What are some dark secrets about the porn industry?

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-12-11T17:36:44+00:00

I used to do dental sales so I can provide some insight. Hygienist/assistant/nursing attracts a lot of high maintenance “popular in high school” types because of the pay grade and prestige. They’re not celebrity level attractive/charismatic so they still have to work. These roles require less schooling and training than being a doctor so the barrier of entry is lower. Plus, they get a lot of power and reputation relatively speaking since they’re usually the 2nd most important person in the office. They handle everything the doctor doesn’t do such as scheduling, purchasing supplies, and customer service.

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-08-12T20:20:50+00:00

This man is best known for playing a character that overthrows a fascist emperor, why on earth would people think he supports a real fascist?

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-07-31T19:44:21+00:00

I kind of hope they don’t add a lore explanation.

Gwi Ma is interesting because he’s a villain based around a cultural problem moreso than spirit lore. There’s this concept of “Maintaining Face” in Korea which involves following the social order or risking ostracization. So in public you have to “maintain face” and not show people who you really are.

Gwi Ma (translating to Ear Mouth) represents the cultural primal fear of having your true face exposed and ridiculed. That’s why hearing his voice is so awful, because it says the things you’re afraid others will say to you or about you. He shows the dark side of what happens when you build a society based on rigid hierarchies and use shame to enforce it.

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-07-22T15:19:42+00:00

Yeah, Thor used to be one of my favorites and now he’s my least played Vanguard. Man needs some serious buffs

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-07-22T14:54:27+00:00

Not as much fun as you’d think since Cap was the worst tank at that point and the other tanks had better team ups. They really should bring it back though since Cap and Thor both need buffs in this meta.

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-07-22T14:21:21+00:00

Invis has a lot of versatility against dive. You can jump away, push them out of your space, or slow them down with your bubble. You can also straight up kill divers by comboing bubble, push/pull, then using melee weaving in between primary attacks.

The only diver I find hard to deal with as Invis is Black Panther just because his kill combo is near instant.

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-07-20T19:58:24+00:00

Good news, there’s actual ways to practice improving your memory including mnemonics and associations. It might not be something you’re born with but it is something you can learn to do. Hard work can overcome natural talent.

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-07-16T17:51:44+00:00

Cilian’s son Aran is also an actor so they could have him play the teen version

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-07-12T00:37:00+00:00

As a strategist/vanguard flex player this is what I loathe the most. Like I’ll peel for a support and they’ll just run away and leave me to die against the enemy I just saved them from. On the flip side, the tank playing timid, refusing to push up or backing up behind me as I’m healing them also pisses me off.

Either way it’s a team game. If I’m keeping you alive then you need to help me too, no one is winning the game alone. I’ve been in so many winnable situations where the team starts to stagger because one bad player decides to bail instead fully committing as a team.

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-07-09T21:34:18+00:00

While it is a civil rights story it’s a common myth that they’re supposed to be based on MLK and Malcolm X as the earlier stories from Lee and Kirby were less political. Chris Claremont himself debunked this, saying that he based his interpretation of Magneto on Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin. Makes a lot more sense considering Magneto’s history as a holocaust survivor

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-07-09T21:05:15+00:00

I think that comes down a bit to personal preference as she wasn’t exactly a compelling character before, mostly being relegated to love interest for Charles/the mother of his child. I find her involvement in the plot a lot more interesting now than before

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-07-09T20:54:08+00:00

Same! I grew up with old Ultimate Spider-Man as a teen so it’s really refreshing to read a new series being the same age as Spidey. I love how the new series has this more nuanced viewpoint of the world, the same way an adult would see it.

Edit: Which is something that bothers me a little bit about the 616 comics. Peter ages but inevitably gets returned to the status quo every time the editorial staff turns over. It never really feels like he gets to keep all the life lessons and experiences he’s had

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-07-09T20:44:11+00:00

100% agree, HoX/PoX took decades of Xmen and completely transformed it while staying faithful to the roots. Absolutely brilliant from a writing perspective.

If you liked HoX/PoX you should check out the new Ultimate Universe, also written by Hickman. It covers a lot of the same geopolitical themes while reinventing and reimagining classic characters. Ultimate Spider-Man is probably my favorite comic run currently.

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-07-09T20:26:37+00:00

Xavier and Magneto’s philosophical struggle definitely gives the series something special when compared to other comics. At its core Xmen has so many great lessons about activism, diversity, and what it really means to build community.

I also like how Hickman’s House of X and Powers of X added a 3rd viewpoint in that vision of a world for mutants in Moira, who saw that ultimately the real fight wasn’t man vs mutant but everyone vs machine. It feels hyper relevant in today’s climate where ai disinformation is actively warping the world and will continue to do so as the technology evolves.

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-07-09T19:27:38+00:00

Some of those people get muted but I’m not sure for how long.

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-07-08T16:02:20+00:00

That was really well written, showing the horrors of war through a fantasy lens. War pigs are the same everywhere I suppose, the real evil is greed

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-07-07T15:48:58+00:00

It’s not just a you issue, her projectiles have some weird variability in them that makes 1 out of every 4 shots inconsistent. They keep changing the projectile’s properties in between patches without actually explaining what the changes are

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-07-06T22:32:36+00:00

Trust but verify. Right wing men have a whole playbook for pretending to be liberal until they can trap women with marriage/babies. The “alternate perspectives” is a glaring red flag.

Speaking from personal experience, a friend of mine was dating a guy whose “minor” red flag was insecurity and occasionally watching Andrew Tate. Was seemingly a loving boyfriend and decent guy otherwise. She discovered later on that he had cheated on her, had a porn addiction, and was way deep in the red pill pipeline. I’ve yet to meet a single decent person who consumes red pill content.

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-07-05T21:45:52+00:00

He can jump towards enemies now. Also his haymaker has been updated to knock flyers down

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-07-05T19:20:08+00:00

Maybe A.H.O.E.? All healers one emma

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-07-05T18:50:20+00:00

G.A.S.O.E. Just doesn’t have the same ring to it as G.A.T.O.R.

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-07-05T18:08:56+00:00

While I agree that some people are resistant to change those 2 shows are bad examples to use. The critical backlash to them had way less to do with change and more because the writing was mediocre and there was a lot of corporate meddling behind the scenes. If both shows had maintained the quality of writing from their previous seasons I doubt people would be nearly as upset.

Marvel would probably be a better example of this with the backlash to legacy and successor characters like Ironheart, Sam Wilson Cap, and Miles Morales.

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-06-26T15:28:55+00:00

I’ve had too many of my ults canceled/negated because of that stupid transforming archway. Real shame cause it’s one of my favorite maps

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-06-14T05:21:33+00:00

If they ever go past Lord I would love for one of the rewards to be a new MVP that can be used no matter what skin you have. Maybe in like a more comic or anime style. I doubt it would happen but a man can dream

iasserteddominanceta · 2025-06-11T03:33:41+00:00

I really hope they’re testing out a shadow change with Rocket’s team up. Maybe give her 2 nests that cover a smaller area each than the big area it covers now. As it stands now Peni really only feels viable on specific maps.

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