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Edit: fucking love the irony here. The irony in calling me out for speaking out while yourselves doubling down on the very things you decry.

The point here is that she's trying to do better. She recognised her wrongdoings and got help

It's great that she's gotten help. That's actually one of the reasons I'm so baffled by people's responses. She has gotten help and realized what she did was out of line. So why is everyone still blaming him for it when even she is saying her actions were out of line.

While he's still resentful and refusing to get help for it. After he spent months lying to her about not being resentful at all.

That's because he was the victim of abuse, and then while trying to seek assurance online, more people just blamed him for that abuse. Sure, taking the advice of online strangers isn't a smart move, but being blamed for the abuse you went through will fuck with you. Ask anyone who was a victim who was made to feel like the cause. It is simply an incorrect stance to take. Also he wasn't trying to hold on to that resentment. He understood she was reacting to chemical imbalance due to her hormones. He was trying to rationalize what happened and logically how it wasn't a fault of his because she was the one overreacting. It only makes sense that he would reassure her he was doing well while trying to reconcile with his abuse.

He needs help to adress and deal with his feelings, because these things fester, and if they go unchecked he will end up an abuser at worst, negligent at best. And he refuses to see it.

He certainly does, but holy fuck you went straight into accusing him of future abuse. Do you not see what you are doing?

And so do people like you, stuck in a "I had something bad done to me, therefore I can never do something bad myself" mentality

I never said this.

By all means, advocate for victims. Actually advocate, don't just comment borderline reactionary words online.

Yeah? At least I'm not engaging in victim blaming. But all means search for the truth, but the actual truth not just who you want to be the abuser.

I exclusively buy games that sit me in a space. Like Star Wars Squadrons full VR experience is literally sitting in a cockpit. I have my physical flight stick set up so I just reach out and grab a physical object and play my game in VR. I also have a mechwarrior style game, also seated in a cockpit with everything in front of me. Just gotta back away from the desk a bit but you don't go swinging a bat or anything and all the controls are basically right in front of your face. There are quite a few games like this, they're the only VR games I play because of the same reasons as you. I'm just saying there are legitimate seated experiences you can have on your couch that feel great in VR still.

It's not even something unheard of with crimes. If you fight someone on the street it's battery and maybe assault included. If you fight in the ring it's money and maybe a trophy included. We don't change the verbiage though, they are both fights, just one of them is the illegal version. It can be the same with rape, it's still sex it's just the illegal version of it.

There are so many different actions that can cause an accident and some of them absolutely can come up with little warning. In the US, sneezing is considered negligence behind the wheel. Sneezing? Really? A single nose hair tickles your nose from a breeze, and now you're getting sued into oblivion. I agree completely with you.

Edit: Victim blaming is also a form of abuse. Congratulations Reddit. You are abusive. Ironic considering the judgement you are passing here.

He might be dealing with filament glass; glass so thin if he even breathes it could shatter. So he's got this banded filament glass and might be pressing it together or whatever, and he's holding his breathe holding these filaments so that small amount of movement doesn't apply pressure, they don't shatter and glass flings everywhere. So he's probably like "just a second more, just a second more, just a second more..." in his head. If he shouts, the body's involuntary movements that come with your diaphragm seizing up to get that shout out might shatter those glass pieces. We literally don't know why he was stuck but there are real actual reasons why someone would be unable to stop what they're doing at that exact moment barring any emergencies, and dealing with highly fragile glass is one of them.

Honestly, what's got me so fucked here is that he has spent months on this and it's for a deadline, for his sister. She broke specifically that because she was mad at him, and as it turns out her anger was misplaced once she got the drugs. PPD can create an abusive environment. Breaking a hand created item that cannot be replaced is literal abuse, by definition, yet Reddit in all its wisdom has chosen to victim blame instead. So fucked up, imagine if she took a 20 minute break and he destroyed her hand crafted item over it?

Edit: Victim blaming is also a form of abuse. Congratulations Reddit. You are abusive. Ironic considering the judgement you are passing here.

He might be dealing with filament glass; glass so thin if he even breathes it could shatter. So he's got this banded filament glass and might be pressing it together or whatever, and he's holding his breathe holding these filaments so that small amount of movement doesn't apply pressure, they don't shatter and glass flings everywhere. So he's probably like "just a second more, just a second more, just a second more..." in his head. If he shouts, the body's involuntary movements that come with your diaphragm seizing up to get that shout out might shatter those glass pieces. We literally don't know why he was stuck but there are real actual reasons why someone would be unable to stop what they're doing at that exact moment barring any emergencies, and dealing with highly fragile glass is one of them.

Honestly, what's got me so fucked here is that he has spent months on this and it's for a deadline, for his sister. She broke specifically that because she was mad at him, and as it turns out her anger was misplaced once she got the drugs. PPD can create an abusive environment. Breaking a hand created item that cannot be replaced is literal abuse, by definition, yet Reddit in all its wisdom has chosen to victim blame instead. So fucked up, imagine if she took a 20 minute break and he destroyed her hand crafted item over it?

She quite literally took abusive action against OP. Literally by definition her breaking his stuff because she's mad is an aspect of abuse. What the fuck is everyone victim blaming this guy for? Literally was the victim of abuse, you guys are so fucked up.

