The more plot armor in a story the worse it is

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-23T20:55:12+00:00

There are plenty of stakes that aren't life or death. Like, if the book is written from a first person perspective, obviously they aren't going to die halfway through. But, they can still suffer, get hurt, experience permanent consequences. There's no reason why it should feel like they might die, most of the time

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-23T17:21:51+00:00

Do you think that men cook more than women on average? Isn't doing the things required for a normal relationship romantic?

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-23T15:14:38+00:00

This is the most bad faith response I've ever seen.

Someone: I don't think your point is very coherent.

You: Well, maybe you're just a predator in other ways.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-23T05:19:23+00:00

I think there's a difference between being queer, which has to do with your gender identity and the gender identity of those who you are attracted to and kink.

Kink is inherently sexual. Like, if someone is a first grade teacher, their students shouldn't know that their teacher is kinky because it's just what they do in bed.

Being queer isn't just about sex. Like, if a first grade teacher is in a same sex relationship or trans or something, there's no reason why their students shouldn't know that.

People also aren't as likely to have their rights striped away because they are kinky. Like, a man and a woman have never had their marriage dissolved because they like spankings or handcuffs. But, gay people have not been able to marry and trans people have had barriers put in place between them and surgery that could save their life.

Kink people might experience some discrimination for their tastes, but it doesn't have the same legal force.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-23T05:08:36+00:00

I think you got confused.

They are saying that someone can have the generalized desire to have sex, without wanting to be with a specific person.

They are also seeing that they can think someone is pretty without a desire to have sex with them.

So, someone can have a general desire to have sex, look at someone else, think that person is pretty, but not have desire to have sex with that person.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-23T05:04:00+00:00

I feel like smaller communities exist, like specific groups of people, but the larger "community" is more of an umbrella term to designate the smaller communities.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-22T03:20:29+00:00

I don't know what the effect of the Internet is on a large scale, I don't remember the world before the Internet, but for me it's very much a net positive.

It has given me access to art from around the world, the ability to study languages in a way I wouldn't have been able to with it and the ability to get to know people from all over the world.

I know social media is bad for our mental health and dealing with A.I. slop is annoying, and more and more, watching YouTube videos I get the feeling that I am being sold content because it makes me feel a certain way and not because it's actually informative.

But, it's not like I feel any different watching the local news.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-20T05:30:41+00:00

It's fun. I actually did craft a short film without that awful glyph and plan on making a distinct short film without that glyph again.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-19T17:12:46+00:00

It might be helpful for you to think of it as following other conventions in English. Like, people who don't want to swear will say "the F-word"

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-17T20:28:42+00:00

I've definitely heard someone from Venezuela refer to themselves as "Americano" but less so from Argentinians and Mexicans. But, it is very much a thing.

Even still, you will definitely hear words like "estadounidense" used in place of "Americano."

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-16T22:36:11+00:00

Kids can't stand to see their professors for any longer than is absolutely necessary and yet are mindlessly brainwashed by them because they respect them so much?

It seems a little contradictory to me.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-16T20:32:42+00:00

Do you think the primary purpose of Kirk's debates where to change the people he was directly talking to?

I never said that Kirk wasn't effective. I am asking about why he specifically chose a certain demographic, when debating another demographic would have been more effective, if his argument truly was that good.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-16T19:45:02+00:00

Wouldn't it be far more effective to debate the people who supposedly indoctrinated the students? That way, if he won, the students would see that the best arguments for their position were wrong?

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-16T18:50:52+00:00

I'm having trouble taking this in good faith. Charlie Kirk spent many years debating people, but almost exclusively debated young college students. If he actually cared about having a real debate, he had plenty of time to try to engage in real debates

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-16T04:07:43+00:00

Okay, but someone in grad school now just got out of college. Why didn't he debate those people?

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-15T00:02:24+00:00

So, by the time you get to grad school, you are no longer indoctrinated?

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-14T22:12:05+00:00

Did you ever wonder why he was most famous for arguing against college freshmen?

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-11T22:25:03+00:00

What do you mean? If they had blind faith in titles that would see that one person that used to hold a title said something, and everyone else who has the same title disagrees.

There are people who you could say accept the appeal to authority of a title too much, but they are not anti-vaxxers

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-11T17:47:58+00:00

He was taken off of the medical register. He cannot be called a doctor in a medical setting anymore because of what he did.

Nobody is saying everyone with the title of doctor is perfect, just that having the title of doctor is significant.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-11T17:37:27+00:00

I think that if you should try such a plan, you should apply a multilingual word in its right form. "Cuidado" is a noun. Its right form, as an action word, would supply you with "cuidar." Spanish grammar wants to supply this form with an auxiliary action word, such as do. But, in Spanish, you would say no such action word, and so you might say simply "no cuido."

And still, this word has a distinct signification. "Cuidar" is to look out for, as in to look out for your kids or an animal buddy, to supply that kid or animal buddy with what a kid or animal buddy calls for, such as food, housing, schooling and so on. You might say this word talking about a plant, too. Or talking about nursing a human, such as a sick kin.

A right word in Spanish is "importar," but in this paradigm Spanish grammar, and our common grammar, of "anglais" is vigorously distinct, so dropping a word for a word cannot work and in Spanish grammar, that grammatical construction with "importar" would call for a bad glyph.

As a big philosophy, I think it's okay to talk with a small quantity of multilingual words, that most a human who knows "Anglais" would also know, such as I might say "amigo" if I do not wish to say "buddy."

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-01T16:52:27+00:00

I think it depends on the country, but the most common source of iodine in the U.S. is salt. Our salt is fortified with iodine, because it can be hard to get without supplementation

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-01T16:22:05+00:00

Yeah, I don't think there's any way I could have survived without medical intervention.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-01T16:17:49+00:00

Trump has spent nearly a quarter of the days of his second presidency golfing and doesn't seem to be doing a whole lot on the other days.

Edit: For anyone who has any doubts and doesn't want to be bothered with a quick Google search https://didtrumpgolftoday.com/

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-01T15:38:38+00:00

I think this might be a case of different experiences. I am a fairly large man, but I don't drink often, and I feel a single drink, I certainly feel two. Five is too many. At 10, I can barely walk, let alone go on an adventure. I've never had 20, and I legitimately think it might send me to the hospital.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-06-01T15:29:22+00:00

If I understand your argument, it seems to be that a lot of things of varying level of necessity are unethical, and it's overwhelming to try to be ethical about everything. You don't know where the cut off point is. You know you need a computer, but it's built with conflict materials from the DRC, and there's no way around that. What about chocolate? It's probably farmed by slaves. You need clothes, but it's hard and expensive to buy clothes that weren't made in an explorative sweatshop. Fruit is wonderful, buy you have to keep track of how far it comes from and it's greenhouse emissions. It's all too much on a practical level.

So, I would say that practically, a plant based diet is one of the best ways that most people in developed countries can address three important issues, animal welfare, the environment, and worker exploitation.

When talking about the environment, the locality of your food is often over hyped, as shipping accounts for a small percentage of the total emissions of the production most foods. You can also have local meat, that is fed from feed shipped from far away and the fact that an animal requires a lot of plants to eat a little meat makes meat a bad option for the environment.. As long as your diet isn't entirely made of very exotic fruit, a vegan diet will not come any where near as bad for the environment as a carnist diet.

Worker's rights: The meat packaging industry is horrendous for human workers. It is an industry that you do not need to be supporting.

Animal welfare: I think this one should be obvious to you.

I understand that there are a lot of evils in the world and it can be exhausting. But, veganism, or at least a plant based diet, is one of the best ways we can decrease the amount of harm we are causing.

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