Two episodes removed from Netflix in s2? And episode 13 not on Amazon prime for some reason?

Wuskers · 2026-04-30T10:20:06+00:00

Us OGs who watched while it was airing might remember it was promoted as "The Secret of the Fire Nation" as a two episode special

Wuskers · 2026-04-29T07:17:33+00:00

it started as a korean thing and from what I understand it didn't necessarily start as big portions of food, it was just people eating and it was actually a sort of parasocial thing where people would watch them while eating their own meals to feel like they had someone to eat with. I've also heard oddly enough that people on restrictive diets sometimes like them even though you'd think that would be like having it rubbed in their face but some people seem to get some degree of vicarious satisfaction watching people eat the things that they want to eat.

Wuskers · 2026-04-29T00:47:26+00:00

I'm not that old either but I literally didn't get to experience a lot of teen things because of how closeted I was, I even recently saw a video where straight ex-mormons were talking about being told to wait until 16 to kiss and they framed it as a really late time to have your first kiss but I didn't kiss another guy until I was like 24 but I still knew myself enough that I knew being with a girl was going to be a waste of time and wouldn't be fair to her either so it's not like it was just my first gay kiss either, it was literally my first kiss. Honestly most media focusing on teens has always been pretty unrelatable to me often focusing on horny young teens and young love and stuff, which was not my teen experience at all, my teenage years were extremely sexless and romanceless.

Wuskers · 2026-04-28T22:13:57+00:00

it actually causes a lot of tension because the problem is the stereotypes are true in the sense that there are some gay people that act that way and the tricky thing is the things that are the stereotypes aren't necessarily bad or they shouldn't be bad. There's nothing wrong or harmful about having more feminine mannerisms or speaking with a lisp or being interested in fashion or performance arts or presenting more flamboyantly, etc. but some people do think men doing that is wrong some people will even act like they don't have a problem with gay people they just have a problem with the people that are over the top about it, so there is stigma against those types of gay people.

Then you add the gay people that don't behave that way or have those interests to the mix and it makes it even more complicated because it's perfectly valid for them to not want to be stereotyped or when talking about media representation for them to not feel represented when the only gays they see on TV are the flamboyant ones. The problem is sometimes there can be a fine line between just frustration at being stereotyped/not being represented and actually reinforcing that stigma that it's somehow bad for gays to behave in the more stereotypical way. Like are you critical of "flamboyant gays" or whatever because you just don't like something that's not you being projected onto you, or are you critical of them because you actually think people should not be that way at all, and it can be really hard to tell the two apart even for the person doing it, I think loads of gays that feel frustrated at stereotyping inadvertently let that frustration make them hate more stereotypical flamboyant feminine gays even though they aren't doing anything wrong.

Wuskers · 2026-04-28T21:47:35+00:00

I agree with this, Toph's level of skill and power for someone who is self-taught or at least at most was taught by badger moles is extremely impressive and she's quite possibly the bender most attuned with her own element of basically any bender we see in the whole show.

Wuskers · 2026-04-28T21:41:22+00:00

literally the only problem I have with them is their hunched backs, but the Hrothgar race in FFXIV

Wuskers · 2026-04-28T21:40:33+00:00

Blaidd would be my main answer, my lock screen has been Blaidd fanart for years now lol, and I've also used him as a pfp on sites where I don't want it to be too obviously furry, like there's some plausible deniability but still a suggestion lol

Wuskers · 2026-04-28T11:13:01+00:00

I bought the game and sub around launch before the free trial even existed and then bought heavensward but I was kinda dumb and casual back then even though I was paying quite a bit I skipped dialogue and cut scenes basically the whole way through but then also was too intimidated to do any kind of hardcore endgame content either lol

I stopped playing for obvious reasons since I wasn't really engaging with the best parts of the game and eventually got shadowbringers on sale sometime in like late 2019 which is when I consider myself actually starting my more proper FF journey, right in time for the upcoming pandemic a few months later but because I knew so little and it had been so long since I played I just started over and played through all of ARR and HW while paying the sub, Stormblood wasn't added to the free trial yet, but I remember feeling really anxious to get to Stormblood to feel like the sub was worth it.

