[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 3 points 14 hours ago

"The demons in Frieren are based on white people"

Saw this and thought of our conversation

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 20 points 21 hours ago

I'll one-up you: the Harry Potter series. This configuration of government was talked about in Harry Potter 4: Deathly Hollows when Harry had to demean a dementor:

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[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 19 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

The demon king is a trope. The demon king is an excuse to tell the story they want to tell. The purpose of Frieren isn't to tell a story about the morally complicated nature of demons and their interactions with humans. It's about the passage of time, legacy, and the asynchronicity between the elven lifespan and the human lifespan. You already have a bunch on your plate. You don't want pizza AND pasta.

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 28 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I'm a child-appearing demon who kills people, gets spared because I call out for my mother, and get a chance to kill more

Just like meemaw!!

I spent more than a human lifespan perfecting magic that just fucking kills people

Reminds me a pawpaw!!

I'm a demon commander who uses a scale to judge how much mana a person has and whoever has more gets to control the other person

SHE'S LITERALLY ME!!!

What do you waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnntttttttttttttttttt????????

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 45 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I bet it's every accusation a confession. Like they assume we have an ahistorical stance that isn't tempered with theory because they don't. They probably graft things that feel good, things they heard on TV, and anecdotes over uncomfortable situations. If we're saying "the world would be more or peaceful ~~with~~ WITHOUT I MEANT WITHOUT Israel and the US" they probably think saying something like "tariffs are what happen when you don't vote for Kamala" has equal sting and edginess. The fact that you come back and disagree with them defies their sense of the terminal nature of mud slinging. There's no Liberal Manifesto. What are they going to read? Kierkegard? You going to debate a communist with some shit written by Kissinger or something? You going to misunderstand Martlin Luther King Jr? No! You said something mean and the lefties were ready to talk about it and that's bewildering.

AAGAUUUAGUUGAGGGUGGAGAGUGGGAGGGA

That's wild work to just walk in here. You may want to consider Weenie Hut Jr.

fell-for-it-again

At least their heart's in the right place, right?

Sensible chuckle

Checks notes

Huh?

Whaaaaaaat???

agony-consuming AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

HOLY FISH PASTE!!!!!!

I try to never ever ever ever think like that. I believe there are only two feelings that a stock market is capable of producing. You can either go "omg why was I so bearish? Obviously this was going to blow up. All the signs were there. I should have bet the house!" or "How could I have been so bullish? I shouldn't have put one bloody damn cent into that ponzi scheme. I'm such a fool." I don't believe there is such a thing as being satisfied with your choice of investment. The people who are often making life changing money are people with 100x that much money to begin with - I think a societally agreed upon mortal who invests and makes life changing money has succeeded the same way they might have succeeded in a casino.

many people are saying it (collectively instead of begging)

The 210 participants were sorted into two groups -- one group of 106 was allowed to use the chatbot, while the control group was left on a "waiting list." The participants were evaluated for their anxiety, depression or eating disorder symptoms using standardized assessments before and after the test period. For the first four weeks, the app prompted its users to engage with it daily. For the second four weeks, the prompts stopped, but people could still engage on their own.

Study participants actually used the app, and the researchers said they were surprised by how much and how closely people communicated with the bot. Surveyed afterward, participants reported a degree of "therapeutic alliance" -- trust and collaboration between patient and therapist -- similar to that for in-person therapists.

One might interrogate the system that made it seem like a chatbot was your only lifeline.

Somewhere in the election cycle I was like "the Dems are the '96 Bulls of funding Israel. I just don't think Trump is going to be able to keep pace so he's harm reduction." That wasn't the full context; it wasn't in full confidence, smugness, and pride. Nor is this simply going to cause, in a vacuum, a free Palestine. But it sure feels like good news

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MoistCritical analyzing the situation

Basically, Jagex sent out a survey doing "research" into what players value. They proposed tiered subscriptions such as "lower price with ads," "mobile only," and "premium membership that offers enhanced customer support (one of the most common complaints about the company is their dogshit customer support[1])."

The players, understandably, recognize immediately that the survey like finding a locust in their wheat field. It's a sign that capitalism has come to strip the copper from the walls for short term profit. The private equity company that owns Jagex, CVC, is trying to get their return and chuck the husk.

They all start unsubscribing and the Reddit page is just flooded with screenshots of them unsubbing. They do an apology, it doesn't stop. Their CEO does another apology with slimy corporate jargon today.

Reddit, twitter, and youtube are exploding with it. We're going to need a 2025 OSOSRS in a few years. It was fun while it lasted.

[1] For example, some people only get attention if they get a bunch of upvotes on reddit

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cognitohazard Suffer with me, comrade.

It has the conclusion of Wano in it.

https://x.com/dailyportgas/status/1845388148085489753

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My hobbies sound fun. Food tastes delicious. Energy is running through me. We're so fucking back. Lets fucking go!

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I'm undecided until I see them.

