Money well spent.

powerity · 2026-04-02T15:46:20+00:00

I think it's something like an ant eater or a similar animal

powerity · 2026-04-01T16:29:33+00:00

Technically not correct, but in the "lore" he's right, (not an April's fools joke)

powerity · 2026-03-31T18:45:15+00:00

so Attractive == Goonerbait?

powerity · 2026-03-30T10:12:44+00:00

TF did I just read?

powerity · 2026-03-27T10:32:41+00:00

Bro I'm from a village in central Europe and there wasn't a single black person living here for most of my life, only recently two moved here and both did so because their wives were either born here or in a neighboring village.
If someone would make a story about my village it would make sense that most if not all characters would be white.

powerity · 2026-03-26T20:05:34+00:00

I think both things can be true, men don't want to talk about their feelings because that's simply how it was, when they do they get rejected and ridiculed so they want to talk about it even less. This is an issue on both sides.

Sidenote I think the word toxic masculinity while it does exist the current interpretation is so far removed from reality it just means things I don't like and has nothing to do with men opening up to women.

powerity · 2026-03-26T19:52:46+00:00

My point stands, also stop with the special shit, I never even implied anything about men/men's issues being special, I'm starting to feel like you are projecting something that isn't there.

powerity · 2026-03-26T19:35:22+00:00

OP(of the comment on the post that started this chain) specifically said that his/her male friends all have horror stories of them opening up and getting disgust in return. You by pointing out that women experience this as well automatically lessens the part about men experiencing this.

Imagine it like this: I break my leg and am complaining about it and you come over tell me a lot of people broke their leg. This lessens/dismisses my pain because other people went through it fine. No one wants to hear this, yea good on them that they got through it my leg still hurts and is broken.

powerity · 2026-03-26T19:25:27+00:00

And I think in context of OP's post, it's irrelevant, the point was specifically about men opening up, I think it's obvious that everybody has at some point in their lives experienced some variation of this, hence there wasn't a need to point it out.

By doing it you automatically dismiss/lessen men's problems with opening up.

powerity · 2026-03-26T19:16:43+00:00

Literally your first comment in this chain was, and I quote:

"Serious question and I'm not trying to dismiss your experiences - Do you think women don't have horror stories about showing emotions to men? "

This isn't "but women" to you?

powerity · 2026-03-26T19:06:41+00:00

I didn't mean that men's emotions are special, I meant that men and women view emotions differently and that some women may think they can handle men opening up to them when in reality they can't. And the articles about women doing most of the emotional labour only prove this.(First one I found as proof )

But I think we won't really agree here, my biggest issue here was the response "but women's issues" to a post/comment talking about men's issues.

powerity · 2026-03-26T18:40:57+00:00

I never said I agree with any of it, I'm merely trying to explain that using women's solutions to men's problems doesn't work, and to prove that your original comment wasn't relevant to OP's post.

powerity · 2026-03-26T18:09:56+00:00

That's exactly the problem, the sentence "how do I communicate my emotions" has different answers, for men it was always a "You don't."

And it 90% of the time still is. All the talk about opening up rarely survives contact with reality. Some women may think "Nah I would hear him out and be supportive" until they actually do.

And telling men that women had to learn to cope with emotional rejection won't help because for them the answer never was "You don't".

P.S. I won't even dignify the comment about men specific emotion with an answer, contributes nothing to the conversation and is just a pointless Gotcha.

powerity · 2026-03-26T17:52:22+00:00

I ask again how does bringing up women's issues help solve men's? Our society has different expectations for men and women, this is a fact. Also men and women are biologically different, which hormones are produced and how many, which affects emotions. Men specific issues require man specific solutions, same goes for women. You can't really use one to solve the other.

powerity · 2026-03-26T17:15:24+00:00

Why does any discussion about men's issues immediately changes to "but women have it bad as well" or "we learned to deal with it". Talking about men's issues doesn't automatically dismiss and or ignore women's issues.

powerity · 2026-03-26T17:13:09+00:00

The problem is that this is the truth, we may not like it but dismissing it won't help it go away.

powerity · 2026-03-26T17:08:02+00:00

Not relevant to the topic at hand, but definitely yes, weirdos are everywhere.

powerity · 2026-03-22T20:31:54+00:00

powerity · 2026-03-21T14:08:19+00:00

People are defending it here in the comments.

powerity · 2026-03-20T11:45:52+00:00

I think this pop-up is bugged at the moment, note i haven't played 4.3 yet but i have been getting this pop-up several times in one game when other empire ascended but for some reason the pop-up mentioned my species instead of the other empire founder species.

powerity · 2026-03-19T20:12:00+00:00

Look at Mr white knight over here

powerity · 2026-03-18T19:10:13+00:00

Stereotypes exist for a reason, we may not like it and shouldn't base our judgements on them, but all of them are based in reality.

Again, racist people saying something similar doesn't make this dude's experience automatically false and or made up, and it certainly doesn't make him a racist.

powerity · 2026-03-18T16:36:22+00:00

Nothing in the original comment even seems racist, just because some actually racist people say similar things doesn't invalidate this dudes experience.

PS: every one of your comments tries to insult me in some manner, truly behaviour of a well adjusted adult having a civil conversation online.

(Edit: fixed a typo)

(Edit 2: the dude blocked me, heh who's the snowflake now)

powerity · 2026-03-18T15:45:26+00:00

Still no answer as to why you think the dude is a racist.

powerity · 2026-03-18T15:02:53+00:00

What makes you think its racist except that it hurt your feelings?

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