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Riptor posted...

I've always hated any secret that you couldn't figure out from in-game hints. My least favorite are ones that include a percentage chance of it occurring in addition to being completely obscure.

Yep. I'm fine with having to look closely, but when finding stuff becomes a matter of combing every pixel such that the only realistic way to find it is to draw on the collective knowledge of the community sharing what everyone has randomly stumbled into. I especially dislike secrets that require you to make blind leaps of faith into death pits in platformers, effectively requiring you to jump into every hole if you want to trial-and-error your way there instead of relying on guides.

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Do double-ended ones count as one or two?

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I thought the "TM" made it obvious that it was sarcasm, but maybe that's just me.

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Zeus posted...

Hence my talk of Poe's Law.

That has nothing to do with Poe's Law.

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

they should make his grave a gender-neutral bathroom

Nah, they should honour his wishes and clearly segregate who's supposed to piss where on it.

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I'm pretty inconsistent about it. Sometimes I do it every night, but I pretty frequently fall out of the habit.

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ultra magnus13 posted...

Yup, lots of good options. I'm pretty fond of honey on mine.

I made lavender honey once to put on pancakes. It was pretty good, though the lavender flavour was pretty weak even after steeping overnight. In retrospect, steeping it directly into the honey probably wasn't a great idea, given how concentrated honey is, so if I do it again I'll steep the lavender in hot water instead, then add that to the honey and reduce it back to its usual consistency.

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BlackScythe0 posted...

Nah they're just "It's fine he made fun of those people because they deserve it but you can't speak bad about him because I liked and agreed with him"

"But I don't want to actually admit to liking him because I know how unpopular he is and I don't want to have to confront the fact that I won't be able to defend that opinion if challenged."

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I think my favourite way I've done pancakes is to make chocolate chip ones with a homemade orange syrup, fresh raspberries, and whipped cream. That takes some work, though, and most often I just go with butter and maple syrup, plus maybe whatever fruit is readily available.

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Media figure that actively undermined claims that smoking leads to lung cancer dies of lung cancer after smoking heavily for his entire life. Sometimes, life just works out.

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shadowsword87 posted...

Nah, you don't want your money to be perishable goods, but, it will likely be barter, yes.

Money requires an overall government structure in order to be worth anything, generally.

It'll likely be a form of barter, but it wouldn't surprise me if certain bartered items that have inherent value get used as currency. Something like bullets in the Metro games, iron bits in grim Dawn, or Path of Exile's entire economy (PoE's currency items are consumables that can be used to alter your gear in some way). Money only has value because society says it does, meaning sellers can trust that buyers will agree on how much the seller made off of their sale, but things that are easily transported and are universally agreed to be useful can be used as a currency without having to formally organize their value.

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Fierce_Deity_08 posted...

Well, I have to agree with him slamming McConnell. The guy is an asshole and doesnt really do his job very well.

McConnell deserves plenty of slamming, but the only reason Trump is doing so now is because McConnell threw him under the bus in talking about the insurrection, not any greater ideal of what's right.

Trump cares about his own image. Nothing more. Anyone that improves his image is useful, anyone that tarnishes it, he attacks.

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Ogurisama posted...

Id be happy with a no motion control SS

I doubt that'll happen. TP's motion controls were tacked on because it was a port of a GC game. SS, on the other hand, was built completely around them. There's ample room for improvement (like cremating the harp), but they're so thoroughly integrated into the core of the game (both practically and in terms of design philosophy, since a motion-centric game is what they set out to make) that I can't imagine a remake going so far as to take them out.

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We had a buttload of snow last week, but nothing since. We are, however, expecting ice pellets turning into freezing rain today, which doesn't seem to be happening yet, but could be pretty nasty and a bunch of stuff has closed down preemptively.

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helIy posted...

no one has a wii u adj

They don't, but the point is less "they're already on the WiiU no need to port them" and more "they're fine on a console."

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Clench281 posted...

And because people travel between states, those lax rules will impact everyone else.

This is what's baffled me most about America's covid response (and, for that matter, the response of non-Atlantic Canada, since everyone else in this country has botched it by comparison). Restricting inter-state travel (tracking entry, isolation periods) from the outset would have done so much to limit which states were hit hard. It took literally months for some states to hit significant, uncontrollable case numbers, and if they'd acted quickly to keep cases from coming in, they would have had to do far less as far as locking down goes. Instead, borders were left completely open and the virus spread as readily as people did.

