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| Topic | C/D: Most people are attractive |
| fire_bolt 08/29/20 2:57:49 PM #9 | What I've noticed is that people I generally do not find attractive when I first meet them often start to be more attractive as I spend more time around them. I find myself noticing details about their appearance that I like. There's definitely people I will never find attractive but they seem to be the exception rather than the norm --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Welp, my life might officially be over. |
| fire_bolt 08/27/20 9:48:11 PM #27 | FarmDog posted... Ask your parents for the money and say youll pay them back. riotous laughter Dad died a couple years ago and mom lives with me because if I didn't take her in she'd be literally homeless. I come from a dirt poor family of which my poor ass is the person who has climbed the highest up the ladder of success. Trust me, it won't be a long drop to rock bottom if something goes wrong Coloradough posted... Sounds like it's a hernia. I used to work under a hernia surgeon No idea how I would have gotten a hernia tho. I've not done anything recently that could have caused one I think. I'm going to monitor it closely and if it starts hurting worse seek medical help immediately. Right now its just spooky more than anything. Thanks for listening folks --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Welp, my life might officially be over. |
| fire_bolt 08/27/20 9:27:03 PM #14 | Coloradough posted... what started this? Did you hurt yourself? Does your back hurt? How bad is the swelling? No idea tbh, just was washing up in the shower the other day and touched it. It was a little sore so I kinda felt around it carefully. Feels like it is about as big as my hand. I've been lucky enough to never be seriously injured. My back does not seem to hurt worse than usual. Its hard to judge how bad the swelling is because I'm a big guy (310 lbs). The fact that it is noticable beneath all that is part of what worries me. --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Welp, my life might officially be over. |
| fire_bolt 08/27/20 9:14:43 PM #1 | God bless living in America, the greatest country in the world. So I've got a swelling in my abdomen, left side just below ribs. Palpitating it is mildly painful and it feels hard as a rock. Been like this for two days. Google search isn't worth much but symptoms suggest it might be my spleen. It might recover on its own or it might burst. Unfortunately, I do not have health insurance. Can't afford private insurance and I work for a company small enough they are not required to offer employee healthcare. If this is on the bad end of things then I might be looking at an ER trip and surgery real soon, and if I want to go in and get an ultrasound or any scans I'll have to pay for them out of pocket. Ultrasound runs $550 on average in the US, abdomen CT scan runs $1900 and those are *just* the scans, not everything else the hospital charges associated with them (like having a doctor actually read them). If I do that and it turns out to be nothing then I've taken on thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars in medical debt I have no easy way of paying back. If I pray that is nothing and then my spleen bursts I could die, and even if I survive I'll literally be drowning in medical debt. --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | please leave me alone |
| fire_bolt 08/26/20 7:57:54 PM #62 | SolidShadow3 posted... If you're honestly going through a rough time, take a break from this board entirley. Find one or two users that aren't bullying you and talk to them through DMs if you really need, but a board known for toxicity is only going to make it worse. Yeah, I can volunteer to talk thru DMs if you need an ear to bend. If you go that route please pick and choose who you talk to carefully because there's at least one middle aged man on this board who has actively groomed underage girls in the past and the mod team swept it under the rug --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | please leave me alone |
| fire_bolt 08/26/20 7:36:06 PM #33 | Been lurking this drama and figure this is a good time to chime in There's two scenarios here. Either TC is being affected by this harassment as they claim to be or they are not. If they are: You should leave. That's not a condemnation of your character or a wish to push you out for some reason. CE is no place for a developing mind to socialize. Everyone left here is twisted in some way or another and far too many are here specifically to try to entertain themselves on the suffering of others. The ones who would help you, like me, are also twisted and stay here because here we have found like minded damaged people we care to socialize with. Our time in the cesspit has hardened us against the ones who take joy in breaking people down and we don't even notice them anymore. CE is just trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls and mindsick people who ignore them while having our private conversations. All the sincerely good people left in disgust by now. You should do the same before you end up like us. If TC is not as affected as they claim to be: By all means, stay and enjoy the shitshow. Soak up whatever drama energy you can, and thank you for proving my point. --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | As election time draws closer, will you be voting for Trump? |
