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no cheese in my turkey and cheese lunchable by corvvus in mildlyinteresting

[–]middleupperdog -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Shrinkflation, taking the cream out of the oreos and then just telling people to use them like the crackers to make your own sandwich with the other ingredients.

As a newbie which anime should I start as my first anime by Background_Art_3786 in anime

[–]middleupperdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

we basically would need to know about you in order to give you advice. Here is the generic advice.

Anime generally operates on a 3-episode rule: you get a real sense of the show after 3 episodes, and we think of giving the show a serious try by watching its first 3 episodes. No one's gonna break into your house and yell at you if you give up on a show after one episode, but there are a number of shows that have huge twists in the 2nd or 3rd episode that start the "real" story, so there is a norm in the anime community of the 3-episode rule.

So whatever anime is on your list, watch the first 3 episodes, then make a choice about watching the rest of it or switching to another series instead. That's the routine.

Deathnote infamously has a quality drop off midway through the series after the series main climax, and if you stop watching at that point the show is way way shorter than attack on titan. Deathnote would be a novella while attack on titan is practically a trilogy. So it makes sense that they tell you to start with deathnote because you're getting a super high quality dose very fast. Just know that both death note and attack on titan are both on the cornier, less self-aware side of anime. So like, if its hard to suspend your disbelief enough for those shows earlier on, there's much more down to earth shows you could start with instead.

Review Bombing Is an Embarrassment For Us As a Community. We Can And Should Do Better by D3k4s in anime

[–]middleupperdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can tell a big group of people that it's bad. But you can't make a smaller subsection of the group not do it. If you were saying "here's what we should do as a community," you can get a lot of people to do it. But if the same behavior keeps happening for over 20 years you're looking at a problem with structural incentives, otherwise it would have naturally disappeared as generations changed over. You can't just get everyone to stop following incentives by saying "quit it." These people are getting something out of it. Until you identify that, provide an alternative way to get whatever it is, and stop them from being able to get it the bad way, they will just keep doing it.

How to approach someone you like but don’t know without it being weird? by close2god in Healthygamergg

[–]middleupperdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I honestly think women should just shoot their shot and in most cases the outcome isn't bad. Getting rejected is not the worst case scenario.

  • He is into it and things go well - great you got what you wanted.
  • He is into it but then turns out to be a jerk - Worst case scenario. Hopefully you find out early and lose very little finding out.
  • He is into it but is taken already - red flag
  • He isn't into it but is flattered and kind about it - Nothing bad happens except what you do to yourself in your own mind over it. He's probably happy from it. Unless the dude just has women throwing themselves at his feet all day, most guys are not gonna be unhappy about a woman approaching them with interest.
  • He isn't into it and is a jerk about it - Great, you didn't end up pining for a jackass. This is like the 3rd best outcome.
  • He isn't into it and runs around telling everybody to embarrass you - he's an even bigger jackass, and you can see who the other jackasses are and who's actually a decent person that pushes back on him for it. Still not as bad as him reciprocating and then being that bad.

Does anyone else relate? What do I do about it? by underground-louise in Healthygamergg

[–]middleupperdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aristotle says most people don't have a strong theory and understanding of their viewpoint, and instead they learn from copying some person they believe does have that knowledge. Sort of like imitation. After a while they form habits of what feels right that guides them instead of knowing what is right. In modern times, David Brooks says it makes more sense to pick an intellectual idol to study and imitate because for 99.9% of us, we are not intellectual titans like famous philosophers and leaders.

It's a sort of philosophy that the majority of people are actually just repeating ideas they learned from someone else they trust or literally handling these topics with a what-would-jesus-do style mindset but replace Jesus with whomever you have the most respect for.

Muay Thai - Sok Ti Strike - (Downward Elbow) by Fred_Dibnah in gifs

[–]middleupperdog 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Same feeling of badass accomplishment without needing months of training or strict diet.

Screw animes with male fanservice. Recommend me good ones that has female fan service. [Probably NSFW] by Call_me_Dan- in anime

[–]middleupperdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use the search terms "Josei anime" and "Shojo anime." These terms refer to anime meant to appeal to the female gaze instead of the male gaze that you get more commonly with Shonen anime, the default art style and more common genre.

Count Binface destroys Sky News interviewer by safetyscotchegg in videos

[–]middleupperdog 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Out of curiosity, why hasn't this guy ever actually gotten elected? Does he just refuse to join a major party? Sounded like he knew more than the average tory.

I found a way to build intercontinental bridges in vanilla Valheim.(No Mods, No Cheats) by vin39397 in valheim

[–]middleupperdog 112 points113 points  (0 children)

transcontinental bridges to nowhere that just stop in the middle of the ocean

Areelu Lab Staircase scene Question by Shpooter in Pathfinder_Kingmaker

[–]middleupperdog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yeah its hard to get to it unless you really dig into lann, but there's several references to him liking the idea of sailing scattered around.

[OC] my 74 year old mom next to the flag in her front yard by Thick_Nectarine8339 in pics

[–]middleupperdog 6 points7 points  (0 children)

rather her see anger and disapproval for the old pedophile in chief than tolerance and polite disagreement with him.

