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| Topic | Xi vows reunification with Taiwan |
| darkmaian23 10/09/21 4:36:48 PM #14 | SSJ_Goku posted... Get ready for ww3 ThyCorndog posted... They probably won't do it, but it's also one of those things where we wouldn't go to war over it. DogOfPeace posted... lol no. |
| Topic | What do you think happened at the Amityville house |
| darkmaian23 10/09/21 4:35:27 PM #28 | Oh my, is this another one of those topics where people keep claiming the supernatural exists because people feel it does, or because they have "experiences", none of which are documented with real evidence in spite of the ubiquity of smartphones? Certainly, it is possible that something like life after death is real. For example, the real world could be something like the Matrix, and we won't be aware of having participated in a simulation until our VR body dies and we wake up in our real body in a tank. If we were in a simulation, it would be trivial to disguise flaws programmatically, and you don't have to overcome the apparent lack of any mechanism for the consciousness outside of our physical brains. It'd be exciting if someone could produce compelling evidence for ghosts, life after death, the intervention of spirits, or psychic phenomena. But so far, no dice. On the subject of the Amityville Horror house, that is pretty thoroughly debunked. The people who lived in the house afterwards reported nothing out of the ordinary, and if you take the accounts at face value and ignore the money angle, it sort of sounds like the guy might have had a psychotic episode. |
| Topic | What's it like dating a 30 year old woman? |
| darkmaian23 10/09/21 5:32:20 AM #16 | ReignFury posted... I prefer 27-28 with no kids, 30 is a little old.How old are you, and how long do you expect your standard to realistically last? |
| Topic | My dad's funeral was today |
| darkmaian23 10/08/21 1:23:26 AM #10 | I'm sorry for your loss man. Stay strong! |
| Topic | I'm so sick at my stomach |
| darkmaian23 10/07/21 1:07:44 AM #2 | Food poisoning? |
| Topic | How do you deal with these difficult communication tactics? |
| darkmaian23 10/05/21 11:30:57 PM #4 | The_Hat posted... Is this person a toddler?No, it's an adult, which makes the behavior even more frustrating. Arcanine2009 posted... What's their relationship to you.. Your friend or family member?It's a relative. Obviously they are negative and a bit immature, but I feel like there should be a better way of handling it. I get frustrated or angry, and I want to answer all of their questions literally. I don't care much for games, and I just flat out can't stand lying to people, especially if the lying is done to suit childish behavior. |
| Topic | How do you deal with these difficult communication tactics? |
| darkmaian23 10/05/21 9:58:11 PM #1 | I have a relative who constantly employs three incredibly difficult to counter communication tactics that I just can't overcome to reach a more positive dialog. My already somewhat poor social skills have taken a toll from COVID, and I'm having trouble having real conversations or a satisfying relationship with this person. Any insight anyone can offer on how to get past this would be most welcome.
