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HallucinatoryBeing 15 points ago +15 / -0

Why would consumption spike in the last few months?

It's nominal, so not adjusted for inflation. You're paying more for the same amount of goods. It's the same shit when you hear politicians spout "record-breaking revenue" or "all time highs".

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HallucinatoryBeing 12 points ago +12 / -0

AI was pulled out to get Biden out of his """technical""" recession in 2022. What's going to be the New Thing™ to increase spending and GDP for the Orange Man?

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HallucinatoryBeing 8 points ago +8 / -0

Girl boss movies are a good example. If you're living in sane times, 95% of media protagonists are men. In that context, the very occasional girl boss registers as a fun novelty.

Spree Snooter talks about this in his Ex Voto video. The reason why it works is because it's a male fantasy. It's also why said girl bosses are beautiful and wear bikini armor into battle. A competent female warrior is already a fantasy, so you might as well pile on the fanservice.

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HallucinatoryBeing 7 points ago +7 / -0

Any realistic fight between a man and a woman, not a pussified play fight in a McDojo but a full-on kill-or-die situation, would easily resemble RAPE. Such a scene would never get made in any mainstream movie, not in the gynocracy we live in.

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HallucinatoryBeing 7 points ago +7 / -0

He would be a great case study of whether or not Pajeetness is nature or nurture.

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HallucinatoryBeing 3 points ago +3 / -0

Kitana stabs people with blade fans. Did the movie stick to that, or did it have her punching dudes?

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HallucinatoryBeing 2 points ago +2 / -0

An independent hobby that had no taxes or expenses to worry about, unlike the job it currently is.

But I see you're just fishing for gotchas instead of having a good-faith discussion, so I'll leave it there.

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HallucinatoryBeing 4 points ago +4 / -0

I know people that did terribly in school who can build a car from scratch or a whole house from blueprints or write songs in real time. Do they need to be treated for something?

I believe they're called "hyperfixations" in psychology parlance. People with ADHD have one thing they focus on at the expense of everything else. You see this with the speedrunning community, and they're not exactly sane there.

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HallucinatoryBeing 9 points ago +9 / -0

True, but it won't help her if the guy still doesn't pay.

I never said women were rational. She'll gladly give all that up if it means he'll suffer.

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HallucinatoryBeing 7 points ago +7 / -0

She still does, on paper at least. Those payments don't freeze while he's in jail; it accumulates with penalties. All that gets dumped on him the moment he's out. It's a modern day debtors' prison.

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HallucinatoryBeing 2 points ago +2 / -0

Old money won't be affected, but new-money techbros have been dying off since the peak of the stimmie era and the surge in inflation. The latter is who actually keep the lights on at these luxury dealerships.

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HallucinatoryBeing 6 points ago +6 / -0

If we could harness the energy from Enzo Ferrari's spinning corpse, we could power the world for decades. That man is screaming from the afterlife so loud I can't drown it out.

A certain tractor salesman is laughing his ass off.

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HallucinatoryBeing 17 points ago +17 / -0

Amber alert, i.e. the "father was late to the Sunday dropoff and the cunt ex-wife wants sole custody" alert.

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HallucinatoryBeing 1 point ago +1 / -0

Zero Punctuation was independent for exactly two episodes, back when Yahtzee was a broke nobody who then-recently immigrated from the UK to Australia just to see his online gf (who ended up breaking up with him). He uploaded those videos on July 2007, which back then you had to be with a YouTube Partner like Machinima to get any ad revenue. It started purely as a hobby.

As for his novels, I didn't do all that much research, but the first book that actually got published was in 2010, Mogworld, after he was already established with the Escapist and a household name. He worked with a publishing house, so any expenses would've been covered by them. Before that, he mostly dabbled in (unpaid) freeware games and webcomics.

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HallucinatoryBeing 11 points ago +11 / -0

Dungeon Meshi shows you can even draw a sturdy, stout dwarf woman without her looking like La Creatura.

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HallucinatoryBeing 11 points ago +11 / -0

International flights don't let you carry meats, fruits, nuts, or veggies on the plane.

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HallucinatoryBeing 8 points ago +8 / -0

Watching '90s nostalgia slop is like watching a Renaissance Faire: LARPing and anachronisms everywhere.

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HallucinatoryBeing 6 points ago +6 / -0

Speaking of nostalgia, there's a lot of muttering on Twitter over the lack of excitement for the United States' 250th anniversary, compared to the Bicentennial in 1976. No stars-and-stripes banners everywhere, no red white and blue...

Just brown.

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HallucinatoryBeing 27 points ago +27 / -0

Did his dog snitch on him?

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