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He should've gone all the way and plugged Kamen Rider again.
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“Paired with apologies for a lot of other things?” What? I get that this is probably a passive-aggressive dig at someone in particular, but if you don’t know Jake, this sounds very bizarre indeed. “I’m sorry for tagging you in with Nazis, and also that time I told my mom I was sick to avoid a test at school, and for cheating on my diet. Will you forgive me?”
I think he's saying he'd forgive Randi Harper for all the evil that she's committed - and that's a lot of evil in Jake's mind, because he really means playing Overwatch with Zoe Quinn and not letting Nora Reed get away with letting her take the fall for the fake Candace Owens account - if only she begged for forgiveness and apologised until the truly magnanimous Jake decided to gift her with accepting her apology.“Paired with apologies for a lot of other things?” What? I get that this is probably a passive-aggressive dig at someone in particular, but if you don’t know Jake, this sounds very bizarre indeed.
These two suicide-baiters. 'I'll kill myself because Picard wasn't that great!' 'Have you thought of watching She-Ra to not kill yourself?' Go eat bats, you absolute wastes of humanity.Jake senses something in his underpants
Yes, Jake, the cartoon dog knows more about healthy living than a doctor.
Just as telling an obese man that he can’t have surgery until he loses weight isn’t “gatekeeping.” It’s like he thinks if he can find the right combination of words, the doctor will admit that they were lying and it’s absolutely fine for him to cram his face with junk food and have major surgery.Gobbling tendies all day long without ever standing up isn't a "complicated relationship." It's so simple it can be expressed as "lol fat."
You can get the surgery on Connecticut's Medicaid program "Husky".it's not like he could afford THE SURGERY.
Trying to get "much less healthy and strong" than being unable to lift a metal bar with no weights on it? While eating what he calls a "starvation diet"?
"Strong" holy shit Jake still wants to believe that there's someone out there that thinks he's "big" as in a viking warrior and not like... well,
Jake Alley said:So it occurs to me that right now, a whole lot of people are trying to stay inside as much as possible for pandemic related reasons and not handling life under those conditions well, while I've been forced to live like that for well over a year and could probably impart advice.
The first, real damn big point worth mentioning is: Don't let yourself obsess over sources of stress. Do you regularly follow the news super super closely? Quit that. You don't need to have cable news channels or a twitter feed constantly giving you a live news feed EVER, and you especially don't when there's actually important things to hear. The important stuff gets to people even when they're trying to avoid it, trust me on that. All the constant exposure thing does is freak you the hell out by totally distorting your perception and making you anxious about stuff out of your control.
Similarly, if you find yourself spending a lot more time on the internet in general lately (or let's be honest, if that's been your habit for years), keep in mind that a huge chunk of it is actively set up to make you miserable. Some of that is accidental, some of that is the result of far right extremists intentionally engineering stuff to demoralize enemies and instill the sort of anxiety needed to recruit people, but either way, distancing yourself from negativity is kind of a good idea. Like, I've seen a huge huge uptick since coming back form my break here of people sharing screenshots of particularly vile "Am I the Asshole?" threads from Reddit, and I would really strongly advise you quit reading or forwarding those around. I mean, I feel pretty strongly that people should be boycotting reddit in its entirety, because of all the hosting of extremist hate groups and the direct ties to terrorism and the whole website being the exact same thing as 4chan just with a better public image, but whatever, people still aren't ready for that conversation.
That said though the only reason people go around sharing AITA threads (with vanishingly rare exception) is to try and highlight just the absolute worst most reprehensible examples of human beings the world has to offer and make you think way too much about why they're like that and how hey spend their time. Which is just REALLY not a productive or healthy thing to do, especially when you also consider it's all self-reported and you're getting this crap from the least reliable narrators in the world.
Focusing as exclusively as you can on positive stuff, both absorbing it and putting it out there is the best thing you can do for your own mental health, the mental health of anyone exposed to you in any way, and really, society in general by and large. Like as a concept. And I fully realize there is a counterargument that comes to mind to literally everyone who is guilty of this sort of staring into the abyss:
"Nothing is going to get better if I just stick my head in the sand and ignore all the awfulness in the world while I just pretend it's all sunshine and rainbows."