And no, before you ask, this person isn't elderly or suffering from dementia. There are some medical conditions that might be making their behavior a bit worse, but this is how they've acted their whole life. I've been trying hard to gain better soft skills, but none of the books I've read or the videos I've watched or the posts I've seen have addressed these lovely tactics. |
| Topic | Just saw a guy end his date with a hug |
| darkmaian23 10/03/21 9:15:45 PM #14 | Woozul posted... Did you know that it's possible to not just jump someone's bones the first time you meet them |
| Topic | James Rolfe (AVGN) is so goddamn stupid and out of touch; it's unbelievable. |
| darkmaian23 10/03/21 2:59:25 PM #22 | CRON posted... He's recently been in the news for plagiarizing a movie review, and for the past few years has been subjected to a lot of scrutiny over him being out of touch.Yeah, the Monster Madness plagiarism--together with real doubts as to how many, if any, of the scripts James wrote himself--is bad. Nobody is tuning into Monster Madness to watch James read another person's thoughts about a movie and pass them off as his own, doubly so if the people who wrote the script for him can't be bothered to not literally lift content from other reviews. |
| Topic | Are the stores well stocked where you live? |
| darkmaian23 10/01/21 3:08:53 PM #1 | I've been noticing the quality of produce drop dramatically over the past few weeks, even in the smaller more expensive stores, but my local Wal-Mart seemed positively barren yesterday. I'm from the US not the UK, but I'm wondering if there is some kind of trend? I know the postal service is supposed to get slower. Is that going to affect stores too? |
| Topic | Just got a call from a hospital |
| darkmaian23 09/30/21 4:36:05 PM #24 | I'm awfully sorry man. My Dad died over a year ago now, and I still don't understand how to feel or think about him, our relationship, my own actions, his actions, or our family. I hope you are doing OK. |
| Topic | Matt Damon Trilogy Jason Bourne vs Daniel Craig James Bond |
| darkmaian23 09/30/21 11:25:39 AM #10 | Bourne is a more compelling character and had a better story arc. Also, only one of this movies was bad. |
| Topic | Japanese Man gets absolutely destroyed after he got caught dating 35 women |
| darkmaian23 09/29/21 2:02:43 PM #22 | Sheiky-Baby posted... If you have zero standards, and some charisma, you can get all the dicks, and pussies you want.Please explain this magic. |
| Topic | my sister said my friends online aren't real |
| darkmaian23 09/29/21 11:02:38 AM #42 | Scrappymatt10 posted... No it is not true, doesn't matter if they are online or not, they are still your friends |
| Topic | What would a mass 18+ CEusers meet up at a porn convention be like iyo? |
| darkmaian23 09/28/21 9:02:27 AM #9 | Porn conventions are a thing? Anyway, I think everyone would be surprised that everyone else was actually a dude. |
| Topic | House passes $1 billion funding for Israel, AOC voted present & cried. |
| darkmaian23 09/23/21 8:32:32 PM #78 | tremain07 posted... Man, our country sucks, both democrats and republicans always bow to these peopleBasically this. I don't care for the amount of influence Isreal has on the US government. They can build their Iron Dome with their own money if they want it so badly. |
| Topic | Homeless man faces 7 years in prison for 43 cent theft |
| darkmaian23 09/22/21 6:09:54 PM #124 | Master Kazuya posted... Rich people get away with millions upon billions of securities fraud, tax evasion, underhand monopolization, etc and nothing happens to them. Fuck class division. I cannot wait for everything to crumble. It's happening soon. |
| Topic | FUCK! These combat simulator missions in Perfect Dark are TOUGH! >_> |
| darkmaian23 09/22/21 1:27:01 PM #7 | bnui_ransder posted... Oh God DarkSimThis, basically. Dark Sims were ridiculously good. I used to find the missions against them to be scary. |
| Topic | Millennials: I just expect good things to happen to me without working for them. |
| darkmaian23 09/21/21 1:40:51 PM #7 | Turbam posted... I expect bad things to happen even though I work hard to prevent it |
| Topic | I can't even go look at some nature without shit getting political |
| darkmaian23 09/17/21 6:07:51 AM #27 | BlingBling22947 posted... What if I agree with the message, though?Then you are an idiot. |
| Topic | Is Netflix not loading for people |
| darkmaian23 09/17/21 5:35:30 AM #2 | It's fine for me |
| Topic | I think i am severely mentally ill |
| darkmaian23 09/16/21 12:06:38 PM #7 | Then go to therapy and get the help you think you need? |
| Topic | Is my GF trying to get herself pregnant? |
| darkmaian23 09/16/21 10:44:14 AM #20 | Escape now! Also, if she turns out to be pregnant, make sure it is your kid. She is definitely either already pregnant and trying to make you responsible for a baby that isn't yours, or is trying to make one with you to hook you into a permanent relationship. You broke up with this person for a reason, and you already know you don't want a kid right now. ESCAPE! |
| Topic | Anyone's childhood dream come true? |
| darkmaian23 09/16/21 2:26:32 AM #6 | Congratulations! |
| Topic | Are you happy with your life? |
| darkmaian23 09/16/21 2:19:15 AM #15 | Bump |
| Topic | Are you happy with your life? |
| darkmaian23 09/15/21 11:28:33 AM #1 | Are you happy with your life?
