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My succ dem friend always gets kinda upset when I tell him that he'd execute me during a revolution if he had the chance.

I get that its kinda a dick thing to say... but it is true.

Pop a couple of melatonins and drink a light beer, yeah you could say I'm hardcore when I party.

Do you disagree?

Sure, the ego is more or less a social appendage used by the brain in order to fulfill instinct and other drives. In the same way that our arms are merely instructed to move by electrical impulses, the ego is merely instructed to want/do things by the unconscious mind. You don't decide to eat, your brain increases the hormone Ghrelin and the ego carries it out. While it gets more complicated, this is also the reason people love, strive for greatness, and participate in altruistic behavior. If the ego isn't aware of where its desires come from, then it is powerless to distinguish between itself and those desires. Thus, it becomes no more sentient than an insect or a plant.

This isn't to say that the ego is destined to be a mere slave. The ego can override the desires of the unconscious but only if it is aware of the boundaries between them. Similarly, being unaware is not a moral judgment. You can be a morally righteous person and still not understand how the mind is structured.

I guess I don't really understand what your discomfort stems from. Most marriages in human history have been about convenience and economic necessity as opposed to love. It was nice if you got along with your spouse but that was never the main reason. At worst, your parents' marriage is on the lower end of the average human experience with marriage.

If you want an existential reason for your existence then you probably won't find one. Human beings aren't really sentient in the way they think they are. Most humans are driven by instinct in the same way that an insect is. What we consider the ego is merely the social organ that the brain uses to navigate interpersonal relations.

The show is really good actually and the animation is cool as well. It's basically one long love letter to early internet animation so if you know you know.

But the creators do have a right-wing cultural slant that shows up in their work. I don't support that of course.

The only place I can bike around town is my small suburb. There is literally no way to get onto a sidewalk without driving a car. At that point, I may as well just drive to my destination directly.

Yeah it's weird. No matter what I do, no matter how long I wait, there's always still some piss left in there.

The only thing that works for me is to sit down, stand up again, and then the you can get the last droplets out. I think male anatomy is just like that tbh.

I'm banning gay sex because it's not woke enough. Oh so you want to do something but women aren't allowed to do it?

The only sex that is woke is straight sex because there's a man and a women thus fulfilling diversity requirements.

Okay, Muv Luv alternative is actually really good and it makes up for the past two games being cringe as hell. Muv Luv Extra was generic waifu slop but a pretty good one. Muv Luv Unlimited was cringe bullshit and not worth the time. Muv Luv Alternative is within my top 5 favorite pieces of media.

It's like if Tommy Wiseau wrote The Room II and it not only was one of the best movies of all time but it also retroactively explained the prequel in a satisfying way.

I guess I'm presupposing that you might have other qualities that are attractive or that your partner of choice isn't incredibly shallow (the latter might be asking too much i guess).

It's not shallow to pick a more attractive or financially stable date to meet if you have limited information. We're not talking about moving from a short-term to a long-term relationship, we're talking about the barriers of entry to meeting with someone in a romantic context.

Also this is all neoliberal "everything is a market" internalized bullshit. You are not in competition with every other guy/gal on the planet when it comes to love.

I don't like that capitalism has commodified dating to the point that it is a competition with the millions of people around me. Love is not a market but dating and most avenues to meet are markets. When I go to a local furry convention, I can usually hookup with people out of my league. This is because I'm a top in an environment that is compromised of mostly bottoms. But when I go on grindr at my local city, I'm just another guy. Your competition in the environment affects your success. It's not fatalistic, but the macro trends influence how you do in the micro.

I know it sucks that humans are animals and beholden to our unconscious, but it is reality.