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Post by Giant Ambush Beetle on Nov 10, 2019 11:49:28 GMT
Unpopular opinion: Makeup sucks. A lot.
I think natural looking women with - oh noes - maybe a little unclean skin or freckles and eyes that are not painted so they appear to be as big as those from owls are several times more beautiful and attractive than any of those women with elaborate paint jobs that make them look like they're wearing masks - which is sadly becoming the norm nowadays.
The latter is just a freak show and I think its a sign that there is something seriously wrong with you, mentally, when you need half an hour or more each morning just applying those color pastes to your face.
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Post by Noxluxe on Nov 10, 2019 17:22:32 GMT
The backstory for Horizon: Zero Dawn, all the set up for how the robots destroyed everything, is really dumb. I mean even a ruthless capitalist, and the engineers working for him, would have realized that creating self-replicating war machines, that specifically utilize bio-mass for conversion, and have absolutely no means of asserting override control built into their foundational code would be really, really, really stupid. Really, if Farro was the cream of the crop when it came to human ingenuity and intelligence then it would have been better for our entire species to be wiped out because nothing that idiotic should be allowed to live. That's actually the thing that makes HZD's backstory scarily believable to me. The Faro we see in recordings isn't dumb at all, he's just a bit irresponsible and self-centered. There's no doubt that if you told him his newest creation would be a world-ending mistake without proper shackles, he'd roll his eyes, call you a paranoid conspiracy theorist for thinking he didn't have it perfectly under control, and secretly double-check that it was fully overridable just to cover his ass. But for whatever reason nobody bothered to remind him, or whomever of his staff held the final responsibility, of that for a while, and the protocol to ensure an operational backdoor into that particular machine's programming just kind of got lost one day among all the updates and patches and production lines and global conflict analysis he and his people were keeping track of on a daily basis. Being the head of any company is a hectic business. Far too hectic to ever stay perfectly on top of everything, especially not when you tend to cut corners as a person. For the richest company in the world, with fingers in every pie imaginable, and a head as easily frustrated as Ted Faro, it's no wonder that things fall through the cracks. All the time. And in this case it was just the wrong thing that did. If we end up destroyed by our own machines, 95% chance it's just going to be because one overworked guy forgot to get that one line of code right one day among a host of other things he was doing at the same time, and it just spirals out of control in ways he didn't have the imagination to foresee. Because perfection, or even constant and unfailing adequacy, just isn't in our natures. Sure we understand the risks from the outset and take whatever precautions seem appropriate at the time, but precautions are annoying to keep up to date and mistakes will still happen eventually. And eventually they happen with stuff where mistakes can be apocalyptic. I totally agree with you about Detroit and Westworld and all the other media that treats computers as truly sentient beings, though, sympathetic or homicidal. It's a complete misunderstanding of how machines and computers work, and both potentially under-represents the danger in things like A.I. research and pointlessly dramatizes the concept in people's minds.
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Post by Buckeldemon on Nov 10, 2019 23:14:29 GMT
Unpopular opinion: Makeup sucks. A lot. I think natural looking women with - oh noes - maybe a little unclean skin or freckles and eyes that are not painted so they appear to be as big as those from owls are several times more beautiful and attractive than any of those women with elaborate paint jobs that make them look like they're wearing masks - which is sadly becoming the norm nowadays.
Agreed. "Why do you want to look like an owl? They are creepy, staring at me all the time. Ahh! Kitties may also stare like that." I made up the rather not-nice personal phrase of "eyesore eyebrows". Applies if they are painted up to look extremly large or otherwise artificial, immediately attracting attention that isn't quite positive.
I also have some strange unexplainable aversion to touching skin or hair covered in too much cosmetics/"sticky stuff". I never ever considered using hair gel because of that and touching skin covered in make-up invokes the same strange feeling. Brr.
Freckles are cool. Well, I guess I'm jealous, as I don't have any.
