It doesn't feel like it, but you can have that life you think is unattainable. You can find a wife, you can get a home, you can have a child, and there's a good chance you'll like it. You have to pick your hard, maybe you don't get to live in the capitol city and go to the club every night, but try to be consistently virtuous and you can succeed even in a world that feels stacked against you. Remember that you only exist because thousands of generations of your ancestors made it through harder times than this.

I'm pretty sure it's a white shirt and the reason it looks off white is because it's so thin you can see her skin underneath. The color of the shirt is thicker fabric, and you don't see the skin color underneath.

I think that you probably could have put 99 more t-shirts on her, and not one of them would have invoked this policy, because most t-shirts are not designed to be see through.

They only get offended because they're leftists and they heard you're supposed to pretend to be offended when that happens so you can look all smart.

For the rest of us retards we're like "lol ur right send me cat pictures"

Isn't it obvious?

I'm never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you

Uh... What's the exchange rate? Because if I need to use up all my points to get an IQ of 100, I'm gonna have a bad time...

Gotta be masterofballs.

There's still people who defederated wolf balls today, years after it closed, out of fear he might one day return.

"I make my own cheese. With muh dick."

If you're worried that you're too square, the only way to change things with pretentious art is to tape a banana to your chest.

I feel like a talking cheeseburger would have my vote. I mean, holy shit it's a talking cheeseburger!

I think I'd tell him to stop being so needy.

Eating sentient mushrooms slow your aging. That's the real reason for the battle between peach and koopa.

It took me way longer than I'd like to admit to get that one.

Then you slowly start to realize how shallow our pop culture is, and it's an existential nightmare you never awake from

Man, if I were in a public position, I'd have to have all fake accounts with my name and face run by my social media manager, then Id have my 'real' accounts totally pseudonymous. All the ado about liking posts would be tiring.

The count is already nobility, and he's good with numbers.

Historically, it makes sense to consider Japan as a contemporary modern state, and the west's nations as contemporary postmodern states. The people who rebuilt Japan after World War 2 were somewhat conservative -- businessmen and military men -- and so rebuilt the world to the ethos they understood, which was modernism. You can see this in their media which may question narratives but does not wholesale reject them. Japan is a fundamentally conservative country who modernized because they realized if they did not the colonial powers would eat them whole just as they did to much of the modern world in the era before World War 1.

Both the west and Japan use the trope of the bad guy who turns out not to have been a bad guy after all. There's a big difference in how the two accomplish this trope, however. The west believes in destroying existing standards and narratives, so it asks the question "Maybe what Dr. Evil is trying to do isn't so bad after all? From another perspective maybe trying to stop him from using his moon laser to blow up the earth is wrong?". Japan derives this trope from the Chinese stories "Journey to the west" in which the evil can be chastened to understand they have been wrong and convinced (through either force or reason) to change their evil ways and become good, suggesting that there is a good and that people ought to strive towards that good.

I was reading "Enough with this slow life! I was reincarnated as a High elf and now I'm bored volume 7" the same day I wrote the article about the Matrix, and it had a great scene in the first third of the book that proves my point. Spoilers, I guess.

In the story, we've seen the main character spend decades learning to fight with a sword to honor his teacher. We've seen him master magic with a great mage. We've seen him make friends with many different people, and become a world-class blacksmith and later learn to make magical weapons. We've seen him help build a nation, and we've seen him help to win a war.

He is approached by one of four true dragons in this world asking "Do you want me to destroy this world?", and he had previously made friends with that dragon but he said "No, and if you try I'll fight you". The dragon was his friend and took that as proof that the world was still worth saving so they go off to fight another high elf who wanted to destroy the planet to kill all the humans.

The two of them in their capacity as high elves are roughly equal, but he's slightly stronger with a bow. His opponent is surrounded by the spirits of dead high elves from the war that broke her heart and made her want to destroy the world. With his century of mastery of the sword he learned from the humans, coupled with the sword he crafted with lessons he learned from the dwarves teaching him blacksmithing imbued with magic the mages taught him, he was stronger than the other high elf and would be capable of beating her, except with the spirits of the dead high elves around her he'd have to kill her, and he despaired because he didn't want to kill her. As he prepared to do what was required, the spirits from his village alongside all the spirits he'd met in the blacksmithing forges, and in the waters he sailed, and in the wind against his back as he walked, and in the statues he created from stone came to back him up. It never said it out loud, but it was obvious that this battle was actually about the connections each fighter had gained, and it wasn't even close. With all the connections he'd formed with all kinds of people through his travels he was able to stop the other high elf without killing her, and that thread of the story ended (One of the story's core themes is that there's a lot going on because the high elf lives for 1000 years, 300 years longer than even the elves, so we revisit people and places and their descendants, so there's another book and a half)

Jesus Fucking Christ!

You know, sometimes you read a story and it's like "There is no punishment too cruel or unusual for this monster". Killing the kid? Yeah, that's bad enough. But forcing their siblings to live in the room with their brother's decaying corpse for months until it's just a skeleton?

There's an old English execution method where while the person to be executed is alive the executioner slowly runs their intestines inch by inch over a candle. Maybe we should bring that back.

n[defederated]

It's sort of interesting the little picture into a different society at the time. Of course this turned out tragically, but I can't imagine a woman hitchhiking like that today in our lower trust society.