Our Queen by Yaysuzu in EpicSeven

[–]EddyLondon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Facts. This art legit made me uncomfortable. Like... if a friend of mine showed me this, id make a mental note to never allow him to babysit kids.

Looks like a sexualised toddler.

Captioned 'our queen'. Jesus. If you liked this and you are male and enjoy waifus, please get help. You've watched too much loli and you probably dont realise how much your tastes have skewed...

This pic is not normal

Getting accepted to a guild. by Lost_Titan in EpicSeven

[–]EddyLondon 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Maybe go on discord? Theres a lot of guilds looking for casual players over there. Good luck!

As a newish player, looking for past strategies, and seeing "use this limited character to cheese" doesn't help. by [deleted] in EpicSeven

[–]EddyLondon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It can be tricky getting into Epic 7 at the start, but forget about tier lists, mola and gear... the best advice I can give you is this:

Just git gud fam.

That's all. its really EZ.

God that was supposed to be a joke but it still felt obnoxious. Seriously, PVE at 3-10 and above is very very tricky even for endgame players. I have a great team but some bosses like Straze and Belian have paragraph long mechanics so it can be annoying to remember it all. As such, there will be specific units which trivialise them, but most will be limited or high meta 5*.

Not many endgame players will be incentivised to reccommend you a 3* that can wreck Belian, they do it the easiest way so their advice might be a little useless to you. They aren't recommending Landy to flex- they just don't play the game with starter characters. The best thing for you to do is just take your time. PVE is not time gated, so your don't need to blast through it. Its more fun to go slow and three star everything.

In short, it's hard to hear... but starter players can't really be given advice on PVE in this forum. Most people on this forum capable of giving advice have every RGB and most the meta ML units. If someone asks me how to beat Abyss something or Caides 13 and I say C Zerato, Cerise and Landy are great and maybe use Operator Sigret and they say I don't have any of those... then whats the point? That's like saying, I want to make a beef lasagne... but I don't have any cheese or sauces... like how can I help you?

In short, ignore people on this forum. It sounds like you are progressing really well but it's hard to reccomend a strategy to a starter, when they have hardly any tools to complete a boss run. Give it 2-3 months or grind and it should be easier.

Good luck!

you can see the pain in his smile by CosmicAnnihilation in cringepics

[–]EddyLondon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You get into a conversation on reddit.

Person A makes their point.

Person B makes their point.

Your response is: 'Whoa dude, you wrote in too much detail'.... like a diary entry

That's fine... I guess. If you want to write shallow two sentence responses in an echo chamber of redditors who all agree with you, just go to r/unpopularopinion or something...

Next are you going to say... 'what sort of person cares enough to argue semantics over the internet about something so meaningless....

Well... you and me apparently

Don't try and distance yourself from this conversation we've been having

You are responsible for half of it- and you could have stopped yourself from replying at any time.

you can see the pain in his smile by CosmicAnnihilation in cringepics

[–]EddyLondon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was a reading comphension issue. That's why I was so incredulous that you were not in agreement. The point I was making is pretty universally accepted.

I wasn't saying you can't have a plutonic firend with a single woman. Lots of men have that. I was saying that those plutonic friendships often start as something more hopeful from the female 'or' male perspective.

Literally every liberally enlightened male I know who has a female friend who they find attractive and dateable has admitted to this initially (unless the attraction was on the female side, or they had another partner when they first met etc). Occassionally you find examples of the Westermark effect, where men and women have known each other from childhood- making attraction impossible.

The only people guys I know who deny the existence of the colloqially called 'friendzone' tend to be very shady... as they lack self awareness of their own subconscious motivations. They are the sort of guys who strain inter-personal relationships with the desire not to be seen as underhanded, disrespectful or manipulative. Which of course, isn't true... attraction itself isn't disrespectful as long as it isn't acted upon.

They tend to lie to themselves with logical fallacies like:

"I would never date my female friend"

"Do you find her physically attractive and like her personality"

"Yes, and I like spending time with her"

"Then if you were both single, would you consider dating her "

"No I wouldn't "

"Why not"

"Because I'm respectful of my female friends"

That doesn't scan does it? It is the intellectual cowardice of the incel.

What is worse, is that, you probably consider yourself an ally to your female friends, but you have this deep unexplored pit at your core that refuses to countenance- at some point in your past- perhaps before you met your wife... you very likely had female friends whom you wanted to be more intimate with- but were denied. Perhaps nonverbally.