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Post by Giant Ambush Beetle on Nov 11, 2019 0:01:02 GMT
Freckles are cool. Well, I guess I'm jealous, as I don't have any. Yeah, they're cool. Sadly I know several women who have freckles and they try EVERYTHING to hide them, even surgery. Heck, the prettiest women I have ever met had freckles. Too bad that everyone nowadays totally believes in the boring beauty standards they show in media and magazines, which in my opinion, is extremely boring and bland .- Which leads me to my next unpopular opinion: today's beauty standards are quite ugly.
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Post by seven on Nov 11, 2019 2:39:56 GMT
Its one of those grass is greener on the other side things - if I could get rid of my freckles, I would in a heart beat, and mine aren't that dark.
I probably wear too much make up if I used Beetles example, but I feel like I'm a much less crazily behaved person if I wear it - probably more of a confidence thing than anything.
That being said, I 1000% agree that today's beauty standards are completely ridiculous and do nothing to help our younger teens/pre teens and those yet to come.
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Post by Noxluxe on Nov 11, 2019 2:45:36 GMT
Too bad that everyone nowadays totally believes in the boring beauty standards they show in media and magazines, which in my opinion, is extremely boring and bland .- Which leads me to my next unpopular opinion: today's beauty standards are quite ugly. I'd say the problem isn't so much the standard as the fact that women's toolboxes for customizing their appearance have grown so huge... and thanks to the media they all get more or less the same recipes. That's a lot of different ways to try to to look the same, and of course that gets boring and bland and starts to undermine their personalities. Especially because passionately following the standard is flattering to some and does a disservice to others, and people have never been very good at accepting when something isn't working for them when it comes to appearance. Easier on your ego to just decide you aren't doing enough and double down on the eye shadow. Or the comb-over, on the other side of the aisle. Living well away from any capital-sized cities helps though. Doll-like women are mostly an urban thing. I find it just as distasteful to see women, or me for that matter, trying to diverge wildly from any standard though, going nuts with jewelry and piercings and tattoos and color to make themselves feel unique. And if you ever try to broach the subject of how maybe this is an attempt to cover for underlying insecurity, you get some pretty cold stares and and a unified consensus from everyone that no, having turquoise hair is obviously very brave and she can do whatever she wants with her own body and fuck you for commenting. It's cool to have a quirk or an indulgence, an occasional funny hat, occasionally silly earrings, but young people these days seem so insecure and terrified of failing to fit in that they plain give up trying to look normal and instead pretend that looking weird is a victory in itself, which seems like a seriously unhealthy way to look at yourself. And it's sure as hell painful for others to look at. So unpopular opinion: Making a spectacle of yourself isn't an indication of confidence or self-esteem. Second unpopular opinion: There's no fucking difference between confidence and self-esteem. They're the same damn thing. "Self-esteem" is just what you call it when you don't have any confidence because you're still shit at something, and feel like you should deserve having it anyway.
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Post by Kappa Neko on Nov 11, 2019 12:29:33 GMT
^ Yeah, I think one of the first big revelations as a young adult was that boastfulness and arrogance are usually indicators of low confidence/self esteem. And often the arrogant ones are harmless and just hiding their sensitive side behind it. It's their defense mechanism. I have disliked so many nice people at first glance because they came off as arrogant and aloof. I've always disliked arrogance in men. You know, the type that is patronizing. Especially towards women. In reality it's the smiling charmers who want to be your friend you have to look out for. The ones who agree with everything you say. Major bullshitters. A guy who's overly boastful just needs a real friend. He's just insecure but not mean. True confidence is knowing you're awesome without having to tell everyone. And that's such a rare thing. People who are so comfortable with themselves they don't have to pick on others to feel good. They make others feel good about themselves too. The second somebody feels like they have to justify themselves and rub in how much smarter than you they are they're really saying that they're not sure at all and scared.
