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| Topic | gaslighting? |
| CynicalZealot 08/13/22 7:56:27 AM #12 | DirtBasedSoap posted... shut up you dont even know what that word means The Internet has ruined a lot of words. This is indeed one of them. Entity13 posted... It has to do with an old B&W era movie in which a man who has committed a crime (murder, iirc?) has to convince a woman (I think his wife?) that she is going mad so that he can get away with said crime. The primary means if said faux-madness was to mess with the lights, which were run by gas. Make them dim or flicker, but pretend everything is fine and not changing at all, thus inducin[g the idea that nothing is at it seems. That's not actually the plot. The flickering lights (and the noises she hears in the house) aren't a deliberate attempt to make her think she's crazy, as much as they are side-effects of what the guy is actually up to (looking through the attic to try and find hidden jewels). The lights flicker because he's turning on the lights in the attic, and because the lights are gas-lights, it causes the flow of gas to shift and causes the lights downstairs to visibly change. The noises are him moving things around in the attic. He IS doing things to make her think she's crazy (so he can get her committed and out of the house so he can search more blatantly), but the lights actually have nothing to do with his plan. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | If you were God |
| CynicalZealot 08/12/22 2:42:01 PM #12 | Well, let me just answer that question like this: https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/globe-fire-20779429.jpg https://www.lovethispic.com/uploaded_images/62475-Burning-Globe.png --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | Salman Rushdie attacked in Western NY |
| CynicalZealot 08/12/22 2:35:31 PM #10 | ReturnOfFa posted... Evangelist Christians. To be fair, I'm not sure I've ever heard of any Evangelist Christians murdering cartoonists for drawing pictures of Jesus. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | My news feed broke and it says "Anne Hesche investigated as a felony" |
| CynicalZealot 08/12/22 4:49:23 AM #6 | Zareth posted... (that Tarantino thinks is better than the original for some reason) Because Tarantino's entire career is based on stealing ideas from better directors, so making a direct shot-for-shot remake of someone else's movie really resonates with him on a primal level. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | My news feed broke and it says "Anne Hesche investigated as a felony" |
| CynicalZealot 08/12/22 4:03:15 AM #3 | faramir77 posted... It doesn't sound like she's going to live, and even if she does, she will never live a normal functioning life again. Considering they've already pronounced her brain dead and are only saving her body for organ donation, it's fairly safe to say the last part there is probably not really a factor. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | NEDM (caps) |
| CynicalZealot 08/12/22 4:00:41 AM #7 | HornedLion posted... 2007 anyone? Not my 2007. My 2007 looked more like this: https://poyes.ytmnd.com --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | Doritos Ketchup or Doritos Mustard flavor? |
| CynicalZealot 08/12/22 1:44:46 AM #8 | None of the above, kill it with fire. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | Potter or Blake? |
| CynicalZealot 08/12/22 1:13:15 AM #4 | I knew what they were both from, but I had to look up which one was the grumpy old commanding officer. And which one died in a helicopter crash with no survivors. Potter wins. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | The whole over/under toilet paper debate |
| CynicalZealot 08/12/22 1:10:20 AM #7 | DirtBasedSoap posted... people who worry about this sort of thing are clearly not sigma males like me. i dont even put it on the roller thing, i just set it on the tank. #bidetlife --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | What's the scariest PG rated movie? |
| CynicalZealot 08/11/22 6:25:34 AM #12 | When I was a kid, I'd probably throw up Secret of NIMH and the Bunyip song in Dot and the Kangaroo as being kind of nightmare-inducing, but those were actually rated G. Straughan posted... I've never seen that. I'll have it check it out today. Aww, look it has cute widdle rabbys in it too! I loves da rabbys Then you should never, ever watch Watership Down. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | She Hulk looking hot, I don't care what people say |
