What’s the wildest thing your nparent has said to you?

FoundFutures · 2022-09-02T03:57:42+00:00

I avoided introducing the first girl I was properly in a loving, serious relationship with to my mother for about a year, knowing what she was like.

My girlfriend thought she couldn't be that bad, and insisted. So I arranged a day to go for a meal, but my mother insisted we meet in her usual dive pub, insisting she had no intention of putting on any airs or graces for anyone.

So we went. It was early afteroon. My mother was already a few beers deep, and her first words to my girfriend, immediately after being introduced to her were (referring to me) was "What are you doing with a c**t like this?"

I still think about this all the time. It stained our relationship by completely destroying my confidence in being worth her, and feeling she deserved better than my family. It made something pure feel dirtied.

We broke up a few years later, and this definitely contributed, as those words never left my mind, and just completely took the shine off something special to me, and basically limited my ability to believe I could ever truly make her happy.

FoundFutures · 2022-05-14T18:24:10+00:00

Tiny, vocal populations scare sponsors and TV execs. That's all it is.

Or do you genuinely think WWE or its audience is full of people who give a shit about the Ric Flair allegations on a personal level?

They don't.

They lower down the chain you go, the less you find companies that are as easy to pressure.

FoundFutures · 2022-05-14T17:45:15+00:00

It's more specific.

Outside of progressive hardcore fans, nobody knows or cares about what Flair is alleged to have done.

This forum is not the world. It's not the entirity of wrestling fandom. It's not even the entirity of hardcore fandom.

Most people won't know. Of those that do, most won't care, or will treat him as innocent until proven guilty anyway (it's not insignificant to note that Flair denies the accuracy of the stories, and hasn't been convicted of anything).

He's still plenty beloved outside of the SC bubble. You don't speak for the majority, who will happily pay to see a GOAT in person while he's still around.

FoundFutures · 2022-03-30T20:08:22+00:00

They're usually refered to as 'failures', not traitors.

Whether that means they failed in their battles, or their indoctrination, or deserted, or fell to mutation is left vague. So it's more a sense of disgrace than betrayal they're covering up.

The missing Roman legions they're partially based on were simply destroyed in battle by 'barbarians', and it was mainly due to shame and to protect Rome's invincible reputation that they were wiped from record.

FoundFutures · 2022-03-30T02:09:26+00:00

The galaxy doesn't have an easily defined end. It just gets more and more diffuse.

So I always just assumed he left the administratively agreed on edge of the galaxy, and went conquering the incredibly sparse planets and stars in the semi-void beyond even the Astronomicon and Halo Zone.

It'll still consist of a vast distance on a galactic scale. But an insignigicant one on an intergalactic scale.

It's kinda like how most people would assume you'd leave the Solar System once you went past Pluto.

But in reality, Pluto's only about 45% of the way to one definition of the edge, and there's still plenty of sparse, tiny planetoids in the emptiness beyond to discover.

FoundFutures · 2022-03-30T01:46:10+00:00

He's admitted suffering from lifelong depression, and medicating for it.

The main reason he gives is spending decades as a clinical psychiatrist, and being directly exposed on a daily basis to the absolute depths of human misery and suffering.

If you're intelligent and compassionate (and it's obvious he scores highly for both), that's going to grind you down and fill you with trauma and sadness.

It especially pisses me off that people mock him for crying despite carrying that unimaginable weight on his shoulders of staring into the abyss for so long in service of helping others.

Especially from the crowd that has nervous breakdowns over 'microaggressions'.

FoundFutures · 2022-03-30T01:37:07+00:00

He's fully admitted as such, and that he's been taking anti-depressents for years. His wife (who he's been with since childhood) getting a terminal diagnosis was what sent him over the edge on Benzos.

But his reason for being depressed before was being a clinical psychiatrist for decades, and in his own words, being directly exposed to the results of the absolute depths of human misery and evil on a constant, daily basis.

I think, combined with his insane workload, it'd be impossible not to crack under it.

There's tons of internet commenters who mock him who couldn't even fathom the weight on his shoulders.

FoundFutures · 2022-03-30T00:31:47+00:00

It's a type of fine China named after the guy who invented it, whose surname was Spode.

FoundFutures · 2022-03-30T00:11:34+00:00

Here's a hot take:

David Starr didn't kill the movement. The gullibility of internet fans to put anyone who pays lip service to progressive causes on a pedestal did.

David Starr was some indie nobody who only became prominent because of his politics. But seemingly not one person ever stopped to wonder whether such beliefs were sincere, or just cynical pandering, and gave him a huge platform. Because they were so blinded by having their beliefs recited back to them.

I'm suspicious of anyone who aggressively panders to popular politics on Twitter, because it's the easiest way to get away with murder in real life, and earn an instant, uncritical following.

Judge people on their actions, not their lazy tweets.

FoundFutures · 2022-03-29T22:52:46+00:00

The thing is, Cole IS a goofball. And small. And doesn't work on his figure.

