I was a senior in high school with this clown when the parkland shooting happened.

I distinctly remember he wasn’t even at school when it happened and he was too busy hanging out on CNN when we all went back.

He was a plant that sold his soul while me and my friends grieved. https://t.co/B4medtYBhE

— spec (@_opencv_) February 2, 2025

The manga in question is "It's a Little Late, but I've Fallen in Love with My Childhood Friend" (imasara desu ga osananajimi wo suki ni natte shimaimashita).

The story initially starts out as this extremely cutesy story of a highschool girl realising she's fallen for her childhood friend and her subsequent efforts at getting closer to said childhood friend. Now, when I say this starts out cutesy I'm not exaggerating. It's very cutesy and full of fluff . It feels like the type of manga where the MC and her crush holding hands would be treated as a major romantic development.

But come chapter 21, disaster strikes.

It is revealed that one of the side characters had been fricking our MC's object of affection . Yep, this is no longer a manga about two cutesy virgins getting closer to each other. Then the POV entirely shifts towards the side girl and it becomes a depressing story of how this girl is fricking our guy in order to distract herself from her fricked up family situation . This is a complete tonal shift from how the manga was for the past 20 or so chapters.

Suffice to say the fans were not pleased ( as you can guess from 10x increase in comments on mangadex for chapter 21 ). The show gets bombared with negative reviews taking its ratings from an impressive 9 to a 6 with people making accounts just to shit on the author .

Some comments from the chapter 21 meltdown thread. :meltdown

WHAT THE FRICK

Hey, I just said that.

Why would you introduce conflict in an already perfect wholesome series? Wtf author?

Oh wait, it's the same fricking author who did white album 2, no surprise.

Apparently, this author has done it before .

The Maruto classic

Bro, frick this guy

More

Everytime a manga post gets like 100 comments in 2 hours it's either the death of a shonen jump character, someone confessing, or problematic shit suddenly happen outta nowhere lmao

Lmao I saw the post at 3 hours and over 700 upmarseys and thought, "oh shit she must've confessed this chapter." Boy was I wrong

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uhhh, was this really necessary?

The short and simple answer is no. Of course it's a common route for romance to take, though common shouldn't be conflated with good. Fricking heck it just sucks.

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Is she actually a girlfailure if the world (author) actively shits on her?

She is now a girlsurvivor

Put thru the bs of her friends and the author

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Well, was nice while it lasted, will drop it here. What a shit development. Throwing a wholesome story out the window with just an unnecessary love triangle drama. Sad to see.

Exactly. On top of it the premise didn't hint any of this. Rather the premise had been set on a short wholesome romcom. So the drama was really unexpected and this chapter is so sudden.

The seethe continues into subsequent chapters months afterwards.

If the author wanted to write this story why did they bother with the first 20 chapters?

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We've gone off the rails but I'm committed to seeing where we are going

Surely not a train wreck... right?

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I guess joke is on me for expecting a romcom???

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Somehow, it keeps getting worse. I'm hopping off. This isn't even a train wreck I want to see.

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I feel like I've been NTRed out of a wholesome story. I'll never trust again.

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this is some hot trash

Like I've read through a lot but this tonal shift into some bootleg Boy's Abyss (surprising since Boy's Abyss was... something too) is so butt. How do you pivot something this badly.

From chapter 25 discussions .

All these just makes me feel awful for Hikari, darn

She deserves better. Mangaka cooked and burned down the kitchen

Shouldve drawn hentai tbh

Normally I'd be appalled by the suggestion.

But for once I agree completely.

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It's over

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Hikari bros, our cope?

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I genuinely believe the author's intentions partly included setting fans on fire about whom to support.

From chapter 27 discussions.

Author is cooking, but its kind of indian street food.

He's using gutter oil.

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This has turned into a whole different story that the title don't fit anymore

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I'm a little late here but I just started and caught up to this manga in one fell swoop and I'm fricking fuming. somebody, anybody, give me spoilers... there's a light novel right? someone has to have read it right? won't anyone put me out of my misery?

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https://mangadex.org/title/cf1c93cc-4bb5-4311-b926-0f02ad123ad2

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https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/269799330/#269799330

NTR is the law of the world, simple as that.

heartbreaking, praying she goes postal

I might actually pick up this manga if this happens.

Lmao

Childhoodfriends only exist to get BTFO by the new girl that comes out of nowhere

TRVKE

!anime !kino discuss. Thoughts on NTR in anime/manga ?

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@HailVictory1776 would have loved this one these morons literally gave the pigs tacit permission to ransack the car then screamed about knowing their rights

We’re just dumb

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 26, 2024

Frick you Elon pic.twitter.com/CSrbu97W7G

— Ray (@raymo_g) December 26, 2024

- ratiod by a priv account

Some mor epic seethe I found

https://x.com/jlippincott_/status/187206224221013635

"cyber force india"

Your understanding of the situation is upside-down and backwards.

