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JOExHIGASHI posted...

Do you live in Alaska?

Colorado.

this is all in fahrenheit sorry I'm American unfortunately :(

50 is brisk
40 - cool
70 - warm
Anything above 75 is bullshit

A DVD player.

I've recently heard about something called "Pretendo" that's become relevant to this topic, but I'm not quite sure what it is.

End of an era. I knew thee well

What really bothers me is that there's no real reason for it. You just know that the multibillion dollar company could have kept the network online. It's like they're purposely trying to make the 3DS obsolete. I have to wonder if they're trying to force us into the switch era - and I know I'm beating a dead horse by now, but I really fucking hate the switch. Losing the eshop was bad enough, so now losing online altogether feels like a real punch in the gut.
For pokemon gen4 games people were able to reconnect to online servers by using a mobile hotspot or unsecured modem with the DNS settings available in the 3DS. I hear that fanserevrs like this are in the making for other games, too. My hope is just that we can do that without needing to softmod our consoles because it makes me anxious, especially now that these are retro consoles. I just don't want to fuck anything up.

Anyway, what were your favorite things to do online with the 3DS? Do you think you'll get fanservers for your favorite games?

pedro45 posted...

That's all i was trying to say. I'm just really good at putting my foot in my mouth.

tbh same bro

Zareth posted...

I mean girls are meaner bullies than boys, that's kind of known

Ah, that is true...
It's because we use our brains differently so we prioritize psychological warfare over physical torment. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, indeed...

pedro45 posted...

Kids can be monsters, but there's so many horror stories about teenage girls. Like, they can be evil! Society doesn't know how to deal with it.

pedro45 posted...

You ever heard of hell hath no fury like a woman's scorn?
Well, imagine what it was like when she was honing those skills. Mean Girls x13.
Boys can be mean, too, and in general are more aggressive, but a mean girl...look out.

I want you to think a littke harder about what you sound like. You're a grown ass adult with a grudge against teenage "mean girls". That's pretty weird, man. I'm guessing you were either picked on by girls when you were in school and just never got over it or that you have never actually been around teenaged girls and your only exposure to them is what is portrayed in highschool drama flicks.

Yellow posted...

Ok fine, I was reactionary. Declining birth rates are due to other predictable factors, and I take it all back. Sorry.

Every now and then a stupid Conservative thought that my dad taught me long ago pops up and I have to squash it, and this one's basically "intelligent people have to have kids to outnumber the dumb people".

Ah, the conservative dad dilemma... It's all okay bro No hard feelings.

Glob posted...

In fairness, we dont all do that.

Yes! Of course. Don't get the wrong idea :)

Yellow posted...

Kids are little balls of sunshine?

I don't understand why the vast vocal majority of people online hate them on a deep level, I think it's off-putting. It's like high-minded progressive people in particular seem to be sprinting to make the logical choice to get neutered asap because they just never got over this hangup, and they get offended when you suggest maybe they have an issue.

Then they get pet dogs and cats and treat them like they're their kids to fill their maternal instinct they deny they have. The truth is that thing isn't a person, it's an overgrown rodent that's infesting your home. It will live 7 years and die making no impact on anything and it doesn't matter. You will never be able to connect or communicate with it on a real level, and you don't know what it's thinking. It won't look after you when you're old or give you purpose in life. You pretend you don't want commitment but you will maintain 4 of them at all times for the rest of your life, raising a bunch of stinking neutered animals as your legacy. You talk to them and make inside jokes with them like they can hear you the same way a schizo talks to the voices in their head.

10 people hate me now.

Well aren't you a little fucking ray of sunshine. Calm down a little.

Pets are less of an investment that kids. Only weird people truly see them as kids. Humans like to take care of things and that isn't exclusive just to seeing oneself as a parent. Imagine getting so offended by the fact that some people don't want the lifelong physical, mental, and financial commitment that having a kid takes and just want a damn puppy or something instead Imagine having such a lack of empathy that you call people who talk to their pets "schizos" It ain't like we're trying to have conversations with them, Yellow. They just like the sounds of our voices even if they can't understand them, and it's just fun to talk to something even if it can't talk back. Nothing wrong with coming home after a hard day of work and talking to your golden retriever while petting them. Haven't you ever just talked to yourself to try and calm yourself down a bit? Have you ever heard of an inner monologue? It isn't much different. What the Hell are you talking about? Are you okay?

Again, this is what I'm saying about people who are fine with kids acting like anyone who doesn't is some fucking lunatic. Grow up a little and try to see a perspective outside of your own.

I'll add that a lack of empathy for animals is a common manifestation in people who really ARE psychopaths. Not saying you are one, but you are legitimately the type of person I would not trust irl. Have a little compassion. I wouldn't trust you to feed my cat if I'm not home, let alone be near children with that attitude. Children who, by the way, often love family pets.

Zareth posted...

No.
I also don't want to hold your damn baby.

fr some people are so genuinely creepy with how hard they try to push their kids onto other people.

