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UnfairRepresent posted...

Parents were travel agents.

....and?

What kind of clout do you think travel agents have man, lmao. You're not getting free flights as a travel agent in 2019.
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She loook 100% like the kind of person who can afford to do this. I can imagine her instagram was full of yoga poses and pictures with some random dude's hand coming from behind the camera.

Still, props to her. Impressive.
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Mistere Man posted...

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ArchiePeck posted...

Once it stops being fun, stop playing *shrugs*

Its not about the fun, its about the anti-fun experienced while the game is incomplete. Even finally completing it isnt fun, merely a release from the anti-fun.

This isn't a real thing. This is just not wanting to deal with controlling minor compulsions.

OCD is very real.

Ok, it's real. But how many people here are actually OCD, as opposed to just kinda anally retentive and particular?
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Is this an email my grandma sent me back in 2004 when she was still alive?

TC, the only thing missing is the FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: at the start
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I always start out with the desire the beat the game. Then as I start playing it I want to complete the game. Then when I get near the end and discover that to get from 98% to 100% you need to collect 348 squabblekwauts or whatever hidden across the map, I put the game away and never play it again.

Same goes for if there's an insanely hard optional boss that requires you to spend longer than you spent playing the entire game to prepare for his fight. Honestly, fuck that.
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spanky1 posted...

Divinity Original Sin.

So many different kinds of magic users.

Playing that now, totally agreed. I'm a bit overwhelmed so I've just gone for a generic kind of setup for my party
- Sword and board dwarf (tank)
- elf dagger assassin (glass cannon)
- human archer (long range offensive)
- skeleton wizard (debuff/offensive mage)

I guess I'm missing a magic support character so I need to figure that out
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Smashingpmkns posted...

I dunno, if a dude is wearing a swastika armband there's a pretty good chance he's a Nazi

You'll need subtitles for this:


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The flipside is when games like this try to explain the intricacies of the levelling and combat system and you spend 3 hours reading tutorial popups you'll never remember.

I'm looking at you, xenoblade chronicles 2.
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Nidhoggr posted...

I fucking hate anime, but I hate it because I high standards for it and 99% of all anime is garbage when put up to my standards.

Anime that I give my seal of approval to:

Death Note
Parasyte
Seven Deadly Sins (Very underrated, everyone should watch this.)
Black Clover (Starts out like a Naruto clone but it ends up getting really good. Trust me.)
Hunter x Hunter
Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Code Geass
Boku No Hero Academia (Barely made the list)

Anime that I enjoy on a personal level but I can't justify putting on the above list:
Dragon Ball/Z/Super
Overlord
Inuyasha
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Elfen Lied

That's about it. Everything else sucks dick imo. Anyone got recommendations based off my list?

Not a bad list but I maintain that Seven Deadly sins is one of the worst animes I've ever seen.
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tennisdude818 posted...

I know people are holding on to the narrative that Trump called Nazis fine people because they want to believe it, but some people were doxxed at Charlottesville. Those people probably wish that they stayed home.

Yes I suppose you are right. It is possible that some of the people marching alongside the genocidal maniacs were indeed fine people, and were maybe just confused or caught up with the wrong crowd or in the wrong place at the wrong time. Maybe they just had some genuine concerns about immigration and decided to attend a unite the right rally with nazis and fascists to voice their concerns. Anything is possible.

In the face of such a nationally significant racial event, it is important that the leader's response is to hesitate about denouncing what we know to have happened and instead take care to first point out all of the unlikely but possible hypothetical scenarios that could explain it all away. Let's also draw attention to how overly upset some other people got about it, to level out the playing field. It's important to gloss over any unpleasantness and make sure everyone is told off equally.

After all, genocidal racists might be pretty bad, but did you see how upset the people on the other side got about it? They were angry and everything. Really, everyone is being so irrational, would you all calm down.

This is the kind of strong, decisive and no-nonsense leadership that we were told Donald Trump would be the very best at, after all.

(If I sound a little cynical it's because I am)
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tennisdude818 posted...

Are you willing to extend that idea to Marxism? Many tens of millions of people died in the 20th century because of that shit tier philosophy.

