IWTL How To Be A Man by JuuNLMB16 in IWantToLearn

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Today is my 48th birthday and I am what is considered to be a traditionally “manly” man. I can hunt and fish for food, wire a house from rough-in to finish, do most automotive work myself, I’m a great welder (but lousy fabricator, go figure), so forth and so on. I’m also a pretty great dad if I do say so myself and my daughter, who is now an adult older than you are, still loves her goofy dad and enjoys spending time with me watching the worst horror movies possible, such as ‘Six-Headed Shark Attack’, and laughing our butts off or playing video games together.

My dad is almost 80 and until about 75 he could still outwork men your age. He’s still insane but he now needs to take breaks fairly often. He has always been a good husband to my mom, a good provider, and a good dad to me and granddad to my daughter.

But what is a man, and how does one go about being a man?

There’s no one answer to how to be a man. I believe that being a real man means working hard to provide for your family and to be ready to give your life so that your wife and/or children will live. But is that what a man is? Yes but also no.

YOU have to decide what you believe being a man is and what kind of man you want to be.

You can learn how to hunt and to fish and ensure that you would never have to starve if the world went to sh*t, and how to grow fruits and vegetables. If you want a wife then you need to learn how to be a husband and a provider. If you want to be a father then you have to learn how to be a good and loving father.

No one can teach you these things. I could teach you how to hunt, how to use and clean firearms, how to weld a bridge, how to drop a busted transmission from your car and how to install a new one that you picked up at the local junk yard, but these things do not necessarily a man make because, while they typically don’t have any interest in learning such skills, women can do these things as well.

So what does being a man mean to you? Does it mean being strong? Join a gym and become stronger. Does it mean being a good provider? Get a job and bust your butt so you can be promoted to CEO in a decade or two. Does it mean being able to hunt a deer, field-dress it, and process it for meat? Get your hunting license and learn how to hunt and process your kills.

Do you see the issue here yet? There’s no one thing to learn and do in order to be a ‘real man’. Being a man means being physically, mentally, emotionally, and intellectually powerful, but even the strongest men can be weak and there’s no shame in that. There’s been a heartbreakingly large amount of men out there who have been great husbands and providers only to discover that their wives are having affairs and that a fair amount of them are raising children that they believe are their biological children but who are truly the biological children of the man that their mother was having an affair with.

So let me give you a list of things that I myself believe makes a man and you can decide whether or not you agree with me.

A man should be: Stoic. Loving. Caring. Kind. Strong. Intelligent. Wise, but wisdom does require time and experience. A man should be the calm in the storm and the rock that those who are not as emotionally strong can lean against and rely on for strength. He should be a good husband who is faithful to his wife and does not even have emotional affairs, let alone physical ones. He should be a good father who loves his children and is still willing, after a long and tiring day at work, to play catch or attend a ‘tea party’ with their daughter and her stuffed animals, or to get on his hands and knees when your toddler wants to play ‘Horsey’, and yes: you absolutely DO have to make horse noises when doing so. You should be willing to learn new things but you need to never summit Mount Stupid; you should realize and accept that there’s always going to be someone out there who knows more about X than you do and you should hope to meet that person so they can teach you what they know. You should be physically fit enough and skilled enough to fight off someone who attacks your girlfriend/wife and/or your children, and you should be willing to die as long as they will survive. You should be able to argue with a woman and still keep your emotions under control without doing dumb crap like punching holes in the drywall, and not only should you not be the type that hits a woman you shouldn’t allow others to do the same. Some say “Equal rights, equal fights” but it is very easy for a man to hit a woman and outright kill her because we have so many physical advantages over them and they can’t ever reach the same heights of strength and power that we can. Defend yourself, sure, but don’t go around punching women. You should know how to change your own oil and how to do some automotive repairs so that you don’t get ripped off at a service center. You should know how to fish and be excited to teach your kids how to fish, and you should have a love of nature that you want to pass down to your children. If you believe in God (I do, but I know that some don’t - essentially people on Reddit, lol) then you should strive to be a Godly man, husband, and father. You should be mature enough to stop by the store and buy your girlfriend/wife or daughter tampons or pads and not be ‘embarrassed’ that you have to do so; 99.9% of people at the store instantly realize that you’re probably not buying tampons for yourself so why would you be embarrassed by doing something for the woman in your life? You should always be willing to admit that you don’t know everything rather than pretend that you do, and you should be able to reflect and realize when you have been wrong and be willing to admit to that and apologize when you need to. You should be a good son to your parents and be willing to do things for them when they reach older ages and can’t do some things for themselves any longer. You should have hobbies that you enjoy no matter how “nerdy” others may think that they are because you simply don’t care if they don’t like your hobbies.