| CynicalZealot 08/11/22 6:05:02 AM #31 | JOExHIGASHI posted... She looks average Presumably whether or not someone is going to find CGI She-Hulk attractive depends heavily on whether or not they find Tatiana Maslany attractive in the first place. If you don't like her real face, you probably won't like the Hulked-out version of it either. Cruddy_horse posted... You know how some comic book heroes are so dumb they should just not exist? Yeah she hulk is one of them. She-Hulk exists for pretty much the same reason why Spider-Woman exists. Because in the 70s Marvel got really paranoid about copyright: https://www.cbr.com/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-45/ FrozenBananas posted... if they fixed Sonics CGI They will definitely make this look better before the show premiere, since so many people are complaining No they won't, because Disney does not give even the slightest of fucks. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | Bought RDR2 UE on sale, played it a couple hours, now I don't want to. |
| CynicalZealot 08/11/22 4:40:55 AM #21 | Krazy_Kirby posted... rdr had eating for health and deadeye.... people didn't bitch about that. That's because "eating" in RDR was more like how restorative potions work in most video games. But that's not how eating worked in RDR2. Being forced to eat on a regular basis or suffer a penalty IS survival mechanics. If eating in RDR2 had been exactly the same as it was in RDR1, no one would complain about it. But it isn't, so that's in no way a valid defense. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | Bought RDR2 UE on sale, played it a couple hours, now I don't want to. |
| CynicalZealot 08/11/22 3:28:50 AM #19 | Krazy_Kirby posted... never understood the complaints about survival stuff.... eating to refill cores is all you need It's still a monotonous chore that you're being forced to do instead of more interesting things. It's a waste of time that adds up as you go to become a cumulative annoyance. Most people who want to play a game like RDR want to do it for the fun shooting and horse riding, or even for the hunting (or maybe for the tying people up and leaving them on the railroad tracks part), not because they want to be forced to maintain their stats like in a survival game. Basically, people go into RDR wanting to play a cowboy action movie, and Rockstar decided to try and make RDR more like a cowboy documentary instead. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | "running Stardew Valley 1.5.6. with 271 mods" |
| CynicalZealot 08/11/22 2:29:27 AM #25 | Straughan posted... I never played it on PC. Just ps4. Same. Though honestly, there aren't all that many mods on PC that I consider to be all that must-have anyway. About the only one that's ever really appealed to me is the Stardew Valley Expanded one that adds more NPCs, locations, and quest stuff. Straughan posted... I married that painter chick and had 2 babies. Second playthru the purple haired girl. Those are probably the two best options, IMO. Straughan posted... And I did that stupid soft drink company the 2nd game. My god was that a fucking dumb choice. Ehh, there's nothing really inherently wrong with it. About the only thing it changes is missing one scene, since almost everything you get from having the Community Center fixed you also get from having the Joja Warehouse. And going the Joja route gives you the option to buy Auto-Petters from Joja, which you can only get by getting lucky and finding them in the Skull Cavern otherwise (and they're pretty rare there). Sure, you don't get the bundle rewards if you go with Joja, but most of those kind of suck anyway. And Joja gives you a Soda Machine you can't get otherwise. And it's generally easier to speed-run some of the improvements via gold than it is via completing bundles. (And if you want to be a bit cheaty you can do both - fill the easier bundles and get stuff early, then buy the Joja membership to buy the harder bundles via gold). Straughan posted... I was gonna finally platinum it but after seeing all the cool updates PC got I kinda just said fuck it. It's not like PC is hugely more advanced than the PS4 version. The PC version gets updates first, but the console versions get them shortly after. At the moment the two versions are pretty close to similar in terms of features. Sarcasthma posted... Did you at least get the trophy for beating Journey of the Prairie King without dying? Seeing that Achievement is pretty much why I decided I was never going to bother platinum-ing the game. I was like "No fucking way." I've pretty much never bothered playing it other than in Abigail's heart scene. And Junimo Kart can go fuck itself with a rusty spork. In the ass. Sideways. Rotpar posted... Yeah, I'm not really a fan of mods. Part of why I think Bethesda games are shit since you need 50 mods to get an actual game out of them. That was always my response when people talked about how great Bethesda games were, when they almost always had to fall back on mods as justification. "If you need to mod a shitty game to make it worth playing, it's still a shitty game." --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | Were you a fan of the movie Grease? |