OF COURSE my companies and I would prefer to hire Americans and we DO, as that is MUCH easier than going through the incredibly painful and slow work visa process.

HOWEVER, there is a dire shortage of extremely…

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 25, 2024

lmao stfu white boi
what have you built? what have you invented? what has your father built? and his father before that? we will be lucky to even get one child out of you. do better

— kache (@yacineMTB) December 25, 2024

He's 17 and starts off wanting to work out because he says he's fat.

But he hates his face

Maybe if he cuts off his emotions he'll feel better

He finds the blackpill

Now he's suicidal

Gave up on dating

He's short and now hates women

Decides he wants to kill people

He's now an incel and accepts it <-- you are here and we wait for the shooting

In case anyone is wondering how i found it, I've been watching Joe Truax the Reddit scammer creating three threads now trying to get people to give him money. He's now going with the "I'm stranded" grift but had 2 GoFundMe's asking for $50k and $30k to fund his movement. lol

The basics- why he's in jail & acquiring a phone

I have terrible news. The state of Connecticut has sentenced me to 8 months in jail beginning on Nov 15. I have always tried to make the most out of my life, but today I am presented with an overwhelming challenge to overcome. pic.twitter.com/pBO1a7NZfS

— William Banks (@williambanks_) October 10, 2024

free william banks btw he's based as frick https://t.co/lICTPyG1xa pic.twitter.com/Vn00LrH9ir

— #1 JOLLIEST FELLOW 🎄🎄🎄🎁🎁🎁 (@horriblescifi) December 10, 2024

It's vlogging time

1. updating his fans and meeting his roomie

2. showing off a commissary haul from his fans, Life update & confirmation that he's a top bunk neighbor. His enemy appears

3. Holiday Preparations and trying to make peace- Setting up his Christmas tree, getting bullied & the importance of homemade christmas gifs, his bully

4. The cookie saga- baking a christmas cookie by mashing up packaged cookies, squabble neighbor, and debriefing after trying to give his bully a "cookie".

5. Aftermath & New Years- Journ*lism for Instagram/bully expose, a new years letter from his friend, hoping he's enjoying the cookies, happy new years, hanging with the homies, and playing football with the boys

6. a video simply labeled they are atheists which sounds like a vintage jinxthinker video title

Lift, run, fight, shoot. Become strong in all.

So basically, you're all fricked

Yep lol

They post shit like this while their side unironically believes the below

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/03/getting-fit-could-turn-you-into-a-rightwing-jerk

And don't forget to look up delicious, healthy recipes in the @N@rchist cookbook!

Yall are screwed ngl

You won't do shit

Sounds like projection on your part.

I'm never going to be strong enough to repel a Nazi, but generalizing here, keep up your health. It is beneficial in so many ways I won't bother to list them. Everyone on reddit hates me because I always bring up cooking your own food, not smoking, not drinking, getting exercise every day, giving up fast food and ultraprocessed stuff. It's all key to keeping your body and teeth healthy over the years.

The effects are cumulative - one day you wake up and you have some godawful chronic disease, or your ticker isn't what it could be, or you need yet another root canal, and you are slowed down and inconvenienced by having to use the medical system all the time, take pills, etc.

Also, get an annual check up if only so you have a record of your own stats. It's actually interesting to compare your numbers year to year.

As a nazi myself, this is all really good advice. Regardless of what ideology you have, everyone should abandon unhealthy lifestyles and unhealthy food. Most fast food/door dash and other stuff you get in groceries are deliberately kept unhealthy in order to have a population that can't resist and constantly kept broke and in debt. (not to mention how immoral some of the sources of this food are.) You don't need to be shredded but eating well and working out daily with basic calisthenics goes a long way.

As someone who's immunocompromised from a COVID vaccine injury, I've learned that sometimes the best choice isn't to fight head-on, but to hide and protect myself. It's a hard reality, but sometimes survival means stepping back, staying safe, and waiting for a time when I'm stronger.

In Harry Potter, Harry and his friends often had to choose between direct confrontation and retreat. Hiding, like when Harry and his allies went into hiding in The Deathly Hallows, was often the wisest choice. It wasn't about surrender, but about preserving their strength for when it was truly needed.

Similarly, Anne Frank showed us the power of survival. She and her family lived in hiding, and though it was painful and isolating, it was their only chance to stay alive. Sometimes, hiding isn't a sign of weakness; it's a strategy to make sure we can continue the fight later.

For me, hiding isn't giving up. It's about protecting my health and holding onto hope for a better, safer future.

(OP) this is real and valid, but PLEASE try to avoid citing transphobic authors. Stay safe!

This thread is the most chronically online shit I've ever seen in my life 😭

Lol

YES! me and my wife's boyfriend hit the gym everyday so we can own the chuds!