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Mead posted...

I dont think many people age meats in their homes though do they? I think its mostly restaurants cause it has to be in specific conditions where they can control the temp/humidity/airflow

You can rig up your own system using a mini fridge, if you want. It's not perfect, and you'll want nothing but the meat in there, but it's possible to dry age your own meat. Just be prepared for it to smell pretty funky (or so I've heard. I've never actually tried it myself).

Metalsonic66 posted...

Personally I heavily salt the steaks and put them on a wire rack in the fridge for just a couple hours before cooking

That's more brining than dry aging. "Dry aging" refers specifically to letting the fat in the meat undergo a series of oxidation reactions. It's actually very similar to aging cheese, chemically speaking, and longer ages will yield a similar funk as what you get from really stinky cheeses. What you're talking about falls more under the umbrella of marinating.

FatalAccident posted...

i grinded lots of sea salt over it and let it sit for half an hour.

Again, I haven't tried this myself, but apparently the optimal approach to that is to salt it either immediately before cooking, or at least an hour beforehand. Anything between those two extremes will result in a subpar product. When you salt meat, it starts to draw moisture out of it. That moisture creates a super-concentrated brine that breaks down the surface-level connective tissue, eventually allowing that moisture - and the salt it now contains - to be absorbed back into the meat. If you cook it before it reabsorbs the liquid, though, you end up cooking off the meat's juices and ending up with a bunch of salt right on the surface, leaving dry meat that just tastes like salt. Wait long enough, and the meat stays juicy and has the salt distributed through it.

Alternatively, cook it immediately after salting, and the meat still has its juices, but the salt will be more superficial.

FatalAccident posted...

also @adjl you a chef or just know a bit about foodz

Bit of both. I completed a 2-year pastry school program and spent a year working in a bakery before I moved and went back to the office job I had before I left this city (mostly because it pays twice as well as a bakery job would), but I also know a lot just from having an interest in the underlying theories and science behind everything (especially baking) and doing my own research to figure out how it all works. If you're curious about such things, I can heartily recommend The Food Lab (https://www.amazon.ca/Food-Lab-Cooking-Through-Science/dp/0393081087). I haven't read all of it yet, but it goes into exquisite detail regarding the underlying science of cooking (it's where I learned the above explanation of brining) and debunking common myths (i.e.: searing steaks doesn't keep moisture in). It's pretty nifty.

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It varies pretty wildly. Sometimes I'll go a week or more without, sometimes I'll go several times in a single day. I can't say I've really noticed a pattern.

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Both bottom options cover that, depending on which best describes your position.

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Makes sense. It's the same principle as regular buoyancy: fluids resist displacement and will exert a force as they attempt to return to their undisplaced state. The only change here is that it's the air pressure under the liquid barrier that's both causing the boat to "sink" and the fluid to push back, rather than gravity.

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zebatov posted...

You mean those two benign Tweets he made (which subsequently got him banned from Twitter [because Twitter doesnt like him])? Or do you have citations and just refuse to supply them?

No, I mean the entire "stolen election" myth he's been peddling since he started campaigning. I trust you've been paying enough attention over the past five years to not need specific citations for him claiming that his loss was fraudulent?

The_Pup posted...

I didn't say just the president. A bunch of politicians across the spectrum using statements and wording similar or even less vague than Trump's that can be considered stoking the flames because they were situated closely to riots and acts of political violence.

Okay? They weren't up for impeachment here. Trump being impeached would not set a precedent for impeachment over vaguely relevant rhetoric, because he wasn't being impeached for vaguely relevant rhetoric. He was being impeached for obviously causal rhetoric. I'm fine with setting a precedent for impeaching politicians for rhetoric that obviously causes violence.

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BADoglick posted...

What is that in American

About the same. The equivalency point is -40, so anything around there can basically be considered the same. Practically speaking, when it gets that cold, the specific numbers really don't matter anymore: It's just damn cold.

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Depends how racist. Making the occasional racist joke? That's fine. Advocating for black people's vote to be taken away? All the nope.

I like how Zeus is acting like he can be at all choosy when it comes to dating >.>

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The_Pup posted...

Cool. Can you explain how that was derived from the message of my original post?