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Post by skekSil on Nov 11, 2019 12:54:23 GMT
The backstory for Horizon: Zero Dawn, all the set up for how the robots destroyed everything, is really dumb. I mean even a ruthless capitalist, and the engineers working for him, would have realized that creating self-replicating war machines, that specifically utilize bio-mass for conversion, and have absolutely no means of asserting override control built into their foundational code would be really, really, really stupid. Really, if Farro was the cream of the crop when it came to human ingenuity and intelligence then it would have been better for our entire species to be wiped out because nothing that idiotic should be allowed to live. That's actually the thing that makes HZD's backstory scarily believable to me. The Faro we see in recordings isn't dumb at all, he's just a bit irresponsible and self-centered. There's no doubt that if you told him his newest creation would be a world-ending mistake without proper shackles, he'd roll his eyes, call you a paranoid conspiracy theorist for thinking he didn't have it perfectly under control, and secretly double-check that it was fully overridable just to cover his ass. But for whatever reason nobody bothered to remind him, or whomever of his staff held the final responsibility, of that for a while, and the protocol to ensure an operational backdoor into that particular machine's programming just kind of got lost one day among all the updates and patches and production lines and global conflict analysis he and his people were keeping track of on a daily basis. Being the head of any company is a hectic business. Far too hectic to ever stay perfectly on top of everything, especially not when you tend to cut corners as a person. For the richest company in the world, with fingers in every pie imaginable, and a head as easily frustrated as Ted Faro, it's no wonder that things fall through the cracks. All the time. And in this case it was just the wrong thing that did. IIRC there is a recording in game, where right after machines go rogue Farro calls chief scientist and tells him to hack them to which scientist responds that it was designed to be unhackable, then this dialog hapened: Farro: 'You must have left a backdoor or something?' Scientist: 'You explisitly told us not to make any backdoors!' Farro: 'Well, I didn't really mean it!'
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Post by Vortex13 on Nov 11, 2019 13:20:00 GMT
That's actually the thing that makes HZD's backstory scarily believable to me. The Faro we see in recordings isn't dumb at all, he's just a bit irresponsible and self-centered. There's no doubt that if you told him his newest creation would be a world-ending mistake without proper shackles, he'd roll his eyes, call you a paranoid conspiracy theorist for thinking he didn't have it perfectly under control, and secretly double-check that it was fully overridable just to cover his ass. But for whatever reason nobody bothered to remind him, or whomever of his staff held the final responsibility, of that for a while, and the protocol to ensure an operational backdoor into that particular machine's programming just kind of got lost one day among all the updates and patches and production lines and global conflict analysis he and his people were keeping track of on a daily basis. Being the head of any company is a hectic business. Far too hectic to ever stay perfectly on top of everything, especially not when you tend to cut corners as a person. For the richest company in the world, with fingers in every pie imaginable, and a head as easily frustrated as Ted Faro, it's no wonder that things fall through the cracks. All the time. And in this case it was just the wrong thing that did. IIRK there is a recording in game, where right after machines go rogue Farro calls chief scientist and tells him to hack them to which scientist responds that it was designed to be unhackable, then this dialog hapened: Farro: 'You must have left a backdoor or something?' Scientist: 'You explisitly told us not to make any backdoors!' Farro: 'Well, I didn't really mean it!' And this is why humanity should have just let themselves be killed off in that setting. Any species that stupid should not be allowed to taint the universe with their rampant idiocy.
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Post by Noxluxe on Nov 11, 2019 13:34:35 GMT
IIRK there is a recording in game, where right after machines go rogue Farro calls chief scientist and tells him to hack them to which scientist responds that it was designed to be unhackable, then this dialog hapened: Farro: 'You must have left a backdoor or something?' Scientist: 'You explisitly told us not to make any backdoors!' Farro: 'Well, I didn't really mean it!' Kind of what I meant. He probably just meant that they should be unhackable for enemy VIs, and if he hadn't been so sloppy and focused on his own excitement he'd have realized that's a terrible way to phrase it. That really is the kind of thing that happens all the time. The scientist in question is harder to excuse for taking it at face value, of course. But the pre-apocalypse setting is implied to be a pretty cutthroat place. I'd think twice about second-guessing the world's richest man on a piece of tech I only played a small part in designing in a highly competitive market place with sky-high unemployment. Say the conversation took place late at night after a really long workday while the guy is stressed out over one of a million different things at home, with an additional headache from the LED lighting in his lab? My point is that once you stake the world's safety on people always working at peak efficiency even under normal office conditions then it's only a matter of time before we're all crawling back into caves because of a stupid error, and HZD showed that nicely.