Vote
For me personally, I'd need an actual time machine to feel very good about my life. I've got some underlying heath conditions that needed to be discovered and treated years ago for me to have good quality of life, and that might be skewing my perspective. Maybe the world is kind of just in a slump right now. Enlighten me with your poll responses, please! |
| Topic | Honestly complete fuckin' bullshit you couldn't enter this in Super Mario 64. |
| darkmaian23 09/14/21 11:54:20 PM #22 | FortuneCookie posted... Yeah, I wanted to enter Peach too.I'd prefer a Rosalina and Peach sandwich, myself. Honestly though, I agree completely. Little me was very upset that there were places in the castle that you couldn't go. SM64 was my first 3D adventure game, and I felt strong that you should be able to go everywhere you could see, and that also looked like a painting. |
| Topic | Anyone else ever get da urge to PM a female CEuser? |
| darkmaian23 09/14/21 11:51:01 PM #4 | I don't think such people actually exist. |
| Topic | Sooooo I just got cut from my job. |
| darkmaian23 09/14/21 4:26:41 AM #24 | LeoRavus posted... Don't leave it up to them to "tell you" anything. I assume you have bills to pay? It's your right to ask why you're not getting any hours, thus no paycheck. This is the reality. You have to stand up for yourself and you have to know what's going on. |
| Topic | Church leader divorces his wife after she started practicing lesbianism online |
| darkmaian23 09/13/21 10:01:45 AM #16 | UnfairRepresent posted... It's easily possible she thought she loved the dude and then discovered that she felt nothing for his weak peepee only after marriage.I was going to say something about the "practicing lesbianism" part of this topic, but this bit was too juicy to pass up. Seriously, wtf? In all seriousness, a lot of serious Christian types I've known have very real hang-ups about sex and intimacy. Guy may have been confused and thought she needed space. |
| Topic | Which Sonic the Hedgehog game has the best story? |
| darkmaian23 09/13/21 9:55:29 AM #24 | Sonic 3 with Sonic and Knuckles locked on. Feels like a complete adventure with enough there for you to fill in the plot details with your imagination without feeling cheated. Defined my childhood for sure! |
| Topic | I can't even go look at some nature without shit getting political |
| darkmaian23 09/13/21 7:31:15 AM #21 | I wish these anti-vaxx types would become vocal and paranoid about things that are socially evil like mass surveillance and bills governments keep putting up to "protect" children that do no such thing give police vast powers they don't need to oppress people with. |
| Topic | Would you trade 10 years of your life to bring someone back for 10 years? |
| darkmaian23 09/13/21 12:14:51 AM #33 | That depends on what exactly you mean by "bring back". Do people in this hypothetical world of yours have souls? If they don't, are you just creating a duplicate of a person that used to exist and giving them a fixed life span of 10 years? If so, nobody should be making this trade. |
| Topic | Rose McGowan endorsed Larry Elder for Governor |
| darkmaian23 09/12/21 11:23:14 PM #6 | My respect for her has now dropped to zero. |
| Topic | People who look the other way when bad things happen because |
| darkmaian23 09/12/21 11:20:59 PM #5 | Another reason to look the other way is because you have no means of helping. I can barely handle my own problems. I can't (and wouldn't necessarily even know how) fix the problems of another person. |
| Topic | I lost my virginity to my first girlfriend at 27 and I am literally the same... |
| darkmaian23 09/12/21 5:49:08 AM #31 | 1337toothbrush posted... Should've waited three years to pick up wizard powers first. |
| Topic | Game breaking bugs and glitches that cause you to restart the entire game |
| darkmaian23 09/09/21 7:15:32 AM #29 | KOTOR 2 had at least two or three places where the game could corrupt your saves, on PC at least. Made me so damn mad. |
| Topic | Cop holds t-shirt fundraiser for fellow officer convicted of murder |
