SeXPatS

How many of you are sexpats?

Is my fob Chinese girl friend that studies In America a sexpat? I feel like she just really clingy, and wants me mostly for sex. She not really my gf... but we've been banging for about a month. But for real, she literally washes my legs in the shower for me, like I'm some emperor. Is she trying to use me for citizenship??? Hapa kids??? I need the low down on Chinese fobs! What's their endgame?

There's nothing wrong with a woman with ambition, so long as she can do everything herself, without any male assistance. Like, I don't give a fuck if she dreams of being a "boss babe" and opening her own hair salon. I'm not fucking paying for that dream, she can achieve it herself. Unfortunately, I know too many guys who get siphoned by their girlfriends wives and their bullshit dreams. They earn all the real money while their women squander it on meaningless bullshit like nail art supplies, MLM products (stupid shit like HerbaLife), etc. They don't want to do any of the real work, they essentially want to play dollhouse.

Do you usually do SEA or SA or CIS region?

Actually, none of those. I generally don't find Southeast Asian women attractive, so it was never high up on my list. Hey, I gotta do whatever makes my dick happy, sue me. I am considering making an exception for Singapore, however.

I've never been to South America. No real reason, just never gave it any thought. I do know that South American women, especially the Colombians and Brazilians, can be smoking hot. And apparently Venezuelans are heavily discounted right now, though I have no idea how attractive a woman fleeing an actively socialist country can be.

I had to look up what CIS means; bunch of ex-soviet countries, it looks like. Again, never been there, though as a former k regular, I have always been interested in the cheeki breeki (no, I'm not a commie).

Give me your list anon.

I'll assume you read my entire post. Again, I only started mongering recently. My list isn't extensive, and my tastes can get expensive.

Amsterdam

I know it's far from perfect. But I was dipping my toes in the water, just to see if I would like it. As many other Johns would attest, the service can be subpar, but I lucked out and got a few decent ones.

Switzerland

This is about as baller-tier as you can get on a middle-class salary. All the good stuff you heard about Swiss sex clubs is true. The facilities were great and the sex was top-notch. My best sexual memories came from here.

Hong Kong

From my limited research, their whores are only slightly more expensive than SEA (I'd say about $10-20 USD more). Most of the whores are Chinese, and for what you pay, the service is surprisingly good. They also like to get kinky; I got my first "Fire & Ice" there (it's when she sucks your dick with a mouthful of mouthwash). For the price point & quality of service, I would definitely come back, but unfortunately, China is really fucking Hong Kong up for tourists and citizens alike, so I don't know if I will.

I fucking love Taiwan, but mongering is uneconomical over there.

Prostitution laws make it difficult for them to work in Taiwan. It's essentially in legal limbo, so anyone involved in this industry is pretty hush-hush about it. You have to go out of your way to find them, and you might never find any unless you have prior connections (ie. a local Taiwanese friend, or a fellow sexpat who has a Taiwanese friend). And I have no such connections.

And let's say you finally find some prostitutes. According to a few reports, they can cost somewhere around 2000-3000 TWD (about 70-100 USD). Don't be surprised if there's a foreigner tax (another 1000 TWD) on top of that. At that price, it's very unlikely you'll get a qt Taiwanese. Chances are she'll be some SEA reject. No idea why you'd want to pay double, triple, or even quadruple for an older, uglier, HIV-positive Thai. Taiwan has seen a significant uptick in HIV infections because of them.

Some people will tell you that prostitution may be available in certain night markets, but that's incredibly sketchy. Again, you're likely to run into HIV-positive SEA rejects. There's also a small minority of old Taiwanese ladies who have been selling their bodies since the Chinese Civil War, and they're still turning tricks. If you're white, and a Taiwanese granny greets you in English with "Hello, Joe!" (their clients back in the day were American GIs), she's a prostitute.

In short, not worth it. I wouldn't bother with Tinder, because half the users are non-Taiwanese (usually white, Filipinos, Chinese-Canadians, Chinese-Americans, and a few blacks). If you want to try scoring a qt Taiwanese chick through a dating app, you'll have to try one that's more popular with Taiwanese, and you might need to know how to write in traditional Chinese.

