Let's be real: teetotallers can possibly be as annoying as an annoying vegan
My experience is similar to that of a vegan: people treat me like shit out of defensiveness that I’m like, implicitly criticizing their lifestyle. Give me a vegan over a ‘for every cow you don’t eat I’ll eat three lol!!’ person any day. Same thing here.
Comparing just vegan to militantly anti-vegan is unfair
The equivalent is the evangelical vegan who is dumb as rocks. Your PETA people.
If I was locked in a room with one of those and one of the for every cow you don't eat I'll eat three lol people and I had a gun with two bullets I'd shoot myself twice
The point is that there aren't actually that many militant vegans. I've encountered militant vegans but they're pretty rare, and it's been a very long time.
While the opposite, somebody who responds with defensiveness and derision to the mere suggestion that somebody in their presence is vegan, is all too common.
They showed up with a gun and a love for all creatures.
and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
but they're listening to every word I say
The World lance new mechanics are super low key, but huge quality of life improvements. You can cancel out of a counter attack now, you can hop forwards! The running charge goes superspeed at a certain distance...
But it still one of the least flashy weapons and ignored by many.
once a non-vegan partner finds out I'm vegan, they are fairly likely to feel judged regardless of what I say or how I behave
I'm leaning towards dating vegetarians and vegans now, not because I particularly care what my partner eats, but because I am becoming weary of helping partners to work through their defensiveness
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ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
I've never really been able to understand any discussion surrounding alcohol/alcohol culture, as the idea of drinking for the purpose of getting drunk is just completely alien.
Alcoholic drinks were always, in my entire extended family, things which were served alongside food, typically wine, often homegrown grapes that were hand crushed (Italian family). Harder alcohols were served only when company came over, and usually with coffee, or right after supper while everyone's relaxing. Beer was only ever bought by my uncle or dad, being the youngest cohort, and then just before supper or alongside it if they weren't feeling wine.
So alcohol was always a substitutable beverage associated with food.
Are you American?
Canadian. Grandparents immigrated from Italy.
Ah, interesting. I was just wondering because I know English-speaking alcohol consumption is different from some other regions, and, at least in the US (I suspect Canada too), alcohol is a thing you drink lots of in college because everyone else is*.
*everyone thinks everyone else drinks more than they actually do, so they drink more to compensate, it's a hilarious and deadly psychological phenomenon.
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BeNarwhalThe Work Left UnfinishedRegistered Userregular
Im glad I didnt go through with buying the Shadow of the Colossus remake, its a great game but I got everything out of it I wanted by watching people play it on twitch.
I watched Cryaotic play it for like 2 hours and he struggled so mightily and it was both hilarious and enjoyable
But I'm in the same camp as you - that's all I need to experience, I'm good.
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Powerpuppiesdrinking coffee in themountain cabinRegistered Userregular
I am once again having Milski's Overindulgent Breakfast.
Two blueberry muffins, a pot of coffee, two eggs over easy, a large biscuit, a half plate of hash browns, and 2/3rds of a pound of hamburger steak covered in cheese. I might get some hummingbird cake or apple pie at the end.
I ate an engineer
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jakobaggerLO THY DREAD EMPIRE CHAOS IS RESTOREDRegistered Userregular
How is PETA even on people's radars as a hate object
PETA is such a tiny and trivial organization
I can't remember the last time I actually saw a peta ad outside of some jpg compressed 2004 photo of a guy wrapped in plastic to protest meat being posted on Imgur or something for mockery
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ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
once a non-vegan partner finds out I'm vegan, they are fairly likely to feel judged regardless of what I say or how I behave
I'm leaning towards dating vegetarians and vegans now, not because I particularly care what my partner eats, but because I am becoming weary of helping partners to work through their defensiveness
It makes sense, as a phenomenon, but is still like, ahhh. I actually encountered defensiveness less often than I'd expect, not drinking, but obnoxious "come on maaaaaaaan" behavior more.
Boss: I need you working 10 hours a day minimum on this issue until it's resolved
10 minutes later 3 urgent items come in that i need to address today
oh and we have a giant fuckoff snowstorm coming
not a great week
Shark as a man about to go on turnaround (12 hours a day every day, one day off every other week) I salute you. We'll die together in the engineering mines.
I ate an engineer
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
I don't drink much. Definitely a lightweight, and I prefer just ... not.
That said, there's a game I really want to play: Drunk Quest. Naturally, the game is designed to get you shitfaced. So it doesn't do well for people in my situation.
Last week, I found out they introduced an expansion aimed at making the "Designated Driver" the ref/moderator/GM of the game.
