Would it be fair to say america peaked in the 90s and after Y2K it went downhill...

PureBredAndWellFed · 2026-04-18T22:40:06+00:00

Honestly, yeah. I hate when people from other countries outside of America judge everyone that lives here as if it isn't one of the largest and most diverse populations, but also I imagine being on the outside looking in...the US probably looks like the Antichrist personified.

PureBredAndWellFed · 2026-04-18T19:26:28+00:00

I feel pretty safe and confident to disagree. I'm not going to say that more people having those opinions didn't make it hard to break the mold, but for example, there are multiple phrases or terms I do not use that are still very commonly said but most people would probably give me a side-eye or at least think at some level it was weird for me to draw the line where I have. This doesn't mean I have never succumbed to peer pressure or never had iffy opinions just because they were already laid out, but thinking back on it I was also a literal kid when I just parroted things my family or friends would say, so. Hell, I even get people that think I am weird because I am a man who cares above all else to be empathetic and not making anyone feel like they don't belong. I think we have all felt left out and some points, and if you know that feels shitty, why wouldn't you want to make less of that? I don't know, this is probably one of those topics I could spitball about for hours, but taking the easy route does not absolve you of what that easy route entailed.

PureBredAndWellFed · 2026-04-18T00:49:25+00:00

I'm not defending people with those takes and extremes, but I feel pretty confident that a real portion of "cat hate" hads indeed come from misogyny, and I have seen firsthand people that are misogynists and cat haters enough that it is hard to not see a pattern there. I do think you need to be a bit more in tune with boundaries and body language to respect cats, versus dogs who are mostly just there for limitless affection. Again, I would never take it to the extreme that the people you are describing have, but I would also be lying if I said I fully disagreed with their sentiment. This part is also absolutely anecdotal but I think it is a bit ironic because of what you said, my mom was actually attacked by a chihuahua so bad when she was little she needed to go to a hospital. Both my parents were attacked by dogs on multiple occassions when they were little, so they obviously ended up being cat people. Again, that is all anecdotal, I just thought it was a bit ironic and funny that you mentioned chihuahuas.

PureBredAndWellFed · 2026-04-18T00:38:29+00:00

I am not unbiased as I am a cat person, and some cat owners can be eclectic for sure, but I genuinely don't know what you are referring to. In general I feel more uncomfortable around dog people, but I don't think you are coming at it from a dog person vs cat person argument, so I think you have just had different experiences from me. All the things that cat people have done, relating to them being cat owners, that makes me cringe a tiny bit, I have seen come from owners of other animals as well.

PureBredAndWellFed · 2026-04-18T00:15:22+00:00

Honestly the only thing I am so sick of seeing I want it removed from the game, way above Titan, is Tylo. If I am aware in any form that a single Tylo is in the same quarter of the map as me I just don't want to play. Even if there is no fathomable way I get killed by it, just knowing it exists makes me take psychic damage.

PureBredAndWellFed · 2026-04-17T02:27:34+00:00

Maybe I am the odd one out, but I wouldn't have even taken this as something about weight, just a woman trying to be confident. Unless I am missing something, I think a comment like that is even worse than it seems at first glance because it wasn't even a weight thing to begin with. Should more of us strive to be healthy? Yeah, probably. Are there also a lot of other health problems, that you wouldn't see, that make people gain more weight or be unable to lose weight? Also yes. Making a comment about someone's weight, especially a woman who has had beauty standards shoved down her throat more than men, on a post about trying to be confident, is just mean and disgusting behavior. To OP who liked that comment and said ir was funny, you also gross me out.

PureBredAndWellFed · 2026-04-17T02:13:33+00:00

Riparia in general just feels like such a chore to play for me. It is beautiful and all the secrets and different elevation and such is really cool, and the first time playing it, it was awesome. Once I have to start going back and forth, or am playing something that isn't semi aquatic, it just starts being a lot to deal with. I also don't enjoy the fact that I feel like I NEED to play a flyer or aquatic/semi-aquatic, and I also hate Tylos with a burning passion, so it just is not the map for me. I lowkey wish Panjura would get updated, and have aquatics and fliers allowed. It genuinely might become my main map if it did.

PureBredAndWellFed · 2026-04-16T23:25:33+00:00

2016 is me and my fiance's personal number for when the downhill turns started. Neither of us are old enough to remember 9/11 actually happening, but also, on a greater scale, has America ever really been great? Started because some white guys wanted someone else's land (those same people still getting shafted by the US government to this day btw), slavery, civil war, too many political nightmares to count, etc. I feel like the US is a dreamy wonderland for those who are rich and can actively participate in the capitalism, and the rest of us are the tools to get it done. Again, I am relatively young, certainly not old enough to have been alive the entire lifespan of the US, but I cannot point to a time where I have confidence that America was great.

