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It's not that I think Harry Potter is for kids, I just don't think it has aged particularly well. I LOVED the books and movies at the time - I'm 36 now - but I've gone back to them a couple times in recent years and it's kind of tough to get through. I have several 20-something co-workers who are absolutely nuts about that universe, though, and all I ever hear about is how they want dark mark tattoos and such. I'm like, you're gonna regret that, lol...
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

Mind blown.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

Well, there's diversity in gameplay and game design and then there's diversity with the intention of reflecting real life, and I'm not honestly sure if they are comparable. In a fighting game, for example, you don't want a dozen fighters that all look the same, so of course you would give them each different weapons, abilities, and physical characteristics to keep the game fun and fresh.

Now, simply saying a character is gay, for example, when it has no bearing on the story, or going out of your way to mention that it includes six black characters in its marketing campaign, is terribly pandering, and I say that as a liberal. As a gay man myself I can't honestly say I ever felt the need to be "represented" in media, whether it be games or TV or otherwise because I'm secure with myself in real life and feel there are a dozen more interesting things to define me before my sexuality. Social justice warriorism is completely out of control, so for the sake of your poll I have to vote "no representation" as the better option.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

Doom_Art posted...

you have a really odd way of talking, you know that?

Because he takes the time to explain himself? I find his vocabulary refreshing, especially on an online platform like this.

Anyway, I kind of agree with TC's original assessment. . My husband came home with the game yesterday and I can't make sense of it. I even tried it for a few minutes myself but it was too much of a chaotic cluster-you-know-what and I simply didn't know what I was supposed to be looking at, so I just mashed buttons and hoped for the best. Shrug.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

I'm seeing a lot of people posting about how tough this year was for them and how glad they will be to see it end. But honestly, looking back, 2018 was pretty good to me. First of all I got married, which is something I never in a million years thought I would do. That my romantic partner also happens to be my best friend is a rare gift which I thank the universe for every day. It is also the first calendar year in about four during which I did not need a surgery, a treatment, or some other bank account-draining medical procedure. In fact, I am officially cancer free one year this month. I exercised my creative endeavors by writing another book about my paranormal passions (which will be published in the spring) and, of course, am thankful for the continuous everyday comforts of a house, car, job, and cupboard full of food. Not that the year wasn't without its challenges or tears, but the fact is we came out of it in one piece and I think that's pretty neat.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

That what goes on in government/politics affects any of our daily lives.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

While I enjoyed a lot of his movie roles, I found his standup routines or interviews incredibly uncomfortable to watch. He was so manic and awkward and there was a darkness behind his eyes I couldn't quite put my finger on.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

Oh dear. Aladdin is kinda cute, though.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

It's true. I'm a board game whore and have never finished a game of Monopoly.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

Over reliance on technology; always staring at phone.

Lack of sense of sarcasm; overly analytical.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

I only ever hear people over 50 say this. Hell, my dad said it this weekend, lol.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

Batman Returns isn't just my favorite Batman movie, it is to this day my favorite movie of all time. Though I watch it several times a year I do think it qualifies as a Christmas/winter movie.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

Do you believe in ghosts?
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

I always thought the concept was kind of silly but Ive recently had to eat my words. I got hooked on the Jurassic World mini dino blind bags, but those had codes printed on them so you could figure out what you were getting ahead of time with a little research. However, I then discovered the IT Mystery Minis, and thats become a much more expensive, much more risky hobby, lol.

Does anyone else buy these kinds of collectibles? Do you tend to have good luck?
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

Golden Girls
The Nanny
Parks and Recreation
The Office (US)
3rd Rock from the Sun
Roseanne
Friends
American Horror Story
Ugly Betty
I Love Lucy
South Park (at least the first 15 seasons or so)
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

Eh, I do this all the time. Someone said Happy Birthday to me a couple weeks ago and I responded with "You too."