That's right. You get to control the Porcelain Gods, and fuck with the other players! Woo!
I've never really been able to understand any discussion surrounding alcohol/alcohol culture, as the idea of drinking for the purpose of getting drunk is just completely alien.
Alcoholic drinks were always, in my entire extended family, things which were served alongside food, typically wine, often homegrown grapes that were hand crushed (Italian family). Harder alcohols were served only when company came over, and usually with coffee, or right after supper while everyone's relaxing. Beer was only ever bought by my uncle or dad, being the youngest cohort, and then just before supper or alongside it if they weren't feeling wine.
So alcohol was always a substitutable beverage associated with food.
Are you American?
Canadian. Grandparents immigrated from Italy.
Ah, interesting. I was just wondering because I know English-speaking alcohol consumption is different from some other regions, and, at least in the US (I suspect Canada too), alcohol is a thing you drink lots of in college because everyone else is*.
*everyone thinks everyone else drinks more than they actually do, so they drink more to compensate, it's a hilarious and deadly psychological phenomenon.
I imagine the difference in my case would probably be that my dad was really the only person to go to university, and only briefly, before myself and my sister. So nobody was exposed to it.
And that the larger extended family wasn't Canadian/American in their upbringing and any perspectives towards alcohol that still dominated most of what I grew up with.
I've never really been able to understand any discussion surrounding alcohol/alcohol culture, as the idea of drinking for the purpose of getting drunk is just completely alien.
Alcoholic drinks were always, in my entire extended family, things which were served alongside food, typically wine, often homegrown grapes that were hand crushed (Italian family). Harder alcohols were served only when company came over, and usually with coffee, or right after supper while everyone's relaxing. Beer was only ever bought by my uncle or dad, being the youngest cohort, and then just before supper or alongside it if they weren't feeling wine.
So alcohol was always a substitutable beverage associated with food.
Are you American?
Canadian. Grandparents immigrated from Italy.
Ah, interesting. I was just wondering because I know English-speaking alcohol consumption is different from some other regions, and, at least in the US (I suspect Canada too), alcohol is a thing you drink lots of in college because everyone else is*.
*everyone thinks everyone else drinks more than they actually do, so they drink more to compensate, it's a hilarious and deadly psychological phenomenon.
Binge drinking culture is pretty universal in the English speaking world and outside it as well. US overall still tends to drink less than a lot of English speaking countries.
The World lance new mechanics are super low key, but huge quality of life improvements. You can cancel out of a counter attack now, you can hop forwards! The running charge goes superspeed at a certain distance...
But it still one of the least flashy weapons and ignored by many.
Because it's really hard to shake the perception that you all are a bunch of nancys that hide behind a bigass shield.
The World lance new mechanics are super low key, but huge quality of life improvements. You can cancel out of a counter attack now, you can hop forwards! The running charge goes superspeed at a certain distance...
But it still one of the least flashy weapons and ignored by many.
I think the issue with Lance is the perception its not a mobile weapon. And from what I've seen of lancers in SOS missions its not even well known among people who use it how to get out of dodge.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Normally I have enough streamers followed that there's a good variety of things being played that I can hop between whatever I'm interested in.
Literally everyone is playing Monster Hunter.
"playing"
Most of them are SO terrible at it. Jesus fucking Christ.
Yeah a dude I watch has switched over to charge blade and I thought I was bad at it, holy shit he keeps full vials and gets overloaded never fires them, and he's using a rath cb against fire drakes... Its like "I know cbs get a lot of back seaters, but fuck sake dude you are doing nothing".
I see a LOT of people going in with Insect Glaive and Charge Blade as their starter weapon, due to some sort of hubris that "I'm using the MOST COMPLICATED WEAPON in the HARDEST GAME" or some shit like that. I'm like "Umm, it's not THAT hard, and you aren't even doing the bare minimum of the not-hard moves".
Honestly I swapped off the charge blade because I felt like personally on my solo hunts I was doing dumb stuff and I ended up tripping over myself to do moves and not getting consistent damage. I've been using the GS and Dual Blades because they are both not super complicated.
I've been thinking of trying the SnS since I made the nergalos set this morning and it does good damage on elemental crit and the SnS has some cool super leap moves now.
Nothing in the game is particularly hard/complicated by most standards. But there are weapons that punish you more for missing and have that added collection/reload mechanic.
Calling the charge blade not complicated is insane to me.
Here everyone, let me explain how to use it and keep in mind none of this is explained in game ever:
Okay so you have a sword and shield. Hit guys until your little empty bottles turn orange but NOT red. The difference is often one attack.