| fire_bolt 08/23/20 5:57:40 PM #12 | Autocraticus posted... asking a predominantly left-leaning board if they're voting for their sworn enemy. Social experiment. Going to make this same thread a few more times before election day and see how the results change... Although I probably should have made it with a poll. Derp --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | As election time draws closer, will you be voting for Trump? |
| fire_bolt 08/23/20 5:09:09 PM #1 | Hmm? --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | CANCEL CULTURE: Tennessee governor revokes voting rights for protesters |
| fire_bolt 08/23/20 5:04:35 PM #20 | TN, along with several other states, have always removed felons right to vote. This isn't new. Its also not ok but I don't know why people keep trying to frame this as something new --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Good website to read and write fanfiction on? |
| fire_bolt 08/23/20 4:59:53 PM #11 | Total_Lost2 posted... Archive of our own? This --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Your daughter becomes a global dictator but she is actually really good at it. |
| fire_bolt 08/23/20 2:48:08 PM #42 | uwnim posted... You came close, really close. Unfortunately, you made some mistakes. Likely because of the expectations the world has set for a dictatorship. There's little reason to not have freedom of speech. The reason lesser dictators had placed heavy restrictions on such things was because they were afraid outside ideas would lead to subversive behavior. However, you have succeeded in unifying the world. There is no outside anymore, there is no external source for ideas. All it does is restrict the creative potential of humanity and potentially cut off our future. This, and I'd explain that to her when she asked. Tell her I'm proud of what she accomplished but that I know she can do better --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Do you have a subcription to a Twitch girl? |
| fire_bolt 08/22/20 2:31:48 PM #16 | Only for an IRL female friend who I helped to get her stream up and running. A small group of my friends and I all piled in together and started streaming last spring and most of us hit Affiliate within a month lol. --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Ben Shapiro reacting to WAP is absolutely hilarious |
| fire_bolt 08/22/20 12:44:51 AM #57 | Delirious_Beard posted... https://twitter.com/Waluigi91866518/status/1296965748531789824 Holy shit lol. I don't think this level of self burn has ever been achieved --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Are people overreacting to the Netflix movie "cuties"? |
| fire_bolt 08/21/20 9:06:20 AM #12 | Yeah, just gonna go ahead and tag TC as a MAP. --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Are people overreacting to the Netflix movie "cuties"? |
| fire_bolt 08/21/20 9:04:35 AM #9 | |
| Topic | Ben Shapiro reacting to WAP is absolutely hilarious |
| fire_bolt 08/21/20 1:17:01 AM #33 | creativerealms posted...
She has a face? --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | You know what I miss? Twitch Plays Pokemon. |
| fire_bolt 08/20/20 10:15:14 PM #14 | I was there for almost the whole thing for gens 1 and 2, and the start of 3 before it fell apart. I almost flunked my freshman year of college trying to watch more of it. I have about a gig of art/memes from it https://imgur.com/gallery/b9oos https://imgur.com/gallery/N9aQJ https://imgur.com/gallery/Teqv3 https://imgur.com/gallery/KTWxE I think that's just all the gen 1 stuff I uploaded awhile back --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Ben Shapiro reacting to WAP is absolutely hilarious |
| fire_bolt 08/20/20 5:20:32 PM #15 | Dathrowed1 posted... yeah dude took a huge L there Yeah, this L might be enough to push him out of the cultural zeitgeist entirely --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Best Metroidvanias? |
| fire_bolt 08/19/20 10:23:12 PM #39 | Xatrion posted... Valdis Story Abyssal City Came in here to post this. Great game with tons of replayability. It has totally flown under the radar for too long --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Is The Wheel of Time one huge story? |
| fire_bolt 08/19/20 2:56:36 PM #33 | Its good, but could desperately use abridging. Robertson was not overly wordy like Tolkien can be but the series has a huge number of B and C plots that might have made sense in world but added layers that weren't really needed. Like everything involving the Children Of Light could have been cut with zero issues, the entire book of Winter's Heart could have been condensed to 100ish pages, etc. It can be incredibly hard to follow at times because you won't hear anything about a subplot for several books sometimes and then a book will hyper focus on it leaving you struggling to remember who was doing what. Also, as a whole the series needed a much wider variety of names. Imagine if a series had 20ish main characters, all active at the same time timeline wise, but 7 of them were named Eric, Erik, Aric, Arik Aeric, Aerik, and Erick. And for some reason Aric, Aeric, and Erik are not in books 7 or 8 then book 9 is all about what they were doing during books 7 and 8. Would I suggest it to new readers? Only if they like reading other massive epic fantasy series. Robertson makes Tolkien seem simple and direct. I'd compare it to the Sword Of Truth series or Malazan Book of the Fallen, although the former is less complex and the latter is far, far more complex lol --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | The perfect girl but you have to read a 400 page book every week to keep her |