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Post by Giant Ambush Beetle on Nov 11, 2019 17:09:39 GMT
Its one of those grass is greener on the other side things - if I could get rid of my freckles, I would in a heart beat, and mine aren't that dark. I probably wear too much make up if I used Beetles example, but I feel like I'm a much less crazily behaved person if I wear it - probably more of a confidence thing than anything. And you probably don't need it, most women don't need it. IMO with makeup you don't look much prettier, you just look the same but with some paint in your face and chances are very high hat you'll give off vibes of insecurity and shallowness-. And that's not just related to women, the same things apply to men. There are those ''prettyboy'' men, they put tons of effort into their looks every day including makeup, extremely elaborate haircuts and/or beards and extremely form fitting clothing etc. Chances are damn high that people looking like that are shallow and superficial AF. - (according to my personal experiences.) I always try to avoid people looking like that if possible.
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Post by theratpack55 on Nov 11, 2019 18:22:31 GMT
Its one of those grass is greener on the other side things - if I could get rid of my freckles, I would in a heart beat, and mine aren't that dark. I probably wear too much make up if I used Beetles example, but I feel like I'm a much less crazily behaved person if I wear it - probably more of a confidence thing than anything. And you probably don't need it, most women don't need it. IMO with makeup you don't look much prettier, you just look the same but with some paint in your face and chances are very high hat you'll give off vibes of insecurity and shallowness-. And that's not just related to women, the same things apply to men. There are those ''prettyboy'' men, they put tons of effort into their looks every day including makeup, extremely elaborate haircuts and/or beards and extremely form fitting clothing etc. Chances are damn high that people looking like that are shallow and superficial AF. - (according to my personal experiences.) I always try to avoid people looking like that if possible. Idk man... I think I get what you're saying, I get weirded out by all the girls with painted eyebrows and caterpillar fake eyelashes, and I always wonder if people genuinely find that attractive, with how obviously fake it all is. But at the same time I won't leave the house without foundation and mascara on, so maybe I don't have a leg to stand on thinking that. My skin is just not nice looking without makeup. It's shiny and blotchy. My eyelashes are invisible au naturel. I'm probably not hideous, but I'm definitely less pretty. And this is a cliche thing to say, but I've had guy friends express honest surprise whenever I mentioned makeup - the "you wear makeup?!" thing. It convinced me that people genuinely don't realize "nude" makeup is a thing. They think this is how I look when I get out of bed in the morning. Well, I don't. But here's the thing that makes me not want to stop doing it, even if I'd love to be able to just get up and go every morning - people are nicer to me in makeup. Not just guys, people in general. I think it's a status thing. When you look well put together, random people around you think you're more important than you are. They're polite. They take you seriously. You can get things done, and you can get away with failing at things. I used to think this was hearsay, but I've been working in an office environment for a while now and it's definitely real. I don't like doing makeup. Many women find it fun, but I don't. It's consuming my time and money, even if I'm doing the bare minimum. But unfortunately it does enhance my quality of life.
