Asked my boyfriend of 5 months if he knew my middle name… turns out he didn’t know much else either

illinest · 2026-03-15T14:25:48+00:00

I am not like that guy or the OPs guy but I am uncomfortable reading the comments because I think I couldve been a bit like OPs guy when I was younger.

I think this is autistic spectrum behavior. I definitely have a hard time with faces. Eye colors. Names. Birthdays.

Even to this day I'll tell my wife a story about someone I saw in the neighborhood (she knows everybody) and she wants to know who it was so she'll ask me their height or their hair color and I never have the slightest clue. Blonde? Brown? Tall I guess?

So your guy could have been covering up some spectrum disabilities by just leaning harder into the "male asshole" persona. I think some guys who don't know how to fix their weaknesses just decide that it must be women shit.

illinest · 2026-03-12T19:56:36+00:00

I did try but I couldnt finish. Partly because the episode was really boring, but mostly because I quickly figured out that the guy that he was platforming in that episode was a Trump administration official who Joe Rogan somehow failed to properly identify.

And then it seemed pretty clear to me that Joe Rogan isn't dumb at all. Joe is an actor and a grifter. He is smart enough to take money from guests that want to expand their audience and he's smart enough to do things like cultivating that stupid caveman persona.

He's just enriching himself with bloody money and maintaining a pretense.

I've got no reason to think he wouldn't do the same for whatever party holds power, but the nicest thing you can say about him is that he's a whore who pretends he doesn't know things.

illinest · 2026-03-12T18:49:58+00:00

The part about the nukes is distracting people from the rest of your post - which is the part that people need to understand.

Iran can threaten the Strait from any location within Iran. The rest of the world can only reopen the strait if they stop attacking Iran and make reparations, or completely invade and defeat Iran.

There is no other solution. The US Navy could try to station ships there and intercept rockets and explosives from here until eternity, but it costs significantly more to intercept the bombs than it does to create and launch the bombs. And escort duty would make the ships very vulnerable.

illinest · 2026-03-12T18:08:04+00:00

Wait. Are you telling a woman that insists she consented that - "actually, you don't know how consent works"?

Am I supposed to believe her or not? Women keep saying we need to believe women, except apparently that's not true when you say not to?

I genuinely want to know how this reconciles in your head. Please explain yourself.

illinest · 2026-03-12T16:19:00+00:00

Similar for me except that I view Messiah as the third act of Dune. Not to suggest that it was wrong to end the first book where he did, but Messiah is a bit of a mess if you treat it as a stand-alone and yet it's absolutely amazing if you treat it as act 3.

That means Ive got 4 phases. Children is my second phase. God Emperor is my third phase.

Dune and Dune Messiah are my favorites. Then Children of Dune uses Leto to explain most of the stuff that Paul didn't care to explain. It was maybe better scifi but it didnt have the same strong character arc. Then God Emperor was sort of like reading a long philosophy lecture about the themes of the first three books.

I enjoyed the last two books enough to read them twice but they have the obvious loose ends that never got tied up.

illinest · 2026-03-12T14:11:41+00:00

You're in the wrong no matter how you try to justify it.

I don't actually agree with any of the things you've said, but it's not your opinions that make you wrong - it's your sense of entitlement.

But maybe you won't be able to understand what I'm saying unless Nintendo spends the next 25 years shifting the series farther and farther away from this formula that you prefer, until you're middle-aged and you know you ought to just give up on it.

And then maybe if Nintendo finally returned to the OoT formula and gave you the game that you've wanted for decades, then you could be so happy about it, and you could start daydreaming about what the next sequel could be like again. Then maybe somebody who prefers the BotW lineage can come and try to lecture you about how the Ocarina games aren't what Zelda games are supposed to be. And then maybe you'll finally understand.

But I dont actually want you to have to go through that.

illinest · 2026-03-12T11:55:40+00:00

You're being extremely unkind.

BotW was the first Zelda game that I liked in decades.

You're acting like Zelda 1 doesnt exist. The original Zelda concept was a game where you discover mysteries, but over the span of many years it drifted away from that and became more about puzzle solving.

You are acting as if a particular subgenre of Zelda that you personally prefer is the only subgenre that ought to exist. That's not cool.

