ITS TEDIOUS AS FUCK.

I genuinely dont understand how people call Witcher 3 the best game ever made.

I GAVE THIS GAME 15 FUCKING ATTEMPTS.

15.

I kept dropping it, coming back to it, thinking maybe I just wasnt in the mood for it, maybe I wasnt far enough, maybe it gets better later.

NOPE.

At some point I just forced myself to keep playing because I wanted to understand what the fuck everyone was seeing.

And I hated the pacing.

I hated the story.

I hated how the main plot was handled.

The whole Ciri search drove me fucking insane.

NEW LEAD ON CIRI.

Finally. We're getting somewhere.

Go do this thing.

Oh wait, now this thing has turned into another quest.

And another quest.

And another fucking quest.

And then:

“Actually Ciri isnt here.”

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME.

THIS HAPPENS OVER AND OVER.

I'm supposed to be desperately searching for Ciri while the Wild Hunt is apparently after her, but Geralt has enough free time to solve every random person's problems in the entire fucking continent.

And speaking of the Wild Hunt, I never felt the urgency.

They're supposed to be this terrifying supernatural force that everyone is scared of, but I barely felt like they were actually chasing me.

They look cool as hell, sure.

But I wanted ONE moment where they get close to Ciri and Geralt is like “fuck fuck fuck I need to get there NOW.”

Something.

Anything.

Instead it's basically “the Wild Hunt is coming” and then Geralt goes off to help some guy find his wife for the next 4 hours.

And THE ISLE OF MISTS.

Jesus fucking Christ.

I had been waiting for this shit forever. I thought this was finally going to be the big moment.

And what am I doing?

LOOKING FOR GASPARd.

IVO.

FERENC.

WHY AM I LOOKING FOR A SLEEPING GUY.

THE WILD HUNT IS COMING.

WHY THE FUCK AM I DOING A LOST PERSON SCAVENGER HUNT.

That was the point where I was just done.

And the whole fantasy setting just doesnt work for me either.

Magic, witches, monsters, Witchers, prophecies, evil swamps, kings, dramatic choir music, ancient curses...

I know it's a fantasy game. I KNOW.

It's just so fucking on-the-nose to me. It's not even that I think they're doing fantasy badly. I just dont enjoy this type of fantasy.

And then I played KCD2 and I'm sitting there thinking WHY DID I LIKE THIS SO MUCH MORE.

KCD2 can be slow too. Very slow sometimes.

But it doesnt constantly promise me some huge thing and then make me fuck around for another 5 hours before I get there.

It actually feels like the story is moving.

Kuttenberg looks like absolute shit sometimes and I mean that in the best way possible. It's muddy, dirty, crowded, people everywhere. It feels like an actual place where people live.

Witcher 3 just kept making me wait for the moment where I finally went

“OH. THIS IS WHY EVERYONE LOVES IT.”

And it never fucking happened.

And the worst part is the FOMO.

Every Witcher discussion I opened was:

BEST GAME EVER MADE.

MASTERPIECE.

10/10.

GREATEST RPG OF ALL TIME.

And I'm sitting there thinking WHAT THE FUCK AM I MISSING.

So I kept coming back.

15 fucking attempts.

I literally gaslit myself into thinking I was supposed to love this game.

I dont.

I think the game is bad.

Maybe the DLCs magically fix everything, maybe the side quests are where the “real” masterpiece is, idk.

I'm not playing another 40 hours to find out.

I've given this game 15 chances.

FIFTEEN.

Starting with those bizarre fashion shows we all know, and extending to people IRL who have this overly sassy way of dressing, i know art’s only rule is that there are no rules blabla but I personally prefer associating good fashion with an actually aesthetically pleasing look rather than something that feels intentionally cringe. Like, you got my eye. You got my attention. You got my curiosity. But at what cost? Sometimes it feels less like fashion and more like dressing as living ragebait

It is possible to have a full, satisfying life without having a family, it’s just difficult. You need to have an interesting, demanding career. Or you need to make a lot of money and can travel a lot or satisfy your needs through material things. Or you need to be very charming and sociable and are always able to meet new friends and lovers and always have a full social calendar.

However, if you’re like most people and have a boring job, don’t make a ton of money, and only have a few friends and a basic social/love life, you’re going to really struggle to feel fulfilled as you age if you choose to not have a family. These types of people turn 40 and panic when they realize how empty their life feels.

Having a family is something most people are capable of, and it’s a cheat code for filling your life with something meaningful. It’s difficult and not for everybody, but it’s guaranteed, lifelong meaning in ways nothing else is.

