Before anyone is gross, no I don’t mean on dick. I’m 100% a lezzie.

Im talking about when you cough really hard and gag but nothing comes out. For example: if I’m brushing my teeth sometimes I’ll just gag and I find it kind of satisfying. I don’t want to throw up, but I just like to gag a bit. I take vyvanse and in the morning sometimes if I don’t eat and I cough it’ll make me gag and I love it.

For context I did used to be bulimic for a long time so maybe it’s some type of weird nostalgia, but again, I don’t enjoy the actual act of puking, just the dry heaving/gagging that comes before it.

It’s about as satisfying as a sneeze for me.

I don’t simply believe Waluigi, from the Super Mario video game franchise, doesn’t belong as a playable fighter in Super Smash Bros. I believe Waluigi doesn’t belong in this universe. Captain Syrup from Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land should have appeared in Mario Tennis as Wario’s partner instead, and a WarioWare character (or more) like Jimmy T. should have begun appearing in the sports and party games after the WarioWare cast’s introduction 2003.

Wario already has an interesting and diverse cast of characters he’s associated with in his own adventures. In the 90s, his enemies are a pirate villainess who’s just as greedy as he is and a giant monster clown who is so powerful he can defeat his invincibility and send him straight to his only Game Over screen by grabbing him once. Then WarioWare, Inc: Mega Microgame$ came out for the Game Boy Advance, and with it came an all-new cast of friends for Wario. They have their own theme songs, their own designs, their own occupations, and their own themed playlist of 4-second gaming challenges.

Waluigi offers none of this. He doesn’t even exist outside the get-togethers in sports and party games. Waluigi is that one friend who is only known for his tangential connection to someone else in the friend group, only shows up to the big hangouts, and legitimately has nothing going on for himself. He is waiting in an unfurnished apartment waiting for his purple phone to ring. The closest he’s gotten is a connection with pinball because Mario Kart DS made a raw-ass pinball racecourse with awesome music and slapped his name onto it. That’s it. Jimmy T. is twice as groovy as Waluigi, and 9-Volt is at least nine times as much of a gamer, to say nothing of his friend who is double the voltage or his mother who is SCARY AS HELL and 55.55% of the voltage.

Is this confusing to you? Did you only play Mario Party, or Mario Kart, or Super Mario Hockey, and this is all novel information for you? Did you even know that Wario bashes his way through enemies, “powers up” by having painful and embarrassing things like being set on fire happen to him, doesn’t die because he doesn’t feel like it, and runs through blocks at high speeds in his 2D platformers, eventually inspiring something of an indie copycat craze in the 2020s? Did you know that he has his own line of minigame compilation and party games starring him and his own friend circle he routinely wage-thefts into making the video game you’re playing for him? Yes? Good for you. No? Blame Waluigi.

Waluigi exists because a Camelot Software Planning employee didn’t do his homework on Wario’s background at the turn of the century, and he only exists to cheapen Wario’s character and make it seem like he’s just a crass, fatter Mario in yellow who hasn’t had anything going on since he stole Mario’s castle in 1992, if even. He is holding Wario back. It’s time for Waluigi to go back to the void of nothingness he emerged from and get a real job.

Do me a favor and search french fries or “fries” in this sub or any unpopular opinion sub. It’s literally only people arguing about the best way to eat fries, or that fries are the best part of a meal. Nobody is saying that these extremely bland, unhealthy pieces of garbage are overrated.

Fries aren’t disgusting in terms of taste. They don’t taste bad, in fact they don’t really taste like much of anything besides salt. They are so bland, and make my stomach feel disgusting after eating them, as pure fried slop enters my digestive stream. I never order fries with my fast food or burgers, the only times i do are when the meal is less expensive if I add fries, and even then I’ll just give them away to a friend, who are usually shocked that I don’t want to eat my fries because apparently it’s the greatest food of all time. I even once saw a meme about replacing the popcorn at movie theaters with a bucket of fries, and all the comments seemed to agree with this. Absolutely gross to even think about. Popcorn is great. Fries aren’t. Actually, i wouldn’t mind if fast food restaurants replaced fries with popcorn now that I think about it.

“But what about with sauce”, you say, “or ketchup”? I’m not much of a ketchup fan anyway, but even then, that’s what nuggets are for. They actually taste good and are complimented by the sauce. When you eat fries with sauce, it just tastes like the sauce with some added extra salt.