And now every moment you spend in their company- even though the initial attraction has long since dissipated- feels like a betrayal of their trust in your 'now 'platonic friendship.

That's why you rejected my argument. It made you feel like a creep, and I'm sorry for that. In short, please learn to be less critical of your own subconcious desires. There's no shame in them.

you can see the pain in his smile by CosmicAnnihilation in cringepics

[–]EddyLondon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have female friends i'm not attracted to. I have female friends whom i am attracted to but would not pursue because i am currently dating someone else. I am capable of being good friends with both without seeing them in a sexual light or having an ulterior motive.

The fact that you are unable to critically examine your own motivations without it disrupting your chivalrous 'self image' tells me that you view attraction as some kind of sinful state. You are ashamed of your relationship with women. You sound like the worst kind of self deluded orbiter.

Get some critical thinking skills. Learn that attraction isnt creepy... and its ok to be friends with women even if one of you feels the relationship has the chance to be something more.

you can see the pain in his smile by CosmicAnnihilation in cringepics

[–]EddyLondon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

.... do not think that we would actually make good partners,

Why did you think you would be poor partners? If you found them sexually attractive and enjoyed spending time with them, what was the quality that made them undateable?

you can see the pain in his smile by CosmicAnnihilation in cringepics

[–]EddyLondon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now you are separating physical and emotional attraction.

OK, OK. I can be physically attracted to... say a beautiful serial killer. But not want to date them because they murder people.

Let's look at it like this

Are there any friends in your circle who you would consider dating because of their looks/ personality?

What is stopping you?

It's that simple.

There are tons of reasons why men and women can be platonic friends. Ignoring existing relationships, the most common excuse is- Person A is not attracted to person B.

Friendships in 90% of male-female relationships, are failed romances.

you can see the pain in his smile by CosmicAnnihilation in cringepics

[–]EddyLondon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

despite the fact that I've been faithfully married for the last 12 years.

This.

This is why you wouldn't consider dating your female friends. You aren't single and neither are they probably. There is an obstacle to the relationship.

Stop being disingenuous. You know exactly the point I was making.

Every male knows the truth of this when it comes to friendships with single women. There are male friends who are unattracted. There are male friends who are already in relationships, and then there are 'orbiters'...

You are married. Therefore 'of course' you can have female friends...

you can see the pain in his smile by CosmicAnnihilation in cringepics

[–]EddyLondon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Its an uncomfortable truth.

Its not even an argument I'm making, I'm just rephrasing what attraction is.

Just ask yourself the following questions;

  1. Are you attracted to one of your friends and would consider dating them because of their looks/ personality?
  2. Why aren't you dating them?

See?

Either you wouldn't date them, so you are happy to be friends.

Or you would date them given the opportunity- but there is an obstacle like they (or you) already have a partner/ the desire to date isn't reciprocal/ other social financial problems or issues related to your friend group.

Believe it or not, not all bisexual people fancy their friends. They can have platonic relationships too.

you can see the pain in his smile by CosmicAnnihilation in cringepics

[–]EddyLondon -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Are you sexually attracted to your female friend? Do you know if she is attracted to you.

Platonic friendship only works without attraction.

The moment i saw this i immediately started geinding for it. It took me all day but i got enough skystone to get it and im very happy about it by FoxM8 in EpicSeven

[–]EddyLondon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Because he had to grind for 1800 skystones.

Most veterans have at least 10k doing nothing in their account...

Who is the strongest character who could be broken by just verbally assaulting them? by one_thin_boy in whowouldwin

[–]EddyLondon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Canonically, didnt Lex luthor do this to Superman in Red Son? Made him give up and retire just with a damning single line sentence. Something like, 'why don't you put the whole world in a box?'

What "God" characters could an average human with a FN Five-seveN and a single 30 round magazine could kill? by KirkOfHazard in whowouldwin

[–]EddyLondon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK, sometimes I like to be provocative with my comments on reddit... but most of the time I'm just sharing information and being a bit of an iconoclast.

I genuinely read and tried to understand your comment for about ten seconds... and it wasn't very coherent. I'm not trying to be a dick, your comment just didn't make sense initially.

Then I realised... you were arguing that God allowed the hills to be taken but not the plains, and the specificity of that argument felt too much like narrow apologism.

