Grant_us_eyes
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Grant_us_eyes
2d ago
Depending on where you're located, there are fast-food chains who offer nothing but these.
Grant_us_eyes
2d ago
While gatekeeping is typically good, one has to wonder who benefits when they hide there's even a gate to be kept in the first place.
Maybe I'm a little old fashioned, but I can't help but think that political parties shouldn't be taking notes from the Kybalion on how to manage entry.
Grant_us_eyes
2d ago
Streamers/OnlyFan girls of various stripes tend to be much cheaper than prostitutes/escorts.
...I think. I'm sure someone can trot out an example of a rather ludicrious OnlyFans where the pricing is absolutely stratospheric, but the last time my morbid curiosity led me down that particular rabbit hole, that was my general take on the matter.
Grant_us_eyes
2d ago
A Peter F Hamilton fan, I see.
(Good lord, it's bad that I remember the book in question despite having been years since last reading it.)
Grant_us_eyes
2d ago
If you put a gun to my head and forced me to play Skyrim with only 3 mods, I'd pick Sacrosanct(I like playing vampires, and this is the best mod for that), the Serana Dialouge Addon(probably has a new name - they've expanded that mod hugely since I last played it) and Forgotten Magic redone(which is the best magic mod I've seen for Skyrim, IMHO).
Take that for what it's worth.
Grant_us_eyes
3d ago
Quite possibly that happened, your picture was shown; your job and height were stated; and you were rejected without being made aware of it. The dirty little secret is that single women who report difficulty finding relationships are almost uniformly super-picky.
Hah. You don't know my mother. No, I'm fairly certain this didn't happen in the slightest. I don't even beleive she has a picture of me to show, come to think...
You are quite correct on the rest of it, though.
Grant_us_eyes
3d ago
The hairdresser in question was referring to the woman and men in her family.
I bring this up as a point because, presumably, she might very well have single, available family members looking to get married.
At not one point did my mother inquire about this, at no point did the hairdresser in question volunteer.
If you want to marry a hairdresser or woman of that social class, nothing is stopping you going to a hairdresser's salon and trying to find out if any of the women there are single.
Your confidence in my social acumen is staggering.
Grant_us_eyes
4d ago
To be blunt, a lot of the complaints on here are men getting to see what it was like from the female point of view over those centuries of "no free choice for you but men can sow their wild oats and they decide if they finally want to marry at age forty".
This has never been the vast majority of men. You're hyperfocused on the top ten to one percent of men who have the luxury to do this.
Looking back at the past three generations of men on my father's side, not one of them did this, my father included.
The vast majority of men really are invisible to women, huh.
if you're 34 and not married by that age, what is wrong with you?
I've spent the past ten years trying to get together a job and a life that can actually support a family. So far it's been an utter failure, for one reason or another.
why so picky?
No sane woman would want to marry me.
why not get married straight out of high school
I never received any attention from woman in high school.
and have your mother pick your potential spouse for you?
Funny story my family had over Christmas dinner. My mother was commenting on how she was bragging to her hair dresser about how good her two sons are(myself and my brother), referencing all the things we do for her in terms of managing the household and all the special things we like to do one around the holidays. The hair dresser, in turn, apparently regaled to my mother how worthless her various relatives were regarding such things and how much of a pain they were.
And it couldn't help but occur to me, listening to this, that at no point during this entire conversation these two women apparently had, was there the wherewithal or instinct or desire to go 'Hey, I have/you have these two, single, adult men - I have/you have these single relatives, why don't you/I get them together as a social date and see if anything clicks'.
I'm beginning to wonder just how many generations of women have failed their sons by this point.
Grant_us_eyes
4d ago
the man’s ideal is a virgin bride who turns into his personal slut.
I see statements like this, and I recall Samwise Gamgee from Lord of the Rings - who basically went off to war, went through hell, came back, married his childhood friend, and had something like 8 kids.
When society has gotten to the point where you can point at Samwise Gamgee, the literal everyman in a story filled with demigods and suffering, tragic figures, and say 'That's an unrealistic fantasy, stop dreaming', I think we've lost a bit of the plot somewhere along the way.
Grant_us_eyes
6d ago
I suppose I could cheat by slapping the entire Xenogears OST down on the table and walking away, but if I had to narrow it to a specific track, 'Small Two of Pieces - Restored Pieces' is probably the best of them.
It's definitely a song that has one hell of a payoff.
Grant_us_eyes
9d ago
Here I thought I was about to pay for my sins of not doing my due dilligance on the Motte, but;
Gretchen Whitmer: Michigan governor kidnap plot case collapses
Fox and Croft were the two I was thinking of. Not acquited, but a mistrial. I find it telling that the initial court for those two were ruled as a mistrial, only to be convicted after a second trial(of cource) and both were given very heavy prison terms - again, of cource - and then denied appeal by a panel of Judges, as noted in your second link.
Of. Cource.
Perhaps I'm being very uncharitable, but I find it difficult to do so in such a case as this one.
Grant_us_eyes
9d ago
Oddly I don’t see the same level of paramilitary organization forming in the right which you wouldn’t think given their greater affinity for gun culture.
The reason for this is that any attempt to do as such is often met with the reply of 'Nice try, Fedboy.'
The Right as a whole is excruciatingly aware of the double-standard of how paramilitary organizations are treated. Antifa? John Brown Society? A-O-Kay, says the Feds. Patriot Front? A right-wing organization of people dressed in anonymous uniforms?
Clearly a fed-run honeypot.
I can't really blame them, going by the long history of treatment by right-wing elements by said fed. Even just recently, with the governor kidnapping attempt, who's conviction of those indicted was actually overturned because the majority of said group was federal operatives egging the entire plot on. And that overturned conviction was reversed by a higher-judge.
