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EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

Beep Boop

Invisible Clergy posted:

Tragically too long for a username.

AITA for sending my food back right before the restaurant closed


Fully justified in sending the tacos back but still the bigger rear end in a top hat for being a picky eater.

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Blastedhellscape
Jan 1, 2008

Grape posted:

I'm thinking bullet dodged here.

Yeah. Among other things this sounds like that classic finding-out-someone-is-a-narcissist situation where the person blows up because of a dumb misunderstanding, then keeps doubling down indefinitely because the idea that they might have been mistaken about something is worse than any other consequences.

There are some people who are willing to die rather than admit that they might have mistaken a lens-wipe wrapper for a condom wrapper. A shockingly large number of people.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

MarcusSA posted:

Ok but where is she gonna get the stick?? She already has a baby in her hands.

Get the baby to poke him with the stick.

TengenNewsEditor
Apr 3, 2004

Lady, the best case scenario is your fiancée is dumb as a rock

value-brand cereal
May 2, 2008

Sounds like cold feet, perhaps? The op says "He's seen me use them many times. They have been in my bathroom for as long as he's known me and the wrappers have regularly been in the trash can.

Definitely possible he's having cold feet and doesn't have the guts to just sit down and talk to me about his reservations."

And also

"BonBonDee posted

Is he embarrassed because he confused a lens wipe with a condom? And now he’s doubling down?! Either that or there’s some underlying resentment and/or insecurity.

BTW I know the type of lens wipe you’re referring to. They are the exact size and shape of a condom. But how has he never noticed you using one before?! You’ve been together 3 years!

It just seems like there has to be more going on.

ThrowRAwrapperdrama posted

He definitely did notice before or at least have the ability to - the box of lens wipes is on the bathroom counter because I use them so frequently, and there are almost always wrappers in the trash. So it's not like there was something new and jarring that caught his eye."

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



EIDE Van Hagar posted:

Fully justified in sending the tacos back but still the bigger rear end in a top hat for being a picky eater.

That was my thought as well, there's probably just no good outcome if you're at the point where you're trying to order tacos with the specification of "chicken...no, I mean only chicken"

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
I'm a 27 YO Female trying to ghost a male friend

quote:

I've been trying to ghost a friend for almost a year. I find him toxic and he doesn't seem to have any sense of boundaries. Although, every single time I manage to distance myself from him, he's struck with a grave tragedy. His mother passed away, he lost his job, and now he has been diagnosed with an untreatable disease. Even though I don't hate him, I cannot stand his company. I wish well for him, but from a distance. I've tried being straight forward with him, but he still doesn't seem to get it. He constantly tries to call me and I feel extremely guilty. What should I do?

Tldr ; trying to ghost a toxic friend of 4 years. Been clear with him, but he doesn't get it.

Mx.
Dec 16, 2006

I'm a great fan! When I watch TV I'm always saying "That's political correctness gone mad!"
Why thankyew!


you don't need his approval to cut him off, dipshit

decorum poisoned idiot. if it sucks hit da bricks

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

Beep Boop

Mr. Grapes! posted:

My parents preferred to weaponize sleepovers for whatever reason. They could never articulate why, and even as an adult I am unsure of what their issue was. We were not some strict religious fundie house - I could play videogames, eat junk food, watch movies with gore and boobs in them, have girls over, and was otherwise pretty unrestricted at home. But if I asked to go sleepover somewhere, they would open the great book of excuses and start launching them.


That reminds me of a thing that happened to me once in high school. It usually was no big deal doing whatever I wanted because I was a pretty straight laced kid (and they knew it) and I called them, really just to inform them, saying “hey the whole gang is staying at $OTHER_TEEN’s house tonight” and suddenly I couldn’t and it was a big deal that I leave.

I was mad about it but until I got home and they explained to me that the dad in that house had a huge well know coke problem and had called up our house a few years ago while super high on cocaine and said a bunch of really weird sex poo poo.

Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos
Me (F28) with my ace partner (F26) of five years. Should I remove my nudity game modifications

quote:

My life partner and I are in a loving committed relationship, and have been for nearly 5 years now. We're planning to get married and live the rest of our lives together, and honestly I love it. I love her, and I just want her to be happy. We live together, and we have a set-up in the living room with a KVM switch and keep our PCs in the bedroom. I like moddifying my games for a bit of T&A nothing super egregious, but I'm careful not to play it on the TV in the living room, and since I'm at school most of the day, I play video games normally late at night in our room. The other day, my partner woke up and saw me playing the newest monster hunter, and got upset that I had a micro bikini modification. I generally keep two user accounts on the PC. I switch between them when I play games so that I don't blast a bunch of TnA onto the home screen. (Sometimes she'll pull up my game in the living room to see if I'm playing something she'd like to watch along with.)

She got really upset, and asked me why I play with those modifications. I don't really have an answer besides I like seeing nudity in my games, and while I accept it's weird I try to keep it as private as possible. She's ace, and while we're sometimes intimate, I make sure it's on her terms, but sometimes she can be a bit overly dramatic when it comes to romance. Like making blech faces at people kissing or whatever, and I normally will play along with her and be like "Oh yeah gross!" She knows I'm not Ace, and I'm honestly very comfortable with the intimacy we have right now. She asked me if I had any other games that were moddified like this, and I was a little embarrassed but didn't think it was a big deal, so I logged into the other account and explained to her my Fallout New Vegas, Fallout 4, Skyrim, Tekken, Street Fighter, FF:XIV and a few other games modifications.

I really wasn't hiding it from her, it just seemed disrespectful to have full blown TnA on the screen for the majority of the day. It went from that to her wanting to know if I play any eroge. Which I do, so I showed her. I misunderstood what was happening, and got really excited explaining the plots, and the various differences between the games. She was really quiet and went to bed huffy. The next day she asked me if I'd be willing to uninstall the modifications and games, as they were gross and weird, and I didn't really want too. I think it's OK to have those outlets, and I'm very careful not to have them open or around in any way that would be weird. I pointed out I had been doing this for five years, and that she was apparently unaware. She said she knew the whole time, but like why wouldn't she have said anything?

The thing is, she's ace, and I'm not, so I'm worried that I'm adding pressure for intimacy , or making her feel bad / gross by having them. That said, it's the only real outlet I have and don't want to give it all up, I don't know if it's a deal breaker, but I don't want to have a bigger conversation about it if I should just remove them. bigger conversation about it if I should just remove them.

tldr - Should I uninstall the nudity/sex modifications, or stand firm that I should get to enjoy my private time how I like?

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



Boba Pearl posted:

Me (F28) with my ace partner (F26) of five years. Should I remove my nudity game modifications

This is one of philosophy's famously unsolvable problems

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Boba Pearl posted:

Me (F28) with my ace partner (F26) of five years. Should I remove my nudity game modifications

I thought ace meant you just lack any real interest in physical intimacy, not that you make a scene any time you are exposed to the idea that people can be physically affectionate.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Pretty sure it means you're a really good defense attorney

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Barudak posted:

Pretty sure it means you're a really good defense attorney

:objection:

AKA Pseudonym
May 16, 2004

A dashing and sophisticated young man
Doctor Rope

Invisible Clergy posted:

AITA for sending my food back right before the restaurant closed


When I was a small child and ate burgers plain my parents would always specify "meat and bun" instead of trying to list off the things that shouldn't go on it. Otherwise somebody messes something up or somebody decides that you must want something on it.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Boba Pearl posted:

Me (F28) with my ace partner (F26) of five years. Should I remove my nudity game modifications

i don't know what's wrong with the asexual partner but im pretty sure it's not their sexuality lmfao.

ponzicar
Mar 17, 2008

value-brand cereal posted:

Sounds like cold feet, perhaps? The op says "He's seen me use them many times. They have been in my bathroom for as long as he's known me and the wrappers have regularly been in the trash can.

Definitely possible he's having cold feet and doesn't have the guts to just sit down and talk to me about his reservations."

And also

"BonBonDee posted

Is he embarrassed because he confused a lens wipe with a condom? And now he’s doubling down?! Either that or there’s some underlying resentment and/or insecurity.

BTW I know the type of lens wipe you’re referring to. They are the exact size and shape of a condom. But how has he never noticed you using one before?! You’ve been together 3 years!

It just seems like there has to be more going on.

ThrowRAwrapperdrama posted

He definitely did notice before or at least have the ability to - the box of lens wipes is on the bathroom counter because I use them so frequently, and there are almost always wrappers in the trash. So it's not like there was something new and jarring that caught his eye."