| CynicalZealot 08/11/22 2:11:36 AM #20 | CedarPointcp posted... Were you a fan of the movie Grease? Yes. But I was way more of a fan of Xanadu. CedarPointcp posted... r.i.p. What was your favorite song from that movie? Hard to say. Just in terms of music alone, I kind of like the main theme (Grease). In the movie itself, I kind of like the Beauty School Dropout scene. But You're the One That I Want is just fantastic fun to sing in karaoke if you've got someone to duet with. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | David McCullough died, kinda overshadowed by Olivia Newton-John |
| CynicalZealot 08/11/22 2:06:55 AM #7 | fettster777 posted... Do you honestly think ANYBODY who posts here has read one of his books? Hell, I'm a huge nonfiction book nerd, and I didn't even recognize the name. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | Bought RDR2 UE on sale, played it a couple hours, now I don't want to. |
| CynicalZealot 08/11/22 2:02:28 AM #17 | Blightzkrieg posted... As you get older I think you become less willing to put a lot of time into things that you aren't getting much out of. Because you have other shit to do. This is a huge part of it. But I've been pointing out for years now that the other half of the problem is that the explosive growth of media means there's always far more out there than any single human can ever experience in a single lifetime. So it forces people to prioritize their time far more than they ever used to need to. If I start playing a game and it doesn't wow me right from the start, I'm always aware on some level that there are far better games out there just waiting for me to find them. And movies and shows worth watching. And books worth reading. Music worth listening to. And Internet forums to shit-post on. Every second I waste not having fun is a second I could have spent doing something far more interesting or entertaining. Games have to earn my attention now. Because if they don't, there is always something else competing for my time that I can happily switch off to. And that's without even taking into account my willingness to go back and replay old games like Stardew Valley or Minecraft, which can eat dozens of hours on their own. Blightzkrieg posted... RDR2 is very slow and somewhat repetitive, I think it takes a certain kind of person to really get into it. For me it wasn't even that, more that I kind of hated the narrative. The first Red Dead Redemption won me over quickly by making me like John Marston, giving him an interesting quest, having him meet interesting and likeable characters, and the tragic ending hits harder because I actually cared about these people. It was a well-told story, even if it was ultimately an unavoidable tragedy (and a metaphor about the death of the Old West). Conversely, RDR2 feels like they spent way too much time focused on aspects of the game (like the more simulation-style mechanics) I didn't give a shit about, and bolted it onto a story that was frustrating as fuck. I never really cared about Arthur. Most of the crew were either somewhat generic or outright annoying. Arthur was given the illusion of making choices, but I was never really given choices I wanted to make. And the story was spread out over a longer period, because the larger map and more busywork makes it harder to just steamroll through the plot. It would have been more palatable to me if the infection scene had happened off-camera (where I had no control), or even if the scene in question had been even remotely subtle (so it could be argued that Arthur wouldn't have noticed until it was too late), but they basically chose the single most annoying way to hammer that bullshit home, and it drastically took me out of the story after that point. Beyond that, the fact that the story as presented sort of ruins the implications of the backstory of RDR1 makes me hate it even more. I probably could have plodded my way through slow and boring gameplay if I was super into the story, but instead I hated the story which made the slow and boring parts feel even more soul-crushing. At a certain point, I basically had to step back and say "You know, I'm not enjoying this at all. Why am I playing it?" ...and that's the point where I stopped playing it. And never looked back. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | Bought RDR2 UE on sale, played it a couple hours, now I don't want to. |
| CynicalZealot 08/11/22 1:40:23 AM #15 | Straughan posted... Bought RDR2 UE on sale, played it a couple hours, now I don't want to. rjsilverthorn posted... Having played RDR2, I can't really blame you for that one. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | Just watched The Warriors, why are the baseball gang so popular? |
