andros_rex
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- Comment on Has cancel culture gone too far? 23 hours ago:
I checked out Naked Lunch from my high schools library when I was a junior. Read the entire thing. Not big on controlling what kids read, but someone probably should have said something…
- Comment on Has cancel culture gone too far? 1 day ago:
My favorite version is from a book with a talking gorilla. Although if you prefer talking asses, you can find it in another book too.
- Comment on Has cancel culture gone too far? 1 day ago:
Even God didn’t want people to cancel him, anyone who sent him to the Afterlife would get avenged sevenfold. Weird that he was concerned when he had just killed the only other living person on earth other than his parents. It must have been a Nightmare knowing that he wouldn’t get A Little Piece of Heaven. Perhaps if he hadn’t made that Unholy Confession, God wouldn’t have noticed and he wouldn’t have ended up in Bat Country.
- Comment on Has cancel culture gone too far? 1 day ago:
It’s “do not interact.” It’s really common on tumblr. Sometimes it’s reasonable “this is a porn blog, DNI if you are a minor” but sometimes it’s a comedically long list of political positions that they want you to agree with.
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- Comment on playlist for one of those days 1 day ago:
Dead Nazi by the Side of the Road
It’s uhhh, rather graphic and gruesome. Don’t listen in a place where someone will mind necrophilic beastiality.
- Comment on Um... I'm not even using a VPN... Fuck you reddit. 2 days ago:
I’d love a return to pre-Digg exodus Reddit, or slashdot in its heyday. Hacker news scratched that itch for a while, some instances here seem close if not quite the same.
- Comment on Honor student truth 3 days ago:
Yeah, I “put myself there” because I got fired from gig work for being a tranny and needed to eat. The dudes who pressured me not to use condoms or fucking stealthed me were just normal guys.
Eat a bag of dicks.
- Comment on Honor student truth 3 days ago:
See my mom just forced me to graduate early, stole all of my scholarship money, and no one told me that taking Calc 3 as a 17 year old was a bad idea! I lost my national merit scholarship and had to sell my body to creepy old dudes to get a college degree in a field that said “no more trannies allowed” 3 years after I graduated!
- Comment on I should have this as my mobile wall paper 5 days ago:
Man, I miss the old Kanye, straight from the go Kanye chop up the soul Kanye, set on his goals Kanye, I hate the new Kanye, the bad mood Kanye, the always rude Kanye, spaz in the news Kanye, I miss the sweet Kanye, chop up the beats Kanye.
But the man’s gone full Yazi. It’s time to let go. We’re never getting another Graduation or Yeezus or My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 5 days ago:
Je voudrais voir francophone « content », où sont le content francophone?
- Comment on Some heroes don’t wear capes 5 days ago:
- Comment on Seeing shit like this kills me. People are so ignorant. 6 days ago:
Most states do require some comparative religion in high school history. I’ve taught it.
Confucianism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and the Abrahamic faiths were in the curriculum. What was really fascinating was having a high schooler that had no idea what Christianity was. I live in the Bible Belt!
But yeah, understanding things like the Five Pillars of Islam humanizes Muslims. Understanding why a classmate isn’t eating all day, knowing that Muslims are required to donate some to charity if they can…
I think even some of the quasi Christian groups should be covered, but that’s a lot dicier. I don’t know if JW kids’ parents would want them to learn about the Great Disappointment, or Mormon families would approve of discussing Jo Smith’s child brides… (much less that official Mormon theology was that Native Americans would turn white if converted, or the best outcome for black folks was being a servant in the afterlife)
- Comment on Seeing shit like this kills me. People are so ignorant. 6 days ago:
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- Comment on I should have this as my mobile wall paper 6 days ago:
- Comment on Leaving religious people speechless 6 days ago:
All you need is an IUD or to top lol
- Comment on Any ideas as to why they choose a dinosaur symbol to tell you this? 6 days ago:
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 1 week ago:
Tipping is a holdover from slavery. It’s a way to control service workers.
This doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t tip people who rely on tips, it means the system is fucking broken by design.
- Comment on I don't care if you read them, just mark them as read 1 week ago:
Make me.
- Comment on What’s the best written Pokémon game? 1 week ago:
Killmonger syndrome. The “villain” has a point, but rather than engage with it, they’ve gotta bomb a school or something.
I recently caught Shaymin in Arceus and it made me uncomfortable. The quest is helping a woman find a Pokémon that helped her in the past, and then immediately after I threw poke balls at it. It escaped every time, so eventually I had to force it into a fight, beat it until it was too weak to escape me. I had just done a quest which acknowledged that some ‘mons don’t like fighting too…
- Comment on What’s the best written Pokémon game? 2 weeks ago:
Not always for the overarching main plot, but a lot of the games have decently written characters. The main story of Ruby/Sapphire is pretty dumb (let’s flood the entire world!/let’s get rid of all of the ocean!) but Wally is a pretty fun character to watch grow.
It’s kinda the beauty of the franchise. There’s a lot for everyone. I mostly play because I’m a completionist who wants to complete the Dex, some people want to shiny hunt their favorites, some people want to get into competitive (and even then there’s tiers/which gens you play, which are all vastly different strategically), and sometimes it’s just to see all of the different character designs.
Reading Playboy for the articles was 100% legit btw. They published stories by Arthur C Clarke, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury…
- Comment on What’s the best written Pokémon game? 2 weeks ago:
It’s the classroom quizzes I can’t do. My vocab does extend to “yes” and “no,” but the lessons are bit beyond my first grader knowledge of Chinese.
- Comment on True Motivation 2 weeks ago:
Withdrawal from opioids can make you physically ill. When you are addicted, it doesn’t even make you feel good anymore, because you’ve desensitized those receptors.
It sounds like hell, a cycle of feeling like absolute shit, doing awful things to get a hit (when you’re that desperate - are you going to make someone wear a condom if they’ll give you extra money not to?), and then just getting temporary relief.
- Comment on What’s the best written Pokémon game? 2 weeks ago:
I set Scarlett to be in Chinese because I assumed the story would be as forgettable as Sw/Sh’s and I’d get some easy practice just mashing yes on dialogues, but lo and behold it looks like there’s actual choices and stuff? I’m surprised at a mainline Pokémon game actually needing you to be able to read.
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- Comment on Yeasty 2 weeks ago:
Will you join the Unity? Or will you die here?
- Comment on I swear officer, I ain’t had nothing! 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had middle schoolers tell me which gas stations will give you vapes. And gotten in trouble with principals for trying to shut down kiddy drug rings…
- Comment on change_org 2 weeks ago:
Notice how massive meltdowns over video games get, versus things that actively harm/kill people.
Not that I don’t agree with Stop Killing Games’s mission, or recognize that micro transactions being shoved into everything is a symptom of how shit late stage capitalism is, but I wish that same kind of “front page on every website, massive signature/phone call campaign” that happened when that Diablo mobile game was bad happened for all the shit that ends up on ProPublica on the daily. Like, can we phone bank to tell Idaho to stop treating disabled kids like shit or something?
A lot of folks lives seem to revolve entirely around video games/gooning, and it’s just kind of sad.
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