This feels like a bit of a deflection, but sure. If marxists were calling for the oppression of a people. I suspect that marxist economic philosophy was hijacked by fascists, but thats a more complicated topic.

As for Nazism, if you are exposed as a Nazi, you career is over. What else do you want?

I'm not so sure that's true anymore. We had a group of Nazis expose themselves in Charlottesville, and the president of the united states and leader of the free world took care to point out that some of them may be very fine people.
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MakoReizei posted...

pinky0926 posted...

We're talking about a person that aligns himself with an organisation that literally wants genocide.

Who is?

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2017/09/18/20/screen-shot-2017-09-18-at-3.png?w968h681

This guy, and others like him.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

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pinky0926 posted...

Might not have had to go to omaha beach in the first place if the nazi part was squashed in its infancy instead of acting at the point way after it already start rolling out full blown genocide plans across the globe...

This. Too bad everyone wants to be Chamberlains (remember when he was derided for being a hesitant coward?) and talk it out with people who are pro genocide. Then there's the loser virgins on the internet who think saying nazi crap is funny and a lot of them end up being legit nazis over time. You have to stamp this shit out and not let it fester.

The difference is the Nazis were invading nations, spewing rhetoric blaming Jews for the failure of WW1, stripping people of rights, throwing people in prison and building an army for war and Chamberlain was like "Nah they'll be good because he told me so."

You going "I'm going to punch this guy who said he agrees with Trump that they should adopt a skills/points system of immigration similar to Australia! WHAT A FUCKING NAZI!" is just dishonesty.

You're using exetreme words to justify exetreme actions when your actions are not justified.

"I want to be violent and attack people who disagree with me" = Not rational.
"We need to defend ourselves against 30 million armed facists literally commiting genocide" = Rational.

So you go "Well what If I do the former but use the wording of the latter! That makes it rational!" it doesn't. Violence is not the solution to someone having a different opinion than you.

Show me on the doll at what point in the timeline do you should start acting towards the guy who wants to kill you. Before or after he kills you? Maybe halfway through the first stabby stab?

And don't pull some minority report nonsense. We're talking about a person that aligns himself with an organisation that literally wants genocide. This is not a person merely wishing to discuss abstract ethical concepts. He is already acting violently. He is stragetically aligning and acting towards the end of or oppression of others.
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MakoReizei posted...

WWII ended 75 years ago. get over it already

Today's nazis are the radical Islamic militants bent on Israel's destruction.

85 million people perished in a global apocalypse that was near enough to today that many of the people who survived it are still alive, stemming from an ideology that still exists and is growing in bravado.

Also that's kind of a fallacy of relative privation, don't you think.
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Funkydog posted...

Well what a wonderful topic this turned into.

I wouldn't say it started well either

Well I dislike Trump as much as any sane person, but was still about remembering the brave people involved in D-Day.

True, but my trump derangement syndrome is in full Reee mode and I'm unable to digest him involved in anything postiively.
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Kolibri X posted...

Then stop typing and start swinging tuff guys.

So to recap, liberals are acting irrationally by behaving violently towards nazis, but they're also being giant pussies for not being violent towards nazis

Ok
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MakoReizei posted...

Southernfatman posted...

Fighting Nazis 75 years ago = cool
Fighting Nazis today = woah woah woah hold it now you evil violent leftists! You should be having meaningful discussions with nazis!

Because punching somebody on the street is just like Omaha beach

Get real

Might not have had to go to omaha beach in the first place if the nazi part was squashed in its infancy instead of acting at the point way after it already start rolling out full blown genocide plans across the globe...

Ok, maybe that's offensive to some, but really. What is the straw that will break the camels back to you? We're talking about people who wear a patch on their sleeve that denotes them as a person that quite literally supports their intent to use of fascist violence to commit widespread genocide. If someone put up a post on social media saying they intended to shoot up a school the justice hammer would come down swiftly and I'm sure you would support that. So why not in this case? When you wear a nazi swastika, that is effectively what you are saying.
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Southernfatman posted...

Fighting Nazis 75 years ago = cool
Fighting Nazis today = woah woah woah hold it now you evil violent leftists! You should be having meaningful discussions with nazis!

https://imgur.com/5vSpcXX
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Funkydog posted...

