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TopicMy wife passed away July 2023 utilizing MAID. Grief and Healing is a journey.
Atralis
02/18/24 10:51:53 PM
#5
I am fundamentally morally opposed to you and her having done this I'm not going to lie. I'm not religious but I was raised Catholic and the idea of someone that young committing suicide makes me feel deeply uncomfortable regardless of the circumstances. Its a visceral reaction.
TopicSomeone convince me to give Dragon's Dogma another chance
Atralis
02/18/24 10:46:02 PM
#26
I played it modded to have no carry limit and infinite sprint and that made a lot of difference to me if you are playing it on PC. Went from feeling shit to feeling fun with infinite sprint in particular.
Topicwtf, one day tickets to Disneyland are 169 bucks
Atralis
02/18/24 10:24:32 PM
#27
I've been to both Disneyland and Disneyworld fairly recently. My work sent me out to LA a year and a half ago my wife flew out to join me and I extended the stay a day to go to Disneyland.

When I went to world it was the same time of year (right around Halloween) a year later it was for a vacation and we stayed at a resort near the park (Coronado Springs). The parks are very similar if all you want to go to are things that exist in both parks like the magic kingdom or Galaxys Edge (star wars land) but I liked Orlando a lot more overall. Felt way less overpopulated and staying at a Disney hotel made it so easy to the parks. Had an app on my phone that was my room key and I could also just look at the bus times. Hung out in a cafe and then when the bus was a few minutes out to the park we wanted to go to we would stroll out to ride to the parks. Lovely.
TopicWas Hitler far-left or far-right?
Atralis
02/18/24 2:49:21 PM
#53
Dark_Arbron posted...
So basically the same as in the US - socialism exists for the rich in the form of tax cuts and leniency by the legal system, but for no one else.

The US actually spends trillions of dollars every year on social welfare programs. social security (for the old and disabled), Medicare, medicaid, and food stamps being some of the biggest ones.

Its always weird to me when people say the US doesn't provide anything for poor people because it indicates that its probably not a poor person saying that because actual poor people know that these programs exist and use them.
TopicWas Hitler far-left or far-right?
Atralis
02/18/24 2:41:10 PM
#48
My impression is that they were socialist towards the people that thought of as "true aryans" and thought everyone else should be subjugated, killed, or left to starve if they were incapable of helping themselves.
TopicThe most famous white vegetarain in history was
Atralis
02/17/24 1:28:39 AM
#3
Panthera posted...
Everyone knows vegetarianism is something only a truly evil person would ever consider. You have to be a real sick fuck to treat vegetables like that.

I don't think that correlation necessarily equates to causation in this case.
TopicThe most famous white vegetarain in history was
Atralis
02/17/24 1:24:06 AM
#1
Adolph Hitler.

Discuss.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_and_vegetarianism
TopicIceland asks Japan to "invade" Iceland in a drill
Atralis
02/16/24 1:50:37 AM
#21
The British invaded Iceland during ww2. There was no combat involved they just sort of showed up and said they would leave after the war.
TopicYou eat my boogers!!
Atralis
02/15/24 12:56:03 AM
#8
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/725c1d9e.jpg
TopicI always wondered how i am alive.
Atralis
02/14/24 1:31:43 AM
#18
CosmicShadows posted...
Do you guys get what I mean? Like if some other sperm took my place in the baby making process. Would my body and mind be totally different?

This breaks the whole alternate universe twin thing for me in sci-fi. Literally if you had the same parents and they picked a different day or even millisecond to do the sexy time you would look like a sibling not some exact twin of yourself. Unless the split in timelines happened after you were born there would be a totally different person in place of you even if that person had the same two parents.

This effect actually does protect most species from massive radiation damage like space events or nuclear weapons being detonated though. A much larger % of sperm are derpy after something like that but those little dudes all lose the race so the next generation isn't born fucked up just the generation that suffered the radiation.
TopicDo you Brush your teeth more than ONCE a day?
Atralis
02/13/24 11:25:00 PM
#28
When I wake up and when I go to sleep.
TopicMeeting my mom to talk about real life stuff tomorrow for lunch
Atralis
02/13/24 1:21:12 AM
#7
2Pacavelli posted...
I hope it gets better. Or if not I hope you get whatever makes you happy. And her happy as well

Life is complicated is all I can say. Two days ago my wife dropped on me that she wanted a divorce because I wasn't listening to her talking about whatever shit she was watching on TikTok and then she said "Are you even listening to me?" and I had to say no because since we met a few years ago she has started to believe in all sorts of silly shit involving "WitchTok" and crystals and other bullshit that I have always stressed to her I think is total bullshit.

So that is my life. But its fine because then we made up and she got a haircut and she doesn't want a divorce anymore because maybe that was just her time of the month. Because of course. Because none of this shit makes sense.

