Yknow that one meme about how good it feels to be vindicated when someone you hate “for no reason” is exposed as a piece of shit? I’m the opposite, I loathe that completely.

Ignoring the obvious feeling of “I am not happy when someone causes grief and suffering and my first reaction is not to be smug about it”, it’s just not as fun to hate someone for legitimate reasons sometimes? If I started out hating someone for petty reasons, I want to stay hating them for petty reasons- having them be legitimately terrible takes all the fun out of it completely. It’s boring, and it makes me feel like a total dork who wants to be a good person more than I actually am one.

We need to make Wednesday part of the weekend. Hear me out.

The current workweek is actually cooked. You wake up on Monday and realize you have FIVE whole days of work or school ahead of you.

Monday sucks because it's the first day, but you're refreshed and kind of productive because you had the chance to rest on weekend. Tuesday is usually peak productivity but from there it goes down. By Wednesday, your soul has already left your body and you're mentally checked out. Thursday is Friday loading screen, no one cares what happens on Thursday, you just want it to be Friday. And Friday is what keeps half of the workforce alive.

Then you finally reach Saturday, and what happens? You spend the first day recovering from the week, and the second day stressing about Monday. Like, I just got here 😭

Two days off is a scam. Day one is for recovering. Day two is for dreading your next shift. By the time you actually feel human again, it's time to clock back in. We're basically running on a 50% weekend efficiency rate.

So here's my proposal: Weekend Wednesday.

You work Monday and Tuesday, take Wednesday off, then work Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Sunday is your second day off. That's the whole revolution.

Instead of grinding through five consecutive days like an NPC, you get a break every two or three days. Monday doesn't feel nearly as depressing when you know you're only two days away from a day off. And when Wednesday's over, you've only got two more days weekend. It's so much more manageable mentally.

And honestly, I think the productivity argument makes sense, too. People aren't machines. Going nonstop doesn't magically make you more productive; sometimes you're just sitting there staring at a screen with approximately three brain cells fighting for their lives. Taking a proper break halfway through the week could help you come back more focused, less burnt out, and actually capable of getting stuff done.

The days off hit different, too. Wednesday becomes a proper reset instead of something you have to wait five days for, and enjoy places that are packed when everyone else is off. Meanwhile, Sunday becomes an actual day of rest instead of the final countdown before Monday.

Obviously, this won't work for every job, and coordinating schedules would be a whole thing. But if you're self-employed, work remotely with flexible hours, or you're a student who can arrange their timetable, why not try it?

I'm not saying Weekend Wednesday will solve every problem with modern work culture. But maybe the five-day grind followed by two days of recovery isn't the genius system we've convinced ourselves it is.

Normalize the midweek reset

I refuse to go to the theater to see a movie under 90 minutes in length, as I feel like I'm being ripped off. I could see a three-hour movie and be entertained for twice as long for the exact same price.

It makes more sense from the theater's point of view to charge based on runtime as well. They have to have fewer showings per day of a longer movie, since it occupies the theater for a longer period of time. If they adjust the price depending on the runtime, that could make up for the decreased number of showtimes.

I really don’t get why people don’t like it. It’s such a fun movie, the characters are likeable, the plot is actually quite interesting, the movie itself is kind of hardcore for a kids movie. And the twist was pretty good as well.

Objectively story-wise Cars 1 was a masterpiece, but as for my personal favorite Cars 2 is just so great to rewatch.

First time posting here. I think this counts as a pretty damn unpopular opinion, judging off of how even the main and folk CSM reddits respectively find this ending to be dogshit. I’ve already posted there before, but now I wanna see what non CSM related subs are like in terms of reception.

HUGE SPOILER WARNING

I loved it.  Made a big post about it here (which tbh its a bit clunky and outdated, only really addressing people’s complaints about the story and why I don’t find them to be a deal breaker. I am a god awful writer tho either way lol)
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChainsawMan/s/fFc2eiosLu

But to try to summarise my thoughts without wasting too much time:

Structurally creative & unpredictable, with the latter being SUPER important as to how I enjoy a story. The Deus Ex Machina was well done to me, ala David Lynch’s Wild At Heart, WITHOUT feeling like it sacrificed the story’s signature atmosphere and break-neck pacing OR its recurring themes.

I found the reset to be consistent (rather than nonsensical, underdeveloped or out of nowhere) with the series’s established rules AND was even foreshadowed. Denji & Asa escaping this current, shitty world was set up as early as the  Aquarium arc. Then doubly reinforced in Aging Arc, with Denji’s line to Asa.