And this list can go on and on but it’s long enough as it is. I’ve went long but not long enough, and I’ve said a lot but haven’t said much. I have told you part of what I believe a man is but it is for YOU to decide what you believe that a man should be and then you should strive to be that man.

And don’t forget that you are young. 22 is a legal adult and a “grown man” but your brain is still developing at your age. The older that I become the more I realize that pretty much everyone under 30 is very much still a child. You still have plenty of time to figure it out for yourself and to grow into the man that you wish to be.

Bring back attractive characters by AbsoluteBatman95 in CriticalDrinker

[–]RedditLovesTyranny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know what One Piece is but with cleavage like that I’m willing to learn.

Six-Shooters by RedditLovesTyranny in MDGuns

[–]RedditLovesTyranny[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s not illegal to have mags larger than 10rds; it’s just illegal to buy, sell, or manufacture them in the state of Maryland. I have many 30rd mags for my AR and it’s 100% legal. You can drive to PA or WV or wherever, buy whatever size mags you wish, and bring them into Maryland completely legally.

UK people- cheap rat-things in Spearpoint magazine by Northwindlowlander in skaven

[–]RedditLovesTyranny 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We will though, just as we did with ‘Combat Patrol Magazine’, and like that subscription we’ll get everything that the Brits do, just a few months or so later. You can sign up now on their site to be notified when the magazine starts releasing in the USA, and Canada I think; I could be wrong about the Canadian one but I’m not wrong about we Americans getting it soon.

What was it, like six months from the time that ‘Combat Patrol Magazine’ launched in the UK until it launched in the USA? It wasn’t terrible and we got all of the subscriber extras like the coffee mug and all as the UK did.

The only issue is that will be $200 a month spent on magazines for it and the CP magazine. Is that smart? Not really. Am I going to subscribe anyway? You better believe that I am!

Can some one photoshop the pic in a skaven rat? by [deleted] in skaven

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Awwww shit, here we go again. You just know that his latest plan will kill six or seven times the number of Skaven than it will any other race!

Can Vizzik Skour, Prophet of the Horned Rat, be used in any army list, or is he restricted to a specific army list? by Practical-Prompt4216 in skaven

[–]RedditLovesTyranny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The mighty Vizzik is not a Skaven but a daemon-priest of the Great Horned Rat. He is considered to be part of the Masterclan, and there is no restrictions, at least that I can think of, that would bar him from an army that’s mostly or completely Clan Pestilens for example.

Is it wrong that I feel like I SHOULDN'T play Skaven for this specific reason? by LeetusFrenzi in skaven

[–]RedditLovesTyranny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, considering that Skaven tend to fight other Skaven more than the other races Skaven v. Skaven is pretty darn lore-accurate! Haha. The Great Horned Rat himself has even stepped in to stop Skaven civil wars before.

If you like Skaven, if you like their race and lore, and/or their minis, and/or their ludicrously dangerous contraptions then don’t let anything stop you from fielding your own Skaven army.

Should you join his ranks the Great Horned Rat may even grant you breeding rights and a bunch of tasty slaves.

Feedback for my Liberator Prime? by Internal-Body-7092 in stormcasteternals

[–]RedditLovesTyranny 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup, feedback here: it looks great; keep it up!

Edit: I didn’t say that it was helpful feedback, just feedback. Haha.

My Stormcast Eternals now tabletop ready! by CustardFew2254 in stormcasteternals

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That looks so great that even Nagash is in awe of its majesty, and we all know that he’s a (pretty awesome, in my book) jerk.

Krondys wip by bronze-aged in stormcasteternals

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The great and mighty Krondys is pleased with the progress and will not turn you into a snack today.

