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[Owlga]

It's not a sexist label so much as a stupidity label. Thinking that effort always comes with the reward you expected.

[Sirus]

Man, I never even thought about it in terms of "effort". More like "you've been friends for a while, you develop romantic feelings for the other, the other doesn't reciprocate feelings/thinks it's a bad idea for whatever reason/doesn't even realize it; you're in the friend zone".

Dunno. I have basically zero experience with these matters so I likely have no idea what I'm talking about.

[Owlga]

It pops up since people that use the term generally didn't have real interest in anything other than sex with the person in the first place. I've also seen it pop up in reverse of how usually depicted too, I had a friend in high school that complained her "Boyfriend" freindzoned her and then she broke things off with him since she was mad.

I decided I need better friends then.

[MrRoboto75]

Was playing CK2, and there was one guy who had a plot to kill me for more than half of his 75 year long life. I didn't  even do anything wrong or be in the way of anything he could want. We even both liked each other! But no just kill some king you shouldn't care about that makes sense.

Isn't there usually an option to ask a plot leader to end their plot?

[Orange Wizard]

Ok how the HECK did the friend zone go from being a thing, to being a sexist thing, to being a thing again?

How the world did it escape the black hole that is the sexist label?

It's only sexist according to people who call everything sexist anyway; the rest of us just think it's dumb. Mostly because it's dumb.

Isn't there usually an option to ask a plot leader to end their plot?

"stop trying to kill me kthx"

[Lord Shonus]

Ok just some extra trivia. The 152 mm HE shell fired from the KV2 has almost 7 kilos of explosive material.
Ammoracks are said to explode when a shell with at least 150 grams of explosives (Or a TNT equivalent) detonates nearby...
So basically what happened here is in theory impossible... but hey balance right?

I guess the explosion tore a massive hole in the vehicles side causing the ammo to fall out before exploding.

The most likely explanation is that the ammo rack in question was empty.

[Putnam]

i got into bronze league in SFV today

then it immediately placed me 5 times in a row against people in the bracket above me, knocking me back down

beautiful

[chaotic skies]

The friend zone is a great place! You don't have to deal with drama. It's great out here. Come join me!

EDIT: In other news, I'm trying to get into Space Station 13 and I can't figure out how to connect to open BYOND for some reason 

[Putnam]

i always like the term boyfriendzone better

"i liked this girl and we hit it off and became friends but she didn't want to be my girlfriend so i boyfriendzoned her"

that's a much more appropriate way to look at it

[EnigmaticHat]

Man, I never even thought about it in terms of "effort". More like "you've been friends for a while, you develop romantic feelings for the other, the other doesn't reciprocate feelings/thinks it's a bad idea for whatever reason/doesn't even realize it; you're in the friend zone".

Dunno. I have basically zero experience with these matters so I likely have no idea what I'm talking about.

Its more the way many people went about complaining about it.  Its one thing to recognize that you have unrequited romantic feelings for another person, its quite another thing to think that that's the other person's fault.

[Rolan7]

The friend zone is a great place! You don't have to deal with drama. It's great out here. Come join me!

Oho, there can certainly be drama amongst friends.  But in my experience it's a lot more rational than, say, family drama.  And what I've seen of relationship drama seems like the worst.
Though maybe family and romantic relationships involve more unconditional forgiveness.  Which is nice, but isn't it a bit meaningless?

Not that I know much about real romantic relationships.  I thought I had partners, but they were really just friends who shared my need to satisfy certain peers and family members (Well actually, there was one person who was at least crushing on me hard...  And was frustrated that I didn't really reciprocate).  When I finally found a real relationship, I had to run away to deal with the personal insight.
(The insight was that I was gay, and that was terrifying and disgusting to me at the time.  Sure explained a lot though!)

Rails before pails

EDIT: In other news, I'm trying to get into Space Station 13 and I can't figure out how to connect to open BYOND for some reason 

Once you have BYOND installed, you should just have to click on a byond:// hyperlink and it'll launch byond.  Almost none of the SS13 servers I played on actually used the in-BYOND server listing, except temporarily.

[Owlga]

So has anyone been following the Apple San Bernadino decryption order thing? Since now there's some stupid sheriff in Florida saying if Tim Cook doesn't unlock the phone he'll go arrest him.

And not that long ago a DA said it needs to be unlocked because it might have some kind of cyber pathogen inside. And then said the cyber pathogen is likely a lie. ... What the fuck is wrong with these people exactly?

[Sonlirain]

The most likely explanation is that the ammo rack in question was empty.

Empty ammoracks are not shown in the X-ray view so the ammo was there. It just didn't explode.

[quinnr]

Friend makes plans to bring a couple other people who I kind of know to hang out at our place. Mutual friend of ours also coming.

Me and mutual friend hang out while we wait for the other three to come over. Friend ends up going to the other people's place, while not telling us about the change of plans. We only find out because of a snapchat from one of the other people. Now we are both slightly irritated because we could have made other plans or just not waited for three hours until we knew what was going on. Like we both offered to be elsewhere multiple times today so if he didn't want the two of us there he could have just said.

[Sonlirain]

So has anyone been following the Apple San Bernadino decryption order thing? Since now there's some stupid sheriff in Florida saying if Tim Cook doesn't unlock the phone he'll go arrest him.

And not that long ago a DA said it needs to be unlocked because it might have some kind of cyber pathogen inside. And then said the cyber pathogen is likely a lie. ... What the fuck is wrong with these people exactly?

I don't follow it or even care but if something MIGHT have a virus but most likely does not it does not mean it's not there.
When someone calls the hospital and informs the secretary that he planted a bomb inside the building people evacuate no matter how unlikely the existence of a bomb might be.

That's my 2 cents on it... and again i have no idea what's the whole ordeal is about.