Hell, the Fake Chainsaw Man says on TV that he will make a “devilless world” where “Adam and Eve” can live. Guess what the REAL Chainsaw Man did to the dynamic Man and Woman duo of the manga.. moments after they shared their SIN of patricide to one another. Pretty blatant foreshadowing there. 

Finally, as a little cherry on top, I’d say it's a sincere, personal and genuine ending from Fujimoto. Pochita literally ends the Chainsaw Man manga by erasing Chainsaw Man, giving the story a bit of self awareness and metaness.

The themes & such throughout the entire part covers many of his recurring topics, from abusive parents, to dreams, to hero and idol worship. Hell, it even ties together his interviews, from the Mongolian Street Child, to Spirited Away, to the Big Lebowski, to the American Sniper (and funnily enough I hate these last two films LMAO). He’s got consistent things he wants to talk about, and I respect that.
I believe this is more sincere and auteur driven than how most shonen stories end, where they its based purely on the characters/plot. 

Extra tidbit: Art downgraded in terms of detail & realism but the final arc has some of the best usages of speed lines and camera work in the ENTIRE manga. Pochita Vs Yoru was great. 

Besides my linked post + everything I’ve written here, I would like to also bring forward these other positive links about the story that I found to be great. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChainsawMan/s/nA9DMj7Gnh (Summary/Analysis of all of Part 2 after reread)

-https://www.reddit.com/r/ChainsawMan/s/hsAXDyTRCp (Part 2 Ending thoughts)

-https://www.reddit.com/r/ChainsawMan/s/G5gXNJG1Di (Its time to grow up - the meaning behind Chapter 231)

-https://www.reddit.com/r/ChainsawMan/s/7g9MY0j0jp (Pochita is Denji’s Father psychoanalysis)

-https://www.reddit.com/r/ChainsawManTheories/s/1nnGgBsT9W (long analysis - chainsaw man has a rigorous structure)

-What 'Chainsaw Man' and 'Evangelion' Share in Their Endings https://gizmodo.com/chainsaw-man-chapter-232-ending-evangelion-2000737905

-https://note.com/uzume369/n/n6c7aee488e6b (really good Japanese review about the story, translated it using Google and AI ofc but the meaning should still be retained)

-https://x.com/bpm120run/status/2040710050365559238?s=46 (another Japanese perspective on twitter)

Comments with nice interpretations:

-https://www.reddit.com/r/ChainsawMan/s/I4JesZLi5m (Chapter 219 analysis)

-https://www.reddit.com/r/Chainsawfolk/s/oo11Oyezz4 (Yoru final moments analysis)

-https://www.reddit.com/r/Chainsawfolk/s/fkQiIzVpuv (Theory on Death Devil’s true intentions)

Definitely more out there but these are the ones that stuck with me.

TLDR: Way overblown hate. Worst manga ending of all time is insane. Way worse than Part 1 doesn’t make sense to me. In fact, I can understand hating ALL of Chainsaw Man for being incredibly derivative or for an overall critique on Fujimoto’s writing, rather than hating squarely on the ending.

I don’t know if it’s intrinsic for humans to like the sun but it genuinely repulses me. Aside from being extremely pale, it makes me overheated and exhausted and nauseas and it fries my brain like I can’t do anything. I don’t want to deal with the hassle of applying and reapplying sunscreen but if I must go out during the day, I will, as well as seek shade and wear long sleeves.

This year, I went at least 200 days without seeing sunlight by installing multiple layers of blackout curtains, taping down the sides so no sunlight leaks in, and only going out when it gets dark. My longest continuous streak of not seeing sunlight is a month and a half. I only go out during the day when I’m absolutely forced to.

I don’t understand how you people love sunlight so much. Just seeing it makes me repulsed and nauseas and miserable. I hope I never see it again. The night is beautiful but the daylight is jarring. The thought of feeling warm sun on my skin brings me unparalleled disgust. People assume I would be happier if I could see the sun but when I used to go out during the daytime, I still hated it even with my sun protective measures. Being indoors using blackout curtains has saved what little of my sanity remains after being forced to see sunlight before I realized I didn’t have to if I don’t want to. Even leaving my room to go grab water from the fridge and seeing the rays of sunshine seeping through the windows in the kitchen makes me disgusted and uncomfortable and I go back to my bedroom with blackout curtains to be safe again.

