I love nor being american so much

Absolutely do use whatever makes you happy, but that is a false equivalence. Plex just updated their license to allow them to track your content consumption and sell that data to whomever they want…

Parks is just more americanized, it isn’t “better”. Later seasons of The Office look and feel much more like it, as the writers pandered more and more to mainstream audiences

Your image of the show is pretty distorted, it’s not at all some edgy middle schooler show. The humor is (generally) in how much of a dumbass Michael (the boss) is and how much he ruins situations trying too hard to be funny, and the witty jokes are generally well performed one liners by Jim (John Krasinski) or malapropisms by Michael, like “I’m not superstitious, but I’m a little stitious” or “his cap was all pitated!”
The show repeatedly makes fun of Michael’s prejudice, too, like how he feels superior to the warehouse guys despite having the same education as them and not even earning that much more. It isn’t edgy to make fun of the stereotypical middle-aged white male boss being insensitive

As a tobacco fiend I couldn’t ever get into smoking cigs. The only time in my life I’ve smoked consistently was when I was extra depressed and trying to microdose suicide. Guess I’m lucky

I loved it as a life long One Piece fan

I was this guy in my teens (minus the hoping girls get abused part…) and it 100% comes from depression and self loathing. He probably had a tough time getting along with the “normal” kids early on and decided to self isolate. Maybe the now normies had a part in that too back then, bullying him and so on, I know it happened to me… It’s a rough and very hard situation to live through, but there’s hope

Maybe speedruns too could be a good fit.

Thankfully this is a .world comm focused on mental health so I can say this. I don’t think it’s productive or particularly helpful to anyone to be constantly acknowledging “the system”.
Example: your boss screams at you. IMO the best reaction would be like “damn, what a dumbass, I’ll do my best to avoid him in situations like this one or change my job”. Simple fixes and you can go on with your life. But no, posts like these want you to turn this simple day to day issue into one you can’t ever do anything to deal with, and amplify the negative feelings from just simple anger or sadness to hopelessness, to further “class consciousness” or whatever political motivation. Same thing with right wingers being robbed and turning it into some immigration or race thing instead of just settling down.
Not to say there isn’t space to discuss this stuff, but actively reminding yourself of problems you have no say in fixing is a negative pattern

Isn’t that a core symptom of autism that’s shared by pretty much every autistic person?

It’s generic power fantasy with no substance. The art is pretty cool though, and it’s well paced for what it is. I have read the entire thing, btw

Maybe have better hobbies? I like videogames as much as the next guy and do play them, but they are literally “pay for dopamine” as an industry. If your main past time is playing through a carefully engineered dopamine machine, it’s no surprise you feel no long term achievement

Brazil unfortunately

I’d Jim the camera and say “logs, amirite?”

I hate that this is the now de facto design for a Balrog, most of all because it’s a cool monster design in its own right. Alas, check out the illustration for Durin’s Bane (the Moria Balrog) in The One Ring 2e. There they did a text-accurate Balrog and it’s amazing, I think you can find it online, and Anna has the book archived I hear

Early The Office is up there with some of the best comedy ever written IMO. The later seasons are a spin-off doing slapstick cartoonish comedy, which is funny in it’s own way, like actual cartoons are funny still as an adult.
The storylines aren’t and honestly weren’t ever good, except for Michael Scott Paper Company which was an amazing idea

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I see this explanation very often but have not encountered textual evidence (either for or against this hypothesis). The feats we see from every ringbearer (be it the Sauron, the Witch King, Galadriel, Gandalf and even Frodo) can more easily be explained by the rings just enhancing magical feats of all kinds, and maybe the elven ones are better at preservation magic. I wouldn’t be surprised if I was wrong, though

Sauron still has a physical form during the events of LOTR. Frodo sees him through the tower window when walking towards Mount Doom, and Gollum remarks he was personally tortured by him, and that his hand has 4 fingers.
Dwarves seem resistant to the rings because of their mechanical nature. As you described, they were first designed by Aule instead of Eru, and then given free will, so that gives them a more “automaton” nature than the other free peoples

In some cases, like water, it’s more about when the plastic will start noticeably altering the taste and properties of the food