Soulseek.

It’s true, I’m in a right-wing hell-hole and that makes it hard. Thanks for the kindness.

The wifi rollout thing is tricky… Especially because who do you untrust the administration to? Technically whoever is managing it can see everything everyone in the subdivision does online, and since it’s all shared, could be doing packet sniffing to de-obfuscate your traffic and if they’re untrustworthy, potentially be stealing your PII. They’re already going to have a lot of your PII simply from knowing who you are and where you live, but basically having your entire internet history at their fingertips no less.

It’s part of why I refuse to move in somewhere that someone else controls the connection, literally for that reason. I want my own private connection because I don’t trust other people with this.

I generally agree with the sentiment of the article, but I do take issue with this part:

Get a therapist. Join some clubs. Develop a well-rounded social circle. It will enrich you beyond words.

For men who have already done the self-work and already go to a therapist and have never had a single emotional support at all, this is heartbreaking. The clubs are all full of men who refuse to do this kind of emotional self-labor and self-regulation and why would I, as a man who has, have any interest in being friends with these groups of men? Is it my fault that I’m surrounded by men who refuse to develop as people and that leaves me with an incredibly small social circle of trustworthy people to be able to share my emotional support needs with? I want to be enriched by a trustworthy social circle but I live in the USA and I am literally emotionally starved. I have never had emotional support from family, from friends, and hardly any from women. Why must I, someone who has done the labor of trying to be a better person, be punished for how other men continue to fail?

The closest I’ve found to a “club” that I actually enjoy being a part of is the private tracker community, and there’s still a fairly large contingent of assholes in that community. The people who are decent are half a world away from me. One of my closest friends that I made in the private tracker game is from Germany. He’s a hell of a dude but it’s very unlikely I will ever be able to meet him in person.

Why is it my fault as an individual man who has put in the work that I struggle to find other men who also put in the work? It just seems like a cruel joke to be alive for this. I’m doing the work, it’s not my fault other men aren’t which leaves me with… *checks notes… still no emotional support network.

I actually kind of like the CalArts style, but I also understand how overused it was, which was unfortunate. I’m glad we’re turning a corner and folks like Joe Bennett are getting their time in the sun.

I love his big-headed almost hyperrealistic Chibi style in Common Side Effects.

SimpleX Chat – Many suggested this and I will explicitly recommend against it due to the founder’s positions on various topics. This includes being anti-vaxx, believing COVID-19 was a hoax, trans- and homophobia, climate denial; In the SimpleX Groupchat he’s also been seen basically bootlicking trump a couple times, but I’ve lost receipts to that

Unrelated to the main points I kind of always thought SimpleX seemed sketchy…

Ben Edlund reportedly in shambles.

My favorite is stuff that’s western animation studios working with eastern animation studios to make some really unique and weird animation!

I understand why some people are tired of anime that all looks the same, but yeah, 90% of western television is a bunch of shows that are all written and shot the same. It’s the whole 90% of everything is crap thing.

Like I don’t see people complaining about the numerous fucking shows that cribbed Rick and Morty’s style like The Lower Decks or Solar Opposites, or fuck, I know there’s another one. They all look the damn same and it’s not even an interesting style nor is it often well animated!

I saw a photo of one on the lip of an eyelid right next to the eye and I wanted to scratch my own face off at the horror.

more people are using it than ever

We’re making more money than ever! But what if we could make even morer money than ever!?

If only false advertising laws had any teeth.

TBS x Mehnersmoos - Bierdurst

Dieses Musikvideo ist verdammt lustig.

Hide it under a bushel in a dumpster, NO! I’m gonna let it shine.

That’s… Depression.

However, I am not a psychologist. Either way, those are not healthy thinking patterns and you should probably see a therapist to find out in more detail what is happening in your own mind before jumping to a relationship. Mostly because those kind of thoughts aren’t going to magically stop once you’re in a relationship, you’ll just be doing the same thing… just with a partner, who may well be understandably confused and hurt by such thinking.

I strongly suggest finding a therapist you like and trust… and I understand that’s not always easy. It’s definitely easier said than done.

I’d find it embarrassing because I’m gross.

It sounds like you’re suffering from depressive issues. Everyone deserves love and nearly everyone is sexually attractive to at least someone. With roughly 4 billion potential mates (give or take a few hundred million), you have what is honestly near infinite possibilities for finding someone who loves you for who you are.

However, it might help to get help for the depression first. Anyway, everyone deserves love and to be desired. That includes you.

You have been single for ten years, it’s time to free yourself and at least try to find someone. As someone else who is single and also struggles with depression and self-image issues, I wish you all the best.

Pretty sure the body still has to be alive for most organ donation… but maybe I’m wrong when it comes to eyes…

But it sounds sketchy as fuck.

I don’t remember a time travel plot in that show.

Rob Corddry was in Hot Tub Time Machine though.

Don’t worry everyone he is just using the Fielder Method to rehearse for having a commercial pilots license.

Nathan Fielder reportedly in absolute shambles.

Well that’s new.

Not gonna get more paying customers by blocking real ones NYT.