I also completely freeze up when someone asks me the time. Like, I'm staring at my watch and stuttering, but it just won't compute in my brain for some reason, lol.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

I either make it at home or stop at Dunkin'. I usually only hit up Starbucks if I'm in a pinch. Their coffee is hella expensive and not that good, to be honest. It has a weird sour quality like they make it with expired product.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

I don't understand why people get the blues this time of year. After a long, hot, torturous summer I am MORE than ready for some cooler weather and the coziness that the holidays brings. I even listened to Christmas music on my drive into work this morning. But then I live in Arizona, so maybe that's why, lol.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

Example: It came up in conversation recently that I, at 36 years old, have never eaten an apple. I've had fried apples and apple sauce and juice and whatnot, but I have never bitten into the fruit.

What is a common, everyday thing you have never done that others might be surprised to know?
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

I'm the morally ambiguous one whose intentions will be revealed at the end.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

Maybe it's because I played Sonic first, but going back to Mario is kind of a chore. To this day I've never made it past about the second world in any of the games. (Except the New Super Marios Bros. when the Wii came out. I beat it and it was amazing.)
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

I've gotten at least two or three a day for the last six weeks or so and it's absolutely maddening. I have asked to be removed from their lists and blocked every number that shows up, but they all come from different numbers with different lists, apparently, and it's neverending.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

1995? Holy cow. I knew he died but it feels like only in the last five or so years, not over 20. He certainly is in big with the hipsters these days.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

TiamatLover posted...

VandorLee posted...

Ok. If ghosts were real why wouldnt America be flooded with Native American and slave ghosts that want nothing more than to fuck with white people?

Maybe not everyone becomes a ghost. Maybe some of those ghosts felt it was best to move on instead of stay around and haunt people - especially people who weren't alive at the time of those acts. Etc.

Honestly you don't really get to "choose" if you want to be a ghost. When we die there's a certain process of transitioning somewhere else - the other side or heaven or whatever you want to call it - like being reborn in a way, which can take varying lengths of time. You often hear of spirits present at their own funerals, while I can think of a few personal examples of when it took a couple years in earth time for them to fully transition. Anyway, it's when this "rebirth" process is disrupted for one reason or another that results in an earthbound spirit. As I was saying in another post, very few seem to be aware that they are actually ARE ghosts. I know it sounds like it'd be really fun to be a ghost and make the walls ooze blood and stuff, but it really does strike me as an incredibly lonely existence.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

darkphoenix181 posted...

PsychicHippo posted...

darkphoenix181 posted...

PsychicHippo posted...

Im a clairvoyant, meaning I sense, see, and sometimes communicate with spiritual energies.

How do you communicate exactly?

Sometimes information will translate as a picture in my mind, or it may play out like a little movie or scene, and other times I straight up see people walking through walls and whatnot with my own eyes.In cases where there is back and forth communication taking place it is almost always telepathic. (Yes, I know how nuts this sounds., lol.)

Is it reliable though?

If it is, take the randi challenge and get a million dollars.

Or do you get things wrong alot? Talking about the information of event details.

Well, it doesn't quite work like that. I don't make claims of seeing the future, telling you who you are going to marry, or pulling the winning lottery numbers out of thin air. My ability is strictly clairvoyance and mediumship, and I guess you could say my track record is fair with my clients. It really just depends on how much those on the other side - or those stuck on this one - WANT to talk, or can, making it very difficult to "prove" on the spot.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

darkphoenix181 posted...

PsychicHippo posted...

Im a clairvoyant, meaning I sense, see, and sometimes communicate with spiritual energies.

How do you communicate exactly?

