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  1. Aldarion

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    Its literally the most important thing to teach your kids: to overcome your emotions, not be ruled by them. Its literally what distinguishes a worthwhile human being from the masses. I dont understand your use of the word "gross" in this context, but its clear you disagree. "Oh no dont teach...
  2. Aldarion

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    This thread is a shitshow, and I aint touching it, but this made me laugh. Everyone's feelings are without merit or worth. The moment a person first recognizes this is the moment they qualify as a full-fledged human being.
  3. Aldarion

    The struggle is real

    Of all the random shit to get upset about, this is just bizarre. By extension I'm guessing you are also enraged that people shop at Walmart instead of supporting shitty local mom and pops? I'm an angry guy and can appreciate a rant but lol at white knighting electricians unions.
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    American Gods

    Considering your self declared proclivity for buttholes and weird sexual shit, I dont know why this would surprise you. Did you think most straight people do things with funnels in buttholes? No judgement, but can we agree youre not representative of the average straight person when it comes...
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    American Gods

    Wow, Id genuinely forgotten that. How fucking stupid. At least in this case its the author being a SJW idiot instead of Hollywood casting idiocy. Right? Wasnt shadow moon black in the book too?
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    Parent Thread

    spanking is not beating. Spanking is not violence. You people are delusional and projecting.
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    Parent Thread

    This is such feelzy bullshit I'm actually a little surprised to see it on FOH. There is a place for physical discipline. Done properly, its not even a little bit abusive or damaging -- it is positive and loving.
  8. Aldarion

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    You misspelled "obvious, inarguable, and correct".
  9. Aldarion

    American Gods

    Damn it. My only complaint is if this keeps up, I am going to have to re read the book!
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    I have no criticism of Emilia herself but itd be swell if the makeup artists had taken a moment to look at an actual blond person prior to dying her hair. Every scene shes in I'm like "why are there two giant black hairy caterpillars where her eyebrows should be?" To be clear this is not a...
  11. Aldarion

    Stephen King's The Dark Tower

    Wow, fuck this. The only comparison I can make in terms of completely ignoring the source material would be the old Dune movie.
  12. Aldarion

    American Gods

    Ep 1 was much more fun than the book. The world was always great, but the writing just left me not caring about anyone. I'm in.
  13. Aldarion

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Ahh I didnt understand that detail. Well, in that case I have no objection. (Who gives a shit about compiled file sizes) Although, not a relevant fix for me b/c you can pry nano out of my cold dead hands :) (And youre wrong; Python is ugly and unreadable. Worse, it is always ugly and...
  14. Aldarion

    Parent Thread

    I should be clear: I wasnt saying theres no such thing as a speech delay that requires or would benefit from intervention. Just that my parents position was: "All kids learn to talk. Speech delay is only a thing for the first couple years, then they all catch up". And for my first kid, that was...
  15. Aldarion

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Umm, you have to hit the space bar 4 or 5 times to make a useful (visually obvious) indent. You only have to hit the tab once. How is that not an advantage? This is probably my biggest gripe about python. No coding language should ever interpret whitespace as meaning anything other than "not a...
  16. Aldarion

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    This is one of those sarcasm things that I always fail to get, right? Real life human beings with functional brains dont actually use spaces in code instead of tabs. "Here, lets use four or more characters instead of one. Brilliant!"
  17. Aldarion

    Parent Thread

    I dont recall how old your kid is. But for whatever its worth, they rated my son "speech delayed" for hist first 2-3 years. He was our first, so we were mildly concerned. Turns out my parents were right and its not really a thing. In my sons case, by the time he was 5 or 6 he had more than...
  18. Aldarion

    The Last Kingdom

    Wow great show. One more show I wouldnt have noticed except for FOH. Almost as good as Vikings.
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    Career Change

    Yeah, I think you prety much resolved the thread right there. HS teaching would be a shitty job for many of us, and would be an ideal job for others. This is subjective. Its not a difficult job for anyone who's completed high school. I wouldnt want the job, but the pay to difficulty ratio is...
  20. Aldarion

    Career Change

    One of the intellectually easiest jobs in the world Absurdly easy hours Basically cant ever be fired Takes almost no schooling to be qualified for the job K-12 teachers are not underpaid, thats the market responding appropriately to a job that could be filled by almost anyone who graduated high...
  21. Aldarion

    The Flash

    I like that suggestion but lets do it differently and kill two birds with one stone. Instead of moving black Iris lets have Flash go to the original universe where Iris is white and hot and kid flash is a red haired white kid. Timeline restored, and black Iris is safe. Win win.
  22. Aldarion

    Eight Values

    I'm hooked on these things but the content and weighting are so bad. My score -- Closest Match: Liberalism
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    The Expanse

    I love sci fi, and near future colonization of the solar system sci fi is especially high on the list. e.g. I've already reread Seveneves three times despite several mediocre aspects to that book. This thread makes Expanse sound awesome. Every time I try to watch it I fall asleep. Its like the...
  24. Aldarion

    Who falls into anarchy first?