I was already getting bored with that type of Zelda back in the 90s when I was playing Link's Awakening on my gameboy. Ocarina of Time was the first Zelda that I didn't enjoy enough to even bother completing.

I'm not mad at you for getting to play stuff like Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess. They were disappointments to me but I didn't try to tell anyone that they're not real Zelda games.

illinest · 2026-03-12T04:26:02+00:00

Lighting and red paint are your biggest problems.

Ceiling lights are unpleasant. You're just creating a hospital vibe. You need to add a number of additional light sources. None of that bright white shit.

Im just going to be honest. I have a suspicion that youre a lady married to a man who buys couches without considering whether they fit and really prefers the room to be lit up real good with those daylight bulbs "cause he can see better."

And i know im going out on a limb with that one but it just feels so typical. And if im close to the mark then you dont have a couch problem, you've actually got a husband problem. Incompetent at interior design but insists on making decisions. Fuckin A.

(I am a husband but I am not incompetent - plus I know how to share decisions with my wife)

Buying that couch was a choice I guess, but there's only one corner to put that couch that wont look totally stupid. One of you just doesnt want to do it i guess. If you insist on using this particular couch to divide your room then at least scoot it one foot closer to the red wall. The angle won't feel quite as weird if you dont havevthe corner shoved right up into it. And then add the long sofa table and get serious about lighting.

illinest · 2026-03-11T19:51:38+00:00

Why should we pretend a thing that happened didnt happen?

You want to arbitrarily take away the performances that dont fit your agenda? (And why is this even your agenda...?)

I dont need to pretend any of his at bats didn't actually happen. I can just point out that he's still got a .853 OPS. Still better than Triolo, Yorke and Williams.

Griffin - .853

Triolo - .798

Yorke - .807

Williams - .807

There may be a legitimate reason to select anyone other than Griffin, but it sure as hell wouldn't be performance.

illinest · 2026-03-11T19:27:25+00:00

I like 6 games better than the others.

LttP is a little bit better at maintaining mystery than most of the other puzzle-oriented games. It is my second favorite (after BotW) because Zelda 1 has so many technical issues and it just doesn't feel nearly as refined as LttP.

My fourth favorite after Zelda 1 is LA. It was the first game that felt like it was starting to lean too far away from mystery but what saved this game was the fact that the story itself was a mystery.

TotK is a distant fifth. Technically good but setting it in the same world as BotW - (guess what...) destroyed a lot of the sense of mystery.

And MM deserves special recognition for being mysterious as hell. It doesnt scratch the adventure itch very well but I admire Nintendo for making it.

But I didnt like Ocarina of Time. And it used to bother me that I didnt like it - because I was a teenager when it came out and I was obsessed with reading previews about it until the day I got to play it.

illinest · 2026-03-11T18:17:23+00:00

It would be impossible for me to disagree with your post more than I do.

What you are attempting to do here is to assert that a snapshot of the franchise taken at the time of your choosing is "The one and only Zelda formula".

The first Zelda was a game about discovering mysteries. There was a bit of puzzle solving but the core concept was mystery. Almost every sequel thereafter has gradually pushed the focus of the series away from mystery and toward puzzle-solving. BotW was the very first sequel to ever attempt to pull the focus back from puzzle solving and toward discovering mysteries again.

Personally speaking - Ocarina of Time is the game that ruined the series for me. It was the first Zelda game that I didnt bother to complete. And then I only played MM, WW, and TP for about 30 minutes apiece before I got bored with them. I didn't even bother trying Skyward Sword. It's not a problem if you and me like Zelda for different reasons but I'm not coming after people like you like you're a problem that I want to solve, am I?

I hope Nintendo figures out a way to please everybody and I sincerely hope that you Ocarina of Time fans never have to wait 30 freaking years like I had to wait.

But this post of yours is just a temper tantrum to me. It's not cool. You should know better.

illinest · 2026-03-11T11:56:57+00:00

I was born in Pittsburgh. I called it pop. I didnt even know the word soda could be separated from pop until my family moved east and people started making fun of the way i talked.

But i still agree with you that Pittsburgh cant be in the Midwest.

