Also, at max rank there's about a 1 second window between when kassadin comes in and silences you and you can cast spells again before he can flash out.
Every once in a while I am reminded that the UK is one step ahead of the USA in marginalizing the 'common folk.' Also they have political cartoons too:
Any politician would want the unemployed to have jobs and some public assistance versus no jobs and lots of public addistance.
I think he is talking about workfare where people have to work for a negative wage to receive public benefits. This means they are either doing mostly useless work or are competing with people who aren't making a negative wage.
I guess that is a problem. A secretary on workfare getting eight pounds in benefits for a day's work can't compete with a secretary making eight pounds an hour.
argh why can't i just be godzilla and destroy the fkn world with my rage
poo
+1
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So, the hip-hop show on Saturday. We went to see Busdriver. He was
not good.
The opener, however, was pretty alright! And he had a line that went something like "...from South Central doing everything I should, and if I had seven dragonballs I'd wish a n****a would"
so...that company that interviewed me for the second time today now wants me to interview a third time, this one with the CEO...
On the one hand, I guess it's good because it means I've been knocking these interviews out of the park, I think. On the other, I just want them to get to the whole offer phase because that is clearly crucial for me. I did provide them with my current compensation and I'm hoping they realize that they would need to be above that for me to jump. I have a feeling they're going to come in low.
I dunno, this whole thing definitely has some risk. I'm at a pretty good place right now although my my job satisfaction has definitely dipped since I got moved to the impersonal cube farm.
also, i've heard 20% is a decent figure to use as a salary jumping point but yeah, still concerned it's too rich for their blood. oh well, good interview practice for me.
A lot of pro-abstinence people must feel some kind of intense jealousy deep down inside toward people who have healthy active sex lives. For as much as their philosophy may decry it, it's difficult to ignore a physical necessity, and how dare anyone else enjoy it when they cannot.
I think it's this that causes the "double down" mentality to take root.
If you're doing something that isn't measurably enriching your life, and those who go without your philosophy seem to be having a good time, many times it causes you to freak the fuck out and become some lunatic crusader. It leads you to telling a whole auditorium of 16 year olds that they'll wind up loveless and unwanted if they have sex.
Because how dare they not live up to the arbitrary standards you place on them.
sometimes i wonder if this motivates some people to agitate for monogamy
#unpopularopinionpuffin
I've come to feel as I've gotten older and worldlier that monogamy has a whoooole lotta innate cultural hangups built in that have very little to do with two people loving each other.
Having a couple of friends in successful polyamorous relationships has helped form that viewpoint, as well.
hi5
honestly i'm not all "everybody must be poly"
relationships can take a lot of time and people have jobs and kids and responsibilities, sometimes there just isn't enough energy to go around
sometimes you have other priorities in your life, you don't need a second partner, you wouldn't see the benefit
you're happy with what you have
that's cool
#typinglikepony
For me, personally, I think I would be capable of being emotionally invested in more than one person, but monogamy for me has never been my own personal acheivement. It's not about sex so much with me, but then again, I'm demisexual, so it never really is.
I think a society with many polygamous marriages can be surprisingly non-dysfunctional in each of those families
I just don't think that liberalism has any good idea on what to do with the excess heterosexual males
Polyamory is not necessary polygamy, and marriage need not entail exclusivity for the male or female members. Ergo, the only excess males are those in the friendzone.
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A lot of pro-abstinence people must feel some kind of intense jealousy deep down inside toward people who have healthy active sex lives. For as much as their philosophy may decry it, it's difficult to ignore a physical necessity, and how dare anyone else enjoy it when they cannot.
I think it's this that causes the "double down" mentality to take root.
If you're doing something that isn't measurably enriching your life, and those who go without your philosophy seem to be having a good time, many times it causes you to freak the fuck out and become some lunatic crusader. It leads you to telling a whole auditorium of 16 year olds that they'll wind up loveless and unwanted if they have sex.