Well what a wonderful topic this turned into.

I wouldn't say it started well either
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Rika_Furude posted...

i wouldnt call it sexual harassment without knowing the context, but its always creepy, disgusting and disturbing

Wow

Rika's gonna be in for a shock if he ever visits somewhere like Spain or Italy, where anything less than 2 kisses on the cheek is rude
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ModLogic posted...

literally flaming someone based on their skin color

ironic

See this is what trump supporters unironically believe, that making fun of someone's bad fake tan is racism.
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RoadsterUFO posted...

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RoadsterUFO posted...

Why should I or anyone else that actually takes care of their body by eating right and exercising be forced to subsidize those that do not? You cannot subsidize the irresponsible and believe it will suddenly make them responsible.

Because you have empathy for other human beings and understand that everyones living and financial situation is not the same, and we live in a country with millions of people from different backgrounds?

Your physical health is based on your choices. If you choose to eat garbage and never exercise, you reap what you fucking sow lol. It aint my damn responsibility to take care of idiots that dont wanna take responsibility for the garbage they put into their mouths.

In my case, this is completely wrong. I excercised every day, ate right, stayed away from all of the wrong vices. At my peak 3 years ago, I was involved in very intense training to pursue an NFL tryout. Then rheumatoid arthritis hit me like a truck. Now I can't even walk a city block without having to stop to rest. Everyday is horrible pain.

Rheumatoid arthritis runs in my family, so that would be genetics, not choices.

Addendum - I pay for my healthcare, not you, just so you know.

Sounds like you didnt give yourself proper rest. Theres no need to exercise every day, just lifting heavy weights to failure one day a week will do the trick. The rest is just being out in the sun for a reasonable amount of time and eating right. I also highly doubt you ate right, a lot of foods marketed in the United States as healthy is either carb filling (oatmeal, corn flakes, potatoes, beans, rice) or sugar heavy (nearly every fruit and all those blended fruit smoothies). Sugar is sugar, it doesnt matter if it is coming from binge eating fruit or drinking two sodas.

I'm not trying to get off topic here but...is this a real post

Are you suggesting he got rheumatoid arthritis in his 20s because his exercise regime wasn't effective enough
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thanks-gohan posted...

pinky doing his trademark concern trolling again

Are you still mad about PC gaming a day later, lol
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The Admiral posted...

Liberals believe in this fallacy that conservatives are against all government entities under the blind refrain of muh small government!, and thats simply not the case.

Small government means that the only purpose of the federal government is to provide services that absolutely cannot be provided by the private markets. National security is one such function, so it is never hypocritical for conservatives to support a strong national defense.

Healthcare, however, is not a system that requires the federal government. In fact, the only government-run, fully socialized healthcare system in the US is the VA Hospital system, and theyre completely dysfunctional and ineffective at providing quality healthcare.

Is your view fundamentally that if it can be done privately it must be done privately because of a matter of principal, or because you feel it is always going to be the better option?

Is this idea of avoiding government programs wherever possible primarily about privacy or efficiency or cost saving?
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RoadsterUFO posted...

Everything provided for by the public sector should be privatized, and if it cant exist outside of the public sector it shouldnt exist. The best healthcare is eating right and exercising, but nope, people would like to pretend that the average Americans health problems arent directly related to the American carb and sugar heavy diet and lack of exercise. Why should I or anyone else that actually takes care of their body by eating right and exercising be forced to subsidize those that do not? You cannot subsidize the irresponsible and believe it will suddenly make them responsible.

This would apply to say, smokers or obese people or addicts perhaps. People who make bad decisions and don't deserve your charity, to put it crudely. Do you feel the same way about people who fall ill through no fault of their ownand become a burden on society, where providing them healthcare would make them less of a burden to you?

Example (and this is getting clumsy, but it is valid enough): someone is hit by a drunk driver, the injuries impede their ability to work. Worse, they are uninsured, and unable to cover the enormous costs of healthcare and therapy. We could provide them with effective healthcare that gets them back into the workforce faster, or we could leave them to their own devices. At this point they are a burden on the system for life.

There's really only two options at that point. We cut them loose altogether, and leave them without the ability to work or provide for themselves in any way until they either drop dead or turn to crime, or we put them on welfare for life.