Hold R2+B to ADD THEM so your little empty bottles are now full.
Hit X+Y, X+Y, X+Y then AS YOU LOCK YOUR SHIELD real quick hit R2. Don't fuck this up!
A little shield icon activates and
fuck it i'm done i'm tired of typing the steps because that's just the most basic how do you charge up your shield/axe i didn't even talk about any sort of move
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Sir Landsharkresting shark faceRegistered Userregular
Boss: I need you working 10 hours a day minimum on this issue until it's resolved
10 minutes later 3 urgent items come in that i need to address today
oh and we have a giant fuckoff snowstorm coming
not a great week
Shark as a man about to go on turnaround (12 hours a day every day, one day off every other week) I salute you. We'll die together in the engineering mines.
semper fi engineering my friend
see you on the other side
Please consider the environment before printing this post.
How is PETA even on people's radars as a hate object
PETA is such a tiny and trivial organization
I can't remember the last time I actually saw a peta ad outside of some jpg compressed 2004 photo of a guy wrapped in plastic to protest meat being posted on Imgur or something for mockery
They've very vocal and do an okay job of masking some of their gross stuff with popular PR.
I did recently meet a vegan who, upon learning that I was also vegan, said, "Oh! Great! I didn't know! If I had known, I would have cared more about what you were saying."
I laughed, but also, :rotate:
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I can only speak for the U.S., but an example: At the Christmas holiday party, there is a chance where if you don't drink you will be labeled "not a team player" and won't get promotions.
Even barring such intentional dickery this one is a pain for people who don't drink
Socializing with colleagues is, for p much everywhere, more often than not drinks in a pub. So the people who don't get left out, without anyone doing it intentionally
Which in a lot of ways makes it worse because, while of course malice does a lot more damage, it's a lot harder to do something about unintentional problems
Normally I have enough streamers followed that there's a good variety of things being played that I can hop between whatever I'm interested in.
Literally everyone is playing Monster Hunter.
"playing"
Most of them are SO terrible at it. Jesus fucking Christ.
Yeah a dude I watch has switched over to charge blade and I thought I was bad at it, holy shit he keeps full vials and gets overloaded never fires them, and he's using a rath cb against fire drakes... Its like "I know cbs get a lot of back seaters, but fuck sake dude you are doing nothing".
I see a LOT of people going in with Insect Glaive and Charge Blade as their starter weapon, due to some sort of hubris that "I'm using the MOST COMPLICATED WEAPON in the HARDEST GAME" or some shit like that. I'm like "Umm, it's not THAT hard, and you aren't even doing the bare minimum of the not-hard moves".
Honestly I swapped off the charge blade because I felt like personally on my solo hunts I was doing dumb stuff and I ended up tripping over myself to do moves and not getting consistent damage. I've been using the GS and Dual Blades because they are both not super complicated.
I've been thinking of trying the SnS since I made the nergalos set this morning and it does good damage on elemental crit and the SnS has some cool super leap moves now.
Nothing in the game is particularly hard/complicated by most standards. But there are weapons that punish you more for missing and have that added collection/reload mechanic.
Calling the charge blade not complicated is insane to me.
Here everyone, let me explain how to use it and keep in mind none of this is explained in game ever:
Okay so you have a sword and shield. Hit guys until your little empty bottles turn orange but NOT red. The difference is often one attack.
Hold R2+B to ADD THEM so your little empty bottles are now full.
Hit X+Y, X+Y, X+Y then AS YOU LOCK YOUR SHIELD real quick hit R2. Don't fuck this up!
A little shield icon activates and
fuck it i'm done i'm tired of typing the steps because that's just the most basic how do you charge up your shield/axe i didn't even talk about any sort of move
I loved when a few of the streamers I was watching swapped over to Charge Blade and were listening to chat instructions. Chat, universally, across all of them were like:
*finish explaining everything about how to build phials, charge the shield, then charge the sword*
"Now wait until he learns about Point Guards "
*everybody chuckles*
scientists are always afraid of PETA coming after them and their animal research
but actually they mean ALF or something similar (the ones who set your car on fire)
scientists are dumb people
I've never really been able to understand any discussion surrounding alcohol/alcohol culture, as the idea of drinking for the purpose of getting drunk is just completely alien.
Alcoholic drinks were always, in my entire extended family, things which were served alongside food, typically wine, often homegrown grapes that were hand crushed (Italian family). Harder alcohols were served only when company came over, and usually with coffee, or right after supper while everyone's relaxing. Beer was only ever bought by my uncle or dad, being the youngest cohort, and then just before supper or alongside it if they weren't feeling wine.
