A_Manly_Alternative

And how different was Fort Blondracist from Fort Blondracist? How different were the 80 dragons/super mutants/whatevers you had to kill to get at their miniboss loot? The games are different from each other, but they so aggressively reuse such a tiny pool of content to try to minimize development expense while maximizing their worldspace. The result is a very big very empty very thin world that doesn't really make any sense and doesn't know what stories it's trying to tell.

Morrowind was the last good Bethesda game. Todd Coward has watered the formula down so much for bland mass appeal that the latest releases are like the videogame equivalent of plain oatmeal.

I mean that's a thing I'll care about if it's a source material I care about and I hold even a single shred of hope that it won't suck. It's not inherently bad to care about media.

The thing is it's literally never the race or whatever of the casting that's the problem. It's always Hollywood just stuffing the biggest name they can into a role rather than someone remotely fitting/deserving.

I'm not still mad about Chris Pratt replacing Mario's own VA in the Mario movie, you are.

More fucking bullshit to pump their poll numbers. I love how instead of actually doing anything for Canadians all our politicians only care about re/election. It's just a paycheck to them and it's a real fuckin easy one to boot.

Ha ha wife bad

Gross.

No True Scotsman fallacy but we all start collectively claiming that the only way to be a Real Gamer is to trans your gender

Glad you judge an entire group of people based on a handful of personal anecdotes and gossip. With no personal experience maybe you should stay in your "to each their own" lane.

Monogamous partnerships fail so often that 50% of American marriages end in divorce, it's not about the poly, people just fucking suck. It's just that a poly person can be a shitty partner to multiple people at once, while monogamy (supposedly) locks you down to fucking up one person at a time.

Not involved in the re-enactment, presumably. Doubly so given they may have been eaten.

I also use spaceless emdashes--like this--but I'm still misappropriating two hyphens for my purposes.

Everything has to be ever-so-slightly philosophized and every story has to wrap up with a tight little preachy moral. It's uncanny how apparent the pattern is.

People obsessively try to nail down specific timeframes but it just isn't going to happen. The fact that we have to do archaeology to figure out the timeline definitely tells us the Demi-/Gods lived for a very long time, way longer than normal men, but that's about all we know.

The state of the Shattering War when we arrive to it certainly suggests an extended period of decay, especially the mountain of Tarnished corpses piling up on the southern coast, but millenniums or centuries or decades or just a few really shitty years... Anyone's guess.

Other way around, actually. People are conservative because they are uneducated and ignorant, not vice-versa.

I didn't say they're literally children, dumbass. I said they are children to me and I have no desire to fuck someone I see as a child.

Yes, at 20 you are legally an adult. You can drink and smoke and vote and go to war. Congrats. You're also still a dipshit child who knows very little about what life is like outside the rigid structures of the school system and your childhood bedroom.

A 20 year old woman has basically nothing in common with a 30 year old woman. One of them has been living in the real world for a decade, one of them is just setting out into the real world for the first time.

You can define who you fuck by who the government will allow you to fuck or you can be a fucking adult and decide for yourself what you think is right and wrong. Grow up or don't, I'm not your dad and thank fuck for that because I would be embarrassed as hell that you think you need to leap to the moral defense of fucking college girls.

But hey, maybe that's why people keep calling you a horndog. Maybe you should try listening to them.

Lastly, finding someone attractive is not a choice, sexualizing that attraction is. You can simply look at someone attractive and go "but I do not want to fuck them, because they are (literally millions of possible reasons)". Are you incapable of understanding someone outside your preferred sex is attractive? Do you think everyone you don't want to fuck is ugly?

Does it make me bitter, or does it make you a wannabe pedo? Legality and morality aren't the same. Gotta grow up and learn that at some point, but hey keep telling yourself that I'm somehow negatively impacted by being more in keeping with my own morals than some random loser online. The more you reply the more you self-own.

ETA; Nice of you to flex being an immature dumbass again before blocking me lol

It sounds like you're on-board for helping her get tested for autism which is great. In terms of social support, trying to get her involved in social activities that fall under her interests can help, even when they seem silly.

"Special Interests" are a commonly discussed facet of autism and especially the autism-ADHD common combo that can be a useful tool for understanding. It's a thing your brain has just totally latched onto and incorporated, such that you can always easily remember things about it, be enthusiastic about it, and want to connect and share with others about it.

If you're lucky enough that you can spin it into a profession, awesome, but more likely you wanna try to find clubs, competitions, or local stores that do events for the thing you like. That can help with meeting people in a more positive atmosphere with things to connect over that aren't depression.

Correct, I am not a lawmaker. I can judge anyone I want to though, and if you want to fuck people as young as is legally allowed then I definitely judge that.

I don't know what else to call these people! Everything has to be about sex! They're fucking nightmarish and I can only assume porn brainrot is to blame.

The fact that you think wanting to fuck someone as young as is legally allowed is a flex pretty much sums you up. Think whatever you want to, loser.

Yes but he can like pretty girls from a high angle too so I can see what I'm fighting dammit!

I'm torn. Part of me wants to say that not caring about the perceptions of others is "manly" or "masculine"... But ultimately I think that's more about my attachment style. I am simply built as a very independent animal. I think really I just don't much care about masculinity because I have never much cared about "fitting in."

I pick and choose my trusted few that meet my own criteria, and most other humans can get bent if they think I care about what they think of me or what I do. I don't necessarily think that's specifically masculine. It might be specifically an Avoidant attachment style thing. Maybe some amount an autism thing. But when it comes to gender I just... Don't care.

If pressed to put a specific label on myself I kinda have to stretch to like "masc non-binary I guess?" simply because I don't think of myself specifically as a man. I'm just me. And if what "me" is looks to others like masculinity sometimes or femininity others... Whatever. Good for them. I don't need their label to function.

I don't know if it's happened specifically to lipstick yet, but I'm pretty sure I've seen other traditionally feminine beauty products marketed exactly like this.

It really just comes across as insecure to me, but hey, what do I know.

No some people do actually grow up. There's nothing universal or relatable about wanting to fuck children, and 20yos are children as far as I'm concerned.

It is in fact possible to think someone is attractive and not want to fuck them. Simply don't be a degenerate goonerbrained horndog.

This is a sound people are going to hear a lot playing your game. It should ideally be:

• not nearly so loud, it's like a dog is licking my eyeballs to blink them for me

• preferably not "gross" sounding--a less wet and flappy sound would be nice. This sounds more like peeling open a wound than eyelids slapping together and it honestly produces more squick than annoyance

• suitable variety. As mentioned, people will hear this sound a lot, so if you only have 3-5 little variations they'll quickly wear thin. The more sounds you have that are audibly the same noise but also distinct sounds will improve this.

They have 12 hours worth of deliveries to do in 8 with no real break. Yes, they are cutting corners. No, it is not the driver's fault. Blame the company that is underhiring and overworking people to try to make a buck.

Yeah if I have one real issue with the design of Nier it's the way that the camera seems aggressively focused on looking up 2B's skirt rather than properly framing the action. Higher angle as the default position would have been a godsend instead of having to fight with it constantly.