| CynicalZealot 08/11/22 1:36:41 AM #9 | FatalAccident posted... Theyve got a relatively minor role in the grand scheme of things. How come theyre on so much of the merchandise and memorabilia about the film? Because they're the most ridiculous gang, and thus the one everyone remembers. Straughan posted... I'm almost certain that movie was made after people from a parallel dimension where those gangs exist came to our dimension and told their story. No, that's actually what NYC was like in the 70s. Between that and Escape from New York, you get a pretty accurate view of what the city was like. It didn't really clean up until the 90s, around the time Times Square turned into Disneyland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabasis_(Xenophon) The Warriors are an allegory for the Greeks, trying to fight their way through strange lands and strange armies to get back home. It's also why the main guy in charge was named Cyrus (and why his death sets the plot in motion). --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | post a pic of your junk drawer |
| CynicalZealot 08/10/22 8:47:11 AM #2 | Sorry, I only have pictures of my junk hanging out of my drawers. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | French scientists apologizes for claiming Chorizo was our nearest Star. |
| CynicalZealot 08/10/22 8:45:46 AM #4 | Zareth posted... Every time I see chorizo I think it's a metroid reference I always confuse it in my head with churro. And then there's always the Chzo Mythos. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | What if you flipped the Superman theme song with Star Wars? |
| CynicalZealot 08/10/22 8:44:38 AM #6 | They're pretty close, honestly. And if you mixed them together you'd probably get something pretty close to the theme from Spaceballs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woNHtpc5Hbo Metalsonic66 posted... Imperial March when Zod shows up on Earth "Can You Read My Mind" for when Luke kisses his sister. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwN2nZSYBG4 --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | Gonna watch th sailor moon shows |
| CynicalZealot 08/10/22 8:33:07 AM #8 | Krazy_Kirby posted... watch dbz instead That's like saying you don't want to get punched in the dick, so you'd rather be kicked in the nuts instead. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | Can we stop naming Star Wars shows after the main character please |
| CynicalZealot 08/10/22 8:32:05 AM #4 | They have to do it - playing off names that Star Wars fans recognize from the past is the only way they can get people to watch the new content. Because most of the new content is hot liquid diarrhea. Andor's the odd one out, but even there they're basically just pushing the idea of him as the main character because Rogue One is one of the few Disney-era films anyone actually liked. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | How would you Rate my Top 15 Games of All Time? |
| CynicalZealot 08/07/22 11:59:41 PM #14 | I'd probably rate it poorly, because Halo's about the only one that would be anywhere near my own Top 20, and there's only about four games on your entire list that I consider worth playing at all. But blah blah subjective and all that. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | im knightoffire55ing right now |
| CynicalZealot 08/07/22 11:55:19 PM #3 | agesboy posted... does anyone actually buy the more expensive vodkas? they taste less offensive, but ill take a bite for 50% less price Some people do. But the smoothness levels out at a certain point, where you'd just paying more for almost nothing. Basically, don't buy low tier vodka, because it's bad. But also don't buy high tier vodka, because it's not really worth it. Aim for the middle. When we used to drink vodka in college (and afterwards), we tended to steer clear of Smirnoff or anything worse, but were generally fine with Absolut. But shooting for something like Grey Goose or above was just throwing money away. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | depp fans crowd source money to get unsealed court documents; backfires |
| CynicalZealot 08/07/22 11:49:49 PM #2 | Pretty sure most of us already knew that. It was more just that she was apparently the much bigger piece of shit, so if someone had to "win" then better him than her. I don't think anyone sane and rational walked away from that whole mess thinking he was absolutely blameless regardless. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | Self driving car |
