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AP3Brain posted...

While I have no problems with black Ariel I don't understand why it is a big deal for even little black girls. It shouldn't matter if characters "look like them".

It's different when actual culture is being displayed like Encanto, Princess and the Frog or Mulan but if we are just talking about skin color?? Shouldn't really matter.

Not sure if it's was mentioned already, but it's VERY important for children to see people and characters that "look like them" is prominent, succeeding roles.

Fictional or not, children closer identify with characters that look similar to themselves, and it gives them a sense of "Well, if they can succeed, I can succeed".

I think of it in a sports aspect. You don't think that a guy like Shohei Ohtani, a Japanese born MLB player basically being the best all around player of this generation, doesn't have influence on young Japanese-American children across the country? To see a player like him, or Ichiro the generation before him, succeed on the biggest stage in the sport gives them that extra sense of pride.

DamionDL posted...

I'd do like the Man Vs Food guy did and pivot to making my content about helping other people do what I did.

Either that, or have a guest on each episode, where you just host their review.

If you've established a big enough audience, they'll keep watching

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First off, same here.

Second, when the site/app first launched, a lot of them were REALLY affordable. Like, A- List celebrities and athletes for $20-30. I got a bunch of them from random Buffalo Bills players for my friend's 40th, and I don't think it cost me more than $100, and I got 7-8 players.

Now it's tough finding anyone of note for under $50-75 now.

If you're into wrestling, there's a sub section of prowrestlingtees.com called "Shoot" where it's basically Cameo, but for wrestlers. I find those to be a little more affordable. I assume the service charge on that site isn't as large.

Ilishe posted...

There's also the part where every step she takes is like walking on sharp blades.

And her tongue is literally ripped out of her mouth.

The_X_Dawg posted...

...which would you go with?

Freddy's hat, Freddy's sweater, Freddy's glove, or the Nightmare on Elm Street poster.

If you have the room to frame and hang it, the poster.

Otherwise the glove.

Autographs on the hat and sweater won't look as nice.

Irony posted...

The people loving it haven't played it in over 20 years

Oh, it definitely doesn't hold up.

But neither do many games we're nostalgic about.

I think people are nostalgic towards it because it really was one of the first (along with Mario Kart 64) "pick up and play" multiplayer games.

Yes, the NES had the 4 player adapter, but very few games that were worth playing.

Golden Eye was the kind of game a group of both gamers and non-gamers could get together and enjoy the same game at the same time.

Kinda like the reason why Wii Sports became as popular as it did. Multiple players could play at the same time, and it was so easy, even Grandma knew how to play Wii Tennis.

cjsdowg posted...

However this seems to forget that there are carless people and people who have medical/mental reasons that they can't just go out.

Those aren't the people getting the attitude for using Door Dash though.

No one, unless they're a bully, will drag someone who has social anxiety SO bad that they order through Door Dash vs calling up a restaurant to place a pick-up order.

However, they will (rightly in my opinion) drag someone for ordering through Door Dash because they're too lazy to go pick up their food, and then complain about the upcharge. If you're doing both of those, you deserve every critique you receive.

MabusIncarnate posted...

I was born in 81, my first console was an Atari/Colecovision and then I got an NES in like 85.

Same, but born in 1978.

Those are gonna be a back issue for her in the future.

Getting those reduced to a nice high & tight set of full Cs would greatly benefit her.

Compsognathus posted...

Unless you are retiring soon, checking is largely pointless. How you fund your 401k shouldn't be based on its current balance, only what your personal retirement goals.

Exactly.

I'm 44. I don't care what it is now. I care about what it'll be in 15-20 years.

I usually check every 3 months or so out of curiosity when they mail me my statement.

Octans posted...

How about you guys listen to her and shut the fuck up. Topic should be locked.

Do you know? It's more important for US to be offended FOR her than her actually being offended.

I think the only mistake he made, which many do, is speak in absolutes.

gatorsPENSbucs posted...

She doesnt care about it, so why does it matter what people that dont know her and have absolutely nothing to do with it think?