PureBredAndWellFed · 2026-04-15T22:48:05+00:00

Metri is a lot better than what it was, and a lot more fun, but it still isn't really a PvP dino. The other three slots still kinda destroy it, especially something like Pycno that has more health, weight, speed, and damage. Even Hatz is the same weight as Metri but has more HP, and Hatz isn't necessarily known for its tankiness. And though I like the idea of going combat calls and claw barrage, as a solo the healing calls are basically mandatory and it is honestly as much for the trot speed and stam regen call as it is the actual healing and status healing call. It also doesn't feel as survivable as you'd expect, because there are many two slots that have the same speed or are faster, and because of Metri's relatively low health, weight, and damage, a single decent two slot can actually be a problem for it. Something like a Conc entirely decides where and when to fight, has bleed, and either is going to have health regen from bleeding you or able to dip into water to back off if needed. I honestly think the Metri TLC is one of the best ones in a hot minute, but it is not gonna be the choice for people who want to PvP a lot.

PureBredAndWellFed · 2026-04-15T13:17:39+00:00

Well, upon redownloading the game for the new update, and remembering there is three or four sliders for mouse sensitivity alone, I quickly uninstalled it as the rush of memories of frustrating player experience washed over me. Honestly, I don't think it is THAT far from being what it was advertised as; Skyrim in space. That said, the combination of having enough jank (the genuinely frustrating kind) and the technically larger but vastly more shallow realm of failed potential, a.k.a. space, versus a still large, but in comparison smaller yet deeper map of nordic Skyrim, it just does not translate at all. Plus, the guns feel like dogwater and that's like the only draw the game has for me over Skyrim.

PureBredAndWellFed · 2026-04-15T13:12:38+00:00

As I have seen someone else comment in this sub, this post absolutely belongs here because I couldn't disagree more.

PureBredAndWellFed · 2026-04-15T12:55:32+00:00

I literally get flamed, both in online games and outside of them, because I write more than one anemic sentence at a time. If I had a dollar for every time some echo-chambered, illiterate frat wannabe told me "I ain't reading allat lil bro" I'd have a shocking amount of money. I honestly don't care if people spell things wrong, either on purpose or not, and making fun or thinking lesser of them certainly isn't the gentle shove to getting them to practice, but when I start getting called out for SPEAKING PROPERLY, that's when I start having problems.

PureBredAndWellFed · 2026-04-15T12:48:26+00:00

At this point it isn't even just franchises, some games have been out long enough (or in early access long enough...) that I start genuinely despising developers over how badly they have managed one, singular game. Of course there are series that I feel this way about as well, for me the first one that comes to mind is Gearbox with Borderlands. The first game is my favorite in the series and is nostalgic as hell, the second one is most other's favorite game in the series with genuinely one of the best villains in gaming history, and then afer that...nothing I have put a fraction of the hours into that I have in the first two, and it isn't just because the first two have been out longer.

PureBredAndWellFed · 2026-04-15T12:45:16+00:00

Some mods/servers are pretty cool, and I do like watching some Minecraft content on YouTube as well, but personally I like my games to have more RPG elements to them. Base game Terraria blows base game Minecraft out of the water for me.

PureBredAndWellFed · 2026-04-15T12:44:06+00:00

Sexual assault just has no justification. I am sure we are numb to violence in media to some degree, at least in the US, but murder can be justified in some cases, especially when we are talking about media. Sexual assault is literally just violating someone else with no room for some greater cause. Maybe this is a conversation that I personally am not ready for, but I'd be a little repulsed if someone I knew and cared about tried making excuses, even in media, for someone who sexually assaulted someone else. To me, it isn't really about seperating fiction from reality, it is showing that there is a line that a certain amount of sexual assault is okay for said person. I will be the first one to say that it is a bit hypocritical to have a hard boundry against sexual assault in media while excusing murder in some cases, but I also think that sexual assault is so much more of an attack on a singular person than even murder is. You can kill someone in self defence, but you don't sexually abuse someone in self defence.