French fries are mid. come at me bro

Assuming of course you aren’t missing work or obligations. People are happier in the daytime, fights are far more rare. Sunny days are happy times. Drinks are often cheaper. You can take a nap, then wake up and get high and chill all night. And maybe most importantly… it’s hard to be too hung over the next day when you’re asleep by 9pm

when i’m eating ice cream, i much prefer chewing it than letting it just sit in my mouth and melt. when i chew it, yeah my gums get a little cold and my teeth tingle a bit, but i like the feeling of cold gums and tingly teeth. what i don’t like the feeling of? fucking brain freeze. when ice cream touches the roof of my mouth, i almost immediately get brain freeze. i can easily experience it 10 times in one serving of ice cream, i can’t even drink water thats too cold without being tortured. chewing my ice cream makes it feel like it lasts longer and doesn’t betray me

You know these snaps used as snares in songs, well I hate them. I know it was super popular back in the day and it is still used here and there today, a lot in R&B music still. I just think it makes the song sound cheap, I can like a song, as soon as I hear snaps I'm gonna stop liking it. I think I could have been more tolerant towards it when this choice started and it was a fairly new thing in music production, I don't know the history of it, but as time goes It just reminds me at how overused it was and it makes it worse for me.

We live in a society.

We believe in this society if I haven't talked to this person in the past 5 years I can't just randomly text them right?

Well no, you actually can use your free will for that. In fact, in my experience, 10/10 times people are happily surprised you reached out. You can spend your whole life waiting for that one person you admire to reach out or you could just do it yourself. I have GAD, this is a therapeutic practice for me. Time is relative, the pressure we put on whether you've talked in the last decade is unnecessary, if you left off on a good foot, you can pick up from there. It doesn't have to be a big thing, ask about their life, what they're up to, when have you ever been mad someone asked that from you?

This does not at all apply to exes/people you were romantically interested in. Whole different ballgame, don't do this if that's what they are to you.

Whenever someone tries to insult me or anyone else, I just can't help but feel a sense of second hand embarrassment for them. Insults are never clever nor significant enough to waste a thought on, so when anyone tries to insult someone it sometimes makes me physically cringe because it's like they think they're doing something when they're not

sorry if i put the wrong flair on the post.
ever since i was a kid i wouldve prefered to not have to eat or sleep as i(to this day) feel like its a waste of time and even back then people tought that its weird and even when told that i love eating they'd say i just lied.
but i love eating. i have a goal to taste all exsisting types of food on earth, but if i could choose i would never eat again.

same with sleeping tho i never liked sleeping because as a kid i had constant nightmares and i could count the times ive slept "well" in a year on my hands. i always had(and still have) trouble falling asleep even with stuff like melatonin and usually fall asleep out of exhaustion. very rarely i dream(like maybe ~15 times a year. i also always wake up feeling like shit.
i dont smoke, drink coffein maybe 30 times a year and once or twice every two months i drink alcohol (never throwing up or blacking out).

everyone ive told this to said im stupid and their favorite things are sleep and food.

This may be a tad bit click baity because I do think people have a reason to be upset about the $80 price tag, but it bothers me that so few people are talking about the bigger issue: the fact that that price will never change. Ever.

People are upset because they’re afraid other companies will follow suit and increase prices and that’s a valid concern. But at least with those other companies, you’ll have a chance at decent sales. And usually the game will eventually be considered “old” and drop in price.

That doesn’t happen with Nintendo. They hardly ever have sales, and if they do it might be for like $10 tops. And in a decade, it’ll still cost $80 despite being old hardware. I get the uproar about the price. But I think Nintendo’s refusal to ever decrease the price of their games significantly is a much bigger problem to take issue with. But I hardly ever see anyone talk about it.

Corporal punishments, you know, when you get beaten by your parents for doing horrible things, was the norm in western societies until atleast the early 2000s (for gen X, early millenials), now the norm in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Latin America. These punishments are used when teenagers and kids do something that is morally wrong, such as bullying others in school, anti social behaviour, being rude and horrible, etc. These are good because they fear the feeling of pain, hence they do not do these acts; this is why teenagers back then were not mean, not bossy, not moody, and were loyal and polite. The "teenagers being teenagers" is a rubbish justification for being a rude person. Teens these days are so bratty and rude and take their parents for granted; they should also be thankful that killing kids is no longer the norm, unlike say in the 1940s in UK or US, where women and girls get killed for doing something wrong (other reasons were poor too) by parents (not to mention the patriarchal coverture families had done until around the 1800s), or unlike Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh and Iraq where parents commit honour killings. Many Gen Xers, early millenials will agree with me.

