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Fishnets are sexy as hell, but actually getting them on without ripping them is an ordeal.
I think Ill leave them to others.

Wow, she looks like a cougar. Almost like she's in her 40s but has kept in shape.

She also shared a story about going out to a restaurant and crying because she was so happy she could do that again.

Chalmers sounds pretty close too.

PuppetPalClem posted...

Jim Carey plays the hell out of Robotnik

Yeah, hes a good fit. The bad doctor has always been a bit of a self-important goof ball, and Jim Carey can do that great. But he also possesses the range to give the character some depth.
But it makes sense he would at least consider himself a feminist, with his obsession with Utopianism. Its just he thinks hes the only one smart and worthy enough to build that utopia, and everyone should know it.

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Since when is a good deal all? Its immensely disturbing that those cops didnt do their job. Its reassuring that many of them did do their jobs bravely, but it exposed a weakness that could be exploited by someone who isnt literally Donald Trump.

LOL at not respecting someones pronouns. It requires little effort.

DarkRoast posted...

If it tells you anything, even as a white (technically half-Chinese but you can't tell) female physician, anytime I go to a physician for my own medical problems, it's always assumed to be psychologic. Even though I'm a f****** INTJ emotionless asswipe (and a doctor)

Wow. Now that Im an out trans woman, I just know Im going to have a great time. Heard horror stories in regards to that too.

Butreally? Ugh, our society sucks so much

DarkRoast posted...

I can't even imagine how annoying it must be to be a black female patient in America.

They have crazy high maternal mortality, IIRC. Like, way higher than white women. Which makes me super worried when my black friends and coworkers are trying to get pregnant or are pregnant.

Stormed implies they forced their way in, but they were mostly just let in by Capitol Police. They were disorganized and had little direction, but were violent and we are very fortunate they didnt get their hands on anyone.
Definitely more Beer Hall Putsch than anything with a chance of actually succeeding, but it exposed that a good deal of Capitol Police would probably be complicit in a serious coup attempt.

Yeesh, this is dumb and racist even by his low standards.

Medussa posted...

if catan didn't have freeform trading (and used the ports exclusively instead), i'd recommend it a lot more often. really not a fan of the kingmaking potential that rule opens up.

it's still fine, i won't discommend it. but there are others i'd shill for first.

dominion
clank
splendor
azul
carcassonne
stone age (though it has had supply issues in the past, i'm not sure how available this one will be at any given moment)
the hanging gardens (same)
ticket to ride (with the right group)
seven wonders (with a big enough group. needs 4 to be good)

istanbul and five tribes are also great, but maybe not as a first euro.

i feel like i'm forgetting some. it's been a couple years since i've had to make this pitch, lol.

I personally love the meta of late-game trading in Catan, because it's very rare you have everything you need to do what you want at any given time, but you're always sweating bullets about it because trading with some one else could well be a game-losing decision(unless they're doing really poorly or you're a run-away, at which point nobody paying attention is/should give you a good deal). It's lame if you get some one who just decides they want to stop playing and intentionally throws the game though, yeah.

I really like Dominion, but I have a really poor sense as to when to wind down and start going hard on VPs, so I always lose. Played Carcassone once and liked it.

Dark Moon is really good, because it basically splices in a bit of a Mafia-style game. Played it a few times and really liked it. You're basically all cooperating to repair a space station(and you have a character sheet with some special abilities, there's a captain, you can order others to do stuff, vote on whether to quarantine a suspected infected or let some one out, etc.) but some of the players are infected and win by sabotaging the station, and nobody knows who is who. All dice rolls occur behind screens, so you can never be certain if a given player is intentionally turning in bad dice to tank a task or just got a bad roll. The only pitfall is that initial games really favor the uninfected, because the infected are outnumbered and have to play pretty carefully, because their best weapon is paranoia. If the uninfected figure out who the infected are, you might as well end the game in their victory then and there.

Medussa posted...

catan is one of the simpler ones. it's an ok intro to Euros game, but there are better.

also, complicated is good! decisions make games fun and rewarding.

Yeah, Catan hits a great sweet spot where its complicated enough to be interesting yet intuitive enough that normies who have never played a board game except Monopoly or Clue can still pick it up relatively quickly and enjoy it. Plus it ends relatively predictably(and takes an hour or less usually) and its hard to wind up in a position where you absolutely cant win and impossible that you cant at least effect things.