Original post: "If we impeach Trump, then that sets a precedent for impeaching any future president over rhetoric that vaguely relates to a violent protest"
Implication: "Trump's rhetoric only vaguely relates to the violent protest in question"
Counterpoint: "Trump's rhetoric was the primary motivator for this violence"

If Trump's rhetoric relates more than vaguely to the violence, then impeaching him for it will not set a precedent for impeaching future presidents over vaguely relevant rhetoric. That's logic.

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shadowsword87 posted...

Well, not all wine ages well. Some just rots from the bacteria leftover. It's generally created to be aged.

It depends a lot on the wine. Pretty much every wine (and other alcoholic beverage) benefits from some aging (usually at least a few weeks), as certain flavour molecules take some time to fully form, but a lot of those molecules are relatively unstable and will spontaneously break down over time. Some wines hit that sweet spot relatively early, and it's all downhill from there. Others take longer to get there. Others are quite stable and don't really change much with age until you start looking at a really long time scale. The whole "wine gets better with age thing" doesn't actually work as a blanket statement.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Everything tastes better when it is fresher.

Aside from the already-mentioned example of alcoholic beverages, many meats and (especially) cheeses benefit from at least some aging, sometimes months' or years' worth. Flour needs to be aged for about a month after it's milled (unless you bleach it to accelerate the process, which I doubt you're advocating for) to improve the flavour and gluten-forming ability. Many fruits benefit from ripening for a while after being picked (though others will only ripen on the tree/vine). Even bread - as much as it's often hailed as the pinnacle of fresh food - should be allowed to rest after baking to give the residual alcohol a chance to evaporate, otherwise all that escaping gas can cause feelings of bloating.

Generally, yes, fresher food is going to be better, but there are plenty of significant exceptions out there. Making blanket statements like "everything tastes better when it's fresher" doesn't make you sound at all informed about food, it makes you sound like whoever came up with the slogans for Subway and Tim Hortons. That, or some teenage instagram influencer who thinks they're a nutritional guru because they read this one blog post once.

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

they don't have to work, but then it's harder to get food and shelter.

their choice

"They don't have to work, they'll just die if they don't. It's totally their choice."

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I like when food blogs have a "skip to recipe" button. It's rare, but it's nice.

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You can already get them on the WiiU's VC. It's not that weird to have them on a console (although, admittedly, I did play it primarily on the gamepad).

That said, I agree. Such a collection would be nifty.

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The_Pup posted...

rhetoric that is used vaguely in relation to forms of violent protest

The "issue" that motivated the violent protest in question was entirely fabricated by Trump. That's a little bit more than vague relation.

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Lokarin posted...

Incitement is not protected speech, but I can see them defending that it didn't count as incitement...

That isn't how they defended it, though. McConnel literally said "What Trump did was horrible and he should be impeached for it, but I disagreed with the wording of the impeachment charges, so I voted against it." It's his first impeachment all over again: Nobody's denying that he deserves it, they're just voting in his favour because they're standing up for their party.

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woody71 posted...

I want to dmsee trump impechedi want him out of politics but he shouldnt be in this case.

We are talking about a man who said the sound of windmills cause cancer.
Who looked at a eclipse without protection.
He who wanted to buy greenland.he didntbknow UK was a nuclear power.
The man who spends his time with int briefers talking to them(not listening).

This is not a man who knowingly plnned any of it.

Trumpist thik he knowsl all

all leftist feae he is some nastrmind pupling all the strings while reality is yhe US had an idiot in charge of the nukefootball

Nobody's suggesting that Trump is a mastermind that planned the whole thing. Just that his reckless inflammatory rhetoric played a significant role in inciting it (which, given that the supposed "steal" they were fighting against was fabricated entirely by him, is clearly true).

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This really says more about the Republican senators than about Trump. They're just doing what they feel makes them look best: Verbally condemning Trump so they're not seen to support something very obviously wrong, but not taking any real action in that regard so their current and future political allies can trust them to look the other way if needed in the future.

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Orwellian? Sir, you are at a trial that youre not even paying attention to, where you are saying that what happened didnt really happen, because you dont want to have to deal with the reality.

That's pretty savage. It incorporates both Huxley's and Orwell's dystopic visions (he's too interested in trivial matters to pay attention to real problems, plus he's participating in governmental denial of the truth of the matter), which are usually somewhat mutually exclusive, but the irony is nonetheless delicious.