| fire_bolt 08/17/20 8:07:41 PM #12 | 400 a week? Hell, I used to read more than that a day back in high school. Literally no downside, would mean I start actually working through my massive book backlog --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Bards in D&D 5E are so fucking good |
| fire_bolt 08/14/20 2:47:31 AM #9 | PatrickMahomes posted... Sounds broken as fuck, what's their drawback? Shitty overall stats? They don't have one Like, an Attack focused bard will never be as good a warrior as a Fighter and a magic focused bard will (arguably) never be as good a caster as a wizard/sorceror. That's their "weakness" When it comes to raw combat numbers other classes out perform them... Meanwhile, Bards can do fucking anything. Heal, buffs, debuffs, damage spells, melee fighting, ranged fighting, all of it. They have competent options for it.They are at least above average at anything they spec into and are basically the undisputed masters of skill checks. Depending on which subclass you take they become absolutely broken. Lore bards are easily the most common, getting additional magic focus to the point of equaling pure spellcasters but the new Eloquence bard subclass takes everything already strong about the Bard and jacks it up to 11. Personally I love College Of Valor bards with a Crossbow focus. Crossbow Master feat and Sharpshooter feat let you be extremely deadly at range without losing any of the bard's traditional support class value. --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | PC Gamers: I want Steam to have a monopoly over digital games |
| fire_bolt 08/14/20 2:37:49 AM #11 | EGS pretty much just wants to do everything they can to paint Valve as the bad guy while they throw endless gobs of money at the issue rather than, y'know, actually trying to build a storefront with features comparable to Steam. Like just the fact that consumer reviews are opt in by developers alone makes EGS less consumer friendly than Steam, not counting the myriad other issues with their storefront --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | trump says kamala harris isnt eligible to be vice president |
| fire_bolt 08/13/20 11:01:51 PM #84 | Hexenherz posted... How the hell is anyone defending this? To a certain subset of people nothing Trump does can be wrong, no matter how immoral or depraved he acts, because he "is doing the best he can for USA". Either they do not see his failings or they accept his failings as necessary to a higher purpose. To them, nothing is to important and nothing is so sacred that it cannot be sacrificed in pursuit of their goals. They see Trump as the only person able to fulfill their desires and will forgive him anything in pursuit of them. Logic, reason, and ethics do not come into the equation at all. --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | trump says kamala harris isnt eligible to be vice president |
| fire_bolt 08/13/20 6:59:04 PM #26 | |
| Topic | How to fuck with a home owner's association |
| fire_bolt 08/13/20 5:53:08 PM #35 | MrMallard posted...
The thing is, this isn't usually just some random neighborhood. HOA neighborhoods tend to be the highest property values with the best amenities, the lowest crime rates, and overall just higher standard of living than anything outside of an actual gated community (and those typically have HOAs as well). Joel isn't entirely wrong when he says averagejoel posted...
I'd argue its not racist so much as classist since HOAs have had their asses handed to them for trying to block sales to minority owners. Its more they flat out put properties further out of the range of lower income families due to the additional duties required even if they could afford the property somehow. For some people the extra price/responsibility is worth the perks and I can see that. I can see there being a certain peace of mind in the stability of such a neighborhood... But be fucked if some asshat retiree who bullied his friends into electing him president of the HOA is gonna tell me I can't put an inflatable pool in my yard cuz it'll kill the grass. --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | How to fuck with a home owner's association |
| fire_bolt 08/13/20 5:41:18 PM #29 | MrMallard posted... Like, if you buy a house in a neighbourhood with a HOA, can you simply not pay their bills and refuse to take part in it? Depending on the area a seller may literally not be allowed to sell you the house unless you sign and agree to participate in the HOA. It varies from state to state and even city to city in some states with HOAs having A LOT of power in some places. If you live in an HOA you do own the property but you are contractually obligated to certain duties and restrictions, usually including not renting it out and proper maintenance etc. I personally think they're just about the worst thing ever fucking created and am glad I live in a state that has given very little power to HOAs on what they are allowed to do at all --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | The perfect girl but you already have a girlfriend. |