| darkmaian23 09/09/21 4:09:59 AM #3 | Do you think this is because he is a cop and therefore they don't care what he did, or do you think his coworkers actually believe he was innocent? |
| Topic | Hot take - I don't trust anyone with "god above all" in their bios |
| darkmaian23 09/09/21 4:08:54 AM #15 | JustMyOpinion posted... Jesus is king.Of your imagination, maybe. |
| Topic | Hot take - I don't trust anyone with "god above all" in their bios |
| darkmaian23 09/07/21 5:28:27 PM #5 | Woozul posted... Religion is generally no go for me. |
| Topic | How Finland Ended Homelessness |
| darkmaian23 09/07/21 4:48:51 AM #15 | Kaiganeer posted... we didn't tho, we gave them a roof over their head and monthly spending money that they can use on drugs and alcohol, but they're still leeches whose existence contributes absolutely nothing to our societyFirst of all, it's absurd to think that they are all like that. Second, unless there is some hidden dark side to social programs like this, it is infinitely better than finding gross or dangerous homeless folks leaving piss, shit, or used needles on the streets. Or finding them lying around in bathrooms or something to stay warm. And you know, for the ones that aren't super gross or dangerous but just can't function, how is it better having them lie around on the streets instead of having a place to stay? For them or society? The US solution--which consists primarily of leaving people to flounder on the streets with almost no available assistance or a way out, and don't you dare try and address any of the reasons why there seems to be a disturbing number of homeless in the Greatest Country on Earth--is horrible. It's bad for the homeless and it's bad for regular folks too. I have no idea how many homeless people are just down on their luck and could function with some help, but it certainly isn't zero. And even your so-called "leeches" are still people that are going to exist one way or another. It's safer for all parties concerned if they have a place to stay. And I'll bet a non-zero number of "leeches" might eventually change their ways if they have access to generous social programs. If you disagree with all this, I'd like to know why. |
| Topic | Next gen game prices in Australia are a total joke |
| darkmaian23 09/06/21 7:30:20 AM #8 | Gotta pay for that surveillance and police state somehow. |
| Topic | Weirdest movie you've seen? |
| darkmaian23 09/06/21 7:29:35 AM #31 | Videodrome, and it isn't even close. |
| Topic | $3,200,000 but everytime you have sex it results in impregnation |
| darkmaian23 09/06/21 4:04:34 AM #15 | But what's going to happen to my hands? ;.; |
| Topic | Top horror movies to watch during Halloween season |
| darkmaian23 09/05/21 11:42:37 PM #2 | Slumber Party Massacre |
| Topic | THAT part in a video game that makes you not want to replay it. |
| darkmaian23 09/05/21 7:15:31 PM #66 | shockthemonkey posted... Chemical Plant ZoneI totally forgot about that one! I've only beaten Sonic 2 once because of that. It's almost as bad as Carnival Night Zone in its own way. |
| Topic | Power level wise how strong was Galadriel? (LotR spoilers I guess) |
| darkmaian23 09/05/21 5:20:18 PM #7 | I don't know that there is enough information to think about power levels in LOTR. Magic is very nebulous in that setting because it is against the rules to help mortals too much. Sauron probably didn't care about that but was disembodied and at nowhere near full strength, and I think Sarumon (sp?) couldn't draw on his full strength to be evil either, if memory serves. I've only read the first six Shannara books, but unless the LOTR characters were hiding their powers significantly, pretty much anyone with more than a drop or two of magic would steamroll them all without much trouble. The writing for most of the books isn't as good as LOTR, and the first one is a blatant copy, but I love the differences Terry Brooks included in the books. Seeing the druid Allanon actually consistently fight in all the battles with actual attack magic made more sense and was more satisfying. I thought the Sword of Shannara was cooler than the One Ring too. |
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