Lurker > ChocoboMog123

Kratos out here just partying.

A lot of well published feminists are also anti-trans because it "diminishes the experience of women" or some shit, does that make it right? They are judging an issue/people/community without being apart of or understanding it.

Most of the arguments you've presented also apply to vanilla sex. Guy penetrates girl IS "patriarchal sexual ideology." How do you resolve that cognitive dissonance? In a community where M/F, F/M, F/F, and M/M are all equally accepted, how is that any less egalitarian than a community which necessarily cordons off mates into pairs? Is a lesbian couple less lesbian for using a strap-on? That's just a step away from the logic used in the essays you linked. If you're into kink, just read the first sentence of this interview,

I spent June and July of 1980 in rural Vermont, an idyllic, green, vital world, alive in a short summer season. I teach there summers and winters. One afternoon, Sue (another teacher) and I lay sunbathing on a dock in the middle of a small pond. I suddenly imagined what it would be like to see someone dressed in black leather and chains, trotting through the meadow, as I am accustomed to seeing in my urban neighborhood in San Francisco I started laughing as one of the parameters of the theater of sadomasochism became clear; it is about cities and a created culture, like punk rock, which is sustained by a particularly urban technology.

Does that sound like someone who understands the dynamics of kink? Who understands topping from the bottom, safewords, or boundaries?
Seriously, if you understand kink just read the article and look at how ridiculously it portrays kink. It has all the understanding of an episode of CSI - maybe less. It's far more concerned with its portrayal in the media, connection to perceptions of lesbianism, and possible personal misunderstanding than it is concerned with what actually happens.
And it's pretty fair to attack them for their age considering they're mostly talking about kink culture in their area rather than play that happens behind the bedroom door.

But if some old names are going to guilt you for what you like without you actually questioning what they've written, I don't see how I can change that opinion.

100% this person got into kink through 50 Shades.

Doe posted...

But for many people with fetishes, they discover that fetish before they ever had sex; for fetishes that do not need to explicitly involve a sex act, I've heard of people having a sexual awakening to it before even knowing they're also regular sexual attracted to people

That's me. I discovered my fetish somewhere between ages 2-5. That's more important to me than "vanilla" sexual attraction. It's just an unchangeable facet of who I am.

You can have a "growing desensitization" to just about anything. Vanilla sex, another person, hobbies, jobs, family members, food, and so on, as well as vices like alcohol and drugs. Having that experience doesn't mean it's somehow bad for you, you just need to come to terms with how it's affecting your life and how you'd like it to change (or not).

Garabandal posted...

I guess at the end of the day i wonder if kink is even compatible with progressive politics. Since most feminist theory is anti-kink

Why? Kink can be just as egalitarian as anything else.

andel posted...

lol at the alt right types itt openly admitting to being terminally online and hitting refresh on reddit

Gobs isn't alt right, he's just right enough that he thinks racism is over and anyone experiencing any issue that doesn't affect him is just a roadblock. He's the guy who didn't realize Steven Colbert was a caricature of himself.

Child predator vs predator child.

Suggestions in descending order:
Dai Dark
Rebuild World
Mieruko-chan
Frieren
Dead Mount Death Play

I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince so I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Abilities
Overgeared
The Skeleton Soldier Failed to Defend the Dungeon
Omniscient Reader
SSS-Class Revival Hunter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsmSx_ECsYk

There's nudity in the manga.

I think usually it's actual censorship. The artist drew nips, but they got scrubbed out. I prefer barbie boobs to awkward beams of light. I'm rarely reading shitty boobie manga for the naked women, and the ones with actual good women generally come uncensored (Dorohedoro).

Aloc posted...

They only started banning the racists when the subreddit was at risk of getting banned from the site in general. But according to pogo its all satire so its ok.

I've seen the actual threads.

People were dead serious.

Damn. people are joking about genocide and acting like the vicitm.

Like a lot of these small niche racist communities, it probably started as a sort of ironic edgy humor and not so slowly devolved into just actual racism by and for racists.

Speaking of, in terms of visibility, political compass memes is the worst. They eat their own farts for dinner.

I never pay attention to console wars, but it's interesting that the users who are insufferable outside the console wars are even moreso within.

Tyranthraxus posted...

I'm just gonna not use Reddit anymore except on a desktop.