So on the one hand I have my wife believing in silly new age shit.

On the other hand my Mom, mega catholic, is going to talk to me about old age shit involving the Church and having kids and all that good stuff.

Fuck me.

Meanwhile I exited religion when I was about 12 and it stopped making sense to me except for those moments when I feel like sanity has exited the building and I ask Jesus, God, and every one of the saints to HELP ME!!!!
TopicMeeting my mom to talk about real life stuff tomorrow for lunch
Atralis
02/13/24 1:09:36 AM
#3
2Pacavelli posted...
I hope it's nothing too sad
Me too!
TopicMeeting my mom to talk about real life stuff tomorrow for lunch
Atralis
02/13/24 1:06:02 AM
#1
My mom wants to meet and talk. This rarely happens. My only sibling is in prison right now because she is addicted to heroin and did a lot of horrible shit related to that.

I'm married to a 35 year old woman but our relationship is a bit of a mess and we are living day to day.
Topic4 million dollars after taxes, or an 80% discount on everything for life?
Atralis
02/13/24 12:40:50 AM
#22
Obviously 80% off.

4 million dollars is amazing but 80% off is a cheat code for the universe.
TopicX-Files vs Star Trek The Next Generation
Atralis
02/13/24 12:27:57 AM
#29
Next Gen is a life changing show.
TopicDid England really look like AC Valhalla in the 7th century?
Atralis
02/12/24 9:27:46 PM
#5
LeoRavus posted...
I should have said 9th century. But yeah seems like they had a lot of stuff still standing 400 years after the fall of Rome.

There's still some Roman stuff still standing 1600 years after the fall of Rome.

Its hard to know how long Roman stuff lasted after the fall. This was an English poem dated somewhere around that time period.

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

This masonry is wondrous; fates broke it
courtyard pavements were smashed; the work of giants is decaying.
Roofs are fallen, ruinous towers,
the frosty gate with frost on cement is ravaged,
chipped roofs are torn, fallen,
undermined by old age. The grasp of the earth possesses
the mighty builders, perished and fallen,
the hard grasp of earth, until a hundred generations
of people have departed......

The people at the time were aware of the fact that were living in the ruins of a civilization that could build greater things than they were capable of.
TopicDid England really look like AC Valhalla in the 7th century?
Atralis
02/12/24 8:55:36 PM
#3
LeoRavus posted...
Like huge Roman buildings everywhere? I'm trying to figure out how historically accurate any of this is.

Not sure about specific roman buildings but Britain was part of the Roman Empire for about 400 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Britain

The Romans owned everything south of Scotland and they built a wall across the island to keep out the people up North. The Anglo Saxons (Germans) flooded into whats now England and pushed the "Romano-Britains" (imagine celts, like the Irish are today that had been romanized by being part of the empire for centuries) into Wales.

Over the centuries the Anglo Saxons became "the English" and converted to Christianity and then in the 800's Britain was invaded be "the great heathen army" that was made up of northmen (danes, swedes, Norwegians).
TopicStarfield has lost 97% of its Steam players in less than six months
Atralis
02/12/24 1:33:12 PM
#18
I didn't hate Starfield but it did feel like it needed something more and left me feeling me a bit unsatisfied at the end.

Maybe with DLC, mods, and patches it will feel a bit better.
TopicIsrael rescues two hostages in Rafah
Atralis
02/12/24 1:49:55 AM
#1
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/12/middleeast/israel-hostages-rescued-gaza-rafah-intl-hnk/index.html

The Israeli military said Monday it has rescued two hostages during a special operation conducted overnight in Rafah, in southern Gaza.
The hostages are 60-year-old Fernando Simon Marman and 70-year-old Louis Har, who were both taken 128 days ago during Hamas October 7th attack on Israel.
The two are in good medical condition and have been transferred for Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer, said the Israel Defense Forces. The joint operation was done with the Israeli Security Agency and Israel Police, it said.

This is good for the hostages rescued but complicated for the people of Gaza. The Israelis now have proof that at least a portion of the hostages still being held are being held in Rafah which is the last city in Gaza that hasn't been overrun by Israeli forces and where about half the population of the strip has fled to in the face of the Israeli offensive.
TopicDante or Donte?
Atralis
02/11/24 11:27:59 PM
#25
[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


That would make sense as an argument if I hadn't actually played Devil May Cry 1,2,3, and 4. Seriously go watch bits of the story from those games. This is what you are pearl clutching over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JzX602Z0cs

TopicDante or Donte?
Atralis
02/11/24 8:46:19 PM
#13
I always found the hate against the Ninja Theory DMC weird. I've played all the games and beaten most of them (bear 1,3,DMC, and 5). Ninja theory's one was different but it was still good.