So alcohol was always a substitutable beverage associated with food.
Are you American?
Canadian. Grandparents immigrated from Italy.
Ah, interesting. I was just wondering because I know English-speaking alcohol consumption is different from some other regions, and, at least in the US (I suspect Canada too), alcohol is a thing you drink lots of in college because everyone else is*.
*everyone thinks everyone else drinks more than they actually do, so they drink more to compensate, it's a hilarious and deadly psychological phenomenon.
Binge drinking culture is pretty universal in the English speaking world and outside it as well. US overall still tends to drink less than a lot of English speaking countries.
I technically never binge drink
But it also feels kind of close to my drinking style
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jakobaggerLO THY DREAD EMPIRE CHAOS IS RESTOREDRegistered Userregular
I am once again having Milski's Overindulgent Breakfast.
Two blueberry muffins, a pot of coffee, two eggs over easy, a large biscuit, a half plate of hash browns, and 2/3rds of a pound of hamburger steak covered in cheese. I might get some hummingbird cake or apple pie at the end.
I have the perception that you work interesting hours, but I am glad you're at least obscenely well fed
I'm sorry to hear work's being a dick again. Did that raise ever get applied, at least? I know more money doesn't buy back your time, but sometimes it eases the pain! >_>
Normally I have enough streamers followed that there's a good variety of things being played that I can hop between whatever I'm interested in.
Literally everyone is playing Monster Hunter.
"playing"
Most of them are SO terrible at it. Jesus fucking Christ.
Yeah a dude I watch has switched over to charge blade and I thought I was bad at it, holy shit he keeps full vials and gets overloaded never fires them, and he's using a rath cb against fire drakes... Its like "I know cbs get a lot of back seaters, but fuck sake dude you are doing nothing".
I see a LOT of people going in with Insect Glaive and Charge Blade as their starter weapon, due to some sort of hubris that "I'm using the MOST COMPLICATED WEAPON in the HARDEST GAME" or some shit like that. I'm like "Umm, it's not THAT hard, and you aren't even doing the bare minimum of the not-hard moves".
Honestly I swapped off the charge blade because I felt like personally on my solo hunts I was doing dumb stuff and I ended up tripping over myself to do moves and not getting consistent damage. I've been using the GS and Dual Blades because they are both not super complicated.
I've been thinking of trying the SnS since I made the nergalos set this morning and it does good damage on elemental crit and the SnS has some cool super leap moves now.
Nothing in the game is particularly hard/complicated by most standards. But there are weapons that punish you more for missing and have that added collection/reload mechanic.
Calling the charge blade not complicated is insane to me.
Here everyone, let me explain how to use it and keep in mind none of this is explained in game ever:
Okay so you have a sword and shield. Hit guys until your little empty bottles turn orange but NOT red. The difference is often one attack.
Hold R2+B to ADD THEM so your little empty bottles are now full.
Hit X+Y, X+Y, X+Y then AS YOU LOCK YOUR SHIELD real quick hit R2. Don't fuck this up!
A little shield icon activates and
fuck it i'm done i'm tired of typing the steps because that's just the most basic how do you charge up your shield/axe i didn't even talk about any sort of move
Is it X+Y or Y+B? At any rate, Streamers fucking up the basic stuff is 1) a staple of video game streaming 2) pretty much all the Monster Hunter streams out there.
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I've trained myself to be able to drink a glass of wine socially now.
But I still hate alcohol. And will really only drink heavily on request at special occasions.
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They showed up with a gun and a love for all creatures.
but they're listening to every word I say
But it still one of the least flashy weapons and ignored by many.
pleasepaypreacher.net
10 minutes later 3 urgent items come in that i need to address today
oh and we have a giant fuckoff snowstorm coming
not a great week
once a non-vegan partner finds out I'm vegan, they are fairly likely to feel judged regardless of what I say or how I behave
I'm leaning towards dating vegetarians and vegans now, not because I particularly care what my partner eats, but because I am becoming weary of helping partners to work through their defensiveness
Ah, interesting. I was just wondering because I know English-speaking alcohol consumption is different from some other regions, and, at least in the US (I suspect Canada too), alcohol is a thing you drink lots of in college because everyone else is*.
*everyone thinks everyone else drinks more than they actually do, so they drink more to compensate, it's a hilarious and deadly psychological phenomenon.
