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tussock wrote:a lot of stuff
So... yeah. I'm aware of the broad strokes of all that. I just want to make sure that my blurb for "I know about X tribe" Background skill is reasonably accurate to reality and sensitive to the people that reality affected.
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I've been trying my hand at online dating, and I keep seeing women with the line "I'm not looking for anything serious... just a husband" in their profiles. Is that a pop culture reference I'm missing or something?
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It's mimicry. You see a lot of similar stuff in profiles on both sides.
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Sounds like asking to be a side piece.
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Sounds to me like wanting to marry somebody for the money while still getting to have sex with whoever she finds more physically appealing . .
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Shhhhh you're not supposed to say that part out loud.
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Stahlseele wrote:Sounds to me like wanting to marry somebody for the money while still getting to have sex with whoever she finds more physically appealing . .
Sounds like a good deal to me, I'd get remarried for money.
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Stahlseele wrote:Sounds to me like wanting to marry somebody for the money while still getting to have sex with whoever she finds more physically appealing . .
Sounds like a good deal to me, I'd get remarried for money.
Good deal for you, not so much for the other person.
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True, but screw everyone who isn't me.
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In 12 days my avast antivirus subscription expires. I'm a bit sick of the program also being adware for other avast products when I already fucking paid for avast, recommendations please, assume I can afford to pay out for the good stuff.

(...I mean if Avast is the best option despite everything I'll renew it regardless, I'm not that pissed off with it)
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I have Windows 7 and use Security Essentials that comes with it. It's called Defender in later editions of Windows. It's just as minimal as Avast used to be back in the day. Can't help you if you're running a different OS.
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Kaspersky Free and Windows Defender/Security Essentials plus common sense are the best choices for free. They'll work unless there are very specific security situations you need to be handled.
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I suppose I should have specified Windows 10 is the OS rather than assumed merely asking for an antivirus narrowed it down to Windows "oh they're similar enough that what's good for 7 is good for 10".

The existence of Windows Defender has influenced my lack of outright panic over this... and the thing where I'm pretty sure just checked to confirm Avast Free Antivirus just has fewer features than Avast Paid Internet Security.

Related: what VPN should I be using given that it's super bad form to use TOR for anything high bandwidth? 'cause Avast Secureline VPN exists and comes with the priciest package they offer so I was reminded of it. (Other option that's actively on my radar is VPNHub for reasons that are wholly irrational and should really step aside if a cogent argument for a particular option is made.)
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I know jack and shit about VPNs, but I'm on my bro-in-law's PIA account and I'm happy with it.
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Maj wrote:I know jack and shit about VPNs, but I'm on my bro-in-law's PIA account and I'm happy with it.
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On the subject of VPNs, Cracked has an offer for 5 of them.
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deaddmwalking wrote:On the subject of VPNs, Cracked has an offer for 5 of them.
I clicked the lifetime offer and it appears GDPR says no.
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Random thought that poinged into my mindcage while perusing gradient lighting mods for Skyrim SE...

Where did the whole "vampires and werewolves hate each other/wage war against each other" thing come from, and why? Does it have roots in real life mythology and legends, or is it from more modern literature/entertainment? Like, the first time I ever encountered it was in AdventureQuest, but I'm fairly certain the whole vampire/werewolf dichotomy didn't come from that.
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No clue. Especially since very often vampires, or at least dracula, are not seldomly depicted as being able to control or change into wolves . .
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Shrapnel wrote:Random thought that poinged into my mindcage while perusing gradient lighting mods for Skyrim SE...

Where did the whole "vampires and werewolves hate each other/wage war against each other" thing come from, and why? Does it have roots in real life mythology and legends, or is it from more modern literature/entertainment? Like, the first time I ever encountered it was in AdventureQuest, but I'm fairly certain the whole vampire/werewolf dichotomy didn't come from that.
It entered the popular imagination through Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein, which is a fucking excellent movie that you should watch. The concept there is that the monsters are on team monster, but that the Wolfman is also a man on team human, so while the Wolfman is fine doing Dracula's bidding, Larry Talbot would like to murder that fucker. Before the Universal movies, vampires and werewolves weren't consistently different things.

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Ok, so Amazon killed Seattle's Homelessness Relief tax deal by threatening to not move into a giant new building. Then Amazon said "nah, fuck you. We're not going. (but we still own the lease on the building, so we still make money off your people)."

So far as I can tell, this giant building, which was going to be about a third residential anyway, is already built.

I know this won't happen, because governments are spineless in the face of corporations and don't actually give a shit about people, but could Seattle use eminent domain to seize the building, pull some "breach of agreement" sorta thing to give Amazon as little as possible, and then use the building for low-income/affordable housing?
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Basically no. They'd get sued, and while it was being litigated it would stay with Amazon, so ultimately it won't end until it's time to tear down the building anyway.

It would be much easier to use eminent domain to build a road through it, but again, it would probably not be possible because, presumably, they don't actually need a road through the existing building.
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For my own diabolical purposes, I'd like to see the OG video of MoMo. I suspect that this is made up/overblown a la Slenderman or the Clown Thing or that D&D is satanic cult but I figured what the hell.

My Google-fu is failing me.

Any ideas?

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I saw an article that it was a hoax this morning.

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Yeah, I was there on /x/ to see the Momo hoax evolve.


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