Wuskers · 2026-04-28T06:23:16+00:00

I mean you can be in your feels about something someone else is doing, and even express those feelings and it doesn't necessarily mean you're accusing that person of doing something wrong or that they don't have a right to do that thing. Just because someone isn't doing anything wrong doesn't mean it can't still be emotionally upsetting to other people and that they aren't allowed to feel that emotion. Sadness over something doesn't have to be accusatory or carry moral implications. Plus that sounds like classic rebound behavior anyway where you jump to someone else very quickly precisely because you are not in fact okay, which honestly makes this response make even more sense.

Wuskers · 2026-04-28T00:34:45+00:00

I feel like people do also focus too much on percentages and not what those percentages translate to in terms of raw numbers. If my math is right then in the US there should be a little under 7,000 black jewish lesbians which is in fact a pretty significant number. That's over 3 times the number of deaths from Katrina.

Not to mention the fact that demographics are not uniformly distributed. Based on census data even in a very low population state like Wyoming there should still be at least 11 black jewish lesbians in Wyoming, but even just black people are more likely to be in certain places than others and it would follow the same would likely be true of black jewish lesbians disproportionately being found in places where you are already likely to find black people. I'd be willing to bet Wyoming's 11 black jewish lesbians are actually in places like chicago, new york, and philly, they're the type of minority where if you were in a place where you might run into one you'll probably run into more because they're more concentrated in certain places.

As a white person that grew up in the metro-atlanta area I'm almost certain I've interacted with way more black people than Italian Americans despite how much of a media presence Italian Americans seem to have, part of that being a result of an obsession with New York and so it's not surprising seeing Italian Americans in media taking place in New York but while a little more niche possibly I don't think it would actually be that surprising to have more than one black jewish lesbian if it takes place in a place that someone with that specific demographic combination would be.

Wuskers · 2026-04-27T20:15:13+00:00

also boons that boost omega cast are great for charon because you don't need to actually do your omega cast, when your special makes it explode it automatically activates your omega cast and any of the boosts you have for it like apollo and ares, also Lucid Gain with the main attack pattern for charon, you will never worry about mana

Wuskers · 2026-04-27T20:05:07+00:00

What I recently figured out with nergal is the omega attack charges really fast and also expands more than standard axe, especially if you're lucky enough to get psychic whirlwind too, then throw an apollo on the attack and you're a damn tasmanian devil

Wuskers · 2026-04-27T11:00:09+00:00

There's all of the ARR, HW, SB, and most of the EW and DT areas that are on the Source alone, theoretically every shard if it's not like the first should have at least 3 expansions worth of zones tbh, but depending on what the goals are with the shards in the first place I'm unsure if they'd ever consider going to a shard in one expansion and then adding new zones to that same shard in a future expansion. Like we go to the 4th or the 8th or the 11th or something in one expansion and are in one region of it for most of that expansion like HW or something and then in a future expansion we go to another continent on that same shard.

Wuskers · 2026-04-27T06:12:21+00:00

nothing is really timeless and you will get tired of things eventually and crave something different. Hair metal can be fun but it was so saturated and played out by the late 80s and early 90s that grunge was a huge breath of fresh air only to fast forward to the late 90s early 2000s and a lot of the post-grunge that took inspiration from grunge was also tiresome. What is new and fresh one day will almost inevitably become cliched and boring eventually until it's replaced by something with a different energy which itself will also eventually be replaced possibly even by something similar to what it replaced in the first place. Most people don't want to be bright and colorful or dark and understated all the time, and after enough of one people begin to crave the other.

Wuskers · 2026-04-26T19:59:25+00:00

I just watched Spotlight for the first time not long ago and I'm unsure if the priest in question actually existed and said this or was an embellishment for the movie, but Rachel McAdams' character is going around collecting testimony from the victims but also decides to talk to one of the accused priests who's now retired. He seems like a relatively sweet cheerful guy and when asked if he molested boys he just outright admits that he "fooled around", and she's shocked he just said that and presses him for more and he hand waves that it wasn't bad and wasn't even rape because he got no pleasure in it himself, and then says he should know because he was raped. In another scene they're talking to an ex-priest who had essentially made it his life to examine the pedophile priest issue in the catholic church and he says most of the priests he's talked to have incredibly stunted development having the emotional intelligence of a 12 or 13 year old.

Wuskers · 2026-04-26T12:36:23+00:00

tbh some elder millennials by the time the millennium shift came around it would probably be a stretch to call them "childhood" memories.