The sun puts me in such a bad mood and hearing people say how much they love it during the summer is so overdone. No thanks.

I truly think that cool lighting is absolutely better than warm lighting. I hate the greasy, dingy, unclean look of them, it makes me feel like I’m in a bedroom or basement that hasn’t been cleaned or updated in 20+ years. Cool lighting actually lets me see the room I’m in and it feels generally cleaner. If you want dark lights like warm bulbs, why not just turn them off at that point?

Inspired by yesterday's Nissan Juke post. Back in the day, so many people questioned why someone would buy the Contour when they could get a "better" Taurus for a similar price. But what exactly did the Taurus do better? Sure, it had more interior space, but that dooesn't apply to everyone. If you didn't need the additional interior space, the Contour was the better choice. Having been engineered in Europe, the Contour was a more agile, more responsive vehicle than the Taurus. The damn thing had passive rear steering! Meanwhile the Taurus had a rudimentary suspension that left the car feeling lazy, almost barge-like at times. The Taurus' larger size also meant it wasn't as manageable. Sure it didn't matter much on the highway, but in the city and on winding backroads, the Contour was bronze while the Taurus was the fat kid who needed his inhaler to get to the finish line.

As someone who didn't have a bias towards Nissan, I always thought the Juke was kinda funky and cool looking. In all fairness I was still a kid when these things hit the road in like 2010, there was nothing like that on the market. Every other SUV was styled after the big 4x4s but the juke just looks like itself. It probably saved nissan's finances too, at least in Europe, and now every manufacturer has at least 1 juke copycat (just see the new alfa romeo junior, lol)

So, ever since that dune, was it? bucket went viral for looking like a fleshlight (great branding you're associating yourself with there), almost every studio since has decided they need their own shitty gimmick popcorn container to draw in the morons who foam at the mouth over any of these "exclusive" hunk-a-junks.

Now, the dune one itself wasn't actually that bad, design-wise. It was just a solid bucket with a themed topper (albeit with the aforementioned fleshlight worm opening). Things like that have been around for decades, though more commonly for drinks.

But... Then there's everything else that has chased the trend. You can't even really call them buckets. For a particularly egregious example that inspired this post, look at the upcoming Godzilla Minus Zero novelty items:

The stuff at the bottom? That's actually good, I don't have a problem with those, that's what promotional cinema things should look like (though the design of the cup makes the straw placement rather impractical). But then you have the actual novelty container.

It's literally just a plastic statue with an opening on the back. It is useless junk that is completely impractical for its intended purpose. They've even had to photoshop the popcorn into it for their promo pics. Then there's that awful cup. If it was just the actual beam bit, it wouldn't be bad (if a bit unergonomic), but it has that ridiculous base. The base might be detachable, idk, but it wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't. What the hell are you supposed to do with that in the cinema screening itself?

TL;DR - stupid, poorly designed, impractical nonsense appealing to the lowest common denominator in an attempt to chase internet "clout"

In our current society, having a "support network" and sharing your problems in intimate ways with the people you love is treated as universal advice that everyone should try every time they feel down.

I can see why, because suffering in front of others had a certain social stigma back then (or at least in the environment I grew up in), however, I think that coping methods and therapy skills aren't by any means a strict code that works on every human, and things that work on a group of people won't necessarily work on others.

Suffering in silence is one of those.

Some people (like me) don't want to hear about the suffering of their loved ones and their loved ones don't want to hear about the suffering of them, not all of us like to be in contact with our/other feelings and doing so makes us feel even worse.

And feelings don't always need validation, a lot of things we feel are irrational and I'm the best example of that.

I used to think and feel a lot of dumb shit that if validated, it would make commit stuff that I'll regret, letting those feelings go away by time was the best decision I could take.

The best therapy I had wasn't by talking about emotions with friends, it was just hanging out with them, getting drunk with them, playing videogames with them, and making memories with them.

And I'm so glad of never having those uncomfortable intimate moments because today I'm the best version of me.

I'm independent, I can stand being alone with my thoughts for months, I act rational in rough situations, and I'm emotionally intelligent.

What I mean is: your ways to cope are yours, you know what's the best thing for you and no therapy or coping advice should be universally encouraged or discouraged.

Let me preface this by saying that the person who does the bad thing is always going to be the most “to blame” in this situation, and I’m going to use “getting mugged in an alley” to stop people from getting overly emotional.