I know, it sounds incredibly shady, right? The justification I hear the most often is that it's for the escort's safety, in which case I can kind of understand, since the US has a lot of unsavory people living in it. But on the other hand, it's a major invasion of privacy, and if the agency is less than reputable, I can see this easily turning into a blackmail scheme.

I take it that UK escorts don't have a stringent vetting process. And thank fuck for that, because I never use my real name when mongering.

in my perception going overseas to get laid already suggests you can't get laid in your own country, so for someone to take the pathetic step of traveling to a country where they can "locationmaxx" but then bother wasting hours and hours of time and money to convince themselves they have game, is a little amusing

If you're going to fly overseas JUST to get laid, why not take it to its logical conclusion? completely and utterly take advantage of the discrepancy in currency valuation, in poverty, in your status as a westerner and fuck dozens of girls for $30-60 dollars a pop? Why would you stop short of that and go on dates like a fag? I go overseas to have four 19 year olds dressed like schoolgirls bending over and showing me their buttholes and pussies inches from my face while i sit in the corner of a dirty, red neon lit gogo bar for like ~12 dollars. see my point?

I think the defining characteristic is you travel predominantly to exploit the economic disparity and pay for sexual experiences you otherwise could never have. I think its a good experience for 99% of men.

BJ bar workers are generally bottom of the barrel by default. The women who are either too ugly or too old to turn tricks have to resort to this lower-paying gimmick. They can't make as much money as a standard prostitute, but this is basically the only opportunity left for them in the sex industry. That's also the reason why they cost a lot less. You're getting limited service by a substandard woman. Economically, this makes sense. Her having sucked off an Indian should be the least of your concerns. Chance are she's 38 years old and looks like a man (despite not being trans in either direction). If you accept the terms & conditions of this bar, you can afford to make another concession.

Now if you're talking about actual prostitutes you can take into your hotel room and fuck, yes, they tend to be picky. Many outcall prostitutes & escorts reject Indians, because they tend to be terrible at haggling, and their bedside manners are needlessly violent. There's no gentle lovetaps or spanking of the bum, they'll actually full-on choke or slap them bitches with gusto; it ain't foreplay, it's straight-up violence. This isn't just true for Thailand, this surprisingly applies to many other countries.

Collecting All The Dragon Balls

I collect most of them, except the bad 1.0s and some of the 2.0s that were too expensive even when I started (I wasn't paying $120 for SSG or SS3 and I'm not paying $200 now).

I display based on saga. I don't buy multiples. I get why people would (I considered two Kid Gohans in particular) but I'd rather just have stick the character in the saga that I prefer to have them in. Like I'll have Kid Gohan in the Saiyan Saga with Piccolo. If they ever, say, release an Imperfect Cell and I want to depict that fight, well, that's a good opportunity for me to change up my display a little for a while. I like having reasons to repose figures and change displays instead of having them be static for long periods of time.

I usually only get major characters for any series that I collect. So protag and antag, maybe a side character I really liked. So I have Frieza and Cell but I don't want any other Cell forms. For DB I have my figs set up by arc in front of the manga. I don't buy multiples of a figure, but DB is, as we all know, an exception. I have a Goku for every form, and Awakening, MUI, and UI for battle damaged looks. Also, I like buying the 3rd party accessories and heads that people come out with. I have most Vegetas as well, but I don't have any Gohans or other side characters like 16 and 17. From this point forward, the only Goku I would need is an official SS2 one, and then who knows? Moro for sure, maybe a cool looking Heroes character like Towa with the fluffy hair. I'll be getting FF Frieza but I'll have to wait until they make the Bardock from Broly to complete that set up.

Anyone kind of depressed at the state of the line in terms of how they are dealing with character selection?

I mean, I am kind of miffed that Cobra's gotten the shaft. Destro's the only villain available, CC's an exclusive, Baroness is tied to a bike no one wants making her more expensive at retail, combined with the fact that she's only available at Target and most likely has been scalpt to hell and back meaning you'll have to pay $100+ for her. And same with Cobra Trooper, while the fucking Red god-damn Ninja is getting a mass retail release instead!

