#values hierarchy

[sunflowermp4]

thinking thoughts about the similarities between garcia and langdon and especially how they're the two people to refer to santos as being "trouble"

[the-ross-winchester]

Everyone talks about the "am I bisexual or asexual" confusion but no one talks about the "am I polyamorous or aromantic" confusion.

[northern-passage]

Hello! I was curious... Do the coins in TNP have designs, or are they completely smooth? :0

they do! the gold Adranian coins (which is what Clementine has) have the symbol of the king/king's house which is the swooping hawk that we'll see Duncan wearing later. that's basically the royal sigil of Adrania, and we'll see wardens, soldiers, and other high-ranking politicians or wealthy Adranian families wearing it throughout the game.

silver coins have a merchant ship on them, and bronze coins have the moon on one side, and the sun on the other side (to represent the Wolfmother's children, but to avoid directly printing the image of a god on money). Gael is different in that their gold coin actually has a whale on it, since whaling and fishing is their main source of income (versus Adrania, which in the south has decent farming and functions as a massive trade hub between/with Gael and Yulan). their silver coins have a wolf on one side, sun and moon on the other (same reason as Adranian's have it on their bronze) and then Gaelish bronze coins just have a silhouette of the southern mountain range and sea stacks.

Gael also has whale bone coins and Yulan has shell coins, but those don't get traded with Adrania. only the metal coins, and that's just because gold is gold; it doesn't change much of the value, it's only aesthetics, and the flow of coins between Gael, Adrania, and Yulan (Adrania's main international trade partner) is vital for all three countries.

[metukika]

i wonder if teru's gullible. i mean he seems to know that claw is bad news, but claw seems pretty straight forward about being evil. he also believed pretty quickly that reigen is claw's boss and psychic. or maybe he just goes with anything that aligns itself with his perception of the world.

[tanadrin]

Hey I remember you (at least, I think it was you...) saying something about judging various religions by their code of ethics based on whether slavery was explicitly illegal and homosexuality was implicitly legal.

Assuming you know what I'm talking about: 1) thank you, I reference that specific heuristic constantly when arguing about religion and 2) did you come up with that, or did it come from something else? I'd love to read more if there's some fleshed-out theory on it somewhere.

I don't remember using that specific formulation, but I would happily take credit for it. If I did say something along those lines I don't remember what the context was--it sounds more like an off-the-cuff heuristic than, like. A comprehensive Theory of Religion. Especially since pretty much all major organized religions (even ones with a reputation in the west for being fluffy and inclusive) either condone slavery, complain about homosexuality, or both.

[bumblingbabooshka]

Janeway in 'Nothing Human' vs Tuvok in 'Resolutions' There's something here I know there is I can almost wrap my teeth around it.

[ceausescue]

also, and this is even more meanspirited and less endorsed, you would not believe the number of people in the notes who expressed bewilderment that a hairy pussy could even be noticeable during oral. im sorry, you can't act hardcore for liking NIN and you absolutely cannot act like it's sexist to have a preference on sex acts while clearly being unaware of anything more than like 75th percentile hairyness

[lunasilvis]

My academic stuff both being the root of scholars' agony worldwide + help get their degree since 2023 🎗

[tropylium]

Do the people who lionize "Posting" understand that most people do not want the public-facing internet to be a constant churn of hostile-to-competitive discourse under a veneer of irony and ingenuinity; and that this form of online presence is fundamentally repulsive

[secretariatess]

I've seen conservatives (no, not all), particularly the ones who draw closer to the red pill sections and trad sections of conservatism make the claim that statistically, women are more likely to be the initiators of divorce, and not men. They use this statistic as evidence against women, depending on what the complaint of the day is. Usually about how marriage just screws men over, and how they can't trust women.

And then I listen to stories of those who've divorced -either men who were able to look at their divorce fairly or women who've been in the situation- or even AITA posts of guys who are on the verge of being divorced, and most of the time, the bottom line was, "When she stops nagging, she's stopped caring, and she's already one foot out of the relationship." And usually the guy doesn't notice because he thinks the end of the nagging means everything's good. So he's blindsided by the divorce, and thinks it comes out of nowhere.

Now, of course this isn't the same for every divorce, but it really puts that previous statistic in perspective. Just became the woman walked away does not mean the fault of the failing marriage is on her.

I don't advocate for divorce, so don't take this as a defense of it. But the problem didn't start when the divorce was initiated- the problem started when the marriage was no longer invested in, and was just taken as a given.

And looking on it, it's kind of funny that games like Stardew Valley that have the mechanic that requires you to continuously interact with your spouse in order to maintain fourteen hearts somehow have a better idea of how marriage is than people actually in marriages. Overly simplified, sure, it's a game, but your relationship doesn't "lock" in place after you get married. You can't go to work, bring home the bacon, and expect your spouse to be grateful and for the two of you to be fine.

So yeah, this seems to a prevalent problem with guys, and it's good to be aware of the problems and actively try to work with their wives in order to not get to a point where the wives are just tired of being in a one person relationship. But it should serve as a cautionary tale for women too. Just because we're not the ones who do this primarily doesn't mean we should act like we could never end up doing that. That's just a highway to pride.

Furthermore, statistics like that should not be taken at face value. "Women are the fault of divorce!" Initiating the divorce, perhaps, but she may have been the one who fought for the marriage until she couldn't. There's more behind the scenes than just the statistics.

[somewhere-in-a-microwave]

Who even are you...?

Yeah, this is stupid.

I know for a fact that most of them try copy Kirito's fit, but their story is completely different from Kirito.

[jakebogarts]

Say it.

[shallowseeker]

“Talking the talk,” is a bonding/masking tool in hostile environments.

[royalstormpsych]

i feel like i constantly see people talking about like. the host and their alters. but really the host is an alter too, the only thing thats inherently different about the host is that they're external often. so, reminder that the host is an alter too - not to be blunt or rude but the host isnt special just for being the host. youre all in this together, and at the end of the day, youre all equal as individuals

[ill-kidnap-all-the-stars]

I will never be able to take far right Alpha Male™ conservativism seriously, these oafs will declare people like Elon Musk a “““High-Value Man””” and it's just like no, girlie, no no no, he's not even low value, that man literally has no value

[goron-king-darunia]

The beetles would be drawing beer bottles.

I want all animals to become sapient enough to produce art specifically because I want to see what sort of sex homunculus caricature each species would create if given the ability to draw