• Shit That Gets You Mad v27 - You can't be mad about that because I said so
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So I decided as I always go to Milan as well as I am always on highways that I'd get a telepass device. Was subscribing and I noticed I wrote my e-mail wrong (it missed a number). And now here I am waiting for tomorrow hopefully, while cursing every single saint of the calendar as the italian as I am.
How some say video games can not tell meaningful or deep stories.
Show them Barbie Horse Adventures, changes their minds instantly.
This was a comment I saw that sparked my comment here >And before people come in here fanatically telling me about Bioshock, I’ve played it. Are you seriously telling me you think the story of Bioshock is even near comparable to something like Shakespeare or Steinbeck or Dostoyevsky or whoever your writer of choice is? I don't think there is going to be any changing of this person's mind.
A lot of the hype around Shakespeare simply exists because people know of him. Romeo and Juliet is one of his most well known pieces, but does that mean it's good? No, in my opinion, it's fucking awful. I knew a girl that boasted about being a Shakespeare fan simply because it made her sound cultured - it was funny when she couldn't tell you the plot of anything other than Macbeth and Hamlet. Unsurprisingly, these types of people are common because 'everyone' knows Shakespeare, so saying "Oh yeah I'm a big Shakespeare fan" means more to a large group than "Oh yeah I'm a huge Jean Racine fan".
Personally I think Shakespeare is great (I <3 the Tempest) and is certainly among the classics of English literature. But my salient point was more about how that individual was being a pompous dick about game stories.
I mean a lot of modern AAA games are shallow as all fuck but that doesn't mean there's nothing of worth in some smaller or more niche titles.
I can't tell if I don't like things because they are popular, or just because I don't really find them interesting.
When kids start to cry when they get hurt doing something you told them not to. Or just kids crying in general.
The amount of trash my apartment block produces is disgusting. So many trash bags lying out in the snow and most of it can be recycled.
I know it's stupid but it gets under my skin when someone is discussing video games and refers to The Player as "him" or "her" rather than "them." "Him" comes across as kinda out-of-touch and "Her" comes across as a needlessly self-righteous response to the former.
I had played Little Nightmares halfway when I noticed that my TV's THX setting makes it look like shit.
Linked my Epic Games account to my Xbone account so I'd be able to play it on a platform that wasn't my PC or in a setup that relies on my PC being on, and I guess because I've played the game on my PS4 before, they just tell me to fuck off on the title screen.
I've spoken to the block manager about it but his entire response was 'can't do anything because we don't know who it is'
It's so nice having someone threaten to call city police in an area where county has jurisdiction, and then threatening to call an off duty cop like they're some personal attack dog when this is brought to their attention. And then claiming I threatened them when I respond that the off duty cop can't do shit.
There is CCTV by the trash bins but I am 100% sure they don't work - didn't stop people from breaking the glass on the front door when they forgot their key
Lazy developers who would rather churn out 50 rehashes of the same thing for the SAME original selling price instead of fixing bullshit game breaking bugs that have existed for years and have received zero acknowledgement.
I despise discord with a furious passion and I've been writing up a list of everything I hate about it. I'll post it later this week when it's done.
They do it cause they know saps will buy it, nobody votes with their wallets like they should.
Well, it's still better than Skype. But yeah. I'll tag you when I post it.
My brother loves the filthiest, most disguisting take away places he can find. I wouldn't care if he didn't dictate where we ordered from when we have no food in the house. I just got done trying to salvage the worst chicken baguette I've ever seen. First off the thing was soaking in mayonnaise, I'm not a fan of mayo but if there's a little bit it doesn't bother me because I can just scrape it off, but this thing was actually soggy from the amount of mayo it was in. Secondly well over half the ingredients weren't even inside the baguette, they were just slapped on top of it and down one of the sides. Worst of all, the menu didn't even say it came with mayonnaise at all, it just said chicken and lettuce. After I had removed 6 tablespoons full of mayo and the three strips of destroyed lettuce from the baguette I realised that the bread was so soaked with mayo that it could barely hold its shape, and was in no condition to be picked up. I pieced it together with some of the chicken but all I could taste was the mayo, which even after I scraped away as much as I could I would describe as excessive, and had to just toss the whole thing. I cleaned the chicken off and gave it to my dogs. Now I'm starving because it's almost 10PM and the only thing I was going to eat today looked like it was pulled from the bottom of a bin. My mother's fried cod was also more than half batter. At least my brother's burger was nice, so they didn't fuck up everyone's orders. I am never ordering from there again, to say the least.
I overheard my mom talking about my gay brother over the phone, and basically she was saying that she hopes that he'll recognize his "god-given identity". I couldn't hear her clearly, but I think she might have been talking about having him watch something in order to change his mind. I wish she would get over it.
It's really simple. Black people wanted to reclaim "Nigger" as a neutral/positive word, to take away the power that "Nigger" had. I see this only as a positive. You're not going to get rid of the word, so why leave it only to people who use it as a slur? It's not like people have only just started doing this. This has been going on for decades. People commonly use it in positive/neutral contexts and everyone in the situation understands it's not being used as a slur. "Nigga" has basically become its own word.
Because I feel that they did not reclaim it, they just spread it amongst themselves. There is nothing positive about them calling each other that, it just feels like they are insulting themselves.
Why? In the minds of everyone using "Nigga" in those contexts, it's not an insult. It's literally the same as saying "my dude/black person". The meanings of words exist only in how the mind perceives them. It feels like you're only seeing it as an insult because of your personal experience with the word, as if it were an absolute truth.
Because it's completely ass backwards and only ends up in people being potentially offended for no reason whatsoever. It is fully possible to use friendly banter without calling each other cunts or using a modded version of the word that slave owners used. Then again maybe it's because I have no concept of banter in general and it's completely incompatible with my personality type. What is the point of casually personally insulting someone if you can make an impersonal joke that is just as funny instead? Why is it considered to be a part of culture? What fundamental benefit is there to have normalized verbal abuse?
"Friendly banter" might not have been accurate. I mean that in most of the contexts I see it in, it's used as neutrally as "my dude". Not as an insult.
Then I guess I must have stumbled upon a case where people were misusing it.
Well, it kind of worked for retarded because I use it all the time without actually meaning mentally disabled people, just because I like how it rolls off the tongue and because it phonetically sounds kind of funny.
I guess "neutralized" is a more precise term.
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