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I mean there's not many dillos

guys go get telegram

it's better than line anyway
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you guys both complete more games that I will ever even see in my life time
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INCEPTlON posted...

Is the portability factor as cool as you have hoped?
Favorite game on the system so far?
What have you thought of the quality of the ports?

-It's nice, but it's still fading in comparison to my vita. The library is just too sparse for me to use the switch as my primary toilet machine

-Breath of the wild, by far. Also played snipperclips, splatoon, disgaea, and sonic mania which were fine but didn't hold my attention very long

-they're fine. Nothing to complain about.
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CelesMyUserName posted...

he santa get a new phone just for us

I mean I will but you gotta wait until after I'm financially stable after the divorce
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I mean for real my phone is at the point where I have to charge it three times a day to have charge from start to finish, messaging apps run down the battery, and I already use whatsapp, texting, and telegram full time.
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oh I thought this meant the chaotix were playable.

: (
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line is just hard to get to on my phone
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StealThisSheen posted...

Like, help me out, here. Would you honestly say that a younger child hearing his parents say something like "We should hate X and believe Y" wouldn't be more receptive to it/question it less than a high school aged kid?

In my experience questioning something is almost completely independent of age. Some people come out of the womb questioning while others don't question their entire life.


But that's not really what this is about, this is about a question on a test which explores a motivation, not a propagandal authority figure saying "X is bad Y is good" I distinctly remember my 6th grade teacher talking to us not about why hitler was bad, his actions spoke for himself, but how an entire country of people could convince themselves he was good. The most important thing to teach kids when they're young isn't "there are racists and nazis out there and they're bad" its "There are racists and nazis within all of us, so what do we do about it?"
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Ok well I've worked with 5th graders nearly every day for the last 5 years, and I can assure you kids are capable of learning about complex motivations like that by the time they're in first grader typically. You might have to give and take a year depending on the kid. Again though, that's based on the time it takes to absorb prerequisite learning i.e. what emotions mean and the appropriate way to process them plus general vocabulary, there's not a magical year when a kid is suddenly able to grasp more complex topics.
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There's a difference between saying "children under 13 don't understand this complex topic that takes years of prerequisite learning" and "children can't comprehend fully reasons behind basic innate human nature so we don't even bother discussing it with them" One acknowledges the time input to comprehend a topic, while the other assumes there's a a magic number of days where a kids brain goes from thinking about minecraft and five nights at freddies' to being capable of higher thought.

If SEP said it was inappropriate to talk to kids about calculus at a young age because they might get the wrong ideas about math, he would have sounded equally as foolish.
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

you're not presenting too much evidence to prove that SEP's stance is lmao-worthy, either.

what evidence is needed? He basically pulled a number out of his ass, said "lol that's too young for understanding this specific concept"

Even if it what he was saying was true, which it's not but that's not what I'm arguing, he would still be acting like a huge idiot for just making a wild baseless claim based on no evidence whatsoever.
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based on his comment, yes, I would say "opposite of expert" is an accurate title. He's just drawn an arbitrary line in the sand based on little to no evidence.
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metroid composite posted...

Hell, I remember studying World War 2 in 12th grade and don't remember the teacher trying to get us to sympathize with the Nazis

also if you didn't get shown the movie adaptation of The Wave in school did you really learn anything?

Anyway, no, you're never too young to learn the motivations around racism and fascism, most children of color are taught as soon as they learn to talk. People who say "X is too young to discuss Y" have always been wrong, probably stunted brain growth from their parents practicing said ideology.
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StealThisSheen posted...

Maybe for a high school class, but not for a fifth grader. A fifth grader isn't going to grasp the nuances and is more likely to take away "Well, the KKK was okay because..."

lmao noted childhood expert SEP
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oh man

I feel like these misprints are going to be worth a lot

but I just want one so I can have gsis' most popular album
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I mean, depending on how many friends you have, this would be a p good way of making a few hundred bucks.
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woo only one to vote phantasy star universe!

literally the only mmo I've ever payed for. Good days.
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x and y are the weakest in the series by a very very wide margin but good luck!
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Cant wait for the old person sex
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Totally overanalyzing the song too. Watching the video you just see one of the most beautiful girls in the world pledging her undying loyalty to this hypothetical person who left her. She has a smug look that says "who are you kidding, you'll be back for my undying love" but part of me wants to yell at her and say "You're Mariah Carey! You deserve so much better than this! It's the 90s and you're the most beautiful woman alive seamlessly converging pop and R&B"
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oh maybe

Listening to Mariah Carey Always be my Baby on repeat I think that's p healthy in my humble opinion.
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bumping this for neonreaper's sage advice
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Thanks everyone for the support in this topic, it's made me feel considerably better.


