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I need to rant. I am so tired of dating apps, but I don't know a better way to meet someone for an introvert. I don't get out much, I don't play much multiplayer games. All I want is an attractive woman, who's chill, a little nerdy, leans left politically, and is around my age (early 30s.) I don't think that's much to ask. Like it's not like I feel like I deserve a woman or love or some crap, I just want someone to talk to mostly. I want someone I can sit with and watch a movie with that isn't related to me. We don't even have to be next to each other or touch, just sit in the same room and watch a movie and maybe talk about the movie and about our common interests. Like we don't even have to share the same nerdy interests I just want someone who I feel gets being nerdy and maybe plays videogames so I can have an occasional player two. It so annoys me too, that I put in an age range in a dating app and it gives me women half my age or twice my age. Like I put in the age range I was comfortable dating, why TF are giving me someone +/- 10 or more years older than me? It's the same thing for political beliefs, I want someone moderate to left leaning so I don't feel like the only person who swings left politically in my family, but the apps just ignore that completely so why is it even an option for me to put a check mark next to? I'm not saying there's something wrong with being conservative, I just mean that it's not what I'm looking for from a potential partner. Yeah, I know dating apps aren't the best way to meet someone and they're mostly after your money, but you'd think the app would at least listen to what I'm looking for and not throw me into a cauldron of people I don't think I'd ever have a connection with. Dating is already hard enough. It's making me wanna pull my hair out.

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Something that irks me is people who call Halloween a satanic it's not.

It did start out as a pagan holiday yes, celebrating sam hain a pagan God, but the name Halloween came later. This form of Halloween was supposed to celebrate the end of the year and the end of summer. It wasn't called Halloween. Later what happened is it got co-opted and absorbed into Christianity as a holiday. The form of Halloween we have now came from the mixing of the Scottish hallow and the suffix even, hallow meaning saint and -een meaning evening. Halloween is supposed to be the evening before all saints day where you celebrate all the saints. Halloween is basically saints evening or saints eve. Costumes and stuff came later and it wasn't till much, much later that we started getting costumes that were more than a mask and a shirt I'm talking post 1970s. That's where you started to see more costumes that were more "ha ha let's playfully dress as a stereotypical witch or devil or etc."

Now, let's compare that to Christianity's favorite holiday Christmas which originally started as a Roman holiday called "day of birth of the unconquered sun" as where they celebrated the end of the harvest. Men would decorate, give gifts, and get wild(usually in more ways then one cause this was the early Romans we're talking about, but acting wild was also just part of the holiday long after them). The birth of the sun basically became the birth of the son after Christianity co-opted it. I mean even in the Bible it mentions farmers working their fields and they wouldn't be doing that in the winter or at the end of a harvest. So it's probably not the actual birth of Jesus and some Christians celebrate his actual birthday on the 6th. ( Cause that's when it's said he was baptized and that's where the 12 days of Christmas comes from). Now this took a lot longer to take hold of people as a religious holiday it was banned by the protestant Church for hundreds of years in Scotland and it was outright banned in puritan America because festivals somehow offended God. The gift giving part of the holiday also gained religious connotations in the 6th century, because of saint Nick who would give modest little gifts to children (and prostitutes). The more modern magical creature interpretation of Santa Nick Claus comes from the poem twas the night before Christmas and Coca-Cola adverts in the 1800s.

So to recap, both of these were pagan holidays that Christians made into holidays and neither of them are evil and you can't really say one is evil for being a pagan holiday or a holiday that encourages sin without being a massive hipocite because they both were to a certain extent.

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As I grow older it's so weird to see things from the past that people had a connection to, but you just don't. That exists outside of you that you had no connection with. Like oh yeah I remember that, I think we all had a (insert media here) phase and like you yourself didn't have that phase and you only really know about the thing through cultural osmosis and random YouTube videos. Like this looks interesting and I would have probably liked it if I had gotten into it, but I didn't seek it out or by the time I'd found out about it it was already over, sometimes for a long time. Like the band Nirvana is that for me, respect the band, respect what they did, find them interesting. Never got that deep into the band or their music. There are other things too that I've heard or seen on the internet that are similar in that aspect. Never got into Homestuck or strong bad. Never got into things like Penney arcade or like other things people have good or bad memories with. It almost feels a little alien too, like a whole other world existed out there and you only saw snippets where someone was expressing their love or ire for a thing. I know it's not that weird to realize that there's a world outside yourself, but it feels weird when you find out about a thing that you never knew existed cause you weren't at the right place at the right time or didn't have that friend to introduce it to you. That there's a collective memory that the only way you can interact with it is through other people's memories. I know this isn't really that profound, but it was something that I was thinking about.