/r/Swoletariat

It fricking exists btw

I am trans so I don't want to lift too much, maybe some toning

That's a little ableist but I'll support the idea of being healthy! I'm on track at the moment having gone from 260 -> 250 lbs, nearly there =)

thats literally just water weight lmao you can drop that much in less than a week on any strict diet. So you haven't really accomplished anything. Don't pat yourself on the back too hard there bud

No negativity in my revolution

Now we're getting somewhere!

Go with testosterone, as well. Makes you more conservative.

Or just stop taking estrogen lmfao

We've officially found the saddest subreddit out there 🤣🤣

At this point it's >50% trolling by volume lmao

I saved this post yesterday before going to bed only to discover it crawling with MAGAts. How many are from here?

A year into their relationship, Jess and Nate got engaged next to the sea. "It was a golden, sandy beach – empty and secluded," says Jess, 26. "It was just us two there, so it was really intimate."

Except that the couple were actually hundreds of miles apart – and they were role-playing their engagement in the video game World of Warcraft.

Nate, 27, was living just outside London – and Jess was in Wales. After meeting briefly at an esports event in Germany in March 2023, the pair developed a long-distance relationship, playing the game together "from the moment we woke up to the moment we went to bed", says Nate.

The couple still play the game daily, even though they've been living together in Manchester since March 2024. And they know other couples who have found their partners through video games: "It's a different way of meeting someone," says Jess. "You both have such a strong mutual love for something already, it's easier to fall in love."

Nate agrees. "I was able to build a lot more of a connection with people I meet in gaming than I ever was able to in a dating app."

A selfie of Nate and Jess on the left, and on the right, a screenshot from World of Warcraft showing Nate proposing with the words, "Will you marry me?"

Nate and Jess (pictured, alongside their virtual engagement), found love online - but not on a dating app

Nate and Jess are not alone. According to some experts, people of their generation are moving away from dating apps and finding love on platforms that were not specifically designed for romance.

And hanging out somewhere online that's instead focused on a shared interest or hobby could allow people to find a partner in a lower-stakes, less pressurised setting than marketing themselves to a gallery of strangers. For some digital-native Gen Zs, it seems, simply doing the things they enjoy can be an alternative to the tyranny of the swipe.

Internet dating at 30 - a turning point?

Since it first appeared with the launch of match.com 30 years ago, online dating has fundamentally altered our relationships. Around 10% of heterosexual people and 24% of LGBT people have met their long-term partner online, according to Pew Research Center.

But evidence suggests that young people are switching off dating apps, with the UK's top 10 seeing a fall of nearly 16%, according to a report published by Ofcom in November 2024. Tinder lost 594,000 users, while Hinge dropped by 131,000, Bumble by 368,000 and Grindr by 11,000, the report said (a Grindr spokesperson said they were "not familiar with this study's source data" and that their UK users "continue to rise year over year").

According to a 2023 Axios study of US college students and other Gen Zers, 79% said they were forgoing regular dating app usage. And in its 2024 Online Nation report, Ofcom said: "Some analysts speculate that for younger people, particularly Gen Z, the novelty of dating apps is wearing off." In a January 2024 letter to shareholders, Match Group Inc - which owns Tinder and Hinge - acknowledged younger people were seeking "a lower pressure, more authentic way to find connections".

"The idea of using a shared interest to meet someone isn't new, but it's been reinvented in this particular moment in time – it signals a desire of Gen Z," says Carolina Bandinelli, an associate professor at Warwick University whose research focuses on the digital technologies of romance.

Getty Images Joggers running in a parkGetty Images

Many younger people are exploring alternatives to dating apps, from gaming to running clubs and other social activities

According to Danait Tesfay, 26, a marketing assistant from London, younger people are looking for alternatives to dating apps, "whether that be gaming or running clubs or extra-curricular clubs, where people are able to meet other like-minded people and eventually foster a romantic connection".

At the same time that membership of some dating apps appears to be in decline, platforms based around common interests are attracting more users. For instance, the fitness app Strava now has 135m users – and its monthly active users grew by 20% last year, according to the company. Other so-called "affinity-based" sites have seen similar growth: Letterboxd, where film fans can share reviews, says its community grew by 50% last year.

Rise of the hobby apps

And just as in the pre-internet age, when couples might have met at a sports club or the cinema, now singletons are able to find each other in their online equivalents.

"People have always bonded over shared interests, but it's been given a digital spin with these online communities," says Luke Brunning, co-director of the Centre for Love, S*x, and Relationships (CLSR) at the University of Leeds.

"It's increasingly difficult to distinguish between behaviour that's on a dating app and dating behaviour on another platform."

Hobby apps are taking on some features of social media, too: in 2023, Strava introduced a messaging feature letting users chat directly. One twenty-something from London explains that her friends use it as a way to flirt with people they fancy, initially by liking a running route they've posted on the platform. Strava says its data shows that one in five of its active Gen Z members has been on a date with someone they met through fitness clubs.

