It’s not a double standard. When people complain about stuff like this, it’s in the context of American and European movie makers making the vast majority of their characters white — because white characters are seen as more “relatable” and “appealing”. And that’s fucked up. That’s what people are trying to fight when…

Are we not allowed to spend money on things that are bad

Nothing is “police” unless it has authority over you. Your government does have authority over you. Video games are a thing you choose to participate in.

The problem is most people don’t have equipment available that allows them to do this; in order to “experiment on yourself” with this sort of thing you do need to buy materials from someone else who can manufacture them.

If the FDA isn’t regulating it, the product may not be what it claims to be. (I mean, that can happen anyways, but this helps reduce those chances.) Part of the reason the FDA regulates things is 1) companies lie and 2) it’s hard for consumers to properly assess the risk of taking some treatment both because a) the…

Then just pretend it’s unrelated to the first one? A sequel doesn’t modify the original work, your appreciation for the two can stand apart from each other.

I didn’t even know it was 3 hours when I went to see it and honestly it didn’t feel like it was. People looking up run times maybe are excluding things that they shouldn’t.

Turns out healthy humans have hugely varying bladder capacity! I’m in my 20s and can’t get through a movie without feeling the need to go. It’s annoying as hell but it’s way more annoying to sit there and not being able to concentrate on the movie because biology is yelling at me.

I think it needs to be funny to qualify as a joke

Yeah but there’s a difference between wanting nice aesthetics (which vanilla Overwatch has) and feeling like you must collect all the options. The later seems... maladaptive.

You can be concerned about that. But you should keep in mind the vast majority of rapists, abusers, and harrassers are never punished. The scale is tipped very far a certain way and it’s not in the direction you fear.

That’s a standard for the courts, not social interactions.

One of the core problems is that even if it is a simple misunderstanding, HR departments don’t take action to try to help parties behave more appropriately in the future.

I feel exactly the same. If anyone wants to watch FMA, I tell them they need to watch both; the original first to get attached to the characters, and brotherhood second to get a better backstory and ending.

Because they think they’re entitled to sex from whichever women they want, so when those women sleep with other people and not them they’re having sex with people they’re not “supposed to”, hence “sluts”.

People have written about this topic! http://www.ojphi.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3493/2955

With an individual technology effectiveness varies. Just gotta try and find out :)

That’s an easy thing to say but it totally discounts people doing acts that do involve a great deal of sacrifice and risk to help others. Even if they get something in return, they should be lauded for taking that on; it’s a meaningful concept.

Yeah, Chidi is kind of the embodiment of a bystander.

If they don’t take it on contingency, they don’t believe you can win *money*.

Uh, the woman whose story was repeated *did* go to the cops. It’s in the story.