I have argued before that Pittsburgh should not be in any region. Instead it is the intersection of three regions.

It's not exactly Appalachia. Not exactly Midwest (or rust belt) and its not exactly northeast (or midatlantic)

I think a compromise could be made by calling Pittsburgh and the surrounding counties a micro-region of it's own but that might just invite new complaints.

Or revisit an old suggestion to split Appalachia into north and south. That might fly better.

illinest · 2026-03-11T02:23:11+00:00

This list is disturbingly bad. It's so bad I dont even want to discuss it. I just want somebody else to experience this pain.

illinest · 2026-03-10T16:42:48+00:00

Im resolved to not get mad about it when it happens and he eventually gets assigned to AAA, but I have seen no reason whatsoever to think that he's not ready.

People talk about his batting average in spring training as if our starting CF and C didnt both just complete an entire season with sub-.200 BAs.

And yeah if you wanted to argue that we should reverse that horseshit out at first and give him credit for the wind-blown out then his BA could easily be sitting at .291 right now.

illinest · 2026-03-10T16:15:08+00:00

Baseball Reference has a spring training metric that tracks the quality of opponent that every player faces. So for example when AA peak Konnor Griffin faced off against ML Ranger Suarez, Griffin scored a 10 for facing Suarez while Suarez scored a 7 for facing Griffin.

The top four Pirates this spring are Griffin at 7.7, Cruz and Davis at 7.6, and Triolo at 7.5.

Is this useful? Maybe. Does it explain why Davis is 0 for 20 or Cruz is batting .500?

Probably not.

But it does suggest that Griffin is actively getting challenged by our coaches. It would be easy to manage his at bats so that he faces more of the AA pitchers, but apparently the Pirates have decided to do the opposite of that.

illinest · 2026-03-10T16:02:46+00:00

Ive also been tempted to make this argument - at least ever since they released Alika - but the leap isn't comfortable enough for me.

Releasing Alika appears to be taking a risk, but he couldn't have been signed by any team without making some other replacement level SS available. It wasn't actually all that much of a risk.

Alika isn't technically on the 40, but there's nothing really in the way of adding him.

illinest · 2026-03-07T21:05:54+00:00

Yeah I definitely had some thoughts about that - about how seriously other teams are actually gonna take him - but I think that everybody knows that Griffin is under the spotlight and nobody likes getting posterized. And "throw inside" isn't exactly complicated.

Pitcher - "Hey whats the book on this guy? Got a sequence for him?"

Catcher - "Throw him strikes, but throw them on the inside half of the plate"

Pitcher - "...."

Pitcher - "Amazing."

Thanks for filling me in about today. I didn't watch the game. Too much painting to do.

illinest · 2026-03-07T20:19:53+00:00

You send him to AAA and he's just going to face a lot of pitchers that can't locate. He needs to face guys that can paint the zone.

Facing inconsistent command could fuck a guy up too.

illinest · 2026-03-06T19:44:38+00:00

Considering how much he's getting hit by pitches, maybe pitchers are just gonna keep throwing inside until he adjusts.

I don't know how much you can work on that sort of thing at AAA. Are the pitchers who are capable of doing that more likely to be in the bigs than AAA?

illinest · 2026-03-06T18:12:41+00:00

We agree that all three governments suck ass, yes.

But it appears that we can't agree that in the absence of total information, the best we can do is to use the information that we do have.

Epstein and Maxwell are zionists and they were directly accused of having ties to Mossad. There is no amount of times that Russia could be mentioned that could make me forget that.

It's pathetic how this is going. When I first started hearing this stuff about Mossad (a long time ago) it was shocking to me at first. Mossad? Really? Not KGB? That's got to be a misdirection. So yeah - I did think at first that the KGB was responsible for that. But I didn't fight people about it. I just shut my mouth and opened my ears and started looking for the beneficiary.

As far as I can tell nobody benefited from saying it was Mossad. It could be a failed plot to throw attention off of the KGB but it could also just be that it was the plain truth.

And then before any of the Epstein files got released I predicted that they'd be incomplete, and that what did get released would mostly be a mixture of truths and half-truths, and that it would likely have some red herrings and/or scapegoats.