"[Online] fitness communities are becoming big places to find partners," says Nichi Hodgson, the author of The Curious History of Dating. She says a friend of hers met his partner that way, and they're now living together.

The same appears to apply to Letterboxd, too. With users including Chappell Roan and Charli XCX, it's a popular platform for younger people - two-thirds of members in a survey of 5,000 were under 34.

The company says it's aware of several couples meeting through the app, including one who bonded over a shared love of David Fincher's opinion-dividing 2020 drama Mank. "It could be that seeing other people's film tastes reveals an interesting aspect of themselves," says Letterboxd co-founder Matthew Buchanan.

Why the shift?

So what might be driving this? While dating apps initially appeared to offer "the illusion of choice", and a transparent, efficient way to meet partners, the reality for many has often proven to be different. The Pew Research Center found that 46% of dating-app users said their experiences were overall very or somewhat negative.

The recent decline in user numbers might also be a response to the way some apps are structured – in particular, the swipe feature for selecting potential partners, launched by Tinder in 2013 and widely copied.

Its creator, Jonathan Badeen, was partly inspired by studying the 1940s experiments of psychologist BF Skinner, who conditioned hungry pigeons to believe that food delivered randomly into a tray was prompted by their movements.

Getty Images A psychological experiment with pigeons conducted by BF SkinnerGetty Images

Tinder's swipe mechanism was partly inspired by Harvard Professor BF Skinner's psychological experiments with pigeons in order to understand the brain's reward system

Eventually, the swipe mechanism faced a backlash. "Ten years ago, people were enthusiastic and would talk quite openly about what apps they were on," says Ms Hodgson. "Now the Tinder model is dead with many young people – they don't want to swipe any more."

According to Mr Brunning, the gameifying interface of many dating apps is a turn-off. "Intimacy is made simple for you, it's made fun in the short term, but the more you play, the more you feel kind of icky."

The pandemic may have had an impact, too, says Prof Brian Heaphy at the University of Manchester, who has studied dating-app use in and after the lockdowns: "During Covid, dating apps themselves became more like social media – because people couldn't meet up, they were looking for different things."

Although that didn't last after the pandemic, it "gave people a sense that it could be different from just swiping and getting no responses – all the negatives of dating-app culture," says Prof Heaphy.

And in that context, the fact that video games or online communities like Strava or Letterboxd aren't designed for dating can be appealing. By attracting users for a broader range of reasons, there's less pressure on each interaction.

"Those apps aren't offering a commercialised form of romance, so they can seem more authentic," says Prof Heaphy.

The World of Warcraft characters of PurplePixel and Wochi

The humans behind Wochi and PurplePixel (pictured) met while playing World of Warcraft, though they say finding a partner wasn't their original intention

It's a type of connection free from the burden of expectation. A different couple who met on World of Warcraft – and go by the names Wochi and PurplePixel – weren't looking for love. "I definitely didn't go into an online game trying to find a partner," says Wochi.

But although initially in opposing teams, or guilds, their characters started a conversation. "We spent all night talking until the early hours of the morning, and by the end of the night, I'd actually left my guild and joined his guild," says PurplePixel. Within three years, Wochi had quit his job and moved to the UK from Italy to be with her.

According to Ms Hodgson, "While some dating apps can bring out the worst behaviours, these other online spaces can do the opposite, because people are sharing something they enjoy."

Because of these structural elements, she doesn't think the recent decline in numbers is temporary. "It's going to keep happening until dating apps figure out how to put the human aspect back."

New kinds of dating app

The dating apps aren't giving up without a fight, however. Hinge is still "setting up a date every two seconds", according to a spokesperson; Tinder says a relationship starts every three seconds on its platform and that almost 60% of its users are aged 18-30. In fact, the apps appear to be embracing the shift to shared-interest platforms, launching niche alternatives including ones based around fitness, veganism, dog-ownership or even facial hair.

They're also evolving to encourage different kinds of interaction. On Breeze, users who agree to be set up on a date aren't allowed to message each other before they meet; and Jigsaw hides people's faces, only removing pieces to reveal the full photo after a certain amount of interaction.

It means that it's premature to proclaim the death of the dating app, believes Prof Heaphy. "There's now such a diversity of dating apps that the numbers for the biggest ones aren't the key indicator," he says. "It might actually be a similar number to before, in terms of overall membership."

And there's a downside to people going to more general-interest apps looking for love – people might not want to be hit on when they just want to talk about books. Dating apps, at least, are clear about what their purpose is.

What might the future look like?

In an increasingly online world, the solution to improving relationships might not simply be to go offline. Instead, apps that can offer an experience which more closely mirrors the best of IRL interactions, while tapping into the possibilities of digital ones, might also show a way forward.