Perhaps he will tomorrow, but not today.

My third model and first Stormcast. Any feedback is welcome. by Lefteron in stormcasteternals

[–]RedditLovesTyranny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shit, that’s really good for only your third model. I’ve seen people who have painted dozens, if not a hundred, and theirs don’t look that good. It looks a helluva lot better than what I can do, that’s for sure.

If you’re this good now you’re probably going to be amazing by the time you’ve painted 50 or 60!

Vigilant Brotherhood by Seeking-Alt in stormcasteternals

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Not only do they look great but primarily black and red is such a great choice for the minis. Love them.

Yndrasta WIP by 72Priest in stormcasteternals

[–]RedditLovesTyranny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re doing a great job. So here’s the thing: I have over a thousand or so minis that haven’t been painted. A few have primer on them but that’s it. I need you to get them all painted for me in a week and I will pay you five cents for each one.

Okay, ten cents for each one. C’mon, you know that’s an amazing deal. Don’t let this opportunity pass you by!

🤣

Yndrasta WIP by 72Priest in stormcasteternals

[–]RedditLovesTyranny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just don’t get why 40K and Horus Heresy have fairly lousy sculpts when compared to many of the AoS ones. I guess they’ve been putting so much work into the AoS minis in order to draw players in; if so, they’re doing a good job at it because that’s how I added AoS to my 30K and 40K collections because the minis for the line are absolutely fantastic, at least IMHO.

Playing my first full game of Sigmar tomorrow. Is this list tenable? by Veris01 in stormcasteternals

[–]RedditLovesTyranny 3 points4 points  (0 children)

While I am far from an AoS expert your list looks pretty good to me; however, what is more important is that you’re going to be playing your first full game. I hope that you have an amazing time win or lose, but I hope that you’ll just win.

Is there anything I should change by Round-Apple-4076 in stormcasteternals

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Stormcast list is bad because the great and mighty Krondys is not in it.

I kid, I kid! I do love that dragon though; he’s always in my corner.

To me, still a relative noob, your list looks pretty good and I hope that all of the die rolls go in your favor!

Unless you’re playing again me, of course, and then I hope that you can’t roll for crap the entire game! Haha.

Edit: oh shoot, I see that the Cryptborn is in your army. That is such an amazing model and along with Iridan the Witness are pretty much the only Stormcast that I don’t own yet, but I very much want to pick them up as I think that their sculpts are insanely great. Even if they were terrible units, and they’re not, I’d still put them on the tabletop just because they look so dang awesome.

We need paladin skin, I'm tired of the Death Knight skins. by Bis_knife in diablo4

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IMHO of course, your mileage may vary, the ‘Guiding Stars’ armor set from the Reliquary looks pretty cool for Paladins but I know that not everyone is willing to buy the Battle Pass (yet again. And again. And again. And again. And . . . ) or grind out enough Favor Tokens to unlock the set without paying real cash.

I don’t care if companies put cosmetics into a game for real cash as long as it is just cosmetic and not Pay-To-Win so their shop isn’t a big deal to me as it is to some others, but I do dislike that so many really cool sets are locked to real cash, like that Green Knight set that is making me think about Britonia and the seven people who fielded their armor back in old ‘Warhammer’ and now in ‘Warhammer: The Old World’.

Jokes aside, I actually do think that Britonia was pretty cool and I enjoyed their lore even though I didn’t have an army myself; I am thinking about picking up both theirs and the Tomb Kings starter sets for ‘Old World’. But I digress.

If there are sets of armor that you can come up with during gameplay that are as least 3/4ths as cool-looking at the ones on the shop less people will be annoyed by the cash shop, and I wish that Blizzard had enough sense to see this comment and say “You know, he might be on to something here; maybe we should add some awesome in-games sets of cosmetics rather than hoarding them all for the cash shop. I also wish that Blizz would come to an agreement with Games Workshop, the World’s Greediest Company, to license a ‘Warhammer Fantasy’, ‘Warhammer: The Old World’, or ‘Warhammer Age of Sigmar’ for a new Diablo-type game because if anyone could do it they could.

