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2024-09-28 07:26 am

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Sometimes Final Fantasy XIV can fuck off.

Quest said to go to Bloodshore and catch a fish that only comes near the shore at nighttime. FFXIV doesn’t tell you what kinds of fish are at what locations until you catch them, but it marks a ??? for fish that can only be caught at a certain time or with a certain weather condition. All the locations in Bloodshore have one ??? fish, so I figured they all had the fish I needed.

I caught fish after fish at North Bloodshore at night, none of them the one I needed. Then I gave up and looked at the wiki. The fish I needed are at a bunch of Bloodshore locations, but North Bloodshore has a completely different ??? fish with different requirements. Nothing in the game itself fucking told me I was wasting my time—all it said was to go to Bloodshore!

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2024-09-20 11:09 am

Reading radfem posts

Shit, it’s fucking virtue ethics. “Morality is about being the kind of person who embodies virtues. If you spank someone, you’re not embodying virtue.” Fuck you and the ancient Greek chariot you rode in on.
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2024-09-19 07:06 pm

Pedophilia isn’t mainstream

I want you to repeat that to yourself before arguing that some mainstream work of fiction is targeted to pedophiles. Nobody involved in creating mainstream fiction is doing the Boku no Pico thing where they market research what will most appeal to pedophiles.
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2024-09-13 04:14 pm

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You know what’s worse than the villain who’s obviously right, but gets killed to maintain the status quo? The villain who’s obviously right, but the story has them conclude they were wrong all along and die saving the hero.
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2024-09-08 03:20 pm

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With the Palestine posts, the idea I keep coming back to is “you don’t fucking know.” People say some blog is “vetted,” and it means they talked to the blogger, but they don’t fucking know if the blogger is a scammer or not. Just give to the big nonprofits, because there are people whose job is to fucking know if they’re scams.
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2024-09-04 11:45 am

FUCK ANTHEM

I call Anthem Blue Cross. I tell them I need a mandibular adjustment device. They give me the number of a local in-network dentist.

I call the dentist. They’re not in-network, and they’re sick of Anthem saying they are.

I call Anthem. They say they don’t even cover mandibular adjustment devices, and I should call MetLife Dental.

I call MetLife Dental. They don’t cover mandibular adjustment devices. That’s Anthem’s job.

I call Anthem. They give me a list of all in-network dentists within 20 miles who can give me a mandibular adjustment device.

I call the dentists. One puts me on indefinite waitlist because they have so many patients already. Every other dentist is either out-of-network or doesn’t provide mandibular adjustment devices.

I call Anthem. They say they can’t give me a list of dentists, because they’re medical insurance, not dental insurance. I try to explain they already gave me a list of dentists, and I get nowhere. They tell me to call MetLife and get a list of nearby dentists from them. Even if they’re out-of-network, Anthem will still pay 70%.

For lack of a better idea, I call MetLife. I say I need a local dentist who can provide a mandibular adjustment device. They say they’ll send me a list of local dentists. I say I specifically need dentists who can provide a mandibular adjustment device. They say they sent me the list of dentists. I hang up.

I call one of the dentists on MetLife’s list. They don’t provide mandibular adjustment devices.

I call one of the out-of-network providers from Anthem’s list. I ask if it’s true Anthem will pay 70%. They say Anthem will pay 70% of the allowable rate, but they don’t publish what the allowable rate is, so it could be anything. I’m on the hook for everything else.

I’m going to call Anthem and see if I can find out the allowable rate for a mandibular adjustment device. Wish me luck!
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2024-08-28 11:05 am

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Ethics training for my job:

“Part 760 of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) implements the EAA’s anti-boycott provisions. U.S. persons are prohibited from taking certain actions with the intent to comply with, further, or support an unsolicited foreign boycott. Prohibitions include:

“Refusing to do business with a boycotted or blacklisted entity.”

What kind of coercive bullshit is this?
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2024-08-22 06:24 pm

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If you think “TME” is a meaningful concept I will hunt you for sport.
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2024-07-07 03:26 am

Symphogear ranting

Oh come the fuck on, they were dead! One of them was shot by a gun that went on to blow a chunk out of the moon! And then they died again, and they had a grand send-off where they knew they were gonna die together and accepted it! The show opened on a survivor crying at a grave, and you're gonna bust in at the end with "actually, they're all alive for the next season"? This is not how you pay off a story about people sacrificing over and over to help others!
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2024-06-29 03:12 am

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Smooth-sharking is like microdosing Kiwifarms.
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2024-03-29 03:51 am

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You might find it surprising that I like Arknights despite finding it racially insensitive at times. But I get offended so often that my general tolerance for bullshit has gone up. Arknights’s offenses are rarer than usual, but I think they’re still milder than some of the common offenses majority dudes ignore.

I mean, I’m playing Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. I am willing to put up with SO MUCH offensive bullshit because I can’t expect normies to think about how something looks!

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2024-03-01 10:48 am

Still yelling at Arknights

“It seems like you southerners really need to have a reason for everything.”

Humans need reasons, and when they don’t have one, they make one up. What Magallan looks for is methods. With a known method for why something happens, she can stop from telling herself comforting falsehoods. You absolute moron.

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2024-03-01 09:21 am

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Just saw TME discourse in the wild, and discovered it’s just tucute discourse for people who would have been berated as tucute. This is not fucking Among Us!
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2024-01-18 11:44 am

Sniping here instead of at OP because I’ve gotten blocked enough times lately

You think “white gays” believe propaganda that tells them to hate Middle Easterners.

This is because you believe propaganda that tells you to hate “white gays.”

Gay people who aren’t Pete Buttigieg are aware enough not to listen when people who hate them tell them who they should hate. Stop assuming you have more enemies than you actually have.
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2024-01-18 06:05 am

Thoughts partway through the latest Arknights event

I hate Swire and Dolly for basically the same reason. Swire doesn’t have to grow the fuck up because she’s catgirl Donald Trump. Dolly doesn’t have to grow the fuck up because nothing can kill him. Both of them think the problems other people have to deal with are irrelevant because they personally don’t have to deal with them, so they see others as weak (Swire) or immature (Dolly) for caring, and themselves as strong (Swire) or mature (Dolly) for not caring.
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2023-12-31 04:08 am

TMI

If you’re gonna let your horrible gross unvaccinated nieces visit for Christmas, at least make sure the little bastards have learned to wash their hands.

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2023-12-12 08:11 am

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TERFs are so damn exhausting. They do “there’s no difference between men’s brains and women’s brains, so trans women and cis men aren’t different,” and I’m like, sure, whatever, we’re all one. Then they do “these men are pretending to be women,” but if we all have the same brains anyway, why do you even care? There’s so much emphasis on man as invader, man as threat to women, but of course this doesn’t make men and women different. Just pick a damn position and stick with it!

(“We’re all one” is also my attitude towards people who identify as dragons, which gets me even more backlash. I wouldn’t treat a dragon different from a human anyway, so who gives a shit?)
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2023-10-07 03:00 pm

What I really want to say whenever someone says they do harm just by existing

Stop cycling already.

You think you can only do harm, so you do harm, so you think you’ve proved yourself right because you only did harm, so you stick with the harm. If you can just hold off and stop setting fire to everything good in your life, you’ll find that a lot of people are happy to have you around. And if you think you’ve “tricked” them, that doesn’t matter. You can keep “tricking” them, so they’ll keep being happy, so you can “trick” them some more. It’ll continue indefinitely so long as you don’t decide to “end the trick” and hurt them in the name of not hurting them.