With the imminent integration of AI into dating apps, we are "right on the cusp of something new", says Mr Brunning. "It's interesting to see if we'll end up with specific apps just for dating, or will we end up with something a bit more fluid?"

He points to platforms in China that are more multi-purpose. "People use them for chat, for community, and conduct business on them – they can also be dating platforms, but they're often not exclusively for that."

In the meantime, the interactions possible in less mediated communities like World of Warcraft could offer more of a chance to connect than conversations initiated by a swipe.

Jess and Nate's in-game engagement on the beach might not have been real, but the couple are hoping to change that soon. "It's a matter of when, really. There are a few things we need to tick off the checklist, and then she'll be getting her ring," says Nate. And there'll still be a gaming element.

"You can role-play getting married," says Jess. "So it could be funny to get all our friends together at some point in the World of Warcraft cathedral, and we could have a marriage ceremony."

Ari clearly has the ick.

I can't get over Ari's hand She's posing like this is an annoying fan that wants a quick selfie, not the guy she fricked and destroyed two marriages to have.

De minimus entries from China shut down effective Tuesday.

— Ryan Petersen (@typesfast) February 2, 2025

Maybe American Apparel can come back

Here is the thing. I test hypnosis on and off here and there, and over time I sometimes get messages from the dream state. Usually the messages were some simple things like "here is a story idea" or "Here is another cool story idea" or "whoops sleep paralysis." little signals like the last few moments of a dream where something interesting happens and still feels profound when you wake up.

What happened over time however, is that those last moments of dreams became less abstract and more like direct recommendations. Like you know the bicameral brain theory? Where one side of your brain is giving instructions and the other side of your brain is perceiving it as an outside voice from beyond yourself? Something like that but more with my subconscious directly telling me that I am wrong about something or not, and me waking up and going over what I am told I was wrong about, and realizing the dream advisor voice is correct.

Here is where things took a turn though. In my most recent self hypnosis/ nap session, I appear to have gone through a hypnotic regression ( simple explanation for hypnotic regression - going through locked memories in a hypnotic state, memories you cannot normally access ) rather than just a random dream advice message ( I was trying for hypnotic transcendent experience), and that regression state told me a story that does not match up with what I remember of my past but would match up with the theoretical timeline of my life and all that happened.

So I come from a third world nation. We have had A lot, and I mean ALOT, of change in our values and how we treat the people around us. From a 1st world point of view, the third world may still be very backwards, but from a third world perspective, every generation the third world has been busy stuffing in a single generation time frame about 100 years of western cultural and social change at once, to catch up on the western ideas that work. For example - In the west you might have stories of your grandfather beating your dad half dead or your great grandfather beating your grandfather half dead on a whim, but by your time you are trying to give your kid a time out to sit in their room as a lesson to take your car without permission and get caught by the cops for speeding.

Well, you take that level of cultural change and you fit it within a single generation, two at the very longest timescale, and you have got the rate at which culture is changing in the 3rd world. So the very same parent who might have been using you like a gym punching bag while you were 8-9 would be trying to learn to not raise his voice at you just because they are frustrated by the time you are in your 20s.

Now that the background information is filled in, here is my dream hypnosis regression comes in. In it was a message for me, and the message was that one of my parents is supposed to have been a crazy psycho on a whole other level than the worst that I remember about them. That they were a crazy psycho to the point that there is a clear gap between how different and fricked up my life was before I was 8 years old and after I was 8 years old, even though I remember almost nothing from before 8 years old.

Here is the problem with that dream though. It felt like it was the truth, but I don't remember the level of psycho that the dream was telling me one of my parents were in the very beginning, but, and this is an important but, I have enough memories of my parents to know that they became less violent and shittier in their anger every single year over time and the process of becoming less aggressive is still going on till today, and if I looked at the theoretical model of their behavior getting worse with every single year even beyond the earliest point where I can remember a bad memory, it suggests an 8 year time span where I would have absolutely ended up living with pure demons for a few days to weeks every year. In theory that pattern perfectly holds based on the pattern from 9 year old to the 20s that I do remember. Taking that pattern back I would in theory absolutely be living with psychopaths where it is a miracle that half my skull isn't crushed in and I can still speak.

But, here is the second part of the problem. My skull isn't half crushed in, and I can still speak, and the only evidence I have that "it never even began" is a theoretical model that fits, along with a dream telling me things were a lot worse than I will ever even be able to remember. It is like a case of profiling where the profile fits, but I have no 1st hand evidence to support the accusation.

For all I know the hpyno dream could just be completely made up, and actually just a dream filling in random blanks based on my subconscious storytelling mind. Creating a random tragedy possibly where none exists. To make matters worse, I come from a save face culture, which means that even if I asked people in my family about it, they would either label it as not half as bad as whatever I have in mind, or deny the existence of any suffering completely.

