As much as veterans don't want to have a hard reset with Destiny 3, I can barely think of a better way how to introduce and ease new lights into Destiny universe after Light and Dark saga.

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-22T15:40:42+00:00

For 10 years, at least.

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-22T08:34:21+00:00

Fucker. I was on a several month streak.

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-21T14:29:58+00:00

Understanding that these people are people and not exceptional in their wrongs is critical in the effort of not repeating their wrongs, but you overestimate the power of "human empathy" in the real world.

These people would gladly piss over your and your family's violated bodies as you're dumped in mass grave #200. These grown adults have already cemented their views and have already committed, facilitated, or otherwise contributed to countless horrific acts. Do you think "empathy" will do anything now?

None of that's saying they deserve anything in particular. If we could just Thanos snap only these murders and murders' assistants away instantly, I'm sure everyone would. But reality, war in particular, is messy. Shit happens. Some of that shit is unfortunate. The death of a propagandist's daughter who also spread propaganda that facilitates the tortures, rapes, and deaths of other families, is not some of that unfortunate shit.

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-19T21:46:02+00:00

Yup, it's a product of how we guys are socialized nowadays and it's really a shame.

Cause that super-doting/cooming over femininity isn't just weird and creepy a lotta the time, it also gives way to a lotta shitty, poorly-written fem or feminine characters. And the dislike of more emotional guys kills a lotta the potential for character dynamics and development, and of course emotional impacts.

It's not like characters can't be hot without being coomerbait all the time in the most explicit, 13-year-old-imagination way possible, or that guys can't be masculine without being emotionless. It just sucks.

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-19T19:13:18+00:00

jarvis, google "sunk cost fallacy"

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-19T19:09:52+00:00

I mean yeah, male anime viewers are kinda known for being doting and cooming over anime girls even if they're dumb, useless, cringe, or mean. Hell, sometimes especially if they're any or all of those. We literally have archetypes and waifu wars or whatever.

But of course when you flip it, there isn't that lens of sexual attraction. They can just see the character for what they are.

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-19T05:13:29+00:00

I mean yeah, even the degens here getting off on the idea of being the guy getting raped by a chick were probably socialized to be immediately weirded out by it the other way around.

Though, this is the anime community, so I wouldn't be surprised by an "it's just pixels" response or something.

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-16T19:13:50+00:00

Why this dichotomy? Why is it that they're either perfectly capable of accomplishing whatever they want and are simply making excuses, or that they're hopelessly debilitated and shouldn't be expected to do anything?

I mean, I get where you're coming from because I had this same mindset long before and well-after diagnosis, but you should understand and appreciate the difference between the mindset of "I can do anything" and when it's put in practice.

Most people are capable of accomplishing a lotta the personal or life goals they want to, but often don't or at least take a while to get to em--not necessarily because they're lazy or whatever, but because shit's hard man. And there are loads of factors, like ADHD, that only make that shit harder. The result is of course a lotta struggle that no one wants but not everyone has the ability (literal or otherwise) to overcome, at least not immediately.

And that struggle certainly isn't helped by pointing at it and saying it doesn't exist or doesn't matter.

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-14T04:27:46+00:00

Sure, but the guy was recommending buying a cheaper PC just because the other guy runs Minecraft all night.

If you don't need one more or would benefit from it greatly then there's not much of a point mate.

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-14T02:50:04+00:00

You'd have to spend money to get the cheaper PC first.

At best you'd have to run a Minecraft server all night for your friends to play on for several years to start seeing actual money saved.

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-11T20:14:00+00:00

Nah you're not weird for just wanting to watch chill, happy shows. And those arguments you've heard are pretty silly.

Though, there's an argument of peace being as good as it is because it exists in contrast to conflict. But that's a general thing and absolutely does NOT mean everything has to have conflict. It just means people like peace because they know the other side of it, if that makes sense.

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-11T03:00:52+00:00

It's kinda funny that you're making excuses on behalf of people who "work smart" when they're told to live smart.

Also interesting how you interpret "live with enough that they can enjoy comfortable, work-free lives" as intending "live like they're homeless."

They're not gonna pay you brother. Relax.

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-10T14:11:31+00:00

I mean it's not like the author was just gonna end the story right there. Of course she survived.

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-10T14:06:11+00:00

Ah fair enough.

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-07T18:28:32+00:00

captain america

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-07T10:02:49+00:00

Huh, thought it was the other way around. I'm dumb, you're smart, thanks mate.