Let’s say that you know that if you take a detour through an alley, you will have a statistically significant chance of getting mugged. If you do it anyway, and you get mugged, you’re at least partially at fault in that scenario for choosing to take the gamble.

Is the mugger the one at fault? Of course. Should we continue to strive for a society where muggers don’t exist and you can detour through the alley in complete safety? Absolutely. Creating a society with both the socialization and material conditions to make mugging (mostly) extinct should be one of our top priorities.

However, until such a time comes, the fact of the matter is that it’s dangerous to go into that darkly lit alley in a bad neighborhood, and it isn’t unreasonable to expect people to avoid putting themselves in situations where there’s a significant amount of danger - or, if they choose to do it anyway, accept the consequences when you lose the gamble.

Say, for example, I lived in Ukraine, and to go visit a relative, the most direct route is through part of an active warzone. After deciding to go that route, I drove right into an active firefight, and get killed in the crossfire. Is it primarily my fault? No, it’s the Russian soldier that decided to shoot me who’s in the most wrong. Was it still a stupid thing for me to do? Yes, I was knowingly endangering myself by taking that route but did it anyway.

Should the Russian even be there? No, Russians are an invading force and have no right to conquer territory. However, the fact of the matter is, they’re there whether we like it or not, despite our best efforts, and we should be expected to plan around it accordingly.

This doesn’t happen with any other kind of action. You’re expected to not pet dogs when they growl at you, and if you try and still end up getting bit, you should have known better. If you lose all your money gambling, that’s on you. If you decide to get gas station sushi, don’t be surprised when it gives you food poisoning. But then, when someone knowingly goes into Murder And Extortion Alley and something bad happens to them, suddenly everyone flocks to their aid and ostracizes any kind of criticism towards the victim.

Just because there are societal problems that are yet to be solved doesn’t mean that you aren’t expected to take them into account while the problem is being fixed. If you’re asked “how could this have been avoided?”, “It never should have happened in the first place” isn’t a defense.

NOT AS YOU ARE THINKGING.

Covid for me back then in my old world view and system of thoughts the biggest gift I could ever had. I used back to just finish the high school and I didn't understand how the World worked.

I mean I was wondering why I had to leave a perfect place (as I used to think) like High school for an adult world that was bland, bad and ugly (as the teacher propaganda made us think it was). So then at late 2019, I entered pre-uni and it wasn't as high school, the reason behind this pre-uni years was to force into people the adult way of life, that we had to be autonomous, people had to get a job, car, teacher had no real influence. All this increased resentement to that way of life as I wanted to go in the contrary sense to the norm as for me the teen time and high school way of living was the perfect utopia for me (as I used to think).

Then came the the Winter 2020 and at the beginning my Philosophy teacher (btw I used to love a lot that subject and general school subject in general) said that this pre-uni school would stay open no matter the conditions, in all case , whatever the bad weather , the storm and he was so sure of himself that he said even if we N Korea attack with nuclear missiles, pre-uni school would stay open
This grown even more my resentement seeing in it a inhuman World with no compassion in that "adulthood" world and indeed when winter storm came, many high school were closed, elementary, but that the pre-uni was still open.

Then came the March 2020, we were waiting some kind of few student strikes to save us from school days or even a week of strike, then suddenly came the announcement that school will be closed for next week just before the mid-session break and even more. Just for that few I was so excited. It was like a proof for me that the adulthood way of life and inhuman robotic system can be vanquished and destroyed, like most teachers abandonned all their stuffed program, 3/4 of all the exams, papers were canceled, grades were not even counted in the general average.

Not only, it saved me from more school work, gave me a break, but I felt it back some kind of spiritual victory against the normal functionning way of the World and even for the rest of the pre-uni other year, it was online which made us easier, we could even sleep, take our coffee, lunch, plays games during classes, it felt a victory over all the scholar system (which doesn't mean I didn't like school stuff and learning). Then I wanted for the end of the second year to return a bit in presence which we indeed did for some practical work, but what a satisfaction was for me to see how empty the school got, how all tables and chairs were packed, changed, it felt like a desolated area from movies.

Ps: Obviously years after that (I used to be 18-19), I finally grown up for real and thrown away such stupid ridiculous worldview and if I had to re do it I would never wanted covid as it slowed me through my life, got me through a tunnel of social medias, procrastination that I suffered through it many years. And I finally find that adulthood years that i m in are indeed the best and I hate teenage and highschool time a lot.