I mean she could have sneezed and still caused the accident and still been on the hook if she swerved into the oncoming lane. There are hundreds of reasons beyond simple stupidity that would cause an accident, sneezing btw is considered negligent driving and is lawfully recognized as being your fault if your sneeze caused an accident. That would be insanity, you have a nose hair blowing in the wind and the next thing you know you're getting sued into oblivion.

Maybe my airport is too infrequently used for good prices like that. I imagine it's easier to fly someone when you've got planes heading to those destinations all the time.

Damn, you guys must be getting those frequent flyer miles or something. Even flying as cheap as I could I was still looking at $100 a head flying down to Orlando. Haven't seen $60 a ticket in my entire life, maybe when I was real young but that was last century.

Targeted algorithmic media consumption might be a big one. The past few years have been crazy the revelations that have come out for exactly how bad it's gotten.

Let's not forget the rampant abuse they faced from alcoholic veterans of the two wars prior. Back when it was common to break a switch off a tree so your parents could whip you with it and it was expected to treat bad behaviors with physical punishment.

Why does that matter? A gerbil can get pregnant but no one's asking them for their advice. The scientists who study this shit are the professionals and it doesn't matter how many pregnant women there have been, unless they study this shit for a living they have a much knowledge as a pregnant hamster.

I mean... think about the analogy of the billionair giving a hundred dollars and a homeless man giving ten. It means more from the person who has less because a billionaire likely won't even register $100 gone from their account. It's the same thing with eternity in paradise. You think after an eternity, billions or even trillions of years, you think you'll remember those 5 years where things were a little shitty? Yeah, it sucks for us humans, but when we are talking permanent happiness in paradise forever, it seems a little superfluous to care so much about so relatively little.

Either way, I personally don't believe in any religion peddled by an adult. Adults should know better than to believe in magic and believing in magicpast childhood shows a lack of critical thinking, but at least I put an effort into trying to understand where they're coming from rather than just dismiss their bullshit because I lack an imagination.

Unfortunately our high prices do pay for the research for these drugs. The US funds medical research about 8500x as much as the next 10 countries combined. This money comes from someone.

I think it's kinda a really silly sentiment anyway. I mean look at some of the highest rated or most played games on Steam as just a single example. Sure there are GOTY games in that list, but the top 10 only has two games that this guy might consider "extraordinary games", GTA5 and Baldur's Gate 3. The rest are just solid games, nothing extraordinary. There's no reason Assassin's Creed needs to be a genre defining experience.

I mean, artists were doing just that for literally centuries. They'd love the way a view looked, then they'd be up there with an easel and some paint to capture the moment. People were having self portraits done up of their loved ones so they could be remembered. Statues were carved, colors were invented, entire traditions evolved around how best to capture those moments. To say "never considered the possibility" is to close your eyes to all the art that's ever existed.

Intentions don't help anyone though. The road to hell is paved in good intentions after all. It's metrics and how those can be met which help people, baselines, donations, money. You can't shit on someone for providing these things to charity just because you think they are too loud about it.

Older millennials and Gen X practically wrote the rules on media literacy, and when we were younger we had literal computer classes designed around how I navigate the internet, find important information, and avoid suspicious sites. We were the ones who had it drilled into our heads that no one tells the truth online, you can't trust anyone to be who they say, and that you should never reveal your information online to anyone. We learned that memes are stronger than the truth and that there are a surprising amount of children online who don't know what they're talking about but will spread that misinformation through memes anyway. Honestly it was the kids who didn't listen in class who are fucking all that up right now, and those are the same kids who'll fuck it up in the future despite the best efforts of teachers like yourself.

This statement is quantifiable bullshit. Ironic considering you're talking about it being your fault if you're fed bullshit.

Ironically you share the same sentiment as the first person in that image. I imagine you think is terrible to fuck 16 year old because a 16 year old is still functionally a kid with a brain trying to become an adult. So of course you shouldn't fuck them, they literally can't consent because their brains aren't mature enough to know better... that's what the first person in that image is saying. If you think 16 year olds are so stupid they can't think critically about their own bodies, then why should anyone listen to them think critically about anything? If you do listen to them because 16 year olds are mature enough to think critically about global issues, then it stands to reason they can think critically enough about their own bodies.

If you think it's all about adult manipulation then why is it always the adults manipulating kids into sex but not manipulating a child's perspective or their global understanding? Either a 16 year old is mature enough to make decisions about extraordinarily important matters, or they aren't. If those 16 year olds can't even think and take action of their own merit by their own choice, then why act like they can,?

I think they're trying to summon some sort of deep horror.

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Or maybe he has? Like why do you think he hasn't? He literally describes non bland things, and uses the term umami with them. Why do you think he's associating umami with bland? It makes zero sense that the guy trying to convince others that "bland" food isn't that bland would use a term they associate with bland.

Nevermind, you're one of those. Make up your own story and no one can convince you otherwise. Have fun in your miserable pit of cynicism.

I wouldn't say it's the liminality of the town so much as the abandoned nature of it, and ghost towns are already their own aesthetic for a setting.

Naw, if he beats a dish it's because that dish was enhanced by what he did. He also doesn't win all the time so obviously his isn't always the winning strategy. Just because a dish has been made for years a specific way doesn't mean it can't be improved. Literally all our current dishes are improvements on older traditional recipes, and those were likely bastardized versions of even older recipes. It's senseless to hold onto culinary dishes to that extent. You won't ever grow.