Because people feel righteous when they get offended for people who aren't even offended.

Garioshi posted...

What did he say

His voice was in a IG Live video where he was observing a few men hugging and he called them "Qu--r A-- N-Words"

pupeye posted...

WTF is a form of depression? what does that even mean.

If anything playing games helps people with depression.

People like to think that introvert = depressed.

It can buy comfort, relieve some stress, but I don't know if it can necessarily buy happiness.

I don't know if, say, having my mortgage paid off would make me "happy". It would just make my month-to-month life a bit easier financially.

R1masher posted...

Wouldnt that crush your head or suffocate you?

Not if you do it right.

I would.

I have.

I continue to allow it.

Zeeak4444 posted...

these Comments tend to conflate why isnt this provided for me with why do I make 20 bucks an hour while rent is 2k a month.

I'm not so sure about this, because there's many that say "housing is a right and should be Government funded" with no real solution on how that will happen without creating the Government run ghetto complexes we currently have.

So it's a little of both. My circle is obviously a small sample, but most of my single (and a few that are married) friends that are living at home with their parents are doing so not because they can afford their own place, but more because they have the mentality of "why rent from a stranger, when I can rent from my parents, and inherit the house when they die?"

CyricZ posted...

This is a bit editorial of me, but I feel like he wants comedy to be easy. He wants the easy laughs and cheers that come from being the smartest man in the room with the quickest draw. And I'm not saying that's not a talent, but it doesn't really feel like he's putting the work in that some others are.

I mean, take Oliver. Dude's putting on considerable productions and effort together for his show and their bits.

They're 21 years apart in age, and their brand of comedy reflects it.

Oliver also has the benefit of being almost in lockstep with the thinking of GenX and Millennials when it comes to the target of his jokes/critiques.

Maher USED to be like that. Especially in the early 2000 though post 9/11 Bush Jr.

UnfairRepresent posted...

Honestly this sounds like a misdirect.

"People aren't attatched to Dead End Jobs, they're not getting married for no reason, they can't afford to get a house or do fun things so they feel down and college doesn't guarantee shit anymore... This is a problem with Men/women"

No it's a problem with US society and decades of right wing "Rich get richer" mentality

I think it could be a little of both, because it's a combo of everything you listed, combined with a generation of kids (now adults) that knew their parents, the last generation where the government actually worked for them and not the other way around, would be around to support them should they decide to say "screw it all" when the world has beaten them down. And their parents enabling them by constantly bailing them out.

Like I say all the time ,the "Participation Trophy Generation" didn't buy those trophies for themselves. They were raised by a generation that was beaten down by "You HAVE to do better than the generation before" and decided they're just going to hand the next generation as much as they can, so they won't struggle as much as they did. It created a lot (not all) of children that became adults that are now wondering "why isn't all this being provided for me?" and after a childhood of "everyone wins!" doesn't handle rejection very well.

CyricZ posted...

He will say himself that he hasn't changed over the years, and I find myself agreeing, because everyone else has grown and he's still living in the 90s..

I haven't watched his show on a consistent basis in a few years, ever since it was just a hour long Trump bashing session.

But he's 100% become the "Everything was better back in my day!" guy. Self admitted, but it doesn't make it any better.

TheOnionKnight posted...

This is the beating-a-dead-horse thing I mentioned. Yeah, dating apps can be exhausting. No, they're not responsible for all these problems. They're just an easy target. And while people might be less comfortable socializing in person (I say "might" because I don't know if it's really true), this video is just complaining about the same old "blah blah only Chad has a chance on dating apps blah blah" which is wrong. Focusing so much on dating apps is counterproductive, and almost a distraction from deeper issues.

I mean, it's a 5 minute discussion, not a search for a solution.

Reading through this thread, even the people who (I assume) actually have experience in these situations, or know someone who does, don't even know the cause.

I personally have no idea what the root cause to all of this is, as I am not a single 30 year old man that is struggling though this "crisis", nor interact with many single 30 year old men currently in this situation.