Because how dare they not live up to the arbitrary standards you place on them.
isn't this kind of true of anyone who sets restrictive standards on themselves?
like, you see the same sort of thing - contempt - from fit people who work out all the time or diet strictly towards those who don't.
you see the same thing from people with any other moral precept that they adhere to - liars or manipulators or the cruel or the amoral.
you see the same thing from people who keep their promises wrt those who do not.
you see it from people of refined tastes who look down on those who have unrefined (by their standards) tastes.
like - take any one thing about yourself that you are proud of. the people who do not have that quality are inferior in some way, whether it's ignorance or a lack of talent or a lack of scruples or a lack of discipline or whatever else.
i'm not abstinent and really never have been, but i admire the discipline and conviction of those who choose to be so.
I think that mostly goes to whether the individual who has set a personal restriction is judgmental or not, rather than to whether the restrictions have been set.
I prefer monogamy for a handful of reasons but I'm happy that Feral is happier when following a different standard, for instance.
right, but you also probably don't feel like you are sacrificing something to a higher principle by being monogamous.
you probably wouldn't have the same live-and-let-live regard for someone who claimed to be monogamous but was actually cheating on their spouse.
Well, that certainly wouldn't make me that person's fan, but that's because he's betraying his wife's trust, probably eventually gravely hurting her, and putting his entire family's longterm well-being at risk, including his own, in order to make himself slightly happier in the short term.
In other words because, as described, he's being a dishonest selfish jerk who is quite likely hurting himself - among others - in the long term more than he's helping himself in the short term.
I think those are kind of, almost, empirical descriptions of his behavior and what it tends to reflect and cause; that's not the same as saying, "I'm a loyal monogamist, therefore no one else should [etc]".
Put another way, his behavior's bad because it seems like a short-sighted net-loss for everyone involved more often than not, and I wish that he would see that. Again, that's different than, "I'm invested in the institution of monogamy, therefore [etc]".
e: And to clarify, this all goes back to my underlying opinion that most people are mostly better off if they interact honestly with each other, not to any opinions that are particular to romantic relationships.
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I think a society with many polygamous marriages can be surprisingly non-dysfunctional in each of those families
I just don't think that liberalism has any good idea on what to do with the excess heterosexual males
Polyamory is not necessary polygamy, and marriage need not entail exclusivity for the male or female members. Ergo, the only excess males are those in the friendzone.
I don't think that's sustainable either! I think norms will merely shift in an illiberal direction until the marriage market equilibrium - or, if you prefer, the amorous relationship equilibrium - is achieved again
Will, are you picking up Titanfall? We can suck at it together.
absolutely! i will play with you dogg!
i am so bad that the smart pistol seemed pretty keen to me.
It's pretty sweet.
I was all about crowd control - titan summoning via smart pistol kills.
Fuck even going after the pilots, I farmed the shit out of the creeps and got my mech on that much faster... and I was consistently in 2nd or 3rd place on my team doing it, with only the rarest of pilot kills.
It's a completely valid playstyle (stealth + smart pistol + AI hunter)
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
I'm personally a little distrustful of poly because many poly folk I've met have had some really bad relationships and breakups (lol anecdotal evidence I know)
which is true of single people as well!
but in general I think most people have difficulty handling the emotional baggage a single relationship entails and basically there's a Venn diagram of "people who think poly is a good idea" and "people who are capable of managing the pitfalls of a poly relationship successfully" and the crossover of those two circles is kinda small
but I don't think there's anything immoral or unethical or specifically wrong about poly, and for some people it works really well, which is great
I just think its more difficult than a monogamous relationship and there are more people who think they can handle poly then there are people who can handle poly.
It probably is more difficult - so what? An interracial relationship is more difficult than having a relationship with someone of the same race and you don't distrust interracial couplings.
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I think a society with many polygamous marriages can be surprisingly non-dysfunctional in each of those families
I just don't think that liberalism has any good idea on what to do with the excess heterosexual males
Polyamory is not necessary polygamy, and marriage need not entail exclusivity for the male or female members. Ergo, the only excess males are those in the friendzone.
I don't think that's sustainable either! I think norms will merely shift in an illiberal direction until the marriage market equilibrium - or, if you prefer, the amorous relationship equilibrium - is achieved again
What are you saying? Your original post seemed to describe that as marriages occupied available women at a faster rate than men, there would be a surplus of available men. My response is that a married woman can still bang other dudes even if the only marriages were one-man-many-women instead of mixed or opposite ratios.