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Random character and story idea: Italian vampire who desperately wants to eat Italian food and used to love garlic, but can't now cause vampirism. Goes on an adventure to try and find something that tastes like garlic, but isn't. Also he can't cook and refuses to learn so he also needs to find a cook.

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If marvel ever gets around to adding Squirrel girl to the MCU, I want the song "simp - squirrels in my pants" by Dan Povenimire from Phineas and Ferb to be in the movie/show somewhere.

At best I want it to be a chekov gun like plot point like she has to defeat a bad guy by making him dig squirrels out of their pants with the song giving her the idea, she has to hide her squirrel-ness from a guy she likes while the song plays in the back ground(as in hiding her Squirrel tail in a pair of pants(also ha ha she's "s.i.m.p."ing for a guy), or she has to hide tippy toe or Monkey Joe in her pants as a jokey bit and she'd be walking funny because of it and maybe the song is non-diagetic in that last case.

At worst I would just want it to be a background gag on a tv in her home that she walks buy while parents or a roommate(depending on the age they wanna make the character) are watching or on the street in a shop or store she's currently fighting near or in.

And you know Disney could do it because they both own Marvel and Phineas and Ferb. Personally, I just feel like it would be genius cross promotion and brand synergy too and a hilarious joke.

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I love Pokemon. It is the Hallmark of video games in that it's the safe, calm, non-threatening, familiar game series that almost everyone has fond memories of. That being said I feel like the games need to change. Now there are 4 big things that Pokemon need to change in my opinion

-battles

- visuals

- story

-gimmicks

Firstly, the battles in Pokemon need to change. Now if it were up to me I would turn pokemon into a fighting game where you set your four moves up and you can jump and dodge out of the way and it would look like something out of the anime. You'd have your 6 pokemon and you'd have to master them and their moves as you worked your way to the end of the game. Though I don't really feel like that's feasible due to tech and would be too much work for their team. So here's what I'd do with the game I'd add the left and right dodging from Pokemon go. The game suddenly doesn't get super complicated, anyone can still play it,but it adds an added sense of strategy when I can suddenly dodge your shadow ball. Things like speed could still affect it and make it harder to dodge, but I feel like it would add a slot to the game. Cause I feel like one reason the games have remained so simple is accessibility. A 10 year old and a 90 year old could pick up the game quickly and it's not super complicated, and I feel like the left and right movement would add some complexity, but keep things simple. The animations are another big thing that I feel needs to be addressed. Pokemon have enough money to animate their Pokemon doing something more interesting than hopping in place or jumping from side to side. Like I'm not asking for anything fancy, but you could have like an animation of Pokemon getting hurt and a pokemon running up and biting at or punching or clawing or yelling at the Pokemon they don't need to touch, but give me the illusion of them touching.

Pokemon need to hire some people that just do textures and I'm tired of seeing a tree or a mountain that looks like it was made for the N64 I'm not asking them to hire a bunch of new people, just some people who's job is to texture things and make them pretty. Also if they're gonna keep the schedule they have they need more QA. I know QA can be a dirty word on the business side of videogames, cause if they're looking to cut costs the QA team is the first to go, but no game needs to release in a bad state and so many issues could've been fixed and so many gaming companies reputations could be saved from hiring people who's whole job is making your game play the best it can.

Now, the story in Pokemon can be great I've heard that the newest game had a great story. I just have a few issues with Pokemon's story. For one, I feel like Pokemon has way too many throw away characters. How many professors exist in one game just to be thrown away in the sequel? how many rivals? How many enemy teams( even in the game gen?) there are characters people love like lance and Cynthia and Oak, but I feel for every one of those characters you have so many characters that you throw away in Pokemon, never to be seen again. Like one thing about gold and silver I loved is that it lets you re-explore Kanto after a previous different you saved the Pokemon world and I feel like Pokemon doesn't let you do that much. Like the legends are a step in the right direction, but I don't feel like the story potential is explored there at all. Not only that, but I feel like some of the stories they give (*cough sword/shield*) are kinda lame. I also don't like Pokemon locking pokemon and story content behind DLC, though I feel like that might just be a necessary evil of the games industry, I don't like it, but whatever I don't know what they would do with dlc beyond that and games should have some other revenue they can get besides just one big game every few years.

