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Welp, I fit in this demographic. Doesn't have anything to do with smartphones though, it's just more relaxing and less prone to... mistakes.

There's numerous ways I could think of to make BotW a better game, but I can honestly say this never fell on my radar.

Honestly, considering it's practically a meme to have the PC in Skyrim to be able to call a timeout and be able to devour hundreds of cheese wheels (instantly) to heal themselves in a pinch, I'm probably just desensitized to this sort of thing.

The first Metroid Prime. When a game goes from near total "wtf, this'll never work" skepticism in concept/development to holding up amazingly well even nearly 20 years after its release, you have to admit it did a damn fine job.

LordMarshal posted...

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They fixed the drifting issue.

What brand is that? Does it only work in handheld mode?

_HayleyWilliams posted...

"The world thinks you are subhuman trash that doesn't rights because the way you were born offends them. Can't do anything about it!"

Is this why gay people are still castrated and women don't have voting rights? Because people just have to accept how the world is?

Gwynevere posted...

That's exactly how change works though

We start postulating on how society should work, and then take steps toward changing it. Kind of the whole basis for the civil rights movement, which is still going on to this day.

Anyway the answer to the topic is yes. Trans men are men, trans women are women, and I'm bisexual so I'd fuck/date/marry either lol.

This has nothing to do with the point I was responding to, which was referring to having a smaller potential dating/relationship pool due to being trans (which, as an asexual person, is something I can relate to)

There is absolutely nothing to be done about things like that. You cannot simply force uninterested people to be interested in you; you can't affect any sort of "change" there. This is quite a bit different from things like teaching people it's not okay to be racist.

gunplagirl posted...

Nobody should have to "just accept" a shitty reality. Like, if people did that we'd still be hunter and gatherers because we'd have accepted that as our lot in life.

The world doesn't operate on "shoulds".

I'm asexual. That means I naturally have a significantly smaller potential dating/relationship pool, because of inherent incompatibilities with sexual people (which make up approximately 99% of the population if statistics are to be believed, although I would bet it's even higher than that). There is nothing I can do to change that about myself, nor is there anything I can do to magically change sexual people to be more like me or more "tolerant" of me.

Some people get dealt shittier hands in life than others. It just is what it is. You can whine about how this shouldn't be so, but that's really all it amounts to... whining.

Would you be open to dating a trans person?

I'm married to one. But...

Your potential date discloses to you at the very beginning that they are trans. Would you still go out on a date with them?

Honestly, probably not. The only reason my relationship panned out the way it did is because at first, as far as either of us knew, they were female. Had I known from the start that they were trans male, it's more likely no feelings/1relationship would have developed on my end.

Which isn't to say I harbor any sort of resentment over how things turned out. There's nothing to be resentful over (they didn't know either) and our relationship is great. We actually both consider it a blessing in disguise that they only discovered their trans identity after the relationship had already formed. It's just that for me, after the feelings/connection has been formed, the sex/gender/etc crap kind of stops mattering to me. It's still the same person that I love, and it's not like that's just going to suddenly change.

No; what would be the point of that? I'm just not going to watch his stuff, because frankly, it's not even funny.

No. This is a sort of thing they need to figure out on their own based on their own moral/ethic code.

Good thing no one is advocating not punishing children when they do wrong.

The issue is that almost everyone I see outcrying against spanking either suggests no alternative, or suggests ridiculously lame "punishments" that aren't going to deter any sort of bad behavior. I would know; I was a kid once.

I'm not saying they don't exist; some people are a lot cleverer than others, at least when it comes to devising punishments. But when people just say "don't do this" and also don't say what to do instead, it's going to be a lot less effective at changing anyone's disciplinary tactics.

I don't really care about them (been pretty disillusioned with the series since gen 7), but the spouse is probably going to want them, so we'll likely end up getting them anyway.

I've been having a pretty good time with this on PC, but the amount of crashes is pretty extreme. I can't figure out what's causing them, but seeing as how some others (but apparently not all) are getting the same issue, I imagine it's something to do with the game rather than my system. This PC is almost brand new and otherwise runs the game just fine...

Are the PS4 or Switch versions any more stable? I get that the multiplayer is way more restricted but I don't really care too much about MP anyway.

The Wheelman1 posted...

