Damarcusart

I think this may be a little overblown. "Gurus" offering the magic solution to teenage boys/young adults to get girls to notice them have been around for decades. A lot of these kids will grow out of it once they realise it doesn't actually work, and the "trick" is to just be understanding and empathetic.

That being said, I've got a friend in their early 20s and her dating experiences do seem to reflect this sort of thing, seems like at least 60% of guys on dating apps fall for this bullshit. Though it could be survivorship bias, they are gross creeps, so they don't get a girlfriend and thus remain on the app much longer than the guys who aren't total creeps.

"Our master told us to jump, so we are happy to ask the question, "How high?""

I think this one gets to the absolute heart of the conservative mindset:

People like her legitimately do not understand that people can want to do the right thing and try to stop people from suffering, even if those people "hate" them and they gain no social or economic wealth from helping them out. What a cold, dark, empty mind people like her have, where every interaction has be transactional and they always have to be trying to "get ahead" instead of just wanting to help people because it is the right thing to do.

They know they don't have a leg to stand on with this lawsuit. They also know that the Palworld devs do not have the money to fund an extremely expensive lawsuit and will most likely settle out of court. All the money they made from palworld has gone into lawyer's fees instead of future games, and they will probably end up shutting their doors as a studio because of this. Game Freak/Nintendo get to destroy the competition, which is what this is really about.

I've been dragged there on stag nights and it is just gross and weird. Like I legit do not understand how anyone enjoys it. All the worst parts of an overpriced club combined with a bunch of sleazy dudes staring at titties. Maybe I'm just an especially private kind of person, or maybe it's because I'm "gray ace" (whatever that is) but I'd much rather see titties in the comfort of my own home, preferably attached to someone who I have mutual love and trust with, and not some random lady forced to do it so she can afford college.

I was grocery shopping myself today, and a family block of chocolate was $16(Aus). I had a very sobering thought that I might have taken my last ever bite of the stuff and may never have it again.

I bought a ton of canned food over the last few years so I should be ok, but some of my friends scoffed at me when I told them they should do the same because prices will hike up like crazy. Well who's laughing now?! Not me, I'm too hungry.

I was reading this and thinking "this almost reads like you got chatGPT to write a Trump easter tweet." But I don't think it is AI, just an intern.

It really wasn't his best work, his discovery of the number of piano tuners in Chicago was much better.

Only to the moon though.

Yeah, the whole thing assumes that the aliens would be using a communications technology that:

1. we can actually detect it with our current technology.
2. would still be identifiable as communications by completely different alien species.
3. wouldn't just become a garbled mess by the time it reaches its destination.

We've had radio technology for about a century, vs the 10,000 years or so of human societies existing. Even as recently as 200 years ago, we'd probably be expecting the aliens to show up on horseback with a handwritten missive to be read to us. We make a lot of assumptions that they would use radio waves to communicate, and would beam radio waves at us, when we could very well be using technology that these aliens abandoned for more advanced communications technology centuries or even millennia ago.

The worst part is, as a wizard, he is easily the most OP member of the party as well, so I find unless I pick a wizard/sorcerer as a player character, he's pretty much mandatory.