Do the Star Wars aliens count?

I can’t think of any “anthro” characters in Star Wars other than Ewoks and Wookies, which I’m sure there is some niche forum or subreddit out there dedicated to fawning over Chewie’s long, shaggy hair, but not quite what I mean.

Marvel had a few characters but none of them have been introduced in the MCU as “attractive” in any capacity. (They did my girl Wolfsbane wrong.)

But I feel more like this most days.

I wonder how long before we get a mainstream anthro character that’s seen as a sex symbol. (Cartoons don’t count, I mean designed from the ground up to be mass-market appealing.)

I have thought about this reply for about 9 hours and still cannot connect it to my comment, unless of course you left out one word:

moved from America to Germany because of PTSD and hate towards America Online.

If this is what you meant, then yes, I wholeheartedly agree and support your friend. Just trying to cancel their service alone was traumatizing.

Solution: Release the Epstein files.

While I agree with you, at this point, do we really think it will be any kind of solution? Do we really think any consequence will actually come from it even if we have explicit evidence?

At this point, the fukkin Epstein files are the distraction. They are emptying out our coffers and dashing our world reputation to the rocks and gutting our most basic social services to keep us alive and healthy and have ended programs that would have otherwise kept millions of people alive around the world. They are doing things that will literally lead to the death and suffering of millions and millions of human beings.

America is developing a long, weird, disappointing history of hating on air traffic controllers. Wild move singling out such a small field of people who have such massively important roles in managing not just our travelers but all of our air-shipped goods and products.

What a shame, I kinda liked their burgers back when meat didn’t make me kinda nauseous.

We’re only a matter of time from a sporting regime where it’s just broadly “open” to a level bordering on chaos, and it’s the only thing that is going to keep people watching.

The “should trans people compete” debate is going to be overshadowed by the “should people with extra hearts and enhanced organs be allowed to compete” debate.

The idea of “preserving fairness” in sports is wild when you think about it. Nothing about sports is “fair” you only succeed by getting an unfair advantage over your opponents, we just like to delude ourselves into thinking that because we set some kind of parameters around this capability to gain an advantage, that it’s “fair.”

Yah they’re setting the stage so we stop paying attention. This one was never going to have traction, but who knows what made-up BS tomorrow will bring.

He’s a very opportunistic politician, he knows how unpopular the dems are right now, he is carving out his path for '28, but I have very little faith that his almost inevitable presidency will bring us any real change for the people.

If your actions are indistinguishable from evil, you are evil.

There is no way these people don’t know how many lives they’re going to ruin and end with this vote. There is no way they actually believe they’re going to get the ACA tax credits from the political party that let the government shut down over the issue. Functionally evil is the same as evil.

For a game that is supposed to encourage exploration to start off saying not to?

It’s an odd point to get hung up on, I can certainly describe a lot of areas the game is lacking by today’s standards and some other open-world type games, but this wasn’t one of them for me. Some people are going to feel challenged by being told “don’t go there” and some people will feel offended and some people won’t think much of it I guess.

I’m pretty sure out of the 340,000,000+ Americans, there are probably SOME who aren’t ICE agents.

Yeah so you do have a point though that it seems more challenging to make friends, as a strange new form of mass-hysteria has enveloped the younger population in particular that makes everyone not want to hang out with everyone else and withdraw into their own heads, overthinking everything.

But it’s not the entirety of the nation. Not yet anyway. It just seems that way from what we see and read, but the people who do want friends and connection are still out there doing things. So our challenge if we want to nurture our social lives is be out doing things. Have interests, passions, have energy. If you’re tired and groggy and achy from staying inside, then that’s your cue to stop staying inside.

1. Do things until you find something that ignites a spark of some kind of feeling or emotion.

2. Pursue that thing until that spark turns into a passion. Or even a healthy interest that holds your attention. You might need to force it a little to break your habits.

3. The passion is shared. There are enough people to guarantee this. It will happen naturally if you’re not deliberately trying to avoid people. The internet and discord-type groups should be your “staging area” not your substitute. It doesn’t matter if it’s Warhammer miniature gaming or rock climbing or reading books, there is someone out there somewhere who wants to share the enjoyment with someone else.

Every distraction is a distraction for something else. This is the point, keep everyone going in circles until people just tune out and his administration can gut the federal budget and carry out bags of cash out the back door without the population even caring anymore.

He is literally just saying shit and trying to come up with big displays of big-manliness and kaboom power. It’s all he has and it actually works at keeping his base distracted and enthusiastic as he bleeds them dry.

Will we see a return to expensive and internationally condemned above-ground testing? Probably not, but for the length of the news cycle about it, his base will cheer and go “OORAH YAH! BLOW SHIT UP! BLOW ME UP HARDER DADDY!”

I mean… sure, I guess it bears mentioning my first playthrough I did brave the deathclaws and survived by being sneaky and took a wildly different path than most people at the time.

The idea isn’t that there’s an easier path of least resistance you can take, but that it actually let’s you go off the rails if you give it effort or come up with some logical ideas.

In modern gaming, solving problems with logic is almost dead, and NV had a lot of that.

If this is your only option for socialization… then something is wrong with your life, please do something before settling on this den of shut-ins and literal children.

I found myself in this same situation as a teenager with no social experience in my first months on AOL.

I mean, I went on to continue to operate and run relationship advice forums and learned a lot about psychology and emotional intelligence and have been thanked by a lot of people for using those tools to provide perspectives to people struggling in their personal lives.

But still, it’s pretty wild that in the last three decades or so we’re still treating everyone as the same faceless entity on the internet, for better or worse. (Usually worse. You need to start assuming anyone you talk to online is like, 12, because most of them are.)

I couldn’t connect with Outer Worlds either. I gave it a good shot but it didn’t give me any new feelings or enjoyment.

New Vegas was one of the best games of its type… for the time. It doesn’t hold up well on a technical level, the side quests are largely less immersive and interesting because our expectations have broadly changed. It was by far the best game I had played… in 2010. A lot has changed in the intervening 15 years and now the game feels small, cramped and limited in scope, to say nothing of how dated the graphics are.

What people are really saying when they hype up New Vegas was how much the story mattered. And how you had actual choices that impacted things, something that is dreadfully absent in modern games that have to play it safe and make sure the player has exactly the experience intended. When was the last time you played a game where you could skip right to the last boss and kill him (or join him!) and then the game goes on and people now know what happened or can learn that you did it? It would be AMAZING with today’s technical advances to have that kind of freedom and involvement with a storyline.