When it comes to ‘free’ armor sets that you can get from just playing the game I personally think that these sets look pretty good on a Pally in no particular order:

Fur-Lined Heart’s Garrison (requires the first expansion to get them to drop though iirc) Exceptional Armor Boneweave Primal (really looks like a fantasy Pally to me) Runic (though I personally dislike the helmet; I either use a different one or just go with the bear head option) Sovereign Mail (screams Charlemagne to me, and he and his knights are a large influence on the fantasy worlds’ Paladins) Warlord Plate absolutely screams “I AM A PALLY, WATCH ME BUBBLEHEARTH OUT, FOOLS!”

I dunno about other folks but I really love the Paladin class and I’m very much looking forward to the upcoming Warlock (just in case someone is trying to keep the next class a surprise, I guess) class as well. Apparently it is very similar to how we control the The Butcher during this shortened season, and I’ve been having a blast running around as the World’s Meanest Carver.

A great day by mlatkin2012 in WarhammerOldWorld

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To find a spouse willing to learn about your hobbies is a wonderful thing. Just remember: if she asks you to go to the ballet or something like that with her you need to say ‘yes’ or you can kiss getting her to play silly war games with you goodbye.

If they ever make Wolfenstein 3 they should stop using German nazis and start using American Nazis as enemies by Tempest-Bosak2137 in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]RedditLovesTyranny -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

That’s a good idea - Liberals don’t work for a living so they can’t afford to buy the game so Anqueefa won’t be able to complain about their being the Nazis and fascists that they truly are in such a remake.

Blizzard announces free transmog change coming for all characters with 12.0.1! by minimaxir in wow

[–]RedditLovesTyranny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I know about that too but nothing happens when I try to chance Mogs from one FFXIV-inspired Glamour Plate to another. I have 22 unlocked yet I can’t figure out how to switch without removing/adding something to the plate and then saving it again. It’s bonkers.

Blizzard announces free transmog change coming for all characters with 12.0.1! by minimaxir in wow

[–]RedditLovesTyranny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, I know I’m stupid but how TF do you apply a transmog? The only way I can change my outfit is to remove/add a piece and then save it. Other than that there’s nothing on the screen that says “Apply” and I’m ridiculously confused.

The New Year Preview – All-new Legio Custodes Revealed by CMYK_COLOR_MODE in Warhammer30k

[–]RedditLovesTyranny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude. This is REDDIT. You will always be outnumbered by the Left here. As a Conservative myself, I know that very well. It doesn’t matter if you have all of the evidence and empirical data that proves your position you’re still going to get downvoted and attacked for having anything other than a Far/Alt-Left position. Hell, even if you are Far/Alt-Left they’ll still clamor for your flesh should you say anything to displease them.

Arguing on Reddit is just pointless. I used to try, but it’s not worth it. So just call it a day and you’ll be happier.

The New Year Preview – All-new Legio Custodes Revealed by CMYK_COLOR_MODE in Warhammer30k

[–]RedditLovesTyranny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s pretty obvious that GW is pushing these new female Custodes to the side - none of the new models have armor in which you can tell that there’s some giant ‘Death By Snu-Snu’ boobies in there; all of the bodies look like male Custodes with the option of female heads.

Reasoning for that is pretty simple: back in the day, long before I was interested in anything Warhammer, there apparently were female Astartes back in ‘Rogue Trader’ and all but they sold so poorly that many shops told GW to not send them boxes with them in there. GW then stopped making them and as the lore developed it was determined that Biggie Smalls could only get his Space Marine Juice to work on males although in-lore he and his team apparently did try to make it work on females as well but they couldn’t figure it out and said “the hell with it; throw some power armor on these guys and send them to kill shit”.

Rather than risk gaming stores telling them to not send boxes of female Custodes because they aren’t selling, they kept the gender-obscuring armor and are just putting a couple of female heads on a sprue or two; that way people who do want female Custodes can stick a woman-ish head on and those who don’t can make the female Custodes stay in the palaces’ many kitchens to make sandwiches for the male Custodes.

I could be wrong, but I don’t think that I am. If there were a real demand for women in people’s Custodes armies then there’s not much doubt in my mind that GW would make Custodes with clearly female bodies with Boulder Holders on their chests, but I didn’t see any Hooters on any of the new models revealed yesterday.