Pokemon needs to stop adding a gimmick every new Pokemon game. The cooking gimmicks especially. Some I think are really cool like I like the idea of mega evolutions and future and past pokemon and regional forms. I also liked the dynamaxing when it changed the Pokemon's form. Big fan of the stuff that changes a form of a pokemon, but not so much when it just makes a pokemon big or just makes it made of crystal. I'm more of a fan of gimmick Pokemon (seeing a bird choking on a Pikachu will never not be funny), but not so much if the gimmick is all that Pokemon is. Shines are great, but not when the default is just green for a lot of Pokemon. Also so many of these gimmicks are gone by the next game and some are beloved, but kinda fizzle out in a few games (like contests and mega evolution) I feel like if you need a gimmick to keep things fresh there's something wrong with either the game or that aspect of the game. My main issue with the cooking gimmick is that it's just an added-on mini game when you could have used that development time to clean up your game or add on to what you already have. Like imagine if those cooking mini-games were for contests, it would have been more fun than pokeblocks where you had to blend berries, but they're just there for you to connect with your Pokemon. Like I feel like the gimmick is more "hey look at this shiney new thing(sometimes literally)" than "hey look at this fun new thing."

So here's what I'd do. I'd add dodging as a battle mechanic. It's simple and keeps you more engaged in the Pokemon battle, but it doesn't over complicate It. Depending on the attack you'd have to jump out of the way. If they want to do double battles one pokemon could be controlled by the directional pad and one by the shoulder buttons or you could just have them dodge in sync. Secondly being more smart with the textures,more cell shading would probably do the trick and more animations to give me the illusion of combat happening and more QA. Third, bring back more old faces, like I don't want it to be uncommon that you see an occasional old face in a new place if nothing else the spin off games would be perfect for this. Not asking for a deluge just some old faces more often when it makes sense. Just a professor or rival showing up more often wouldn't be unwelcomed. Fourth less, but more meaningful gimmicks. You don't have to reinvent the wheel with every new game, but if there is a new gimmick it should be something you want to complete and do. I think these are fair and easy things they could imminent and it would add a lot to the game.

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There aren't always happy endings, and that's a tragedy.

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I'm not sure if I have a.d.d and autism, but I think I do and sometimes it feels like they fight it out in my brain for dominance.

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There's this weird thought I had where cartoons with very similar art styles or if they have a character pop up in said animated show take place in the same universe and it makes those universes even more insane if you think about it.

Like I was watching a video about pepper ann, but the art style is super similar to the show kids next door, but I also know pepper ann also shows up in amphibia. So that kinda makes that collective universe insane if you put those 3 shows in the same universe.

It's like the Tommy Westfall theory, but it's for cartoons.

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One small thing that bothers me is people saying they're becoming a boomer. That's not how that works my guy/gal/non-binary compadre. You don't age into becoming a baby boomer. You just become the older generation. You don't age into the next gen up from you. If you're a millennial you just become an older millennial, if your gen Z you're never gonna age into a millennial. I understand the feeling of getting old, but you're never gonna age out of what generation you're in.

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The urge to want to get good at something vs. The apathy to not want to be bothered with it. Who will win!

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Shout out to cats, all cats, cool cats, that cat, your cat, my cats, that other cat, and the one that just everyone on your block owns and no one wants to claim, but they're willing to feed that cat.

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This happened a while back but I still remember it. I am not one to pet random dogs, and I will ask before I pet someone's dog most of the time. Though there was this one time I was going into Walmart with the family to grab something and I saw a lady and her big dog packing up to leave and my brain was overcome with the "oh what nice dog, must pet" and I turned around and pet this random woman's dog. The lady was cool about it and said the dog loved attention and the dog clearly loved attention, but I just remembered how weird it was that I just suddenly wanted to let someones dog and call them a sweet doggo. I am not usually that person, but I was that day for some reason. I still to this day can't really say why I petted the random dog, but I did.

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Weird marvel themed dream...

So I like the Ms. Marvel show, though my mom is a bigger fan of the show than me(the guardians are my favorites).

Anyway I say that to say this. I had a weird Ms. Marvel dream. I dreamt that we were neighbors, and we lived across the street from them. I was outside feeding my cats when kamala's mother ran out shouting that her baby was missing. (Apparently kamala had a younger brother in this universe I don't think she does in the comics or show, though she does have an older brother) anyway, I shouted for the rest of the family that we needed to help and without skipping a beat we all hopped in the car and started looking for this kid, we eventually found him(there were no supervillain shenanigans, but I do think we knew Kamala was a superhero.) We saved the kid brought him home and gave him the kamala's mother. I just remember a lot of cheering at the end of the dream.

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I'm a democrat and I don't mean any disrespect and I hope everything turns out okay for anyone going through the hurricane, but the fact that hurricane Hillary is hitting California kinda makes me giggle, because it feels like people are talking about Hillary Clinton being back and I just imagine a Kaiju sized Hillary Clinton attacking California and slowly giving up as they hit Nevada and going to Vegas.

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I love when stories get ridiculous. Like you have some average Joe at the beginning of the story and by the end he's fighting Gods cause they just so happened not make him mad that day. Like the more silly the better. Like there's a story of the joker raising a baby Bruce Wayne, or a show aimed at teaching kids English based on Godzilla or a story where the Ghostbusters are 2 men and a gorilla.