I think its a maturity thing for guys. My gym buddies and I were talking about mental health a while back and I said “I was on meds for a while because I had an irrational sense that life wasnt worth living. A year later on the meds I was fat, unmotivated and had erectile dysfunction and I was like ‘Great, now I have legitimate reasons to think about killing myself’ so I came off the pills.”

The 20 somethings all looked super fucking uncomfortable, the thirty somethings nodded and made sympathetic faces and the other 40+ guy said “How are you doing with it these days?” Of course I immediately deflected and said “Oh its hard as a rock” which got the laugh and broke the tension. But the only guy who didnt duck the conversation was the guy of a similar age who had a rough divorce years before I knew him…

They should also make more of the games I like and less of the ones I dont like.

Dr Mike from RP?

You really do need to consider the target audience… take the live action Cowboy Bebop for example.

“Lets just change a bunch of shit I’m sure middle-aged anime fans will be completely reasonable about this online.”

I love how Wheeler Walker Jr could have played it straight, he is a genuinely tallented musician. But nah… Suckin Dick and Kickin Ass.

One of the fitness people I follow has two apps and he regularly tells his viewers “You dont NEED my apps to get great results, you dont NEED to watch my videos either. I just think they both help. Now just subscribing as a member is just money for me so you should definitely do that”

Which is a level of influencer honesty I can definitely get behind.

Every now and then the line work on mine feels raised very slightly, like whispering in braile.

More like…

SIX SEVEN waves hands

You want a counterpoint that always gets hate?

People need to learn to roll their eyes and let boys be boys TO A HEALTHY DEGREE (thats in bold for a reason) Teenage boys are constantly hearing “Violent movies arent good, violent videogames arent good, the way you interact with your friends is toxic, fast cars and loud motorbikes are for people with small dicks, contact sports are for meatheads, combat sports are downright evil, MASCULINITY IS TOXIC!!!”

You know who isnt telling them that everything they like, everything that gets their blood pumping and everything they identify as something important about them is somehow “wrong” Andrew Fucking Tate and everyone like him.

A friend of mine lost his 4 generations old family home in some bushfires about 10 years ago. He will never admit it to his extended family but he says it was a blessing.

His house was full of shit that as nice as it was and the sentimental value of the huge dining table that great grandad built with the tree that got brought down in the storm in the top paddock in 32 was real. He felt like he couldnt change anything, couldnt sell anything and was stuck living in his grandparents house.

When I was drinking it took half a bottle of whiskey for me to consider myself “drinking”.

Or they do it with half measures of everything, a little more mixer and a shitload of ice.

Still tastes almost the same but you have to order 6 of them to get utterly wankered not 3.

Its not a consumer product, its a big business product. You just turned every Walmart staff member into a walking security camera that also monitors the staff member.

You’re looking at this wrong. How many employees wear a lanyard?

From a business case its brilliant. Dystopian as fuck but brilliant. Every McDonalds manager now has a high def camera that can be voice activated around their neck, Every Walmart greeter and shift supervisor, every Home Depot Dept head…

Sketchy looking guy near the expensive power tools? “Pineapples 'Hi sir can I help you with anything today?”

Need to ask someone to leave? “Pineapples Ok, we cant allow that in the restaurant. You need to leave please”

See a sketchy looking person

Ok that was 3 hours ago. What does it say now? Lol

No, but I did dumb shit like not making easy kills when I could and doing it the hard way, only using my sidearm and still doing better than him, actually kicking it up into high gear and wiping out the whole enemy team solo…

I did feel bad for smurfing all the innocent players who were indirect victims.

https://youtu.be/TfxScKi_Zec

Not just scoring on someone but adding a bunch of unnecessary showboating, flair and complexity while scoring to really put some emphasis on it.

I was a top 1000 ranked player in R6 Siege for a while. Which sounds unimpressive to people who dont know that at one point there were about 30 million registered players.

Funny Story about that is that I decided to take a break because I was starting to take it too seriously. I was good but I wasnt going to go pro and I had a good job and a mortgage that I was putting at risk by staying up all night playing. So I actually really got into Angry Birds and Plants Vs Zombies for a while something easy enough to just put down and get some sleep… anyway I was at dinner with some of my wifes work friends a few weeks later and it came up that I was a gamer and one of her friends husbands asked me what I was playing and I said “Recently Angry Birds…” and before I could say anything else he turned into an absolute gatekeeping shitlord lecturing me about how that isnt real gaming and so on for about 5 minutes. Then he mentioned he played Siege… I couldnt help myself “Ive seen that, maybe I could add you on steam and try it out sometime” so a little creative account making later a few nights later I joined him in a few casual matches. I spent about 2 hours casually windmill dunking on him before I was like “Man this IS fun, but its getting late. I might head to bed, play a little AB before I crash out.”

He was at the Xmas party this year and he is still butthurt.

Did… did you say “meow”?

The balls in question are metaphorical. Its just a lazy reply to reply to dudes who act like I’m a pussy because I dont care about football.

Not even all that big on motor racing, If I dont get to drive it I dont really care.