Why not use desktop reddit on mobile? Only issue I run into is the text is pretty tiny making it hard to click on links.

streamofthesky posted...

So...they neither forced him to come in on Sundays, not fired him for refusing to.
They just foisted his work on other people, who probably never got extra pay for it.
Then of his own volition he quit and sued, and now will get a giant payout for NOT working Sundays, whilst the people actually doing his work got fucked over and get nothing.
THEY should've sued, Post Office did nothing wrong (to him).

No, just incomplete reporting.

Petitioner Gerald Groff is an Evangelical Christian who believes for religious reasons that Sunday should be devoted to worship and rest. In 2012, Groff took a mail delivery job with the United States Postal Service. Groffs position generally did not involve Sunday work, but that changed after USPS agreed to begin facilitating Sunday deliveries for Amazon. To avoid the requirement to work Sundays on a rotating basis, Groff transferred to a rural USPS station that did not make Sunday deliveries. After Amazon deliveries began at that station as well, Groff remained unwilling to work Sundays, and USPS redistributed
Groffs Sunday deliveries to other USPS staff. Groff received progressive discipline for failing to work on Sundays, and he eventually resigned.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-174_k536.pdf
...Which anyone who works should be able to anticipate. He signed up initially not working Sundays, work told him "new rules, now you need to work Sundays." He said he couldn't for religious reasons, his work punished him for it.

gmanthebest posted...

Should be that you only need to work Sundays (or whatever other religious days) if it causes undue and significant hardship on others.

Or just hire around people's schedules.

My suggestion for alternative: "homo-gender."

Sarah makes for a great antagonist. Perfect bossy little sister.

"If he's dead, he's not working, so it's not work-related."

Toadstool is a good localization.

Most things that are hated are overly so. Products that aim high but miss the mark get dragged through the mud while products that don't try but cater to the dumbest audience get hardcore defenders.

Laguna might be the best FFVIII character, but just look at that cutie chocobo!!!

• The story kinda sucks and the way its told really sucks.

For comparison, D3 had dialogue issues but the story largely didn't interfere with gameplay. The fight between heaven and hell and Malthiel's story were pretty cool. The cutscenes were big moments, the VA'd scenes were generally integral to your understanding, incidental dialogue was told as you fought off hordes of demons and told through gameplay. D4, by contrast, constantly stops gameplay to tell you nothing important.

• D3 was too saturated, so D4 looks super washed out.

There are only two colors in the game, red and blue. Everything else is shades of red and blue. Fog and rain effects constantly wash out scenes. There's very rarely any brightness even when the Sun should be shining. A few places are yellow/brown, but almost every area only contains maximum 2 colors. Look at any screenshot or stream and count how many distinct colors there are.

• Builds have less variation than D3 and worse balance than D2.

Explaining this would require going in depth into D3, but the balance issue is pretty readily apparent.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/3/8/AAA_yAAAElRW.png

Steffenfield posted...

Ah nuts.

Didn't even think to check on that.

Now I feel bad for sharing the site. :/

There's nothing shady in there, don't worry about it.

bigtiggie23 posted...

I know nothing about Agrias, and I can't stand Eiko. It's only fair that I abstain this round

Agrias is proto-Beatrix. She has an oath to keep her princess safe and will move heaven and hell to keep it. Unlike Beatrix, she's not fighting for the wrong side.

Irony posted...

Eiko does a lot more than Agrias does.

Agrias's list of accomplishments
1. Get Ovelia kidnapped
2. Get saved by Ramza at their next meeting
3. Become a permanent party and lose use in the story except at the execution ground we're all she does is basically say Ramza you're my friend

Do you just throw out every bit of information that doesn't fit your world view?

Anyway, Eiko is a whiny annoying brat with a creepy fixation on Zidane. I liked her role when I was younger, but can't stand her as an adult.
Agrias is a badass Joan of Arc-type who fills a balanced roster and adds some much-need female flair to a male-centric game.

Mistere_Man posted...

Usopp's nose is too small. SHOW RUINED!!!

Jk Zoro and Sanji look good from what I can see.

Lara got a reduction.
Samus got a reduction.
Tifa got a reduction.
Nami got a reduction.
Usopp got a reduction.

There is a pattern here.

