Yessss, I converted so many anti-China fujoshi with The Untamed (Mo Dao Zu Shi). Oh, your mainstream anime or western tv isn’t about a bunch of gay romances?? It’s just queerbaiting at best??? Destiel gets one scene and then the gay gets buried but Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are husbands???
Just talk about China like it’s normal. Same with the DPRK. You’re dealing with idealists, starting with the good China does will just make you sound utilitarian, because they think these countries are nazi Germany x10. Make them remember Chinese people are people first, then later slide that article about how they did good thing in their DMs
CW sex work related things, cus you mentioned you might
FWIW I really suggest not doing IRL sex work. Occams razor is they just want sex, but they still lie about STDs constantly (people with undetectable HIV will never admit they have HIV or use a condom), will stiff you, and can be violent at the drop of a hat. From my experience you will get an STD (I got syphilis twice, chlamydia, anal warts, and herpes type 1), they will stiff you, you can’t say NO. I was only raped once (although sex work as a whole constitutes rape, even in the best, safest situation) and drugged once (because the dude didn’t want to party by homself). Only ever beaten by random queerphobes on the street, then again I also never fight back when someone is forcing me
And this was while I escorted people who knew me from porn. Porn btw tests the day of the shoot usually, although HIV has a 2 week to 2 month window. Also think you’ll only do work online? Well eventually someone will make a really really good offer
And eventually you’ll get old and not make the sweet bucks anymore and be saddled with all that royalty free trauma
legitimately consensual sex worker
no such thing, really. Not a lotta rich kids signing up to be sex workers.
Wait, so did Kim Il Sung actually kidnap a Godzilla director? I remember this being a talking point back in the 00s, like it sounds ridiculous
Eli5 price discovery? Not at a place where I can watch videos
So how’s Wukong? I’d usually wait for a crack for something like this, but apparently the scene is dead dead, and no one left is able or willing to crack denuvo
So just to clarify, McDonalds in the USA is not an NGO, but elsewhere it is?
So an NGO is a foreign business?
Flip the argument. Extoll how socialism has near 100% employment and relatively no homelessness, even providing good jobs to the disabled. Wiki will fact check this as true, because it agrees, but says that’s bad
Progressive and moderate libs do. Conservative liberals don’t.
Yeah, their parents are millennials and older zoomers. I don’t see the bulk of either generation tossing their kids out just cus like the boomers and xers. America goes back to multigenerational housing like most of the world
Did reddit disable being able to see comments?
And the General claimed it was all staged afterwards lol. I believe atm that Acre did Sorkin his way out of it, but it’s up there with Fidel representing himself in court and winning levels of implausible yet happened
Oh jesus, here’s hoping it’s at least an MMO then, so it won’t be so barren. I almost posted my gripes list after the game dropped to the subreddit, but after a quick scroll I realized there was a non-zero chance I’d get stalkers if I did. The git gud mentality is so annoying and telling, like none of the games are especially hard! They’re frustrating (mostly DS2) and some of the mechanics are outdated and have been dropped from more modern games for good reason (looking at you, soul loss), but their difficulty is so overrated.
Hard agree on the Legacy dungeons, I actually had fun in those before having to trudge through the repeated content and reused bosses (there are only like six uniques, right???) ad nauseam.
I am too mature and principled to be fooled by bread and circuses
new dragon age trailer drops
unrelated rant
I couldn’t get into Elden ring and it kinda makes me sad. Like the open world feels so empty in most places and the enemies are copy paste. And I kept a journal to remember quests/characters, but I’m still missing stuff. How isn’t there a in-game journal?? Why am I limited in map markers. I had this huge list of removed and gripes before I quit and just googled all the lore questions I had.
reject modernity, return to DS1 tail cuts
How do you feel after finishing the Chinese course?
AES governments are actually democracies, for better and for worse. See, the USSR liberalizing their economy in the late Soviet period, largely due to public pressure.
Probably not. That means WW3 and nukes ultimately being used by the yankees