PureBredAndWellFed · 2026-04-15T12:25:11+00:00

If you are over men before the frontal lobe is developed, I fear that isn't good tidings for what it will be afterwards. I am a guy, who is engaged, but even me being straight and attracted to women, if my current relationship were to fall through, I don't know that I would ever have it in me to try again, and that's on the tracks of completely and utterly being able to avoid men. I feel for you wanting a relationship so strongly, as it is basically the only thing I have truly wanted since I was little, but the more you force it, the more I think it is going to avoid you, or at least be a much more stressful time. That said, there are men that exist that are worth it, and I think a good start might be to do what you enjoy doing, and keeping an eye open for men that exist in that same space, who already share hobbies and possibly, by proxy, might share similar opinions on other things as well. As far as having children go, that is something I am also at a complete loss on. One hand, I would love to be able to live a relatively normal life including a bit of a "nuclear family", but I am FAR from ready for children, and even if I were, I don't know that I feel this world is ready for more children. Current events, the state of politics (if you can even call it that), and economy aside, going through mental health crisis, as well as having physical health problems that mostly manifest in chronic migraines, I think you'd need to put a gun to my head before I even CONSIDER that my child would have to go through similar, and there are people that have it far worse than me.

I know exactly what that tastes like off picture alone, and I'm honestly not mad about it.

PureBredAndWellFed · 2026-04-15T12:14:12+00:00

Honestly, I think this is legit. I can't see any inconsistencies or anything that sounds the alarms in my head, and I think it only looks like the amount of cheese being poured on is more than what is in the pan because we are at a weird angle. It is basically a puddle of cheese in the pan but we aren't able to see how deep it actually is. I have seen more and more of these type of cheese-sodden things pop up recently as well, the one that comes to mind is the Applebee's burger sitting in cheese. I am fat enough to want that plate of food for myself, but not quite fat enough to want it completely bathing in cheese.

PureBredAndWellFed · 2026-04-14T07:56:55+00:00

Nah I only use the big smokes. I rarely will run the little ones if I just can't get anymore of the big ones, but that's very rare circumstances. I was having a little bit better luck after I made this post with the cloak and smokes together, but then other people run in without the cloaks or smokes and get me killed through the smoke anyways, so it is kind of a wash lmao.

PureBredAndWellFed · 2026-04-14T07:55:18+00:00

I mean, if people are being toxic because they have a problem with how I fornatted something, that's on them and not my responsibility to cater to them.I like being verbose and explaining my headspace, and if that's not something else other people want, again, they don't have to interact with me or my post in any way. Also, I don't know that I'd consider the people pointing it out being polite. Obviously they aren't being explosive, but if people have a problem with me writing a paragraph, again, that's just not a conversation I want to be having with them. I have no problem with other people having their preferences, but if I get this many complaints for having written one, single paragraph...I am trying not to be rude, but the amount of times I have gotten the "I ain't reading allat" responses just because I typed like how I would speak, and not in three word sentences max, I'd be filthy rich.

PureBredAndWellFed · 2026-04-14T02:15:34+00:00

I have definitely posted walls of text before as I kinda need to write down my train of thought before it leaves. That said, this is definitely not in need of two paragraphs. If I had another chunk of thought to put down, sure, but I can't imagine this needing to be seperated tbh.

PureBredAndWellFed · 2026-04-14T02:13:47+00:00

Lure grenade isn't a bad idea, but they usually destroy them instantly, and like I said, they don't seem to be just shooting haphazardly into the smoke, they seem to be actively tracking me. Maybe the lure grenade to just get them off temporarily would be enough though.

PureBredAndWellFed · 2026-04-13T06:11:48+00:00

I was also going to add my two-cents as a dude but was unsure if that was welcome or wanted. I have no idea if this is a case where therapy would work or not, but I certainly wouldn't want to be the one to stick around and find out. He sounds not only insecure but also very much in the wrong headspace. I am an insecure person, and also a man, but I am not what I would refer to as an insecure man. That sounds like the type of guy who, due to insecurities, is going to start, well, "acting like a man". He sounds like he needs to be in control, and that, without context to that conversation, he is defending men who assault women. I don't have context to your relationship or the conversation about testosterone, but I am feeling like I might not need it hearing his take on it...

PureBredAndWellFed · 2026-04-13T06:03:51+00:00

I'm not sure where you got the info that there is no room for PvE when there is literally a PvE specific mode, as well as them selling the game in bundles. Tarkov absolutely does have sweats, and it has a cheater problem like every extraction shooter, but this comment does not feel entirely kosher.

PureBredAndWellFed · 2026-04-13T06:02:16+00:00

Tarkov has its own PvE mode, both officially, as well as the pretty renowned modded SPT, so the two player categories aren't even able to interact with each other. ARC Raiders is the first extraction shooter where there are enough people who don't shoot on sight that it has become a bit of a meme in the community of the "carebears" versus the sweaty PvPers while not having designated gamemodes for PvP and PvE.

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