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kingdrake2 posted...

back when my uncle used to be alive he took that powdered stuff and it turned his poop black.

Black poop usually means internal bleeding. That's very serious. Like "go to the hospital" serious.

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About a month or two ago, I took some powdered magnesium that you mix into water to drink, and it gave me such horrible stomach pains that I legitimately thought I might die. I have a family history of digestive maladies, and I once almost bled to death from an ulcer. The magnesium made my insides feel like they were ripping themselves apart for about 1-2 hours.

I ended up being fine afterwards, but goddamn was it bad. (Well, I actually ended up being extremely dehydrated and got a splitting headache.) I was stupid and didn't eat enough food when I took it. With my stomach issues, I probably shouldn't have taken it at all.

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ai123 posted...

Complaining about 'draught' when everybody is fine with 'thought'

'Draught' is pronounced as 'draft.' Don't know why 'thought' would be a comparison here.

They've already been mentioned, but I love Speed Racer and The Last Jedi. I also like Alien 3, although I think it's weaker than the first two Alien movies.

The 1967 version of Casino Royale probably takes the cake for me. It's a total disaster, but it's a mind-melting disaster. Completely absurd on so many levels. The kind of movie that shouldn't exist, but somehow it does. I understand why people hate it, but it's one of my favorite movies because it's such an experience to watch. It's almost more like an amusement-park ride than a movie.

Bubsy 3D has gotta be up there for me.

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spanky1 posted...

@TheOnionKnight

Look at this shit

I hope this was related to alt shenanigans and wasn't really just about Nirvana lyrics. But yeah, not heartening.

Met a bunch of people through online dating, including my current partners.

He's going to the extreme edge of misogyny. Saying that if you don't treat women as baby-making machines, then you're not living up to your potential as a man, and therefore you aren't a man at all, and therefore you may as well be gay. This is the same grotesque patriarchal attitude that's driving the right-wing push to end access to abortion, contraceptives, and birth control. The idea is that a "real man" should knock up women so that pregnancy makes the women vulnerable and dependent on the man, trapping the women in a permanently subservient child-bearing domestic role, and giving the man ultimate authority. Really sick stuff. But even though the tweet is ridiculous and stupid, there are people out there who legitimately believe this.

Not only is 4/20 this weekend, but today is Bicycle Day.

Dakimakura posted...

https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/1c6pdo1/my_new_avatar_gives_me_dysphoria/

I hadn't considered this, but it makes sense and it's actually pretty upsetting. All genders have the same "chest" slider as one of the customization options, but even when it's set to zero, my male avatar looks like he's got more than pecs. "Shoulders" and "waist" are other options, but you can't really configure them to get a masculine frame. At max, the shoulders are still narrow, and the hips are sizeable even at a low setting. You're basically locked in to having certain feminine proportions.

For me, it's just kind of funky. I'm not too attached to Pokemon and I've only been playing this game a few months. But some people have been playing for years and really relate to their avatars. I could see this update causing real body-image issues.

I normally don't care about avatars, but this was jarring. The options to adjust body type are nice in theory, but the execution isn't good. Stretched-out torsos. Disproportionate heads. A very limited selection of faces, which all look similar and have a weird uncanny vibe. None of the clothes fit the new models, so everything is warped. The character animations don't fit them either.

And yeah, some players have lost access to outfits/accessories that they previously bought. It sucks because you've gotta save up weeks/months of in-game currency to afford stuff. Or pay real money. Now it's just, poof, gone.

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Probably close to two decades, which is crazy.

spanky1 posted...

Posting in a part of history.

Ditto.

Currently have two partners. One I've been dating for like two and a half years. The other I was dating for a few years before the pandemic, then we amicably parted ways until early this year, when we got back together.

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Heineken14 posted...

If a story like that is true, I wouldn't have given a tip, or a very small one.

It's 100% true, and I did leave a very small tip. It's the kind of thing where I think about it in retrospect, and realize I should've left no tip or caused more of a fuss. Instead I just decided to never go to that restaurant again, and I never have.

I basically never order alcohol, and I'm pretty poor so I try to be frugal when I'm eating out. I'll never forget going to a restaurant one time with some friends, ordering water, and having the waitress keep "forgetting" to bring it. (My friends ordered drinks and she brought those, of course.) Then at the end of the meal, when she brought the bill, she said to me: "I guess you didn't need that water, after all, did you?"

I've had a few flavors, and they've all been way too sweet for me. The hype from the Narnia books definitely warped my expectations. But then again, it's enchanted by magic in the books. The real version was never gonna taste so delectable.

