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Shot in the dark: when we started wearing clothes, we became more adaptable to varying weather conditions when we did not have fur.
Edit: Article is interesting.

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Zeus posted...

He's talking about tv shows, not film, and presumably American tv shows at that.

Ah, I don't watch TV, tbh. Not enough free time for that.

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In retrospect, I think some of my "fears" may have actually been my autistic baby brain reacting poorly to certain stimuli. I was terrified of car wash tunnels as a kid, and putting my face underwater (even just under shower spray, no joke) would make me scream; I never really learned how to swim effectively because I never fully got over that. I think one of my sisters figured out that I was afraid of getting anything in my eyes, so I'd stuff a washcloth in front of my eyes whenever I had to wash my hair/face to stop the distress.

I was scared of heights and clowns (typical), but I loved movies like the Terminator and Aliens when I was teeny (fuck knows why my parents let me watch those movies... even let me watch Aeon Flux, wtf were they thinking?) and they didn't scare me; I told my parents I wanted to be a ternimator when I grew up. Darkness didn't really scare me, but I had hideous nightmares even as a very small child about people being murdered/our house being attacked.

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Another one of my coworkers tested positive yesterday, too.

wwinterj25 posted...

I'd have thought you would need to self isolate too as you've been exposed to someone with COVID.

Welcome to America.

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I've seen media that averted this. Uh, there was a Korean film where a gay girl had a thing for her straight friend and got rejected, for example.

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Phillip Glass for more modern compositions, maybe?

For video game composers, I'm partial to Go Shiina, Michiru Yamane, Keiichi Okabe... The multiple composers that worked on Bayonetta 2 did a great job...

For older stuff, I like Vivaldi. Tallis did great work but he was focused on choral masterpieces so he doesn't really count for this.

ReggieTheReckless posted...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=d9EN27Zh_vg

That's not an instrumental piece...


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It really depends on the individual drink, tbh. Some teas are sublime, some are borderline undrinkable. Some hot chocolate is okay, but sometimes you get one that's really great, etc...

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It's been two weeks since Thanksgiving now, right? If no one else seems to have caught it from him either at this point, you're probably in the clear.

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ChaosAzeroth posted...

Top pic looks so much like our cat Rosie I'm dying.

Unfortunately apparently my pics are too big.

Must shrink pictures. :(

Bibi? He's a total doofus. One of the most lovey cats I've ever met, though. Almost like a dog in temperament.

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Veedrock- posted...

I'm gonna continue if/when I want to, unirregardless of others' behavior. What I'm not doing is getting lectured by you lot, on that premise.

"I can post bigoted fuckwittery but you can't post criticisms of me. Hurr"

You're on a forum. You don't want people criticizing your idiocy? Then don't post it.

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If you mean wraps, the most obvious thing that springs to mind is greek food.

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I'll check his channel out later; gotta work today. Thanks for the link.

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Vomiting is not a common COVID-19 symptom, but coughing is. If it's the cough specifically that's causing the vomiting, there may be a problem.

Is it a dry cough (non-productive) or a wet cough? Dry = COVID-19 symptom, ftr.

That said, you can have more than one illness at once which can complicate attempts at diagnosing via symptoms. I suggest looking up a list of symptoms online; it's readily available.

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/covid-19/latest-evidence/clinical
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6928a2.htm

Seems like it can be a symptom of COVID-19 but it's rare.

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Irrelevant to her testimony, which was, admittedly, total garbage.

Slut shaming is for the weak.

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I have one other cat (Ziggy) but I don't have any even remotely good pictures of him. They're ordered from youngest to oldest. Bibi is first. Second is Spleeny, then Eeny Meeny, and Houdini. We had a Beanie between Spleen and Bibi, but he died so we stopped giving them themed names.

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What is your favorite big cat youtube video?

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You can't adjust your brightness settings?

Legend of Grimrock?

If you like metroidvanias, there's Blasphemous, Dark Devotion... Death's Gambit? Hollow Knight isn't consistently dark but maybe? Lorelai, Nihilumbra...

JoanOfArcade posted...

Darkest Dungeon

Yes, this one.

Lokarin posted...

side note:

I just made some rice with veggies and it was suuuuuuuuper good....

Nice.

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Hope you didn't catch it.

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Haven't played that. Is it any good?

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wwinterj25 posted...

Good luck with that!

Ty, it was not fun but it went okay.

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I get tested twice a week as part of my job.

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A little this morning because I didn't sleep last night and had to do an eleven hour shift today.

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NGL, sounds like she fell for trolling.

