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Vespair,

There’s still tons of video game streamers. In fact, even if 10k titty streamers join the site, that doesn’t push even a single video game streamer out.

There’s a market for both things, and neither thing is eating the audience of the other.

This is all just stupid neo-puritanical pearl clutching.

A woman showing her tits on twitch isn’t going to hurt you, or anyone else.

Vespair,

A filter is an entirely reasonable request

Vespair,

Admittedly I was in my very early 20s, not a teen, but I legitimately helped* a woman through her divorce on WoW and then once they separated drove 3 states away to have the best sex of my entire life.

Great memories.

Edit to add asterisk: by “helped” I just mean provided a necessary shoulder and ear; obviously I did not provide advice on a relationship I was very much not a part of

Vespair,

Before WoW I played Ultima Online, and the co-GMs of my UO guild were a couple that had only met online. About 6 months after I started playing, they had an in-game marriage, and then about 6 months later both moved to Las Vegas to buy a house together (I think they’d met in person once by this point). Under a year later, they were married in real life too. Last I heard, they were still together.

If you’re out there Ramirez and Azizza, I hope you’re still happy.

Post-internet life is a weird place.

Vespair,

I was in a poly relationship. I called my girlfriend “girlfriend” and she called me her “boyfriend,” and she also called her other boyfriend “boyfriend” and he called her “girlfriend.”

It was a great, genuinely healthy relationship, and Kyle was an excellent dude who always treated our girlfriend excellently

Vespair,

Then it sounds like your actual problem is with a certain pattern of behavior rather than nudity/sexuality itself. So maybe you address your actual concern rather than something tangentially related.

Vespair,

As a man of class, I always write the actual word, okay, instead of “ok” like you Philistines

Vespair,

Please, I have okey-dokey (with hyphen, as intended) as an autocorrect set in my phone

Vespair,

Soda is an always has been the right term, but the people who say “coke” to mean any soda are the most wrongest people in history

Vespair,

See it’s funny because we name things after other things

Vespair,

It’s like a Heathcliff crossover episode

Vespair,

This joke would have fucking slayed in 1998.

Vespair,

I was kinda with this dude’s argument until 8:45, where he lost me enormously.

Vespair,

I’m still mourning the loss of ICQ

Vespair,

I refuse to acknowledge shaven Riker. Bearded Riker is the only truth

Vespair,

Bro nobody is frothing at the mouth, they’re just shit talking, because like, that’s the whole point of these kind of communities. If we wanted a slideshow to scroll through, we’d go to Tumblr or something.

Would you prefer Lemmy just be a series of low-effort memes that get upvoted but never have any conversation?

Nobody is butthurt, nobody is upset, nobody even really cares. They’re just taking the (admittedly unnecessary) “default tone” of the internet which is a bit needlessly combative, but that doesn’t imply anyone actually cares about this topic anymore than you do. If your meme can be “just a joke; don’t take it that serious,” then their comments can be the exact same tone.

Relax; everyone is just bullshitting except for the people complaining about the people who are bullshitting.

Vespair,

I feel like “say this or I punch your teeth in” kind of takes some of the legitimacy out of the statement, don’t you?

Vespair,

Damn, and here I was thinking we left all of the garbage like this comment and poster back on Reddit.

Guess we really can’t have shit in Detroit

Vespair,

It’s literally just a Japanese-style square lidded bread pan.

For one example (pardon the gross Amazon link): a.co/d/5omfwxk

Vespair,

Pfft, Garfield wishes he could be as cool and authentic as Heathcliff

Vespair,

100% agree. Heathcliff without Heathcliff doesn’t work because Heathcliff is already kind of a surreal wonderland

Vespair,

Ew, choke on leather, boot-licker

Vespair,

Flatfish are so hellish looking but so goddamn delicious

Vespair,

A- stuffing isn’t that great too begin with.

B- shitty packaged mass production stuffing is definitely the bottom tier of stuffing.

Vespair,

Dressing is stuffing cooked on its own as a side; stuffing is dressing stuffed into a carcass.

