I've gotten a gastroscopy without anesthesia and i do not recommend it. It's like swallowing a huge-ass branch, it sucks. From all i know, colonoscopy is worse. They do short term anesthesia with propofol for this stuff, it's much easier to recover from than the general anesthesia you'd get for a surgery.

Eh, i think that take is pretty ableist tbh. First of all, "moving on from your highschool trauma" is something that takes decades for some people, and some are never able to process it. People are traumatized in different ways and different severity, have different ressources to process their experiences and that just means you can't expect everybody to react in the same way you or i do. And, as with most trauma, the majority of the people affected by it do not hurt others due to their trauma, but direct all their anguish inwards and hurt themselves. It's fucking vile what kids can do to their classmates and how much long-term damage that causes. It doesn't sit right with me to fashion that into a handy pseudopsychological explanation for neofascist online cultures.

Are some bullied nerds marks for reactionary radicalization? Yes, Gamergate culture and incel ideology exist for a reason, but what turns the young men who go down that pipeline into reactionaries are the material conditions of crisis capitalism where preserving the privilege they have as white cishet dudes becomes a "crab in a bucket" response to increased proletarization, in many cases also a predisposition towards reactionary ideas due their socialization in a conservative home, a massive indoctrination infrastructure on sites like reddit, 4chan, youtube etc. and the willingness to buy into all that shit. At the end of the day, it's a choice. Granted, not a free choice like liberals imagine decision-making processes to be, but the factors that nudge these people towards a decision for fascism are more complex than "being an unfucked, friendless nerd". Not to mention that same or similar pipelines have the same effects on a lot of people who've been stereotypical bullies in their youth, or have just always fallen outside of these stereotypes.

The "never before seen" picture had actually been posted on the old sub at some point, and a third picture that seems to have been taken before the pig pooped also exists.

The mafia analogy works really well if you play in a Camarilla-led city, but my group just got the Prince ousted to turn it into an Anarch domain and to be completely honest, i just play V:tM the same way i play Thirsty Sword Lesbians, except that i constantly make puppygirl jokes about the Gangrel player's character and really lean into the "Tremere are a trans metaphor" angle.

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Also some minor note on treating clans as internal groups within the Camarilla: This only really works if you play in a really large city with tons of vampires and handwave the masquerade breach potential of having hundreds of bloodsuckers running around town. Our campaign runs with the suggestions in the book and has a total sprawl-wide vampire population of 20-30 (we play in Hamburg, it's just nowhere near as huge and chaotic as LA or Mexico City and the lick population reflects that). You can't have a dozen internal divisions at that size. Two main factions (in our case, Camarilla and Anarchs) and a loose cannon here and there (like a former Sabbath shovelhead leading the local Bahari, which are mostly her ghouls and other humans) are much more likely at that scale, and anything else are outside forces like the 2nd Inquisition, Lupines or out of town vampires who are on the run from the purges in the UK and try to gain a foothold at the cost of established vampires. The only Tremere in the city are my blood witch and sometimes her sire when she isn't exporting revolutiion elsewhere, and a lot of clans just do not show up in our chronicle at all. Ventrue are larger and mostly the Venn diagram between them and the Camarilla is a circle, but the other clans do not have elaborate family structures and internal workings, it's usually just a sire, a childe and maybe one other person.

the antithesis to "what 0 theory does to a mfer"

it's been on 4chan about as long as pepe, ofc it's super fucking racist

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in the meat world people are far nicer and the community is really a community, we have leftists of all sorts at our lgbt org and no one really gets in a fuss over it, we're there to hang out and help each other.

most people there are like that as well, but the ones that aren't of course become mods immediately and then start projecting about power hungry leninists and their authoritarian desire to purge people.

Congrats on finding someone to meet up with! I hope you enjoy the sushi.

Oh, and thanks for that, too. The pics on the menu look delicious and the girl i'm going with is just the sweetest person all around, i'm sure it'll be great.

That was the actual grift and it led to a ton of people losing their overpriced ape jpgs because their slurp juice had been tampered with.

oh yeah explain this