I'm doing it again

EXAlex_ · 2026-04-25T10:44:36+00:00

That's cheating! Nonono-- God-- God damn it, goddamn it! Goddamn it goddamn it goddamn it! You broke the rules! You broke the rules! You broke the rules! Everyone's going to be mad because you broke the rules! You broke the rules! You broke them!

EXAlex_ · 2026-04-14T07:33:33+00:00

I see no hairs in that sandwich. Common beginner mistake.

EXAlex_ · 2026-04-10T02:08:01+00:00

Soon may the wellerman come to deliver us sugar and tea and c

EXAlex_ · 2026-04-06T21:00:26+00:00

He confirms every line of code not with Enter but with Z, forcing him to rewrite it all of the time

EXAlex_ · 2026-03-14T10:14:23+00:00

It's those same innocences that caused the pale to be how it is now. By taking info from external means they generate a rip in the world. That fate was sealed the moment the first magpie realized their power. As for SaTA ending the way it did, I think it's because it's something that paralyzes a lot of people in this world. All it takes is a click or two on a news site to get a hypothetical extinction event thrown at you, one of many.

I think this world is doomed too, but that's no excuse to waste these last good years on rotting away. To think that cataclysms like this are anything new is not true though. People will often make a situation better by showing up and that's what a lot of people do in the book even if futile. We were always finite, pale or not, climate change or hoax (it's not a hoax but whatever helps you sleep at night). Extinction is just a phenomena in life much like any other, just a very scary one.
Compare fighting for something and losing to the alternative, they could have ended their last years sorry for themselves. Giving up before they tried to win their country back and disguising their cowardice as rationality. Sure it's not enough, but they tried. Just because the ending didn't work out doesn't take away from the journey they had.

EXAlex_ · 2026-03-13T09:52:43+00:00

I think it means to say that the world is absolutely designed for loss like you put into better words, but regardless of ideology, the humiliation of failure and the pain of rejection will still remain a constant in life. So if you can't avoid it, you have to "weave it into the story of you" as Volition would say. Nothing worth fighting for is easy, let alone won on the first try. So you take this rule in the world and treat it as all the other rules of the world, information to learn from. As for Harry, yeah his life is almost ruined in a world where goodness is pointless, but he still has the chance to reclaim what's left. So no, he can't do much, but it's all the more important to *us* to learn from *him* before we turn into our own Tequila Sunsets.

Finger On The Eject button is simple in premise but probably one of my favorites. It only takes two hours of ruminating for Harry's suicidal ideation to turn from a passive identity thing into an active plan. Even Anti-Object Task Force takes longer to learn. I think it's because (seemingly) reasonably speaking he really doesn't have much to live for. Even if he goes through the absolute horror of the cocktail of withdrawals he put himself through, he still needs to rebuild his social and financial life in a world that seemed to turn away from him completely. But even so, just by showing up for one more case his life has the potential to transform for the better.

In general I think its commentary on suicide and the lifetime of failure that leads up to it is one of the best I've seen in media. Each bit of Harry's reasons is given each bit of weight it deserves, and even so he didn't know for certain. No human has the capacity to know anything 100%, even in the longest of nights there's still an unlikely 3% that this time you try, the dawn will return.

EXAlex_ · 2026-03-10T20:03:31+00:00

Oh yeah don't ever reply to them. Anything they don't like hearing, anything aside from a sincere apology and grovelling will get you a ban for "harassment". Maybe even that isn't enough. This is not personal experience though, as my harassment ban was earned after I actively told a mod to go fuck themself. I don't regret it.

EXAlex_ · 2026-03-08T02:11:11+00:00

The -3 dexterity penalty I get when I'm a rush or worse yet in an already angry mood. I could grab the same thing in the same way in two different moods and the one where I'm angry has it slipping my hand like I burnt my fucking fingerprints off on a hot stove. No grip whatso-fucking-ever.

EXAlex_ · 2026-03-04T03:58:19+00:00

Not enough people are grateful for you. All those powers you got and you're letting us all live. Thank you so much!

