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[ SECRET POST #2795 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2795 ⌋

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[Law & Order: Criminal Intent]

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[Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers]

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[Jeeves and Wooster]

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[Yahtzee/Zero Punctuation]

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[Markiplier]

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[Jackie Chan Adventures]

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[The Parent Trap]

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[Alexander]

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[Starsky and Hutch]

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I'm a bit of a tea snob. I'll take what I can get while I'm out (even tea served in cafés are rarely loose-leaf), but teabags are banned at my house. I also love tea shops, and if I weren't a uni student, I'd probably be buying gourmet teas much more often.

I like gin and bourbon.

Milk chocolate is objectively the best. Fight me.

I actually posted a secret about this documentary (years ago, now) where I admitted my embarrassment over how much coded stuff had been going right over my head (I guess I have some sympathy for the censors.)

I've been watching a lot of old movies on TCM in recent months and I've noticed that I've gotten pretty good at picking out what movies and shorts were pre-code, even if I tune in right in the middle of something with no idea what it's called or what it's about.

I like good stuff, but I wouldn't say I'm a snob about anything. My sister, on the other hand, is a total music snob. If you say you like David Guetta, Tiesto, or Avicii she'll judge you so hard.

OP

I've used so many of the Organix stuff! Their products always smell really good. I liked the coconut milk shampoo and conditioner, but the Cherry Blossom conditioner has been the best one to smooth and hydrate my hair so I've gone back to it recently.

It's not shallow to enjoy watching entertaining, attractive people do stuff you're not personally into. Or if it is, who cares anyway, lol. I'm wimpy about horror games, too, but I'll probably have to attempt Outlast at some point, after watching him and like 50 other people play it. Doesn't matter that I know where all the big scares are, the atmosphere is amazing. I'll even watch them in languages I don't speak, just for different reactions. It's the setting more than anything, but I think he was the first one I watched go through it, and it's very inspirational to watch a hot dude traverse a freaky hellhouse armed only with his wits, haha. He had the best reaction to the [bizarre gore tableau] in the DLC. "Holy fucking fucker fuck!"

I don't think that OP of this subthread was saying that they can't imagine someone feeling romantic tenderness towards another woman; just that they can't imagine what feeling that kind of romantic tenderness towards another woman themselves is like. You can relate it to your own feelings but that's not the same as sharing them.

To use your example, you could imagine the kind of enjoyment a gin drinker gets out of drinking, and make the (reasonable and probably correct) assumption that it's very similar to the kind of enjoyment that you have for bourbon. But you couldn't feel that way about gin, and if you were trying to imagine the experience of drinking gin and feeling that kind of enjoyment about gin instead of bourbon, I think it's reasonable to say that there might be a disconnect. So, like, I can make a reasonable assumption that the romantic feelings someone has for a woman are similar to my own romantic feelings. But I don't think I can really imagine them; all I'm really doing is substituting my own existing romantic feelings, and when I really try to envision having those feelings for a woman, there's a disconnect somewhere along the line.

i guess i'm kind of saying that it's a difference between an intellectual and an emotional understanding.

Anything related to drawing. I used to be really into it back in highschool and the beginning of college, got a lot of praise for my art, got coaxed into following Graphic Design as a career...

I guess college sucked the fun out of it because I couldn't do it anymore and ended up dropping my career. It was really stressful and became such a nightmare. You could say the ~*magic*~ was gone for me. Now I probably do it once in a blue moon or whenever I'm feeling bored.

Wow this reply got kinda depressing. Whoops.

Yeah I think I'm just reading what they said differently

the love's the same, but that doesn't mean you feel it yourself

I knew this since the first episode. I was disappointed.

It really doesn't look like much, but the thing about Vanish that makes it so scary for people seems to be that it's a randomly generated maze sort of thing, so you can't just figure out a good route past the molemen or whatever they are. It just goes on and on until you find the doorway out. No way am I ever playing it, lol. I recommend his Outlast LP. Absolutely agree about the voice.

If you're doing something wrong, so are a lot of other people.

Exactly this. That exchange is intended to indicate that Shadow's racial appearance is ambiguous. White is not ambiguous.

Naah, it's not just your 'white western bigots' that think like that. I certainly don't.

I love the cherry blossom conditioner too!

More power to you, then. I don't go for microwaved tea because the water doesn't seem to get properly hot and the resulting tea tastes watery.

I find "Partners" so fascinating because I like trying to figure out what the fuck was he thinking. Surely he would've realized that Starsky would be completely devastated by that, not just a little scared or guilty? The only explanation I can think of is that he wanted to see Starsky all broken up for some reason. Maybe because he wanted to see how much Starsky loves him; like Ralphie from "A Christmas Story" gleefully fantasizing about how brokenhearted his parents would be if he went blind from soap poisoning.

Actually, I think they will have the policy holder's name on them. All the Blue Cross Blue Shield health care statements come to me because the policy is in my name regardless of who in the family has received the service.

:(

I don't think there's a way to keep it secret outside using college campus service which will not notify parents.

Haha thanks! I feel like I've thought way too much about this stuff...

Good point--though tbh, I was really just thinking about getting the obvious gunk off them so they didn't evoke gasps of horror or worse yet, attract swarms of roaches.

To me, it accomplishes showing the audience that Shadow's not an idiot. It enforces what's said about him earlier-- that he's kept his head done, down his time in the most pragmatic way possible, that he doesn't have an easily riled temper and he's smart enough to know when he's being played, and that all he wants is to get out of jail and see his wife again. All very useful things to get across to the reader.

I'm not sure what you mean by "withholding that information", though. If you mean Shadow's race, the information hasn't been withheld, it's right there and in other places in the text. It's just not explicit. Not everything the author tells an audience is explicit and out there for everyone to see. Some knowledge is knowledge you have to pay attention in order to appreciate. The way I look at it is, a lot of people will miss those clues and assume Shadow's white. Those are precisely the same people who might stop and wonder why they made that assumption, and they might find that exploration interesting.

Or... they might get angry and defensive about it. And that is also interesting.

No one is confused by an obviously white person. If someone has to stop and think about what ethnicity/race you might be, you're not white.

This also explains a lot, thank you. :)

This hurts me as a writer. Why would you keep bringing up his race unless it's important? Why wouldn't he just answer unless it was important? Who answers "maybe" if the answer is "I'm white"?

To assume he's white isn't just defaulting to white, it's also ignoring red flags from the writer.

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