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He murders a temple full of children and commits multiple race-related hate crimes on screen, although to be fair he wasn’t really “Darth Vader” yet. Hitler is also not a fantasy character, it would be weird to see someone dressed as Hitler at Comic-Con, I don’t think it would be weird to see the biggest villain of the biggest new TV show.
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Nov 1, 2021 13:36
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I'm not familiar with the character or show but if her name is stormfront that's a little different from star wars unless there's a sithlord I don't know about named Darth Meinkampf.
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Nov 1, 2021 15:22
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I would get so mad if you wore the costume in real life. I would call your job and explain the plot of the boys on Amazon prime video to them over the phone, first season one and then season two, and they would hopefully fire you. After that I would probably try to get your parents to disown you
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Nov 1, 2021 15:37
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If you have to explain why your Halloween costume isn't problematic you probably shouldn't wear the costume.
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Nov 1, 2021 16:02
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darth hitler lol
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Nov 1, 2021 16:18
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If they didn't want people dressing up as bad guys then why do they always have the cool clothes?
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Nov 1, 2021 16:20
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That would be a fine costume, dressing up as fictional characters isn't an implicit endorsement of all their actions or motivations you could also dress up as the lady from Orange is the New Black who looks kind of like her, if it were like six years ago anyway
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Nov 1, 2021 17:10
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loquacius posted:That would be a fine costume, dressing up as fictional characters isn't an implicit endorsement of all their actions or motivations Are you referring to Joe Lo Truglio's wife? Because I had the same thought.
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Nov 1, 2021 17:30
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:The nazi is bad, but homelander, noted child murderer, is also bad. I wonder if dressing up as him would elicit the same kind of thoughts. Well homelander is also as a racist elitist jingoistic rear end in a top hat basically just a Nazi but not willing to fully admit that to himself, that’s one of the themes of the show. Also if someone was dressed as homelander or stormfront I’d assume they more likely have the opposite views as the entire show is about how the nature of power and structural social issues and mocking how the typical superhero genre celebrates the military, police and powerful as inherently good. Or they just don’t care about the themes of the show and like the humor.
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Nov 1, 2021 17:44
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Are you referring to Joe Lo Truglio's wife? Because I had the same thought. one wikipedia search later: no, but that works too and also Joe Lo Truglio did really well for himself, drat another wikipedia search later: I meant Morello, played by Yael Stone, which actually works less well than the character you meant
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Nov 1, 2021 18:45
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quote:This isn't my first anon confession here, but I guess it's my first positive one. This is pretty excellent! but I guess my memory isn't as good as I thought. If there's been another confession about being an escort, it isn't leaping immediately to mind. Lucky there are tons of people looking at these words who have lovely, normal brains.
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Nov 2, 2021 01:27
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Good luck, goon, you've earned your piece of happiness! 
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Nov 2, 2021 18:43
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This fesh is so fresh it's happening almost-live. It popped in six minutes ago!quote:I’m in a really bad headspace lately regarding Covid. I wanted to try online dating but freaked out at the idea of meeting in public.I am fully vaccinated but I know that most people are not and that the vaccine is way way way less useful then they’re telling us. ...how did you live with the knowledge that we can never safely do anything before? I know that sounds glib, but I really don't mean it to be. I wasn't very functional before I started treating my anxiety so I can't imagine how things might've been for me if I didn't sneak that in riiiiight before all this covid stuff began. I'd love to hear some actual advice from somebody on this one. I know a couple of other people that could use it.
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Nov 2, 2021 19:06
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burial posted:This fesh is so fresh it's happening almost-live. It popped in six minutes ago! I was under the impression that if you’ve been vaccinated or boosted in the last 6 months, and you wear an N95, your trips to the grocery store and parks are 99.9% safe. Maybe just avoid restaurants, especially if you’re immunocompromised and have a valid reason for the fear? If you’re in a less vaccinated and mask compliant area, start saving to move. The other big thing you need to do for your overall health, which includes mental health, is unbookmark the covid and other doomer threads. Avoid social media as much as you can - it is clearly doing you more harm than good. Find some hobby to fill the time - it doesn’t matter what it is, as long as it’s not one of the many suicide cult echo chambers or propaganda programming stations that are increasingly filling the internet.
