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FakeGAF 7: The Dark Thirst Rises
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Make up your mind, there can be only one Danny boy.
You best bring your A-Game bro cause just paying for my dinner isn't going to get my pants off I'm a proper gentleman
I'm not going to let a man pay for me.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Some of the responses in that thread are hilarious
Seriously though I open GAF this morning and the first things I see are threads about being a gentleman and getting out of the friend zone. What year is this?
I must be confusing you with someone else then XD
It wouldn't work on me either (asking probably would though).
I try to insist enough that people know I'm serious about paying then immediately back down and let them do what they want.
You Know Nothing
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Check the thread.
That is not advisable.
IT'S NOT LIKE I WANTED TO SUBSUME YOU, BAKA.
Drinks are on Mish!
liliththepale
Banned
Lucian Cat
Kissed a mod for a tag; liked it
If anything add another n to make a difference. Dannnnnnnnnnnnnnny
When you were drunk the other night and said to come hang out I asked Google Maps how to bus there and it just returned a shrug emoticon. Usually it will at least give me a route that starts at 6am I've never seen it actually give up before.
Yeah you can always just do this
Lucian Cat
Kissed a mod for a tag; liked it
Lol. It was only in nuriootpa. Not like I'm out Renmark way. Fuck that noise.
lol, never even thought to just take a pic of the glasses
I don't care about anyone thinking I'm willing to pay. I don't care about appearing to be a "man" who pays things. I don't want to pay things but I'll pay my fair share if needed
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I have to think some of these threads are not real. They just want to see what kind of tire fire they can start
Dude. HBO Now is such shit, and there's no possible way I'll be dropping it fast enough once the season wraps.
The stream quality is consistently crap on XB1 or PC.
And now this!
liliththepale
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I paid for my family's lunch today. I'm pretty sure that left my dad and two brothers feeling hyper emasculated. They're so weak.
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Yeah, I'm going to find someone who still has cable next year or just... wait an hour and a half after it airs.
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Yeah, I'm going to find someone who still has cable next year or just... wait an hour and a half after it airs.
There's always a lot of "No I'll pay" in my family, it's not even gendered (it's usually my mum and Nonno fighting about it) its just how we roll. Personally I like to pay for my own stuff so I resist other people doing it.
I'm not allowed to say bad things about Renmark, but if I was this is where I would do so.
We know who wears the pickle in your family.
I know, Vaz usually wants to add another D.
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Now I'm starting to see the resemblance to your old avatar Marrec.
I don't support drug use
Only pair of glasses I have in the house, at least they're comfy tho
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That "should I pay" thread is hilarious is so many ways.
I wish I were your shirt. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Lucian Cat
Kissed a mod for a tag; liked it
This is a safe place. Only you and I know Renmark lol. I did my hospital placement there last year. So many addicts.
Yep they sure are dorky haha.
Only pair of glasses I have in the house, at least they're comfy tho
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That "should I pay" thread is hilarious is so many ways.
RobotNinjaHornets
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Is buying rounds not a thing anymore?
1 alcohol is bad
2 my friend group has always paid for their own food. Idk about anyone else
If you were my shirt I'd get you off as fast as I could
They were my old safety glasses before I got contacts
Funny tho, had some hipster come up and ask me "where did you get those man they're so cool"
Riiight
Lucian Cat
Kissed a mod for a tag; liked it
It sure is.
Also guys love buying drinks for girls. I don't remember how many I had on Friday :S I lost track after my Twitter post.
They look like you're ready to work in a machine shop
liliththepale
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That's not what's being talked about. See the thread FUME5 linked.
Damn straight.
You Know Nothing
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Well done.
Mish is uninvited!
RobotNinjaHornets
Banned
Oh with food sure, but when out drinking we normally just buy each other drinks all the time
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Oh ok, I was just skimming and missed it >_>
Yasss use me as your [redacted] rag.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Pfff nerd glasses
I don't. You can buy me drinks tho
I'll join your family and just call their bluff immediately until the tradition is completely dead
GOOD!