I really fucking hope we get an all villain wave soon. Zartan, Zarana, Major Bludd, Firefly, and Dr Mindbender to give the Joes people to fight.

That's the central reason why a lot of people have been dreading GI Joe going six inch.

That the money/wave assortment size would create a huge clusterfuck of only a handful of characters getting made. And Hasbro pissing people off either way with who get made in the scale.

Maybe HasLab can solve this problem: instead of making six inch scale vehicles, we get Hasbro doing once a year "fan 

favorite" multi-packs with 3-5 figures made via crowdfunding.

The fact that we’ve gotten two waves and a ton of exclusives within like four months is insane. The PR Lightning line took FOREVER to get off the ground, it was like a four month break between wave 1 and 2 and there were zero multipacks at the time. The fact that people already have like 5-8 figures on average is nuts. Hasbro is really pushing this line hard, I wouldn’t sweat not having X villain yet or not being able to get X character. They clearly want everyone to have the five or six main Joes and a bunch of villains, they’re just building up to it.

The whole thing was a pain for me. The hinge orientation makes you think he'd be left-handed, same as Duke and Beach Head for some reason, but I couldn't get him shouldering the weapons properly because of the giant knife sheath in the way. And the vertical hinge on his left hand doesn't articulate well if it's plugged in all the way.

Also the shoulders are too small or imbedded too far into the torso, so he can't put his arms down at his sides all the way or reach around his bulky vest too well. I know I'm bitching a lot about what should be a fodder figure, but I was pretty excited for him by the artwork and everyone else's photos. Just disappointing that I don't enjoy messing around with him

Games & Trans Rights

The whole TRANS RIGHTS shit is really interesting to me.

Because trannies are a very small minority and are rather irrelevant in real life, mostly active online since they sit 24h/day in their basements and fuck themselves with Bad Dragon dildos, 99% of people do not actually meet them. So they latch onto this retarded message of supporting yet another "opressed" group, while having no idea what it is about.

Normies will know mostly two types of trannies: confused tomboys/teenage girls who say they are "male" now aka cut their hair short and start wearing baggy clothes and idealized image from Netflix shows/media.

They will basically never meet the wide shoulder, huge manjaw hairy pedophile incel who became a tranny for brownie points and special treatment or because his fucking crossdressing fetish wasn't enough anymore to get him going.

Because i simply refuse to believe that people would unironically look at these abominations, see what dilating fucking means and shit like neo-vagina or neo-penis looks like and how it's done and support this fucking death cult. I just fucking refuse.

It's typical kikery with gaslighting with comfy messages ("What's so bad about trans rights?" etc.), cute imagery, colorful flags etc. to fool retards into supporting what is basically a body horror sect.

This is fucking perfect.

If western society is so rotten that shemales and trannies need special rights, then why not allow it break all the way down and let the pedos in.

Then when the next war of moralfaggotry sweeps the west to make history right, they couldn't call themselves anything but villains.

I would ask why he thought that, what inspiered him, what he watches, ect and then take it all away, maybe send him to queer rehabilitation camp and nonstop red pill him on all the shit LGBT movements lie about and cause while forcing him to do manly shit. if it doesn't work I'd just disown him and kick him out the moment he turns legal and get him removed from the family.

You're so mean anon!

My counsin got brutal rapped because fagots are nothing but horrible abusers and child molesters and he ended up killing himself because they are also horrible drama fagots who doxxed him and he freaked out. My sister I haven't talked to in years because after coming out she ran away from home and got addicted to coke and is now a gross antifa fagot in a very abusive relationship with fat lesbians. Luckily me and my other brother came out generally fine and not completely gay aside from posting on here and being in to anime.

worry about this a lot. Like, on one hand I can be the good parent, tell him its wrong and offer to take him to therapy, but he might feel like I'm antagonizing him and kill himself.

On the other hand, I can tolerate it, but it'll be way too uncomfortable to ever talk to him again. He'll notice this, blame himself and kill himself.

Basically I'm afraid that no matter what happens my son's gonna kill himself.

I might need to rework a system because people don't understand it very well.

