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@alyx if I was adopted why did my parents get married against their will to raise me

@matana as long as you're not functionally impaired lol. Which anxiety can do to you anyway lol.

@Jazzy_Butts stop using the term MAP and just act like a regular human being instead of complaining or making it a huge chunk of your personality and acting like a creep about it. It's annoying, and people have a natural negative reaction to shit that annoys them. I always refer to 10 years ago when bronies were around and that's always the first thing you knew about them. It was annoying as hell. Now nobody really cares because very few people make MLP their entire personality these days.

It's like how there is a difference between gay people and faggots. Hell, there are trans people I was friends with and had no idea they were trans until somebody else told me. Someone with pronouns in their bio or username gives me an instant distaste, but somebody just going about things like anyone else that just happens to be trans, or happens to be a pedophile, etc. I have a lot more respect for and I'm more willing to have a discussion with because I know they're at least somewhat grounded in reality.

I've always said, if I were gay, nobody would know outright. I'd never "come out of the closet." It would just be a matter of fact thing. Only brought up if I had a dude come over and at that point everyone would be like "ah yeah that's cool." Pretty much all of my friends know I like loli, and I can guarantee you that if I had mentioned that to them first thing off the bat it would have been a lot more adverse of a reaction than if they hadn't gotten to actually know me first and just learned that detail over time. One of my friends is into futanari, same deal. We give each other shit for all this stuff all the time of course but all in good fun. Because we're regular people that just happen to have irregular tastes.

The best way to turn enemies into allies isn't by going to war.

still one of the best cartoon openings ever

https://youtu.be/ThInUu7Rg0g

this mother fucker had throat cancer and is still kicking it, long live fuckin megadeth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAqc_zfmML0

process explorer doesn't find anything it's being used by. i guess at some point windows just fucked up the firmware or something and there hasn't been an update since 2014 so i now have a paper weight.

inb4 >windows, there is zero linux support for this capture card. not even 3rd party.

was going to try and stream tonight but the universe is saying no. well, specifically, john microsoft is saying no. i can't boot up my capture card because something else is apparently using it but i have no idea what.

@straw i mean, fair enough, personally i wouldn't be romantically involved with anyone under age 18 (maybe even 21). i just don't think anyone should be like hung on a cross for it or labeled as a pedophile.

@straw kind of complicated, because there are plenty of places where a 16 year old can fully consent to a 22 year old and it's perfectly legal (it certainly is where I live, and I think that may have changed recently to be even more relaxed). Knowingly sending porn to minors is definitely illegal though so that's fucked up.

The term "pedophilia" is often used as a buzzword (usually as a stand-in for "child rapist") and really just means an attraction toward prepubescent children, particularly one that affects either the child or the pedophile negatively (i.e. causing depression, or physical/sexual harm). You actually have to be 16 years old to be diagnosed with it.

I think a man being attracted to a 16/17 year old is a pretty normal thing, especially someone as young as 22, for totally biological reasons (young, fertile, healthy, etc). The problem here isn't exactly with ages or a question of pedophilia, but a potential issue with manipulating someone, which isn't great regardless of the ages of the people in question. I mean, I can already see the dude is a loser for sending porn to minors, so he's clearly not a good guy, but I don't think a relationship between a 16 year old and a 22 year old is inherently a bad thing or pedophilic in the slightest. Like, 16 year olds can drive and in some places even drink alcohol but for some reason a 22 year old cannot be in a relationship with them? Then you can take it a step further and add 2 years on to both of them, just 2 years, and then is the behavior excusable? Food for thought. It's difficult to think or talk about because it goes against a lot of social engineering, but that probably means it's worthwhile. It's very challenging.

What the person in the reply is potentially missing though, they're getting butthurt about the way "pedophile" is being used instead of being mad at a guy who is clearly a manipulator and a loser. Plus, a 16 year old is still a minor and still has certain protections, so pornography is completely off the table. I'd wager the majority of 16 year olds watch porn in some fashion or another anyway, but knowingly giving it to them is illegal and fucked up. It's why I manually gave people an nsfw role on my old discord server that I knew were 18+ instead of just setting the channel to nswf.

@straw context?