They just mean Stovetop Stuffing but cooked as dressing, I’m sure.

Vespair,

I think they’re objecting to you calling it “dressing” instead of stuffing, even though it’s usually recommended to cook it outside the bird and thus “dressing” is actually the more correct term making you right.

Vespair,

It tastes like stale onion and sadness.

Y’all need to up your kitchen game; there’s an entire culinary world to explore beyond the 6 boxed meals your moms made halfassedly in the 90s.

Vespair,

Yes and in some parts of the US they call all sodas “coke,” but that doesn’t mean 7-Up is a coke, it just means that region is wrong.

Vespair,

I haven’t consumed every piece of media on the planet so I can’t speak to the reference you’re making, but no, no it is not.

It is recommended to not stuff the bird because a turkey is large enough that stuffing will significantly increase cooking time and without care it is very easy to undercook the now solid interior, which can then soak bacteria-ladden juices into the stuffing which has not reached sufficient temperatures to kill said offending bacteria.

Stuff your small birds like chickens; dress your big birds like turkey.

Vespair,

I’m not. Stovetop tastes like shit, no matter who makes it. Cheap mass-produced dried bread with the cheapest possible quality spices & onions.

If you can’t comprehend how a homemade stuffing with quality ingredients is vastly better than a shitty box from Kraft foods, then I have to assume you think McDonald’s is gourmet haute cuisine.

Vespair,

Soda. I’m cool with “soda pop” for a little personality and flair, but if you’re calling soda either just “pop” or god-forbid “coke” then I assume you’re the kind of person who watches NCIS

Vespair,

I’m with ya. Cranberry sauce is S-tier, and I don’t discriminate between fresh or canned.

Whatever form cranberry sauce comes in, please put it in my mouth

Vespair,

It’s okay that you don’t have standards. Enjoy your Stovetop 👍

Vespair,

Fr though kei trucks are sexy as fuck

Vespair,

Also it’s an arms race. They feel safer because they’re comparatively above smaller cars, but then when everyone is riding tall trucks that additional feeling of safety becomes moot as you no longer have the additional height/visibility over everyone else.

And conversely, the reason they feel less safe in smaller cars is because of the comparison to larger cars on the road. They aren’t solving anything in a larger vehicle, they’re just perpetuating onto others what gave them small-vehicle anxiety in the first place.

The whole concept is stupid, basically.

Vespair,

Fr; I have a tiny CRZ coupe, but when I fold the back buckets down I can fit a tremendous amount of stuff in my car, even awkward and unwieldy-shaped things

Vespair,

I’m a comic fan and I’ve watched all of them, and will continue. The problem people are having is they’re expecting these movies to be like movies instead of comics, but the MCU has been thinking like comics for a long time now. Just like in comics, not every issue is going to be some enormous crossover event with huge stakes and universe-shifting impact. Most comics are character series issues, where the A plot is just some fun excuse for the hero to do cool shit and have a little bit of character growth. Comics are literally soap operas for boys and nerds, and that’s what makes them great. The same applies here. Ya’ll are attempting to compare X-Factor issue #97 to The Death of Captain Marvel, but those were never comparable things and they were never meant to be. If you go in to these films expecting X-Factor issue #97 instead, you might be able to enjoy these films for the non-serious popcorn media they’re meant to be.

Vespair,

And that’s fine. But why assume all media has to be for you? These are comic films from a comic company; if you weren’t ever into comic books why assume you’d be into these?

Vespair,

No, they were, it’s just that by the time people got on board we were past the issue cycle and were onto the event cycle, so people got used to the incline and expected that that was going to be how these went: endless incline in excitement. But that was all the Infinity War lead up and climax. Now we’re in the lull leading into the next build-up cycle. We’re back at the Thor through Guardians 1 stage of the cycle, basically.

Vespair,

I can’t speak to anyone else’s experience, but I personally care about the MCU Shang-Chi, Kate Bishop, Yelena, Monica, Kamala, Moon Knight, hell I even care about Stature (Ant-Man’s daughter) a little bit.