At the end of the day, now I am stuck with a revealed truth about my past that may not even be a truth, that has a profound impact on how I view my existence, creating change, and yet for all I know that message about a deep dark past from the subconscious mind is a complete made up fabrication.

Conclusion:

Hypnotic regression may or may not be real, may or may not be filling your mind with made up nonsense, but the experience certainly will feel like the truth.

Wouldn't recommend unless you can handle that uncertainty and an alternate truth to your existence that doesn't match up with how you have lived your life so far.

@Redactor0 from what I remember you like Spooky adjacent content.

So rdrama what do you think?

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Harris was a poor choice for a candidate. Biden should have stepped down a lot earlier and there should have been a primary, which would have resulted in a more capable candidate. (-22)

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Yeah, I agree. They can complain about him and his actions, but they also can't be mad if Harris voters mock them for getting what they voted for. (1296)

The only people that voted for this are people that voted for Trump. (-11)

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Is he now? Why is there still a war in Ukraine? Why are my groceries still expensive? Why is he being paid off by billionaires and not helping working people? The emperor's new clothes sure look AMAZING, huh buddy? (31)

If you thought groceries would get cheaper with his tariff and deportation plan or that he could stop a war with RUSSIA, that's on you buddy. You didn't know he was besties with Musk? We all knew that. Why didn't you? Maybe you should hold yourselves accountable for not knowing what you were voting for, because it was right there in front of you. (3)

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When they put her up for the POTUS run I worried about some things. Misogyny and racism in the democrats was one thing. The other was if you could get enough white men out to vote after telling them they are scum since the 90s when PC came about. Well it began to look like the dems had that same worry when they grabbed Midwestern Dad Tim to show they don't hate straight white men. It didn't work and Trump won. So it is time to learn from the Republicans. Be a group, don't just be a mess of people who are against the republicans but ready to gut a fellow dem for a little camera time. Saying "I never thought Al Franken would step down when we demanded he do it, just so we could get some pander points." still leaves congress without women's greatest ally and lets the dems know you are amoral scum (maybe try joining the Republicans if that is who you are). If you like throwing out terms like "white privilege" you are the ones driving Dem voters away from the polls. Honestly, do you thi... (1)

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Ok now hold on a second. It is absolutely unfair to claim that they had no policy plan when they literally had a 93-page policy outline on their campaign website. (53)

This right here.I stumbled into this sub from the front page. I'm a conservative Xennial (in my forties).And frankly I'm disgusted and extremely disappointed reading all of these comments. "She didn't do this, she didn't do that, blah blah".Yah, she/they did. Putting aside the fact that anyone with a brain cell can see Trump for the scumbag traitor he and his entire base is (and they are), Harris didn't need to come to your house personally, spoon-feed you your dinner, tuck your little asses into bed, pat your head and tell you what big boys you were. But you are all acting like anything less than that is why you lazy, entitled asses stayed home or voted for Trump.She held speeches. They laid out their policies on their website. They did interviews. And if you dug through the past politics, voting records, and attempts made by Democrats in the past (including under Biden), it's plain as day the Dems have been trying to get you what you people b-word and complain about needing/wanting... (64)

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What if you agree with majority of what trump campained for minus abortion which a lot of middle of the road politically people agree with? You can still get mad if trump acts like an idiot but that one ad slogan really hit it home. "Harris is for they/then trump is for you.No one wants potentially criminal unchecked illegal immigrants taking over cities the way new york was. People are tired of all the dei bullshit infesting every aspect of life and in reality it is racist to give people of a certain color more advantage just because they are in a "minority" group. The price of food and eggs will go up no matter who is president since that is a result of market movements not what a president wishes for. Trump cannot lower the price of eggs anymore than Biden could forcing price ceilings. You can hate trump while voting republican. I challenge you to find to any person that voted for trump who actually likes him as a president. He is just a lesser evil from the choices and the dems ... (1)

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She is despicable for using her position to talk politics. Shameful (-123)

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Episcopalian here. Where she's not the Bishop of my Diocese, Bishop Budde has already had stern words for Trump, since it was one of the churches in her Diocese that Trump took that photo op with a bible in front of, after tear gas disbursed a number of priests from the campus from giving aid to folk caught up in the protest... after another set of protesters set fire to part of the building the day before. So it's been rock vs. hard place all the way down. (3322)

Well for all the children who had no choice but to attend an episcopal church were caught between a cult and hard place as well. It's why almost nobody came back as adult  (-90)

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I think you're trying to be insulting, but it just came off as amusing. Bless you, friend. (74)

And I find the death of that horrible church amusing. Bless you  (-68)

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I won't forget the rioters who set the church of the presidents ON FIRE out of deep hatred. But she didn't have a problem with it. she diverted and said "it's just a building" I agree. But it is the hatred that is burning this country to the ground. it spreads when we let it take hold. Read about, think about it, talk about, and then eventually demonstrate it. I'm talking killings, burnings, looting, abusing. I am so disgusted with the lies and corruption. but the hatred and finger pointing has to stop. And we have to forgive (1)

