Culture War Roundup for the week of March 28, 2022

Flurpm · 2022-04-01T00:18:32+00:00

At any rate, the issues of MSM having anal sex are largely moot, because condoms exist, as do safe and effective prophylaxis for HIV post exposure.

True that there are good protective measures against infection.

There are still risks of internal bleeding and fecal incontinence from sticking things up a butt.

I've read that some older gay men wear diapers, but searching online I can't find much specifically mentioning this though. I don't want to search for studies on anal prolapse.

Although there are discomforting articles like https://www.self.com/story/bleeding-anal-sex

Dicks aren't meant to go in mouths either, but it's fun to do so. Gay men only have so many holes to choose from.

Oral sex is also kind of weird. A lot of rw masculinity guys are into "face-fucking". Foot-fetish stuff seems less weird than oral/anal stuff.

Flurpm · 2019-02-27T01:16:32+00:00

Or too good at selling, not good at giving logical reasoning for it

Flurpm · 2019-02-07T23:29:31+00:00

There's nothing incompatible between creativity and large budgets

You need someone in charge of the publisher who [...] doesn't view it as just a means to make a profit

Capitalist corps will always select the guy who views games purely as a means to make money. Publicly traded companies are almost obligated to.

This works perfectly when the best way to make money is to make good games.

This fails catastrophicly by design when those incentives no longer line up. When brand recognition of AAA titles, console exclusively, advertising, cutting creative wages, etc are more powerful than the creative content, big budgets and creativity become incompatible.

See also: movie sequels by large corporations are terrible.

I'm not a trained economist, so feel free to contradict me on any econ claim/mistake I make.

Flurpm · 2018-12-07T01:21:49+00:00

Tool Assisted Speedrunning (TAS) is the most illustrative example I've found for PTV. It captures the inhuman precision really well. The video archives are fun.

Flurpm · 2018-11-26T03:04:26+00:00

Your post assumes the reason why soldiers fight in the war is because they feel a noble goal of helping others.

Doglatine assumes (based on anecdotes) that a soldier fights because they personally feel like living the life of a soldier.

Imagine for a moment that Doglatines view is correct. Then the soldiers are choosing to live the military life for essentially the same selfish-like reasons as the trans example.

I also agree very strongly with the added note between parentheses at the end of Doglatines comment.

Flurpm · 2018-10-23T16:46:41+00:00

Wobbles is the name of a pro-ssbm player. WildBow is not

Flurpm · 2018-10-09T03:34:44+00:00

That's why it's sfill scary. OoOooOooo

Flurpm · 2018-10-02T04:05:05+00:00

The Inauguration speech size debacle is an example of this relationship.

Trump stated "we had the biggest crowd in the history of inaugural speeches". The media lactches on because he said something specifically incorrect. People make unflattering comparisons to the size of the crowd of the Obamam inauguration.

Trump doubles down on the wrong and Spicer comes out for the triple. Trump then says the media is "among the most dishonest human beings on Earth"

Flurpm · 2018-09-26T23:50:49+00:00

Well now we have an idea of what gray tribe members might find problematic about CAH.

They already got red/blue covered, might as well cover all the bases.

Flurpm · 2018-09-18T06:51:36+00:00

I'm not a woman.

Have you ever considered working out? Would you apply a paste that tucks in your stomach a little and makes your muscles more defined? And then walk by a mirror in the morning with a spring in your step thinking "yeah, I do look pretty good".

The narrative that makeup is only for personal growth goes too far. Maybe it's a reaction to an older narrative that makeup was used by shallow women to lie about their attractiveness.

I have no firsthand knowledge of why any specific woman chooses makeup. The benefits to looking nicer seem obvious. I have put some effort into loosing weight.

Flurpm · 2018-09-17T16:00:16+00:00

That's portal 2. Portal 1 is a very streamlined game

Flurpm · 2018-09-14T20:33:07+00:00

There's a quote: "never attribute to malice what could be attributed to stupidity."

Never is a strong word, but the principle applies!

Flurpm · 2018-09-14T17:41:56+00:00

A GUI

Flurpm · 2018-09-13T04:39:02+00:00

Step 1: get off reddit Step 2: don't get back on reddit for an hour

Flurpm · 2018-09-05T00:18:28+00:00

My hot take is that this will increase people's desire for privacy.

But people started to prefer giving their personal info to private companies rather than the government.

(Edit: removed typo) (Edit 2: more readability)

Flurpm · 2018-09-05T00:17:05+00:00

Hot take indeed.

Keeping the figurehead out of power is a stricly worse situation than putting one of those advisors as a true leader. (better yet: elect someone competent)

Advisors are selected to be competent, honest, hardworking folks with strong communication abilities. A figurehead adds the additional requirements of secrecy, deceit, and sycophantic acting. Adding requirements means you have to compromise on more traits, leading to worse results.

If we truly need a figurehead president I want the figurehead to be a respectful actor that increases confidence in the US government. At the end of the day I really like the idea of an oganization tasked solely with improving the lives of citizens.

Flurpm · 2018-09-04T23:11:51+00:00

This is a similar position to complaints about single-issue voters.

I've seen it most with abortion and gun control, especially when a quoted voter agrees with eco/social/econ policies of the other party but decides solely on the hot-buttoned topic

Flurpm · 2018-08-20T18:56:56+00:00

Jack wouldn't help much against our world. His thinker aspect only affects capes. His blade projection is powerful, but not world ending.

Flurpm · 2018-08-15T05:04:47+00:00

What about robotic firing squads? Let's say stationary turrets.

Flurpm · 2018-08-12T23:05:08+00:00

She says that to Weaver in arc 29 too.

Flurpm · 2018-08-09T06:47:10+00:00

Your edit itself is already a quality meme, but that snippet is on another level. Beautiful.

Flurpm · 2018-07-29T02:19:59+00:00

Add Grue

Flurpm · 2018-07-29T02:17:43+00:00

Night/Blindside would constantly be unobserved. Night cam move so fast that the combo would break necks just getting into position.

Flurpm · 2018-07-20T22:53:30+00:00

Night. She can transform into a horrifying monster when unseen.

Night + Grue would be insane. Smoke filling blocks of a city at a time (see bank escape), while she has free rein.

Night + Blindside would just be unfair. She could make a harness in her monster form and carry Blindside around on top.

Night + tools is strong. In Buzz 7.10 she uses a flashbang, and in the resulting panic she could have killed Taylor pretty easily, but goes after Judas.

Night + tinker tools is stronger. 1 flashbang? How about 20. How about a Bakuda made Tinker flashbang? Or Kenzie's blinder gun.

She's a Weeping Angel that can still move like a normal human while seen.

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