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Nov 2, 2021 19:40
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burial posted:...how did you live with the knowledge that we can never safely do anything before? Certainly a lot of people have been struggling on some level with how they reenter the world. (If you're not struggling with this at least a little bit, you're probably one of the assholes who've been living their lives the last 18 months as if nothing at all had happened.) What would be your personal criteria for when things are safe enough? It can't be "when COVID is eradicated", because it's clear at this point that it will never be eradicated any more than the common cold or influenza. Case rates? Vaccination rates? Vaccination mandates to enter buildings? Improved treatments so that getting it becomes that much less likely to "destroy your organs"? (That said, if you're immunocompromised, then I'm not really sure what to tell you other than "I'm sorry".) You just have to make a "reopening" plan for yourself. You probably want to take it slow at first: go on a walk around the neighborhood (masked, staying away from people), or get takeout from a restaurant, or something like that. Give it a few days or a week or whatever so you can convince yourself you haven't suddenly started carrying it. (Some drugstores sell testing kits for home use.) Maybe you're not willing to be inside a building without a vaccine requirement, or at all, while you build confidence. Online dating is an interesting problem, since it involves meeting up with someone who you don't know well: maybe you want to do a video call before you meet up with someone on a date because you want to trust that they're not one of the assholes. Consider it the same kind of trust-building exercise as going on any date from an online dating site: you need to convince yourself that you won't get axe murdered AND you won't get COVID.
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Nov 2, 2021 19:54
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Yeah, you think you're already taking care of yourself but you're missing the most important step which is taking care of your mental health. Quit reading CSPAM and listening to self-appointed prophets of doom, they get off on filling people's heads with a doomer mindset that is taking your anxiety to whole new levels and making it impossible for you to see what the real risks are and making rational decisions based on those risks.
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Nov 2, 2021 19:58
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barbecue at the folks posted:Yeah, you think you're already taking care of yourself but you're missing the most important step which is taking care of your mental health. Quit reading CSPAM and listening to self-appointed prophets of doom, they get off on filling people's heads with a doomer mindset that is taking your anxiety to whole new levels and making it impossible for you to see what the real risks are and making rational decisions based on those risks. I came here to post almost this exact thing.
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Nov 2, 2021 20:08
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If the confessor is immunocompromised or otherwise at high risk for hospitalization they are right to be worried about getting in contact with people. If they’re healthy (for a goon) their risk of having serious complications from covid are likely smaller than they are imagining. From what I’ve read, cutting your dick off helps with anxiety, you might want to try that.
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Nov 2, 2021 20:59
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For longer than I'd like to admit I was highly susceptible to letting the goon hivemind steer my own thinking. I mean sure, goons have always had low credibility in some areas (hygiene, social skills, etc), but as a community, SA has always been populated by intelligent and articulate people. On top of that (especially in the 00's) they were also incredibly smug and arrogant about how correct they were, and my respect for their intelligence coupled with how savagely they would tear down someone who disagreed with them made me feel like I had to toe whatever moral, ethical, political, or any other kind of line was drawn in the sand by them. I eventually had to pump the brakes on reading the lol at Trump thread because it was making me actively hate anyone who leaned right of center politically. In the South, you simply cannot live that way without being mean, bitter, and joyless to 75% of the people you meet. So I guess I have two pieces of advice nobody asked for. 1. If you can't stop thinking about what goons would think of a certain thing, you need to read less SA, and 2. Read SA all you want, but don't let them tell you how to live your life. EDIT: My therapist has also told me I have issues with "all or nothing thinking" so that definitely played a part too
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Nov 2, 2021 21:11
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Double post
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Nov 2, 2021 21:12
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The cool thing about online dating is that you get to ask them questions like “are you vaccinated?” Before you get close enough for them to breathe on you.
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Nov 2, 2021 23:06
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burial posted:This fesh is so fresh it's happening almost-live. It popped in six minutes ago! Buy a reusable respirator + goggles.
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Nov 2, 2021 23:34
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burial posted:quote: Good on you for at least having the will to get back out there. You will, if you want to. Like many said there are definitely precautions to take. But you can take it slow and keep things online for as long as you want. If the other person isn't down. Then they're not worth it. Will things ever return to normal/NORMAL? Who knows. But, it's good you've got the will. Do you're best, friend.
