Yeah, Wigglehard was reading those teenage magazines that destroyed his self confidence, I was building him up a bit. Poor thing.
Nice deflection btw
TuneAFish
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Aww, someone feels called out.
I just checked, it was your post! That's hilarious.
Incase the link doesn't work, it's an exploding-heads post comparing Democrats to Nazis. Because to exploding-heads there are two political positions: theirs and Nazi.
I know, why didn't the beehaw mods consult you before they decided their names?! How selfish of them!
In lieu of a better source I found this BuzzFeed News article with the Google search "Raspberry pi mastodon controversy". Though I admit I had no idea what op might be talking about until this moment. Some zingers by BF in there though:
She added, “I don’t think any of the people complaining here would not call the police if their house was burgled.” When BuzzFeed News pointed out that police don’t surveil burglars, Upton agreed that’s true.
Class.
I could have but for the other two reasons I wrote about. Namely, I wasn't mature enough to DNF, and the Fae stories are really good.
I suppose in the end it did one better by causing me to grow as a person. Sure, books have taught me a bunch of stuff but not many I can describe as being "the" reason I "grew".
Today I wouldn't have read enough of JS&MrN to even hear about Stephen, let alone grow to care about him.
I'm sure I'm missing out on a great number of good books, great books even, possibly even formative books, by how willing I am to DNF. But, there's so many good books out there that my calendar always seems to be full anyway.
Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrell. After that book I gave myself permission to DNF though, so it was a maturing experience for me. I mostly wanted to know what happened to Stephen and that's what drove me, along with the "No mere book shall defeat me" attitude.
I really enjoyed all of the Fae short stories actually. I'm not really a horror fan, but I found Fae, and mortals interaction with it, particularly gripping and memorable. I never put the book down when I was in Fae, trapping me along with the victims, perhaps that's why I wanted Stephen to just be ok.
It was just everything else in the book I couldn't enjoy. The titular characters I found uninteresting. The setting, fae excluded, I was apathetic about. The structure, the footnotes, dear god the footnotes.
But the Fae stuff? I'll take 10 more of them in an anthology please.
Wigglehard doesn't care a lot:
Post nut clarity makes you want to talk I guess, here's the comment you ignored. Thankfully, you demonstrated my point about these lists and their readers' self esteem:
Except these lists don't uplift men.
If you're a man and you do X, then X is a thing real men do.
Comparing what you do, as a man, to what other men do to check if "you're a real man" is an inherently insecure thing to do.
These kinds of lists seek to destroy men's self esteem. "You don't do Y? Then you're not a real man" is not helping anyone. It is a good way of finding men with low self esteem, or creating men with low self esteem so you can sell them things though.
You don't care so much that you're imagining my genitals? Thanks for proving my point.
Hey, you really are the meme above.