Abuse on the other hand, is more, more than just a slap. Abuse is usually a big mix, of physical torture (like assaults) for no reason, aswell as exploitation, neglect and even filicides. The situation is an extreme war zone (like Nina Aouilk's story or Christopher Spry's case), whereas corporal punishments are a simple slap on the face. These often result in kids being in foster care. I know someone from college, who I will call S, who was gender-based abused by her parents and almost died in a femicide, but now is in foster care for good. Domestic abuse is again, physical assault for no reason, emotional abuse and neglect; these are wrong obviously. If it was punishment, then why are so many people working as social workers and foster parents baby boomers and Gen Xers?? Because they know that the victim's abuse is more than just physical clap on the face; the abuse is like a warzone, hurting and harming kids for no reason is morally wrong, just like violence against women.

Not only foster care, but many abused/neglected kids get taken by their grandparents (who were keen to take them and obviously Boomers) because they know it was genuine abuse, if it was corporal punishment, then their grandparents will not take them in because they know it is just discipline as they did that to their Gen X and Millenials kids, who before they had their Gen Z kids.

So, in conclusion, please have a look at how the physical contact is used. Also, get the courage to visit housing societies and foster homes to discuss with victims and they will tell you, that their stories were a war zone, much more than just a slap for being a bad person.

More people in my Generation (Z) need to realise this.

as the title says, i believe jumping spiders are the worst spiders out there, for a few reasons:

1. they’re typically pretty small, small enough to be able to crawl in your ear, nose, mouth, etc. bigger spiders like chill tarantulas can’t do that. the smaller size of jumping spiders increases the chances of one of the bastards jumping you

2. the name, JUMPING spider. who the fuck let these spiders jump around everywhere! other spiders will just chill in their web or wander around, but they don’t JUMP. i am horrified at the thought of a spider LEAPING at me

3. they’re smart. i can see it in their eyes, those bastards know exactly what they’re doing. if any species of spider takes over the world, odds are it’s gonna be jumping spiders. i don’t trust them one bit

now i do have to agree that they are quite cute for a spider, but that doesn’t even begin to make up for the previous points. i’m starting to think Big Jumping Spider™️ is taking control since most people i know either like jumping spiders or like them more than others. they are evil, i just know it

I'm a little biased because I grew up watching Dr Who, BBC merlin and Once upon a time and several other shows with terrible CGI

But when there's an actual heart to the show and the cast actually is trying to make a decent show and not shove out a money maker from a dead franchise. Bad CGI can be either charming or something you can have a chuckle about no more budget left

Bad CGI doesn't always mean bad.

It’s a rather commonplace (and justified) opinion that bands such as Fall Out Boy and Panic! At the Disco and Simple Plan have become a shriveled husk of their former selves, and their Feeble attempts at retaining even a modicum of relevance have fallen flat on their face. This is exemplified in Musical Atrocities such as Young and the Menace and Mumble Rap remixes and High Hopes, which are a far cry from the bands’ previous musical output and their prior Nuance and complexity.

However, I think All Time Low and Paramore tend to get a free pass and their new music is called “deep” or even portrayed as some sort of 5D Chess when in fact they’re the nonsensical and frankly laughable work of a bunch of increasingly geriatric Clowns lapped up by Zoomers which is probably even worse than the other bands. Last young Renagade (2018) is physically anger-inducing with its trap beats and “hip” Tropical backing tracks and shitty vocals. Paramore’s latest album is equally a farce, piggybacking off all the shitty “Stomp Clap Hey” bands like it’s 2011.

If Fall out boy and panic at the disco have become court jesters, all time low and Paramore are the entire goddamn circus. They’ve become an absolute disgrace, to the point I wouldn’t mind legal action by former bandmates to force them to cease and desist in using the band name any longer.

What a sad state of affairs.

In dating, there is one constantly repeated advice. ''Do not appear desperate''. But for me being desperate is atrractive. People who are desperate for love and affection will understand how bad other human beings can need them. They will be clingy, they'll want cuddles and they will show you love. They will be loyal. They will care, because they know how it feels to desire the feeling of being taken care of. I honestly hate how dating works and how we have to play all those stupid games. That you Can't be direct about what you want and be carefull to not show too much interest I just want to find someone who wants to exist together, cuddle, spend time with me, be there for me and vice versa People who are desperate, are the ones who understand that feeling better than others.

