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- Comment on This world is cruel… 2 days ago:
Do they really confiscate your passport?!
Holy shit thats what Dubai employers do to keep their servants enslaved!
- Comment on This world is cruel… 2 days ago:
Is hostels still a thing for young people?
I wonder if AirBnB destroyed that industry. I saw a “hostel” in my city but it was charging $70 a night. When I was growing up, hostels were like $20-30 a night, cheaper than a motel 6.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 2 days ago:
My wife hates camping. She needs electricity, a toilet, wifi, etc.
I never thought about why until your comment. My wife moved houses every few months as a kid. Maybe 10-15 times total before before college.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 2 days ago:
Ah it’s a yellow flag! Boys, we’re cracking the women code!
- Comment on it's raining hot death in Minnesota 3 days ago:
I just checked as well and was confused.
My colleagues live in that state and was about to reach out.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 3 days ago:
Depends.
If they flaunt it, I think they’re gross.
If they look like a hobo but are highly educated about finances… Aaaaay bay bee how you doin? Wink at me, you economist with a 401K who ties her hair up because she hasn’t showered in days because she was doing data science. Spit in my mouth, you engineer with a diverse stock portfolio who wears the same hoodie you wore in college because clothes shopping is hard and you want to focus on optimizing your CI pipelines. Choke me, you tenured professor with a retirement fund who dedicated their life building physics engines to each grad students.
- Comment on I need to talk about Mouthwashing 3 days ago:
I really appreciate you writing this up and sharing the spoilers. Seriously, this is so helpful!;
Honestly I see games like this and ignore it. Not my cup of tea from the trailers. But spoilers help convince me to give it a chance, like DDLC.
- Comment on Anon doubts WW2 Germany 3 days ago:
The Confederates, for the non-Americans, take challenge to that.
They were the opposing force during the American Civil War, trying to keep slavery. Their reign was so short, even a can of beans last longer than they did.
And yet that doesn’t stop chucklefucks in the American South proudly showing their Confederate flag, all because America is too chicken shit to call them losers.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 3 days ago:
I think so too.
I’ve met people who are extremely happy living in their small town life doing small town things, then get angry or confused why anybody would want to go someplace “exotic”.
- Comment on Currently happening 4 days ago:
I’m 40 and I don’t even use the friend label unless they earned it now.
Facebook really damaged that word for me.
- Comment on Currently happening 4 days ago:
The person going “Ewww this person is toxic” or the other side?
- Comment on Currently happening 4 days ago:
Last time I told a guy who messaged me daily on Discord that he was being real clingy and it made it hard to be friends with him, he threatened to find my house and “prove me wrong”.
They have no friends, very limited social skills, and have a lot of free time to be toxic. Dangerous combination.
- Comment on Currently happening 4 days ago:
I used to be like that of wanting to mentor too. I wanted to help others get to where I’m at. Apparently a lot of these folks are serious energy vampires and I am always left mentally exhausted.
Kinda need to wake up to their own BS.
- Comment on Currently happening 4 days ago:
I had lots of these situations on Steam.
I played a game, liked my time with a player, and they’d send me a friend request. But then it was daily messages about what I was doing, when I would play again, and often some sap story about why I’m important to them.
This was a constant thing that kept happening.
- Comment on Currently happening 4 days ago:
The guy made a comment about women and minorities about if I was just trying to meet a DEI quota.
He said this to me, a person of color, at a tech event where according to the census, 60% of Engineers are white.
- Comment on Currently happening 4 days ago:
Accurate. I found my idea was just recreating reddit mod meetups.
- Comment on Currently happening 4 days ago:
I had a brilliant idea for a app during college. It connected self-identified lonely nerds with other self-identified lonely nerds. Like “Oh you like anime, here is this other guy, and here are five events you can attend together.” I was hoping for that Zuckerberg money if this app was a hit.
I ran it through a test trial with a dozen pairings of them in my college campus to see if it had value.
And yeah, a lot of the feedback was that the other person was kind of annoying/intolerable. Which was funny when both of them said that about each other.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand his coworker 4 days ago:
Pretty much. Interesting people go for coffee, then something right after.
My first few dates with my now-wife was a park, then hot dogs, then another park, then back at her place.
Coffee is just the initial vibe check.
- Comment on Currently happening 5 days ago:
Two weeks ago, I saw the loner at the table of an event. Went to go talk to them because they were alone for a while.
In less than 10 minutes, they made a offensive joke that would have insulted half the people here, and complained about their living situation unprompted.
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- Comment on Watching passport bros get bodied by SEA women is a complete mood. Get rekt manlet. 5 days ago:
My wife’s grandfather. That lady is like first gen feminism.
Well ol Grandpappy sent much of his life savings to sponsor a Asian wife, getting her a house and a new car. Then he was ready to leave my grandmother to start a new life. But Grandma found bank statements and they divorced and got mucho of the split.
He tried to live with his sponsored Asian wife, who ended up being a story like OPs.
Grandpa fucked around and found out he is now homeless.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 5 days ago:
When it first came out, for some reason, I thought all games would start following Valve’s lead and introduce commentary.
And now two decades later, I don’t know if any other games have.
Then again, we have other ways like game devs talking on podcasts/live stream.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 5 days ago:
I thought it was just me! I played every HL game as a teen. Now 20 years later, my old eyes seem to struggle a bit.
And yeah, changing FoV is what solved it for me.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand his coworker 5 days ago:
The whole purpose of
buying the boatgoing on a hike in the first place was to get the ladies nice andtipsy top sidealone, so we can take them to a nice comfortable placebelow deck, and you know, they can’t refuse…because of the implication. - Comment on is "oh boy" considered a gendered term? 1 week ago:
I say “Damn, Gina!” after the 90s Fox sitcom, Martin.
- Comment on Is it expected to tip for furniture deliveries? 1 week ago:
I tip my bank teller, the canvasser with the clipboard in front of the supermarket, and the traffic light for turning green.
- Comment on Git good, son 1 week ago:
It’s a shitpost youre not allowed to bring logic into this
- Comment on Git good, son 1 week ago:
Please don’t pee on your partner without consent.
- Comment on Enshittification only hurts product itself, not users. 1 week ago:
Windows was shitty after the superior WinXP. I’d argue 98 was all I needed but XP was when disk scanning/defragmenting was baked in.
- Comment on US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true? 1 week ago:
This is going to sound awful coming from a person who voted for Kamala. But when Trump wanted something, he pushed forward and gave zero fucks who he burned. Trump wanted a wall, and then there’s a wall. Granted, it’s shitty, it’s expensive and an eyesore, and it does absolutely nothing and no Democrats voted for it (that I’m aware of).
Democrats fight for a policy, and then carve it over and over to appease corporations, billionaires, conservatives, and anybody who might feel threatened by it. So yeah, I can see why people would shrug at giving a vote for Kamala.
Again, I voted for her. But in reality, I want a candidate who will go, “Listen motherfuckers. All kids in America will get fed. Suck my dick if you hate it. Every single kid will get a sandwich and if you speak again, will destroy you.”