He was looking for an excuse to end things, but wanted to make it look like it wasn't his fault. So he decided to live out a scene from a poorly written romcom.

Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos
Am I the only one whose thinking that it was what the mods were rather then the mods themselves? Then again most /r/relationships posters aren't smart enough to hide that stuff.

Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos
As someone who titty mods all the time, you can get some seriously hosed up stuff in Fallout and Skyrim, not to mention what's available in the porn game sphere.

Midnight Voyager
Jul 2, 2008

Lipstick Apathy

Boba Pearl posted:

Am I the only one whose thinking that it was what the mods were rather then the mods themselves? Then again most /r/relationships posters aren't smart enough to hide that stuff.

On the one hand, I know weird aces exist and are weird. On the other hand, you can get some hosed UP poo poo for Skyrim and Fallout.

Boba Pearl posted:

As someone who titty mods all the time, you can get some seriously hosed up stuff in Fallout and Skyrim, not to mention what's available in the porn game sphere.

Imagining him doing some of the MLP mods or poo poo like the slavery mods "for immersion." New Vegas had some mod I remember that billed itself as an "immersion" mod that made the Legion camp seem bigger and more populated. What it did not mention is that it also added a ton of nude, suffering slaves.

Ziv Zulander
Mar 24, 2017

ZZ for short


The op said it started with a sexy bikini mod for monster hunter

Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos
Yeah but then followed up with a laundry list of other games, Skyrim, both fallouts, final fantasy XIV and others.

e: And 2 fighting games

Verdugo
Jan 5, 2009


Lipstick Apathy

EIDE Van Hagar posted:

Our kittens kept turning on the stove burners by climbing up on the counter. They don’t light the burners but they’ve definitely turned on the gas.

I just removed the knobs and keep them in a bowl next to the stove so I can grab as many as I need.

Hide the knobs OP.

I have an electric stove and I think my cat did the same thing, she bumped the burner on while we were getting ready for bed, we didn't notice. Added bonus is I kept a steelmade griddle on top of the stove w/ a wooden cutting board on it - when my spouse woke me up (Are you cooking something?) the kitchen was full of smoke, and the cutting board lit up when I picked it up off the griddle. Almost set the kitchen on fire. Now we have child resistant covers for the knobs and a fire extinguisher in the kitchen along w/ new smoke alarms.

Elissimpark
May 20, 2010

Bring me the head of Auguste Escoffier.

Boba Pearl posted:

e: And 2 fighting games

Can't play Tekken without my Sexy Heihachi Thong mod.

Kenshin
Jan 10, 2007
Uh, am I the only one thinking that if an asexual person is having that sort of reactions to nudity and sex then it might be that they are asexual due to some sort of awful sexual trauma, because that does not seem like the response of someone uninterested in sex, it seems like the response of someone with an aversion to it.

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

I'm strong. And a giant penguin. Please don't eat me. No, really. Don't try.

Me (F28) with my ace partner (F26)

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Elissimpark posted:

Can't play Tekken without my Sexy Heihachi Thong mod.

My fist isn't the only thing thats iron

Midnight Voyager
Jul 2, 2008

Lipstick Apathy

Kenshin posted:

Uh, am I the only one thinking that if an asexual person is having that sort of reactions to nudity and sex then it might be that they are asexual due to some sort of awful sexual trauma, because that does not seem like the response of someone uninterested in sex, it seems like the response of someone with an aversion to it.

I don't know, it's sortof a thing with some asexuals, making a point of talking about how gross and awful sex is. It can be very performative. (She also could be having some sort of self-conscious "I don't feel good enough, they want sex and I can't deliver" feelings and getting them out in a bad way.)

InediblePenguin posted:

Me (F28) with my ace partner (F26)

You are correct, I missed that, her.

Kenshin
Jan 10, 2007

Midnight Voyager posted:

I don't know, it's sortof a thing with some asexuals, making a point of talking about how gross and awful sex is. It can be very performative. (She also could be having some sort of self-conscious "I don't feel good enough, they want sex and I can't deliver" feelings and getting them out in a bad way.)
That makes sense and I hope that is the case here

value-brand cereal
May 2, 2008

I don't know if we can or should armchair therapist sexual trauma onto people when many cultures regarding healthy sexual relationships is deeply hosed up. That's not to say there isn't sexual fuckeduppery when it comes to usamerican culture alone because wow what the gently caress is purity balls and purity pledges people are making 11 yos do? Assuming they're from the usa, anyways. Wtihout more details, it's a crapshoot. That lady loving sucks though. It's her sexuality alone, not anyone elses. It's not unlike people who aren't asexual making their partners give up porn and control their sex drives. Lousy.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
Asexuality and sexual trauma are not incompatible, to say the least.

