I Love When A Man Actually Knows How To Do Things. Complicated Things Are Nice. But Also I Like When

I think I just found the only reasonable exchange involving two people with opposing views on porn to ever exist on this website

A while ago I made a post criticizing Overwatch for leaning into superheroic, noble imagery and branding despite the core gameplay loop consisting of around a dozen people who are canonically supposed to be on the same side throwing down for unclear reasons. This same criticism does not apply to the recently-announced Marvel Rivals, as a dozen Marvel superheroes fighting to the death for unclear reasons is more or less a one-to-one adaptation of the source material

They’re both silly guys with so much flair!

alastor is very megamind coded in a way i can’t explain

real exchange i overheard between two of my bosses. ????

inside out spinoff about a teenage boy starring ryan gosling as the new sigma emotion

No life planning after 7pm! Not a lick of it

oh no the horrors-

wait hang on. it’s past 9 pm. false alarm, i cannot trust the horrors

Just typed out a stupidly detailed fanfic idea(at least in comparison to what I usually do) which is wonderful but also so so terrible because A) that would be so much to write and B) what if I don’t do it justice? It’s for characters that I’ve never really written for from media I haven’t consumed in ages. But ohhhhhhh the idea is there and it’s so good

probably my most powerful interpersonal communication hack is to, whenever possible, ask either/or questions rather than yes/no questions

for example, when chatting with coworkers, i’ll often ask if they have any fun weekend plans. but let’s be real - we all feel like friendless losers when someone asks that question and we go “uhhhhh… no.” so instead, i phrase it as “so, do you have anything fun planned over the weekend, or are you just going to enjoy having some time to relax?”

phrased like this, there’s rarely any awkwardness. you’ve presented two options & given both equally positive connotations, so your conversational partner has an automatic “out,” so to speak

but it works for higher stakes conversations too!!!! my mom was saying this weekend how she and her neighbor both like walking around the neighborhood & that she wanted to suggest they take a walk together sometime, but was worried about how to approach the conversation

so i said “how about you just say ‘i’ve noticed we both like taking walks! would you be interested in going for one together, or do you use walks for some precious alone time?’”

now Walking Neighbor has an automatic “get out of jail free card” if she wants to say no!!!! which means my mom doesn’t have to worry about the conversation being uncomfortable, because she’s set it up to go smoothly

either/or questions rather than yes/no questions. it is really like magic