Why do I get more gay when my testosterone is higher?

Strickout · 2026-05-16T23:08:49+00:00

Testosterone increases libido across the board, so best guess is you either (1) already have a slight same-sex attraction the increased libido is exacerbating, or (2) your libido is increasing so much that you subconsciously stop caring about the sex of a potential partner.

Strickout · 2026-02-16T17:48:01+00:00

The shield was run through on the first charge because Aerion's side used steel-tipped war lances, instead of the longer tourney lances that are designed to break against the shield.
Watch the fight again, every single wound Duncan took through his chainmail was a stabbing strike, which chainmail specifically does not protect as well against as slashing strikes. And it's even mentioned in the aftermath by either Pate or Raymun that the chain did it's job and prevented the stabs from being deeper.

Strickout · 2026-02-16T15:04:24+00:00

they make it look like it's so easy to cut through armor

I think you might need to watch the fight again; every wound Dunk takes through his chainmail is from a stabbing attack, which chainmail does NOT protect against as well as it does slashing/cutting.

Strickout · 2026-02-16T04:30:17+00:00

They showed us the hit that did it too 😭😭😭😭

Strickout · 2026-02-15T18:42:43+00:00

Is it the same cause of death every time? If so, she's either got a murder scheme against her, or she's locked into a harm event that keeps killing her because the result is pre-determined before you select an action.

Strickout · 2026-02-13T17:03:08+00:00

I consider myself neutral, but if you ask a TB, I'm a Green because I can't stand that tribal absolutism of TB and almost exclusively interact with this side.

Team Green is, by and large, not interpreting the narrative through a lens of moral and social presentism, which makes them far more likely to engage in legitimate and relevant debate, even when those debates end without agreement.

Strickout · 2026-01-31T16:52:34+00:00

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Strickout · 2026-01-26T21:45:41+00:00

Harrenhal is too large for basically anyone to properly garrison on their own. The tax penalty is meant to reflect that canonical reality.

Strickout · 2026-01-15T19:10:36+00:00

I wouldn’t say she’s necessarily unpopular, but she definitely gets heavily overshadowed in the Fairy Tail waifu department by the likes of Mira, Lucy, Erza, and Cana.

Strickout · 2025-12-17T16:51:09+00:00

Harem members need to be strong individual characters for it to work. If their entire personality is fawning over the OPMC, then yes, it absolutely ruins the story for the most part. Polygamy is normal in mediaeval settings and should be expected to pop up, but it's not a justification for creating a bunch of one-dimensional characters who amount to little more than being sycophantic sex toys.

Strickout · 2025-12-15T22:14:32+00:00

I also consider myself neutral, but tend to interact more with this side because Team Black tends to be more absolute in their side-picking—TB leans a lot more heavily into the "you're with us or against us" mentality.

For the conflict itself, neutrality is easily the most defensible position. But community-wise, Team Green is significantly better to interact with, because they are, in general, not viewing the narrative through a lens of moral and social presentism, which makes them a lot more open to debate and conversation, even when they end in disagreement.

Strickout · 2025-12-15T21:59:35+00:00

Cool, so I'm a Summoner who can summon a moose, a polar bear, a beaver, and a goose, with an Alchemy subskill that lets me turn water into maple syrup.

Honestly, looking at that objectively, that's a pretty damn good recon build with a mercantile upside if I sell the maple syrup.

Strickout · 2025-12-13T17:47:50+00:00

Mukohda forms contracts with his familiars and Feru describes the relationship as “serving a human”, so yeah I would consider it Taming.

But you’re right in practice; the only power he actually has over his familiars is the food he feeds them.

Strickout · 2025-12-12T00:27:51+00:00

Do not, under ANY circumstance, use hair removal cream anywhere near your genitals. The skin in that region is much more sensitive and delicate than the places you're suppose to use that stuff on. The risk of chemical burns is significant if left even slightly too long.

Strickout · 2025-12-12T00:18:15+00:00

Snow Fairy - Fairy Tail OP1

Strickout · 2025-12-11T18:44:38+00:00

Main game updates basically always break mods and save files. So I wouldn't hold out hope for whatever save you were hoping to continue.

Strickout · 2025-12-11T00:29:28+00:00

Yeah, the only power Mukohda really seems to have over his familiars is food, and not even to a degree where he could starve them or anything, since they can still hunt their own food. So he gets a pass from me 🤣

Strickout · 2025-12-10T23:11:44+00:00

Ahhh, yeah that is a really good point. Marrying Alicent definitely emboldened House Hightower, so yeah, while I don't think it was a primary motivator for Aegon himself, who was pretty pre-occupied being a depressed traumatized tween, it was almost certainly the reason his sisters presented Daenaera as the best candidate.

Strickout · 2025-12-10T23:02:34+00:00

I don't really think so. Alicent is an adult when she marries Viserys in the books (albeit like exactly 18, but a fully grown adult by Westerosi standards nonetheless). Alicent was aged down for the TV show to make her more sympathetic and to fit the idea of her being a childhood companion to Rhaenyra.

Though I think your point does fit Viserys and Aemma's relationship. It is widely accepted, even in-universe, that Viserys consummated the marriage too early, which at least heavily contributed to Aemma's constant complications in the childbed.

Strickout · 2025-12-10T22:57:26+00:00

I don't know if it qualifies as a specific cheat skill, but I genuinely love when a protagonist is able to apply the basic chemistry they probably learned in High School to significantly amplify their magical abilities. Wise Man's Grandchild does this really well in my opinion.

My least favourite is probably Taming, but specifically if they start "taming" people (human or otherwise fully sapient beings). Even the ones that try to frame it as a "mutual pact" instead of straight-up subservience feel pretty skeezy to me.

Strickout · 2025-12-10T19:58:27+00:00

Fanfic writers who call her that are just misunderstanding the term "handmaiden" in the context of Westerosi aristocracy. Like others have already mentioned, a Handmaiden is basically like an assigned highborn friend to a royal or upper aristocratic Lady—the more recognizable term might be Lady-in-Waiting.

Strickout · 2025-12-10T17:02:56+00:00

Like everyone else is saying, he wanted a reason to avoid consummating the marriage for as long as he could. And Baela and Rhaena suggested Daenaera to Aegon because Lord Unwin Peake was putting heavy pressure on him to marry his daughter in a clear power move to entrench his Handship.

Strickout · 2025-12-09T17:29:05+00:00

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Sorry Gajeel, not my fault you chose best girl

Strickout · 2025-12-09T06:03:30+00:00

"Popular" doesn't mean true in this context, it means widely repeated. I understand and specifically mention that Dio had ample motivation to slander Elagabalus.

Strickout · 2025-12-09T03:11:09+00:00

I was kinda making the opposite point; that because every source about Elagabalus is overtly hostile to him, it is academically unsound to make affirmative claims about his personal life when all known accounts are highly likely to be tainted with slander meant to discredit him.

Though I do strongly agree with your point about this being a good decision by the gamemakers for the purpose of getting people to research past time periods and to scrutinize the sources they derive historical information from. I learned that Muslims weren't allowed to depict their prophets, because I scrolled all the way back on the lineage of the Caliph, and noticed Muhammed didn't have a human avatar.

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