Alabaster_Mango

There's a Ray Bradbury story like this about the last human on Mars. He's like 80 and gets into a fight with pre-recorded versions of his past self that he made to not be lonely. Hang on, I'll get the name.

Edit: It was I, Mars (also called Night Call, Collect). I highly recommend the radio play/audio drama version.

A few years ago I found all the Ray Bradbury audio dramas I listened to on cassette available online, but I couldn't find the exact site just now. Try this in the meantime (I am about to enter a movie theater so I didn't look too hard).

I love when scumbags freely out themselves.

Women being beautiful is just one of those free goods that we get in our reality.

Like, that is messed up. Are you saying that women are just things to look at? Because that's what it sounds like, yo.

For one thing there is an issue of agency, or control over their own appearance. Dressing up to look and feel pretty FOR THEMSELVES is a completely different thing from having an external force dictate their apparel. Let's be real, that "external force" is probably mostly a bunch of old dudes.

Another issue, and this is a big one, sports isn't about ogling hot bods! They are there to play sports. Athletes, especially Olympic ones, put immense work into training so they can excel at their sport of choice. They do not put all that work in just to become "eye candy" or anything of the sort.

They don't do this to dudes anywhere near as bad. Imagine if the NBA uniform was crop tops and skin tight briefs or something. That can be comfortable, but in front of an arena and the whole world? Different story.

What about the eggs? I doubt those were willingly gathered.

It's from IT part 2. Bill Hader's character is going to throw a rock at IT, but gets mesmerized by the Deadlights.

I think it means the B key is right beside the N key on qwerty keyboards.

Fair enough, there are a lot of obscure little guys in Sonic lore. It also depends massively if you're into the games, the Archie comics, the IDW comics, or any of the animated shows. Did you know that the comics Amy Rose was introduced as an annoying child who was the president of the Sonic fan club?

I imagine looking at his heart was a lot like that scene in the Grinch.

Vector, Charmy, Espio, and Mighty showed up in a Sonic the Hedgehog movie tie-in comic. I think it came out before the second movie? It could follow them maybe.

@a4ng3l@lemmy.world 8 hours ago:

We had to rely on so many tricks when tinder was not a thing

@a4ng3l@lemmy.world now:

I also never partook into this sort of approach

I think I safely assumed you were in support of, and possibly engaging in, that approach based on how fervently you were advocating for it. If you are not supportive of it you should have used less self-inclusive language, or been slightly critical at some point. Say stuff like "people did x" instead of "we did x" for example.

To be clear: I never said it wasn't happening. I said if one were to behave like that it would be called out as weird. Granted, I was in the dating scene at the tail end of the "Pre-Tinder" era. Sites like PoF and eHarmony were around, but lots of dating and mingling was still being initiated in the IRL sphere. Online dating was still seen as a new thing for nerds after all. I am sure things were different in the early 90s and before.

Something being, as you've described, standard procedure not so long ago does not make it inherently good. Doesn't make it inherently bad either. Just have to reassess stuff every now and then.

Well I hope you're either happily in a relationship or some kind of merry recluse because things are different now and I doubt your "tricks" will work so well. We're trying out this new thing where we act like women are people, and we pretend that they don't want to be prayed upon by thirsty dudes at every venue. Not everyone is on board yet but it's catching on.

The block thing is kind of sad. Is that how you normally go through mild disagreements? Blocking and being blocked? Cause that would suck. It's cool guy, I am not hurt. I personally don't want to live in an echo chamber of only things I agree with. How would I get into arguments with strangers?

P.S. I don't actually think this was an argument. That was just for the joke.

you went out with them to smoke, asked / give some lighter and voila.

So you didn't just barge into their group conversation. Cause that would be weird right?

You should also give up on this whole "wizend internet elder" schtick. I was also going to bars and youth places before Tinder, and behaviour like that of the 4Chan guy would definitely be called out as strange and unwelcome.