| CynicalZealot 08/07/22 11:46:54 PM #22 | Yellow posted... Guess no one knows the answer to that other than the engineers. My guess is that it doesn't have any "value of life" metric for hitting and old man or a young man with a longer life to live, and does the action that's less likely to hit anything, but obviously prioritize hitting an inanimate object over a pedestrian. The problem most people worry about is how it's probably inevitable that it will be programmed to prioritize between your single-occupant car and the two kids and their dog. Or the bus full of old people. Or whatever else it decides is more important than you are when it drives you off a cliff to avoid hurting someone else. And that's just when it's working as intended. And not getting confused and assuming the side of a tractor trailer is open sky and plowing you right into it resulting in your decapitation (ie, what most self-driving accidents up to this point have been). Or somehow getting hacked, screwed with by some sort of virus, or just falling victim to some stupid Y2K-esque glitch due to poor quality control. Whether any of those fears are legitimate or not, they're the kinds of things people think of when they think about self-driving cars. Which is why most polls tend to suggest people at the moment are more into the idea of a self-driving car than they are willing to ever actually ride in one. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | Self driving car |
| CynicalZealot 08/07/22 11:42:19 PM #21 | I fall into the category of never wanting one, and not being entirely happy that other people have them (for a multitude of reasons). But I'm also aware that's a battle I'm literally never going to win. Which will only add more fuel to my scathing old man yelling at clouds energy in a few decades when I'm forced to own one against my will because non-self-driving cars have all been outlawed and are no longer being made. Assuming I'm not dead by then. Which honestly, I probably will be. And also assuming we haven reached peak Mad Max by 2050 or so, with roving leather gangs fighting over scraps and water. Because that would probably impede the adoption of AI-powered cars. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | The U.S. Presidents |
| CynicalZealot 08/07/22 11:37:48 PM #22 | hera posted... you literally just responded to it though, so I didn't though, because I didn't actually see a notification. Because I disabled them years ago. You can't really respond to something that doesn't exist. And it would be a poor method to try and get my attention in the future, because it won't actually do anything. I just responded to this topic because it was relatively high up the main page again when I happened to be looking at the board. Though if it makes you feel better, I'll probably stop paying attention to it shortly because it doesn't feel like anything of value is going to take place here from this point on. Maximum whimsical distraction value has already been achieved. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | The U.S. Presidents |
| CynicalZealot 08/07/22 11:24:27 PM #19 | Metalsonic66 posted... P.O. thinks Trump is black Have you seen the man? His particular shade of orange is often way closer to black than it is white/pink. There's plenty of pictures where he clearly looks darker than our first half-white President Barry Obama. Though if you like, I can change the original joke to implying that the picture confirms Biden's Presidency is illegitimate instead, since there's no face at all after the clown. Then say something about President Trump's official administration-in-exile being the only valid one. The punchline is fairly flexible. hera posted... @CynicalZealot Pretty sure I made it clear years ago that I disabled notifications the moment it was an option, and wouldn't respond to them even if they were unavoidable. I treat them like I used to treat ATTN topics. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | The U.S. Presidents |
| CynicalZealot 08/07/22 5:00:35 PM #3 | Come on now. Biden's bad, but I certainly wouldn't call him a clown. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | Do I wish my mother a happy birthday? |
| CynicalZealot 08/07/22 4:57:36 PM #3 | I think the real answer is #3, but the correct answer is #2. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | There's no way in hell you could smash an AT ST with swinging logs |
| CynicalZealot 08/07/22 4:54:40 PM #22 | captpackrat posted... An 80 foot hardwood tree with a 24-inch diameter can weigh 20,000 pounds. F=ma. Assuming a mass of 45kg (about half of what you suggested) and a speed of 7m/s (a conservative estimate assuming some interplay between gravity and wind resistance), that would probably result in something like 32000 Newtons (or 32 kN) of force. Which is about four times as powerful as the average anti-tank round. ...and we're effectively doubling it again if we're hitting from both sides simultaneously. Considering an AT-ST couldn't possibly have the same level of armor-plating as a modern tank (it would be incredibly impractical to support that much weight on two legs and still be able to maneuver in any useful way), and would be even more likely to give at structural weak points (especially if the Empire contracted their production to the lowest bidder), it seems entirely plausible that swinging logs could smash the hell out of one. ...but it's also a fantasy movie with space wizards and laser swords, so who the fuck cares. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | Be poor and surrounded by the wealthy, or wealthy and surrounded by the poor? |
