I didn’t say that victims can’t be abusers, nor did I say that he was a hero.

People who’ve done harm need to be prevented from causing further harm, but it’s important to acknowledge the root cause of their behavior if you want to stop future iterations.

I think that the OP is entirely a joke, but that it comes from the very real villain of systemic injustice that pressures us all to lash out. I think one could see the film as inspirational insofar as being inspired to take violent action, but I would hope they direct their aggression towards worthy targets.

I’m pretty sure the bad guy was the fucked-up system that tortured him into his behavior. He’s a victim as much as any of the people he hurt.

It may actually be part of the depression. We don’t know that anyone hates him, just that he believes they do.

DS Lite and PSP were the golden age of handhelds. Not only did they have great libraries, they were also trivial to hack and run classic console games and romhacks. And you know the quality was good because mine are still working great. Damn Switch doesn’t even fit in my pocket.

Cockbrand always sounds like a way to describe a spicy person, like how they say someone’s a firecracker.

As an animated work, Steven Universe is kind of garbage. There are YouTube essays out there detailing its problems, but it’s most glaring when a guest animator takes over a small portion of the series and blows the entire thing out of the water.

The OP is disingenuous, but animation is having a problem these days with restricted budgets, homogenized designs, and poor use of digital tools. Quality animation was always expensive and therefore in the minority, but the everyday budget stuff is worse than in the past. There are recent series that I can’t even watch due to awful framerates and bad CGI.

Spraying someone with pepper spray is a violent assault. It’s banned in a number of counties due to the possibility of permanent injury or even death, and the risk to bystanders.

I don’t think whether an attack is physically violent should play a role in whether someone is allowed to use violence to defend themselves. Plenty of forms of sexual assault are non-violent in the sense that they don’t cause bodily harm to the victim, but I still think you should be allowed to resort to violent methods of stopping/preventing them. Things like gropings, upskirt photography, etc are a form of psychological violence in my opinion.

This is different from break-ins which are a more serious crime as they violate the private living spaces of people on top of violating their property rights.

What is the reasoning behind this distinction? Are you suggesting it’s okay to defend your home with violence?

To come at this from another angle, do you think theft should be legal? If not, why is it okay for the state to enact violence on perpetrators, but not victims?

I don’t agree with characterizing being robbed from as not a big deal, especially when it’s as physically intimate as pickpocketing.

Maybe it’s no big deal to lose a bit of money if you’re rich, but I would be truly fucked to lose my phone or wallet, and more than inconvenienced to lose money or objects which would need to be replaced with money.

But more than that is the sense of violation. What gives someone the right to come into my home or put hands on my body and take my personal things? It’s dehumanizing. It feels disgusting to be treated that way. Of course I’m going to defend myself.

That’s ableist.

It’s fine if people come in to learn about it though, right? I think a lot of people like myself can’t get diagnosed for various reasons, or maybe they just have a loved one who has ADHD. I think it’s better to say that if you’re going to be ableist about it, you can keep your mouth shut.

That’s why you set up code ahead of time. Gestures are especially useful for nonverbal communication.

I need this on my fridge.

Similar experience for me with the Babadook. It illustrates that you will never be rid of your mental problems and trauma, that trying to be cured or normal is a fool’s errand. They’re things you’ll have to deal with forever, and the more you confront them the less they’ll control you.

It’s not only the caloric density, but also the actual makeup of the food. The bacteria species that live inside us are determined by what we feed them, and they heavily influence our feelings/behavior and body composition. Simply burning more calories with the wrong diet is an uphill battle.

i tem dog :3

the third straight day

Are you counting how long it takes until you’re bi, or…?

Pretty much every mental diagnosis that exists is a case of something completely normal which presents in too extreme (or too muted) a fashion in the given individual. The criteria for diagnosis isn’t just whether you experience X, but whether X has a significant negative impact on your life.

I wonder how her studies are going.

I took that other post as a riff on the kinds of people who put unrealistic and shallow demands on an idealized partner while offering little to nothing in the way of good partnership material themselves.