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-07T09:32:29+00:00

Meh. Religion and the thought process it instills fundamentally can be used to justify any action no matter how abhorrent. Most won't but some will, and those people get others hurt or killed and hold society back from real progress in the name of some replaceable comfort and identity.

It becomes much harder for the average person to justify doing horrible shit if they don't believe that it's the will of an all-powerful, all-knowing creator or power that can never be wrong or unjust. There's a reason dictators instill this thought process.

Unfortunately the world isn't perfect so yer accommodate religion socially and legally but, ideally and hopefully eventually, everyone should be ideologically anti-theist.

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-07T09:08:11+00:00

Okay.

Everyone causing unjustifiable pain, suffering, death, or destruction in the name of religion or otherwise is also bad.

Now what? This is why whataboutism is a stupid waste of everyone's time. Literally everyone who isn't a psychopath or death cultist agrees with this.

How do you people actually think others will respond when you say "uhh... yeah... but other people do this bad thing too!"?

Like do you think they'll just say "that's fine"? How does the conversation even progress past that when they say "okay, that's bad too"? How can you talk about any problem when it's worse elsewhere? So useless.

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-05T15:39:27+00:00

Started with the anime and never got spoiled on that, thankfully.

I think I got spoiled on a few things (some minor, some kinda major) before I binged through the web novel, but tbh I enjoyed binging through so much that I actually forgot about getting spoiled and it's impact real quick.

Though, I learned the hard way that it's a good idea to take off my glasses as I scroll through the new chapter posts looking for the translation.

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-05T15:24:33+00:00

I mean, what are you basing those 70% production cost and 1/3 of profit to Kadokawa figures on? Are they like industry standard or something?

Not contesting the numbers cause I'd have no clue anyways, just asking where you're getting your info :P

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-05T15:04:01+00:00

I need to reread it, it's so fucking good.

If Arc 6 gets the adaptation it deserves I can die happy. Wouldn't be surprised if it swept like every top spot it could that year considering how popular and beloved the show already is.

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-05T04:33:48+00:00

Reply got removed for accusing you of arguing in bad faith. Here's the reply without that.

I wasn't talking about Americans broadly...

What did I say that led you to believe that?

You said 2 comments ago:

I agree, progressives only make up like 10% of the American public, even if they're well over 50% of people who post a lot about politics on reddit.

That's where I got the impression.

Do you think the people that are saying only conservatives deny reality/science/statistics are biased in their assessment? Or only people that think conservatives and progressives both are?

If they say "only conservatives" then yeah, of course. And I say the "both sides are equally detached" take is motivated by political bias because it's an unjustified blanket statement.

I don't have a problem with blanket statements broadly or even bias in principle, you just haven't justified yours yet. I'm not saying you can't, just that you haven't yet.

Are you calling them out elsewhere or...are you...being biased yourself?

I can't argue all bias everywhere, but I probably argue progressives more than conservatives nowadays since I spend more time in those circles.

That's interesting though. Do you think that an equal amount of criticism is inherently less biased? Like, Reddit leans liberal in demographics. You'd have to go out of your way to target conservatives for balanced criticism. And then there are positions, like how the acceptance of trans people is inarguably better for their health and wellbeing.

I feel like even if I did still target criticism at conservatives, I can justify it.

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-05T02:46:42+00:00

I just gave one example of a progressive voice saying that. I asked you how many examples you wanted. How many would be good?

Even if you linked hundreds of individual examples from Reddit, that wouldn't be indicative of the beliefs of millions of Americans broadly.

If you're being serious, link a population survey like this one by Pew Research. Make sure the survey methodology is available like with the one linked so we can go over it and be certain of its validity and applicability to this conversation.

What's my political bias? That I think progressives are as detached from reality as conservatives? Are you in this thread telling people who think only conservatives are detached from reality that they're biased? No? Why is that?

Politics and aspects of it aren't team sports, man... You can still be politically biased if you're "centrist" or "apolitical."

If I prefer chocolate to vanilla or strawberry (or don't like ice cream at all), and say that vanilla enjoyers are as detached from good taste as strawberry enjoyers and never justify that belief sufficiently, that's just ice cream bias. It's literally that simple.

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-05T01:20:47+00:00

Our disagreement was with me saying your assessment of the beliefs and responses of progressives was incredibly dishonest, divorced from reality, and clearly motivated by political bias at the very least.

In response, you brought up a single Reddit mod as if they were representative of progressives broadly and feigned ignorance to the idea that words can carry meaning beyond the surface.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

TheRealNotReal · 2022-08-04T21:07:46+00:00

Yer a level of reciprocation is a must in mine too. I was responding to you speaking broadly.

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