kelpie_returns
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- Comment on how do you deal with those characters fully convinced a job is something you have to enjoy? 2 days ago:
Avoid and/or ignore. If they like their nose that certain shade of brown, they can go off all they want.
You could also turn it around on them and ask why they enjoy it or why they think you should. Get them to interrogate themselves and they might just learn something. It is not your job to do though and nobody reasonable would hold it against you if you just fucked off and left them to it
- Comment on Hollow 2 days ago:
Dam bro u gud?
- Comment on The plan! 2 days ago:
Ive heard from a podcast (bst.png) that selfsuck, or autofelatio if ya fancy, almost unilaterally ends in neck and spine problems AND it feels more like suckinga divk than getting your dick sucked.
There are better ways to pass the time lol
- Comment on Gotta get those tickets! 2 days ago:
Copmuter so fun tho
- Comment on Gotta get those tickets! 2 days ago:
I hear you and empathize, but putting them on the ground? Like, the place where people jump in excitement at concerts? I think you might be cutting them a bit too much slack tbh
- Comment on How am I supposed to decimate this fucker when it isn't even physical 2 days ago:
This album slaps fuckin hard, dude
- Comment on "What is the oldest country in the world that still exists?" is a Ship of Theseus problem. 2 days ago:
Cats are nature’s perfect predator in more ways than one, it seems
- Comment on When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game? 2 days ago:
Been playing Midnight Club 3 lately and some of the songs are very silly. “Can you make your fatty roll like a 24? (24)”
- Comment on I just want it, jack! 2 days ago:
What’s the smooch count at now?
- Comment on You're so predictable 2 days ago:
Screw you, dude
- Comment on Why would a company force you to use a rental car instead of your own for a drive to the office/Christmas party? 2 days ago:
Theyre horny for that munnies in some way would be my guess but I have no clue lol
- Comment on It's interesting to see what qualifies as a swear in different languages. 3 days ago:
Irish for you? That’s Scottish for me. I once saw a woman yelling at her brother in public with a heavy, heavy Scottish accent and a head full of inky black curls taking rapid to the wind. It woke something deep inside of me.
“And yeh dinney thenk tae arsk, yeh daft cont?! What in the fahk is wroung weth yeh?!” Unnf. Heart still flutters at the thought and idk whats wrong with me so dont ask unless its in a Scottish accent and you are being very critical plz
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 3 days ago:
Came here to say Spy Family, but since you’ve seen that…Schitt’s Creek has a good bit of it, though it is def a slow starter in that regard since it’s kind of all about the mc family being shitheads that learn better over time. Still, lots of sweet familial bonding moments all throughout. It’s also just a stellar cast and series. No complaints from me about it iirc.
Spy Family also has a manga that has been going on quite a bit longer than the anime. I think their chapter count is in the 200s last I checked? So it’s quite far ahead of where the anime left off and is genuinely just as good a read as it is a watch. Maybe even funnier at times with the differences in the way the medium sells comedy compared to animation.
Speaking of comics, there’s a great western one called Black Science all about a family surviving some very unfortunate scifi chaos. Less cozy vibes than the others by a good deal, but that just makes it more satisfying when they do pop up imo.
I’d be surprised if you haven’t seen it already, but Lilo and Stitch has a ton of this. Less parent/child and more inter-sibling, but still very effective and very sweet. One of my favorite animated movies of all time for this and a ton of other reasons.
There’s also the anime Ponyo; a story about a strange aquatic creature that makes friends with a young boy and his family. The visuals on this one are gorgeous to the nth degree. Such a good watch!
Adding a couple anti-picks (the opposite of what you’re asking for) cause they’re on my mind and I have the time lol
::: spoilers anti-pick #1 Berserk. No true family bonding, but the mc connects deeply with his mercenary group in a similar way. It’s nice for a time, but ultimately does not end well. The manga is the best version by far, but the 90s anime team did a great job with what little budget they had. If you choose to watch the anime just know that it only follows the first major arc, and its ending will leave you wanting more. :::
::: spoilers anti-pick #2 Lovesick. Specifically the prequel; Dollparts. A girl hates and is hated by her family while learning about hyper violence online and sex via irl context clues, basically. Not for the weak of heart and somehow figures out how to take a grim premise and just keep on making it darker and darker as things go on. The threat of SA is heavily implied and a regular presence, so maybe steer clear if you know you can’t sit with that. While I’m sure it’s a hard sell, it’s also very effective at being what it intends to be and explores some topics that really need talking about, but often aren’t because of how almost universally uncomfortable they are to address. Fascinating and disturbing read. If you’re not sure it’s for you, that means it’s probably not for you. :::
- Comment on The history of soup 4 days ago:
I hear you and, again, mostly agree, but if you’re hunting your own game that’s gonna cut ingredient costs significantly. Not saying I do, cause I don’t (I can’t even make a truly good chili to save my life tbh), but some of those country folks knew how to eat real well on low income. Can’t say many kind things about the overall culture of the US backwoods, but the diy/work with what you have aspect of it has always stood out as admirable to me.
