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Zurtilik posted:Disapproval of bf’s gaming/figurine hobby is making us both feel angry and sad How do these people find each other? Like it's a genuine question- surely she knew about this poo poo well before they got together, and without extra context they don't seem that compatible if this is the lens with which she views his main hobby.
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if i saw a bunch of anime goons in full costume having an anime swordfight in the streets i'd honestly just sit and watch for awhile, hootin and hollerin at not only their anime fighting prowess but the fact that they have 50000x my confidence
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Oct 22, 2021 15:50
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Id think they were lane but leave them be. Not everyone can be vin diesel cool.
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Oct 22, 2021 15:54
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Vin Diesel is a turbo nerd and made a movie about his loving Dungeons and Dragons character.
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Oct 22, 2021 15:55
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Zurtilik posted:Vin Diesel is a turbo nerd and made a movie about his loving Dungeons and Dragons character. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1618442/ edit: also pretty sure his nerdiness played a significant role in the story progression of the riddick franchise
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Oct 22, 2021 15:57
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I once sat in a park for like two hours and watched a bunch of people playing that Harry Potter broom game, quidditch because it was fascinating and I couldn't figure out the rules to it at all.
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Oct 22, 2021 15:58
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Raygereio posted:That poster's probably an Israeli. Israel is something special about non white passing people.
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Oct 22, 2021 15:59
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Israel is something special about non white passing people. I remember older relatives being concerned about race mixing because my Ashkenazi cousin was dating a lady who was *gasp* Sephardic.
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Oct 22, 2021 16:08
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blatman posted:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1618442/ Vin Diesel allegedly introduced Judi Dench to D&D on the set of Chronicles of Riddick
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Oct 22, 2021 16:09
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Riddick is pretty much Space Conan.
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Oct 22, 2021 16:11
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Israel is something special about non white passing people. Who would have ever thought that a genocidal apartheid state could be racist?
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Oct 22, 2021 16:11
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blatman posted:if i saw a bunch of anime goons in full costume having an anime swordfight in the streets i'd honestly just sit and watch for awhile, hootin and hollerin at not only their anime fighting prowess but the fact that they have 50000x my confidence there's a bar out here where every so often a bunch will get together and do really elaborate synchronized anime dances all night, changing costumes for each one. Apparently they rehearse all year for that poo poo, it's amazing
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Oct 22, 2021 16:14
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Raygereio posted:That poster's probably an Israeli. PetraCore posted:I wouldn't be suuuper shocked if the 16 year old girl was a relative of one of the nerdmen, and OP didn't bring it up because he was trying to keep the impression they were grooming her. That said, I also wouldn't be suuuuper shocked if the 16 year old girl wasn't a relative and was just a high schooler who met the group through local anime conventions, in which case uuuh there need to be a lot better boundaries going on. I don't feel comfortable about having typed that.
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Oct 22, 2021 16:24
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Dudes who go on about how people they don't approve of should be physically assaulted and called slurs on the street are way worse than cringey weebs Almost seems like fake nerdbait but people are taking it seriously
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Oct 22, 2021 16:28
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I've had quite a few jewish friends with extremely racist parents, but they never saw themselves as racist. To them it was always excused by "our people were nearly wiped out through genocide, we need to rebuild and repopulate and maintain our culture" and some would go as far as "If your wife isn't the exact correct type of jew you're basically finishing what hitler started"
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Oct 22, 2021 16:30
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Scaevolus posted:An update on that "The Kindest" kidney donation story plagiarism drama, where someone actually read through the court documents to reconstruct what happened: This is worth a look if you saw the original story and (as I did) went “ugh, both of these people are horrible” without looking any farther. At least in my own experience it felt similar, though not as extreme, as the McDonald’s hot coffee case — the more you learn about the actual facts of the situation, the angrier you get on behalf of this person who does not actually seem to have done anything wrong outside being painfully earnest about her altruism, and got absolutely crucified in the court of public opinion for it. There’s probably an interesting case study in here about how being cringe is the ultimate sin of the Internet. Even when one side’s behavior is objectively cruel and unethical, portraying the other side as needy and annoying is enough to drat them.
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Oct 22, 2021 16:35
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PetraCore posted:I wouldn't be suuuper shocked if the 16 year old girl was a relative of one of the nerdmen, and OP didn't bring it up because he was trying to keep the impression they were grooming her. That said, I also wouldn't be suuuuper shocked if the 16 year old girl wasn't a relative and was just a high schooler who met the group through local anime conventions, in which case uuuh there need to be a lot better boundaries going on. Did it say the 16-year-old was a girl? I assumed if it had been the OP would have been going harder on them grooming a kid rather than just being irresponsible around one.
