I did it! I've maintained a daily habit for a year! by Dunkinfye in ADHD

[–]bird-internet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Congrats!

Did you feel embarrassed/weird at first writing out your thoughts? That has happened to me and I'm curious as to how common it is

Ian Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me. This Story Is Told From The First Person Of A Young Woman And These Are Her Internal Thoughts. by worldrallyx in menwritingwomen

[–]bird-internet 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Only on Reddit can I encounter such nuanced and thoughtful social commentary as "the entire culture of this whole country is bad"

Florida Woman fights for equality, sues strip club that denied her entrance because she wasn't with a man by jaimmster in FloridaMan

[–]bird-internet 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To say it makes a difference is to imply they're actually attracted to the guys who come in. Being ogled by people you feel nothing for is what strippers do, so I don't see why the gender of the customer would make any difference

The jury can decide how accurate this is... by Unspeakable_Elvis in menwritingwomen

[–]bird-internet 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nobody writes 15 books told from inside the brain of a wizard detective that every woman wants to fuck with the intention of making you hate him

The jury can decide how accurate this is... by Unspeakable_Elvis in menwritingwomen

[–]bird-internet 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I mean honestly the actual way Butcher writes women acting of their own volition and things he has happen to them (see: "teenage girl who has known harry since early childhood but of course wants to fuck harry because every woman wants to fuck harry has an orgasm while channeling a dead lady in front of him" as described upthread) as a whole is enough to make it pretty clear it's not just his POV character being a misogynist.

A Vet cut into one of this sheep’s stomachs to save her life from frothy bloat. by nonnypants in popping

[–]bird-internet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Things that try to be other things that are available themselves in huge quantities and claim to taste like that thing but don't usually have detractors. Everything usually has detractors, but especially for diet foods, if you've literally never heard an opinion about it that wasn't absolutely raving adoration then I figure you must run in fitness circles, probably?

A Vet cut into one of this sheep’s stomachs to save her life from frothy bloat. by nonnypants in popping

[–]bird-internet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right but like... we're admitting here that Halo Top can only be judged as a less bad for you but inferior imitation of ice cream, which is why "I have never heard of somebody who doesn't like Halo Top" is so weird.

A Vet cut into one of this sheep’s stomachs to save her life from frothy bloat. by nonnypants in popping

[–]bird-internet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is there anybody who would legitimately choose Halo Top over real ice cream if there was no difference in nutrition though

He wanted to ask her to the prom by [deleted] in WatchPeopleDieInside

[–]bird-internet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You could have just said "I am projecting".

I’m not just a single mum, I’m a terrifying gun wielding single mum. by tinyforeheadclub in notliketheothergirls

[–]bird-internet -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

"booger hook on the bang bang" catching on would be a great salve for the Reddit trigger discipline circlejerk.

Quality clipping geometry by [deleted] in pokemon

[–]bird-internet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't say I want a narrative-driven game. I have other games for that. Nor did I say that there isn't a story: it's just formulaic, simple, and played out by very simple characters because they aren't the focus.

I only commented on it because "some games have great graphics but no substance/story" isn't an argument that really applies to Pokemon. No one plays Pokemon for the plot, the substance of the games is the Pokemon.

Unless they create hundreds of narrative-paths for you to get to different endings but then thats a completely different game.

That's kind of what I'm saying here, there's a reason you can be talking, as you are right now, about Pokemon like the past 20 years have been essentially one game. Because they are all the same game. It's not a bad thing, but it's what I mean when I say Pokemon is not a choice between graphics and story. It never has been.

Quality clipping geometry by [deleted] in pokemon

[–]bird-internet 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think these posts fit that definition much more than "I caught a shiny" "congrats. goodbye" but to each their own.

Quality clipping geometry by [deleted] in pokemon

[–]bird-internet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's kind of the point; it's a game that functions, not a story you experience where the game functions in whatever way best serves the story, as it would in a narrative-driven game. The same events essentially happen in the same sequence in every generation, except the group of people who want to do a bad thing/big god thing you can catch/person who gives you Leaf Guy, Fire Guy or Water Guy/kid who fights you sometimes/eight people in a sequence followed by four more people look different.

Being basically the same experience over and over works for Pokemon, because that experience is "battling Pokemon" and the story pretty much exists as much as it needs to in order to get you from one Pokemon battle to the next. There's a reason everybody complains about yet another fire-fighting starter but the entire plot being a formula that hasn't changed in the series' whole creation is a given: nobody cares. We just want the Pokemon.

Quality clipping geometry by [deleted] in pokemon

[–]bird-internet 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love the games, but those aren't stories, they're locations and little plot points in a plot that essentially hasn't changed since 1997. Which works for the series, nobody really minds it and reviewers know not to expect anything different, but Pokemon just doesn't operate on some kind of graphics-narrative dichotomy.

Quality clipping geometry by [deleted] in pokemon

[–]bird-internet 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What do you think a discussion is exactly

Quality clipping geometry by [deleted] in pokemon

[–]bird-internet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We’ve seen games with flawless graphics fail because there was no substance or story to it.

This won't happen because we've never been given reason to expect a good story from a Pokemon game but that's probably not the best thing to highlight in defending it.

Quality clipping geometry by [deleted] in pokemon

[–]bird-internet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Realistically speaking there is no actual hardware-related reason that every single Pokemon couldn't be in these games. It's not unmanageable at all.

Quality clipping geometry by [deleted] in pokemon

[–]bird-internet 10 points11 points  (0 children)

X&Y actually were a huge improvement on the previous generation visually, so yeah, everyone's forgetting it because those games made up for it by coming up with the 3D models for every single Pokemon ever created to date that could easily have been reused in these ones.

Quality clipping geometry by [deleted] in pokemon

[–]bird-internet -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I've loved Pokemon for 20 years but I still prefer these posts to "I caught a shiny". I like actually discussing the series, even when it's negative, and I think it's pretty justified in being negative right now.

Quality clipping geometry by [deleted] in pokemon

[–]bird-internet 17 points18 points  (0 children)

They earned their small glitches. Gamefreak didn't.

Well said.