- Comment on Luke Cage is way to overpowerd to be a "street level" hero 4 days ago:
That explains the confusion on my end. Appreciated!
- Comment on Luke Cage is way to overpowerd to be a "street level" hero 4 days ago:
I’m not a marvel-head, so I can’t rightly weigh in on much of this tbh, but this kind of reads like an argument in favor of OP’s thesis. His mindset/power combo seems like it’d be better suited to work that isn’t set in high population/low space environments.
- Comment on It's good to have goals. 4 days ago:
Always felt like there was something stopping him from tapping his full potential. This explains it ig. Damn shame, what that is 😔
- Comment on The history of soup 4 days ago:
Very much agreed on all of that. Some people take their chili very seriously tho and I happened to spend a lot of time in an area where that was the case. That time spent led to me growing a respect for the art form that is chili, and many of the people that’re really, really into it insist endlessly that beans are simply a suboptimal ingredient if your goal is anything near cooking up a masterpiece.
So, while I agree with you on one level, after tasting some of their finer brews, I also see a lot of merit to their fiscally unbound arguments.
- Comment on The history of soup 4 days ago:
I like beans just fine and dont actually care all that much tbh. Good chili is good chili imo. I grew up in an area where people take that stuff way more seriously than is reasonable tho and just felt like leaning in on that old familiar silly lol
- Comment on The history of soup 5 days ago:
Beans in chili?? Sacrilege! Heathen! Hssssss!
- Comment on When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day" 5 days ago:
That’d explain why I haven’t heard it before. Furthest east I’ve traveled is the Texas end of Louisiana, despite occassional curiosities.
And it basically means ‘yall’?
- Comment on When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day" 5 days ago:
Sorry…“yinz”? Where is that a thing? Never once heard it used in my life
- Comment on necessary read 5 days ago:
I have been known to think and act with hope-clouded vision at times. Iit is known. I think you’re right, but will continue to choose to hope for the better of people, because I believe that hope, sometimes even the irrational varieties, is the fertile earth from which necessary changes most often grow. It is sometimes even the only ground that positive change can take to at all. If I keep at it on my end while enough others do the same on theirs, a better future will be made that much more accessible to everyone.
With that mindset, I don’t feel I have the time for cynicism past a certain threshold, and I am pretty certain that can be an invaluable asset in the right hands. Hopefully myself and enough others have such hands rather than these allegorical paws. Thanks for filling me in on that btw. Your comparison with it was spot on.
- Comment on five nights at freddy's rap 1 week ago:
Such control over their medium and form…such stunning and playful lyricism…could only be likened to the kindly and exacting poetry of angels. We are not worthy of such divine verse, and we never could be 🥲
- Comment on another TUI 1 week ago:
I could be more thoughtful with my word choice. My apologies, stranger
- Comment on necessary read 1 week ago:
I didn’t mean to insinuate that anybody should not be held accountable for their actions. Just the opposite is how I feel, really. But I also believe that many of them can do and learn better if provided with the right care and resources. That’s not to say I know how to make that work, but that there is always, always, always a better path forward if enough qualified and caring people put their heads together and make it happen.
Very few of us are truly and entirely irredeemable. Some just take a lot more resources and time to be redeemed than others, is how I see it. I believe it is worth it, for the sake of all of our futures as well as those of people yet to be born, to try and see to it that paths like this are taken and doubled down on as soon as is possible. I’m a fan of Orwell’s and, more often than not, in agreement with the views he shared. Still, I took his wording to be a bit too absolutist for my tastes on this quote. Ubderstandably, given what we know of his lived experience, but still. There is always a better way as long as there are still people trying to find it. I don’t believe in all of us, but I do believe in the capital ‘u’ Us, you know?
And I’m not familiar with the term “catspaws”. Feel like teaching a stranger something new?
- Comment on another TUI 1 week ago:
I wonder when someone will get around to “fixing” your obvious psychopathy
- Comment on It’s what’s for dinner! 1 week ago:
Second sentence too wild. Why not wish they were both healthy and chill lol
- Comment on It’s what’s for dinner! 1 week ago:
Meatloaf has such a face
- Comment on necessary read 1 week ago:
Kind of? Many of them, if not most, are also victims of the same system that indoctrinated them. Like an awful, evil feedback loop of victimization.
Not to say that makes it okay ofc, but all people are fallible and all can be played for fools under the right circumstances, which is just a very important thing to remember at times like these.