FigureOfSpeech posted...

Didn't watch and just going to by default assume that it's uninformed, uninsightful and stupid.

I'm not really a fan of his, but how come Bill Maher is Mr. "OK Boomer" to everyone, EXCEPT for when he's talking about how terrible Trump is?

MedeaLysistrata posted...

True, yeah. It's more of a symptom than a cause...

I hope something can be done for younger guys. Also something has to be causing this all... But they just talked about stuff that makes the situation worse

It doesn't even make sense to say that the government just wants low skill workers because many guys will refuse work entirely.

Their speculation is the lack of physical interaction is causing way too many men to become introverted, and just shitting down to society.

It them becomes a circle, where their lack of social skills cause them to not be able to interact with the opposite (or same) sex. So there's less and less men getting dates, apparently getting laid , etc.

Doesn't help that the control on dating apps swing heavily in favor of the female, and the 2:1 Male:Female ration on apps cause A LOT of men to get rejected. Like I said before, I can't imagine getting rejected or no answers on 50-60 "swipes" is a good thing for someone's well being.

silverpine posted...

not gonna watch but, men benefit greatly from marriage, and overwhelmingly the reason women married them is because they had to. i don't doubt that men are in crisis but the answer has to be something other than finding them wives because it's not gonna happen.

I don't think the point was finding them wives, but just the general idea of getting them into more social situations, where they can see there's people out there that actually want to talk to them an hear what they have to say.

As opposed to just sitting at home and getting rejected time and time again from people on dating sites because their opening line was "Hi" instead of "Hello". Or whatever silly reason people give to not interact on dating sites.

Again, I'm way out of the loop on those things. I met my wife at a house party, and have never been on a dating site.

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I agree with you 100%. Women are fighting harder to get ahead because they almost have no choice.

WingsOfGood posted...

Interesting most of them are about 30 or older with younger wives.

Some pretty big age gaps too

That could be the reason. 30+ is still an age that remember "life before the internet" and possibly has the social skills to interact with the opposite sex in social settings.

There's A LOT of people 25 and under that have no idea what to do with themselves if they're caught in a social setting without their phones to fall back on.

WingsOfGood posted...

Most the married men I know make much less than their wives.

Mind me asking how old you are, and how old those couples are?

It seems like through most of the 2000s into the mid 2010's there was less weight put on who it was that made the money in a relationship. Definitely much less than there was in the 80's and 90's.

It seems to have come back around though, as young men feel that "being a man" is now frowned upon, and women are becoming more and more the "powerful sex" in society.

I'm not saying that's how I feel, just what I've observed. I have no problems with my sugar momma :)

MedeaLysistrata posted...

I'm surprised he didn't blame video games tbh

That's old hat. It's been proven too many times that video games have little influence. Especially now, where playing video games online is sometimes the one interaction some people have with the outside world.

TheOnionKnight posted...

But after the first minute or so, they quickly veer off into nonsense. Claiming that the answer is for workers to go back to the office?? Blaming smartphones for everything? And then it turns into yet another beat-this-dead-horse tirade about Tinder, etc.

This may be old man yelling at clouds of me, but "back in my day" people actually interacted face to face. That is a HUGE part of the social construct of the world. I look at what the last 2 years did to many kids the same age as my kids, they have almost no social skills beyond interacting with each other.

And as someone with only a peripheral experience with dating apps, though friends and relatives, it sounds exhausting and demoralizing form the "straight male" aspect. I can't imagine what it does to the psyche to sit at home and literally get rejected 50-60 times a night, and 90% of the time it happening without ever knowing what you did wrong, or even if you did anything wrong.

If you take away the messenger, and just look at the message, there seems to be a ton of truth in this video.

Stagmar posted...

American history didnt start with the revolution. Any time in a countrys history includes before it became a country.

???

Thats like saying any time in your life includes before you were born.

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As, to add, it make many kids/young adults a lot more social than they were in high school.

Especially "dorm life", where you're almost forced to interact with strangers.