I totally understand people who choose to not have a family. You just need to think about how you’re going to get your fulfillment as you age, or you’ll just become another slave to consumerism and entertainment.

I am 20 years old and I currently live with my parents and I am fortunate that they don’t charge rent or anything so I have no bills to pay. I am in college and I have a part time job so I am earning money and saving about half of it.

I constantly get made fun of being being a "leech" and living off my parents. But I am literally better off than these people. I also get people who say “I moved out at 18 and worked hard and whatever else “ like they’re bragging about having a hard life lol. Why would I feel bad about living at home rent free. The only reason most people my age aren’t at home is because they’re in college. It’s literally just cope. People wish they were in my position but to make themselves feel better they make fun of me and say they moved out at 17 or something ridiculous. Why would I be jealous of someone moving out as a teenager

There are zero negative aspects about my current situation. I will have no debt, I pay no bills and I’m earning money.

This thought came to me while I was bored, but the more I think about it, the more sense it makes. This happens to me surprisingly often when I’m driving somewhere unfamiliar. I know my turn is coming up, so I’m slowing down and looking for the street, but I haven’t figured out whether I need to turn left or right yet.

The logic seems pretty natural to me. A blinking left light means “I’m going to turn left”, and a blinking right light means “I’m going to turn right”. So both blinking at the same time should mean “I’m going to turn, but I haven’t figured out which direction yet”.

I know hazard lights already have an established meaning, but this seems like a genuinely useful additional one. Left means left, right means right, both means undecided.

When the donut is fresh it makes it a sickeningly sweet sludge fest that tastes like I’m eating sugar glue and I immediately need to wash my hands because a napkin is just going to get stuck to them

When it’s not fresh it creates a hardened layer of cement around the donut that makes me feel like I’m eating sugary gravel with a little bit of bread in it

I don’t need a little alarm in my mouth that is yelling “HEY! THE THING YOU ARE EATING IS SWEET!! IT TASTES SWEET!!! YOU ARE EATING A SWEET THING!!!”

I would gladly eat 5-6 unglazed donuts for every one or two glazed donuts I eat, the main appeal of the donut to me is the milder flavor compared to other sweets like chocolate or cookies, so WHY, are you COVERING IT, in a GOOPY SUGAR SAUCE, to make it the SWEETEST THING ON THE PLANET

Food is boring or excessive, their sushi is just raw fish and rice, or they have a pizza with 2 lbs of cheese. Tourist attractions include a suicide mountain and a sadistic hospital. Technological advancements are sex robots. Average person works long hours, no one has babies. Oh and pedophilia is the norm.

SZA is probably my favorite artist, OF ALL TIME. But I never understood the hype for her SOS album and yeah I do like some songs from there, Shirt, Good Days, Nobody Gets Me, I Hate U and Open Arms but the rest is pretty bland and I don’t know why that album got all that status over her Ctrl album which imo is wayy better than SOS and even better that the deluxe SOS.

i don't think i have ever heard someone call someone else a psychopath all because they like Looney tunes or Tom and Jerry but my point still stands that those accusations don't make any sense.and yeah i know. Mlp fans don't get nowhere near as much back last as they used to but it does still in fact exist and it is harmful.

"There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

You can use statistics to make any argument that you want to. The context behind the statistics are more important than the statistics themselves. A lot of racists make the argument that black people are more aggressive/prone to crime because their lower overall population percentage is in conflict with the percentage of crimes committed by black people.

But this doesn't take into context that poverty is the biggest indicator of crime, and the history of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, and institutional racism has caused black people to be overwhelmingly more impoverished than white people. It also doesn't take into account the context that because of racism in the justice system people of color are more likely to be accused and convicted of crimes than white people.

The same exact thing happens with pit bulls. They make up a majority of dog bites, but that is because dog bites are committed by dogs that are trained to fight. When someone wants a dog for fighting, they will overwhelmingly choose a pit bull because of their reputation. It has everything to do with how they are raised and taught to fight. Just because they are raised that way, it doesn't mean they are naturally more inclined to violence. You can raise any dog to be a kind, loving dog or to be an aggressive, fighting dog. Just like any human will be a product of their environment and upbringing. Rich people don't engage in petty theft, regardless of race.

And before people try to say "they were bred that way" do you really think that white American slave owners weren't practicing eugenics with their slaves? They absolutely were, and you have to put your head in the sand to claim otherwise. They were selectively breeding them to be bigger and stronger, just like people did with pit bulls. But black people are not more aggressive because of this, and neither are pit bulls.

If you think pit bulls are inherently aggressive and cannot be good, kind, loving dogs, you are no better than a racist.