| fire_bolt 08/13/20 2:13:22 PM #16 | Make it clear to the new girl I'm seeing somebody but that I'm interested in seeing her too. Tell my current GF that I met someone I want to try dating. If Perfect Girl is perfect then by default she is OK with this. If current GF is not ok then jokes on her, I already lined up a new date. If she is OK with it then date them both for awhile and either convince them to share me or keep the one who doesn't dump me over it. Pretty much no way to lose as long as you're up front and honest about your intentions. --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Who is the toughest poster on this board? |
| fire_bolt 08/12/20 7:12:12 PM #29 | Good luck finding our king. guwa is always watching from the shadows. The man with a thousand alts --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Thought excercise from Psych2Go - Choose any two capsules. |
| fire_bolt 08/12/20 6:58:02 PM #9 | Like, 3 and 6 is basically a perfect life. 3 lets you do 4, 7, 8, and 9 if you're willing to put the time in for them, and in practice it lets you do 2 with a time delay. You could probably parlay 2 into money somehow but, uh, that's still working a job. 1 and 5 both at least are unique and therefor have some merit if that's important to you. I'm not sure I'd want 1 though. Imagine this: You find a nice spouse (maybe from picking 6?), have a couple kids, get a dog. Fast forward 25 years and you're still 22 or whatever but your spouse is looking middle aged and everyone thinks you are your kids younger sibling when they first meet your family. Aside from that, you just stop aging. You're still gonna die eventually. Maybe your body doesn't shut down but a car crash, a virus, hell even slipping in the shower might get you one day. As for 5, I got nothing to knock it with. If there's someone in the past you're so interested in that you'd pass up one of the other options here more power to you. --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Favorite PS2 shooter games? |
| fire_bolt 08/12/20 12:45:10 AM #28 | Armored Core 2 and Armored Core 2: Another Age --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | I thought the Birther movement was dead but apparently not |
| fire_bolt 08/12/20 12:44:01 AM #63 | Sweet, another troll for the ignore list. --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Hows that Kill La Kill anime? |
| fire_bolt 08/10/20 3:42:26 AM #11 | Its good but weird. About halfway thru it tone shifts so hard that I got whiplash watching it. I would have preferred if the entire thing was like the first half but I'd still rate it 7/10 easily. Its not easy to find good, short anime series Second the Gurren Laggen reccs in this thread too. Its somewhat similar but with less fan service --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Games you're pretty sure only you played |
| fire_bolt 08/10/20 3:21:54 AM #292 | MKScorpion posted... Jersey Devil Only the demo that came with my PS1 but it was fun as shit. PS1 had the best demo discs, man. --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Games you're pretty sure only you played |
| fire_bolt 08/06/20 3:07:33 AM #263 | Proofpyros posted... Granstream Saga on PS1 Damn, this was one of the ones I named on the first page. --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | SJW forced to pay Sargon of Akkad $38k in legal fees in free speech case |
| fire_bolt 08/06/20 1:41:30 AM #68 | Yeah, I've kept up with Leonard French's assessment of this for a long time now. It was one of the biggest legal slam dunks he's ever covered. Hughes had zero reasonable grounds to file her lawsuit and she got slapped down hard --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Games you're pretty sure only you played |
| fire_bolt 08/05/20 6:47:27 PM #257 | Kaiganeer posted... grandia before the remaster came out Grandia was one of the most popular JRPGs on the PS1 >_>; Pretty sure damn near everyone I was in middle school with played it --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Breaking: Massive explosion at port Beirut |
| fire_bolt 08/05/20 1:04:17 PM #184 | I'm just hearing about this. Can I get a TL;DR? I need to know if I can mark off Terrorist Attack on my 2020 bingo card --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Mulan releasing on Disney+ on September 4 for $30 |
| fire_bolt 08/04/20 11:55:03 PM #113 | Maninstagnate posted... high end blockbusters with CGI and superb set pieces for a long time. Having recently been watching peak 90's media I can safely say nothing of value was lost --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Mulan releasing on Disney+ on September 4 for $30 |