CyricZ posted...

Anyone willing to take the hit to sum up?

We all know TC won't.

Basically, younger men, teens and early 20's, are getting lonelier and lonelier. They aren't getting attached to their jobs, their school, the opposite sex, as they have in the past, and it's causing many men to struggle to find their "purpose in life".

There are A LOT more "independent women" then there are men. Women are graduating college at a near 2:1 ratio to men, are less like to marry someone that doesn't have a degree or are their "financial inferior". This creates men getting rejected A LOT, causing a feeling that they lack any sort of worth in today's society.

I really have no real opinion on this one way or the other, as I am SO far removed from being in this situation, in both age and relationship status. I really have no idea what the modern young, single, male is going through.

ZevLoveDOOM posted...

if you're watching Cobra Kai and think way too hard about some of the stuff that happens, you're doing it wrong, just saying. lool >_>

Not really, because they've gotten so far from what the first season was, where it was old enemies renewing a rivalry on a small scale through the next generation, to this elaborate, City-wide, life threatening scheme to ruin a man's life because this assumed millionaire was embarrassed 30 years ago.

I'm still watching it, but it seems to have gotten too big for it's own good.

Spiritlittle posted...

You do know this is a fictional show, and it's emphasized multiple times that he took over every dojo in the Valley and added multiple ones. No time to show us all of them, so we just hear about it. It's definitely plausible that thousands of kids are now in karate. That's a huge area, and people have influence over their friends.

This fictional Valley and Los Angeles area has a shit ton of karate schools.

I get that "All this, over Karate?" is supposed to be part of it's charm, but it's starting to fall into the same trap most shows or movie franchises fall into. It's becoming too successful for it's own good, so the storylines have to get more and more elaborate to top the season before.

Master_Kazuya posted...

Also they act like there's this huge organization of people but each dojo has like 5 kids lol

Lol. Exactly.

They're acting like Terry Silver "taking over the Valley" is going to have 100's of kids all of a sudden take up karate.

There's, maybe, 4 Karate schools within a 10 mile radius of my house, and I live in the most central part of Long Island.

Unsuprised_Pika posted...

No that's why he doesn't even have a wife or kids.

LOL. Took me a minute to get that.

Well played.

KhlavicLanguage posted...

It's really hard for me to suspend my disbelief with this show for some reason. It has the production value of 2020s Netflix shows but the logic of an 80s teen romp. Where the fuck are the police in ANY of this?!?! Lmao

I'm halfway though this season, and it's getting harder and harder to suspend my disbelief as the "rivalry" gets bigger and bigger.

Maybe it's because I know like, maybe 3 people my entire life that learned karate, so I can't imagine teenagers being THIS loyal to their karate schools that they're literally breaking each others backs and destroying rival sensei's homes.

Depends on where you're starting from.

Are you "extremely" overweight, as in 40-50+ pounds? If so, changing you eating habits and walking is a great start for a few weeks.

Count calories, walk on a treadmill. Set the treadmill at a pace that you can handle, but it slightly more than a walking pace. And set the treadmill incline for as high as you can comfortably handle, but you can still feel the strain when walking.

Brisk walking at an incline is the easiest way for a beginner to burn fat.

If you're already at or near your goal weight, or the weight you should be based on your height, and are looking to get tone/cut/muscular, do some research on full body weight routines. If you're not looking to bulk up, don't concern yourself with the amount of weight you lift, but rather the amount of repetitions you can do. And try to eat as "Clean" as possible. Limit the amount of refined sugar you consume. Try your best to only eat "good" carbs from foods made with whole grains. A LOT of fruits and vegetables. Do not "drink your calories" with juices, alcohol, and sodas. Drink A LOT of water. It sounds silly, but if you're not pissing 6-7 times a day, you should be drinking more water to keep you body flushed out and hydrated.

Come back in Mid-November and let us know how it's going. There is no overnight solution to losing weight, save for cutting both your legs off.

So, my wife and children inherit $4 Billion, because this would literally kill me.