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I liked her remarks about LGBT children, but her well-meaning racism upset me."The people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meat-packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals. They may not be citizens, or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals."It just gets so old. My wife is Latinx, and we have had to deal with so much discrimination from every direction.One side assumes my wife is illegal and scamming the government and should leave. The other side assumes my wife is illegal and a dishwasher and that she should work for less than minimum wage. My wife entered the US as a legal immigrant and she is now a citizen, she's an accountant FFS.I hate all these racists. (0)

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Died by CrucifixionThe fact that Jesus was crucified is a historical fact. The evidence for this historical event is found in various historical sources.The Jewish Historian Josephus (ca. A.D. 37-ca. 100)Josephus reports the crucifixion of Jesus with the words: "When Pilate, upon hearing him accused by men of the highest standing amongst us, had condemned him to be crucified . . . ."(4) Roman Historian Cornelius Tacitus (A.D. 55?-117)Tacitus, also reported the crucifixion of Jesus as an historical event: "Nero fastened the guilt [of the burning of Rome] and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus."(5) Mara Bar-Serapion (ca. A.D. 73)Bar-Serapion wrote a letter to his son from prison. In this letter, he wrote "What advantage did the Jews gain from executin... (0)

2) The tomb was emptyThe Jerusalem FactorIf Jesus' body was not absent from the tomb, the enemies of Christianity could have easily stomped out the movement by removing Jesus' body from the tomb and showing it to everyone. If they did that, Christianity would have died before it even began. It did not die back then. We can infer from this fact that they did not take Jesus' body out of the tomb in order to parade it down the street to prove to everyone that the resurrection claims of the disciples were false. Why didn't they do this? Most likely because Jesus' body was not even in the tomb to be taken out.*All four gospels feature women as witnesses to the empty tomb.Women were considered second class citizens back then and their testimony was considered worthless. The empty tomb narrative is most likely historical because it would have been awkward for the early church to have women as the chief witnesses when their testimony wasn't considered valid back then. They would have made m... (0)

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the same elon musk that supports the IA despite having a 'ton of negative bs' about him lmao

even as recently as September he still was supporting them when he was campaigning for Trump

per usual,

As you can see, there are a lot of white women in the photo with maybe 4-5 non-white women so as we all assume, that's a lot of black dudes with white wives and girlfriends. However, from a small amount of research, it turns out that basically all the white women are dating the few white players on the team as one of the commentors points out below lol. But let's not let that get in the way of a little fun, trolling and chud-posting now, shall we?

1. "everybody loves snow bunnies" "no some of you love Neanderthals"

2. "what does it matter that their race is?" "ask men of color why they have that preference..."

3. Some friendly fire ensues. "all 19-year-old white girls" "just say you're racist, bro"

4. "where all the kweens @?" enters room

5. "Our Father, Who art in heaven, thank you for making non-black women"

6. First dude with a brain (other than me lol) chimes in. "most of these women are dating white men..."

Also, this dude does some noticing of his own

7. "too bad... their genetics had a good run... thankfully I won't be here to see what Charleston Heston seen in that movie from the 70s" "soylent green?"

8. "they all wanted a basic white girl to clean them out in 5 years" "that's all women"

9. "what's the trend? Women?"

10. "A couple are getting a little old - gonna have to get something with lower mileage pretty soon"

For funsies, black majority comments:

https://instagram.com/hiphopties/p/C6eeiAZPuTL/

https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/1ii0o9g/us_government_department_to_tie_funding_to/

>Biden offers increased child tax credit to encourage people to have kids

>Drumpf offers more money to cities that encourage people to have kids

As you should be able to see, I started my post with a variant of the "Did Vaush just BTFO" copypasta (!soyteens you should recognize this), which was changed to be about Byron Hall, the creator of the infamous rpg FATAL, responding to a very critical review of his game. Byron's response did not disprove every claim in the review, but for the purposes of bait, I pretended that it did. Here is the copypasta I created:

Did Byron Hall just BTFO all of rpg.net's moralstrag arguments?

>https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/FATALReviewRebuttal

>Points out that Darren refuses to offer counter evidence against FATAL being difficult and complex; indeed, Darren also admits the game is difficult and complex as part of his "criticism"

>Points out that boss monsters such as Cerberus are still possible in FATAL

>Explains the origin of "where the dice never lie"

>Explains that Darren is overgeneralizing all of FATAL's possible gameplay when he calls FATAL the "date r*pe rpg"

>Points out that Jason's responses are more juvenile than the language used in FATAL

>Explains that FATAL has potential for much more varied gameplay than Vampire, and has more realistic combat too

>Explains that concepts like ether and physiognomy do not have to be accepted by the author of a role-playing game to write about them, just as a designer of a game with magic does not have to believe in real-world magic

>Explains that a woman can be nearly any class in the game, rather than only a prostitute as the reviewers claim

>Explains that FATAL's averaging rolling method emulates the normal distribution of real-world stats more accurately than games which use a single flat roll

>Explains that the standard deviation of intelligence scores is different between men and women, but changing the standard deviation does not require changing the mean

Where is YOUR evidence to back up your ridiculus claims about FATAL being the worst RPG? By all means, read the entire rebuttal, i promise you that you can't debunk it.

