Nice to have a set of movies I enjoy and not feel like it was made by woke soy.

This will be so effective that they will carry 100% of the vote at the gay bars it’s targeted at. Except they already had that vote.

Wait this was supposed to be for regular men? Fooled me.

There’s so much more depth in the men’s list. The women’s list is just kinda the same

Although I would like to see the actual whole list starting with 1 to see the disparity there even though it’s much less delta.

You’re exactly right, for me the answer to that is currently no. I’m not mad at them for making them difficult.

I love the aesthetics in a lot of these fighting games though. Not being held back by all the open world nonsense I suppose gives a lot of opportunity to just make things look fun

Wasn’t that a lot more hip during say Obama’s elections? a.k.a 16 years ago

It looks really cool, but fighting games have never been my thing. The skill floor alone is usually several stories than where I stand, so I never am willing to put in the time required. Glad to see doing well since I assume it’s not woke. The gaming consumer has gone nowhere as you can see when the right games come around.

At this point 80% fun entertainment. The other 20% for shared social experience. Specifically I play games with a handful of family and friends and it's a decent way to catch up and have a shared activity whether in person or remotely.

Some of your points apply to me, specifically the second one regarding puzzle solving, but in the end it comes down to entertainment and it being fun for me to solve puzzles. Different traits applied in the past, but I think in a way I've outgrown almost any of the other motivation. The sense of winning, competition, domination, accomplishment, or what not is fleeting for minutes at best and not really motivational or something I attach any value to. If I'm going to brag or take pride in something it's going to be family or some large project I completed, etc. and really not ever the result of a video game.

That place isn't even what I'd call a bastion of Texas and full of locals anyway. It's a tourist trap. A bunch of tourists from all over don't like your mutilated self.

I like the take. We really needed to do what Patton said and continue and finish off the Soviets. Then we could have left without all the NATO, Cold War, Vietnam, etc. that helped to drive a lot of the empire and institutions up.

Yeah. I don’t want AI on everything even if I put aside any and all concerns about privacy. Why can’t it just be AI program or an AI website, not AI operating system, AI phone, AI browser. I’m forced to look for a motive, and privacy and control concerns is exactly where I end up.

Is that kid back there really wearing a hat that says “Stay Chiefin’” 😵‍💫

I’m not sure where I could go on Reddit to not expect things being wildly anti-Trump. They actively ran off anyone who was even close. All that remains is a leftist circle jerk that they then present as the majority of people.

If she actually cared, these efforts could have been used to better the shithole that is her home country of Somalia and not as an invasive parasite here. I'm going to guess it's actually a huge violation of Somalian and/or Islamic law for a woman to do such things, yet she still wears that dumbass haircover. So now I wonder when a nigger yanks it off, is that extra hate crime charges for him, or still he dindu nuffin?

There's an obsession with crutches for bad programmers. They are so obsessed with worrying about memory safety and such in all these new languages. How about learning and thinking how the computer works instead? Even more so, keep things simple! I hate modern programming because it's a circlejerk of how much more complicated can we do this. I was at one point considering learning Rust just for my own interest sake but I'm not wasting my time on that anymore.

Yeah, it’s shocking the bullshit in a large amount of the food sold packaged at the store. If you eat a ton of it, I promise you’d be surprised at how different you feel just cutting all that shit as much as possible. I’m not saying eat healthy even, just know what’s in your food and ditch weird chemicals.

valedictorian

Proof that high marks at school doesn’t translate at all to common sense.

Yeah, I did build up more of my connections later, so I can see at least some value in networking at a big school. It's odd for me too having been pretty quiet as a kid to now working in a role where a lot of what I do requires some degree of social interaction. I tell the young people I know, start with learning something that someone will actually pay you to do, and go from there. If that requires college, fine, if it doesn't then fine, and almost never is there any reason for college debt. I owe a ton of where I am to starting my life not sitting on 100k of alcoholic boozefest experience with a piece of paper attached.

I would agree that a lot of young guys are more conservative. I can't really put my finger on any guy I know in the 15-25 group that is just bat shit crazy. I'm sure they exist and I deal solely with "flyover country", but most of what I know are pretty decent conservative guys.

ban on scented products in break rooms

If that includes that godawful shit they call lunch, then that’s the best demand by far. There’s no way it does, because assuming the average makeup of a software team today, 90% of them would starve.

Yeah, one of my friend’s sons was like that me. I’d take him to fun things occasionally, went to some of his sports, etc. He’s 25 now with his own kid and still one of my better friends. I’d definitely had taken him in, and he stayed with me a couple months a few years ago when he was still trying to figure his life out. Then there’s my cousin’s kid I’ve mentioned in posts, yeah there’s no one in the world that if they were gone tomorrow I’d be more upset over. He’d be welcome here right now if something happened to my parents I’d I wouldn’t even have to think about it.

Yeah, my advice for the young is really find someone young (20s), marry and start family, and grow up together. This freaks out a lot of people because they will go on, “ahhh you’re giving up your career, you need to go to college and find yourself!” At the very latest, it’s the next step right after 4 years in college. I interact with a lot of successful business people as part of my work, and attendance and experience at a fancy college is not that common. People skills and experience trump college 100x. I never hear anyone talk about college, but they talk about their kids constantly.

Obviously I didn’t go this route, and I don’t regret it. I really have never been one to want kids, I’m terrible with young kids, and I didn’t know how much of a gift I have with teenagers until I was older. I’ve adapted and I’m happy. It seems to hit women a lot differently as they are older they turn to drugs and cats.

number of vaccines given has inflated over the years to the point of absurdity

That's been my point for years. I mean I had the basic vaccines when I was a kid as did most of us I presume. It was the very small handful of basically eradicated diseases in those days. Now, on top of that there's so much extra shit. Then they want regular flu shots, Covid shots, they have a fucking Monkeypox vaccine on the schedule now. I'm a big believer in letting your body take care of itself and not introducing extra outside things without some thought behind it, and shooting myself up with a Monkeypox shot for the gay sex I'm not going to have is unnecessary even if it truly is "safe and effective."

I'd say for me there's a difference between entertaining and actively seeking such a relationship, and I'm certainly not doing the latter at this point. I did hit a point where in a way I look back and wonder if I should have had a family, and I think many do at a certain age. The shriveled up cat ladies even more so than men. I don't have any real time where I set aside a real solid option in the past that would cause regret, so it's not something that bothers me. I do think most men at some point in their life seek a connection to the future, and for me that's my nephews and a close cousin all of which are probably the most important family members to me.

Yeah that too, I don't trust almost anyone who goes on about how they have multiple "special needs" kids. I mean the DNA lottery hits hard there if it's true, and I'm more inclined to think they are just stretching minor behavior things than actually raising their kids.

men my age (45) are generally not patient or wanting a life partner

Well I'm basically that age. I'd never say life partner because that sounds gay, but I'm only interested in a relationship for the sake of family, or not at all. The vast majority of those of us that are left at that age are willing to be on our own versus picking up someone else's discarded problem. So yeah, in a lot of cases we seek a unicorn, but it's better than getting our soul sucked away and then taken for everything else we have left.

It is quite ironic how they will scream about being offended in one hand and then justify calling a team the Chiefs and doing an Indian chant in the other.