paultimate14

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[–] paultimate14 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

OP really thinks vampires aren't gay?

[–] paultimate14 41 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Good. Not every website needs to be a social media platform too. There's already plenty of communities on the Internet to discuss anime.

[–] paultimate14 41 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Ah yes, when I think of people accumulating vast amounts of capital my first thought is also... Communists.

For those wondering, according to Forbes the top richest people are:

  1. Musk. South African/Canadian/American depending on how you slice it
  2. Bezos. American
  3. Arnault. French
  4. Zuckerberg. American
  5. Ellison (Oracle). American
  6. Page (Google). American
  7. Brin (Google). American
  8. Gates. American
  9. Ballmer. American
  10. Buffett. American.

I'd also consider the Walton family as a whole. While split up, the often join their money together and are also pretty American.

So... I know these things change over time but it seems really bizarre to list off countries famous for having too-wealthy people without naming America.

Also the whole idea of taking one of the finest, rarest specimens of something the universe produces naturally and making it ugly for the sake of these billionaires seems incredibly dumb. It's just further contributing to the erosion of the commons.

[–] paultimate14 3 points 6 months ago

Neutorypical here (possibly a touch of undiagnosed autism but not a lot)- I don't get into them.

My wife and I take a very proactive approach to communication. We talk through decisions before either of us gets emotionally attached to an answer. We trust each other to have good decision making processes when that isn't an option. We have thoroughly established that both of us are putting the interests of the household first. We know both of us are acting in good faith, we both apologize, and we accept each other's apologies.

In previous, less healthy relationships, I realized what made a "fight" was that her or I wanted it to be. Maybe one of us wanted attention or affirmation or had some inner problems was taking out on the other. Perhaps we just didn't feel like we were properly heard unless we were angry. Whatever the actual fight about was usually something that could've been resolved without emotional energy.

As for how long to recover after... When it happened it always depends on the specific fight. Sometimes hours, sometimes days, eventually the big one was that we broke up permanently. If the issue has been resolved and someone is harboring resentment because the other party disagreed with them, there's more underlying emotional issues that need to be resolved.

[–] paultimate14 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lol exactly you're just spouting GOP talking points.

Even the simplest question of "what do you propose we do" you a see with "stop supporting the only chance to stop the GOP right now". 100% complaints with no actual solutions.

[–] paultimate14 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)
  1. I don't see that the US has tried voting for the lesser of two evils. The Democrats have only had full control of Congress and the presidency for... I think it ended up being like 11 months or so in modern history. The brief period of Obama's term when the planets aligned and some intra-term weirdness happened in Congress that allowed the ACA to pass.

  2. I never proposed a strategy of voting for right-wingers.

  3. What do you propose and how will that help?

[–] paultimate14 7 points 6 months ago (12 children)

I'm convinced they're just astroturfers. One of the many voter suppression tactics of the right.

[–] paultimate14 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well... Yes pretty much. I don't count Creation Club items because they weren't made by Bethesda.

I don't turn them on. As far as I know you can find free alternatives for most of what is in the creation club- you're just paying for to support the independent creators, the convenience, and I suppose the service of Bethesda filtering out some of the worst chaff of the mod scene.

Similarly, I don't count the other big fixes and upgrades in the Special Edition or Anniversary edition as DLC. Bethesda was rolling out patches for the original game before then, and visual upgrades are more in line with what I would call mods/remaster/remake than DLC.

[–] paultimate14 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

For those who don't know:

"Horse armor is not bad. I think horse armor is fine. The price point, at the time, was the issue. We felt, it's probably worth this," he said. "I won't say who at Microsoft said, 'Well, that's less than we sell a theme for; a wallpaper is more than that. You should charge this; you can always lower it.' We were like, 'Okay!'"

Also it's weird to me that Bethesda gets crap for their DLC's. Oblivion's horse armor was bad, but it wasn't the worst or the first. Heck, Morrowind had expansions. MapleStory is pretty widely cited as the earliest form of micros transactions. And most of Bethesda's DLC's have been great- all 3 of Skyrim's were ton of content relatively cheap.

I guess that's the price of popularity?

[–] paultimate14 1 points 6 months ago

All PS3's could play PS1 games too

[–] paultimate14 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

From the eyes... Is this supposed to be Hunter Biden high on marijuana?

I definitely won't vote for him now.

[–] paultimate14 40 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The shows antagonists were a wealthy business man turned politician who wielded the corrupt police force to feed his own power and oppress the common folk. And while his nickname was Boss Hogg, the villain's canon name was Jefferson Davis Hogg. Pretty literally calling the cops confederate pigs.

Definitely a lot of problematic elements to the show, but there's some good there too. And I'm sure it influenced a ton of car action sequences for decades.

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