In addition to not wanting to hold your baby, I don't think you should assume that I'm fine with you letting your toddler come into my house with you. This honestly can go so far. You're having a 6 month anniversary party for your baby and you want me to come? Karen, your baby cannot even form long-term memories yet. Go ahead and go to Disneyworld where it is loud and crowded in the Florida heat and humidity with an infant, a two-year old, and the rest of your kids. I promise you it will not be worth it to spend hundreds of dollars just to stand in line for hours at a time with a bunch of impatient and miserable kids who won't even remember it. If it's coming from a family member or a dear friend, then of course, I'd do anything for them because I care about them. But if your neighbor or co-worker comes at you with this shit? Fuck off. Then they act like you're a monster :p

SomeUsername529 posted...

Three people (myself included) that work with kids like them and everyone else who posted so far sounds like some kind of anti-social freak that may or may not be legally forbidden to interact with kids regardless of their feelings.

ReturnOfFa posted...

Kids are easy to deal with. People that aren't good with them have grown up into adults that can't interact with a child.

Now THIS kind of shit really irks me. People who hate kids just stay out of the way of people who like kids, but why do people who like kids always act like people who don't are all fucking psychopaths or something? It is so frustrating. I am absolutely repulsed by kids but I'd still easily jump in front of a car to save one. I understand the value of children. I hate to hear about children who get treated badly.

I can see why people would like kids. They are our future. They are innocent. They can be very sweet, they depend on you, they can even be like a part of you. Many people feel like they could never do anything more beautiful than raise another human being. I can sympathize with that. But for those of us who don't want kids of our own and don't like being around them it's different. Why can't you sympathize with that?

Some kids are alright, I mean, they're people who are all different. But kids, especially little ones, are also loud, annoying, stupid, disgusting, uncoordinated, and germ-ridden. Being pregnant, giving birth, and being postpartum is a genuinely awful experience. Your body will change in crazy ways and will never be the same. Financially you will probably never be where you once were or could have been. Mentally you will be exhausted. You can't do as much of the things you used to for fun. You lose years of time to yourself. Anyone who thinks it's easy to deal with kids either doesn't have any or had a loved one who would do all the hard parts for them. Part of what makes mothers and fathers so badass is how difficult their job is. It is NOT easy and it is NOT always fun! I respect the Hell out of parents.

But even if it's not your commitment and not your kid, some people just don't fuck with all that mess. Now I've met some genuine brats but that isn't to say it's always a kid's fault when they act badly in public, especially if they're really young. I don't blame them. I just don't want to be around them. Is it really that hard to understand that not liking kids doesn't equal being some sort of sociopath? Get over yourselves. There was no need to bring that kind of attitude here.

ZayKayWill posted...

..... I don't see why it's funny that I asked a legitimate question that I don't know the answer to, but okay.

It's fine. Information on the opposite sex is generally pretty piss-poor in this country. Sex-ed too, I mean, plenty of adult women don't even understand their own bodies. Everyone else made the right point. Sadly women tend to be treated like shit a lot in medicine, even in this day and age. Plus with a vasectomy men can go home with pen meds and a care regimen suggested by their doctor. For a woman a doctor might just tell you take some tylenol and suck it up, despite the fact that female sterilization is a more precise surgical procedure than a vasectomy. Doctors in America are notorious for dismissing women's health complaints, to the point that many women never receive an endometriosis diagnosis until it's too late, if ever at all. We get less pain medication and anesthesia than what is prescribed to men. This country has the worst women's healthcare out of any wealthy "first-world" nation and we also have the highest childbirth mortality rate. On top of just our healthcare being shitty in the first place, being a woman means most likely getting on or two doctor horror stories under your belt throughout your life. It's one of the many reasons I want to leave America someday tbh

ZayKayWill posted...

Considering getting a vasectomy in the near future...

God, I wish it was that easy for women...

This fucker
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/70df729a.jpg

Average height female, 143lbs give or take. Used to be around 160 before I dropped remeron. Went from a size 12-14 to size 8-10 in like a month. I've never been dissatisfied with my weight, but I do wish I had more muscle mass.

People acting like the port-a-potty isn't a way real people have died.

Just don't jerk off for 5 years, get rich, and then have a mega-orgasm afterwards. Sounds like a win-win to me.

After a reverse image search yielded no results, I now truly bellieve that is your hole.
Well done.

Congrats, man.

Revelation34 posted...

I always move in my sleep. Doesn't mean I'm scared of something.

You do lots of weird stuff in your sleep. People move, vocalize, orgasm even, and some stages of sleep are associated with hallucinations. But there's a difference between moving in your sleep and actual sleepwalking, which is a parasomnia.

Nightmares and night-terrors are actually different things. Nightmares occur in REM sleep and night-terrors occuring during non-REM sleep or between sleep cycles. You don't sleepwalk during the stages of sleep where you dream. It's the night-terrors where you randomly cry, scream, and thrash in your sleep without remembering it. You don't dream during a night-terror, you just go apeshit a little bit.

