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WhoIsThatMaskedMan 48 points ago +48 / -0

I could somewhat excuse the daughter's writing if she's supposed to be an obnoxious progressive NPC who everyone hates, but the concept of "gender fluidity" functionally did not exist prior to maybe 15 years ago tops. It might have been theorized by pedophiles with tenure, but nobody was claiming to be it yet. So even with the most charitable possible interpretation, it's still anachronistic at best.

But the "anti-gay = secretly gay" thing is such an embarrassingly old cliche/cope that I can think of no excuses for it. Even in a parody setting it's hack writing.

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WhoIsThatMaskedMan 20 points ago +20 / -0

So from what I gather - and correct me if I'm wrong, because I know nothing about these characters - didn't they just accidentally imply that Captain Marvel has shown pedophilic tendencies in the past by Valkyrie immediately assuming that the 16 year old girl was her wife? If I called my friend and a middle school girl answered, my first thought certainly wouldn't be "oh you must be his wife", because I'm not friends with pedophiles.

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WhoIsThatMaskedMan 4 points ago +4 / -0

Sometimes when it comes to German, I can't tell if I'm reading legitimate German or English written with a funny accent.

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WhoIsThatMaskedMan 32 points ago +32 / -0

"I'm an independent thinker", she told TikTok as she caked on so much makeup that her skin color changed by six or seven shades.

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WhoIsThatMaskedMan 5 points ago +5 / -0

All cults prey on the weak and vulnerable. That's what makes them cults. The people who run them are excellent at the "discover weakness -> love bomb -> isolate -> indoctrinate" technique. If you're desperate enough and they smell it, you're pretty much fucked.

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WhoIsThatMaskedMan 52 points ago +52 / -0

>talk low brow
>"stupid and disrespectful"
>talk normal
>"mansplaining"
>talk high brow
>"intellectual high ground"

Gee fellas I'm starting to wonder if maybe feminists are just hateful psychopaths or something

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WhoIsThatMaskedMan 3 points ago +3 / -0

No. He has 2 million sock puppet accounts following him, all owned by whatever NGO he works for. Literally all he does is Tweet DNC propaganda. Literally. It's painfully obvious he's getting paid to do this, and it's also painfully obvious that he's screaming into the void. 2 million totally real followers, he gets maybe 1000 replies on his more popular tweets, and they're all calling him a pathetic leftist cuck. Where are all his fans? Why are they all perpetually silent? I think it goes without saying.

He's basically getting paid to shit out whatever talking points his bosses command him to. He's ChatGPT except he smells worse.

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WhoIsThatMaskedMan 1 point ago +1 / -0

Tie a string to the bullet so that once it goes through his head we can pull it back out and put it back into the gun. You know, like the old coin on a string trick.

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WhoIsThatMaskedMan 10 points ago +10 / -0

The Super Metroid Nintendo's Player's Guide describes Samus as 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) tall and weighs 198 pounds (90 kg) without her Power Suit.

Jesus Christ. Well never mind, she's a behemoth. But I'm not one of those IRL either.

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WhoIsThatMaskedMan 18 points ago +18 / -0

Meanwhile I, a straight man, have zero problem declaring myself to be a petite woman wearing an ancient Chozo battlesuit or a fire breathing lizard monster with a spiked shell or whatever else the game wants to me think.

Pretending to be someone or something else is only difficult if you're a narcissist.

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WhoIsThatMaskedMan 8 points ago +8 / -0

I'm pretty sure it was Sinfest.

by Lethn
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WhoIsThatMaskedMan 7 points ago +7 / -0

I used to think the opposite, but now I agree. Generally speaking all having too many stats does is dilute the rest. Every stat, by nature, interacts with every other stat. This makes adding a stat an exponential increase in the complexity of the system. And this complexity has to be tested. And testers are humans with limited time. The more unnecessary shit you add, the less attention gets paid to the stuff that does matter.

Alternatively you have like 20 different stats but none of them actually matter. Final Fantasy games are a great example of this. Did you know that every character in FF7 has a unique set of starting stats and stat growth? Did you even know FF7 had stats beyond attack, defense, HP, and MP? You can get forgiven if not, because you don't have to pay any attention to them at all.

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WhoIsThatMaskedMan 2 points ago +2 / -0

This sub: Good heavens, corrupting a show for children? Have you any shame, sir?

Also this sub: Ha ha, you're right, it does appear as if Big Bird is telling that black guy he's not welcome on Sesame Street! How funny!

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WhoIsThatMaskedMan 4 points ago +4 / -0

"This episode of Bluey is called Heretics!"

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WhoIsThatMaskedMan 19 points ago +19 / -0

Jesus was divinely conceived, thus his nationality was irrelevant. We're not even sure he was actually related to Mary. It's more likely she was a surrogate of a divine embryo that didn't have any earthly ties at all. Unless we're to believe that Jesus was the genetic son of Mary and Joseph which, while not impossible, doesn't seem very likely.

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WhoIsThatMaskedMan 25 points ago +25 / -0

I'm not going to claim that it wasn't always the case that 90% of people can aspire to be little more than slaves, but I've definitely seen a major trend toward people wasting their own potential and choosing to sit at home, watch TV, and get high instead of doing literally anything at all with themselves.

I myself am somewhat guilty of this. It's hard to get motivated to self improve when you have no unfulfilled needs.

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WhoIsThatMaskedMan 8 points ago +8 / -0

It's bad wording, but not entirely wrong. His salvation is explicitly referred to as "eternal life" - that is, no death.

But he's not killing death by any means. People will still die, and in fact the second coming will involve a lot of souls being sent to oblivion. Depending on how you interpret the Bible, of course.

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WhoIsThatMaskedMan 6 points ago +6 / -0

It's interesting that the author of this short story was forced to exaggerate the animosity between gays and straights so much. Clearly the idea was to invert the current status quo and show straights as oppressed...except just inverting society didn't do that, thus his point was ruined. So instead he had to create a cartoon society where people hunt down straights the way leftists believe that gays are and were hunted in times past.

In reality, sodomy laws on the books were ancient and almost never enforced by 1955, and the few that did exist didn't "outlaw being gay" but rather anal "sex" in particular (because it's filthy and spreads disease), so the story was at least a hundred years too late.

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WhoIsThatMaskedMan 6 points ago +6 / -0

So, you have a 50% chance of your marriage succeeding

This assumes that I'm on the left side of the bell curve. It's not like for every marriage you flip a coin, and if it's tails you get divorced. These numbers are hugely inflated by idiots getting married when they have no business doing so.

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WhoIsThatMaskedMan 41 points ago +41 / -0

Maturity happens through hardship. The modern woman is playing life on Very Easy, so she never matures. Simple as.

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WhoIsThatMaskedMan 7 points ago +7 / -0

Basically all of it except "old man writes ham-fisted cautionary tale about technology" type.

by Lethn
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WhoIsThatMaskedMan 10 points ago +10 / -0

Dialogue engine work is a surprisingly enormous pain in the ass. It's also largely unnecessary, because unless you're shaking things up in a big way, it's already been done.

One thing programmers learn pretty early on is that reinventing the wheel is a waste of time, unless you're doing it purely as an academic exercise. If there exists a good library out there that does what you want, use it. And if there doesn't, then you're not reinventing the wheel, you're writing a library.

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WhoIsThatMaskedMan 9 points ago +9 / -0

It worked with Trump and it worked with Reagan. So far the only mostly-extant generation who hasn't elected a celebrity during their peak is X.

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