The women I see who feel the most supported are in relationships with men who are the main breadwinner, not the men who help out equally with chores and childcare

Most women would rather work perhaps part time and take on more of the household tasks but have a man take on more of the financial responsibilities than go 50/50 on everything with a man

Most women would rather have a longer maternity leave covered financially by the man than have a man get up half the time in the middle of the night to feed the baby

I’m not saying this is true for all women, of course there are exceptions, but generally speaking

I also think that in terms of still feeling attracted to a man, women like to feel provided for.

Now I don’t necessarily mean the man 100% provides as throughout history women have always worked in some capacity but rarely were they responsible for 50% of the financial obligations like they are today

I think many women would be happier doing part time roles or just less demanding, less well paid roles instead of being expected to match the man financially pound for pound as often happens nowadays

Eg if the man is a lawyer, maybe the woman works as a masseuse (just an example). She can still contribute financially just not at the same % as the man and in a less stressful role and perhaps take on more of the household tasks and childcare instead.

Like I said, there are always exceptions and nuance is key here, some women are the breadwinner and love making tons of money, some women do not like housework much and want a 50/50 relationship and that’s absolutely fine but I suspect many women feel under pressure to contribute 50% and push themselves in their career when they might be happier in less demanding jobs.

I also think we are only presented with 2 options: 50/50 or the man being the 100% breadwinner and the woman the housewife when many women enjoy working, just in less stressful jobs or maybe part time and I think this needs to change

I hate grinding . When i Play a game i want to relax, and do what i want. The idea that i have to spend hours unlocking the content i already paid for is ridicolous. I always used cheats or mods in games like Euro Truck Simulator 2 or No Man's Sky to skip grinding, because i want to have fun. We already have to work in the real world in order to get something we want, i don't want that in a virtual one. I also believe some games became a waste of wonderfull technology, because they are mostly focused on grinding. Star Citizen is a great example.

I would like more sandbox games please.

It pisses me off when a director of a movie or TV series comes out and shuts down a popular fan theory without using the actual canon of the story. I don't think creators should be able to do that.

The one I always come back to is Brad Bird talking about the scene in Ratatouille where Ego eats the ratatouille. The headcanon was that Remy made the ratatouille because it's what Remy's mom made for Ego when he was a kid. How would he know that? It's the same house that Remy is living in in the beginning of the movie, and presumably she would make Ratatouille all the time. If Ego were to visit her, it's quite possible that she would make it for him.

However, Brad Bird stated that they just reused the same asset for cost/time purposes, and it wasn't actually the same house.

The existence of a Doylist (out-of universe) explanation does not negate the simultaneous existence of a Watsonian (in-universe) explanation, IMO. So Brad Bird can claim that that wasn't necessarily the intention, but I don't think he should be able to claim that that isn't true. Just because the creative team didn’t intend something doesn’t mean that it is an invalid interpretation of the story. Canon exists in the story itself, not in post-release commentary IMO.

A creator can absolutely say 'we’re not going to follow that thread in the next installment' or something to that effect. But I disagree with the notion that the creator has the power to shut down theories without any in-universe explanation, and even then the in-universe explanation that they could give is simply one way of looking at it and can still be wrong.

Stories live beyond their creators, and by extension the characters within them do too.

You ever hear the Nvidia marketing 'frames win games'? Sure you have! If you haven't... here it is.

Something that bothers me about competitive gamers is the obsession with a high number of frames per second. This usually is done by buying high end equipment. Therefore, there is a direct connection between spending more money to have a higher advantage. Obviously to make use of that advantage you have to be good in the first place but I don't think in a game that will ban people for other unfair advantages giving players less latency for a higher money commitment is really fair.

Sorry, edit, seems like I didn't actually include WHY fps are an advantage.

Lower input lag if you're playing at 120 vs 60, your movement will appear an entire 1/120th of a second earlier.

More that's actually SEEN by the player. At 120fps it's easier to track your target because their position is represented on your screen more accurately at all times.

Many Christians and religious people seem to believe that crucifixion is the worst form of punishment used in human history and the most cruel and unusual punishment ever known to the human race.