You only remember the periods of sleep where you dream. That's why dreams seem to jump topic; because they are actually multiple dreams separated by periods of sleep that ate impossible remember. If you were having a good dream but woke up suddenly in a panic, you probably had that dream a while ago and it was during the bout of non-dreaming sleep that something happened to wake you up. It just creates the illusion that you woke up directly from a dream.

Could have been as simple as the ice-maker in your fridge making a noise and startling you awake.

Everyone voting mouse is wrong

Yellow posted...

I love mice a lot. I hate having to kill them, but those suckers multiply and poop so they get no quarter.

You just gotta grab them like they owe you money

SunWuKung420 posted...

Bacon is God tier.

Hell no - might as well just buy a salt lick, smear it in crisco, and take a taste of it every now and then just like a horse.

Some companies actually experimented with this and found that, not only did revenue either stay the same or increase, but employee productivity went up and resignations decreased

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/02/21/four-day-work-week-results-uk/

But corporate America will never go for it. We don't even offer 40+ hour employees a decent amount of sick days, vacation days, or maternity leave, and healthcare is just hit-or-miss. Hard work is only rewarded with more work in this capitalist hellscape where we somehow find a way to make a business out of absolutely everything. The so-called "American dream" only exists for the wealthy, which is bullshit in a country with so much wealth inequality to begin with. Bernie maybe would have helped us, but the fact that we have a two-party system (aka the quadrennial American pissing contest) only allows the corrupt to prosper. One of the many reasons I hope to leave this country some day.

Beef all the way, but I can't turn down a good porkchop

Entity13 posted...

Right, and I'm not saying it's without reason. I work in a kitchen, so there'd safety and sanitation reasons for wearing denim pants. If I was in a better-suited position where the lack of skirts was unreasonable, I'd fight for the comfortable levels of air circulation down there, if you catch my drift.

Oh, I catch your drift. That can be pretty hot environment to work in. Gets you s w a m p y

Lokarin posted...

ya, if i was a girl I'd be all into pink/black fashion

Nobody saying you can't wear pink/black, fella

Entity13 posted...

We really should normalize men wearing skirts if they damned well want to. Skirts are nice; I'd still think so if I were a guy. Heck, I'd wear them more now if my work allowed it.

I will say that when it comes to work, depending on what you do, chances are that pants are just way more practical. Imagine what it would be like to work in healthcare, military, construction, or anything outside wearing a skirt.

There was even a time when it was ILLEGAL for women to wear pants
I don't think a dress code without any purpose should be required at all, whether that entails pants or skirts

My toxic trait was being staunchly against skirts, dresses, and the color pink because I've always been a huge tomboy -- but I grew out of that phase once I became more confident in myself and realized that those things don't actually define my personality and interests. It was also that skirts and dresses always seemed so impractical. The risk of them getting caught on things or panty shots as I was doing physical stuff was high.

But I recently started wearing them just because sometimes I don't feel like having pants on. Gotta vent that situation out every now and then, you know? And it's wonderful! Long skirts or comfy skorts and I don't have to worry about practicality, either.

Now I firmly believe that men should go back to wearing dresses/tunics/whatever. Women alone should not gatekeep this level of comfort.

^ It's even more fucked up when you realize that The Green Mile novel was inspired by a real world case where they put a child through this. They murdered a 14 year old black boy for a crime he did not commit and his case wasn't vacated until 7 years later. Fucking Hell. I can't watch that movie without thinking about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stinney

I go for walks often and work outside every Saturday. I'll also lift weights on occassion during the winter when I can't go out as much - but I do less weight, more reps. I think it's better to gain muscle from labor rather than by working out because your gains will be more practical and it's mentally easier to focus on a task while exercising instead of exercising just for the sake of exercising. Unless you want muscles that justlook good or you need specialized equipment, a gym membership is useless.

For me it's that scene in Poltergeist where Carolanne's spirit runs down the stairs through the mom and she can smell her. The way she holds up her scarf and says "that's my baby" hits me the most. I hate kids and I have no instinct to mother, but something about that part literally never fails to make me tear up. JoBeth Williams was flawless in this movie.

https://youtu.be/FXDdGan2kdQ?si=sR0pZ52pzN_j_zOo

Oof that's a bad one. Can't even tell what it was supposed to be.

I wanted to see if Giphy worked but bro how tf am I supposed to put a link here when every time I try it just says there's a character limit? Even when I try to embed it

The Scorn artbook is pretty sick
https://youtu.be/lKJfo5e3FKw?si=IyixV2dW4feBQ4RB

Man gamefaqs always changes on this. I tried to upload a Michael Scott gif and look how it massacred him
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9b7fd6d3.png

I've volunteered at a wildlife rehab for what'll be 6 years this June. Volunteering is great if you have the time to do it because it gives you experience and helps you network - if you're interested in doing anything like what you're volunteering for as a job, anyway. It's good for my mental and physical health, too.