Probably this one. Yeah, those are always fun to read.
One personal instance that sticks in my head was when I was sparring with one of my fellow students in the dojo I'm at, and she described getting blocked as 'hitting a tree'.
...I really, really didn't have the heart to tell her that I was deliberately over-extending to actually block her attack, so it wasn't as strong as it would be normally.
Testosterone. Hell of a drug.
Or they saw alot of people looking thoughtful and going 'Hmm, a bloodbath sounds really nice right about now, actually.'
I give it 50/50.
Grift and nepotism, likely.
Just quote 'A Man For All Seasons' at them until they shut up.
They bitch at gamers for escapism, but refuse to tackle the question of why they're trying to escape.
Because then they might have to do something about it. Or notice things that are verboten.
You're not wrong about lan gaming, though. Ah, memories.
There's actually a really, really good essay on the attitudes of homosexuality and anime that's extremely self-aware in a way that's almost refreshing.
...it's also seven fucking years old, so that might explain it. The past really is another country.
TLDR, it goes into elaborating how Japanese society, despite being very conservative(in the old sense of the term) in alot of ways can have a specific tolerance of homosexuality in things such as anime and manga;
The short answer is that anime reflects the tolerant attitude that a society can have towards what Fred Reed referred to as “baroque sexualities” when they represent no threat to the prevailing heterosexual order. This, in turn, reflects the tolerant attitude that can be had towards any minority – whether it be a lifestyle minority, an ethnic minority, a religious minority, or a political minority – when it is below a certain level of prominence in that society.
Overall, the essay is a good rebuttal to disingenuous faggots trying to shoehorn gay stuff in as 'regular and normal'.
“For this village, even were it incomparably more remote and incredibly more primitive, is the West, the West onto which I have been so strangely grafted. These people cannot be, from the point of view of power, strangers anywhere in the world; they have made the modem world, in effect, even if they do not know it. The most illiterate among them is related, in a way that I am not, to Dante, Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Aeschylus, Da Vinci, Rembrandt, and Racine; the cathedral at Chartres says something to them which it cannot say to me, as indeed would New York’s Empire State Building, should anyone here ever see it. Out of their hymns and dances come Beethoven and Bach. Go back a few centuries and they are in their full glory—but I am in Africa, watching the conquerors arrive.”
- Stranger in the Village, James Baldwin
That's some brutal, self-aware stuff right there. And this was written back in the 1950s.
I hate that you're right.
They expect the government to fix it because the government has exercised unprecedented daily intrusions of power in the past decade, if not longer.
Don't want your kid to get their genitals lopped off? That's a paddling. Disagree with trans library time? Sniper teams on the roof. Protest an election? Into the gulag.
I see the recent spread of ID laws when it comes to porn access as normie parents slowly starting to wake up to clown world and expect the old ways of managing things to fix it. They've yet to realize that this stuff only goes one way, that the methods their using already belong to the enemy, and that the only options to seriously fix all this are narrowing to a severe degree.
Parents expect the government to fix this because parents are no longer given full control of their kids lives. I can't blame them much for realizing this and acting accordingly to their PoV.
Typical-minded fallacy. None of us realized that the internet at the time was due to selection effect and pressures acting as gatekeeping.
Then the eternal september hit, and that was that.
I'm beginning to suspect that if we removed illegal aliens from the population, crime as a whole would be reduced by 50%, if not more.
I'm a big believer in personal responsibility, and if you want to check out... well.
I don't understand it, personally, except in certain circumstances(dementia, ect, ect), I don't necessarily like it, but I'm not going to try and stop someone from exercising their personality responsibility.
This does get a little bit thorny when they try to use depression as an excuse, and I'd much rather have the focus be on fixing that problem. But I'm beginning to wonder if fixing mental issues is becoming more and more verboten among the medical set.
The issue is when you get the fucking government involved. Then it becomes a rule. A policy. An acceptable option.
The last thing I want to do is walk into a medical office for a checkup and receive the advise of 'So, have you considered killing yourself as a solution?'
There's no good, perfect answer for this, but I'm beginning to approach the notion that state-sponsored euthanasia is a big fucking warning bell that society should be paying attention to.
'We'd rather kill them off than fix a problem'.
Yeah, that about tracks. Sickening.
Cause they know people don't like what they're doing, and roaches hate having a light shined on them.
Not saying this was the case in OP's situation, but given some things I've noticed in the past few years, I think the reason women do this is because the entire 'Women are Wonderful' is alot more powerful than people realize.
The drawback is, when it breaks, it breaks hard, because they're dealing with subhuman animals who don't give a shit. And when this does happen, women don't realize this, and instead fall back on 'all men are monsters' that I've seen come up alot in the past few years.
Men look at this and are confused as fuck, because we live in reality and deal with the whole sliding scale of 'Oh shit, it's happening' and know how to respond accordingly.
Not sure if I've ranted about this before, but the fact that they did a gender swap of Liet-Kynes shows that their knowledge and awareness of the Dune universe is a wide yet shallow puddle.
Didn't watch the first, the second one can go fuck itself.
Huh. Weird. And surprising. Guess I'll have to re-classify Biden from 'one of those assholes that abuses their height' to 'simply a raging, narcissistic asshole'.
Live and learn.
Biden is the domineering asshole that everyone gushes about how awesome and wonderful to work for he is.
And it's probably true. As long as you agree with everything he tells you to do or say.
The moment you step out of line, the asshole comes out. Biden is, what, six foot four? He's probably used that to good effect for a long, long time. We've seen this happen before when the mask slips, but the media carried so much goddamn water for the son of a bitch it all gets glossed over for the normies, and the true believers don't care.
You can, but you don't need to. They're old top-down isometric games a la Diablo, whereas New Vegas... yeah. It's interesting, but not critical.
When you have modders not even bothering with Starfield because it's too boring, you know you have a problem.
A friend of mine is in the stages of getting's his pilot's license for private flying.
All I can say is, good luck...
Male incels have never had sex. Ever.
Femcels are 'Oh, it's been so long since I've had sex, woe is me, several years, it's so horrible, wah'.
There's a reason they had to separate the two communities on reddit, why one is private and invite only, and it isn't the Incel one...
Then they need to get on all fours and shut up.
I tried to play Fallout 3. It was a slog. After 12 hours or so, I gave it up - bad quest design, the starting area is an hour long, graphics-wise it's fairly bland and uninteresting, so on and so forth.
Fallout NV has no real mechanical difference between it and Fallout 3, but the moment I tried playing it, I was hooked, and hooked bad. Character creation is quick and to the point, you have an immediate problem you have to solve, and the starting area can be summarily ignored with multiple paths taken to get to your next objective.
To paraphrase someone else, 'A good game has you solving a murder. A really good game has you solving your own murder...'
Every time I see examples of people trying to play the women sympathy card of 'Oh, this woman was horribly groomed by society/circumstance/men', my take away isn't 'Oh, that poor woman' but instead 'So, you're saying women are incapable of functioning in society. Okay, then...'