| fire_bolt 08/04/20 5:13:32 PM #45 | So I know this sounds insane buuuutttt... Think about it from the perspective of the target demographic: Parents with multiple children. So say you and your spouse normally take you perfectly average 2.25 kids to see a few Disney releases a year. Adult tickets are $8 and Child tickets are $6. Additionally you get the Jumbo bucket of popcorn for that free refill so that there's enough popcorn for 4 people for the entire movie, and the Jumbo weighs in at $12 as well. Of course everyone needs a drink as well, so you be frugal and get four Small 22 oz drinks at $6 each. Spouse wants some Milk Duds and you do not dare tell them no, so another $5 for a box of candy. Total for the night: $69, and you get to watch the new release in a crowded theater filled with about 30 other families and all their snot-nosed brats. OR For an additional $30 on top of your existing Disney+ subscription you can watch the movie in the comfort of your own home, providing your own snacks and drinks for a fraction of the cost. AND you can watch it as many times as you want, so if one of your kids decides that is THE defining movie of their year you don't need to buy the DVD release too. Frankly, just buying the movie is barely more than ticket prices much less everything else. Folks, you can expect to see a lot of this going forward. Big Media is slowly realizing Straight To Streaming is a HUGE demographic that they can market to and cut the middle man (theaters in this case, but also traditional network television in other cases) clean out. I can't say Mulan will perform well here but if it had been Moana? Or Frozen? You bet your ass it would have smashed all streaming records. EDIT: Frankly if my nieces and nephew lived closer I'd just bite the bullet and invest in a bigger tv and then host a viewing party for my sister's family and anyone else I know who had kids, free of charge but bring your own snacks. Either sis could stay too or she and her husband could get a night alone. Like, yeah to us unmarried millennials this price point sounds insane but we are not the target demographic. At all. --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Anybody here have a Galaxy A21? I need a new phone case |
| fire_bolt 08/04/20 3:08:03 PM #1 | Just got a new phone today and need to get a case for it --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Trump draws pathetic crowd in Florida, in front of Air Force One |
| fire_bolt 08/03/20 1:59:48 PM #45 | Christian RULES posted... it's not a rally God, Christian, I remember when you were a good poster. The days when we chased after 500 topics with relentless glee. Sad to see a good poster turn into such a mindless bootlicker --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Forget "is a hot dog a sandwich".....is chili a soup? |
| fire_bolt 08/03/20 1:57:14 PM #52 | Slightly relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxhrZBO4jY0 Anyway, it is both a stew and a soup. All stews are soup but not all soup is a stew. /topic --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | JustMyOpinion is WARNED! |
| fire_bolt 08/02/20 6:01:49 PM #36 | Nothing of value lost --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Games you're pretty sure only you played |
| fire_bolt 08/01/20 2:04:17 PM #63 | sesthrice posted... Mega Man Soccer Played it, love it. Its a bit of a mess but I'm a sucker for anything Mega Man related --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Games you're pretty sure only you played |
| fire_bolt 08/01/20 1:59:55 PM #55 | Granstream Saga Darkstone Little Hiawatha Gumshoe Revolution X (Sega Saturn version, the Arcade version was fairly popular I believe) --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Welp, that's probably enough Hollow Knight for now |
| fire_bolt 07/31/20 4:40:57 PM #7 | CalypsoDoom posted... Congrats! How long did that take? I've logged about 40 hours on Hollow Knight in the last couple of weeks but this was my first Steel Soul attempt. I actually finished generic Steel Soul in about 7 hours but figured I'd try to mop up 100% completion for the Steel Heart achievement as well. Getting Speed Complete was a nice bonus. I was surprised how fast I burned thru the game once I did a little pathing in my head to prioritize certain upgrades as early as possible --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Welp, that's probably enough Hollow Knight for now |
| fire_bolt 07/31/20 4:35:31 PM #5 | DeathDeathSong posted... i aint never touching steel soul, but damn, thats still impressive I felt the same way but after playing a lot of Godhome content recently I was like "Ok, there's no way its harder than this". Basically as long as you slow down and take your time it isn't too bad. The Fragile charms become amazingly good (and they were ALREADY very good), with Fragile Heart giving +2 Masks smoothing out a lot of problems. Once you can get Grubsong then you're basically gravy for anything except a boss fight since every 2 times you get hit gives enough soul to heal .9 masks (or 1.8 masks with Deep Focus). I definitely would not have made it thru White Palace without Grubsong + Deep Focus. The main thing was I prioritized the shit out of getting nail upgrades early. With 3 nail upgrades and Fragile Strength equipped you roflstomp normal enemies like they're nothing. My only really close call was vs Nosk for the final Pale Ore. I got down to 1 mask and was shitting bricks, but it was my own fault for being too aggressive with spells. Fortunately that fight has some very clear blind spots to heal up if you're careful with timing. Everything else was pretty much a cakewalk --- Please, call me Bolt |
| Topic | Reddit now mandates app for NSFW content |
| fire_bolt 07/31/20 4:26:39 PM #6 | Fake news. Just checked it myself --- Please, call me Bolt |
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