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Looks more like a mini calzone to me, but whatever works for branding.

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If your yeast were expired, you'd get pretty much no rise in any recipe. If your bread is too dense, you've either got not enough leavening, or you've got too strong a gluten network keeping the bread from being able to expand (most likely the latter). Try either putting a bit less flour in (measuring flour by volume is actually really inaccurate, you may be compacting your cups too much) or substituting a bit of AP flour for bread flour (bread flours vary in just how hard they are, so your recipe may have been using a softer one).

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darkknight109 posted...

You ever notice how there's a lot of cars on the road by General Motors, but none by Specific Motors?

Or Colonel Motors. And you'd think Admiral Motors would join the family business and make some boats, but no.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

My particular denomination believes that he's actually going to come back as a giant transforming mecha.

Under some interpretations and from the right perspectives, humans are giant transforming mechas.

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Mead posted...

Your boss can fire you for almost any reason as long as they arent discriminating against you for something like your race or religion

Pretty much. There's a very small list of reasons for which you can't be fired. Anything else is fair game.

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Zareth posted...

Of course even if a dude came back walking on water and healing sick people by touching them the Christians would still call him a heretic.

To say nothing of what the fundies would do to anyone suggesting that we be sympathetic to the poor.

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Honestly, I don't think that much would have changed, except that the outrage from both sides would likely have lasted longer and the GOP might therefore have stuck with the "what Trump has done here is deplorable" position for longer. As it stands, they held it for just long enough for the immediate outrage to subside and their base to go back to valuing opposing democrats more than seeking justice for these crimes, then they went back to supporting Trump because that seems like the best political move. Dragging out that transition further might have influenced the outcome of the impeachment because they might have kept up that facade until after it had finished, but if it came to that, odds are they'd come up with some excuse to delay the impeachment trial until they felt they could vote against it.

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Only in that it's a fun excuse to make cake. I don't buy gifts or otherwise participate in the commercial aspect of it, and I certainly don't feel obligated to do anything with it.

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Zeus posted...

...and he promised to do s*** day one.

Okay? Welcome to government: Nothing gets done in a day.

Zeus posted...

Not to mention that transitions are a thing and he was literally signing day one executive orders.

Biden didn't really get a proper transition period because Trump was too busy sulking and inciting armed rebellions, and if he had busted out executive orders to get things done quickly, you'd be criticizing him for abusing them.

Zeus posted...

He's likely made more progress towards changing the US currency than doing anything to fix COVID.

Given how much easier it is to change the design of currency than fix a pandemic, this is understandable. You've likely made more progress toward your breakfast today than toward your retirement. That doesn't mean you're not progressing toward your retirement, it just means breakfast is a smaller, shorter-term goal that's easy to achieve alongside working on other stuff.

Zeus posted...

ITP: "Virtue-signalling is more important than actually doing anything!"

No. That's not remotely what I said. If you genuinely can't tell the difference between virtue signalling and "not actively making things worse," I really don't know what more I can say to help you.

OhhhJa posted...

Not because of conservatives but because epidemiological studies are supposed to last at least two years. This got what? Maybe 2 months lol.

They *typically* last two years. There's no real "supposed to" when it comes to how long trials take. The standards that are in place just define things like the number of participants needed and other aspects of experimental design, and companies generally budget about two years to achieve those standards because it often takes that long, but that doesn't mean they have to take that long. The Covid vaccines that have reached the market now have met those standards. If they hadn't, they wouldn't have been approved by the FDA (or similar organizations worldwide). If you're skeptical, you can do your research and find the actual trial data that shows that those standards have been met.

OhhhJa posted...

And the only reason it's been pushed out so fast is because the trump administration bribed the pharmaceutical companies to rush it out as fast as possible.

As much as Trump stood to benefit from a speedy vaccine, he's very far from being the only person in such a situation. The whole world wants a vaccine as quickly as possible. Literally millions of lives depend on it.

deoxxys posted...

"I simply see most of the people around me have it and arent dying or breaking out in hives/etc?"