I dislike Contact (1997) and think it's overrated. No way it's in the Mt Rushmore of Sci Fi movies along with Interstellar or Arrival.

Sure it has good-to-great acting performance and THAT legendary mirror shot but

It was an existential / faith / introspective movie in Sci-Fi clothing which is not a problem itself, but imo it fails to be either of them

As a Sci-Fi, I think it lacks "sciency" feelings and the supposed climax of the Sci-Fi plot of the films feels too flat and unsatisfying for me.

The introspective, or Science vs Religion, or Faith vs Proof aspect of the film, well I think Wake Up Dead Man does a way better job. The argument from each side feels weak and "low-hanging" so the resolution is unsatisfying and does not make me "think"

Not a bad movie by any means, but absolutely not in Top 50 Movies that I have ever watched

Before anyone comes for me, I'm not talking about ALL single mothers. There are women who genuinely find themselves in circumstances they couldn't have predicted or controlled. This isn't about them.

I'm talking about the women who repeatedly make poor decisions about who they have children with and then expect the world to sympathize with the consequences.

You knowingly have children with a man who already has multiple baby mamas, doesn't support the children he already has, can't hold down a steady job, or has demonstrated time and again that he's irresponsible. Maybe he was even cheating on another woman when you got involved with him. You ignore every red flag waving directly in your face, sometimes don't bother with contraception, and then act shocked when the man turns out to be exactly who he showed you he was.

And then come the familiar pleas:

"Single mom here, struggling to make ends meet."

"Single mother of three, just trying to give my babies a good Christmas."

"I'm doing everything on my own, and nobody understands how hard it is."

Here's my unpopular opinion: Being a single mother doesn't automatically make you a victim, a hero, or someone entitled to everyone else's sympathy. Yes, raising children alone is difficult. Yes, the fathers absolutely deserve accountability for abandoning their responsibilities. But two things can be true at once: the father can be a deadbeat, and the mother can have exercised terrible judgment in choosing to have children with him. At some point, personal accountability has to enter the conversation.

I'm not suggesting the children deserve to suffer for their parents' decisions. They don't. And I'm not saying single mothers shouldn't receive help when they genuinely need it. But needing help and deserving pity are two entirely different things. You don't automatically earn my admiration or sympathy simply because you're raising children alone, especially when the circumstances were foreseeable and the warning signs were there from the beginning.

Sometimes you're not the victim of unfortunate circumstances. Sometimes you're living with the consequences of choices you willingly made. And I don't believe society should be expected to applaud or pity every bad decision simply because motherhood is involved.

I think Pikachu is the most boring out of all the gaming icons. Mario, Link, Sonic, and other iconic video game characters are way more interesting to me. Even Minecraft Steve might be more interesting, although I’m not sure if I’d include him among the gaming icons.

Honestly, I think Pikachu became iconic more by sheer accident than anything else. Not only that, but it feels like they try to shove him into everything without actually giving him much of a personality.

The only time Pikachu really gets a personality is in the anime, but even then, he sometimes gets pushed to the side.

Like, do I even have to explain the difference? Mario has a very chippy and a very infectious positive attitude like Santa Claus . Sonic is rad and cool. Link is badass and legendary. But then you have Pikachu, who honestly relies on the popularity of his entire franchise to maintain his status as a gaming icon.

Overall, I think Pikachu is one of the most boring and least interesting gaming mascots. Heck, even Mega Man and Pac-Man are more interesting to me.
And don’t get me wrong, I like Pac-Man and Mega Man. I just wish they appeared in more things that were genuinely huge or popular. Nobody really talks about Pac-Man beyond the original game, and Mega Man doesn’t get new games very often either.

Tbh it feels oddly satisfying, and sometimes it gets into a rhythm where I can expect the next one. It adds a little excitement to my life. Mine are silent so it’s not like I’m causing a public disturbance whenever I hiccup.

When they go away, I get a bit disappointed. I’m always expecting the next one, and it never comes. Makes me feel like something is out of place now

Anime used to be cool and unique a very long time time ago. Now it's just a copy/paste art style void of originality. It drives me nuts when I see young folks working so hard to replicate it. There's nothing original about it. Most of it's boring. To be clear the post is mostly referring to the most popular form of anime, that tons of kids sit around filling their sketchbooks with, dudes with spikey hair, big eyes, and some "unique" thing about them or petite chicks with big eyes and tiny noses etc. I dont really think major studios are trying to push out art or trying to express themselves, so much as just pumping out a profitable formula. I dont think that they'd disagree with this themselves.

