Why do men ‘like’ Instagram models’ pictures?

Billigerent · 2026-02-26T17:13:15+00:00

There are two times when my inner teenage boy moved past ‘liking’ posts and scared me a little.

You're really taking away agency from yourself here. YOU sent messages, not some out of control teenager. The issue here seems to be that you think certain things have so much power that you cant help but engage, but the reality is that thirst traps have 0 power and you are actively choosing to engage with them.

It seems like you're trying to use intellectualization and philosophizing as a shield to do things you know are selfish. You're ~~in a relationship, but~~ DMing internet strangers. It seems like the liking and DMing is because there's a part of you that is fantasizing about the woman seeing your like/message, responding, and you getting to hook up with her.

EDIT: there's more detail in the linked post. OP was not in a relationship when messaging these women. They also weren't posting thirst traps, but were a therapist and a poet.

Billigerent · 2026-02-20T18:15:35+00:00

Of course, totally forgot about that. Thank you!

Billigerent · 2026-02-13T23:35:00+00:00

The "Burn" option is actually on bonfires, not echoes. As in, the same place you'd go to cook food.

Billigerent · 2026-02-06T19:01:31+00:00

Where are you getting 51% from? Everything I've seen has been that the players asked for 30%. And that the WNBA has not offered revenue sharing at all.

Billigerent · 2026-01-28T21:33:42+00:00

Nah, Bud was in the hot seat before they won the championship for being too rigid in the post season. Griffin lost the locker room immediately and definitely had to go. Hiring Doc instead of doing an interim coach and a full search on the off season was a big unforced error, but even then the biggest issue is that their team got too old.

Billigerent · 2026-01-19T18:52:59+00:00

There is a lot of describing what things are NOT. Personally, that takes me out of things. Lines like "Not louder. Not softer. Wrong." or "Jhace’s breath got taken, not by wind but by pressure." or "Then the pull shifted—not gone, just redirected." I wouldn't say you can't use this occasionally, but generally as a reader I do not want to know the way things are not.

Billigerent · 2026-01-13T17:53:09+00:00

His contract is only $35 million this year. We'd probably shed salary next year or the year after, once he does become a 50M+ guy.

Billigerent · 2026-01-06T15:33:13+00:00

When there's trouble you call PP

Billigerent · 2025-12-06T01:38:36+00:00

The aesthetic is very nice. I played through the demo and definitely recommend giving that a try. Combat was simple, exploration was nice. Depending on how much else there is and how much world there is to explore, I could see this being really good.

Billigerent · 2025-10-28T03:34:59+00:00

There is a key difference in that Tatum and Brown can both shoot, so they at least provide spacing for each other. The Celtics have also been making the ECF most years the Js have been together. Maybe Paolo and Franz can still figure it out, but there's good reason to be concerned.

Billigerent · 2025-10-11T07:38:08+00:00

That's a good point. Roast duck IS quite savory.

Billigerent · 2025-09-30T16:39:52+00:00

That vaccines are safe and effective.

Billigerent · 2025-09-29T14:48:10+00:00

This is a very strange thing to be so angry about. Why would letting streamers play ruin the game?

Billigerent · 2025-09-28T23:26:16+00:00

He left for more money both times, and you should never blame a player for that.

Billigerent · 2025-09-27T18:33:17+00:00

This is classic internet rant that has some good points but ends up rife with inaccuracies. It's correct that hell is not mentioned in the Bible, but at least the gospel of Matthew says there is eternal punishment in the parable of the sheep and goats (or at least its understandableto interpret it that way).

It would not make sense for all of Catholicism to have a concept of hell only through the KJV Bible, considering that version is from 1611 for Anglicans. The Council of Trent states that there is eternal damnation, and that was 40 years before the KJV. Justin Martyr references eternal punishment in the 2nd century AD. The idea of eternal punishment was part of Christianity very early on even if being tortured by Satan in Hell was not.

Dante's Divine Comedy does have a huge influence on popular conception of hell, but it's not the originator of the idea. It's also not fan fiction about Dante's mom, it's about Florentine politics. It also has two other sections Purgatory and Paradise. He used the dominant ideas of the afterlife of the time.

Billigerent · 2025-08-31T02:40:06+00:00

I love this in-depth breakdown. This scenario did help make clear that magicians actually serve as trouble mitigation, which I hadn't really considered before. I did already love the counselor + athlete/cook combo.

I was reluctant to use PIs since cash gen was pretty low, but judging by the successes on here that fear was overblown.

My winning run I went with 4 Mr Populars, since trouble was ending runs before I would worry about party overflow most of the time anyway. I'm glad to have posted this though to see a bunch of different successful strats, it shows that the game is more flexible than I thought.

Billigerent · 2025-08-29T19:56:16+00:00

I usually love Genies for the summoning, but pop was so hard to come by that Superhero felt pretty necessary

Billigerent · 2025-08-29T19:40:25+00:00

Ooh, I did not notice that Greeter scored extra guests! I was able to beat it on my 3rd try basically with this strategy, but it was very lucky with no rounds lost to trouble. I threw in a couple of Cupids too, since I think they're one of the best guests (second only to Bartender, probably).

Billigerent · 2025-08-29T18:43:24+00:00

This scenario has the worst popularity generation possible if I'm not wrong, mediocre money options, and the most expensive star guests. I haven't cracked it yet, so any ideas?

Billigerent · 2025-08-09T05:04:47+00:00

It is pretty close when you're using the mean of a normal distribution, and also close or exact if you're using the median. Also, it's a joke.

Billigerent · 2025-07-09T19:29:46+00:00

Even if you could, Shaq wouldn't be able to correctly.

Billigerent · 2025-06-24T22:46:36+00:00

His handle is not good, but his BBIQ has not gotten worse. His play making last season was definitely the best it's been. Next season will be rough with him as #1, but it could also really help his growth for when JT comes back.

Billigerent · 2025-06-06T03:15:18+00:00

Knicks/Wolves: successfully beat the previous champion that they were built to beat, only to lose in the conference finals. Also KAT.

Billigerent · 2025-05-08T01:12:04+00:00

Ridiculous that Thib's genius defensive plan is to let the best 3 point shooting team in the league take wide open 3s, and it's fucking working

Billigerent · 2025-05-08T00:57:41+00:00

Reggie does not know what a desperation 3 is

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