If you tell kids nicely, they will ignore or mock you.
If you yell at them, you are being mean to them.
If you spank them, it's child abuse.

Wtf are we supposed to do then?

Let them do whatever they want, duh.

Those parents that let their screaming kids loose on a crowded airplane without a care in the world? They've already mastered this skill.

when you think about it, you're just going through some predetermined experience that a billion other people are having.

So... like real life?

Waiting to see the price before I pass judgment, but I'll probably get it.

She got what she literally wished for, so I don't feel any reason for sympathy on my part.

Without trust, there is no relationship.
So no

Plus, what about the bi/pan people? Guess they just aren't allowed to have friends?

Residing in Canada, I at least recognize most of those. I don't like coffee (every coffee I've tried anyway has pretty much made me gag), but I'm pretty fond of Coffee Crisp. Despite the name, it's still 95%ish like a KitKat bar, with just a hint of coffee flavor.

Smarties are basically M&Ms but a bit harder. I'll eat them, but I prefer M&Ms.

I don't have a good comparison for Aero but it's basically Nestle chocolate bubbles. If you're familiar with pretty much any other form of Nestle chocolate, you'll know what this one tastes like.

Gotten two. Not sure a third is approved/recommended yet for me at this point in time, but once it is I'll probably be getting that. I'm probably pretty fucked if I get covid, so it would be wise of me to lessen the potential blow however I can.

Was hoping at first for all this covid crap to blow over, but by now it's clear that it won't be. Humanity is seeing to that.

Obviously not. It's just not the sort of thing I want to be looking at / thinking about when I eat, much like how most people seem to regard thinking of their parents having sex as a turn-off. (Do they think their parents didn't have sex?)

Combination of "not my problem" + "what I contribute is just a drop in the bucket" mentalities, I would imagine

Ah, so if someone doesn't meet your (arbitrary) politeness threshold, that must mean they're a troublemaker and deserve action taken against them. Got it

Because... someone may not know who that person is, but would like to learn?

Why are you automatically assuming the worst about people? What do you think that says about you?

__aCEr__ posted...

Posting "Who?" or some equivalent in a topic about a person dying is a fair moderation.

It really shouldn't be. That kind of response reeks of assuming guilty before proven innocent.

You're saying the First Amendment doesn't exist?

I'm saying that anyone who goes on and on about the existence of "free speech!" is almost always someone who's trying to hide behind it to excuse behaving like an asshat, and almost never understands that freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.

jiffdiff posted...

Chrono Cross Remaster? It's about time.

Heh

I'm not a hip person, so the only thing I really know Norm for was the fact he would have been the first celebrity player on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire to win the million had he not been talked down from going for it by Regis. Looked it up, and apparently this was back in 2000. Dang.

RIP, to them both

Lokarin posted...

At this point... the Fallout 4 combat music 'cuz it's stuck on and won't ever turn off - even reloading the game doesn't stop it!

Have you tried messing with the radio?

Barring that, you can also just disable it in the settings. If that still doesn't work, your game is haunted beyond usual Bethesda standards.

But he continued and said "There's a free will in America, there's a freedom of speech"

Anyone who says stuff like this is pretty much guaranteed to be a tool.

This was certainly no exception.

Asleep, on a school morning. (I was living in Hawaii at the time)

School still happened, so the day was rather unremarkable for me

What did she say that was wrong, exactly?

For starters, just looking at the very first image, I can say I disliked the Instant Expert status of Rey and it had absolutely nothing to do with the fact she was female.

This person seems out of touch and I'd already be wary of whatever they would do from a creator standpoint -- that being said, I have no idea what this person is actually doing and I'm not terribly invested into Star Wars or KOTOR, so I think I'll still be able to sleep at night.

Considering I would need to be alive to enjoy the trillion dollars and Mike Tyson would certainly kill me beyond any doubt, I can't say accepting this deal would be logically sound.

Fair, next.

He's probably going to get some sort of "tut tut" punishment anyway because they have to set some sort of anti-vigilantism example, but I'm not going to weep for a child predator who seems certainly guilty.

People can say "he should have called the police" instead all they want. Ultimately though, I don't feel like the people who say this are really bothering to look into, or understand, why people might not go with the police-calling route.