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I had a science teacher whose daughters would paint his nails for him. He was a great teacher.

Anyway, the rule is fucking stupid.

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Why didn't you put it next to a ruler/tape measure so we could actually tell how big it is?

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I have a cat that purrs whenever you interact with her even if she's in a really bad mood. It's a bit odd.

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There are some, but I think that it largely depends on what region you live in; my sisters and I don't use them, really.

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His username changed.

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Zareth posted...

We wouldn't have to shut things down if stupid assholes would just wear their masks.

This. The shut-down is not letting up in my area at all because we have a fucking cult in town that is deliberately violating all guidelines on purpose.

My job is literally to prevent the spread of COVID-19 into a vulnerable community by doing basic screening of people for entry into the area. So no, I'm not one of those people.

DANTE20XX posted...

You can catch it despite this anyways. It only limits it slightly.

The first statement is true. The second is not. 2 people wearing masks and properly distancing reduce the rate of transmission between them by over 90%, and you can take it near to 100% if you wear a shield for your eyes, too. :-/

It spreads through droplet contamination, so as long as you don't expose yourself to people's breath through your eyes/mouth/nose and keep your hands clean and others do the same, the disease can't spread. We only had to shut down because people wouldn't step the fuck up at the start and beat it before it began. The ONLY reason this has persisted for so long is because people are choosing not to participate in stopping the spread of the contagion.

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Education is an investment that always pays off for the public. It makes no sense whatsoever to put people who pursue higher education into such hideous debt that they're never able to meaningfully contribute to the economy despite their increased productivity.

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What I find funny is that there are Judeo-Christian texts that actually support abortion and explain how it is to be done (without the woman's consent, of course) at the hands of a priest. The idea that Christianity supports the pro-life position is patently absurd.

*shrug* But that's not going to change anyone's mind. Religious people don't much care about consistency/honesty, and when it comes to abortion, all they care about is saying abortion = murder and unwanted pregnancy = justified punishment. Never mind that pregnancy is a life-threatening procedure that will likely permanently maim you if it doesn't kill you, and that our laws have made it very clear that you cannot force someone to preserve the life of another at the expense of your own body (you cannot force people to donate blood/tissues/organs, you cannot punish someone for not saving another person who is in danger because they were afraid for their own life, etc). The end result is that pro-lifers will give more bodily autonomy to the corpses of people who didn't sign up to be organ donors when they were alive than they will to pregnant women.

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It depends on the election in question and where you live. Most people's votes will have a lot more influence at lower levels, which is why you should always vote for down-ticket folks even if you hate everyone running higher up. But if you don't live in a swing state, your vote doesn't really matter much for the highest races. My vote has literally never mattered when it comes to the federal and even the state level, but I still vote for the local elections.

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lihlih posted...

Is she playing the dumbass way again, where you don't get to see if the person that got voted off is an imposter or not?

Oh, you like playing with training wheels on? What a badass.

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VioletMassacre posted...

Being straight or not isnt something you can see on someone though, so thats different. Being gay is also far more common than being trans.

1. There is no way in hell you would think that Blaire White and Buck Angel were trans just by looking them, and I can think of multiple people I have met who were so androgynous I had no idea what pronouns to use, and this isn't even talking about intersex people. It's well-known that bigotry towards trans people has resulted in cis people abusing and insulting OTHER CIS PEOPLE for this very reason.
2. ... How common a word is has no bearing on the validity of said word. Nobody takes issue with rarer terminology than the word "cis." And if you're whining that you've never heard it before... who tf cares? Words are coined all the time, and "cis" is older than many other terms you have probably accepted with little to no question, including "crowdsourcing," "app," "simp," and so on, and more common than many, MANY other words that you take no issue whatsoever with. I don't see swathes of people clutching their pearls over the word "badinage." Edit: And come to think of it, isn't this argument in FAVOR of the term "cis" but against the word "trans," as being cis is more common than being straight, being gay, and being trans? >_>

wwinterj25 posted...

I've NEVER heard anyone call someone cis or ask me if I'm cis in real life so I disagree.

thedeerzord posted...

I've never even heard of the word "cis" until this topic.

What word do you think ought to be used instead of the proper one, which you have now heard and now know?

LinkPizza posted...

Sure. The problem is you can't ask an infant. And in many cases, you can't always ask the child, as they may not even understand what you're asking. Some will, but many probably won't. So until they actually know, they usually have to live as whatever they were giving at birth until they can.

We could raise children to be gender neutral for the first few years of their life (I think four is the typical age by which children have fully recognized their own gender?). It is the obvious solution and in fact has been done in the past in the culture we live in.