I watched Cryaotic play it for like 2 hours and he struggled so mightily and it was both hilarious and enjoyable
But I'm in the same camp as you - that's all I need to experience, I'm good.
demonstacey i did not sorry
man if anyone says it's not socially acceptable to be a teetotaler they are due for a Bogart-style removal from polite society
Two blueberry muffins, a pot of coffee, two eggs over easy, a large biscuit, a half plate of hash browns, and 2/3rds of a pound of hamburger steak covered in cheese. I might get some hummingbird cake or apple pie at the end.
I regret not getting the breaded, fried version, in retrospect that would probably have been way better
but as a more general reaction to that question my leftist ways might compel me to go 'well, actually. . .'
PETA is such a tiny and trivial organization
I can't remember the last time I actually saw a peta ad outside of some jpg compressed 2004 photo of a guy wrapped in plastic to protest meat being posted on Imgur or something for mockery
It makes sense, as a phenomenon, but is still like, ahhh. I actually encountered defensiveness less often than I'd expect, not drinking, but obnoxious "come on maaaaaaaan" behavior more.
They're annoying in, like, a frustrating project at work, annoying. Not annoying like people, because they're not, not really
They're either guests, who are not real people, or they're Not My Problem and then I enjoy them not being my problem
Shark as a man about to go on turnaround (12 hours a day every day, one day off every other week) I salute you. We'll die together in the engineering mines.
That said, there's a game I really want to play: Drunk Quest. Naturally, the game is designed to get you shitfaced. So it doesn't do well for people in my situation.
Last week, I found out they introduced an expansion aimed at making the "Designated Driver" the ref/moderator/GM of the game.
That's right. You get to control the Porcelain Gods, and fuck with the other players! Woo!
I imagine the difference in my case would probably be that my dad was really the only person to go to university, and only briefly, before myself and my sister. So nobody was exposed to it.
And that the larger extended family wasn't Canadian/American in their upbringing and any perspectives towards alcohol that still dominated most of what I grew up with.
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Binge drinking culture is pretty universal in the English speaking world and outside it as well. US overall still tends to drink less than a lot of English speaking countries.
I think the issue with Lance is the perception its not a mobile weapon. And from what I've seen of lancers in SOS missions its not even well known among people who use it how to get out of dodge.
pleasepaypreacher.net
I like checking in with you because I know some days can suck, but you seem in a decent mood today!
Calling the charge blade not complicated is insane to me.
Here everyone, let me explain how to use it and keep in mind none of this is explained in game ever:
Okay so you have a sword and shield. Hit guys until your little empty bottles turn orange but NOT red. The difference is often one attack.
Hold R2+B to ADD THEM so your little empty bottles are now full.
Hit X+Y, X+Y, X+Y then AS YOU LOCK YOUR SHIELD real quick hit R2. Don't fuck this up!
A little shield icon activates and
fuck it i'm done i'm tired of typing the steps because that's just the most basic how do you charge up your shield/axe i didn't even talk about any sort of move
semper fi engineering my friend
see you on the other side
They've very vocal and do an okay job of masking some of their gross stuff with popular PR.
I laughed, but also, :rotate:
Even barring such intentional dickery this one is a pain for people who don't drink
Socializing with colleagues is, for p much everywhere, more often than not drinks in a pub. So the people who don't get left out, without anyone doing it intentionally
Which in a lot of ways makes it worse because, while of course malice does a lot more damage, it's a lot harder to do something about unintentional problems
I loved when a few of the streamers I was watching swapped over to Charge Blade and were listening to chat instructions. Chat, universally, across all of them were like:
*finish explaining everything about how to build phials, charge the shield, then charge the sword*
"Now wait until he learns about Point Guards
*everybody chuckles*
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[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
but actually they mean ALF or something similar (the ones who set your car on fire)
scientists are dumb people
I will probably never be able to compete with other streamers because I have a day job but it's still fun.
Birthdays are trouble.
but they're listening to every word I say
Bars, nightclubs, parties, etc.
In particular if you are being directly offered alcohol by a host and decline, they often take it as some kind of affront
As someone who doesn't drink for health reasons it's excessively obnoxious, and I do not take the high road when people get shitty with me about it
I technically never binge drink
But it also feels kind of close to my drinking style
a job where you aren't paid to be nice to customers, the dream
so envious
*posts 5 angry threads on r/TalesFromRetail*
I have the perception that you work interesting hours, but I am glad you're at least obscenely well fed
@Sir Landshark
I'm sorry to hear work's being a dick again. Did that raise ever get applied, at least? I know more money doesn't buy back your time, but sometimes it eases the pain! >_>
But I still hate alcohol. And will really only drink heavily on request at special occasions.