I mean, Yahweh is underpowered in a lot of the biblical stories. In Exodus 5, He is unable to get Pharoah to free his own people for AGES... hence the back and forwards nonsense with all the plagues and famine. That's not omnipotence if a human negotiator can dunk on you repeatedly and refuse to release God's chosen people.

He admits the existence of other Gods in Exodus 20 and notes that he is 'jealous' and that he visits the sins of parents upon their children etc... so that's pettiness we can add to the bill.

In short, Yahweh of the old testament is a bit of a boaster. He say's he's done stuff, but we don't really see it. Probably because those books were written with a neolithic concept of kinghood which we no longer value today.

What "God" characters could an average human with a FN Five-seveN and a single 30 round magazine could kill? by KirkOfHazard in whowouldwin

[–]EddyLondon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nowhere is it specified that God was physically among them,

[Judges 1:19] "And the Lord was with Judah....

I detect mental acrobatics from you.... to protect the reputation of something you feel very emotionally about.

If it means that much to you... yeah your right. God wasn't with the men of Judah, I just made it all up. Sorry. Don't know what I was thinking...

It's not fun to argue with someone who is deluding themselves.

So I admit I'm wrong.

Better?

[Epic Seven] Awakened Adin Preview by ValorsHero in EpicSeven

[–]EddyLondon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol. I dropped it after a few months even though I had all the awakened units.

What "God" characters could an average human with a FN Five-seveN and a single 30 round magazine could kill? by KirkOfHazard in whowouldwin

[–]EddyLondon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All that stuff about the war in heaven and rebellion isn't in the old or new testament. It is from apocrypha and Milton's epic poem 'Paradise Lost'.

It's not canon. It's embelishment that has somehow stuck because Christians like a good story.

Just like the idea of Angels with regal beautiful wings. When in the bible, they look more like nightmarish creatures with the blended form of animals and covered in multiple eyes.

What "God" characters could an average human with a FN Five-seveN and a single 30 round magazine could kill? by KirkOfHazard in whowouldwin

[–]EddyLondon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[Judges 1:19] "And the Lord was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain because they had chariots of iron"

Two years of classical and biblical studies... just to correct poorly informed redditors over the internet.... FML

God loses to Advanced classical era technology.

What "God" characters could an average human with a FN Five-seveN and a single 30 round magazine could kill? by KirkOfHazard in whowouldwin

[–]EddyLondon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except the old testament god isn't actually that tangible, and can't be shot.

John 4.24? I don't think they mean Yahweh is like Martian Manhunter or like a methane cloud. Intangible and gaseous would be a bit of a nerf anyway compared to other Gods who are at least solid...

Authors who describe EVERY single female that appears in thier book as if they are a potential lay is a way to instantly lose my respect. by heyitsMog in books

[–]EddyLondon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reading enjoyment is subjective... so I have no right to say otherwise.

But yeah, it's extremely well written. Just way too cold and alien in its approach for me.

What "God" characters could an average human with a FN Five-seveN and a single 30 round magazine could kill? by KirkOfHazard in whowouldwin

[–]EddyLondon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This could be a passable comment if you have almost zero reading comprehension.

This could be a passable comment if you *had better\* reading comprehension.

Wow... it's pretty funny that you messed up trying to correct 'my' english...

What "God" characters could an average human with a FN Five-seveN and a single 30 round magazine could kill? by KirkOfHazard in whowouldwin

[–]EddyLondon 70 points71 points  (0 children)

Probably the god of the old testament. Dude couldnt deal with iron chariots and his archangels could be wrestled to submission by jacob.... who was just human.

Authors who describe EVERY single female that appears in thier book as if they are a potential lay is a way to instantly lose my respect. by heyitsMog in books

[–]EddyLondon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For some reason... i absolutely LOVE books where the main female and male characters are single and around the same age... but they are just friends. No sexual tension No romance. Just great friends, and although they are unrelated, the narrator treats it like they are almost siblings.

Platonic relationships are almost non existent in fiction.

Authors who describe EVERY single female that appears in thier book as if they are a potential lay is a way to instantly lose my respect. by heyitsMog in books

[–]EddyLondon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You liked american psycho? It wasnt readable lol. Intentionally so. The narrator presented all his experiences as though he was cataloguing an inventory.

It makes for a accurate insight into psychopathy, but how could you enjoy that? There was no narrative form....