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Treble said:
Only for Heroic Narratives. But our world isn't a heroic narrative.
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I dunno.

Travel for the sake of travel, accidentally trip over a great treasure. Use that treasure to kick the asses of a bunch of people who deserve it (and a few that admittedly don't), and tell the world to get off your porch.

Keep tripping over more great treasures seemingly every time you take a walk in your back yard.

World goes to shit.

Get off your porch, beat the idiots until they listen to sense. Go back to retirement.

World goes to shit again.

Beat the shit out of the idiots until they listen again. Think about going into retirement, but no, you've finally got a rival.

Activate Power Of Friendship on most of the people whose asses you saved as well as the ones whose asses you kicked.

Posture for a while, do some flexing, hit the gym. Rival gets progressively more pathetic until he doesn't matter anymore. Get a new rival.

Repeat process.

And at some point, your birthday becomes one of those worldwide facts that everyone knows whether or not they actually like you.


In what world is the USA not a heroic narrative? With a lot of sequels.
 
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TanaNari said:
Travel for the sake of travel, accidentally trip over a great treasure. Use that treasure to kick the asses of a bunch of people who deserve it (and a few that admittedly don't), and tell the world to get off your porch.
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Nope, travel for the sake of stealing other people's land and settle to escape religious persecution (or the victims of YOUR religious persecution). America was made by the villains of an alien invasion film...or rather, the other way around.

TanaNari said:
eep tripping over more great treasures seemingly every time you take a walk in your back yard.
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Yeah, sure. "Your" backyard.

TanaNari said:
World goes to shit.

Get off your porch, beat the idiots until they listen to sense. Go back to retirement.
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Nah, more like enter a conflict you really shouldn't have and directly lead to the world going properly insane.

TanaNari said:
Beat the shit out of the idiots until they listen again. Think about going into retirement, but no, you've finally got a rival.
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No, I'll give you that one. WW2 was your aristeia.

TanaNari said:
Activate Power Of Friendship on most of the people whose asses you saved as well as the ones whose asses you kicked.
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Heh. Friendship.....sure.

TanaNari said:
Posture for a while, do some flexing, hit the gym. Rival gets progressively more pathetic until he doesn't matter anymore. Get a new rival.
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Not how heroic narratives work. The USSR doesn't lose after some grand battle, it just collapses because it was always just a paper tiger.

Everything after that is R8 adjacent, so let's not talk about that.
 
Treble said:
That's the logic of an armchair philosopher...or a weeb. The world is as it is, and all we can do is follow our roles.
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And this is why Britain doesn't matter anymore.

Treble said:
Not how heroic narratives work. The USSR doesn't lose after some grand battle, it just collapses because it was always just a paper tiger
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Nah, we beat them where it counted, in the hearts and minds of the people. That's why they collapsed. Well, that and the inherit failures and evil of Communism.
 
If anyone here lives in Australia, do you have to deal with Kookaburras? I'm rather interested in how wildlife annoys other people from around the world.
 
TanaNari said:
World goes to shit.
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Treble said:
Nah, more like enter a conflict you really shouldn't have and directly lead to the world going properly insane.
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vyor said:
No, that was the french and brits with their insane "treaty"
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To this day, the Onion has my absolute favorite summary of WWI.
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Arc-on-Fire said:
If anyone here lives in Australia, do you have to deal with Kookaburras? I'm rather interested in how wildlife annoys other people from around the world.
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Biggest problems I have to deal with in summer here are stinkbugs and wasps. And ever since I installed fly screens, they are not that much one anymore.
 
Arc-on-Fire said:
If anyone here lives in Australia, do you have to deal with Kookaburras? I'm rather interested in how wildlife annoys other people from around the world.
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Texas here. Fuck scorpions. And everything else except Praying Mantis, but mostly scorpions and spiders.

Had a spider on the front door this morning, a big one, right next to the damn doorknob. Would not move, finally had to find some mosquito spray in a bucket on the porch, and I think the only reason that worked was making him too slippery to hold on. Didn't go anywhere once he hit the ground either. Wasn't dead, and he was gone when I left last night, no sign of squashed spider.

The rest of our animal problems are the neighbors fault. A whole passel of puppies every few years, most of which either starve to death because they can't afford enough food or get hit by a car. Or eaten by one of the other feral dogs in the neighborhood when they get hungry enough.
 
Scygnus said:
Texas here. Fuck scorpions. And everything else except Praying Mantis, but mostly scorpions and spiders.

