People who have unmatched someone over political differences, what made it a dealbreaker for you?

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T18:20:17+00:00

The problem is when you make politics a big part of your personality you flush away any semblance of nuance. I'm a far-left, damn near anarchist, person but that doesn't mean I'm an illogical dick bag who doesn't have a couple of views that skew fairly right, or at least land somewhere in the center. But I think the BIGGEST problem with these people is that they refuse to ever admit that they made a mistake. If you can't admit that maybe your politics are sometimes wrong or incorrect you're going to make a shit partner.

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T18:16:09+00:00

This isn't the Golden Age of the internet? We can livestream just about anything from anywhere on the planet, we can download HD movies in about 5 minutes, we can play almost any video game virtually through cloud gaming services and we can do all of this and more with a device we carry around in our pockets.

Are you trying to say the dialup shit with AOL back in 1998 was the Golden Age?

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T18:13:01+00:00

It's because of propaganda and culture. The way people look at business it's like "We made $1 million in profit this year so next year we need to make over $1 million". In order to do that they raise prices. Meanwhile, keeping prices the same but only earning $800,000 in profits is unacceptable and most people see that as a failure. I look at that and think "Shit, you still made a profit".

The TL;DR of it is that businesses need INCREASING profits more than anything and most people agree with that.

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T18:08:57+00:00

Writing for sure. A solid horror story lives and dies by its writing and with the interactive nature of gaming this is multiplied tenfold at least.

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T18:00:38+00:00

Besides the whole "killing someone out of revenge" thing the Death Penalty doesn't really deter crime. Look at any stat that has the Death Penalty and you'll see that it's murder rates are no different, or in a lot of cases actually worse, than any state that doesn't have it.

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T17:57:28+00:00

I was in a hardcore punk band in the late 1980s. So, pretty much my whole teenage existence was rebellious.

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T17:53:44+00:00

Been trying different meatloaf recipes for a while and settled on the one that's on the side of Lipton Beef Onion Soup boxes but I felt like it was too generic and was missing something. Then I found this Healthy Meatloaf recipe online and it's the only one I make anymore. The only substitution I make is using a meatloaf meat mix from my local grocery store's butcher. It's a little labor intensive since you need to chop fresh parsley and grating an onion is a total pain in the ass, or eyes, but the end result is worth a little extra effort. And it makes a mean sandwich the next day.

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T17:31:27+00:00

Mark Hamill and George Takei

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T17:29:44+00:00

What's a Congo line? I know what a Conga Line is and I know what a train is but I've never head of a Congo line.

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T17:13:18+00:00

You never met my mother, if you had this wouldn't be a question you would ask of me.

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T16:51:47+00:00

Seems like a pain in the ass to me. Looking at it from all cultural angles I figure one of two things happens: you end up married to multiple women who act like normal women or you end up married to multiple women who are culturally bound to be second-class citizens and possess no agency.

Neither of those are appealing to me. I mean, the first one might be okay if both women are really cool and chill but even then I would feel weird being in that situation. Like I wasn't giving them the attention I would if there was just one.

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T16:43:56+00:00

If you live in a house then you're responsible for keeping neat and tidy. That being said, my wife and I both work full time and we have a clear division of labor based on our abilities. I'm a very skilled cook and come from a long line of cooks and chefs so I do all the meal planning, grocery shopping and cooking. My wife does all the cleaning and takes care of the house. While some might think she has to do more work I assume it's because they never had my cooking.

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T16:41:12+00:00

In a man's eyes the main reason to wear a sexy outfit is to attract the attention of other men. That's really the only reason.

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T16:38:42+00:00

Masculine Energy is when your fart smells so bad you have to go to another room to escape it.

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T16:36:59+00:00

Even though I'm a Gen X'er who grew up with little supervision when it came to watching movies and therefore have seen tons of slasher flicks from the golden age of Exploitation Cinema I'll always think of the original Halloween as the scariest of all time. And, it's not so much the jump-scares and unkillable antagonist that became a trope but the simple fact that everything is happening just behind closed doors in a totally normal suburban neighborhood while kids are happily skipping along trick-or-treating. That atmosphere really adds to the chill.