Its weird how we expect impoverished millennials to be responsible, but not anyone or anything with lots of money.
Almost like the system is rigged

I snapped up Celeste, but otherwise behaved myself. Gotta save. Being trans is going to get expensive.

DespondentDeity posted...

How you say cucumber?

You can pickle just about anything, like the pickled okra I love, but pickle colloquially tends to refer to pickled cucumbers, so I clarified that I felt pickled anything qualifies. Certainly I love trying new things, myself.
Think Im going to go Aldi, Whole Foods doesnt have the variety I crave at the price point I desire (and I get an employee discount!)

Rec me pickled goodness, CE.

SiO4 posted...

I agree, and this is the direction we should be heading. I'm tired of fighting The Cold War.
But you do realize several Million more people live in the Five Boroughs than the whole of Finland.

Yeah, but New York City is also a lot wealthier than Finland. It's not like NYC has less resources to work with, just that it(as well as the NY state and US federal governments) allows Wall Street to hoard them.

But yeah, it's depressing that politicians don't even feel the need to pay lip service to the idea that service workers are important. They've realized that nobody cares anymore.

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Heh, I'm glad Virginians hate I-95 as much as Nutmeggers. It's easier to use that than try to make Connecticut work, ok?

I am, of course, referring to pickled cucumbers, mostly, but anything pickled will do. It's the weirdest thing: I don't like cucumbers, and I hate dill, but somehow dill pickles are typically okay. But now I have become a pickle fiend (my HRT is likely to blame) and regularly buy and eat pickles of all kinds, though I think the standard dills are my least favorite. The coolest pickled thing I've had is a spicy pickled okra (called Smokra lol), but they're really expensive so I mostly get cheaper stuff instead.
Like, I even want to just drink the juice. What have I become?

8 is definitely my least favorite. It has some good moments, but overall its fundamentals are poor.
And I really like 7.

The most "centrist" possible policy: compelling automakers to throw in some forced line about "You should take personal responsibility for climate change and take a bus or bike instead, you lazy mooch," as though climate change is some individual problem that can be fixed trivially rather than a massive problem that requires a massive collective effort.

Yes, back when I would go to the movies, we would go to the Target downstairs, where snacks were plentiful and cheap(and they had a wider selection), put in pockets or under coats or shirts or whatever, and bring it in. We didn't get a lot, but no one ever said anything. I doubt the theater employees were/are paid enough to make a fuss unless you're being super blatant about it.

masterpug53 posted...

It varies between depictions. I think it works best in Batman TAS because, iirc, it's just implied; never this hardline rule that gets announced repeatedly like, say, in the Nolan trilogy. It's been awhile since I've watched the series, but one of the few times I remember it even coming up was the Batman robo-clone choosing to destroy itself over the system shock of having taken a life. TAS also features the 'ideal' version of Batman wherein he doesn't have that holy war-level hatred of criminals, often pulling his punches and even displaying sympathy / understanding for villains who aren't beyond redemption; so the inherent hypocrisy of him beating the shit out of poor people isn't nearly as glaring as it is in other depictions.

Yeah, TAS handles it well, because its more a part of a personal commitment to avoid excessive force and rooted in a (sometimes naive, when you consider the Joker) belief in the inherent goodness of humanity.

Under the Red Hood also engages with it in a great way (and also does a great job of mirroring it in Ras) The Red Hood, who is the resurrected Jason Todd, lays into Batman for letting the Joker continue to live after what the Joker did to him. I dont remember the details since its been years since I saw it, but it absolutely lives up the hype even without Mark Hamill.

It's dumb. It's the exact kind of stupid, hard-and-fast rule a traumatized billionaire playboy would come up with to emphasize his moral superiority while he pounds a bunch of faceless poors into a bloody pulp and dump his actual antagonists in a mental asylum that's as secure as a public park.

Heartomaton posted...

Batman has done worse things than killing.

I present to you the punishment he laid down upon an enemy called Lord Death Man.

Lord Death Man's power was that he would always resurrect after being killed.

What did Batman do to him?

He dropped him off a skyscraper.

Had Catwoman run him over with a truck.

Stuffed his broken body into a safe.

Launched the safe into the depths of space.

Thus leaving Lord Death Man to continually resurrect and die in a small metal box for the rest of eternity.

And then he goes and does genuinely evil stuff like this and just shrugs and says, "Well, I didn't kill him, so I'm not a sadistic monster."

I think it makes him a better character, because it emphasizes he's just an idiot with an infinite budget for cool tech gadgets.