I think the best of universal healthcare is to allow people like this to get back to contributing to society faster, so that they are overall less of a burden than if we just let them be.

What do you think should happen in that example?

I can think of another. A friend of mine drew all the short straws in life. Not only was she born poor, but she was born with crohns disease and leukemia. Healthcare has allowed her to work, whereas no healthcare has meant she would have dropped dead by now.
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_Krave_ posted...

I'm against both things.

Next question then. Where does "we need this to be a public program" and "this isn't the government's business" start and end for you? Surely there's a fundamental ideal somewhere that distinguishes those.

For example, I can't imagine privatised police force, privatised road maintenance, privatised fire officers etc. being a valid thing in a country. Not in a country I want to live in. I just see healthcare as another one of those things. They go into the "we need this for society as a whole to work but nobody wants to volunteer to pay for it, so lets all chip in" basket.
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Honestly not a troll topic, I'm just trying to piece together something I don't quite understand about a typical conservative viewpoint.

You don't want things like universal healthcare because ultimately, you believe it's up to the individual to provide for their own well-being, and it shouldn't be a responsibility of society or the government to do it for you. This is my money, my tax dollars, it shouldn't go to helping some alcoholic or junkie or even someone who unfortunately got cancer. Sorry, but just not my responsibility. I can understand that sentiment, even if I don't agree with it.

How does this follow towards military budgets, however? Is it not your individual responsibility to provide for your own security? Why should your tax dollars go to invading middle eastern countries, or providing tertiary education to enlistees, or developing new ways to kill people? I understand why these things exist, but why is it that you don't mind this being taken from your paycheck, unlike a system that could provide you with healthcare?

I assume there must be some other reason why this follows in one but not the other. Is it that you see the military as a necessary feature of a society, but the health of your citizens not a necessary feature? Or is it that you see a government military as an efficient cost saving exercise whereas a government health system is too expensive and better privatised?

How would you feel towards a privatised military?
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I watched Russian Doll and hated every single person in it, so this is probably a pass for me.
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codey posted...

Why would I care about the graphics in a Pokemon game?

This about it man, if they actually put some heart and soul into this they could make the greatest turn based RPG ever.
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These environments look disappointing, tbh. Like not terrible, but compare to say breath of the wild...come on.
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The Admiral posted...

Antifar posted...

The only people elevating Al Gore to the status of messiah are conservatives. Nobody who cares about climate change on the left is talking about him.

They were until enough time passed that most of his apocalyptic predictions in "An Inconvenient Truth" turned out to be utter bullshit. Now they just pretend like they never supported him and go on to espouse apocalyptic scenarios about climate change from different sources.

So what about the ones that are definitely true and extremely easily proven and have been proven

Like all the barrier reefs dying

Or the temperatures getting insanely warm globally

Or biodiversity crashing

Are we gonna do this song and dance where you frame the entire thing about what Al Gore was incorrect about to continue being deliberately obtuse and distract, or do you want to focus on the actual point
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karlpilkington4 posted...

Bishop9800 posted...

So Karl is still defending Trump and racism........

Surprise surprise.....

I'm not defending racism, I'm pointing out the flaws in people's allegations about him.

This is literally you


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Remember, green butter got banned but this piece of shit is walking away with a warning for this nonsense
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Best circlejerk in a while guys, let's do more

Cons: We need to stop voting in corrupt politicians who service the coastal elites
Libs: Ok, there's this guy here who's entire platform is diametrically opposed to the coastal elites and has a record about as clean as it gets.
Cons: No, too old, too crazy, too communist, not qualified. No we want this other guy instead.
Libs: The whacky old obviously corrupt business man with no qualification who services the 0.1%?
Cons: That's the one. Drain that swamp!
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I can understand why some feel alienated by the left right now but I also gotta laugh at the enlightened centrist thing too.

Both sides.

https://imgur.com/5vSpcXX
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BeyondWalls posted...

SailorGoon posted...

This image triggers me on so many levels.

The funny thing about it to me is that it's using a character from a 1989 movie to relate to games of the early 2000s. They should have had fucking Ducktales or Golden Axe right about there.
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davyheinz posted...