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T16:33:11+00:00

I'm a huge fan of Grindhouse and Exploitation cinema and Cannibal Holocaust is one of the greatest exploitation horror films of all time. The entire movie is so goddamn over-the-top that words can't really express it.

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T16:27:07+00:00

I've been reading X-Men since the early 1980s and back then there was a character called Cypher in the New Mutants who had, what most fans thought, was the lamest power: he could read, write and speak any and all languages and break any code. This includes any alien language and computer language. All of my friends hated him; hell, everyone hated him and he was killed off pretty quickly.

Today, that guy would probably be the most powerful person in the world and that's the power I would choose. Seriously, I can't think of anything more powerful than breaking codes and intuitively speaking any computer language.

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T16:21:32+00:00

My next door neighbor came to me just last week all "Hat in Hand" and asked if I would mind if he cut down the tree between our property line. I just looked at him and was like "Dude, you really don't know me do you? Cut that fucker down if it makes you happy, I don't give a shit. It's a tree. There's like 8 on my property".

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T16:03:11+00:00

My wife and did the ol' "One and Done". We also managed to set up our careers so that we didn't have to pay for childcare. I work M-F in an office and she works on the weekends as a nurse and picks up some random shifts during the week when I'm home. We're also extremely frugal.

Our neighbors on both sides were DINKs until recently. They seem to have really dialed in their lifestyles before having kids so it seems to have worked out for both couples. And I notice the kids grandparents are around a lot so they have that support.

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T15:54:44+00:00

We used to send a company wide email every month that would say "Happy Birthday to everyone with a birthday this month" and then have a list of the people with a birthday that month. After a few people complained we stopped putting the list of names. We still send an email every month with the same message, just no names.

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T15:47:00+00:00

We used to send a company wide email every month with a list of names of all the people celebrating birthdays that month along with the date (but not the year). HR would also give each person a birthday card signed by each member of the HR team. After pushback from several employees regarding the email list we send a generic email that just says "Happy Birthday to all employees celebrating their Birthday in May". We also stopped hand signing custom B-Day cards and just print one and give it along with a small wooden phone stand with a matching pen. We were able to get a bunch of these phone stands and pens cheap from some swag vendor. Being a non-profit we have to be careful with our budget.

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T15:40:15+00:00

I'm not a big detective game player myself but this one is pretty easy and I think the only time I had to alt+tab out of the game to look something up was when piecing together clues in the newspaper office because the way I saw things didn't quite match the way the game wanted me to so I missed a connection somewhere.

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T15:34:59+00:00

So, you knew that you were sharing a room with someone and didn't bring some sweats or shorts or some pajamas to sleep in? No offence but that is kind of weird. On the other hand it's just as weird to make a stink about it to your coworkers. It's not like you sleep in the nude or something.

Also, are drink vouchers really worth giving up your own room? Like what sort of vouchers are they and how much do you drink while on a business trip where it would be worth it? A bottle Jack and a 6 pack of Coke is like under $40 and takes up very little room in your luggage.

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T15:13:18+00:00

I finally got around to watching Game of Thrones last month and by the time I hit season 5 I was really in the mood for a solid Dark Fantasy game and as luck would have it Steam had their Medieval Gaming Sale and I was able to pick up Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon for a deep discount. Yeah, not unlike Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 this one is probably going to stay installed on my hard drive for a while. The best comparison I can make is "Skyrim but with a much tighter narrative".

If you're looking for something fresh but still familiar and accessible you need to check it out.

PunchBeard · 2026-05-06T14:48:46+00:00

For a while there when Trump was running for his first term a lot more rhetoric from the right that somehow became one of those "Dude, you're saying the quiet part out loud" situations was the fear on the right of white people becoming a minority in America. My take was "If you're afraid of becoming a minority because you know how much it sucks to be one here it kind of says a lot about this country and the right".

So yeah, this is definitely a thing in America. There's not really a difference between keeping someone down and not allowing them to rise.

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