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    The Elder Scrolls Online

    I want to like it, as I'm jonesing for a MMO, but I'm having great difficulties. I could forgive a lot if the PVP/end game was superior, but such hopes seem dubious or unrealistic.
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    The Ask Kuriin, A Gay Man, Anything Thread

    Do straight people even know the term edging?
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    The Ask Kuriin, A Gay Man, Anything Thread

    Varying in degrees of masculinity along a continuum. Probably normally distributed. Oblique makes the most sense to me.A google image searchand you can easily find graphs that conflate homosexuality with femininity.
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    The Ask Kuriin, A Gay Man, Anything Thread

    Possessing stereotypical attributes of a the male sex.
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    The Ask Kuriin, A Gay Man, Anything Thread

    To me, a bear just means likely masculine-acting and moderately hairy. It seems to be an attitude more than anything else. Everything else is just superfluous.
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    The Walking Dead

    My problem with the show is that it gone form so controversial/bad that I enjoy watching it to somewhere in murky mediocrity that I can marginally get myself to watch it. The Governor's behavior in the last episode seemed rather incongruent with how he has been portrayed on the show so far.
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    Fallout 4

    I like FO3 for the story, New Vegas for the execution.
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    What is the Best first episode?

    I vaguely remember likingProfit(going for something mildly obscure).
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Despite my best efforts baking wings, frying really seems to be the way to go to ensure crispinessEven employing the Alton Brown method, you end up either slightly crispy wings or slightly flabby wings that at least have tasty skin. My personal preference is for some Vietnamese-ish/pokpok...
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    Metalocalypse

    I liked the idea of it but, similar to Hoss, it was rather hard to understand outside of the Toki and Skwisgaar-eese. Watched with subtitles, or with a better sound system, it might be a comedic opera treat.
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    Inglourious Basterds

    ?
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    Inglourious Basterds

    I thought it was a collection of entertaining scenes. Perhaps a glorious collection of hot messes that work together to varying degrees. Every scene was not compelling, but it did have more than a few captivating, comical, or outlandish moments that made my time spent watching it seem worth...
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    Metalocalypse

    So true:
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    White Queen [Starz]

    Essentially, the best part of this show is trying to figure out the Game of Thrones parallels.
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    Pacific Rim

    Worldwide, and assuming the numbers are accurate, many have.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Minor differences: It's pretty. It's painfully easy to clean. There's no maintenance. You can cook in it when the recipe involves acid/tomatoes, such as when making Chili/Curry. You do have to use silicon-coated whisks as to not scratch the enamel. I didn't have a Lodge to compare, but...
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    The Walking Dead

    When she was not talking. Perhaps 20 years ago. Appears I wasn't too far off:
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    The Video Thread

    He survives. Unfortunately.
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    What are you listening to at the moment?

    Downtempo/R&B with mildly erotic/faux rapey elements:
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Cast iron, indeed. I have something similar tothis. It's expensive, but since buying it I've never looked back. I could crush a small child with it and it's great for all-purpose cooking, browning, stewing, and braising. That said, even over 5 quarts, it can be small.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    4, I can understand. 6, just seems excessive unless you're trying hard. At this point, if I can't do it in my dutch oven, then it's not worth doing.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Side stepping the question, I would ask if there's ever a situation where you'd need 6 pans at once. If not, or rarely, I would focus on a smaller set of better quality. I might be weird, but I also only have 1, ceramic nonstick pan in my closet for eggs.
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    The Walking Dead

    Perhaps Daryl is incubating a super strain of hepatitis, which is kept at bay by a unique combination of prescription medicine and crystal meth.
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    Weight Loss Thread

    Sounds like, for many Americans, that would apply. Fatty Americans that eat a poor diet, probably full of carbs, and are unwilling to exercise should try to avoid incidental carbs.
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    The Walking Dead

    I was not disappointed by the season premier. I was able to find things to hate at least every 5 minutes. It did little to sell the 4th season outside of insinuating that shit will hit the fan quickly with the young boy's infection. I assume he managed to contract zombie AIDS by fellating the...
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    Avatar 2 (2020)

    I stand corrected. I suppose I could not fathom actually devoting time to read the screenplay and then entirely skipped over that part.
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    Weight Loss Thread

    I enjoy Fage, less so after the obnoxious commercials. It's tart, but if the acidity is a problem for you, it can be tempered by adding something sweet. Fruits, jams, honey, etc.
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    The Ask Kuriin, A Gay Man, Anything Thread

    Male babies will get erections for whatever the reason. The masturbation thing is probably a matter of degree. Touching, grinding on a surface if female, is, supposedly, not all that uncommon. It could just be exploration of a novel, particularly sensitive, area. Or, so I chose to believe as...
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    Avatar 2 (2020)

    Not to nitpick but, assuming I'm reading your post right, it wasboth. Home tree was sitting on a deposit.
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    The Ask Kuriin, A Gay Man, Anything Thread

    Theminionexists for a reason. Warning, can't be unseen.
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    ADD/ADHD

    Mildly amusing superficial article onADHD and over-diagnosis. The lack of discussion in the article of people confusing symptoms associated with anxiety, depression, etc. as being indicative of ADHD was a bit disappointing.
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    Avatar 2 (2020)

    Probably been linked before, but now it's forever ingrained in my memory of Avatar:
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    Weight Loss Thread

    At this point in my fitness, I eat what I want and still lose weight. This is partly possible because I've never been a glutton, but I will eat calorie/carb heavy things on occasion (e.g. gnocchi, pastry, etc.). At swimming 2-3 times a week at 90-120 minutes progress has been variable, with...
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    The Ask Kuriin, A Gay Man, Anything Thread

    Makes me think:
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    The Ask Kuriin, A Gay Man, Anything Thread

    Tangentially related:Somnophilia. I learned something new; although, I was actually trying to find the term or fetish for those that like to be, or role play being, asleep or drugged during sex.
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    The Ask Kuriin, A Gay Man, Anything Thread

    It could just be my cohort group. It could also be the difference between Californian and Minnesotan homo. I do know a minority of people that talk, perpetually, about gym boners. Naturalistic observation would suggest that their occurrence is quite rare.
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    The Ask Kuriin, A Gay Man, Anything Thread

    Depending on the gym, it is a wonderland/zoo. So much to see. So much variety. Avoiding getting a boner really comes down to age, maturity, self-control/inhibition, experience, context, etc. A straight man does not rape every woman he sees. In adulthood, I'm not aware of too many gay men...
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    Depression

    Conceptually, I view it as pass/fail. Through helping skills, attempting to establish rapport, and/or motivational interviewing a therapist should be able to everything on their end to establish a therapeutic relationship --to some degree. However, if the patient is not...
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    Depression

    Conversely, a client that's unable to engage in therapy, for whatever reason, is unlikely to exhibit improvement regardless the awesomeness of the therapist. Dabamf is right, however, the literature on therapeutic research is a quagmire, but an NIH study is generally a decent start...
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    Remakes that are better than the originals

    Speaking purely about Red Dragon. The movie was a fairly faithful adaptation of the book; however, Ralph Fiennes, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Edward Norton, while capable, could not make the movie more compelling. It fell into that category of capably performed, soulless mediocrity. Compared...