| CynicalZealot 08/07/22 4:23:33 PM #3 | DietSchmendrake posted... Most people will probably pick the latter not realizing how miserable and unsafe it feels unless you hire private security. Depends on how wealthy I'd be. With enough money it wouldn't be difficult to elevate the ones I like and hire guards to oppress the ones I don't. It's literally how the entire concept of royalty, nobility, and nation states/government came into being in the first place. As for the alternative, anyone choosing to be poor has literally never been poor. And are likely naively counting on some of those wealthy to be extremely charitable or at least treat them like a pet and buy stuff for them. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | my son says the jason bourne films are better than the james bond films |
| CynicalZealot 08/07/22 3:56:13 AM #2 | Depends on which films you're talking about. And let's be honest, the newest James Bond films basically ARE Bourne films anyway. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | Best "Everybody knows them" Pokemon? |
| CynicalZealot 08/06/22 9:32:20 PM #21 | Krazy_Kirby posted... 2? You've kind of solved your own mystery there. I can probably count the number of non-gen 1 Pokemon I know on one hand, and I can't "know" a Pokemon that doesn't exist. So go on - guess which two I don't know. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | Plant based foods |
| CynicalZealot 08/06/22 9:28:53 PM #29 | Entity13 posted... Torchwood episode intensifies. Great, now I can have sex with literally everyone and everything! JigsawTDCII posted... go to Singapore, its available there now. Yes, but actual beef and pork and chicken are available in my local grocery store, and that's less of a trip for a more appealing option. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | Could you have a girlfriend for 7 years and never have sex? |
| CynicalZealot 08/06/22 7:45:18 PM #24 | Cotton_Eye_Joe posted... Could you have a girlfriend for 7 years and never have sex? It's possible. But context is key. If I'd started dating someone and we went more than 7 weeks without having sex, the relationship would probably have faltered. I'd view it as being indicative of a major problem - either she has a vastly different sex drive than I do (which would potentially cause problems), she has a very different view of what our relationship is going to be than I do (which would potentially cause problems), or she's not actually all that interested in me (which would potentially cause problems). I'd argue that sex is an incredibly important and almost necessary part of a healthy relationship (unless you're talking about two asexual people getting together), and neglecting that is one of the most common ways any given relationship can fall apart. If my current girlfriend (who I've been with for more than 20 years) suddenly stopped having sex with me, it's something I could potentially cope with depending on why. Injury? Illness? That's more justifiable than if she simply woke up one day and her sex drive was entirely gone and she was utterly disinterested in doing anything with me. It might sour the relationship a bit, but decades worth of shared experience and assuming there's still other forms of physical affection it wouldn't be a complete deal-breaker, but the reason why we stopped definitely matters. Personally, I've always had a pretty strong sex drive. I don't think I could be in a completely happy relationship with anyone who was fully asexual (and I definitely never would have started one if I knew that going in). At that point it's not really a dating relationship to me as much as it is just friendship (without benefits). Maybe if it was a totally open relationship where I could still date and have sex with other people (but again, at that point, is it even really a dating relationship?), but I don't think I could ever completely sacrifice my own sexual gratification to be with someone else who had no interest in it. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | People suck |
| CynicalZealot 08/05/22 8:33:02 PM #16 | Kyuubi4269 posted... You new to earth? People have always sucked, that's just how it is. Half of our mythology and religion basically just boils down to coming up with explanations for why we suck so much. Original Sin, the Five Ages, the Four Yugas, etc. Even scientific concepts like Entropy. It's sort of our calling card that everything is always terrible but also getting worse all the time (even when it isn't necessarily entirely true). --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | People keep mixing up ITS and IT'S, so I've resolved to deliberately mix the 2 |
