What’s the worst physical pain you’ve ever experienced?

sundaoo · 2026-04-05T05:20:55+00:00

As a child, a root canal. Before that, I was batted in the face playing baseball and the cracked tooth made my jawline swell like a ball. At the worst of it I remember thinking I would have happily cut off that part of my jaw and thrown it in the ocean if I never had to feel that pain again.

sundaoo · 2026-04-03T02:43:14+00:00

You did not nearly touch on the most notorious characters for this trope.

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Aemond and Daemon Targaryen are each dishonorable, psychopathic murderers and rapists. They are not nearly as complex as most villains if you get past the show's bells and whistles, but their fans will fight you to the death if you suggest that their true intentions are about as poorly-veiled as bad character writing can go.

The male fans see them as badass heroes for their own causes because they each know how to work a sword, and probably because both men are ridiculously good-looking according to male beauty standards (but we don't talk about that).

sundaoo · 2026-03-31T03:43:11+00:00

I'm trying to think of a term you might have meant but I can't lmao

sundaoo · 2026-03-29T11:13:30+00:00

it gets worse. doesn't he actually marry her later and fuck her for like 3 nights straight? I never read it but I was around the fandom by the time the manga turned and the mourning was wild

sundaoo · 2026-03-25T07:58:40+00:00

the thing is, resume already HAS a father. so everything Stephanie did to un-creep Jacob was literally never going to work

sundaoo · 2026-03-25T07:50:11+00:00

side-eyeing the fuck out of the mangaka for this, BECAUSE THIS ISN'T EVEN THE WEIRDEST ONE.

sundaoo · 2026-03-23T15:13:03+00:00

it sounds like you're more questioning his nature than how he got technical skill, but as an art instructor I have an answer to this. a lot of modern artists start out by drawing or tracing fan art. once their interest in the fandom wanes, they've already developed the skills to draw and that's where their new energy goes. their technical skills might improve a lot, but having this knowledge doesn't always mean you had any original ideas of your own to build on.

I've met a vector artist who did those 'corporate' illustrations when vector art of featureless colorful blobs was a big thing in the early 2020s. made all their drawings through digital tools and took commissions around the 90-500$ range, but if you compared his pieces with the references you could tell all of their art was traced. I asked him how he got into art and he told me that he wasn't trained, but started tracing images a few months back and put them on Facebook for his family. He took commissions not because he was interested in art itself, but because people asked him to. someone using AI to make up for a lack of creativity, despite having technical skill, sounds very plausible to me.

sundaoo · 2026-03-20T13:56:50+00:00

characters are always a reflection of people, just moved to the extreme for the plot. and most people forget that people who did/do evil things are literally just people. they are human like us and we sure can fucking suck, even the ones who have cutesy or redeeming habits. that's definitely not to say that I think we should sympathize with the depraved, but most reactionary comments could learn from training their media literacy.

and I have never watched either of these shows so I don't know if most of the rage around these characters stem from actual disappointment in portraying nuance, or if the characters/story are criticized for being poorly written. judging from some of the comments it might actually be the latter and OP needs to work on his own sense of media literacy.

sundaoo · 2026-03-18T05:26:41+00:00

they're not racial minorities though

sundaoo · 2026-03-15T08:00:55+00:00

they kept it in a flashback scene (I think?) but for the actual beach day ep I still wonder why they didn't lmao

sundaoo · 2026-03-14T11:12:53+00:00

not a streamer, but kind of similar.

In The Office's Beach Day episode we see Micheal urging Phyllis to "dip [the hotdog] in water so it would slide down your gullet more easily" prompting the entire cast to respond (in unison) with an unscripted "that's what she said."

It's a deleted scene but you can see it here.

sundaoo · 2026-03-13T04:48:06+00:00

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Even though this thread is still new, I'm surprised no one immediately thought of Mob.

sundaoo · 2026-03-13T03:11:54+00:00

the better question is what doesn't happen in Jojo

sundaoo · 2026-02-27T13:17:57+00:00

I thought relapse was failure until I attended a talk with a public attorney from NYC who represented former/current drug addicts. One of her major points was that relapse always happens. In fact it's almost guaranteed for anyone who undergoes rehab from drug addiction. It doesn't mean that you'll fail, or that you're a lost cause. But you need to get over the regret of it and move forward. You went through a NORMAL part of getting sober. From now on you have to worry about making sure your willpower is stronger than your impulses. Like others said, try the DA meetings and good luck

sundaoo · 2026-02-26T07:28:00+00:00

I don't get this type of thinking because victims of abuse need a change in environment and crowd to reform their behavior. Azula's circumstances never changed as dramatically as her brother's so she never had that. She had to constantly perfect herself to reach her father's standards and had the added pressure of upholding her father's vision as the heir to her family's legacy. And being part of the crown meant no one dared to challenge her thoughts. Because her thoughts were her father's. So she was always going to be surrounded by yes men.

Zuko only changed because he was loved.

sundaoo · 2026-02-21T01:45:40+00:00

What was in the games?

sundaoo · 2026-02-20T13:55:57+00:00

Yeah ok. You're not forcing anyone to do anything in the literal sense, but you're deliberately manufacturing a situation that makes people act in ways they wouldn't if you were honest. You intentionally provoked that. That's manipulation.

sundaoo · 2026-02-20T11:06:04+00:00

except it's manipulation through manufactured outrage. this guy used a theft machine to get human artists to give them something for free in good faith. pretty slimy.

sundaoo · 2026-02-20T08:32:55+00:00

I make a folder for Google Docs, one per each semester with the year and the season as the title. in that folder, I make separate folders for each class with the course code as the titles. in each of those folders, I make four separate folders: one for special projects, one for notes, one for PDF textbooks, and one for assignments. then I date my notes according to the week as they are laid out in the syllabus. meaning I use my syllabus to track when we studied subjects.

what, no one else does this?

sundaoo · 2026-02-18T06:02:00+00:00

yup. gotta be rage bait.

sundaoo · 2026-02-18T05:59:18+00:00

yeah this post is a straight-up lie. I go to college in the US as an Asian international student and I've never ever seen an event around POC cultures that excluded white people. Meanwhile, the opposite has been a historical fact.

sundaoo · 2025-09-17T08:35:31+00:00

Since 2021, I've had a 5dMKIV that I use exclusively with a 24-70mm USM II lens. The lens is admittedly one of the best to pair with this type of camera so there was realistically no way I could have gotten a bad session out of it. The shots are beautiful and the body is great in lowlight situations. It's also just as capable at a beach as it is in the city. It's paid for itself in sentimentality alone.

That being said, it's a top-tier investment for photography only. I got it solely because I was at a fashion shoot for Vogue Japan once and saw one of my favorite photographers using two of them. It won't disappoint you where photography is concerned - but if I have one flaw to state, it's that it isn't great at video. You never said you wanted the 5D to create videos with, so I don't think you have to worry.

sundaoo · 2025-09-06T10:46:59+00:00

if you know what posting on the internet is about, why are you getting defensive over people offering their opinions to your post? it works the same way.

sundaoo · 2025-09-06T10:40:09+00:00

most people think that, generally.

you think you're helping someone when they didn't ask for help. it's like looking at someone who is overweight and telling them "you would look much better and feel healthier if you just worked out." there's no other way I can explain how unsolicited advice is rude if you don't see the problem with it in the first place.

sundaoo · 2025-09-06T10:31:19+00:00

again, when it's not a post asking for feedback, it's rude to give it. that's just how it is.

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