EndOfDiscOne posted...

I can understand the not wanting kids now thing, because the older I get, the less I want kids. But I'm still willing to have them because otherwise that's not fair to my wife, and I was kid positive while we were dating. She's a better person than I am and deserves a happy life, plus I'm sure I'll love our kids once we have them.

I mean this is how I would feel too, but I don't have to literally destroy my body to have kids for someone else so
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thundersheep posted...

Ugh, the fact that it was literally 7 years is why I find falling in love terrifying. I mean it's not like you can help it when it happens, but damn.

It was worth it man.
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Eddv posted...

Oh man, I've seen how this story plays out too.

She has kids with some other guy and it ends up destroying you with crippling anxiety and self-doubt.

You need to basically get as far away from her as possible.

Nah if that happens im going to tease her until the day she dies for being so dramatic during this period. Its normal to prioritize different things at different stages in her life, and i dont really expect her to hold the same opinion forever.
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neonreaper posted...

What happen!

It's hard to say from my perspective. My wife isn't happy, she doesn't foresee a way to be happy while staying with me. There have always been big swaths of personal differences between the two of us, and while I've never really saw them as a problem to our relationship, she currently sees them as unsustainable. The tipping point was her coming to the realization this year that she doesn't want kids. Kids have always been my primary goal in life (no jokes plx), and while I'm willing to entertain the thought of not having kids, she's not really willing to entertain the thought with me. The truth is our aspirations forked into opposite directions and it's hard to imagine a way to merge them again.

I wish there was a more clear cut answer but there really isn't. I'm kind of hoping she will change her mind before she goes through with this but signs are pointing to that not being the case.

I don't regret the time spent with her, the last 7 years have been the happiest time of my life, and even if it didn't turn into your typical prologue for the movie "UP" that we all have in our minds, it was still an incredible journey.
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Heroic Bigpun posted...

.....did this happen because of your recent pepper switch? >_>

No joke last Sunday i made her favorite dish, sopa de ajo, and she took a few bites, complained there was too much pepper and left the room in a bit of a foul mood.

Grind your pepper folks, dont take the easy way like i did.
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GenesisSaga posted...

So Santa... if you enjoy flirting why not keep doing it? Why should it feel any different than it did when you were single. I feel like there's this huge stigma attached to the word "divorce" when in actuality it's a common part of many people's lives.

I mean I haven't had the privilege of flirting single in near a decade. It's the difference between house hunting when you have a nice house you're living in already, or house hunting when you live in a box behind Bennigans .

PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

A couple of divorcees I know have had luck with online dating and finding fellow divorcees.

However, don't start dating until you get you have your shit together though. You should be happy with yourself before you try to start another relationship.

Yeah, I'm really not ready to start dating, but I would like to get a good idea of what is out there.
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to add on that: Women are considerably less attractive now. I feel just a month ago I could just get a big heaving crush on any ol' girl, but now that there's a sincerity behind my peeping, there's a lot less out there.

I think there's an Ben Franklin quote that goes "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half closed after marriage" Well now my eyes are wide open again and it's not a pretty sight. I honestly don't know if my lifestyle and personality jives with a lot of modern women.
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I've historically been really good at talking to and flirting with women, and even though I never really stopped during our relationship, it's a lot harder now. I feel like I'm this weird creep thats trying to hop on his second wife right away. Flirting has always been provably harmless, but it feels considerably different when the flirting is coming from a divorced man.
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aside from the actual relationship itself, life seems to kind of be the same except for an annoying voice in my head that tells me I don't deserve love and that I should kill myself that seems to go off almost hourly

Too be clear, I do think I deserve love, and am not suicidal, these thoughts seem to be involuntary mostly.
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hi

we're on week two. Everything is civil and there's still a lot of love in the relationship
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"Doesnt this kind of stuff happen everyday?"
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mac version yet?
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did they change the name because "daddy of light" has some kind of explict connotations in english
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haha I'm glad I checked this topic right now
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I could get in on that
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yay

but only a mild yay
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Ainoxi posted...

"Hey I made a curator lis-- god dammit."

http://store.steampowered.com/curator/11177527-Shady-Bundle-Devs/?appid=348800

Prb someone who is still bitter about losing imgcake
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no mac version

mean
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