Which would be the anecdotal evidence to which I referred. That's not "informed." That's a very narrow, biased snapshot of the bigger picture that really isn't comprehensive enough to base any sort of conclusion on, and it really doesn't work on a larger scale (if everyone waits for everyone else to get it first, nobody gets it). You already have access to the results of tens of thousands of doses that have been carefully monitored for months. That is meaningful information, which can be used to make informed decisions. "Data" you get by casually observing the people around you and arbitrarily deciding you've seen enough, less so.

deoxxys posted...
The Vaccine isnt even readily available where I live, so even if I wanted it I couldnt get it.

Which is about my situation as well. Any misgivings any of us might have about the trial period (though, as I've said, the appropriate protocols were followed despite the accelerated timeline, so those are likely misplaced) are going to be rendered mostly moot by the tens of millions of doses that will be given out before we're even eligible to get the shot. That said, I recommend putting in the work to inform yourself (or convince yourself that you're already informed) well enough to be comfortable getting the vaccine before you become eligible, for the sake of not putting it off indefinitely even after you could be getting it.

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Honestly, a bread maker doesn't sound like a very worthwhile investment for you. You've already got the kitchenaid mixer to handle making dough without needing to mess around with kneading by hand, and where you aren't working (IIRC), you've got plenty of time to bake bread yourself. The only advantage the breadmaker offers is being able to schedule the baking so you end up with fresh bread in the morning, but really, you'll generally get better bread if you ferment the dough overnight anyway (possibly in the fridge), and proofing+baking generally doesn't take all that long unless you're making larger loaves (which you really don't have to), such that you could easily weave it into your morning routine and have fresh bread available with breakfast.

Bread makers are very much a convenient appliance more so than one that actually enables anything you couldn't do without it, and where you have an abundance of time and not much space for new appliances, I don't think buying it was a great idea. Bit late for that, though, since I wouldn't expect you to get rid of something you just got, but I guess that's a principle you can apply moving forward.

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Waiting for a Zelda Direct to announce DLC is really the only explanation I can think of. The first HW already had the season pass available to buy when it launched (though the content itself rolled out over about a year or so), so it's kind of baffling that there's been no mention of it for AoC. I'm guessing, as you said, they didn't expect it to perform as well as it did, possibly because HWDE didn't sell at that well (the original sold 1.26 million, the 3DS and Switch remakes only sold half a million each, though even that apparently exceeded K-T's expectations for the Switch one), but Warriors games are usually so saturated with DLC that I still would have expected at least something. It's also possible that Nintendo (having been more closely involved in this than in the last one) has kept them from announcing DLC yet for the sake of saving it for the presumptive Direct and/or to support their image of being good about DLC.

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deoxxys posted...

I just want to make an informed decision.

And he's asking how you plan on becoming so informed. If you aren't compiling data yourself to study, then you're either going to be relying entirely on what scientists tell you (which will be based on research that's already been conducted and that they are currently reporting, meaning waiting won't offer you any more information), or you'll be relying on anecdotal evidence from laypeople and sensationalist media (in which case you shouldn't delude yourself into thinking you're informed). If you are compiling the data yourself, then you should already have a concrete plan for when your collection period will be complete and what sort of analyses you'll be performing, which you should therefore be able to share right now (though even then, you're declaring your personal research and opinions to be more credible than those of the FDA and other such organizations worldwide, which is a comparison you'll need to defend in order to actually claim that you are more informed than you otherwise would be).

Making informed decisions regarding medical treatments is great. Indefinitely procrastinating those treatments until you arbitrarily decide that you haven't heard enough bad things about it to skip it, however, is not making an informed decision, and that's really all you're going to be able to do with this vaccine (since it's new and high-profile enough that the entire body of relevant literature has already been shared via mainstream media). Given how important this vaccine is, if you're going to put it off, you should at least have a concrete reason for doing so.

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In that case, you may need to either establish a new appliance storage area or cull some lesser-used appliances. If the latter, prioritize keeping the ones you use the most and/or that do something that can't be easily replaced.

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rexcrk posted...

Seriously why dont more people think topics like this are creepy af?

TC is absolutely the kind of person who saw them on TWD and was like oooo Im gonna keep my eye on them.

Eeyup. Granted, I don't know how much of that is Duckbear's actual thought process and how much of it is him simply parroting Dailymail running articles on the fact that former child stars have reached an age where it's socially acceptable to talk about whacking it to them (articles which are largely targeted toward the sort of person to which you've alluded), but it's still super creepy.

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