>inb4 I get told to shut the frick up by someone who hasn't read the review and is triggered

>inb4 someone posts the anal circumference chart without context as an "argument" and without an analysis of WHY Hall included it in his game

>inb4 someone uses anecdotal evidence

>inb4 someone says 5E is better

>inb4 someone defends Sartin & Mclellan's safe edgy humor

>inb4 someone links to 1d4chan

As you can see, this copypasta should be immediately recognizable as bait since it omits important information that was stated during the review, is a modified form of an already existing copypasta, indirectly defends one of the worst RPGs without directly praising any mechanics less generic than dice rolling, arguably lies about every claim being disproven, has intentional errors and, most importantly for both this copypasta which I created, and the original "Did X just BTFO" copypasta, It lists valid arguments in the inb4 section to prevent people from using said valid arguments. The copypasta also has 2 intentional errors which only users who care a lot about detail would notice, which are that I said "just BTFO" to preserve the original copypasta's title even though the rebuttal was made decades ago, and that I said ">inb4 someone links to 1d4chan" even though 1d6chan exists and 1d4chan is down, since many 4chan olds dislike 1d6chan removing content that violated miraheze's TOS, however in hindsight it would likely have been a better idea to reference 1d6chan for additional possible replies.

To give /tg/ credit, one poster immediately accused me of being a "contrarianist troll", but this didn't kill the thread:

https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/94402739/#q94403061

Nice baby's first contrarianist troll, but the game's only relevant worth is being a subject of mockery, plain and simple. And I can summarize why with one single sentence: When the simple act of making a character and playing the game is such an unbearably boring waste of time, then that alone is enough to condemn any game even before you get to the r-slurred and the shitty charts. Cause at least the autism in fricking GURPs serves some kind of purpose. FATAL is just unpleasant as a whole.

This reply would be expected when posting bait on 4chan, however the poster also included an anime reaction image, which may depict a character from 40k, but it is unofficial fanart outside of the style of the game. Another user called out this act of extreme oldery:

https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/94402739/#94406623

Consider the following!

anime reddit meme reaction image

No point of substance, just bitching about not liking character creation

2 other users replied back, one of them saying that 40k is board culture, however the user who replied replies again, dropping an off-topic about anime reaction images:

https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/94402739/#94407438

That's not 40k, it's some gay little anime fan image of 40k. Stop being disingenuous and misrepresenting your arguments to worm out of them.

Furthermore, you've yet to present any arguments that aren't complaining about your own personal preferences

This didn't seem to discourage other users from replying to me, Another user accuses me of being Virtualoptim, a namestrag best known for this image:

Another reply which I partially expected due to my inclusion of ">inb4 someone defends Sartin & Mclellan's safe edgy humor" was a response stating that Sartin & Mclellan's humor would have been considered extremely offensive, given that rpg.net underwent a similar transformation to somethingawful (in this case, rpgcodex is the obligatory SASS equivalent)

rpg.net btfo'd themselves. The cute twinks who did this review turned out to be total cute twinks themselves and if someone else were to post stuff like this in present day they'd have a meltdown over it and ban them forever.

I did try to interact with the thread to keep up the pretense of my bait, however this was unsuccessful. First, when another user (https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/94402739/#q94403095) said that the game can't calculate swing force, I immediately remembered that one of the only non-horrible combat mechanics was fulcrum range, which actually does calculate swing force, and replied stating the page number on the online pdf of the rules I had used a search function to find fulcrum range in. Unfortunately, the user I responded to was using a different pdf of the rulebook, and did not find fulcrum range on that page. Secondly, I tried to reply to a user stating that everyone who has played FATAL has hated it by linking to a Kiwifarms letsplay of the game, which I found from this post: https://rdrama.net/h/traditionalgames/post/315746/fatal-and-kiwifarms-a-match-made, but I was banned from all of 4chan for 13 days since my post contained banned text (likely the kiwifarms link). This prevented me from correcting the error made by the user who could not find fulcrum range

The rest of the thread is relatively boring, but some users seem to be unironically defending FATAL as a response to users who responded to my bait, and one user, or potentially a collection of users, began rolling up a character just to prove how bad the character creation system is.

The thread theme, often described as sounding like "Cookie Monster chasing a drum set down a stairwell" is the greatest thing to come from the worst role-playing game ever.

Listening to S-F-X for the first time. He's such a god.