It especially weird to me that the narrative and presentation of the Dante character is what people went after. What was there in Dante that you liked so much that you were outraged by what you saw in the Ninja theory one? He doesn't express enough love for pizza? His hair is only white some of the time rather than all of the time?
TopicSo were billions ever sent to Hawaii to help Americans?
Atralis
02/11/24 7:51:02 PM
#15
DarkProto05 posted...
What does this have to do with allocating funds away from foreigners and helping Americans? Isreal and Ukraine should have been cut off for Hawaii.

So the US should never do anything anywhere to help another country until we are a utopia where disasters never happen and everyone lives forever?
TopicSo were billions ever sent to Hawaii to help Americans?
Atralis
02/11/24 7:11:47 PM
#13
EPR-radar posted...
A ridiculous fraction of the electorate would read this sarcasm and take it as Gospel truth.

Because they can't comprehend that a trillion dollars is a thousand billion dollars or a million million dollars.

They see a big number and think that it's about the same as another big number.
TopicSo were billions ever sent to Hawaii to help Americans?
Atralis
02/11/24 7:06:47 PM
#10
ai123 posted...
Were they spending trillons before Putin invaded Ukraine? Are they still spending trillions now?

No. The federal government looked at the 50 billion it was going to send to Ukraine and subtracted that from the 6150 billion dollar government spending and said "math is hard and it make head hurty" and they cancelled the government to pay for Ukraine.
TopicSo were billions ever sent to Hawaii to help Americans?
Atralis
02/11/24 6:49:21 PM
#8
Hexenherz posted...
Usually the same people who complain about the federal government getting too involved in individual states' affairs, but then also they want the government to get involved in individual states' affairs for select issues.

I half understand people that are just disconnected from politics and policy and don't have an opinion but how can you grumble and whine about how the money is spent without ever looking up what the US budget is?
TopicSo were billions ever sent to Hawaii to help Americans?
Atralis
02/11/24 6:44:35 PM
#5
ai123 posted...
It's sweet that you think the money would be used to help Americans, but ask yourself: was it being used for that before Russia invaded Ukraine?

What would you call the TRILLIONS of dollars the US spends on public healthcare, social security, education, disability payments, etc. every single year?

I swear to god the people in this topics like this have never looked up what the US government spends money on.
TopicIs it alright for men to wear eyeliner?
Atralis
02/11/24 4:34:57 PM
#69
Its countercultural for sure so it would raise some eyebrows in certain settings.
TopicWith food prices climbing, what is your home cooked "cheap" meal?
Atralis
02/10/24 7:14:35 PM
#57
Nachos. Just toss some sliced or shredded cheese on some chips, add some peppers and a bit of meat and you've got some tasty food.
TopicSkull and Bones is pretty fun.
Atralis
02/10/24 7:13:09 PM
#2
It isn't out yet?
TopicIsrael/Palestina War 12: Attacking the worlds biggest refugee camp
Atralis
02/10/24 1:53:11 PM
#31
Zikten posted...
Ok but why does the IDF need to have tanks shoot at obvious civilians, journalists and medics?

Its urban combat against an enemy that exclusively uses civilian model vehicles because that is all they have at their disposal.
TopicIsrael/Palestina War 12: Attacking the worlds biggest refugee camp
Atralis
02/10/24 1:45:08 PM
#26
SHRlKE posted...
I dont disagree completely but there are levels of retaliation. Israel (or anyone in the situation) shouldnt get carte blanche to do whatever you want because of the October attacks. Certainly not genocide.

I supported Israels right to defend herself back in October but I dont support this.

The allied powers killed about 69,000 French people in bombing raids during WW2. We weren't trying to genocide the French. Urban warfare against an opponent willing to fight for every inch of ground is terrible.
TopicIsrael/Palestina War 12: Attacking the worlds biggest refugee camp
Atralis
02/10/24 1:25:54 PM
#22
Vyrulisse posted...
The silence and inaction by the world as a whole in the face of Israel's crimes is honestly stunning to me. I read these topics and rarely post and it's just... I can't make sense of it.

Would any other great power be acting all that differently to how Israel is acting if it suffered an attack similar to the one on October 7th? I'm talking about China, Russia, the US, even smaller powers like France or the UK.

This is why they aren't saying anything. They could see themselves in Israel's position. The issue isn't just that the attack happened its that Hamas claims to govern a territory that has two million people in it, and they are saying they will repeat the attack again and again. Any major power would invade at that point.
TopicArmageddon Update: Biden's Border Crisis!!
Atralis
02/10/24 1:11:52 PM
#9
I lean to the right but Republicans don't get to seriously complain about this after killing the border deal to appease Trump. This isn't Biden's border crisis anymore its the Republican party's border crisis.
TopicDo you think the world is overpopulated?
Atralis
02/10/24 12:44:14 PM
#34
emblem-man posted...
Most parts of the US are far from overpopulated. We just need to build denser cities and housing

This. My wife's family lives in St Louis and we live in the Denver metro. I challenge someone to do that 12 hour drive on I-70 and then claim the US is overpopulated.