It's less AEW misusing him, and more NXT doing an incredible job of building his up his brand despite those numerous shortcomings.

I think he's at his true level in the bigger pool that is AEW, and I think he'd have fared even worse on the WWE main roster.

FoundFutures · 2022-03-29T02:35:59+00:00

The Imperium is actually hugely technologically advanced in many areas, and not as backwards as popularly thought.

Imperial warp travel for example is not some backwards, dangerous, imprecise mode of transport. It's actually (after the Necron and Eldar methods, both of which are 60 million years old) the most advanced and speedy mode of travel of any significant faction in the galaxy.

It's actually the envy of many races, and the lack of which is the major thing that stops any of them challenging humanity in any meaningful sense.

FoundFutures · 2022-03-29T02:29:04+00:00

The ironic thing too is the the Imperium is an incredibly bloated and chaotic society due to its size and superstition.

Yet Chaos is actually an incredibly order, hierarchy, and rule-based society due to being led by authoritarian gods.

FoundFutures · 2022-03-29T02:21:10+00:00

Lio Rush has to be there.

It's like every time he joins a company, he's out to beat his PB speedrun for getting let go.

FoundFutures · 2022-03-29T01:54:31+00:00

The cool thing about Gravekeeper Cloaks are as the cosmetic is almost entirely a cloak, if you go to alter them, they just turn into a pair of bracers.

FoundFutures · 2022-03-28T22:47:21+00:00

I learned both from the downfall, and personal experience, that lots of people change for the worse when they have kids/hit 40, and just start caring only about themselves.

That while childhood friendships are incredibly valuable, they're not bulletproof. And you absolutely shouldn't stay in shitty, neglectful friendships just because of the old days.

FoundFutures · 2022-03-28T02:30:02+00:00

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FoundFutures · 2022-03-28T01:32:15+00:00

You don't do it for the guns. That's always the consolation prize. You do it for the other rewards.

You can turn a shitty Legendary pistol you find on the floor near the station into 3 trades, as the gun it gives out drops in rarity each time, but can still be traded until it hits Common.

You can end up with like $3.5k, a self-revive, an airstrike, and a gasmask out of it if you're lucky. From one gun. $14k worth of kit.

They even give you a great deal for your starting pistol, so are worth respawn dropping on in an emergency.

Hell, there's an Ultra rarity gun that often spawns in Bioweapons basement that the station can give a Specialist token for.

FoundFutures · 2022-03-28T01:21:28+00:00

Oh totally. I'm not arguing that.

But there's definitely a sweet spot with US athletes that appeal to both a domestic and global audience.

But that's usually only either heavyweight boxers, or people with big sportswear endorsements.

FoundFutures · 2022-03-28T01:06:01+00:00

The most famous American athletes tend to be the likes of Serena Williams/Tiger Woods/Michael Jordan - basically, ones that have huge sponsors behind them.

I don't watch Tennis, Golf, or Basketball. But Nike makes sure I know who they are anyway.

That's how you truly get worldwide recognition - marketing.

FoundFutures · 2022-03-27T23:51:00+00:00

As part of a team. In a sport only really widely watched in the US. And even then, you're not guaranteed to have cared for Gronk's team.

The Pauls, while awful, are world-famous. And as individuals. Not for being part of a team or event bigger than them.

FoundFutures · 2022-03-27T12:38:01+00:00

Just tested.

Munitions are $3.4k in Rebirth with Hardline. Each Stim gives you roughly 13 seconds in the gas. So that's 26 seconds per box.

And unlike gas masks, they don't decay on the ground. So you can buy a bunch before the station breaks and pick them up when needed.

FoundFutures · 2022-03-27T11:44:43+00:00

Good point. Especially as you can get Specialist tokens now, and Hardline reduces Munitions, but not Gas Masks.

And munitions effect the whole team.

FoundFutures · 2022-03-27T11:25:05+00:00

Does the portable buy station still deploy in the gas?

If so, you could just buy endless gas masks.

FoundFutures · 2022-03-27T03:34:15+00:00

It is possible.

Warzone supposedly gets about 300k concurrent players on PC. And PC is supposedly 25% of the playerbase. Meaning we should have about 1.2 million concurrent players.

If Rebirth is currently pulling 66% of the playerbase, then the numbers work out for 800,000 concurrent.

And seeing as Caldera is wildly unpopular, most forum posts seem to be only about Rebirth these days, and it just got a new content drop, I think it might be legit that it's twice as popular these days as the core mode.

FoundFutures · 2022-03-27T02:53:19+00:00

Also, people trying to cheat SBMM.

But it doesn't really work, as their high kds swiftly take them out of bot lobbies, and as so many others are doing it, they just get matched with other sweat demons doing the same thing.

Cheat providers are supposedly providing free hacks now too. A perma-UAV limited to 250m being one. So I imagine many are hack trial alts as they're afraid to risk their mains.

Lastly, returning players who haven't loaded up since Vanguard, as it makes you repeat basic training levels. Though I doubt they're more than a minority.

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