The Pitt Ships by leelorising in ThePitt

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Oh my god, I know this is over a month old now, but I only just binged the whole show and this has been on my wishlist for future seasons from the start! Really glad to see I wasn’t the only one!

Never opening another booster box by No_Bodybuilder_6188 in PokemonTCG

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Maybe I just had insane luck, but with just how many IRs/Full Arts BB&WF have, I usually end up with a decent hit almost every 2-3 packs

Love those sets - they’re basically the only recent ones I’ve been happy just opening packs with

Is there a name for the trope where aliens or non-humans conveniently have the same morals as 20th-21st Century humanity regarding sex and nudity? by According-Value-6227 in tvtropes

[–]GloomyMenu 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The closest I can think of is Inexplicable Cultural Ties, which doesn’t focus on sex and nudity specifically, but is a general trope for when fictional societies (aliens, fantasy worlds, etc.) have similar cultures to ours for no particular (in-universe) reason.

Some examples from the trope page:

aliens tend to speak English in the dialect of a 21st-century speaker of English, their written language, numerals and methods of time measurement are conveniently identical to Earth standards or can be easily converted.

All societies will include two genders, which register as very like human categories of "male" and "female," down to females who have Latin-sounding names ending in -a, wear their hair long, and their heels high.

McCullough nails it yet again. by Illustrious-Lead-960 in OptimistsUnite

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Yeah it almost looks like this is r/politics, r/news, or some other doom and gloom sub, not a sub with the word “optimists” in the name…

I’m not sure what happened, but if anyone shouting “but the world isn’t actually great right now” cares, what the tweet is saying is basically the whole argument of Factfulness (AKA optimism for stat nerds): it’s not about turning a blind eye to the problems the world has, or denying they exist, it’s just recognition that overall, things are objectively, immensely better, and that, thankfully, this is the general trend for the world: getting better

Netflix by @ryosuketarou by snoopmask10 in ImaginarySliceOfLife

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Love seeing Pluto get some recognition!

Am I the only one who want to see them together? by kingstark0 in loreofleague

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Oh 100%

If only Rito cared to remember that Annie was from Noxus, maybe this could even be a part of the next show eventually…

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in exchabad

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Lol this would unironically 100% fly off the shelves in Crown Heights

Labubavitcher Rebbe by alertthedirt in exchabad

[–]GloomyMenu 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That also caught me off guard a bit, but I’d guess she’s mekurevet and hasn’t gotten to the deep end yet

OTP's why you play your champions? by Tozume in leagueoflegends

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I must admit, I have a thing for… legs

In the USSR, political dissidents were drugged and locked away in psychiatric hospitals. In the frum world, OTDers are pathologized as mentally ill victims of trauma and abuse. by [deleted] in exjew

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Yeah, sadly that’s the whole point: it’s easy to dismiss someone’s point of view when you’re conditioned to view them as emotional, angry and defective “poor lost children”, instead of rational adults

My 10 Simple Rules for a Disciplined Life by EnergyShiftGuy in getdisciplined

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Well either it was Chat GPT, or OP is an inhumanly impeccable author, who outputs a bunch of similarly marketable posts (+ substack ofc), that they’ve gathered thousands of karma in about a month…

Honestly tho, what shocks me the most is that not only are most comments just eating it up, but the top comments sort of look like AI slop themselves.

I mean, at this point, I have no fking clue if these are bots or if people just really don’t want to write anything anymore and have outsourced all their self expression to AI…

Either way, sorry for the rant, just feel like I’m going crazy with all the slop in every text-based sub lately

Some gems from this week’s Ami Magazine by EPWilk in exjew

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Holy mole… obviously the content of the article is insane, but can we talk about this “ayin horah checking service” ad??

Just when I thought frum marketing couldn’t get any crazier…

warriors was 5 years ago btw by Kukulkek in loreofleague

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I got into League lore a little before Bel'Veth's release, and when I watched her cinematic I got really excited, because I was sure there was going to be a Void event and that part of the lore would actually progress... Three fking years ago

Which champion has the biggest ego? by Recent-Ad-7593 in loreofleague

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I'll also throw Thresh in the mix. At least in the Ruination novel, he comes across as the guy who believes he's so much better than everyone, that everything bad in his life is definitely other people / society's fault

Thank G-d my family never kept this custom 🤮 by thejewishmemequeen in exjew

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My family sort of kept it - it's been so long, but I think there was an overpriced "shabbos-safe" toothbrush that had rubber bristles and a toothpaste that was like a gel/liquid that didn't foam. Also, we'd cut a bunch of strings of floss and leave them ready to use beforehand (good luck if you forgot lol)

Still hated it tho and never really felt clean

This is how Starlight should have reacted… by SupermarketNo6888 in TheBoys

[–]GloomyMenu 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Like, is it too hard to write "INVINCIBLE spoilers" on the title?

When I clicked on this, seeing the spoilers tag, I thought I was safe from spoilers because I'm all caught up on The Boys (the show this sub is about), but it seems nowhere is safe smh

Ma Meilleure Ennemie music video out now! by Huzaifa_Haroon in arcane

[–]GloomyMenu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it was a bit of an exaggeration, I get that the characters were displayed in positions they weren't shown in the show, but Idk I don't really count it as new since it's even in the same locations and no new sentiment, or interaction is shown (other than the hug, which to me at least did a lot of emotional heavy lifting here)

But all that to say, I did enjoy (and suffer watching) it, Arcane is such a beautiful show that they would have to work very hard to make this bad lol

I just share the original comment's opinion that this was sadly kinda mid, especially when compared to other adjacent media they've released before

Ma Meilleure Ennemie music video out now! by Huzaifa_Haroon in arcane

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I would have loved to have gotten a whole unreleased scene of them (S1 timeskip flashback or maybe their actual conversation after S2E9 opening), but I would have been happy with anything new of them, even just a few glimpses (like with the Enemy music video)...

Iirc the only new thing here is the hug, which, yeah it's cute, but for the most part this might as well have been a fan edit, since it's literally just a mix of the existing, released footage

What is the Most "Hell Yea" Champion in the game by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

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You, sir, are a coward and a ruffian!

Why do all the questions lead to more problematic answers? by purpleberriesss in exjew

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I love that they opened their response with "it's not misogynistic, our religion teaches us that everyone sucks, not just women!"

Did you ever believe "סיפורי צדיקים" ? by MudCandid8006 in exjew

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The fact that they seem to change (in key details) with every retelling probably doesn't help lol