| CynicalZealot 08/05/22 8:03:43 PM #12 | hera posted... i don't even care anymore. its whatever my phone says it's and im not gonna argue with it I'm firmly convinced that once we develop fully effective voice-recognition software so people can text and post on Twitter just by speaking rather than typing, 90% of the population is going to be illiterate again (like most of human history). --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | Best "Everybody knows them" Pokemon? |
| CynicalZealot 08/05/22 7:58:07 PM #3 | I don't know two of those. This topic is a lie. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | You must dip a chicken nugget/strip. Choose your sauce wisely. |
| CynicalZealot 08/04/22 4:35:50 PM #61 | hera posted... you're a fuckin liar po I'm sorry you're too poor to afford worthwhile food. I'll pray for you. BigOlePappy posted... I'm a heat head...I love intense spice. Ghost pepper et al. It makes the flavor of the food enhanced. Spice is fine, honestly. But it should be integrated into the actual meal and not added after the fact. Add it while cooking, not at the table. Though when you cross the line from "spice as a flavor-enhancer" to "spice is literally all you taste" or "spice as an ordeal", that's when you're kind of ruining your food. If all you really want is to taste the spice or to have a painful burning sensation in your mouth, just bypass the food and down the hot sauce as a shot or something. Same effect. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | People sound like dbags when they say things like ngl |
| CynicalZealot 08/04/22 4:29:44 PM #5 | ArvTheGreat posted... People sound like dbags when they say things like ngl or tbh. If people say it exactly like that, either online or in real life, I tend to agree. But that's mostly because I look down on people who use initialisms at all for the most part, and triply so if they say them out loud in the real world. But if someone actually spells (or says) out the full phrase "not gonna lie" (or "not going to lie") or "to be honest", I'm 100% fine with it, because they're natural place-holding phrases used to soften language. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | Plant based foods |
| CynicalZealot 08/04/22 4:26:55 PM #14 | I honestly feel like I'd rather eat scientifically-grown meat from a lab than eat artificial meat made out of plant-based alternatives. It's all or nothing for me. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | You must dip a chicken nugget/strip. Choose your sauce wisely. |
| CynicalZealot 08/04/22 1:36:26 PM #58 | hera posted... you're a fuckin liar po Nope. I like to taste my food. I don't use condiments (or salt) in general for most food. If food needs condiments to taste good, it's not good food, so why would I want to eat it in the first place? Eat better food and you don't need condiments or dipping sauces. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | bro turn off your ps4 |
| CynicalZealot 08/04/22 1:33:02 PM #10 | adjl posted... You make more topics than I do. Is that the standard we're using? Because you make more topics than I do. You filthy topic-whore you. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | People keep mixing up ITS and IT'S, so I've resolved to deliberately mix the 2 |
| CynicalZealot 08/04/22 1:31:53 PM #7 | Just use it|s for every context and tell people you're creating a new pronoun. JigsawTDCII posted... People often leave the punctuation mark outside quotation marks like this, when it should be inside the quotation marks like this. I do it that way, but mainly because I don't actually give a fuck about being a grammatically correct purist versus doing what's most aesthetically pleasing. It doesn't actually make logical sense for punctuation to be inside the quotes unless the punctuation is part of the thing being quoted. (For similar reasons, I'm a huge proponent of the Oxford Comma, and will shank any bitch who says otherwise.) And honestly, language evolves through usage - so if enough people do it it becomes the correct usage anyway. So people complaining about it are mostly pissing into the wind. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | Completely original comic book idea! |
| CynicalZealot 08/03/22 8:00:40 PM #10 | HornedLion posted... Its a story about a girl that came down to earth from a different planet. One ruled by women, and men are nonexistent. There's been at least a few of those already. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | Would you like them to release the Batgirl movie? |
| CynicalZealot 08/03/22 7:59:31 PM #6 | I'm sure it's New 52-inspired Batgirl, so I'd probably rather see every remaining workprint or copy of it be burned in a furnace and probably have nearly everyone who worked on it exiled from Hollywood anyway. But ultimately, really don't care. Wasn't going to watch it regardless. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
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