Sometimes information will translate as a picture in my mind, or it may play out like a little movie or scene, and other times I straight up see people walking through walls and whatnot with my own eyes.In cases where there is back and forth communication taking place it is almost always telepathic. (Yes, I know how nuts this sounds., lol.)
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

Im a clairvoyant, meaning I sense, see, and sometimes communicate with spiritual energies. In my experience the vast majority of them have no idea where they are or who I am or even that I am there with them. It would take a ghost with an enormous capacity for harboring energy to engage in an act of sexuality, assuming they even possess enough sentience to even want to. (Decision making is not their forte.) Even then it probably would't play out as a physical experience.Their essence would probably just fuse with yours resulting in euphoric sensation comparable to what we experience during sex.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

I finally had a nice stretch of uninterrupted time to put a nice dent in the book I'm writing now (my 7th) which will be out sometime next year.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

I discovered this game shortly after buying a Wii some years ago. (Haven't played or heard of the other two.) It was a lot of fun...until it wasn't. All the trudging back and forth between worlds and constantly changing out characters and flipping back and forth became tedious and I eventually gave up before completing the game.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

When I die my heaven is going to be fields of cheese cubes served on platters by naked David Beckhams,
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

Hemsworth is always marketed as the conventionally attractive hunk, but personally I would wreck Evans.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

Not so much now since I work in a room by myself and simply don't have much opportunity to get to know people, but I worked at Blockbuster Video through college in the early 2000's and still hang out with the friends I made there.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

Granted I haven't had a Happy Meal in probably 25 years, but when I was a kid they cost $1.99 with the option to buy just the toy for 50 cents, which is fair. What do they cost now?
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

Yeah, I am. If I wake up past about 6am even on a day off I consider that sleeping in, and I hate that a lot of places don't even open til 10. If I can't get my errands done and back home by lunch time I consider the entire day wasted. I hate being out at night and am in bed by 9pm most days.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

I replay Arkham City every year or so.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

"A lower level one." I'm what they call a "lead." I'm not officially in charge of any major decisions affecting the company or even the department in which I work, but I have a small sub-sector of people I train and supervise and I am in charge of writing manuals and things like that.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy are on back to back where I live, so yeah, it's fun to veg out to some game shows before bedtime if I'm not working on another TV show or game at the moment.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

TheFuriousInch posted...

Have sex with him.

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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

Agony, after about an hour and a half, though I knew after about 8 seconds it was going to be a rough ride.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

wdlp posted...

Should 9 year olds be aware of their own sexuality?
I Don't think I was even self aware at 9

I knew when I was about 3 that I was gay. Of course I didn't know the word, but there as no denying the funny feeling I would get in my pants when I went down the mens underwear aisle at Target.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

I disagree about Dexter. I enjoyed all the books in the series, to varying degrees, but found the TV show beyond tedious. It's the type of show where you could watch the first episode of a season and the last episode of a season and not miss anything in between. I did enjoy John Lithgow's stint, but gave up after that.

To answer the original question, I think American Psycho made a better movie than book.

Also, just about any movie adapted from a Stephen King novel is almost guaranteed to be better than its source material.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

I never worked at a bank, but I think I'd be more scared to work at a convenience store/gas station.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

Making it past about 6 AM on a day off is considered sleeping in for me. And if I can't get all my errands done and be back home BY like 10 am I consider the entire day wasted, lol.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

Yoga pants and pumpkin spice lattes.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

I'm one of those weird people who actually thinks jury duty is kind of fun. Yeah, the selection process is super boring, and if you don't get picked it can seem like a waste of a day, but I served on a trial about a month ago for several days and it was actually pretty interesting,
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.

I have about a 50 minute, 35 mile drive, but it can sometimes break an hour depending on traffic. Honestly I'm used to it after 8 years, and knew in advance when I bought my house the commute was a trade off for a nice, comfortable home. I live in Arizona, and honestly there isn't anywhere within about a 30 mile radius of downtown Phoenix I'd want to live anyway. (It's super ghetto.) Not that it can't be obnoxious some days, but then I just think of the alternatives.
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Clairvoyant, paranormal enthusiast, author of Psychic Musings and the Fledgling Psychic series. Not a new age hipster, just a normal guy who sees stuff.