As to the “plan forward,” I dunno man, it seems weird to borrow worry by letting speculative futures impact your opinion on and enjoyment of what’s in front of you. Maybe it’s not for you, that’s okay, but it you think it could be for you, I would suggest maybe trying to focus on what’s on the screen rather than caring about what’s happening behind the screen so much.

I’m not a business analyst; I’m not in the speculating market. I’m a media consumer, so I’m going to choose to judge them on their output, not any of the factors surrounding it or the discourse about it. For me, ignoring all the outside noise, I can only think of about 3 MCU-related properties that I watched and did not enjoy myself while watching. That’s all I’m looking for out of this relationship, so as far as I’m concerned they’re still doing right by me.

Vespair,

Don’t know what to tell you friend, my opinion is nearly entirely opposite yours. But I’m not trying to convince you to like Marvel, as I’ve hinted at before, if comics weren’t for you why assume comic movies would be? I was only trying to answer dangblingus’s question “Who is actually going to all of these Marvel movies?” Me, I am.

I’ve been entertained by all of the Disney+ series, with perhaps the exception of Secret Invasion which was pretty rough and superfluous.

I don’t see how any of the characters were fucked up in MoM personally.

NWH is easily one of my least favorite MCU properties as I think it’s an empty film with nothing but fanservice to offer, but even I will concede it has a couple moments that are so good they almost redeem and justify the whole film, so I still like it well enough to not call it “bad.”

Ant-Man wasn’t great, I’ll agree there, but Ant-Man has always been the “family” property in the Marvel deck. Yes, I know these are all “family” films to some degree, but Ant-Man has always been the only active father in the MCU, his films have been the only ones to actively involve a child, and his films have been the ones most filled with goofy gags and humor. So complaining that Ant-Man felt like Spy Kids is a big silly to me, because the Ant-Man series is very much trying to capture a similar segment that the Spy Kids films were.

I thought Black Widow was definitely unnecessary in the “how does this fit into the greater picture” sense, but otherwise was great, and again is very comic book in the sense that sometimes they just publish side origin stories mostly out of continuity. Your complaints about lacking depth feel especially hollow here, as I think Black Widow genuinely focused on adding depth to Natasha (and succeeded) while introducing Yelena in a way that made her feel full, developed, and three-dimensional.

So I’m not sure what you want from these films, but I think they may just not be for you. It’s cool you dipped your toe in the water and had fun with them for awhile, but that doesn’t mean you or anyone else was wronged just because you decided the room wasn’t for you after all. 🤷‍♂️

Vespair,

I tried to post directly but it said the image was too big and i’m not smart enough to figure it out; sorry for the imgur

Vespair,

Exactly. This is why your stupid superfluous dashed sevens are heretical. Nobody should ever ask me if my 3 is a 7; what an absolutely absurd question.

Vespair,

The only good guys in this conflict are the innocent uninvolved citizens on all sides. Aside from that, everyone involved, including those on the ground on the conflict, those in the situation rooms, and those both funding and manipulating the situation from outside are all the bad guys.

Anyone who tries to paint this as a simple moral conclusion, and not as one part in one of the most complicated and difficult geopolitical situations on the entire planet, is either an idiot or part of a propaganda campaign, knowingly or not. These trite oversimplifications are insultingly reductive to the situation, do nothing to help any of the actual potential victims, and only serve to foster both misinformed reductive thinking and harmful attitudes towards groups without the full context to reconcile these impressions.

There is an information war being waged by many forces on all sides of this conflict right now; be wary of anyone who encourages reductive thinking on complex issues when lives are on the line.

Vespair,

If you moderated a sub before the API ban and used the Boost app, then Boost still works for you. Thank god for my tiny sub.

Vespair,

Your Gen Alpha kids might just be lame.

Vespair,

Bro, I will remind you that I’m not the one still listening to 1995’s most annoying novelty song.

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