Oh I might try to buy an appetizer for everyone else though
Drinks are expensive tho. No one is rich enough for that :/
It was in jest. I don't really have that strong a memory of the town itself, only three notable things happened there all within like 3 metres of each other:
- I fell asleep when we arrived and my friends drew half a moustache on me with permanent marker. Then we discovered that there was no running water on the houseboat.
- Getting together with my first ex on the roof while everyone else was asleep*.
- Awkwardly watching the sunrise with our mutual good friend who had a thinly veiled thing for her and getting this awesome shot of it.
*I'm pretty sure they still haven't realised this after 8 years
Lucian Cat
Kissed a mod for a tag; liked it
Only if you put outI don't. You can buy me drinks tho
:O
Them's sunglasses get that fake shit outta here
Yea it was for a machine shop, I worked in the office mostly but gotta have eye protection out there.
This thread's made my dirty talk game elevate tbh
You Know Nothing
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I don't. You can buy me drinks tho
This post is my spirit animal.
How dare you attempt to subvert the patriarchy by minimizing our impact on the ritual of eating.
You have so many sexualities and spirit animals it's hard to keep track.
Yes, how dare you successfully attack the patriarchy by buying drinks for two manly men such as myself and Granadier.
Freeza Under The Shower
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Oh. I meant the suggestion of using it as a selling point, not something that should be available anyway. If I wanted to roleplay a character as the gayest man ever (or whatever), I already can and should be able to. But it gets weird you start to design and market it as a specific feature.
Let me use Mass Effect 2 & 3 as an example of that versus Fable 2 (and further). In Fable, when someone has gained sufficient love for you as a hero, you can give them a ring and marry them, no questions asked. Man or woman, you can swing whatever way you want (though I don't remember gay marriage trigging a cutscene like the hetero version does), and the game lets you have it all. I might be misremembering the game(s) in this regard, but I don't recall any limits on that feature.
Mass Effect 2 introduced a rather disturbing "romance" feature where you could romance everything with a hole in it (oh, hello port side access hatch, how are yoooouu), but as soon as you wanted some man-action it went to "well hold on now, let's not get crazy". It's kind of sick in how it went from "scifi epic" to "space pussy wagon" because it presented the woman as very specific lust objects, and not much else. Jack and Miranda in particular are just there to be Pokemons -gotta f*** ém all! - of desire.
Mass Effect 3 made it much less creepy (even when it's still there, and very obviously so with ehm... the fembot) by making it into a singular commitment instead of the Fuckboat, but you still had only one option for gay romance. Despite being somewhat classier about it than most (then and now), it was still just the one guy. When you also had Kaiden and the hunk-o-meat that was introduced at the start, Vincent Vega, where off-limits. I'm not even gay and even I was slightly offended that romancing Vega was just not gonna happen. Like, the guy is there as the biggest prime slab of meat you've ever seen, but somehow he's off-limits. "Am I not good enough for you?!"
Anyway, EA of course marketed this an an actual feature, which also happened to be about the one good thing about the whole game. But it still came across as shouting: "We got ONE whole gay romance in this shit!", which is what I mean by making it weird. Gay relationships should not be made to be weird, even if the times allow you to make it a selling point. And really, ME3 did pretty well with this, I should reiterate that.
But it's preferable if, like Fable, the game doesn't force a gender definition on you by default. Just give people the options and let them work it out. It never stopped anyone in the pen & paper stage or text game or Massive User Dungeon (MUD) type setup, so why should it now? And it's worth pointing out that in terms of gender and sexism MMO's in particular have actually gone backwards rather than the pleasant gender-bending possibilities they provided before (in text format, unfortunately).
How is someone supposed to empathize with a perspective they can never choose to play as? Like how different Fallout 3 gets when you play it just with a female avatar and you suddenly notice how fucked-up sexist that game is (though the defence there is the setting, but even beyond that) versus you play it as a male character.
And in all this, I didn't even bring up the issue of writing female characters, which fantasy writer, like FUME5 pointed out, seem to be almost inherently incapable of.
Lucian Cat
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Having met you I can confirm this.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Airdrop sounds like a pro wrestling move.
I'm getting all your pictures rn
Think about it
If I ever switch teams I'm calling you first
You Know Nothing
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At least like 20 at this point.
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