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Nov 3, 2021 01:21
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I went to a halloween party that actually looked like a party and being in a place after 2 years where everyone is vaxxed and I could finally dance again and have fun was such a loving magical experience, I missed that poo poo so drat much, it was 2 years locked with just the internet as an outlet to have fun, no one deserves that.
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Nov 3, 2021 01:24
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burial posted:This fesh is so fresh it's happening almost-live. It popped in six minutes ago! Stop reading c-spam, it's very bad for your brain, get therapy
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Nov 3, 2021 07:48
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Is everyone else just ignoring that this dude claims to have been vaccinated four times?
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Nov 3, 2021 08:39
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Atlas Hugged posted:Is everyone else just ignoring that this dude claims to have been vaccinated four times?
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Nov 3, 2021 11:10
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Atlas Hugged posted:Is everyone else just ignoring that this dude claims to have been vaccinated four times?
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Nov 3, 2021 11:21
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Cached Money posted:Stop reading c-spam, it's very bad for your brain, get therapy I am a C-SPAM IK and I agree with this take The COVID thread is very bad for the kind of person who would read it
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Nov 3, 2021 12:37
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Cached Money posted:Stop reading c-spam, it's very bad for your brain, get therapy But don't gently caress your therapist.
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Nov 3, 2021 17:01
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Atlas Hugged posted:Is everyone else just ignoring that this dude claims to have been vaccinated four times? I got four vaccines on the same day the other week, lol
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Nov 3, 2021 17:34
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wesleywillis posted:But don't gently caress your therapist. Maybe cut your dick off, just to be sure.
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Nov 3, 2021 19:29
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barbecue at the folks posted:Maybe cut your dick off, just to be sure.  Good point there. Gotta be 100% sure.
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Nov 3, 2021 22:44
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I'm aware that there's more than one vaccine a person can be taking, but I felt in the context of the fesh they specifically meant four covid vaccines, or at least attempts as was also suggested. It was because they said the vaccines just aren't all that good that I saw it as a red flag. The vaccines actually are pretty good. Issues with them seem to be just not enough people taking them and new variants.
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Nov 4, 2021 00:00
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Getting 100 Covid vaccines and telling myself I’m going to go outside after each one but chickening out each time until I die of a catastrophic autoimmune reaction
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Nov 4, 2021 00:07
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TheBizzness posted:The cool thing about online dating is that you get to ask them questions like “are you vaccinated?” Before you get close enough for them to breathe on you. Careful with this one, as they might take up the Aaron Rodgers tactic of calling themselves "immunized"
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Nov 4, 2021 00:11
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Everyone stop reading the Something Awful forums except for this post, and maybe some more.quote:This isn't my first anon confession here, but I guess it's my first positive one. I am very happy things are going well for you, and I can only wish and pray that everything will be uphill from here on out. Not needing to be anonymous for this, I hope that prostitution will one day be completely legal and necessarily regulated. There is no reason to have people in danger just because they are participating in the world's oldest profession.
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Nov 4, 2021 00:40
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timp posted:For longer than I'd like to admit I was highly susceptible to letting the goon hivemind steer my own thinking. I mean sure, goons have always had low credibility in some areas (hygiene, social skills, etc), but as a community, SA has always been populated by intelligent and articulate people. On top of that (especially in the 00's) they were also incredibly smug and arrogant about how correct they were, and my respect for their intelligence coupled with how savagely they would tear down someone who disagreed with them made me feel like I had to toe whatever moral, ethical, political, or any other kind of line was drawn in the sand by them. I skimmed over this post a couple of days back and it stuck with me a bit. I can kind of confess to similarly using the "goon consensus" as a frame of reference for things I didn't really have my own knowledge or experience to fall on in the past. I think what helps to get over that is that the forums in general are not as funny or unexpectedly insightful as they seemed to be in the past.
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a podcast for cats posted:I think what helps to get over that is that the forums in general are not as funny or unexpectedly insightful as they seemed to be in the past. I think most of the goons of that era have moved on. Either to the newer social media platforms or just started families/jobs that are much more rewarding/demanding than posting. Coming from a single guy turning 40 who has insomnia at 4:30 goddamn AM.
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