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Run it back you coward. 3 more days in Termina, 30 new masks, 3 new transformations, 6 new dungeons.The woke media won't admit it'd be GotY even if they recycled the assets because they want to keep making AAA games.

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https://nitter.net/aaronbronsteter/status/1712211098764501027

(can someone help me make a nitter link please?)

In order for McGregor to be eligible via USADA, he'd have to wait 6 months. On October 9th, the UFC representative was like "Iunno bout allat."

As someone with many years of combat sport experience with a little MMA alongside a working knowledge of MMA in the UFC and otherwise, it's quite the meme to have people not get USADA tested. Of all the problems with fight prep, I would have put dehydration for weight cutting at the highest problem over USADA testing. It's apparently annoying, but for a sport whose history includes people juiced to the gills, it seems like the superior alternative to allow people to fight without jeopardizing their health. When the UFC pays out so poorly, it's not really worth your health for a lot of would be fighters. It's also why you can't kick to the head on the ground. Sure, there are times that the combat sports shows its sportiness with unrealistic exchanges and sometimes it gets abused by people waiting to be stood back up, but if it means people are cracking each others orbital bones, it's a respectful addition for the fighters.

As a lefty, It seems like the enshittification continues. Can't afford to properly test fighters because McGregor needs to come back NOW. Now fighters are going to be stood back up by a ref so they can use their uber muscles to break another man's orbital bone with a giga punch.

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It's recently come out that, on September 10th, Lauren Boebert was removed from the play Beetlejuice in Denver. This would be all fine and good, right? A politician is being an asshole. The sky is blue. Well, Hexbear, it is anything but fine. Anything but.

The plot thickens when it's revealed that, beyond the vaping and the being loud (which is it's own struggle session whether that's based), that part of her contribution to getting owned was that she was giving her partner an over the pants handjob. Now, this would have gone through the news cycle with a sensible chuckle for me, but, my fellow hexbearians, do I look like I'm having a sensible chuckle? NO! This is literally me right now. See, what had happened was that this news circulated to the website that I like to post on. The title of the post was "boebert was giving a no-foolin for-reals handjob during the beetlejuice musical" This post got some of the most vile, vitriolic comments I've ever seen in all my posting.

>no-foolin for-reals handjob >over the pants rubbin Y'all that's not even a handy to a seventh grader. @regul@hexbear.net

unironically this @WoofWoof91@hexbear.net

Let's get one thing straight here, hexbear. Over the pants is a handjob. This is my central thesis. Let's start with the most obvious positive case. If you have sex with a condom, do you call it over-the-condom sex? Of course not! Protected sex, maybe, but you wouldn't call it not sex. Would you call a blowjob with a condom not a blowjob? Of course not! If you did that'd be annoying and weird. Let's try not to be annoying and weird. skin-to-skin contact with the genitals isn't a requirement for something to be called a job. Repeat it once more for the people in the back getting a handjob rn: skin-to-skin contact with the genitals isn't a requirement for something to be called a job. If home runs are so unambiguous, why is third base so "ambiguous?" Because of a single fringe case. If it wasn't for the existence of this fringe case, then there's be no argument about how getting your genitals stimulated works.

Fairies, monsters, and others that go bump in the night, let me introduce you to the water jet/bubbling system of a hot tub. Wikipedia defines a hot tub as "a large tub full of water used for hydrotherapy, relaxation or pleasure." Let's explore that last word, pleasure. Whom amogus hasn't used a hot tub as it was meant to be used. I think this is where the friction comes from, the jet stream in a hot tub. Dissenters will say (like sniveling cowards) "b-b-but WDYMP, the hot tub isn't sentient, it can't give you a job!" Let's get one thing straight, if you had your hands over the edge of a hot tub and your partner was pushing your crotch into a jet stream, that would be a type of job. The solution, my compromise for the haters and losers, is what I would like to call the jetjob. It would be a normal jetjob if they're pushing you via hands on the buttox into a water jet, and a reverse jetjob if they're using their feet. It would be a backwards jetjob if your back is facing the water jet. This also expands the capacity for a combo jobs because your crotch is facing your partner. This would be the exciting introduction of the triple job if they're using a hand, their mouth, and the water jet. I propose that, upon climax in such a fashion, one would exclaim "Tic tac toe, three in a row!"

With this, let's get one thing clear, over the pants is a type of handjob the same way that over the condom sex is a type of sex. If we can start using the term jetjob, then it will be easier to recognize when something is a job and when something is not. This would also be a step closer to communism. Thank you. I hope I haven't fractured our fragile community too deeply with this.

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Critical support for Ganondorf? Seems pretty based. ESPECIALLY considering all the nonsense the Hylian royal family pulled in the shadow temple.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWNGI87ptq4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H68zNGvit0

Edit: watching through the video, it becomes morally gray because there are, in fact, guillotines in the shadow temple. It's hard to say who was right and who was wrong because of this.

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