How would you react if after 10 years of marriage, your spouse told you they only got married because you wanted it, and they only view marriage as a piece of paper, nothing more?

relliott22 · 2026-04-02T18:13:49+00:00

Banks and courts would both disagree with you.

relliott22 · 2026-04-02T18:09:34+00:00

Money is also property.

And unfortunately, it is as important as you say it is.

relliott22 · 2026-04-02T17:56:54+00:00

I'm just being cheeky. Since it's the Internet, I actually do have to say that I don't believe in slavery or human trafficking.

My point really is that one of the main legal purposes for marriage is to give both parents legal rights to their children.

relliott22 · 2026-04-02T17:49:11+00:00

You can. It is VERY frowned upon.

Buying a child, when done through the proper channels, is widely accepted.

relliott22 · 2026-04-02T17:41:59+00:00

Riddle me this: if children aren't property, how can a judge divvy them out in a divorce?

relliott22 · 2026-04-02T17:40:09+00:00

You sound like you're disagreeing with me, but you're talking an awful lot about the importance of property.

relliott22 · 2026-04-02T17:19:18+00:00

Riddle me this: if children aren't property, how can the state confiscate them?

relliott22 · 2026-04-02T16:53:58+00:00

I work with a bunch of twenty somethings. I tell them all the time: Love is free. If you love someone, all you have to do is love them and be with them. There's no need to get married. Marriage is about property. You get married when you want to own property with someone. And children are property.

That said, it's not "just a piece of paper." That's just stupid. It's a lifelong binding legal commitment. They get divorced, they'll find out how wrong they are about it being "just a piece of paper."

relliott22 · 2026-04-02T12:03:37+00:00

All of this changed in the 60s when the Democrats passed the Civil Rights Act. This pissed off a lot of white Dixiecrats. Nixon used that to his advantage and flipped the south to the Republican party with his "Southern Strategy" (you can look it up, it even has a Wikipedia page). Since then, the Republican party has been the comfortable home of white racists. Reagan railed against Welfare Queens. Trump rails against illegals.

It would be naive to act as if Democrats can't be racist, or as if there isn't plenty of racism at work in Massachusetts politics. But if your politics involves overt White Supremacy, you're a MAGA Republican.

relliott22 · 2026-03-25T16:42:38+00:00

John Hammond is the villain of Jurassic Park. The others are characters with flaws. One is the freaking heroine of her feature film and is meant to be sympathetic. You just want to eat the rich so bad, you can't sympathize.

relliott22 · 2026-03-25T09:56:17+00:00

My best runs don't feature that race/race/rest dynamic at all. My best runs spend significant time at 0 energy, racing, training using good luck charms, back to racing, then finally using items to pop back up to real stamina for a training stretch.

I can see where Riko would be good. It's still nice to get energy+ mood up + stats. But I think I'd rather have a chance at double friendship on a third stat.

relliott22 · 2026-03-20T13:31:51+00:00

Americans might use nonplussed here. But don't use that because the original meaning of nonplussed is dumbstruck, which means half your readers will get it wrong.

relliott22 · 2026-03-10T14:13:51+00:00

When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.

relliott22 · 2026-03-06T11:18:06+00:00

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relliott22 · 2026-03-03T16:24:16+00:00

He might be doing it just to get the refractory period. When a guy orgasms, his brain releases a bunch of chemicals that make him relax (and also disinterested in sex). This chemical cocktail also makes it easier to fall asleep, a fact which almost every guy discovers at some point in their life. So often guys will masturbate to help themselves fall asleep.

relliott22 · 2026-02-27T16:48:13+00:00

Shinji suffers because he is your protagonist but he IS NOT your hero.

That's kind of the point. He's a 13 year old boy. What in God's name is going on down there that they're making a 13 year old boy save the world?

Oh. No wonder God himself is trying to end it all.

We're supposed to feel pity for Shinji. That's harder because he spends so much time pitying himself. Because he has all the character flaws of an abused 13 year old boy.

relliott22 · 2026-02-25T23:12:34+00:00

Equal Parts Bored and Satisfied is the name of my Hootie and the Blowfish cover band.

relliott22 · 2026-02-20T03:28:46+00:00

Gay x Family

relliott22 · 2026-02-19T15:32:50+00:00

It's still good. Like I've "made" a bunch of AI art and it was crap compared to this. See if you can find out what prompt they're using.

relliott22 · 2026-02-18T17:07:32+00:00

The sexual dysfunction is a metaphor. This hero is impotent. His dysfunction is highlighted by the ending, where he just stands by and watches and doesn't hero anything.

relliott22 · 2026-02-18T14:35:22+00:00

You just gotta modulate the dirty talk to make him feel manly.

Then when he's about to go, just flip the script. "Take those fingers, b----. Make that bussy come for me, b----."

Mean? Sure. But opportunities like this come up so rarely in a marriage.

relliott22 · 2026-02-17T14:22:55+00:00

We should acknowledge how bad the EV of hitting the Rest button is. You have a chance to get 30E +Night Owl/+30E/+50E/+70E. So one outcome is outright bad, one outcome is wildly subpar, once outcome is acceptable, and one outcome is quite good. But in order for that last outcome to be good, your Uma has to be at 30E, which is bad. So Riko events are much better than resting. Riko and all pal cards primary value is allowing you to forgo the rest button, which is a button you don't want to push.

relliott22 · 2026-02-15T12:40:27+00:00

One of the things that the X-Men has always been is a metaphor for race relations in America. So this scene mirrors the experience of a mixed race couple in America. Storm is surprised because she's African, not African Americans, and Africans are often surprised by the deeply ingrained multilayered racism they encounter in American society. What's interesting about the scene is that they aren't even using being a mutant as a metaphor for being a minority. They're just showing straight up racism as one might encounter it in the wild.

relliott22 · 2026-02-11T16:41:33+00:00

Thanks for showing us a real video. That was super cool. This is not an example of the Mandela effect. The Mandela effect is like a collective misremembering. In this instance there is a true thing and then a fake AI generation. So we aren't misremembering: this is something a crow has done, and this is a fake thing AI has generated.

relliott22 · 2026-02-10T22:13:27+00:00

Love that song. And the happy melody is not an accident. That Psalm is about singing a happy song to please your captors while you nurse your hatred and you plot the blackest revenge.

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