Are the cons really upset about somebody giving away their hard earned money to a charity that they brought up? Is this reality?

To recap

Libs: This is a problem
Cons: Oh yeah, so why don't you do something about it huh?
Libs: Ok, there we go, doing something about it
Cons: Wow you liberals sure are spiteful
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iClockwork posted...

davyheinz posted...

Con: why dont you just marry Al Gore?
Lib: I dont know what that has to do with anything and I dont like him.
Con: Wow, I guess you hate earth and gay people!

This literally just happened.

I didn't ask him to marry anyone I gave him the link to a charity that helps combat climate change.

Lib: Omg climate change is killing everything we need to do something!
Con: Here's a way in which you can help.
Lib: Lol na im going to make up a strawman about you instead!

but is that what happened tho

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/77763311/922817290
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^Case in point.
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iClockwork posted...

Lib: Omg climate change is killing everything we need to do something!
Con: Here's a way in which you can help.
Lib: Lol na.

Is that what happened though

I suspect it went down a bit more like this

Lib: Omg climate change is killing everything we need to do something!
Con: Here's a way in which you can help.
Lib: Thank you for the resource, now to look into this and see if it's a worthwhile thing to donate to
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Goats posted...

Prince Charles reportedly spent 75 extra minutes trying to convince Trump of the perils of climate change and the dude just doubled down and said it wasn't his problem.
I know it's not about Republican users but it really does seem to fit the theme of the topic.

You know we're in dire straits if the voice of reason at the old boy's club is prince charles, tbh
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iClockwork posted...

clearaflagrantj posted...

You watch the weather channel lately? Rivers are breaking levees, hurricanes and tornadoes are stronger than ever, we routinely break monthly average temperatures, we are entering the too far gone stage. Climate change is murdering poor people in real time and we're still not waking up to it

Meanwhile you have dumbasses on this very board saying "I saw a snowball once, so climate change is bullshit"

https://www.climaterealityproject.org/

Here's a link to your messiahs Al Gore's climate "change" charity. Now put your money where your mouth is.

What a weird and irrelevant characterisation of the point. This is basically like saying "well if you love him so much why don't you marry him?"

Are you 12?
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CyricZ posted...

Going well so far:

Lib: We should fix this problem.
Con: It doesn't exist.
Lib: Here's evidence it exists. We should fix it.
Con: It's not a big deal.
Lib: Here's examples of it being a big deal. We should fix it.
Con: It'll cost too much.
Lib: Here's a way to make it affordable. We should fix it.
Con: It's too late to fix it. You should have told us about it earlier.

The next bit

Lib: Ok, let's do whatever we can now to stop it getting worse.
Con: It doesn't exist though...
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Veggeta X posted...

I mean the people who are claiming to be old school gamers when they started on the PS2 are just saying shit like that to feel special. It's like when a teenager acts like they know it all.

ur not an old school gamer unless you played pong and space wars wearing flare pants at the arcade
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TheDrivingForce posted...

Can I join?

Cons:There are 2 genders
Libs:Aaactually...

Sure why not, let's take that a bit further

Anthropologists: gender is not sex and should not be confused
Cons: There are 2 genders because there are 2 sexes
Biologists: strictly speaking there aren't even just 2 sexes tho
Cons: 2 GENDERS
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Guide posted...

con: fuck you i got mine
lib: That's horrible.
con: HERE COME THE THOUGHT POLICE

Or

Con: I don't know anything about this topic but here's my opinion on it
Lib: Maybe you should let the experts inform your opinions on complex topics?
Con: The experts are wrong
Lib: How do you know that?
Con: Just my opinion
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I guess we're at that age now where we're in denial about being old and so we start gatekeeping what counts as oldschool
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Or my favourite:

Conservatives: You should be worrying about this problem instead of that one!
Liberals: We worry about both.
Conservatives: Typical snowflakes
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Romulox28 posted...

wtf is going on in here

I ruined it
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CyricZ posted...

I try to look on the bright side of being 5'7": it's an easy way to thin the pool. I'm fairly sure I don't need to waste my time on someone who can't enjoy spending time with me unless my body is a certain length.

This is the caveat. Is someone really worth your time if that's their yardstick? Definitely not.
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