    Why no Venezuela?
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Especially when the fact is, women are nearly 100% of the time the decision makers about whether sex happens. If there is one party to "blame" for sex its nearly always the woman, outside of rape which is exceptionally rare relative to consensual sex. Of course the idea of blame is ludicrous...
  26. Aldarion

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Is this real? Are there adults who dont know how to tie their shoes securely? When we taught my kid show to tie their shoes we didnt give the knot a special name "here son, let me teach you the Double Knot", its just called "how to tie your shoes".
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    Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

    CGI can build planet sized cities or giant alien monsters, but it cant fix those eyebrows?
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    You stupid cockloving motherfucker. How did I miss this gem of a post. Downloading a digital copy of a movie or song is exactly the moral equivalent of when your friend made you a mix tape in 1992. Exactly the fucking same thing. If there is any crime involved, the crime is on the part of the...
  29. Aldarion

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Your fuckin trollin me. A seemingly internet savvy person in 2017 still selling the pathetic "downloading = theft" crock? I cant understand the psychological forces that would drive a person to make such a statement. Theft is morally wrong specifically because it removes the property from the...
  30. Aldarion

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    LOL What is this, 1994? Downloading = theft? I'm just not sure where to pick up this debate; I thought it ended a decade or two ago.
  31. Aldarion

    Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

    I may be reading too much into a trailer. But is that a black female love interest for spiderman? Writing white male characters with black girlfriends is about as believable and demographically realistic as writing a white male character as transgender. Yes, TV Flash (and apparently MCU...
  32. Aldarion

    Marvel's Iron Fist

    I did compare them, youre right. You know who else compared them? You did. You and I both concluded they were not identical shows, although I was highlighting a similarity between them. You found it more profound to remark on the fact that they are in fact different shows. Well said sir, they...
  33. Aldarion

    Marvel's Iron Fist

    Jessica Jones was awesome. Of course her character did stupid shit. You know who else did stupid shit? Walter and Jesse in Breaking Bad. While it was frustrating to watch, in some ways I think thats part of the point. Theyre both tragedies on some level. What did you expect to happen when you...
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    Marvel's Iron Fist

    I cant think of any other franchise with so much variation. Theres widespread consensus e.g. on MCU movies about what are the top 2-3 movies in the MCU. But with these shows, its all over the friggin place. We have people rating DD as watchable and JJ as unwatchable, and the opposite. On Ep 4...
  35. Aldarion

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    My honest opinion is: marry and have kids asap. Having and raising kids is the best thing in life bar none. Women are fucking nuts, the marriage likely wont last, but until we have axlotl tanks, marry. The kids are worth it.
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    The Tiggle's sobstory and begging thread.

    See? Cat people are insane. I mean, we already knew about the brain parasites and stuff. But this right here. Show this post to 3 cat people and I predict 2 out of 3 will light up and say "YES! EXACTLY" (Dont get me wrong, dog people are fucking crazy too. Thats a different story for a...
  37. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    I do. And thats a fuckin weird dream.
  38. Aldarion

    Marvel's The Inhumans

    They cast a white guy to play a white superhero? Racists. I'm sure they'll redeem themselves by casting a short black man as Medusa.
  39. Aldarion

    The Oscars Best Picture fuckup

    I'm with Olebass. There is some fuckery going on with sound mixing in modern TV. I watch old movies on my TV and theyre fine. I watch netflix or any recent movies and sound mixing is all fucked up. I'm convinced its an artistic decision. The sound mixing fucks like having whispered...
  40. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    OK here is my latest one. Telling me about a dream you had last night, if that story takes longer than about 0 to 2 seconds. "Let me take up 5 minutes of your time telling you a story that didnt happen, that doesnt actually even exist as a story (like a book or movie does). My neurons fired...