Here's the thing though- That's complete bullshit.
I mean, there ARE some awful things in the world that you should never just ignore and should try to do something about. If your best friend is in an abusive relationship, yeah, pay attention to that and try to get them to a good place and offer to shelter them and all that. If a politician in a position you can vote for is a corrupt doomsday cult fascist (which is true in at least one case for damn near everyone), it's important to be aware of that and what steps you can take and when to get them out of there.
For MOST awful things in the world though there is no practical action you personally can take to fix them, so your awareness of the situation has no positive impact of any sort. Again, sticking with my AITA example of something to avoid contact with, yeah, you can read this story about this random (possibly fictitious) scumbag and infer from the context that he's a racist abusive manchild whose wife should divorce him and whose daughter should break off all contact with him, but... what are you actually going to do with that insight? You don't know this guy, you don't know these other people, and you are never going to be in a real position to reach out to any of them. I mean, you can find the actual thread and reply to it, but anyone posting this sort of thing legitimately is just looking for any token validation and it doesn't matter how many scolding strangers they have to dig through to find it. You could also become a vigilante, do some serious privacy invading research, and directly intervene in some illegal fashion, but holy crap do you not have the sort of verified information you'd have to have for that to even begin to be justifiable you're just angry now, with no productive outlet for it, and that's... never a good thing.
Plus in all honesty, people vastly underestimate just how much awfulness actually DOES get better on its own if everyone just totally ignores it. So many of the awful garbage people out in the world are coming at things from the same mentality as a toddler scribbling on walls and knocking stuff over to get attention, and they actually will move on to trying less negative means of expressing themselves if they don't get the reaction they're after for it. So the most positive and productive thing you can do really is to completely ignore them and focus on doing rad stuff and talking about how great other people are for doing rad stuff and checking that rad stuff out.
And hell, honestly, even with the stuff it IS useful to be aware of, it's good to keep in mind that useful awareness caps off pretty quick. I said the other day I'm really trying to avoid giving any attention to violent propaganda from transphobes, because at this point, there is no way in hell anyone within my sphere of influence could possibly need more evidence to realize that they're a bunch of violent bigoted terrorists. Signal boosting their horrible crap can't do anything but expose the people they want to hurt to the stuff they want to hurt them with (which the obvious exception that I'll still try and do my part to get the word out on the current wave of bigoted bills people are putting to votes, and the importance of blocking those, because again, that's directly individually actionable).
And of course if not focusing on negative garbage or whatever your normal routine is leaves a horrid
yawning void of entirely too much free time, and you're burnt out on binging all the TV and movies and games you've been putting off, pick an RPG, and organize a group to start playing it.
It's a very rare RPG that requires you to make any sort of financial investment at all. The really big ones and the really small ones alike both tend to make most if not all of the rules fully available online. And I'm not talking piracy sites I'm talking stuff like this: https://aonsrd.com or hell THIS: https://robboyle.wordpress.com/eclipse-phase-pdfs/…
So you can use your overabundant free time to learn how to play/run one of these games, get some characters and scenarios made, talk some equally bored friends into joining you, and fill all the what-do-I-do time in your schedule having fun creative adventures with people you like.
Running literally any RPG via the internet is REAL easy to do (which is part of why I'm trying to make the whole #disembodicon2020 thing happen). If you can't work out on your own how to set something up with something like https://rptools.net/download-rptools-products/… or http://roll20.net or https://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/Tabletop_Simulator/… or even just an IRC/discord channel with a bot set up to handle die rolls... ask around? Ask me directly? This crap is my whole life, I can get you set up and good to go. Again, I'm planning a whole event around setting people up to do these things in a couple months. Gimme the practice.
Says the man whose ONLY paid employment in the past decade has been contributing to RPG books from some obscure company called Paizo. I'm sure they're a nonprofit.It's a very rare RPG that requires you to make any sort of financial investment at all.