The 600 mile stretch from Denver to Kansas City has nothing but small towns truck stops, and an Army base (Fort Riley).
Topicis American cheese superior to any other cheese at any time?
Atralis
02/09/24 10:27:14 PM
#5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pls7lt9Fz-E#t=2m19s

American cheese is the best cheese for a cheeseburger because it melts without splitting.
TopicShould Hamas surrender?
Atralis
02/09/24 8:45:32 PM
#1
I understand why Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th but I believe the attack was incredibly irrational. They launched an attack on a vastly more powerful enemy hoping that they would garner support from the region in the war that would be sparked by that attack.

That hasn't happened. They've lost most of their territory, most of the citizens they claim to represent have had to flee their homes and a large portion of the territory they govern is in ruins and the only support they've received is token support from Hezbollah in the form of firing potshots across the border and a lot of words from anyone else they imagined would support them.

Half the homes in the Gaza strip have been destroyed and most of the population is huddled on the border of Egypt in Rafah having fled their homes in portions of the strip that are currently battlegrounds or have already been seized by the Israelis.

They fire an RPG at the Israeli forces and the Israelis blow up an apartment complex to clear the area the RPG was fired from. There is nothing to be gained at this point they just keep losing more and more every day this continues.
TopicCan you finish a 355ml can of soda in one sitting?
Atralis
02/09/24 8:36:11 PM
#9
I'm a drinker. I can down a can in seconds.
TopicChipotle to substantially increase prices in California
Atralis
02/09/24 8:26:16 PM
#84
eggcorn posted...
Chipotle can gtfo of California for all I care.

This feels weird to me being from the Denver metro area. Chipotle was founded here by a guy from California and he moved the HQ to California back in 2018. One of my buddies at work's girlfriend lost her job because she worked for Chipotle corporate and didn't want to move with the HQ.
TopicChipotle to substantially increase prices in California
Atralis
02/09/24 12:29:02 PM
#77
pazzy posted...
You're going to have to be really clear with what you're saying here.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/apr/27/chipotle-gmo-food-off-the-menu

Chipotle has a policy of getting non-gmo foods. Non gmo does cost more for obvious reasons though I'm not quite sure to what degree this could explain the price increases. Though to be fair opposing GMO foods isn't necessarily a left vs right issue though it does seem to correlate a bit. Its sort of a weird political mapping at this point. The position of left leaning people overall could be described as "believe the science..... except when it comes to organic food in which case believe that science = cancer"
TopicThey make a big deal about batmans no kill rule but.....
Atralis
02/09/24 12:15:29 PM
#22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smB_-d1ZaMk
TopicChristian theocracy in action. (Arizona's "RESPECT" Act)
Atralis
02/09/24 2:14:18 AM
#15
hockeybabe89 posted...
You sound a little triggered

Do you disagree? I thought that Satanists were quite open about it. They are atheists that picked the bad guy from the most popular religion to prove a point about how they feel about religiosity.
TopicFuckin tired of shit getting in my ceiling.
Atralis
02/08/24 10:57:16 PM
#11
Unsuprised_Pika posted...
I equip every shit with a transphasic warp bubble to warp it to the ceiling.

I'm imagining a boss fight with a guy and then when the hero defeats him 10 years of shit just starts to rain and the hero is like "oh **** oh god what is this ****" and there is a flashback to the villain just floating his shit up to the ceiling in psychic balloons and people around him sort of intentionally looking away like he is a weirdo but they are afraid to say anything.
TopicFuckin tired of shit getting in my ceiling.
Atralis
02/08/24 8:50:09 PM
#8
Then stop pooping on it you mad man! I'm not even sure how you are doing it, you must be using a ladder.
TopicSouth Carolina wants to bring back the electric chair and firing squads.
Atralis
02/08/24 2:50:21 PM
#16
willythemailboy posted...
If it was me personally I'd want the opposite - as loud and splashy as possible. I'm thinking a hat composed of danger putty and everyone just stands well clear.

Or perhaps firing "squad" with the gun being an Abrams firing cannister.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/99cfce29.jpg
"The prisoner is generally tied to a gun with the upper part of the small of his back resting against the muzzle. When the gun is fired, his head is seen to go straight up into the air some forty or fifty feet; the arms fly off right and left, high up in the air, and fall at, perhaps, a hundred yards distance; the legs drop to the ground beneath the muzzle of the gun; and the body is literally blown away altogether, not a vestige being seen"
TopicHas an animal physically attacked you before?
Atralis
02/08/24 2:43:34 PM
#9
A goose came after me once. I kicked the shit out of it and it ran away.
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