I enjoyed it for what it was and was sad to see almost everyone disliked it that talked about it.

Three notifications on the hour and one five minutes ago, sounds like he’s a two pump chump and on round 2.

Pound-seconds, I believe. Good ol’ LM giving imperial numbers to NASA.

It’s almost like a few other games that are hugely popular got released and initial launch numbers never stay that high regardless as the novelty wears off and only the really committed players come back regularly.

And start being a good actor.

Cate Blanchett for Lilith, but no lines spoken to showcase her personality. Tina except she’s a Zoomer girl boss that occasionally lapses into the actual Tina in the most superficial ways, Roland but comedy, and the psycho as a main character when you have gunzerker and commando.

This just feels like another quick cash in on an IP that they believed they could turn into pulp action content.

Everytime a plane skids off the runway you hear about it in the news, sorry your congressman didn’t personally send you a letter about it.

Snowden wasn’t leaking military mishaps last I checked.

Literally every US mishap makes the news, are you high?

Yeah it’s difficult to tell if it’s just the shit they’re eating or the specific chemicals inside it.

How many reeducation camps does China currently operate, again?

It’s almost like an author can write about different societies and not just one that they specifically agree with, but I guess that makes them “ideologically inconsistent.”

Well sure, but that specific focus I believe was pioneered by Heinlein in the same way that when you think of Asimov you think “AI and the three laws of robotics.” Along with his obsession with free love meta human abilties were his biggest returning concept.

Just because Herbet ripped off Heinlein’s ideas doesn’t mean he used the same format or character work. You’re taking me to mean “Herbert copied Heinlein in every respect” which I didn’t say.

Heinlein was writing about meta humans with psychic based abilities for decades before Herbert wrote about the KH in Dune. Clairvoyance and neutron dampening/excitement, eidetic memory, inherent mathematical ability (mentats, anyone?), control over human physiology, twins having quantum mental bonds which work outside of light speed limitations, the ABILITY TO ASTROGATE AND LITERALLY CAUSE MATTER/ANTIMATTER REACTORS TO FUNCTION WITH YOUR MIND.

Pretty much all of Herbert’s ideas about human evolution and the people that make society possible without thinking machines were based in Heinlein’s prior novels and short stories.

As if Herbert didn’t rip off half his ideas from Heinlein.

Not even lesser, there’s always a chance that a more extreme person/system replaces them.

Well for starters your assessment of your own attractiveness might be overstated, it’s also possible that it’s accentuated by poor grooming, fashion, or fitness standards.

So let’s assume you just have an unattractive face, full stop. Do you have a patchy beard? Maybe keep it only in areas where you grow hair more fully like a goatee, or clean shave if you don’t have any areas where it grows well. Make sure your hairstyle fits the shape of your face, if you have a longer more oval-like shape a fade on the sides and longer on top works well. If you have a round face then longer hair usually pairs well with that as it helps even out the width.

Physically you’ll need to be in better shape than most, if just to keep up. You don’t need to be a body builder necessarily, but having muscle and a beer gut looks better than being “skinny-fat” as they say. A lot of the stigma around short guys surrounds us not being as capable of defending ourselves and our families due to size, but anyone who’s ever been in martial arts can tell you weight is more important than height, and while height can allow higher weight capacity, not every tall guy gets shredded. Being bigger will help offset that stigma, the worst thing a short guy can be is scrawny.

Also important is personal hygiene, I’ve always been complimented on this especially when getting head, and believe me it’s the quickest way to show someone you have attention to detail. If you can get and afford baby wipes they make a great finisher so you can actually get clean after going to the bathroom, and take showers regularly.

Now this last part is the hardest since it has no tangible existence that can be measured, but you have to accept a couple of truths. Keep in mind when I say these things that I myself am 5’4-5’5" depending on time of day so I’m not some 6’ chad giving you useless info. I have LIVED this for a large part of my existence.

1. Everyone has preferences, and it’s OK that some women need their guy to be taller than them. It sucks, but no matter who you are there’s a guarantee you won’t be everyone’s cup of tea and that’s just life.

2. Think of these preferences as a filter, the women that care aren’t your dating target anyways. Find the ones that don’t seem to mind and focus on those.

3. Even the women that don’t mind WILL be turned off the more you harp on how being a short guy is the cause of all your problems. You must be the bigger man when it comes to this, if you get made fun of find a way to respond that doesn’t show you’re insecure about it even if you are, but getting angry is the one thing you absolutely cannot do. It’s literally the goal of people who ridicule you to make you angry so they can point and go “look at the pissed off short guy he’s such a stereotype.” You have to rise above this in social situations until the person making fun of you for it is seen as the weird one for focusing on it so much. It’s the only way to win. Either way you have to reframe the way you see yourself so that you’re not a victim. It’s the most difficult part of the mental hurdle to overcome but you’ll not see success until you do.

“I don’t support the prison industrial complex, but when I do I choose Dos Equis.”

Just out of curiosity, what other violent crimes do get a pass for “not knowing it was wrong?”

Like do you believe that people can assault other people with weapons without knowing it was wrong? Can they beat their wives and not know it was wrong?

You seem to have a weird hangup on rape in particular in comparison to other violent crimes when it comes to “knowing it was wrong.”

I’m pretty sure the MS13 guys that butcher people know it’s wrong they just don’t give a shit. I’m sure people who use physical violence to get what they want know it’s wrong but they just don’t care.

Stupid standard, people can rationalize any crime rape ain’t special.

Exactly, people don’t seem to understand that our intelligence/problem solving ability is based on two major factors.

1. Our evolutionary lineage, pattern recognition and instinct, etc.

2. Our nurtured upbringing which creates the “training data” we need to accomplish specific tasks. Even if that upbringing isn’t holistic it would still require a significant amount of training to do anything programming-wise that the “three minutes and a coffee” side of the panel is completely ignoring.

Without these a human is useless, we have training data as well, it’s just organic and learned over a lifetime in addition to the billions of years of life evolving on this planet.