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Post by Giant Ambush Beetle on Nov 11, 2019 20:13:32 GMT
Maybe its a different thing from a female perspective since male and female standards are different, I just don't know, but I hardly ever try to look/dress/style a certain way just to conform to other peoples expectations to make interpersonal interactions easier. I do dress appropriately for special occasion like business meetings and official situations but that's really about it. I'm always respectful and I do not behave like an idiot but I never try to actively accommodate to society with anything, and it never really had any negative effects on my life with that attitude. And I don't look exactly ''normal'', I look weird, I do weird things, I like weird stuff, and nobody is giving me a hard time for that. (I'm not talking about never taking a bath or dressing in absolutely ridiculous ways or breaking laws, naturally)
I think how you carry yourself is far FAAAAR more important than looks, if you rock ''your own style'' with confidence it has the same effect - or even more positive effect- as totally accommodating to the expectations of others but with much less self confidence. On several occasions I was totally blown away by ''mediocre'' (physically) attractive women who had an amazing likeable personality and attitude and I have stopped counting how many times a highly physically attractive woman was very off-putting simply due to her boring, vapid demeanor. And all that instantly recognizable traits as well.
Ah, I'm kinda long winded and not very good with words today, I hope I get the general meaning across.
Don't want to sound like a spoilsport but maybe they're just trying to make a compliment with that statement, even good makeup is really easy to spot - it always creates that uncanny-valley effect for me till I realize what it is, mostly the skin texture is weird, the colors don't blend in to 100%, and eyelashes are never that thick or dark so, yeah. My brain realizes there is something off before I can put a finger on it. Fake breasts are very similar, even those that were well done.
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Post by theratpack55 on Nov 11, 2019 21:03:10 GMT
I'm not sure if it's a male vs female perspective, it might be. But from where I'm standing, it's mostly a social status one. I simply can't afford not accommodating social expectations. If I had special skills that are in high demand, maybe I could dress however I liked and go barefaced every day, but sadly I'm just a cog in the office machine. And I've had the past ten years to see who gets promoted, and who's stuck doing most of the work despite working harder than most. And that's just the work environment, but there's been many mundane, everyday experiences I've had that reinforce that feeling that the way you look affects the "quality of service" that you get. Maybe it's just the place I live in, but "weird" people don't get far here, even if they're confident and good at their jobs.
As for the guys noticing makeup, idk, maybe that was supposed to be a compliment but I didn't get that vibe. I think many guys here are genuinely clueless, or just very used to the heavy makeup look so that less makeup means no makeup to them.
Either way, all I know is dragging myself out of bed 20 minutes earlier and putting some stuff on my face makes my day easier, cause more people will cut me some slack, and Lord knows I need all the slack I can get.
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Post by Lavochkin on Nov 11, 2019 21:18:17 GMT
The one aspect of makeup that truly enhances a woman's attractiveness is definitely eyeliner. I even notice the drastic difference in the character creation of various vidya games with a 2D woman having it versus not having it on.
Other than that, im alright with minimal amounts of makeup.
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Post by Giant Ambush Beetle on Nov 12, 2019 1:07:31 GMT
Other than that, im alright with minimal amounts of makeup. A butt does not need makeup anyway!
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Post by Onecrazymonkey1 on Nov 12, 2019 1:15:10 GMT
I don't wear makeup everyday anymore. I still put it on for special occasions and once in a blue moon if I dress up in a pinup style (because I like it) but that's about it. I do think less is more now but I used to wear my makeup pretty heavy when I was a teenager due to a severe lack of self confidence. At some point I stopped using makeup as an enhancement and started wearing it as a shield because I didn't like the real me, which wasn't a remotely healthy mindset. Now, I've found that I can look quite polished and cared for with less or even without it completely. Walking out of the house without makeup on for the first time was terrifying though.
To be honest, I don't care much what someone looks like, if they wear makeup or not or if they look slightly weird etc. I won't judge people on silly issues. I've had friends that dressed like Marilyn Manson and others that looked like barbie dolls. As long as someone is a decent person chances are I'll like them. I care more about that quality of someone's character through their actions.