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Oct 22, 2021 16:37
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AITA for telling my sister that it's not my fault that she is poor and her marriage is miserable?quote:I am Indian. Arranged marriages are a big thing here. The story starts when I was 18. My sister, Ani (who also had an arranged marriage to Abe and had 2 kids) tried to convince my parents to marry me off to Abe's close friend and business partner, Ben (who was 29 back then). Ugh. I feel sorry for both of these women.
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Oct 22, 2021 16:39
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Erainor posted:30 million people play MTG. I don't get the obsession, but I have friends who do. Will a court actually hear a case about Magic cards? 
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Oct 22, 2021 16:47
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Cosplay is fun and cool but that it not the first or tenth thing I'd want you to know about me.
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Oct 22, 2021 16:48
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I'm Israeli and the word "Kushi" used to be a (mostly) neutral Hebrew word for black people until a couple of decades ago when actual black people (Ethiopian jews and african refugees) started to live in Israel and the word was turned into a slur by racists, which makes it a bit awkward when my mom casually uses it in a (supposedly) non-racist way. Mentioning it to actual racists usually gets the response "I was using it to mean people from the land of Kush, checkmate liberal cuck"
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Oct 22, 2021 16:49
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Hecuba posted:This is worth a look if you saw the original story and (as I did) went “ugh, both of these people are horrible” without looking any farther. gonna be honest my eyes started glazing over at the umptillionth paragraph unpacking how bitchy and petty this writer's group is but none of it seems to materially pertain to the actual thrust of the dispute, that anyone can or should enforce a copyright claim on anyone cribbing your facebook posts or letters or other stuff you say in a non-professional capacity with the ferocity of Disney coming at an off-license Mickey Mouse. The fact that writers are mostly deranged egotists who will air every unflattering thought they ever had about you for clout can kinda be taken as read by anyone who's ever been to a writer's group or, like, paid attention to a novel. the ultimate sin here was probably having been once stung going back to pester a reporter into telling her story, at which point they condensed all this dreary horseshit down into another entertaining story with her as the buffoonish villain lol A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Oct 22, 2021 |
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Oct 22, 2021 16:55
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Zurtilik posted:My (30M) girlfriend's (24F) anime-geek friends (M29-34) drive me crazy and frankly, I want to beat them
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Oct 22, 2021 16:56
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Hecuba posted:This is worth a look if you saw the original story and (as I did) went “ugh, both of these people are horrible” without looking any farther. I also find this situation fascinating because I LOVED books by Whitney Scharer and Celeste Ng, who both participated in the bullying of Dawn (kidney donor). I won't be reading any more of their work. Good job on Becky Tuch for publicly apologizing to Dawn and leaving the bully group. Everyone sucks here to some degree, but those Chunky Monkeys are the epitome of every grasping writer stereotype who just wants to spit on those who haven't made it yet. The bit from one of them in a letter to Dawn about how she "showed promise" in her early GrubStreet classes was just enraging to me. gently caress you, I wanted to learn, and then I find out you all hate me. Horrible.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Dudes who go on about how people they don't approve of should be physically assaulted and called slurs on the street are way worse than cringey weebs OP posted:I was so embarrassed to be seen with them that I tried to stand far enough away from them that I could protect them from getting beaten up yet not be seen as part of the group. He's brokebrain from being bullied as a kid, he was assuming they'd be attacked in the street for being nerds.
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welcome to hell posted:UPDATE; I (29f) spoke to my parents, who ghosted me 5 years ago after my wedding and have now reached out. I got whiplash from the age gap in the OP, I was all set up for it to be 24f marrying 52m but it was just 1 year?  Using "she married her boss, gross" as cover for being racist is truly innovative.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:gonna be honest my eyes started glazing over at the umptillionth paragraph unpacking how bitchy and petty this writer's group is but none of it seems to materially pertain to the actual thrust of the dispute, that anyone can or should enforce a copyright claim on anyone cribbing your facebook posts or letters or other stuff you say in a non-professional capacity with the ferocity of Disney coming at an off-license Mickey Mouse. The fact that writers are mostly deranged egotists who use their work to air their very stupidest grievances can kinda be taken as read by anyone who's ever been to a writer's group or, like, paid attention to a novel. Yeah, I closed the tab when I realized it was going to be mostly looking at groupchats. I super don't care what petty thoughts someone expresses in what is meant to be a conversation that will only be seen by trusted friends. I'm a petty bitch and that's what my petty bitch friends are for. If someone did a tl;dr that only focused on things done and said in public and to the organ donor's face I could see that being interesting, but I feel like the original article already kinda did that.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:the fact that Blade happens to be a daywalker doesn't mean the world doesn't need vampire hunters One time when I was maybe a bit high I saw this guy walking into a convenience store with a bike helmet on and I invented an elaborate backstory where his mother had been bitten by a cyclist while he was still in the womb, blade-style, and i pointed at him and yelled “helmetwalker” and then immediately turned and left the store. I never did see a bicycle so I assume my backstory was correct
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:One time when I was maybe a bit high I saw this guy walking into a convenience store with a bike helmet on and I invented an elaborate backstory where his mother had been bitten by a cyclist while he was still in the womb, blade-style, and i pointed at him and yelled “helmetwalker” and then immediately turned and left the store. lmao hell yeah
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Oct 22, 2021 17:29
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My [21 M] girlfriend [20 F] of 5 months is afraid that blowjobs will mess up her teethquote:My girlfriend and I have been dating for about five months now. I go down on her often. But whenever I ask if she'd do the same for me, she doesn't want to. She says she doesn't like it, and she's afraid that it will mess up her teeth. My girlfriend used to wear braces, and recently got them off about a year ago so most of her fear stems from her not having them off for too long.
