledgeable of what the markets are capable of, can be much more difficult to satisfy with modest production values. It's harder to develop a hit title for adult critics because many of them have seen the gems the markets can shell out when they actually try and those critics expect those gems as the new standards. Especially with social media spreading a consensus within days.

Meanwhile, slap Sonic and friends on a game with at least bearable game mechanics and a lot of kids will still be thrilled to play it.

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He was great for thong shots.

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Why are you SO bad with girls?

Because I date guys.

Different specialization altogether.
Easier negotiation for higher pay out and more repeat business with less strings attached.

just economics bro

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I like short jacked gym rats because I get the overtop view of their swole ass muscles jigglin while they're walking hench. From experience dating them, there's plenty of short dudes packing big equipment, a thicc ass powering it, and a strong psychological need to show how sore it can make me.

if you don't want em, i'll always take em <3

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