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Do you mean the genre or the vocal technique? I assume the latter:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_fry_register
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_growl#See_also

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VioletMassacre posted...

I don't hate transgenders, I just don't understand it. I also find the term "cis" really weird, or at least how common it is.

No stranger than calling someone "straight."

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As someone with one, the prospect of it being rotated 90 degrees sounds incredibly uncomfortable.

JigsawTDC posted...

Recently my wife (10 years in February!!)

Planning anything?

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There's a place downtown that serves pancakes like that. They're hella good, and I am damn picky about my pancakes, tbh.

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The long-term/permanent damage, such as lung/brain damage.

Ngl, the short-term symptoms can be terrible, but I've seen people in my own family endure far worse for far longer periods of time. COVID-19 can put you out for a month, but those long-term effects are devastating.

... This is assuming one survives, of course.

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There's not just one reason why trans people get so much shit, tbh, and some of the reasons behind it are actually pretty complicated in ways most people aren't really aware of. The most obvious reasons are fairly straightforward; it's usually some combination of homophobia, misogyny, insecurity about one's own sexuality/identity, and/or ignorance/misinformation often instilled in someone from a trusted religious/political figure.

A slightly more complex contributing factor is that a lot of people have these ideas of how a person *must* be to be "successful," and if they aren't living in accordance with said standard, they are regarded as a "failure" and held in disdain by default. To people who fixate on such a thing, seeing someone not only not even attempt to live in accordance with that standard but be perfectly content not to is an outright affront, and to the more extreme, they view people actively not living up to said standard to be a threat (not to civilization as they'll often claim, but to their own rigid world view); if someone isn't living up to that standard and they *aren't* miserable and failing, it challenges them. Incidentally, this is often the underlying motive behind people openly encouraging the harassment of trans people.

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blu posted...

Nowhere near as good as gestalt. Also I dont want to replay the entire game for a different ending, especially not twice.

Fun game though.

There's a ton of post Ending A/B content, dude, you haven't even seen half the story yet. The game isn't structured like Nier Gestalt; the endings are not the only thing that change. You've basically put down the game around the same point that in Gestalt where Kaine turns to stone. In other words, you've only played the set-up for the story, not the pay-off. You can rush through Route B and get to the rest of the game fairly easily. And once you complete the game, you get a chapter select so you can go back and do stuff you may have rushed through and missed.

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Bats, doesn't matter what species... though if you want to see a particularly spectacular-looking one, google Kerivoula picta.

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I've heard stuff from pretty much every genre that I've liked, and vice versa... I guess mainstream country music has stuff I dislike most regularly.

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We don't really plan for such things, since a lot of our family members have died in the past seven years. I don't think COVID is making much of a difference.

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Ferarri619 posted...

Interesting. I guess it is a USA thing because I've never heard about that until now.

It is for the most part. It's also a rather outdated stereotype (alongside "black people love fried chicken and black-eyed peas") and doesn't really have any relevance to today's culture (most people like watermelon and fried chicken and we don't inherently associate them with poverty/black people in the modern era much anymore) so it tends to only come up when you're confronted with someone who is brazenly old-school racist. It's rarity in today's era is precisely why it's standing out to so many posters as being really racist, because you have to be a special kind of dumb-fuck to simultaneously be aware of this idiocy and then choose to perpetuate it.

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VioletMassacre posted...

Thinking someone with autism would even be able to go acting doesn't really understand autism. I mean, it's not impossible, but it wouldn't really be worth it for anybody.

For the record? This attitude, which Sia herself expressed, saying that autistic actors weren't as capable as the actress she chose, is precisely why people are upset. THIS keeps autistic actors from getting steady and well-paying work, which is why people generally advocate for people who belong to stigmatized/marginalized groups to get to play roles that relate to their own conditions- it's not because people who don't have that given trait can't do it. It's that casting people who don't have those conditions all the time because you're working under the assumption that the stigmatized people are somehow inherently less capable makes it harder for the stigmatized people to make a living.

OniRonin posted...

theres plenty of autistic actors. fuck off

Also, this. Your argument has already been disproven before it was made. You're putting forth the idea that autistic actors are less capable than neurotypical actors... even when the role depicts their neurodivergence. It's completely absurd.

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Lol, I don't give money to corporate whores.

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Yes, the story advances more, but if you're not enjoying it, then stop playing it.

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So I'm half asleep and voted for the wrong poll option, sorry.

No, Biden didn't win by fraud. The margins are far too wide for these allegations of fraud to give Trump the victory even if they were all true.

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