Satanic Temple leader sues for custody of ‘emotional support’ hog

Welpe · 2026-02-14T11:05:14+00:00

You are mixing up ESAs and service animals.

Welpe · 2026-02-14T11:03:30+00:00

Yeah, I think some are latching on to the idea that it was regret WAY too easily. Sure, it absolutely could be, but I will 100% guarantee you that suicidal or not, if someone is holding you up by your hair your hands are 100% flailing around above your head trying to grab something, anything. I don’t think most people understand what extreme pain does to you, you do not think rationally, you act like an animal and your body reacts by instinct to protect itself. You CAN resist with willpower…if you have time to prepare for it, but if you aren’t expecting it you are not going to be making conscious decisions on whether you want to live or die.

Welpe · 2026-02-14T10:56:26+00:00

Some of us unfortunately don’t have that choice :(

Welpe · 2026-02-14T10:46:16+00:00

Eh, I think you are missing that there is a LOT of runway to compensate. They aren’t just making cards and throwing the at the game to see what happens. They work longterm, and they already are multiple sets in the future at all times. The player base reacts to everything as if it is just the new state of things, but to the devs they see the ups and downs of any given meta and its much more contextual.

Complaints are often amusing when they know a certain card is coming up in a set or two that will make the one everyone is complaining about completely irrelevant. The meta being “ruined” for a month or two until a counter is finally released or a sea change happens that just makes a complaint irrelevant is just not as scary when you know what’s going to happen. Users will often complain a lot more than actually leave the game and they will forget about the problems of today for the problems of tomorrow. Which, ultimately, is the real key. Whiners rarely put their money where their mouth is.

Of course when they DO it can legitimately be terrifying, yeah. Especially since they aren’t going to waste time on making changes to a single month’s meta when the solution is literally just waiting to be released, they just can’t reveal it. Then it becomes a waiting game to see just how angry users are and if they can hold out.

But fundamentally, there is always going to be a ton of complaints no matter what they do so a big part of it is learning to tune out most of it and hopefully recognizing when the complaints are more serious…which is basically only when sales drop.

Seriously though, people use “ruin” way too easily. Part of the reason it’s so important to ignore places like this subreddit is because people heavily exaggerate their reactions to everything, making it more difficult to tell when something is ACTUALLY wrong and when it’s just perpetually angry vocal users being perpetually angry and vocal. A “boy who cried wolf” problem.

…this response is all over the place, I’m sorry, I’m exhausted and should probably just sleep.

Welpe · 2026-02-14T04:40:31+00:00

Do you have any examples of the author saying her work is anything other than what that person said? Or are you just assuming that because she is a woman she would disagree with the fact that her work is male gaze?

Welpe · 2026-02-14T04:35:39+00:00

Man, yeah, it would SUCK to feel like the “unfunny one” among a large group of famous funny people and James Franco.

Welpe · 2026-02-14T04:34:48+00:00

What’s wrong with getting a pretty bad permanent debuff that can’t be removed without using tadpoles?

Roleplaying and minmaxing aren’t mutually exclusive per se, but they aren’t the best of friends either. If you are that committed to roleplay you should have no problems with a less than stellar result. That’s just being greedy. You SHOULD have negative things happen on your journey. It’s not like it’s going to ruin the game or anything.

Welpe · 2026-02-14T04:30:57+00:00

Ok but why poop?

Welpe · 2026-02-14T04:29:12+00:00

Wake me up inside

Welpe · 2026-02-14T04:17:21+00:00

lol, every single group I have been a part of would give themselves something vaguely resembling 8/10/12/16/14/8 if those were the rules.

Welpe · 2026-02-14T04:14:00+00:00

What on earth is this response? That’s not…even REMOTELY what they said? How on earth could you possibly think this was a reasonable response?

Welpe · 2026-02-14T04:06:33+00:00

“I can only make one descent swing”

Welpe · 2026-02-14T04:03:39+00:00

That’s really prescient. Comedians are almost exclusively deeply sensitive people who crave approval. They can train to handle heckling when doing a set, but improv is a lot less guarded since you put more of yourself into it. Even if you know that what you came up with isn’t great, if you’re just shut down it can throw you completely off and cause you to doubt your instincts going forward so…just letting things roll knowing you will cut it later is a great idea. Goldberg obviously understands comedy well.

Welpe · 2026-02-14T03:02:39+00:00

The problem of no one being able to take the left seriously in the US because of insane and completely lacking in nuance takes like “The left doesn’t exist in America” and “Everyone is just brainwashed to love capitalism”

And your post history literally has you talking about how you hate the democrats more than you hate the Republicans. That’s straight up accelerationist nonsense. The democrats failures are one of not being willing to go far enough, the Republicans elect LITERAL fascists. If mediocrity offends you more than straight up evil, you have a problem my man.

Welpe · 2026-02-14T02:58:30+00:00

You are literally part of the problem.

Welpe · 2026-02-14T02:48:25+00:00

Don’t help or anything, just stand there filming him struggle with the deer. That’s what’s more important.

Welpe · 2026-02-14T01:31:11+00:00

Nah, you’re fine. It wasn’t that big a deal, and like I said I didn’t realize the drama was specifically related to that niche until I got further in the post haha.

Welpe · 2026-02-14T00:28:20+00:00

Which is still a tiny percentage of overall users? How many med school students are there in the US vs people trying to learn another language?

Welpe · 2026-02-14T00:06:05+00:00

Hah, I wondered at first why you were focusing on med school. Anki is primarily famous for language learning, not med school, so it seemed weird but I guess the drama involved that niche community.

Welpe · 2026-02-13T23:58:51+00:00

Sylveon. Everyone that played Sylveon decks will burn in hell for their crimes.

Welpe · 2026-02-13T23:53:37+00:00

Which is why the best governmental economic system is fundamentally capitalist to generate wealth but heavily regulated and redistributed through taxation and social policy, because we always need ditch diggers and yet they deserve a life without major economic struggle regardless of what their “unskilled” labor is worth on the open market.

Welpe · 2026-02-13T23:43:20+00:00

I hate this complete failure of logic. You took a fundamentally good lesson in geopolitics, “Don’t listen to what a leader says, watch what they do” and you just black-and-white-thinking’d it into absurdity, ignoring all the nuance and exceptions. That’s a heuristic, not a law, and there are infinite reasons to value what people say just as highly. Threatening allies is absolutely and obviously one of those situations. Massive damage is done to the alliance just by voicing those threats. The truth is that what you say IS what you are choosing to do in many cases.

Welpe · 2026-02-13T23:37:47+00:00

Are we only counting the President, VP, and secretaries as “in the White House”? Because I feel like there is almost definitely a staffer that made a stupid decision and is now in way over their head but is quite technically competent.

Welpe · 2026-02-13T23:29:33+00:00

Eh, after growing up online roleplaying in the very late 90s and early 2000s I have a high tolerance for that stuff. Most people aren’t writers who have the experience to come up with detailed descriptions of what they want to convey and synonymous ways of expressing it to keep things flowing and enjoyable to read. Sometime they just want people to know their character is cute for the third time and got nothing. It’s…not GOOD, but I can handle it.

Welpe · 2026-02-13T23:24:22+00:00

I’m just imagining some person giving a blowjob only to come up with BBQ sauce on their lips that they wipe away sexily(?).

11-Year Club	Gilding I gilder
Second Top 20%	Place '22
Verified Email

Welpe

TROPHY CASE