I mean, they bungled it from the start, urging people to not wear non-medical grade lol N95s so as not to take them away from health professionals, as if frontline doctors, nurses, and techs weren't stuck using the same masks for weeks and weren't given literal garbage bags to serve as PPE anyway because the stuff in our national stockpile was literally rotten leftovers from the Ebola scare(IIRC).

Like, it cannot be emphasized enough that the U.S. has completely bungled its pandemic response, across two different presidential administrations, in just about every way possible, and it's sometimes transparently in the service of keeping Wall Street happy.

It's going to be Hakeem Jeffries who succeeds her. Young (for Washington), Black, and also bought-and-paid for by all the right lobby groups.
Not that Pramila Jayapal would be any good, she negotiates like Charlie Brown.

The problem is that the energy required to travel even as "slow" as, like, 3/4 the speed of light is insane. It basically requires really efficient fusion, is my cursory understanding.

But yeah, FTL is just straight-up not a thing unless there's some weird loophole. But, of course, FTL would introduce its own extremely weird problems.

Yeah, it needs to be decriminalized. Policing individual sex workers is, like, obviously not the solution, but it does oppress the sex workers, but it hurts people who are disproportionately poor, women, people of color, and/or trans, which is really why laws like this exist.

greyfox747 posted...

Yeah, I'm out everywhere, I've had a legal name change and everything. I am legally recognized as a woman.

And I have not played one, no

I asked because I just came (fully) out socially myself. And it's so liberating! Did estrogen make you want to sing too? I sing along to songs a lot now, but never did before. (actually, the whole bit in my sig is derived from one of my favorites to sing along to).

AldousIsDead posted...

Testosterone shots give me an adrenaline rush, is estrogen similar?

Not my experience, but then, I don't inject. I'm scared of injecting, but if my esterase is still high after converting some of my E to patches from pills, I should probably calm my tits and bite the needle.
My friend says they feel all cuddly after injecting E. Can't speak for TC, of course.
We have to take blockers to get T under control, I've read it just kind of muscles out estrogen and progesterone otherwise? That true?

Also, I should ask a question. Are you out, TC? And have you ever played a SMT game?

Ive been meaning to watch her Comedy Network show for a while. Seems like my kind of gal.
Adding her to the list of performers I hope get cameos on What We Do In The Shadows.

It's sad how many lives are ruined by our diseased culture. Few (none?) worse than Evangelical Christianity, even in this country.

Its bland, but inoffensively so, and highly nutritious. I wouldnt feature it in anything, but its a great supporting actor.

Yeah, she was alive and ticking and in apparent good health for so long, it was a bit of a surprise even though she was crazy old.
Woman lived for 99 years and left us all wanting more. Absolute legend.

Two of my besties are non-binary. One is strictly they/them, the other is they/she/he: in other words, enby #2 doesn't give a damn.

My mask conceals the stubble I'm stuck with ATM, so I think it's pretty favorable to me.
Gonna have to electrocute those follicles until they give up/die.

WW's jingle is entirely mistimed. LttP has the cool scene with the pendants and the jingle is lined up so Link draws the sword as its ends, which is cool.
Plus, the Master Sword actually feels super cool and powerful in that game, which other Zelda games just don't deliver on well, IMO.

Yeah, buffaloes hate lions and will be aggressive towards them sometimes for no other reason than to make them miserable. But then, thats pretty understandable.

If youre a water buffalo and you made lions go hungry, it was a good day.

Its lovely. And yeah: runny yolk is ideal, on or off a sandwich, IMO.
Its not a must have, but a well-prepared egg can make a burger feel truly decadent.

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You can actually return stuff straight to a locker, though you have to print out the label(or pay a nominal fee for them to send it to you.)
But yeah no, I don't know much of anything about value, sorry. My advice would be not to spend much if you're planning on taking hormones: your body will change a lot and there's no guarantee stuff will still fit you then.
Oh right: sizing for women's clothing is a bit more complicated. I suggest acquiring a measuring tape to size yourself with, so you can be assured of a good fit. They're really cheap. Ring sizers are even cheaper, and a cis woman friend alerted me to their existence.
Like, I think I'm a bit ahead of schedule, but I'm six months in and my breasts are large enough that they're noticeable even in a too-tight sports bra lol(they're not huge or anything, but I look down at my chest and I def have breasts. Euphoria every damned time). People at work are going to see something(s) when I go in wearing a standard bra.