Cool. The democratic left needs to stop being a bunch of fucking pushovers. If the right is going to play hardball, than play hardball back and fucking win, and fuck the moralists who whine like babies about "BuT tHeN wE'rE nO bEtTeR ThAn ThEM." Like, bitch, we can worry about that shit after we take care of ousting the pack of right-wing cheating fuckwits with zero regard for the law and rules. Then once shit is back and stable, we can worry about your pansy ass empty do-gooder tolerance that allowed the extreme right a voice in the first place.
I mean, in my own case, I'm such a bloody mess I couldn't really recommend someone be in a long term relationship with me. Or nothing too deep, anyway. I'd feel like I'd drag them down. But all that aside, the biggest reason I can think of to be hesitant about commitment is that, in commiting, you will find yourself having to give up control of your life at times and making comprises for the other person's sake. Where as if you are non-comittant, you will have more autonomy to lead your life how you wish.
I'm in a similar boat as you. I admittedly doomscroll too much, so I always want a ton of content. I'll cycle through New, Hot, Most Active, and Top: Day on Lemmy via the Sync app first, then switch to reddit for a little while before checking New on Lemmy again. Lemmy may not have the population of Reddit yet, but it's community comments is no where near as frustrating to read through and it's much more varied in topics than reddit's modern /all.
I suppose when you live hundreds of years, you'll probably pick up fashion as a hobby out of nothing more than boredom at some point. It's also something that's just been around for a long, looong time, even if it's always changing. So, like, yeah, I'm sure when some bargain bin office floozy gets his middle-class jugular slurped like a straw, he'll still have all the style of a corpo puppet. But like, just give him some time to marinade in eternity. His fashion'll shine through eventually.
This is a movie I'm definitely going to stream once the high seas get a hold of it, but it's definitely every monster that's not Predator that I'm interested in seeing on screen.
An Australian article regarding this issue and Shein as well, but also about the third-party in question. But anyways, even when these third-party shops get taken down, they'll pop up again and try different tricks to relabel their product or sell it piecemeal or something. It's not like taking them off a distribution site stops them from producing and trying to sell, they'll just try and find a different means to sell.
I have seen nothing of particular note in person, despite going to an inner-city big block party event. Because, honestly, most costumes are lazy or assembled with a "can't be bothered" attitude. So I'll just be super shallow and say I saw a really cute, short asian girl dressed as a kitten, and that's honestly all that stuck in my mind.
Nothing much new to say, just reiteration. A big or huge or gigantic map is fine, so long as it's populated by meaningful content.
Really wish Forspoken had been more populated. It's a huge world, and combat/abilty wise it's a great pure-mage action game, which I really really loved about it, that's not a very common thing. But my god, the world is so empty despite being so big, and most side objectives are just collectothons. There's some more difficult endgame content, but no real reason to grind up for it.
Not that I really want this, but treat soda like alcohol and lock it behind counters with an age limit, while putting sugar caps on company products or face having the product sold behind counters, and I'll bet you obesity rates would plummet. Though the world would be far less tastier for it.
Can you give me any more details? That's a little vague in and of itself. Mage: The Accension, a TTRPG, is what first comes up when I google it, but really, there's a number of things it could be.
While it's cool the major online retailers have delisted the items, somewhere out there, the group that is the actual third party shop that makes the items is still out there. These major online retailers are just distributors. It's possible the producers may just give up and pack up, but they also may just seek other, less seen avenues of sale through websites that aren't so pulicly at large.
I'm not, but a friend is. With a couple, actually. He'd inevitably wind up sleeping with them now and again, and at this point one has just become a fuck buddy with no real relationship attached. But really, it's your own dynamics that matter here, and that's between you and that person. So how anything winds up going, well, the one's most qualified to make best guesses are you and them.
I can't help but think of how the original Deus Ex existed in a world where crackpot conspiracy theories like this were just the reality. And this sounds like it would make a great setting itself as some agent works their way through a conspiracy, going on a small world tour of levels in various major powers of the world before finally ending in a boss battle in some hidden hi-tech but occultish basement of the Vatican where we find the Anti-Christ is preparing to unleash whatever high-tech equivalent is for the Mark of the Beast, and it's our final big job to take him down to stall his coming to power for the next millenia or some nonsense.
Sorry if you take your theories seriously, I just can't. But I'd bet they'd make a cool story.
The only time I've ever had someone approach me asking about my autism was from a fellow autist. Twas a good talk.