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I am in the market for an ugly new mouse to replace my 20 dollar backup that I have been using for way too long

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I thought buying a paid english dictionary app with up to date "examples" and etymology sections was one of the smartest decisions I've made as someone who greatly struggles at absorbing new words without access to mnemonic aids, but since switching to this new phone I realized that for whatever reason the long press contextual menu used for performing actions on selected text (the same one used for paste and undo) has been significantly locked down on this version of android, such that you cannot perform actions that would invoke third party apps unless the current app context explicitly permits it. I can't use the menu to open text selections on tumblr directly on my dictionary for example, but I can on firefox.

that's the only reason this dictionary was superior to me over the built-in Samsung one, which is instant but lacks examples and has definitions too brief to be useful, like this just fucks me over completely because having to press the home button on top of waiting for the dictionary app to load to then go back to where I was goes over the threshold of how long my brain can wait before the context in which I read something is irretrievably distorted. android is honestly such a meaningless convoluted ecosystem I hope whoever made this decision (probably under the pretext of increasing security) dies

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Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman's whole family was so obviously an enterprise – it functioned on the exploitation of vulnerable people, young isolated women hired as nannies and babysitters, a tenant family who would manage land and properties. The whole timeline and the way they did damage control was so much like any major company – Palmer identifying the vulnerable and "hiring" them, Gaiman providing the money and feeling entitled to abuse. Palmer functioning as HR to mediate "abuse" by further isolating the worker. The reproduction of ideology in teaching your child to call his nanny a slave. The final straw for HR only coming when the beloved, innocent child was exposed to the abuse. All for preserving the value of their family, the ideology it represented (Palmer and Gaiman's long documented history of taking advantage of fans) and the media enterprise where they both made and sold "Art" about it. Family abolition now and so on.

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i probably should replay it either way but going from memory, is there anything to the "the signalis is anticommunist btw", or is that a critique from feeling slighted that a game they were told was great features a fictional state that is both superficially influenced by east germany and not portrayed in an uncritically good light? does anyone have the original post?

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onimai was such a cute and good manga. very few manga straddle the line between having an immensely stupid premise and making me almost cry every once in a while

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i find those videos of people in high end kitchens doing chocolate sculptures so inexplicably dull. like okay you find food sculpting cool but also the only way for you to relate to it is if it's something bland that no one is going to eat

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something about the innocence and ideological purity with which dreams can be interpreted that makes dreaming about sucking a woman's penis that completely fixes my neuroses

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can someone recommend some good manga? I changed devices about a year ago and lost access to my old library, trying to follow new releases again

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would you guys trust someone called Demetrios Chalkokondyles if he said the conqueror of Constantinople was a fag? no? okay what if the guy he was a fag for was called "Radu the Beautiful"?

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not what that word means!

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in short I think the extent to which fighting game knowledge is applicable to souls games is more palpable than you'd think and people that have even a passing interest in how they intersect should try monster hunter. it's a good game with a shitton of replay value. I'm only just now opening myself up to trying more weapons and the amount of ways in which you could approach drawing matchups for each weapon and monster pairing is mindblowing. charge blade vs glavenus makes me hard

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like the funniest thing about maining charge blade is the number of videos about it that are just "by the way you have a fade slash" or "you can charge your sword". like no shit??? and it's not even a complicated weapon, the complexity is largely not from managing your phials, it's learning self control and understanding the recovery windows for each of your axe moves because its biggest attack is more committal than great sword true charged slash

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noticing a trend where people that talk about monster hunter in ways similar to how FGC people talk about fighting games' characters tend to produce really good and insightful analysis of its combat extending not just to weapon knowledge, but learning how to read patterns for monsters you haven't fought before and becoming more efficient at punishing small openings in general, whereas people who approach it as a completely standalone genre isolated from that type of comparison tend to just regurgitate pointless, meaningless trivia or produce "advanced guides" that just teach the basic moves of a weapon (and yet are somehow very successful YouTubers). even if they both understand how to play the game and can achieve very fast hunts, the latter are REALLY bad at teaching what skills are important to master to newbies. the same is true for souslike content creators discussing build creation, possibly even more so — people are really focused on explaining how to achieve the highest damage number (against a static target) while being really bad at conveying the importance of movement and converting a whiff into damage. conclusion: fighting game players are the only people who understand anything at all

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quinndolyn ruined my life I can't stop listening to league of legends music now

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placing the blahaj between the wall and the jerk off towel as a backrest