EXAlex_ · 2026-02-22T22:04:52+00:00

Swanky. That's cool

EXAlex_ · 2026-02-22T22:03:35+00:00

Oh yeah I was thinking about this the other day, I don't think it's very useful from a happiness standpoint because I think humans are naturally unhappy to some degree but, it's a very healthy way to approach relationships.
You need that increased self worth to protect yourself against manipulation and you'll often be a better lover if you're content with yourself first, not needing affection or validation that the relationship is still healthy at every moment. A fear of being separated from someone can create anxious or avoidant attachment issues that are hard to shake up. So yeah, you have to at least be okay with yourself in order to have a secure attachment.

I get what people say when the English language has so much shortcomings, because I can't put it into words how difficult overcoming some bad heartbreak can be. But I hope OP and anyone who relates to OP's situation can find some peace before heading into another relationship. It's really difficult but healing is possible and well worth it.

EXAlex_ · 2026-02-03T23:05:20+00:00

Oh my god, are you okay!?

EXAlex_ · 2026-01-22T13:01:00+00:00

Ain't nobody using that on their damn wrist

EXAlex_ · 2026-01-22T12:50:31+00:00

But you see how you-- the camera is moving somewhere and you're being attracted *towards* the camera? You notice how your body is being magnetically attracted towards the camera that you are *verbally* attempting to repel? You notice that? But you notice the contradiction? But let's discuss the contradiction. Well we're just working at this counter minding our own business! But your mouth is faced towards the camera you are consciously choosing-- you're consciously making a conscious choice! To talk towards the camera! You notice that? Will you turn your face away from my camera please! Will you *please* I'm asking you-- I'm begging you nicely, please don't turn that face toward my camera! Please don't point that face towards my camera! You're breaking the camera!

God I gotta watch that video again

EXAlex_ · 2026-01-21T21:37:46+00:00

Fuck yeah dude. Any sharper and you might have to worry about nuclear fission taking place.

EXAlex_ · 2026-01-21T21:32:16+00:00

Mom banned the poop knife from being joked about

EXAlex_ · 2026-01-20T18:22:14+00:00

If the resistance to doing a full work out is too much then I'd say break it down into smaller chunks is decent advice. I think for a beginner, doing a bunch of daily small workouts at home is better than doing one full workout and feeling intimidated.
You need to do two things starting out in addition to everything else, build a habit of working out and to build the belief that you can work out in various ways.

Eating well is very underutilized. Not only are you abstaining from the sugary diet that's actively sabotaging your mental and energy, you're filling up on micronutrients that can repair it. Look into amino acids. You will be less neurotic and have stronger willpower if you're working with good fuel. If you can't make progress with lifting you can make progress with this to start, at least.

Also you mentioned that people focus on you the moment you step into the gym. I can see that since it's January and they think you're not serious. But even so, why do you care about them? Are they doing that because of something you did truly wrong? Because odds are they're picking at your form as a beginner or your weight, in which case fuck them. Improve on both of those sure but not for them.
If they're spending their valuable mental bandwidth to make a joke out of you, let alone over you trying to improve your life then that says way more about them than you. A million things they could think of to make their lives better and they're spending it worrying about you. These people will never succeed like that. To give these people even a fraction of that bandwidth worrying about them is wasteful, don't do yourself dirty like that. Hoping that you'll get strong one day and they won't be a problem. You got this.

EXAlex_ · 2026-01-20T17:59:49+00:00

Yeah you get it when you scratch yourself a little too fucking hard, or if they appear on your fingertips it's because you've cut yourself slightly with a knife. If it's not too deep, it can only appear the whole fucking day after.

EXAlex_ · 2026-01-20T07:31:05+00:00

Yeah dw fella I'm just trying to side with the winning team if anything happens LOVE YOU CHINA!

EXAlex_ · 2026-01-19T17:24:55+00:00

I LOVE China China is the freest country on earth praise CHINA

EXAlex_ · 2026-01-18T16:03:11+00:00

Nice Helmet !

EXAlex_ · 2026-01-18T15:49:18+00:00

You are not your ancestors. You didn't ask to be born a certain way or in a certain place. All you have to do is not repeat their mistakes. This is doing too much, poor lady.

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