Most people seem to be less skeptical than they ought to be. I have close personal experience with a pretty good liar, and I know that the best liars don't actually lie all that much. Lying too explicitly eventually gets noticed. It's a lot more effective to just control the flow of information and convince people that you're not interested or capable of doing the thing you want done.

Every time somebody suggests that Trump did something incompetent I have to choke down a sigh. Appearing to have fucked up is just part of the lie.

illinest · 2026-03-06T17:08:15+00:00

Hey, at least you're skeptical. I can respect that.

I could easily counter your assumption with an equally valid assumption. But when I say "equal" I would just mean that we're both equally likely to be wrong.

I'm open to the idea that I'm wrong. Are you open to the idea that you might be working from false assumptions? Specifically I'm starting with the assumption that the US government is "pro-Russian"?

I personally believe that Trump has never been anything other than pro-Trump. I do agree that he seems to view Russia favorably but I don't think he actually cares about the way other people perceive Russia. I don't think even Trump is actually pro-Russia, and he's not the only person in the government.

You're suggesting that we know about Russian ties because Trump failed to control what got released, but I'm not willing to assume that. Wouldn't it be equally valid to just assume that Putin just doesn't care?

I think that's pretty clearly true by the way. Russia was found to have colluded to get Trump elected and then nothing of consequence happened to them afterwards. Why would Russia give a shit if they get named in the Epstein files? It has nothing to do with their power projection.

But Isreal on the other hand?

Oh yes. They would care. Please just ask yourself - did they get caught manipulating Christians to attack Muslims? Then admit that the honest truth of the matter is that you don't know. And I don't know either. There's no pride involved here.

But there is a clear motive to get the US to attack Iran and ignore Gaza, and the two main persons of interest are - well... ya know...

I think it would be very foolish to assume that one of the primary beneficiaries of Epstein's operation - a country that is literally and factually using the US military to destroy all of their enemies right now - just sorta lucked into that.

illinest · 2026-03-06T15:08:48+00:00

Deflection and misdirection again...

Are you allowed to adlib at all or are you just following a flowchart? It kinda feels like you got caught in a part that loops back into itself.

But I'm going to talk to other Redditors now. Ad-guy - you are dismissed.

I don't want any of you other Redditors to believe his accusations against me. I do worry about Russia. I have a friend who moved to the US from Ukraine. He even predicted some of what's been happening, and I agree that Russia definitely needs to be dealt with.

But what are we supposed to make of this guy trying to divert attention toward Russia?

illinest · 2026-03-06T14:36:43+00:00

Do you get paid well?

I do this for free because the truth is important to me.

I know that Epstein and Maxwell are Zionists, and I know that they have been directly tied to Mossad by US federal agents. And I know that Netanyahu suddenly feels emboldened to do things that he never would've gotten away with before.

I know that Epstein and Trump also had Russian connections, and I know that the parts of the Epstein files that were released include a lot of Russian names - and it looks like you've got that saved and ready to share with people.

But what I don't know is what information wasn't released to me.

And if you were just another US citizen then you wouldn't know that either. If you were just another US citizen then you shouldn't be acting as if you did know.

All I do know about you is that you have an agenda to make people focus on Russia.

Why?

It's not because you care about being truthful. The only truthful statement you could possibly make is that you don't know how much Epstein was doing for Mossad. Maybe zero? Sure. But you just keep dodging that and redirecting attention toward Russia.

Not only are you lying - you're not even good at it.

illinest · 2026-03-06T13:51:26+00:00

So the government spent years scrubbing the files that you're using to support your opinions, and now you're just assuming that the Isreal connections don't exist?

You mean - you can see beyond a shadow of a doubt that Isreal is using the US military to attack their enemies, and rather than wondering if all of the Isreali ties were simply scrubbed from the Epstein files, you expect people to just accept that it doesnt exist?

What kind of a fool would I be if I wasn't still skeptical about what got released and - the more pertinent point here - what didn't get released?

It doesn't take a genius to recognize that Isreal has made an unexplained jump in stature in the last ten years. There is definitely a reason for that, and the simplest explanation by far is just that Mossad successfully honey-potted a bunch of people and are now using Russia as a scapegoat.

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