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Oct 22, 2021 17:40
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Zurtilik posted:My [21 M] girlfriend [20 F] of 5 months is afraid that blowjobs will mess up her teeth "And yes I've told her she shouldn't be using her teeth anyway." Well now hold on a moment
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Oct 22, 2021 17:44
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I'm sorry you had to find out like this but "rock hard" is just an expression
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I played roleplaying games with people in their 30s (and 40s, 50s, and 60s) when I was a teenager, but in a gaming store, not at a house party with booze.Bibliotechno Music posted:That said, I think it’s interesting that dude is totally ok with his gf’s hobbies, but reeeaaaallly wants to beat up dudes with the same hobbies (albeit more obnoxiously). This whole thing stinks of toxic masculinity imo, with women allowed to be childish while men must be MEN.
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Halloween Jack posted:"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender," i holler as i overturn my girlfriend's Gundam and turn Otakon into Otashit Snake please, we've talked about this
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Everett False posted:Yeah, I closed the tab when I realized it was going to be mostly looking at groupchats. I super don't care what petty thoughts someone expresses in what is meant to be a conversation that will only be seen by trusted friends. I'm a petty bitch and that's what my petty bitch friends are for. If someone did a tl;dr that only focused on things done and said in public and to the organ donor's face I could see that being interesting, but I feel like the original article already kinda did that. The aspect of this technically being a workplace dispute tends to get glossed over, compared to the plagiarism and the petty shittalking. Like, if this was a just a conflict between friends that would be one thing. But one person stole the literal words from a coworker (who is in a lower position than you) without crediting them, and then rallied the rest of their elite writer group to bat for her. Thats huge imbalace in power and sin compared to the person being cringe online and demanding acknowledgement. Especially when the artistic director of the organization says he wants to "exact revenge on this pestilence of a person," and another person would ice out Dawn, presumably leading to her resignation.
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Zurtilik posted:My [21 M] girlfriend [20 F] of 5 months is afraid that blowjobs will mess up her teeth Scaevolus posted:An update on that "The Kindest" kidney donation story plagiarism drama, where someone actually read through the court documents to reconstruct what happened: I mean, seems like Dawn's worst crime was that she was loving cringe (which she was, no doubt). I don't even care about the theoretical IP theft, I have my own opinions about that, but who writes and publishes a story specifically designed to cut off your friend's ego at the knees? Especially for the egregious act of being too proud that she's helping to save someone's life? That's just grimy behavior, especially if you don't have the guts to just tell them they're being an rear end in a top hat.
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Antianime guy definitely has issues, but this is totally an ESH situation, cause those nerds are gross and obnoxious sounding, and the GF is blind both to that and to how easily some of their skeevey bits could come back to bite her. Stuff like oh, having a minor over at your place with a bunch of drunk near 30 year olds. All that takes is one parent getting a whiff and the cops are getting called.
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ShootaBoy posted:Antianime guy definitely has issues, but this is totally an ESH situation, cause those nerds are gross and obnoxious sounding, and the GF is blind both to that and to how easily some of their skeevey bits could come back to bite her. Stuff like oh, having a minor over at your place with a bunch of drunk near 30 year olds. All that takes is one parent getting a whiff and the cops are getting called. It's definitely a "You're right, but for dozens of wrong reasons" situation.
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I also doubt he's actually violent or even seriously thinks about "throwing them off balconies" or whatever. Some people just exaggerate a lot when expressing anger or frustration. I'd say he's mostly right though, sorry weebs. It's literally having negative effects on her physical health already. Her mental health will be next to go as she becomes so enveloped in anime nerd culture that she can no longer relate to anyone but a bunch of smelly nerds who 100% want to bang her.
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Zurtilik posted:My [21 M] girlfriend [20 F] of 5 months is afraid that blowjobs will mess up her teeth Im 42 and I recently went out on a few dates with a woman close to my age. Her stance on blowjobs was that she hated them and doesn't do them and that the only two times she did them in her 10 year marriage was when she wanted a fancy new fridge and a vacation.
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