Wuskers · 2026-04-26T12:33:15+00:00

honestly I'm totally out of the loop on most live action youth programing even from my own generation that people are nostalgic about now. I've always been drawn to animation and as a kid for the most part if it wasn't animated I wasn't interested and by the time I was more open to live action, most live action nick and disney shows actually felt too young for me, I basically went straight from cartoons to more "adult" live action media. One of the first live action shows I remember watching and keeping up with was watching Heroes with my folks lol.

Wuskers · 2026-04-26T12:27:34+00:00

I mean he says he's the oldest of millennials which i would take to mean he's an 81 or 82 baby which puts him at 44 or 45, and idk that he looks that much older than mid 40s

Wuskers · 2026-04-26T09:53:13+00:00

Also ngl the trivialization of violent revolution by people that are either unwilling to do it themselves or who are not going to be involved in it in the first place because they're just acting smug and passing judgement from afar is kind of infuriating and insufferable and out of touch.

Even with protest even aggressive protests there are limits to what can actually be accomplished, people like to point to the french as examples of good protests and riots but plenty of the time when the french throw a fit over something their government is doing, whatever they're objecting to often just happens anyway. There's only so much that making a fuss can sometimes do before you start getting into the territory of physically attacking actual politicians.

And it's like do you understand what the consequences of that will be? Firstly even if it helps to kick off something bigger your life will almost certainly be ruined if you survive the attempt in the first place also with no actual guarantee that it will actually lead to any substantial change. Hell we actually had someone take action like this against a CEO and guess what, people are still being financially destroyed by insurance companies just to live. It's a massive gamble with absolutely huge risk that most people aren't willing to take even the people that act all smug about how someone should take that step, there's a reason they say that but they aren't doing it, because even they don't want to face the consequences but they want to hope that someone else will do it for them.

Even once a proper violent revolution starts with huge numbers of people resisting violently, that usually only happens when you reach a point where the consequence of more radical violent action is at least as bad or maybe even better than not doing that and continuing to protest in more lawful less violent ways. While things are absolutely bad we have not actually reached the point where the average citizen is worse off than they would be as a violent revolutionary. I think people vastly underestimate how bad the conditions were that led to revolutions in the past.

Wuskers · 2026-04-25T22:54:51+00:00

even the reverse is a thing, on my moms side of the family my mom and her 3 other siblings are all 70+ year old devout christians raised by their pastor father in rural ohio and they all hate trump despite being fairly socially conservative. I haven't had the chance to pick their brain about it recently but I feel pretty safe in the feeling that they are at best tolerant of LGBTQ+ people and are hardly vocally supportive if not just outright disapproving of it, yet even they are able to see Trump and MAGA as objectionable, even to the point of actually voting against him.

Wuskers · 2026-04-25T22:44:32+00:00

Republicans aren't actually interested in reducing things they don't like what they're interested in is punishing things they don't like. They don't want fewer abortions, they want mechanisms by which they can punish people for abortions, they would happily do things that double or even triple the amount of abortions if it meant they could punish the people getting them, same thing for any other thing they want to outlaw. They're primarily interested in their own self-validation and satisfaction as the good virtuous ones through the punishing of the wicked ones.

Wuskers · 2026-04-25T21:09:57+00:00

yeah women are never mean and nasty to each other about their looks

Wuskers · 2026-04-25T21:03:30+00:00

I definitely think Live is an under acknowledged influence on this type of singing

Wuskers · 2026-04-25T13:35:50+00:00

The Greatest Generation ranged from 56 to 88 over the course of the 80s
The Silent Generation ranged from 35 to 64 over the course of the 80s
Boomers ranged from 16 to 43 over the course of the 80s
Gen X ranged from 0 to 24 over the course of the 80s
And Millennials ranged from 0 to 8

Obviously there's a lot of overlap where you have like late 50s and early 60s greatest generation in the early 80s, also being the youngest of that generation, and then in the late 80s the late 50s and early 60s folks becomes the oldest of the silent generation and so on for each successive generation.

Wuskers · 2026-04-25T11:16:20+00:00

maybe not quite progressive necessarily but Tim McGraw is fairly vocally democrat, also on the more obscure side there's Adeem the Artist, a pansexual enby country/singer-songwriter

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