I work at Starbucks. Almost all the food we "throw away" is perfectly edible, it's just not up to taste standards. Would you want a stale croissant for $4 or would you want a fresh one? Virtually all stores that can are supposed to donate, but the issue is that most stores can't consistently get reputable charities to come on a consistent schedule. We're not going to keep a fridge full of "expired" food, nor consistently check their dates, just to wait for a charity that may or may not come by. Starbucks doesn't want to go out of their way to deliver the food, either.

But the main reason we throw away food is profit. Giving away food at the end of the night creates an expectation that it may happen again, so people buy less earlier in the day.

We also waste so much food stocking our display case every single day, and I don't know why. That's food we're not allowed to sell because it is actually unsafe, but there's no reason we can't just use pictures or plastic molds.

Even going backwards to 12, it had serious issues because development couldn't stay on pace. Same story for 13, then 15 basically released unfinished. Modern AAA development is a shitshow with too many cooks, rapidly advancing technology, and exponential labor costs as plans for a game get bigger. What games even come close to what old FF accomplished? Red Dead Redemption 2? The Last of Us? Persona? Yakuza? They all have bits and pieces, but don't really fill the space that FF6-10 filled. It's telling that even just an upscaled FF9 is popular even with new players to the series and genre.

"I can't access 30% of a website to waste my time on. I'm mildly inconvenienced, this will go straight to the top!"

Just shut the fuck up, dude. Go out and do something with your life.

A weirdly innocuous topic for Gobs to show off how fucking awful his mentality is. Doesn't help that almost all of the anti-boycott people lack an understanding of how Reddit works and what mods do.

D4 is unbalanced, yes.

Nyer v. Munoz-Mendoza
https://casetext.com/case/nyer-v-munoz-mendoza

An examination of the permanent injunction at bar reveals that it forbids any communication by "signs or notices of any kind," presumably as to any topic as well as in any configuration. The injunction further provides that the defendant "may post signs or notices within her apartment, except that area which is visible to public view" (emphasis supplied). Clearly a sign in the demised area which could be seen through a window by passersby would be in violation of such an injunction. Such a result cannot be justified on the basis of landlord and tenant law. It cannot survive a constitutional challenge. See Spence v. Washington,418 U.S. 405 (1974) (flag with peace symbol displayed from apartment window is constitutionally protected speech).

Sure seems to be protected free speech. Though lawyers say a lease agreement "may be enforceable, but aren't sure."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCrI7NOK8v8

loafy013 posted...

Oh, there is a good reason. They can charge money for those improvements now.

No, basic UI/UX issues like:

• Showing what affixes roll on a piece of gear
• Letting you lock items you don't want to sell/disenchant
• Organizing the stats on gear in a consistent manner.

Those are just design failures, probably because the game needed some more time to bake.

Jiek_Fafn posted...

I never played D3, but was the UI so awful on consoles in that?

Playing the game works well enough, but all of the menus are combos of hit this button, then a completely different button but if you hit the wrong button you go somewhere completely different and cant just go back but sometimes you can depending on where you went, then you can finally scroll around maybe and find stuff. I just want to use some intuitive tabs pls like a normal menu. They didn't fuck this up on the mobile game

That's the type of stuff I'm talking about. D3 didn't have these issues, or at least nearly as many.

I am not talking about movement speed or stash tabs, which have issues, too. But really basic shit that should've been fixed before the game released.

I think the story, graphics, and gameplay have some issues, too. But people don't want to talk about those yet...

As someone who enjoys D1, D2, AND D3 - it's overrated, IMO. But, hey, it's fun to jump on the bandwagon and farm some shit for a while. Has the skeleton to become better, too, but missing a lot of QoL from D3 for no good reason.

Second best FF8 character vs best FF6 character.
I'm legally compelled to vote for my namesake.

During her tenure as United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton drew controversy by using a private email server for official public communications rather than using official State Department email accounts maintained on federal servers. After a years-long FBI investigation, it was determined that Clinton's server did not contain any information or emails that were clearly marked classified.[1] Federal agencies did, however, retrospectively determine that 100 emails contained information that should have been deemed classified at the time they were sent, including 65 emails deemed "Secret" and 22 deemed "Top Secret". An additional 2,093 emails were retroactively designated confidential by the State Department.[2][3][4][5]
Some experts, officials, and members of Congress contended that Clinton's use of a private email system and a private server violated federal law, specifically 18 U.S. Code 1924, regarding the unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or materials, as well as State Department protocols and procedures, and regulations governing recordkeeping. Clinton claimed that her use complied with federal laws and State Department regulations, and that former secretaries of state had also maintained personal email accounts (however Clinton was the only secretary of state to use a private server).[6] News reports by NBC and CNN indicated that the emails discussed "innocuous" matters already available in the public domain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controversy

It's mostly just an IT issue. For contrast's sake, Obama and Hillary were instructed by secret service to not use BlackBerrys or personal phones - Trump was giving out state secrets as a brag and tweeting on the toilet.