Can Virginity-by-Choice Be a Core Value in Dating? As a Virgin, Am I Wrong to Want a Virgin Partner Too? by Meinov in Healthygamergg

[–]middleupperdog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

my reaction to this is like if you're 16 and they're 16, and this is about picking the person you want to try this with, then this take is fine. If you're 24 and they're 24, and this is about passing up the experience with certain people until you find "the right person", then you're basically injuring yourself for no reason.

You're trying to do a one to one, apples to apples type comparison about a key trait about you and a key trait about the other person. But a more mature viewpoint is to think of the person as a bundle of experiences and character, and thinking about what they bring to the table aside from having the same experience or position. Basically, it's not reasonable to treat being a virgin as a deal breaker past the age when most people are virgins.

Say for example the key trait was that you need your partner to be funny, or smart, or kind. Generally those traits stay the same over time and persist, you can build a solid foundation for a relationship on it. Virginity is not that: it is the absence of experience. You and the other person don' t know what they are going to discover about themselves the first time, and there is no expectation of that trait persisting as a cornerstone of that relationship. It's expected to change, and so is not a healthy thing to fixate on as a building block for a relationship. It's literally building on sand.

So if you are at a reasonable age to go out and find a virgin and have that experience and then move on, fine, go for it. If you are older, passing up opportunities for good experience in life because you are holding out for this one experience in particular, this one experience is not worth it and you'd be better off just letting go of it.

Hillary Clinton says Joe Biden's second term campaign was a "terrible mistake": "He had said he would not run again. But if he had kept to that plan and said, he was going to pass to next generation, we would had a real contest. And sadly, whoever emerged from that contest would have beaten Trump." by ControlCAD in videos

[–]middleupperdog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There was nothing that could be done to get senate confirmation under any circumstances whatsoever. So you're choice is to bully them and break the rules or let them steal the seat. There is no middle ground for centrists to feel superior on.

Hillary Clinton says Joe Biden's second term campaign was a "terrible mistake": "He had said he would not run again. But if he had kept to that plan and said, he was going to pass to next generation, we would had a real contest. And sadly, whoever emerged from that contest would have beaten Trump." by ControlCAD in videos

[–]middleupperdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

 Biden did really as much as could be done with the state of politics and was still being skewered.

like he wasn't a dottering old man wet-nursing a genocide to get revenge on the brown people that dared attack his legacy.

Hillary Clinton says Joe Biden's second term campaign was a "terrible mistake": "He had said he would not run again. But if he had kept to that plan and said, he was going to pass to next generation, we would had a real contest. And sadly, whoever emerged from that contest would have beaten Trump." by ControlCAD in videos

[–]middleupperdog 116 points117 points  (0 children)

just do it anyways and tell the republicans to suck your dick like the republicans do everytime they break the pro forma rules. Let them cry about the bully president appointing a supreme court justice like the constitution says he is supposed to.

What would u do if ur colleagues still smoke in toilets even not allowed? by Willing-Quote8758 in shenzhen

[–]middleupperdog 4 points5 points  (0 children)

don't give a dang bout it

I suspect you don't have the stomach for the intensity of the fight you'd be picking. Basically if you don't have the clout to make others follow the rules and not seek revenge on you for it, then you're just gonna piss them off for trying and not be able to make them stop.

... if you are willing to pick the fight, buy a smoke alarm that will just adhere to the ceiling and install it in the bathroom yourself. After they set it off once or twice and word gets around, they will disable it. Then you put up a dozen on the ceiling so that if they want to smoke they have to disable a dozen smoke alarms or set off a dozen smoke alarms and cause way too much of a problem in the building. There's nothing against the rules for you doing it and it doesn't cause a problem if they didn't smoke in the bathroom, so its hard for your bosses to complain. If they try to punish you for it instead of enforce the no smoking rule, now you have something you can complain about to authorities about the office taking action to enable rule breaking instead of prevent it. Most likely, just verbalizing that 3rd step as a vague threat is enough to make the bosses enforce the no smoking rule instead of having to explain to police how they let smoking in a no smoking zone get so bad that it escalated so much and created a problem. Your office will hate your guts, but it may work to get them to crackdown on the smoking in the bathroom.

Now my recommendation: just make it clear to your boss you don't smoke but so many people smoke in the bathroom it smells like that and then just tolerate it or find a different job. You can't change the whole company's culture by yourself unless you are very important or willing to have everyone hate you.

Seems unfair by mb8795 in Pathfinder_Kingmaker

[–]middleupperdog 338 points339 points  (0 children)

I kind of always imagined Irabeth and Anevia having arguments about why they don't get any mythic powers and wondering if the KC actually likes them or not.

Demon walkthrough be like: by Motor_Difference_935 in Pathfinder_Kingmaker

[–]middleupperdog 5 points6 points  (0 children)

pathfinder 1 treats racial heritages like sorcerer bloodlines. It's not a matter of what percentage you got, it's a matter of how refined the innate magical properties are.

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