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I should drink more coffee

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@simonsarris There seems to have been a substantial effort to shape society in such a way that loving the abstracts "men" or "women" is unnatural.

Pondering the idea of loving women as a class suddenly makes me feel like it was the default state, now lost.

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@Barcelonamz6 @bronzeagepony Are you 12 and brown? Shouldn't you be bathing in trash right now?

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@SlumRNA_Dog There's a sizeable section of the right which is loudly pro-life as a primary issue and advocates against elective abortions constantly. Acting as if you are unaware of this makes you sound like a libtard who started following politics yesterday

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@GuzzleGuinness I suspect whoever made the decision to not mark Mormons as Christian is just as unfamiliar with the beliefs of those other groups as I am

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@joeybeastmarket Insane to have no decorum as an interviewer. Acting like a feral animal out of emotional incontinence

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@annakhachiyan This happens to me irl. I think we're having a polite discussion and suddenly they're very mad at me

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@aidannonx I never thought I was easily scared, but was actually shaking a little by the end

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I need a chef to whip me into shape asap. I just put biscotti into the oven THE FIRST TIME after 12:30am because I don't read recipes before I start them and screw around dancing and reading X while baking. I will be up after 2am just to finish making cookies to go with my coffee

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@trueliberal1848 I actually did think TFA sucked at the time but was in the minority for sure. I knew people who went to see it multiple times in theaters. Better than what came after ofc.

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I trimmed the sides of my hair to refresh the cut and immediately gained 2 points on the Zoomer chud scale

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I have been thinking about a specific style of children's fantasy story, specifically those that depict their fantasy elements as being hidden alongside an otherwise realistic modern world. Not isekai style "transported to another world," but "the world you know contains pockets of magic and whimsy unseen to many." Harry Potter does this, with wizards living in their own communities hidden from the muggles through magic (the question as to why they choose to remain hidden is interesting and amusing to theorize). Percy Jackson, Fablehaven, Dragon Rider, Artemis Fowl, and many other stories I read as a child do the same.

For some of these, the realistic modern day elements are a major part of the story (Percy Jackson, Artemis Fowl), for others (Harry Potter) it is hardly crucial to the story outside of the initial reveal and some ongoing jokes (Mr. Weasley is obsessed with muggle technology, but has comically little understanding of it).

My interest in this is as a story-writing tool to draw imaginative readers into the fantasy world. You read LoTR or Septimus Heap and end up in a world vastly different from your own at the start. The realistic elements are centuries old, from an era that is foreign and difficult to imagine living within as an adult. I wonder how much of an effect this story mechanism has on a reader. An enchanting of the familiar, rather than a direct escape from it. People become obsessed with Harry Potter in a very different way than with LoTR. How many people want to live in Middle-Earth? Many want to go to Hogwarts, and I wonder if it is the enchanting of the familiar that sows those seeds in the imagination.

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@cremieuxrecueil This is the funniest end to the saga possible

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@wanted4mogging If it won't impede the process, post through it and keep us updated. I have been considering pursuing sanity myself, and I am interested to hear your results. Godspeed patriot

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An issue that now has to be contended with is that the incentives around dating do not encourage either men or women to do the "right" thing and pursue relationships in a serious and healthy manner. You can individually try, and that may still be optimal for long-term outcomes, but now the cards are stacked against you because most people are playing this other game with a self-reinforcing larger user base. If you want to do it "right," then you must either hunt for the needles in the haystack who also want that, or reach your arm into the other game and pull someone into yours while avoiding the reverse.

Forcing women into careers created this situation societally, but an individual woman cannot easily opt-out of the new dynamic without significant sacrifice, for which you can hardly blame her in the same way you can hardly blame men for hooking up with women instead of marrying at age 22. All of this could be solved if "everyone would just," but they never will so it would likely require an authoritarian government effort (similar to China), or potentially social engineering of incentives laundered through a clever private business.

Andrea is blackpilled on this by men, men are blackpilled on this by women, and neither are wrong.

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We’re quick to blame women for wanting casual sex and pursuing careers over serious relationships and marriage, but in my experience, it was men who blackpilled me on all of this. Maybe I selected poorly, but I couldn’t help feeling like an idiot for going on dates wanting something serious. Time and time again, I was met with men who wanted all the benefits of a relationship without the commitment. Men aren’t innocent in this either.

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I've played nearly every game and watched every show other than Boom and the Netflix one. She may be different in the comics, I've only read a few, but if that characterization is missing from the main series (the games), then it's still an issue. I would suggest it is actually moronic to accept that characterization should only occur within the comics. Why have a story in the games otherwise? As I said, this issue extends to other characters in recent games too, the writing has been atrocious and the stories thin. Amy is just an egregious example since her pining after Sonic was a primary motivation.

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@MalignantAutism @GodCloseMyEyes I've heard a ton of praise for Tactics

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@MalignantAutism @GodCloseMyEyes I've heard of it. Never got into classic JRPGs

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@kenzietuff I'm a guy, but I found it useful. If your undertones aren't obviously warm or cool, they could be neutral. e.g., you could wear gold or silver no problem