so I'll be doing it again from after Thanksgiving to Christmas.

holy shit why are you so wise i should try this, this is way better than the sadistic puritan op of Dry January

Marry them

Usually people find that hard but I figure since we were never really lovers (just rapidly heading there) it should be easier.

it's massively case by case but yeah usually easier to convert a crush that never happened back to friendship. it sounds like crush 2 is going through some dark shit from your last post, i hope they get the help they need.

ending jenny death with death grips 2.0 instead of On GP is a world class L. sino-soviet split levels.

Just try to aim for "having a fun night getting drinks" to keep it low pressure.

roger that. i am good at being chill and going with the flow. i am good with uncertainty and letting go of expectations. yeah. those things definitely describe the thing that is me

hehe thank u mane! i'm def not really sure what i want from this - a weekish ago i'd be hoping for romantic reconciliation to be on the table, but it didn't work out once and it was barely any time ago so i kinda wouldn't trust that and i really doubt it's on the table. i really do think it would be lovely to be able to be friends with her if it's not too confusing and hurtful for one or both of us, we have a great connection and she truly is my favorite new person that i've met in a long while.

i do kind of like the idea/fantasy of it growing back into something after a good chunk of friendship time when the timing is better for us - though obviously it would be wrong and unfair to both of us to go into a friendship expecting that, and that "maybe but probably not" isn't something to put your life on hold for. idk i'm not great with uncertainty or with having flexible expectations but ya boy is trying!!

the drive toward grillpill is real. i wish i was doing more but all avenues for political change in the west feel so shriveled and unserious. maybe i should check out PSL, DSA near me is a total joke and they're Just Democrats, even moreso post pandemic it seems.

in theory i think the design intention is: red = combo tool (most advantageous on hit), blue = blockstring extender/used for set-ups/mix, and white = neutral skip to help big bodies with their mobility issues. in practice though this shit was badly overtuned so red was also busted on block and white was an abomination that did pretty much everything last patch. this led to wild assault being something you kinda just Did in a braindead manner. blue mostly worked as intended but still v strong. worth noting that blue does also give you hit confirms they're just weaker than what you get from red.

hopefully this patch will bring it more in line with design intentions rather than having WA be a "haha go burrrr" homogenized generalist tool

obama produced movie that came this year.

i only rarely viscerally hate a piece of media but this was the first one to do it for me in a long while lol

dating pool is redditors

while i hate the apps....this caveat terrifies me on levels that r hard to describe. still...it never hurts to weight all your options

that fucking sucks, bud. ive shown vulnerability with people who made me regret it and it's always an awful feeling. but it's also the only way we can build bonds with others that mean anything, so ive always thought i owe it to myself and to others who might find value in my existence and my presence in their lives, to simply lick my wounds for a bit and try again. but yeah, it's always a risk, and learning to cope with the times we get burned for taking that risk and making the attempt is part of how we learn to do it in a healthy and valuable way. it sounds corny, but just know you probably did something brave and didn't do anything wrong, it could be on them or could just not be the right relationship for that level of bond. but don't ever feel bad for making the attempt. (sorry for the corny ramble lol)

i get what you mean, but i think it's more like: under lib capitalist hegemony appeals to moral grey areas/moral complexity are often just guises the status quo defense squad use to do the whole "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron" shtick. if ur talking to comrades u trust in good faith (who agree that ameriKKKa and global capitalism is the greatest evil and that almost all examples of AES range from the far lesser evil and more redeemable to a qualified good (and in either case worthy of critical support)) there is a lot of complexity and moral grey area to analyze. its just so hard to find conversations where u can trust the other person and as commies we r so often on the back foot that its easier to just fall back on "stalin did nothing wrong unlimited genocide to the first world" to not cede ground to bad faith libs.

i do getchu though, especially when the rhetoric of "well its suuuuuuuuch a complicaaaaated geopolitical struggle, its sooooooo haaaaaard to understaaaaaand" has been used to run interference for the morally pitch black state of Israel for so long.

EDIT: i guess a TL:DR version of what i wrote is: there is a lot of moral grey area in the world and in history, but many of the things we've been brainwashed into thinking of as Complicated and Grey are actually just evil, and the sooner you recognize that, the better. (additionally, a lot of socialist history we've been brainwashed into thinking is Pure Evil is actually grey)