Had a spider on the front door this morning, a big one, right next to the damn doorknob. Would not move, finally had to find some mosquito spray in a bucket on the porch, and I think the only reason that worked was making him too slippery to hold on. Didn't go anywhere once he hit the ground either. Wasn't dead, and he was gone when I left last night, no sign of squashed spider.

The rest of our animal problems are the neighbors fault. A whole passel of puppies every few years, most of which either starve to death because they can't afford enough food or get hit by a car. Or eaten by one of the other feral dogs in the neighborhood when they get hungry enough.
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Have feral hogs ever tried to gore you with their tusks?

It's weird thinking of pigs as beings that will eat even children
 
SuperPulp2789 said:
Have feral hogs ever tried to gore you with their tusks?

It's weird thinking of pigs as beings that will eat even children
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Thankfully never ran into any in the wild.

First and last time I hunted myself though, my uncles shot one (in the head) and were dragging it into the cleaning shed. It wasn't quite dead though, started suddenly fighting back and it was everything two of them could do to keep hold of it's face and keep it from standing up while another one got a gun and put three more bullets in its head so it finally died.
 
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Thankfully never ran into any in the wild.

First and last time I hunted myself though, my uncles shot one (in the head) and were dragging it into the cleaning shed. It wasn't quite dead though, started suddenly fighting back and it was everything two of them could do to keep hold of it's face and keep it from standing up while another one got a gun and put three more bullets in its head so it finally died.
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A real life hogzilla that's not photoshopped and edited may actually exist somewhere

How exactly do you guys eat wild animals?

There's so much bacteria and viruses and dirt on them
 
SuperPulp2789 said:
A real life hogzilla that's not photoshopped and edited may actually exist somewhere

How exactly do you guys eat wild animals?

There's so much bacteria and viruses and dirt on them
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The meat generally doesn't have dirt on it, being inside the animal.

And unless you make it rare, cooking kills everything else. Even domesticated animals have bacteria and often viruses, eating a wild one isn't any different.

Hell, eating wild pork in the US is probably still safer than eating a domestic British cow. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (Mad Cow in humans) is fucking nasty.

You DO need to do certain things while cleaning it to keep various bodily poisons from getting into the edible meat - don't cut open the digestive system and get literal shit all over it, for an obvious example - so be wary of accepting it unless you know for sure they knew what they were doing (or had it cleaned and packed professionally.)
 
You won't believe how psychologically comforting it is to know you're just being paranoid, and everyone isn't really trying to ruin your day. That the nasty thoughts in your head are literally just a disease that you should ignore.

Still makes me really uneasy, but at least I'm not like my father, his father, or any of my uncles and aunts. Low bar, but I still jumped over it. Go me.
 
There's been talk of a crisis intervention for me from my family and local SVS.
 
Treble said:
You won't believe how psychologically comforting it is to know you're just being paranoid, and everyone isn't really trying to ruin your day. That the nasty thoughts in your head are literally just a disease that you should ignore.

Still makes me really uneasy, but at least I'm not like my father, his father, or any of my uncles and aunts. Low bar, but I still jumped over it. Go me.
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Mental illness can be terrible -- I've seen family friends destroyed by it.

Hope there's a decent treatment for paranoia, now that you've got a firm diagnosis.
 
Took me a while to find a gen chat in the forums I read but gotta ask everyone if FF net is down in your ends? These past few days I cannot access the site and I'm starting to worry...
 
Sleeping Moon said:
given their Twitter never have any update.
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There was one a short while ago, FYI. Seems like people were abusing the lack of active moderation to post CSAM, which got mass-reported straight to the domain registrar, who pulled the plug because it's against their rules too, not just FFN's. Not all of the reported fics actually had CSAM, mind you, so it may have been a malicious DoS attack in part as well.
 
Fraktal said:
There was one a short while ago, FYI. Seems like people were abusing the lack of active moderation to post CSAM, which got mass-reported straight to the domain registrar, who pulled the plug because it's against their rules too, not just FFN's. Not all of the reported fics actually had CSAM, mind you, so it may have been a malicious DoS attack in part as well.
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What's CSAM? I don't get it... Still, man that's just sad for peeps to do that.
 
I keep waiting for critique for my attempts at art pieces or learning to make them

Still no responses

Then again, I am only using one forum atm

But I am not sure where else to go for more consistent response

It's weird, these days I think the "Dead Internet Theory" has some validity….because people aren't as online as they think
 
It's rather bizarre how two of the world's wealthiest and most advanced nations exist on the same supercontinent as basically the most violent, chaotic, dystopian countries on the planet.

Like, if not for South Africa being a basket case, the Caribbean would be the worst place on the planet for a human being to live in that isn't undergoing a civil war. And even some that are.
 
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