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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Kenshin posted:

Uh, am I the only one thinking that if an asexual person is having that sort of reactions to nudity and sex then it might be that they are asexual due to some sort of awful sexual trauma, because that does not seem like the response of someone uninterested in sex, it seems like the response of someone with an aversion to it.
You're not entirely wrong, but my understanding is sex-repulsed asexuality is a thing that's not necessarily caused by trauma. Asexuality is a spectrum as much as sexuality is!

That said, I don't think it should be something where someone's non-asexual partner is never ever allowed to look at a tit in the house because that's inherently repulsive to them, or whatever. If it's not happening in front of her I don't see why it matters?

Antivehicular
Dec 30, 2011


I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

I feel like the big question here is what the other mods are like. Are we talking "tiny bikinis on your character" or are we talking "your fighting-game finisher is now a sex crime"?

Definitely getting the vibe that sexuality mismatch in this relationship is a bigger issue than either of them are admitting. I suspect it may be Long, Sad Conversation time.

Kenshin
Jan 10, 2007

Antivehicular posted:

Definitely getting the vibe that sexuality mismatch in this relationship is a bigger issue than either of them are admitting. I suspect it may be Long, Sad Conversation time.
Agreed on that front for sure. Installing nude mods on all of your games doesn't really seem very normal to me. Seems like something someone who wants much more sexual contact than they are getting would do.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Antivehicular posted:

I feel like the big question here is what the other mods are like. Are we talking "tiny bikinis on your character" or are we talking "your fighting-game finisher is now a sex crime"?

Definitely getting the vibe that sexuality mismatch in this relationship is a bigger issue than either of them are admitting. I suspect it may be Long, Sad Conversation time.

I mean even if it is freak poo poo like that, the OP doesn't advertise it or spend all day blasting it on the main TV or whatever. Who gives a poo poo.

Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos
Apparently the Ace Person is rich.

OP posted:

I'm happy with her, and I know she loves me because she buys me whatever I want, and I don't really want to give that up I just want to have both the games and stuff and her undivided attention. She shows she cares in other ways, and I'm happy with that.

Yeah, she says in the comments that it's not Every mod, just some of them and doesn't specify more.

quote:

I’m asexual and have had non-ace partners-this is just run of the mill sexuality shaming. If she’s willing to discuss her own boundaries or other feelings on eroge, that’s fine, but huffing away and telling you to remove all your mods and games is not. Nor is apparently sitting on this for five years, in my opinion- but I am admittedly over-communicative in relationships, so your mileage my vary.

OP posted:

She didn't want all of them removed just some of them

Antivehicular
Dec 30, 2011


I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

oh, I see, OP is trying not to piss off her sugar mommy

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


It's sort of like the opposite of sex work, accepting paydays for never having sex.

William Bear
Oct 26, 2012

"That's what they all say!"
This sounds like the plot of a really depressing drama. Or a hilarious comedy.

My [20F] boyfriend [19M] is focused on chasing a boxing career and no other goals

quote:

My boyfriend arrived in Finland from Africa last year and I met him in a nightclub two months ago. He speaks English as a first language, and still hardly any Finnish. He is not a high school graduate. I'm in university myself.

He is obsessed with boxing. He is competing competitively and believes he will make it pro. He trains hard at it and refrains from sex the night before each match because he believes it will help.

The problem is I have issues with his goals. I worry about brain damage. I also want him to learn Finnish and to become educated. He is sweet but sometimes I hear opinions from him about women, gays, muslims, etc which are very uneducated.

Right now he lives on welfare and associates mainly with English speaking immigrants. I'm in love with him and I want him to have a good future here but his heart is set in a boxing career and I don't know how to help him.

TL;DR - My boyfriend refuses to learn the local language or go to school and I worry about our future.

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Barudak
May 7, 2007

Mr. Lobe posted:

It's sort of like the opposite of sex work, accepting paydays for never having sex.

Celibacy work is work

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