Dont get me wrong, I like anime as a form of entertainment, and dig into it every once in a while. Dragon Ball Z was huge for me as a kid and still a guilty pleasure now along with some others. But as an art style... Na... It was cool back in the day, but now it's just everyone rehashing the same tired style and ideas over and over. Imo, let the studios keep doing their thing but for a sketchbook or bigger piece of art? It's pointless and lame, imo.

I know it sounds a little wild but think it through with me, it's real

We have all had the unfortunate experience of going to sit down, but finding that there are piss spots on the toilet seat. You have to wipe it up and the toilet seat feels a little bit grosser than before. Morally, I agree that the expectation would be that toilet seat pissers learn to lift the seat and just stop it but realistically, we have all seen that that will never happen. So think: toilet seat pissers most likely piss on the seats because they are both too lazy to do the simple act of lifting the seat, and because they don't care to clean up after themselves. If anyone pisses on toilet seats for the love of the game, then we're all fucked either way, they'd just as likely put the seat down. So they are unfortunately irrelevant to this conversation. Establishing laziness and lack of care as the main contributors to toilet-seat-pissing, we can reason that if these people ever encountered a lifted seat, they would just piss into the toilet all the same. If the toilet seats were always up, nobody would encounter toilet seats covered in piss. Therefore, moral justice aside, the logical solution to the problem of pissed-on toilet seats is to make leaving the toilet seat up the norm.

But say you just can't set aside morality. Why should upstanding citizens, especially anyone AFAB who may never most likely piss on toilet seats at all, have to carry the minute burden to their convenience of always putting the toilet seat up, when ethically, nobody should ever be pissing all over the toilet seat and leaving it? Well, if we want to follow any line of thinking in this ethical conversation, we have to only consider pissers because if a person has to defecate, the toilet seat has to be down for them universally. Piss is where there are deviations based on anatomy and choice. So, let us only consider pissers in this conversation going forward. To follow this logical path, the most neutral position for a toilet would be with the seat raised, because for amab pissers, it presents the choice of 1) walking up to the toilet and pissing right away 2) lowering the seat and sitting down to piss. Afab pissers would have to ensure the seat is down regardless. If the assumption is that the seat is down, as it is socially currently, then reverse is true. When you consider gender/sex, one genre of pisser would always have the SLIGHT advantage in convenience in any ethics-considering situation. Going back to the "neutral toilet position" idea: we have just established that GIRLS ALWAYS HAVE TO SIT TO PEE, BOYS DONT. RIGHT NOW THE NORM OF LEAVING THE SEAT DOWN ASSUMES THE SEAT AS THE DEFAULT SOCIAL POSITIONING, THEREFORE PREFERRING GIRL PISSERS AND ALL POOPERS IN TERMS OF CONVENIENCE. IF THE NORM WERE TO LEAVE THE SEAT UP, IT WOULD PREFER BOY PISSERS AND HURT THE CONVENIENCE OF ALL POOPERS. WE SEE FROM THIS CONSIDERATION THAT ONE "GENRE" OF PISSER sorry my brain started hurting IS SLIGHTLY BENEFITTED IN PERMS OF POSITION ALWAYS. SO GENDER/SEX CANNOT BE CONSIDERED IN THIS CONVERSATION. THE CURRENT NORM BENEFITS, IN TERMS OF SLIGHT CONVENIENCE, ALL POOPERS AND SOME PISSERS. BUT THINK ABOUT IT. POOPING ALWAYS TAKES A LONGER AMOUNT OF TIME THAN PISSING. so shouldnt the norm prioritize SOME PISSERS and SOME POOPERS because oh this loses the convenience argument. We lose convenience. there is no arguing that this is the most justified overall

That is provided it is something which actually can exist and isn’t ridiculously specific stuff like what their name has to be.

I think a lot of people are so consumed by their desire to not be alone that they don't have the patience or willpower to look for what they really want. People get tired of searching and compromise on someone “good enough” and call it a day.

But no one is so unique they can’t find a 100% compatible partner.

I see people say shared interests, music taste, or physical attraction aren’t important and it just sounds like they’re coping because they couldn’t get everything they wanted. But it’s their fault they didn’t put in enough effort and stopped searching too early.