Sorry if the title is confusing, I wasn't sure how to sum up my idea in a single phrase.

Basically what I mean is that I often see people point to statements and/or actions made several years ago by a given person, compare them to statements and/or actions made in the present day which seem to contrast or contradict the previous ones, and call them hypocritcal, playing both sides, or something else to that effect.

In my opinion, simply changing your opinions over the course of your life isn't hypocritical, it's a natural development of the human mind. Changing your position on a given issue when presented with new information or life experience shouldn't be shamed, but encouraged.

I think there is something in all this to be said about how it relates to modern tribalism and how it affects day-to-day discourse, but that's really a whole other can of worms that I can't be bothered to think too much about at the moment.

Society is getting more and more performative making bigger deals out of smaller age gaps.

I saw a reel today stating that a 24 year old should be locked up for finding a 19 year old attractive (it was a joke reel, but still)

So my response to that is to say how 18 and 30 (probably even 35) is not morally wrong at all for dating. For hookups, I do not believe in any "wrong" age gap. Meaning, 18 and 70 is perfectly fine.

Get the pitchforks out.

A) Both are in the dictionary now: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/expresso

B) Both are understandable. No one would get confused by what you mean when you ask for one, pretty much anywhere in the world.

C) Some may argue that “Espresso” is truer to the Italian language. But that’s only if we go by pronunciation/spelling. The meaning… is lost. Espresso means roughly “expressed” or “pressed out” in Italian.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/italian-english/espresso

But… hey. Notice that one of the meanings is “expressed!” (in the sense of squeezed out). That’s exactly what “Expresso” evokes. So while “Espresso” preserves the Italian SPELLING, it loses the meaning, as the word “Espresso” means nothing to an English speaker, while “Expresso” evokes the meaning of “squeezing” or “pressing” the coffee through a filter.

This is more of a pick-what-you-want situation, and each has merit. There is no reason to prefer spelling and sacrifice meaning if want to stay "true" to Italian.

D) and sure “Expresso” makes it sound like something that is fast, and that’s false.

This just means we need to educate people on the meaning of “Expresso”: that it means “pressed through,” not “fast.”

But with “Espresso,” people don’t know what the heck it means either and still need to be educated…

That's it, I really like the feeling of having too much to do at once or being stressed to the point where I can't think properly. I got rushed today at work, got cursed out by 5 people and yelled at a few times, cried a bit for like 15 seconds and then got 45 people their prescriptions, I hurt my knee in the process *not badly* but afterwards I felt really good, that's all. I don't know why I'm like this but that's just how I've always been. So, like the title says I find being slightly stressed-out fun. It's like being sore after working out.

I am a male and you can call me an male I have no probelm with it. But if I call a woman a female then all hell breaks loose.

Calling a woman a female isn't the same as calling a black human the n word or a chinese human the c word. There is no historic significance to the word female. It isn't a slur and shouldn't be treated like one.

And it is completely normal to use female and men in a sentence. Same way it is completely normal to use woman and male in a sentence.

The surefire way that enforces anti-discrimination laws in hiring practices, is through text based anonymous chat portals. No human is immune to having biases, we subconsciously immediately make assumptions on someone's character based on their facial characteristics and even what someone is wearing. We have not overcome our basic survivalistic traits, which includes superficial judgment of other people based on their appearance. However, now we have an understanding of this, and it should be applied accordingly to job interviews.

I love pooping and nothing helps me poop more than my diet of all bran and smoothies. I am always trying to alter my diet to make it more poop friendly and let me just say I feel amazing. Food that’s too sweet doesnt even taste that good. Being able to go in and out 2 minutes has really improved my QOL. I’m not super worried about calories or protein

The phrase is about how people who harm others often are not simply evil people with a desire to harm others for pleasure or personal gain. It is about how these people are often people who have trauma which has not been worked through who are then externalising their pain.

Of course, externalising inner pain through harm only passes it on to someone else at best and at worst harms the other person while not solving the underlying personal issue. The cycle continues.

The best way for the person causing harm to deal with it is to seek professional help, help from their friends, and to help themselves. But, you can’t get help if you do not even realise you have an underlying personal issue. If others do not realise this is the case when evoking ‘hurt people hurt people’ as a phrase, then no one will understand how to end the cycle.

I am not denying that there are people who harm others for fun or for personal gain. I am not excusing harm. I am saying: if this is not understood, then the phrase, rather than beginning with personal trauma (which can be healed), begins with a kind of meaningless and directionless anger on the part of an ontologically evil person, someone who you do not need to even begin to sympathise with, *in every instance.*

The phrase not only becomes meaningless if this is not realised, it becomes no better than ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’ used uncritically, a justification for externalising pain and harm. Even ‘An eye for an eye’ has the reply ‘…leaves the world blind’ and of course, Matthew 5:38-48 urges us to turn the other cheek when slapped. I am not a Christian personally, but I think this shows how societies of people long ago realised that revenge is not a way of preventing harm in the long run.