Yeah, you heard me!

The final boss fight is so basic. Bowser gives you tons of free turns and the set up of the fight basically disables most strats you'd like to try.

The music is bland. There's a few good songs, the snow themed songs are particularly memorable. But the rest of the music ranges from whatever to kinda bad. The battle music gets really repetitive, which isn't a good sign for an RPG. The flower section is one of the longest and has purposefully bad music. Honestly, I think Nintendo is kinda weak in the music department in general, especially with Mario, and it shows here.

It's a little disturbing just how much of the game is beat-for-beat SMRPG. They should have done much more to differentiate the games, IMO.

I didn't faff around with most of the sidequests this playthough, but I remember liking them in the past. They still don't measure up to SMRPG, but they add some much needed filler to an otherwise extremely linear RPG.

Speaking of, almost all the puzzles are "pull out partner, use skill." The quiz mini-game with Peach is fantastic, more actual minigames would have been appreciated.

On the pro side, the dialogue, character, and environment were all fantastic. Most of the jokes landed well (though I disliked Kolorado more than I did as a kid). I can't think of any Mario game that's closer to the Mario Movie than this one, especially the way Bowser and Peach interact.

Overall, a generous B. B- if I'm being critical. It's a cure schmaltzy game with good dialogue, but kinda basic. I don't blame you if you love the game, but that's how I feel. That's how I felt ~20 year ago, and that feeling remained upon replay.

This guy's stuff is hilarious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kKK9urr0Ko

As an interrogative, it's often pronounced with an sound.
As an adverb, it usually uses a shwa.

As a barista, absolutely not. Don't fuck with people's food.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/1/4/AAA_yAAAEibu.jpg

R1masher posted...

the amount of shitting on Christianity in general on gamefaqs now is pretty disgusting

Gee, wonder why?

Tyranthraxus posted...

You know that sign that says "employees must wash hands after using restroom"?

Well this is exactly what happens if they don't do that (or don't go a good enough job of it)

I had to tell a 16 year old this week to wash his hands. He said he washed them in the bathroom. I had to convince him, yes, you wash them again before you start making things people will put in their mouths. Apparently when he took his computer based training he just skipped through as much as possible and no one ever called him on it.

Every Tiffany is essentially named after Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Emma saw a huge resurgence from Friends.
There's lots of Leia from Star Wars.

This has always been a thing.

I replayed the original somewhat recently. It's still somewhat impressive just how detailed everything is. Obviously there's limitations, but like if you want to dive down into a liquid storage area you can, even though there's nothing there. The enemies will move around when they're not on screen. The characters react to what you are doing.

CSCA33 posted...

Was it really faked, or more like stories suspecting the possibility based on the history of a dictator in the most reclusive country in the world?

Not sure what you mean.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/29/newser-kim-jong-un-girlfriend/2726081/
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/kim-jong-un-appoints-ex-girlfriend-right-hand-woman-after-false-execution-reports/M52XO3UPZZAIG5NCWN53JIZYNI/
https://www.foxnews.com/world/kim-jong-uns-ex-girlfriend-reportedly-executed-by-firing-squad

Later...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/kim-jongun-s-executed-exgirlfriend-miraculously-reappears-on-north-korean-state-television-9390320.html
(seems Wikipedia has the date wrong)

I don't know if this story is fake or not, but some widely published stories about North Korea have been faked.

Notably, the infamous story about Kim Jong Un's ex-girlfriend. It was reported by a South Korean news paper that she was executed and spread through Western news. Bizarrely, Dennis Rodman, who is personal friends with Kim Jong Un, publicly stated this rumor was false. Several years later, she turned up alive and well.

I don't support North Korea whatsoever. I'm just saying, some of the crazy stories from there have been proven false.

Just to be clear, the position of MAGA right now is "hurt America as much as possible." Just think about that reallllll briefly...

Absolute joke if chocobro doesn't win this.