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Post by Andraste_Reborn on Nov 12, 2019 1:46:54 GMT
I don't wear make-up except to extremely special occasions (like my brother's wedding) but I understand why women do. I get a lot of push-back for not wearing it, and for not dying the grey out of my hair or shaving my legs. Especially in 'professional' environments back before I was unemployable. (I wasn't even in any customer-facing positions and the dudes in my office rolled around in ripped jeans and t-shirts, but gods forbid I not spend half an hour putting goo on my face every day.)
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Post by Sundance31us on Nov 12, 2019 2:49:07 GMT
I don't own any makeup.
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Post by Noxluxe on Nov 12, 2019 4:57:25 GMT
I've never noticed it being a huge thing around here, in the third or fourth biggest town in my country and the one furthest away from the capitol. Most of the girls and women I've known in my life I'm pretty sure I've never seen with makeup on. But I've dated two girls from "the big city" and both had this fixation on wearing it.
I found it physically painful to stand there waiting around to go out while either of them compulsively applied eyeliner because she didn't dare leave the house without it. It made me feel like I wasn't doing enough to make her feel comfortable and attractive in general. It made me respect her less for being so controlled by her insecurity, and also made me resent her a bit for not trusting me and the people around here to see that she was fairly pretty without all that, and accept her regardless.
Every day I lived with her where she didn't stay in felt like being an accessory to unhealthy and obsessive behavior, but any and all discussion on the subject was obviously shut down because it just made her more anxious.
I'm not going to pretend that it was the biggest conflict in either relationship or the one that ended them, but it was a running thing that made me really uncomfortable throughout both. Thinking back, maybe I was too focused on being a 'nice guy' and felt too responsible for their happiness. But dating someone who had the same problem now might be even more off-putting, at this age.
I think wearing makeup simply because you've determined it impractical and disadvantageous not to is different from what we're talking about. That's a choice, and it has to do with what you want rather than what you think you should be. I'd be a lot more supportive of that.
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Post by Kappa Neko on Nov 12, 2019 11:49:26 GMT
I'm glad my office job doesn't have a dress code (we don't deal with customers face to face) and all my coworkers are fellow nerds. Some wear flip flops in summer. So we're probably the least sexy looking employees of the company, hahaha. I've always been too lazy for make-up and also never learned to apply any propperly. Also, way too expensive! Same goes for fashion. I'm saving a fortune! I only apply a bit of foundation because I too have super oily skin. Takes 5 seconds. I used to apply mascara when I went out in college. But all it did was get in my eyes because I rub them a lot (they're always dry). I hated it. I've always been very uncomfortable with male attention. Or too much attention in general. I like to observe from the sidelines. When I started working full time at the very same nerdy office, I got more attention from guys than I liked, being fresh meat. So the last thing I wanted was to make myself prettier, lol.
In my experience most men don't care much about make-up or even dislike it when it looks too artificial. The taste of lipstick is also not great. The ones who do care are assholes.
Sadly, people ARE judged by the face they put on, literally, so yeah, I get that a lot of jobs require you to look a certain way. Especially women. I resent these kind of jobs and that's why I'm relatively poor. ;D
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Post by vella on Nov 12, 2019 13:39:13 GMT
This whole Santa business is a load of crap and should be stopped immediately.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2019 3:47:40 GMT
The human eye is a glorified camera. Here's my proof. Everything about taking pictures and looking at people has been turned on its head. Looking at someone with your eyes, you are capturing their likeness (what they look like). While taking pictures of someone with a camera, you are capturing their digital likeness.
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Post by Noxluxe on Nov 13, 2019 5:08:34 GMT
The human eye is a glorified camera. Here's my proof. Everything about taking pictures and looking at people has been turned on its head. Looking at someone with your eyes, you are capturing their likeness (what they look like). While taking pictures of someone with a camera, you are capturing their digital likeness. On a related note: Black Mirror is the future, obviously written by prophets, and should be mandatory viewing for everyone in the 21st century. The younger the better. Put the righteous fear of Cortana into our children.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2019 6:09:25 GMT
I don't get the reference.
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