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he is/was so stupidly strong
avoid the pitfall of building a bunch of mana
blink in, silence, barf, collect penta kill
There comes a point where I want to be the only one.
So I'm not sure how wise an arrangement like that would be for me, given that there is a very audible countdown attached.
I guess that is a problem. A secretary on workfare getting eight pounds in benefits for a day's work can't compete with a secretary making eight pounds an hour.
FUCK THIS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM.
not good.
The opener, however, was pretty alright! And he had a line that went something like "...from South Central doing everything I should, and if I had seven dragonballs I'd wish a n****a would"
I just don't think that liberalism has any good idea on what to do with the excess heterosexual males
I wish there was multi-platform play, so I can connect with those who sold their Soul to EA and installed Origin.
i mean do you just know a mormon and then decide to get converted one day or something?
It's pretty sweet.
You're thinking polygamy, and mormons don't practice it since it was made illegal, except for fundie sects.
I have until tomorrow to think of a novel way to make a band make money in today's dumb world where people just steal music willy nilly.
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For me, personally, I think I would be capable of being emotionally invested in more than one person, but monogamy for me has never been my own personal acheivement. It's not about sex so much with me, but then again, I'm demisexual, so it never really is.
Basically I'm cool with endless sleepovers.
i had a motorola clamshell
it was so awesome
Polyamory is not necessary polygamy, and marriage need not entail exclusivity for the male or female members. Ergo, the only excess males are those in the friendzone.
Well, that certainly wouldn't make me that person's fan, but that's because he's betraying his wife's trust, probably eventually gravely hurting her, and putting his entire family's longterm well-being at risk, including his own, in order to make himself slightly happier in the short term.
In other words because, as described, he's being a dishonest selfish jerk who is quite likely hurting himself - among others - in the long term more than he's helping himself in the short term.
I think those are kind of, almost, empirical descriptions of his behavior and what it tends to reflect and cause; that's not the same as saying, "I'm a loyal monogamist, therefore no one else should [etc]".
Put another way, his behavior's bad because it seems like a short-sighted net-loss for everyone involved more often than not, and I wish that he would see that. Again, that's different than, "I'm invested in the institution of monogamy, therefore [etc]".
e: And to clarify, this all goes back to my underlying opinion that most people are mostly better off if they interact honestly with each other, not to any opinions that are particular to romantic relationships.
This is happening.
no i'm pretty sure that polyamorists are all mormon
you might want to check your facts
I don't think that's sustainable either! I think norms will merely shift in an illiberal direction until the marriage market equilibrium - or, if you prefer, the amorous relationship equilibrium - is achieved again
Yeah Origin is pretty bad
Its a cost I'm willing to bear to play ME3 and Titanfall as a member of the master race.
At least it isn't GFWL.
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Polyamory is not the same thing as polygamy.
That is, it does not generally take the form of many females exclusively paired with a single male.
Polyamory is not the same thing as polygamy.
That is, it does not generally take the form of many females exclusively paired with a single male.
Even me?
Asteroid mining
(only half kidding)
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I was all about crowd control - titan summoning via smart pistol kills.
Fuck even going after the pilots, I farmed the shit out of the creeps and got my mech on that much faster... and I was consistently in 2nd or 3rd place on my team doing it, with only the rarest of pilot kills.
It's a completely valid playstyle (stealth + smart pistol + AI hunter)
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Do you not have sugary candy-cereal in Canada?
Wait, no, that's been done already.
@Notasuit Shaz, you just need to find your center, brah
my friends named their daughter arya : )
especially u
It probably is more difficult - so what? An interracial relationship is more difficult than having a relationship with someone of the same race and you don't distrust interracial couplings.
What are you saying? Your original post seemed to describe that as marriages occupied available women at a faster rate than men, there would be a surplus of available men. My response is that a married woman can still bang other dudes even if the only marriages were one-man-many-women instead of mixed or opposite ratios.
I can verify firsthand that it is a mystery because girls from NH be cray
so swag
We don't have so many kinds of sugar-cereal here.
Like, we can't have Trix... or pebbles... or cocoa puffs...
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