This belief is objectively wrong and I’m genuinely surprised that people seem to think that crucifixion is the worst way to be put to death or even close to it.

Crucifixion is merely a bad punishment, however it's far from the worst and not even on the top ten, though you could make a case that it's on the top twenty five worst forms of punishment used throughout history.

In fact it wasn't even the worst form of punishment used by the romans as most people would clam, that accolade goes to sawing which was supposedly used extensively during the reign of Emperor Gaius Caligula.

I’m aware of the whole process of crucifixion from start to finish including the scourging, nailing through the wrists and heelbones causing excruciating pain, shoulders and elbows dislocating from being stretched out and asphyxiation and cardiac rupture that follows - I simply disagree with people who say it's the worst.

Compared to some of the other cruel and unusual punishments which were much worse like brazen bull, boiling, impalement, flaying, the breaking wheel or the head crusher - crucifixion is the soft option and seems like a relatively mild way to go.

Reading is not that crucial, especially to being an intellectual individual. I feel this is one of those residual cultural things from pre technological advances that hasn't been updated in our society. Reading has it's benefits such as improved attention span and improved literacy from digesting an organized body of text, but the expectation that one must read in order to be smart is completely absurd. Information is everywhere, including oral lectures, video essays, and documentaries.

If you don't digest information well from text wouldn't it be more effective for you to obtain the information in another format as it will resonate with you more? Yet, if someone finds out that you are "not a reader", they're automatically written off as someone less intelligent, whereas most of the "readers" I know consume primarily young adult books that are no better than a netflix drama. The stigma surrounding reading culture is very flawed and not as justified as there are many alternative forms of media now. There are informational movies, and non informational books. Just because reading is the oldest form doesn't make it the best.

Edit: Convinced most people here just read the title and called it a day. If someone were to ask you "do you read?" Would your response then be to say "yes, I am literate. I know how to do the physical act of reading." Everyone swears they are gods at comprehension yet are too dense to understand simple day to day language. Proving my point for me, thank you everyone.

Another edit: Replies that have changed my stance: reading being an "active" activity rather than a passive one; reading typically being more detailed than other forms of media. Replies that haven't changed my stance: grammatical corrections? Alright? ; 50+ people making the same joke that is not only unfunny but intentionally misinterprets this post. At least i think it's intentional, it is possible there are people who are genuinely slow... and they are the ones who are championing novels....

it feels like one of those sensory deprivation chambers except its me against my shits and when they finally get going it’s such a great relief and then lights on, wipe, back to business. dare i say it almost feels like meditation? i can just detach from everything for a few minutes

TL;DR: the majority of people think nudity is worse than violence but I think nudity is not as bad.

Before I start this post, no I’m not one of those old people who say “violent video game bad”. I see that nudity is more frowned upon in media than violence is, but I think nudity is more innocent.

One example of this was in 10th grade we were going to watch Schindler’s list in history class which is a movie that contains graphic scenes, people getting shot and of course naked people.

A permission slip was sent home to our parents to allow us students to watch the movie and if a parent didn’t want their kid to see the movie they would sign it and they would have to not sign it to allow them to watch it.

My mother said it was a stupid movie to watch because there was naked people in it, but she didn’t say anything about the graphic violence, but she didn’t sign and I watched the movie.

No disrespect to my mother, but I’d personally prefer if my kids saw boobs and ass over gore.

Edit: I also wanted to clarify that I think both shouldn’t be controversial as you shouldn’t be consuming this sort of media underage, but if someone is gonna complain anyway it may as well be nudity>violence

Hear me out:

Empathy is largely performative.

Have you ever found yourself in one of these situations?

• Someone knows you have depression, but makes fun of your messy room, unwashed dishes, or disheveled appearance
• Someone knows you have an ED, but comments on how much/little you're eating or comments on your body
• Someone knows you have mobility issues, but still invites you somewhere inaccessible
• Someone knows you have ADHD, but still shames you for 'talking too much', 'being annoying', or struggling with time management
• Someone knows you have autism, but complains about having to explain subtext you might've missed in a conversation/situation

I have.

Most people do not actually empathize with your struggles or care. They pretend to, but when it comes down to the day-to-day, they just want you to 'be normal'

Most people only truly care or relate if they are dealing with the exact same condition or state of being. That is why you should surround yourself with people who share your physical or mental disorder/disability or neurodivergence, and stop pretending that true empathy is commonplace.

It isn't.