Why? Because the watcher isnt the one who caused the murder/accident of those individuals. I agree that those are real people in those sites,dying in gruesome ways.. But its the real world...not fantasyland. It becomes unethical when people leave nasty comments or derive sexual pleasures out of it ( and yeah that happens to some people who are necromancers)

So, I like playtesting games and mods. I don't do it as often as I like, but I do it for free and thoroughly enjoy it. I am not a programmer or a professional. I just derive an unfathomable amount of joy from creating bug reports and generally discussing with amateur devs and it pisses me that I see here on reddit that people basically tell you to avoid any unknown titles.

I find the act of being at the beginning of a project exciting even when I know it won't revolutionize anything or that it's a broken fucking bug mess or when it has nothing new really going for it.

But that's not what I'm going about. I see gamers wanting a perfect breathtaking experience without expecting it to go through countless iterations. People like me are derided for trying a title that's unfinished or unknown instead a tried and true masterpiece according to some sort of "objective" reddit standard even though testing is always needed, preferably professional one, that is true, to create that masterpiece in the first place. But sometimes, even someone like me makes a tiny little difference.

edit: I also playtest tabletop rpgs and one of my favs is a game that sadly didn't get published because the author had health problems and abandoned it as they felt overwhelmed by the effort needed to work on a final version, as well as they were not financially secure enough to pay for the art needed and didn't want to go through a potentially failed kickstarter.

I don't know how rare this feeling is, or whether I am in minority or majority gang for having this feeling. But I have this strange unexplainable fascination to watch people around me hiccup. Like if someone around me does, I would just drop whatever I am doing and watch them keenly. And I really have this wish to watch it from start to end, but I can't because people will think me to be a weirdo. I even have an urge to talk to them during that time as much as I can, so that I can listen to them from even closer. And if they are trying for the remedies, I secretly pray for it to not work so that I can listen more.

Sometimes when my urge to watch somebody hiccuping becomes too strong and no one around me is, I take out my phone and begin watching vloggers or youtube videos with people hiccuping.

But this fascination only extends till others are hiccuping. Once it happens to me, I get highly uncomfortable and have the burning need to stop them somehow.

Don't get me wrong, I support service animals to an extent. The moment they are properly trained and 'work', its fine. The moment the issues are neurological or physical, I have 0,0 issues with it.

But... Recently someone took a service 'parrot' to a theme park in the Netherlands, claimed it as a service animal, and took advantage of the loophole. https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/6027421/papegaai-in-efteling-zorgt-voor-veel-reacties-park-gaf-toestemming . The fact that this happened is insanity. The worst part? It wasn't a even a service animal. The parrot was from a bird sanctuary, being temporarily housed to rehabilitate. The person who got the parrot just decided to abuse the parrot in the weirdest way.

This isn't my main complaint though. The fact that this is possible is depressing. It shouldn't happen.

Someone claiming a random animal as a service animal is absurd to me. Being able to buy a vest and just claim an untrained mutt, or any animal for that matter, as a service animal is a disgusting loophole that should be closed down. Its bad for the animal, and its inexcusable when these non-service-service pets get brought out in the open. These things should never be accessible, and I wholeheartedly agree that there should be a mandatory paperwork or ID system attached to combat the loophole. Also, animals as a cure to mental illness? Absolutely abhorrent. Get a therapist. You can have a puppy later when you're healing.

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My cat used to be a service/emotional support animal. The owner was chronically depressed and barely took care of him, and didn't go to the vet because she had agoraphobia. And after attempting sewerslide, she left him alone for 3 weeks. That was until she finally signed papers to get rid of him (she didn't want to get rid of her service animal), and the cat got rescued by the local vets, and went directly into my house as a rescue and I've had him ever since.

One of my "friends" was broke and got a dog. It was a risk-breed who was notoriously hard to train, but she got him as a service animal. She wanted him to warn her for diabetes spikes. However, she didn't train him properly, or at all. She couldn't afford the dogs food, she couldn't afford her own food, and it got her hospitalized multiple times. The ambulance staff got bitten by the dog multiple times while fixing her up and we had to pin him down while that stuff happened. She got rid of him later, after lots of pressure from everyone, because it didn't work out.

It soured me on service animals as a whole. I don't care if that makes me narrow-minded. My cat is completely traumatized by this whole ordeal. I've met plenty of people since that day who pull the same shit and get pets as a fake service animal so they can take them anywhere. It shouldn't work like that.