sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
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sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3hr ago
In my experience middle-aged Eastern European men have a severely degraded man-dar partially as a consequence of lack of LGBT friendliness in the area. They call me "miss" from time to time when I'm presenting as nothing but male, on account of long hair.
It would make sense when compared with all the old-timey stories of men crossdressing as women and women crossdressing as men and that being enough to fool most people, in the world where gender presentation is hard-coded otherwise.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3hr ago
I don't recall being on a timer when I want to eat an apple.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
4hr ago
I don't peel or cut apples, so oranges are far less convenient.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
1d ago
The other choice, I assume, is "kill someone or otherwise convince them to not have children"? Affects the gene pool just as well, in the opposite direction.
What happens when you run out of inferior people to pillage and loot?
Also, who exactly provides the "services" won in war if not the underclass that you defeated?
Capitalism's greatest virtue was enabling continuous growth through continuous competition. Making competition physical either creates a real risk of winning and stagnating, lacking enemies, or you have to make the entire war a 1984-esque sham.
Also also, war isn't even fucking fun in a rah rah primal kind of way anymore. You don't get to see the whites of the enemy's eyes. Unless you're stomping primitives through vastly superior firepower in a way that can hardly be called war and certainly isn't edifying, all you get is cowering in a foxhole, waiting for a drone to pinpoint your location and either get you shelled or drop a grenade on you.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
People from communist countries did have genetic class - i.e. if you have the correct parents (thus genetics), you can go to a correct school.
I believe class is self-evident, and that those who are most vocal about the others' assessment of their class are the ones who are most precarious in theirs. If they weren't, they would feel no need to emphasize who they are.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
Additional factors, speaking personally:
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All the pronatal propaganda is making it clear that being a father is extra hard if you're not in your early twenties, so I'm already at only the second best age to become one;
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Even the top countries are getting doompilly about AI-related lack of opportunity and meaning in society in a decade or two, and my country is likely to be behind on AI and so get the worst of both worlds, just like it's the worst of both worlds between liberalism and tradness at the moment.
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As others mentioned, unless you already live in a world where you get a mandatory wife at 18, you can't have children unless you have a female partner amicable to it. At the moment, I don't have one at all, and dating in modernity as someone who doesn't already have big in-person social circles has already been discussed to death.
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My job would allow plenty of time for children, but not if I want to support my wife and get an apartment that will fit us. And it appears to be an absolutely miserable time to switch jobs right now, since, again, total industry upheaval. I'm only comfortable right now because we have legacy code and non-yuppie upper management.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
Look, my intelligence is not that high, but it's high enough for a quant finance job.
So, are you employed in one? Self-employed in something adjacent to finance, at the very least?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
If you don't believe in classism, you shouldn't be insulted. If you do, then you not being of the correct pedigree is not an insult, it's just truth.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
Reminds me of the other poster in possession of towering intelligence and a suspicious lack of tangible achievements who thought declaring his intellectual superiority enhanced his argument. Doubt it's actually him, though, it's been a few years and I don't think he would return to do the same thing again.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
Russia is not quite at the level of Day of the Oprichnik.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
The next time you want to sound like you're discussing hiring practices in a purely abstract way, maybe don't dedicate so much of the argument to how you, specifically, weren't hired. Despite being top 1%!
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3d ago
If you can't get hired then you've failed the only test that matters.
I'm engaging in describing my experience with reports on Ukraine as I remember it.
Another point: the recruiters ought to have more information on how the war's going than the average potential volunteer does. If they're still offering wads of cash, then it's probably not going to be a 2 weeks walk in the park.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3d ago
Ukraine has been losing ground faster and faster for 5 years now, at the risk of repeating myself. I do not recall hearing about the front being in Kiev yet.
What is different about the "momentum" today that wasn't true a year ago, or two years ago, or at any other point where Ukraine was about to collapse any day now?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3d ago
At this point, what I expect to spark new waves of volunteers more than anything is rising compensation along with rising big expenses such as mortgages and cars, not some stale propaganda. It's been five years, infamously longer than The Most Holiest of Patriotic Wars 1941-1945.
At the very least, who's gonna be fool enough to volunteer during winter? If you're going to go to war and can pick when you go, you wait until the season of snow and mud is over.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3d ago
And 3e, sadly, seems to have been dead on arrival from the start.
Doesn't look like it when observing the more mainstream Exalted discord and subreddit, which almost all seem to recommend and play 3e. But then, seeing their reasoning, such as "3e makes parties composed of different types of Exalted more viable", I am reassured that I picked the correct edition. Why, exactly, would I want homogenisation between Solars and Terrestrials?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
4d ago
The grognards from the TTRPG chat I frequent recommended 2e, so 2e it is.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
4d ago
Do they, or do they just never use contraception?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
4d ago
Most of the time I'm around a small child for more than 10 minutes, what I recall is grubby tantrums, usually punctuated by the parents either hissing at the child to shut up in their best rendition of a gorgon, or ineffectually pleading to calm down.
Need I clarify that those are not the beatific and inspiring experiences you describe?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
4d ago
Still on the Exalted rule books (there are a lot), slowly cajoling my friends into creating characters so I can start cajoling myself into preparing to DM a game.
Unrelated: https://goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2026/02/gender-among-elves.html
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
4d ago
What do you believe the differences are?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
6d ago
I've seen people's happiness and welfare increasing in correlation with them going out to concerts. Never as a result of buying new iPhones on multi-year credit plans or taking up sports betting.
I have little patience for highbrowed arguments that actually betting is just another form of consumption. Degenerate gambling, quite evidently, is bad.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
10d ago
It surely cannot be an accident that actors so rarely encourage their more talented peers not to give up on their dreams.
How often do actors meet more talented (but not yet successful) peers and speak to them, specifically (as opposed to a general statement to the wide audience, most of them presumably less talented) about their dreams in public, for you to estimate that?
If only the fancy paid models are so great then it appears the AI corps are bad at advertising when they don't hand out free tokens of the good models instead of the shitty models.
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