Because of course it was.
So. Any right-wing paramilitary organization is going to be quiet, run deep, run silent, and will probably never get talked about unless things get really, really bad.
Grant_us_eyes
13d ago
I was curious about Expedition 33, and watched a few Vtubers playing it, and I have no problems admitting that my interest in purchasing said game was killed when I saw the random black guy pop up out of nowhere.
Hearing that he gets killed off... Well, I dunno. Maybe I'll pick it up on a 90% off sale or something down the road in a few years.
Grant_us_eyes
13d ago
Q: You hit me! Picard never hit me.
SISKO: I'm not Picard.
Q: Indeed not. You're much easier to provoke. How fortunate for me.
People always gloss over that follow up.
Grant_us_eyes
13d ago
Conversely, people are taking note of this.
If you go by Steam, people just find the newest stuff rather lackluster. How the market adapts to this - if ever - will be interesting to play out. It's not as if it would be the first Video Game market crash we've seen...
Grant_us_eyes
18d ago
BJJ has definitely proven my theory developed in rock climbing: if you keep at something, you will get better, but you mostly will always feel like you suck exactly as much as you feel like you suck at the start.
HAH! So it is universal.
Kind of figured it was, but it's fun to see others confirm it.
Grant_us_eyes
19d ago
Because the larger organizations are on watch for such and will likely move to crush them.
Astartes sits in my mind as an example of this. It was a single person passion project that blew people away for how good it was and got more people interested in Warhammer 40K than anything Games Workshop ever did. So what did GW do? Bought the guy out and basically hid him away from doing anything.
Taking out competition is trivial when you have the resources and advantages to do it.
Grant_us_eyes
20d ago
Black Summer(and Supergod, and No Hero) probably work alot better in the overall context of the time - not the political context, but that of comics overall.
Warren Ellis is one of those writers where he does something completely new and off the wall - sometimes it works, sometimes it stumbles - and then everyone around him scrambles to copy it because 'holy shit this is actually something new and innovative and exciting and' rather than doing anything new and exciting they just copy/paste until it's a bad parody(See: Extremis, Nextwave, Authority, probably a few others that I missed.)
Warren Ellis is pretty much a Comic Book Writer's Comic Book Writer. I have no idea if the stuff he wrote on his blog still exists in any sort of form nowadays, but several times he went all-in describing the creative process and history and what he has to do not only to write comic books but what it takes to get it published.
And he was very, very big on the concept of using comics as a medium to push out new ideas, and do them cheaply. He actually wrote a comic with this entire goal in mind - Fell - and I think it's worth checking out.
So, yeah. Warren Ellis doesn't really do characters. He does ideas, concepts, lobbing them out like hand grenades before moving on to something new - which, again, when the comic book environment is focused on reboots and milking the same characters for endless decades, makes for quite the refreshing change.
So, it's a fair criticism. I think he can do characters - stuff like Transmetropolitan, Doktor Sleepless, arguably Planetary with Elijah Snow - he just... doesn't. Most of the time.
Grant_us_eyes
20d ago
Semaglutide for weight-loss and energy.
I've gotten off the horse for megadosing on Fisetien for Reasons(and I really need to get back on) but it remains the one supplement I should never give up simply because every time I megadose at the start of the month, my reaction can vary wildly - from nothing at all to sleepy lethargy as if I'm fighting off an infection to voracrious hunger to - well, you get the picture. It's an odd supplement that always makes me raise an eyebrow.
Creatine is something I'll sample occasionally, and is basically rocket-fuel for training. I tend to use it sparingly, as it's obvious effects wear off pretty quickly.
Grant_us_eyes
20d ago
Black Summer
I think it deserves higher praise here than you're giving it(though I'll confess that I'm a shameless Warren Ellis fan) if only for the fact that it basically subverts the entire expectation of what a political assassination entails and why they're always bad('Lots of people hated John F Kennedy. He barely got elected. But Lee Harvey Oswald isn't remembered as an American hero. Just a prick with a gun who killed a president. That's you now, John.')
The last moment where all the surviving Heros were all girls and all that implies was still a little cringe, though.
Grant_us_eyes
21d ago
Evola
While I have a few of Evola's books in my que, the only one I've worked through so far is 'The Mystery of the Grail: Initiation and Magic in the Quest for the Spirit'. It's definitely an... interesting read.
I'm not sure if his perspective actually influenced CS Lewis or was merely a reflection of the greater philosophical perspective of the time(early 20th century), however. I did enjoy reading it, though, as it's the first book that ever defined what 'Hyperborean' actually meant.
Grant_us_eyes
21d ago
If I ever have delusions about wanting to get into a relationship, I'll just talk to self_made_human to kill that urge in a jiffy.
They're rude, smelly, mostly idiotic beasts who think only with their stomach and are incapable of love.
I see comments like this and am reminded of my mother's current dog, who will literally tear down baby-gates and open doors to get to me. Or the family's previous dogs, who regularly patrolled and open doors to check and see if I was present and alright.
Get better dogs, I suppose.
Grant_us_eyes
23d ago
Ah, that sort of reaction. Fair enough. Question answered, thank you.
Grant_us_eyes
23d ago
China has, historically, not reacted very well to national humiliations.
What incident are you thinking of, exactly? I can't recall of any incident where they've been in an actual position to react to said national humiliations, though that might be due to alot of my focus on China being more historical than present day.
Nice try, fedboy.
...seriously, this is one of those questions that the last sensible thing to do would be to put word and thought on the matter on some public forum. I give my CIA handlers enough conniption fits as-is.
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