I identify as pan at this point. Mostly attracted to women, but one of my partners came out as trans, and that took my sexuality on a bit of a roller coaster. I've also done a ton of psychedelics over the years which have melted the conventional boundaries of identity for me to such an extent that I don't even really believe in categories for sex/gender/etc anymore. Pan is the label that seems to say "anything is possible," and that's kinda where I am now.

wallmasterz posted...

Ha! I cant believe they made a TV spinoff of such an awful film I am guessing you remember my Disney canon threads back in the day, 2008. Hope all is well for you.

Of course I remember! But was that really 2008? Over a decade ago? My god.

Things are okay for me. Life has been weird and messy lately, but I'm still alive. Hopefully everything's good on your end!

wallmasterz posted...

Here we have a big fan of Disneys upcoming live action Home on the Range TV show. Each episode is rumored to have a budget of $100 million.

lol you almost gave me a heart attack! But unfortunately, upon turning to Google, I learned that although a live-action series might just be a hypothetical nightmare, there actually is an animated TV spin-off. Hopefully it's cheap to produce. -_-

One of my partners likes to do this in a "lie back and I'll pamper you" sort of way. Almost like I'm a Roman emperor or something, just sprawled out and getting massaged and served little delicacies. It honestly can feel weird since I've never dated anyone who wants to lavish me with this much attention, but it's growing on me. Very private and intimate, though. Would be totally out of place in public.

Succession and Scavengers Reign are my two recent favorites.

Never talked on the phone, but I did a video call once for a "digital date." This was during the early pandemic when everyone was still paranoid about in-person interaction, but it was perfectly fine even within that context.

I've parted with all of my exes on basically good terms, but I haven't kept up with most of them and don't know what they're doing now. Except for an ex from 3-4 years ago who isn't an ex anymore, since we got back together in January.

Christopher Nolan's movies don't do much for me. Ditto most stuff from Pixar. I usually don't find Will Ferrell funny. Not a fan of Tom Hanks or Sean Penn. Some popular shows I dislike: South Park, Friends, The Simpsons, Family Guy, The Daily Show.

On a more positive note, I think Speed Racer (2008) is a masterpiece, although most people seem to hate it. The Last Jedi also gets dragged constantly, but it's one of my favorite Star Wars movies.

Polyamorous and dating two partners. I've kept things pretty casual for my whole life, but I think I might be falling for one of my current partners harder than I ever have for anyone.

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I always want to pronounce it to rhyme with "kite" due to the E at the end. But apparently you're supposed to ignore the E and pronounce it to rhyme with "bit." You almost never ignore the E at the end of words like this. Frustrating.

Ori and the Will of the Wisps has a pretty cool desert area with a sandworm boss. Only one part of the game, and not actually Dune, but feels very Dune-inspired.

spanky1 posted...

@TheOnionKnight this is what you harp on a lot right?

Yeah, I think about it a lot. Something can be well-intentioned but then have the total opposite effect. The Godfather and Apocalypse Now are the two examples that always come to mind for me. Even though these are critical movies, The Godfather wound up leading to real-world glamorization of the mafia, and Apocalypse Now is literally used as a recruitment tool for the military, playing "Ride of the Valkyries" to hype up soldiers and etc.

alfred_ashford posted...

Not watching those vids but thats a shame if the tiktok generation really thinks that obscure/not universally agreed upon good(aka NEW) is pretentious.

Getting real sick of the "its popular so it has to be good and if not EVERYONE likes it then no one likes it" mindset.

Good, Bad, and the Ugly is not even obscure, and is universally agreed to be good. It's one of the stereotypical "big famous Western" movies. Honestly it's the guy on TikTok who comes off as being pretentious here: pretending to know what he's talking about. Which is usually the case whenever someone calls something "pretentious." That's turning into a red-flag word for me.

Only really with one of my partners if she buys Nestle products. I wouldn't say "criticize" though. More like "point out," since she's anti-Nestle (rightly so, in my opinion) but she'll sometimes buy their stuff without realizing they manufactured a certain product.

I love The Scarlet Letter and basically everything else written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, but I read his books either in college or on my own. Not in high school. Not middle school. And especially not elementary, which is when my sister was forced to read it. This is one of those books that you really need to read as an adult, and it's a disservice to both the book and to the students that schools make kids read it when they're way too young.

One that I was forced to read in high school, and that I hated, was Moby-Dick. This was one of my most-hated novels for years -- until I reread it in my 20s, and then I fell in love with it. Now it's one of my all-time favorites. I've reread it like 8 times.

Never much cared for To Kill a Mockingbird, though. Didn't like Death of a Salesman either.

Way more than 35. No clue about the number, but it's atypically inflated from attending kink parties that revolve around making out with everyone.