If we strip the hurt-person-who-is-hurting-people from any personal history of trauma, then we are stripping everybody of responsibility. If the person hurting in the first instance is flattened to a creature without agency or an inner world, then any harm towards it is justifiable. The flattened person becomes someone you may justifiably harm in an attempt to externalise *your* trauma. You are then doing the same fucking thing, it helps nobody, the flattened person is more often than not a thinking and feeling person. Nobody in this scenario has a responsibility not to cause needless harm. The cycle continues.

I cannot blame people for not grasping this if they are not told about it. It could be hard to listen to, it is hard to look at personal trauma. In a way, if you hold the kind of understanding to this phrase that I am opposed to then it should indicate that you need to take a look at yourself.

What I think everyone should agree upon is the importance of *not encouraging revenge.*

This should not be difficult, and it frustrates me. Thank you.

I keep trying to give him another chance, but I just can't do it anymore. It’s not one particular thing, it’s too many to remember one. At some point, you start noticing a pattern, and the “genius” reputation just doesn’t make the things he says any easier to listen to.

Putting the obnoxiousness of all people involved aside, there's a troubling trend going on.

Many artists, developers, writers, and even people posting or commenting on Reddit get accused of using AI in their work, despite not doing so.

People actually really suck at identifying whether something is AI-generated or not, and I think they know this deep down so they kind of have two choices. Either believe something is human-made and risk being duped, or assume everything that even slightly resembles AI is AI so they never feel foolish.

So paranoia becomes the comforting, and from what I've seen recently, the default choice.

The problem is that having so many frivolous AI-usage accusations puts content creators in a bind, because such accusations are basically unfalsifiable. How do you prove that you didn't use AI when someone accuses you? Should you have a log of every bit of work you did? But those can be faked too, so the goalposts keep shifting.

So now you have two choices:

1. Completely change the way you present your work so that it doesn't resemble AI in any way. This essentially means having to change your art style, writing style, coding style, etc.

Nothing wrong with a change of style, but the problem is you can never predict if or when a stupidly superficial aspect of your content will be used to witch hunt you. Not unless you make your style so unique that it becomes inconvenient.

For writing, it could be sabotaging your grammar, writing messy, and dumbing down your tone to avoid formality.

For art, you may have to adopt a style so niche that it doesn't get the same traction that something more generic (yet still high quality) might receive.

This isn't something many are or should be willing to do, even if it becomes the new meta.

1. Adopt AI use. If you're gonna get accused anyway once you reach an arbitrary bar of quality or speed, and there's no way to prove yourself, you might as well just embrace it.

The supposed disadvantage of AI that it makes you seem less authentic is gonna affect you regardless because people have lost their minds, so what's the point in putting a damper on your productivity for no gain?

It's all about incentives! And the incentive to make things by hand is dwindling faster than your IQ every time you watch a video that uses the word "slop" to describe anything even slightly generic.

And just coz I know someone's gonna bring this up thinking they pulled a gotcha. No, I didn't use AI to write this. I'm just a high-quality writer and thinker, so I take accusations as flattery.

Isis/Aset= Assiata/Assitan/Asseta/Aissata/Asstou.

Osiris/Ausare/Wousir= Asare.

Nephtys/Nebet-hut = Nabintu/Nabintou/Nobountu.

Their real names are african from Africa,not the Levant or the Middle East.

I love fondant. I like it much better than buttercream, marzipan, etc. as cake icing, but I also just like it on its own. Sometimes, I take it off the cake and eat it by itself.

Whenever someone says a fondant cake looks like it tastes amazing, but it's probably just sugary play-doh, I'm like, yeah, and that's why it's so good.

I love when someone has a fondant cake at a party, cause everyone lets me eat their fondant.

at work today i saw like 2 pregnant women and omg their bellies r sooo cute!!! i think it’s so awesome how we can literally create life, like wow a baby inside of you. i don’t know if ill ever have kids but i wonder what ill look like if i do. i just think their bodies look really cute during pregnancy i just wanna rub their stomachs & hope the baby hears my supportive words 🥺 i know it must be hard tho to be pregnant. on a side note it makes me sad when a pregnant woman gets cheated on bc how could you do that to someone carrying ur literal child it’s horrible. we need to be more supportive of mothers in general they do it all