The player starts with 3 dice in the top row, they find more and can add a second one to the bottom row with different statuses like burn and poison. The lets them have 6 possible status effects in battle.

When the character Attacks(red), Shields(blue) or Charges (green) in battle, reusing that action a second time uses the second row dice, then back to the first.

I might scrap the second row entirely and replace it with an item which adds the bonus to a plain dice. So the Poison item makes the dice above it a poison dice and the player can find lots of these bonus items

I'm curious, how much time do people spend on games? Personally, I spend ~2 hours every day, using my own system.

Basically, I have a period of time, during which I cannot, let's say, entertain myself, so no videos, no games, no porn, stuff like that. I still allow doing literally nothing or just walking outside. Because during this time I get bored as fuck, I typically just go and work on my game, though, sometimes I go workout or just walk my dog. I find this to be a really healthy way of not forcing myself to work on the game and instead I work, because I want to, and still retain the every day routine.

there's too much muddy detail and contrast in random places while the face is lacking in definition. the soupy sketchy mess of greys betrays a lack of understanding of form and an attempt to overcompensate with noise.

if you're using that many tones, it needs to apply to the face too. he looks like a scarecrow made of garbage bags wearing a rubber mask. the eyes especially are lacking in definition around the edges and the shadow colour you picked isn't heavy enough to create the depth you're looking for.

lay out a proper colour palette and ramp your colours based on the scene lighting, don't just use greys, even for things which are grey unless your lighting is stark and white like a hospital room. don't use solid blacks either unless you're going for pitch-darkness with no indirect lighting implied. the shadows of a moonlit night are blue-ish since the moonlight is bounced around. highlights tend towards warmth and shadows tend to be cooler, and they pick up some of the colours around them. highlights are a reflection of whatever the light source is, just scattered and disffused by the material it's landing on. if it's outdoors your highlights will glow warmly like the sun.

eyes are a concave bowl shape covered with a transparent covex dome. the iris part has flipped lighting, like the inside of a bowl. the bottom part picks up the highlight and the top corner is in darkness. the lens highlight goes over that, and since the lens is convex it's flipped back around, so there will be a solid highlight facing the light source over the darkest part of the iris.

coincidentally, the amount of detail in his eyes versus how washed out the sockets look gives him the appearance of a little anime girl on the verge of tears.

ADHD & MATH

ADHD isn't like a broken leg, it's a constellation of executive dysfunctions that vary in severity and/or typicality.

Mine are primarily focus, working memory, situational awareness, and a tendency to engage in tangential thinking.

I can get absolutely lost in a programming project, game, book, etc. (i.e. things that I find intrinsically interesting), but I have to actively focus and dedicate my mind for chores, work tasks, social interactions, basically all the things that my mind doesn't find interesting (and are actually sources of mental pain without stimulants of some kind).

I can remember my first girlfriend's phone number, what she was wearing when she gave it to me, the color of the sky that day, and the broken locker we stood in front of, but I often forget what I just read.

I'm not clumsy in movement, but I will frequently knock glasses over, lose objects I /just put down/, and bump my arms/legs on things I /wasn't paying attention to/.

My thoughts flow one into the other on any related point of information, without ceasing. I need to plan what I want to say or it goes on forever as I tap into that thought stream verbally. I often go down thought rabbit holes based on a single detail. Adderall helps alleviate these symptoms, but the body load is too much. I have had much better quality of life since learning to meditate and switching to caffeine (also getting good sleep - poor sleep fucks up your executive functions worse than alcohol).

I have to check bus timetables several times or repeat the times non stop

Watching lectures is painful even on 2x speed

I cant stand conclusions and superfluos text, and on that note i hate time wasting when the difference is usually only a few seconds.

In terms of training oneself i basically repeate my end goals in life, foe me my motivator is death, its what stops me destroying stuff now days, and i get general spazzing out.

Do you not understand the notation? Each of the large ∧ symbols on the left is performing a conjunction ('and') on multiple terms, analogous to how sigma notion performs addition of multiple terms.

If you construct a matrix where m[i,j]=(¬p[i]∨¬p[j]), the overall expression is the conjunction of all terms on one side of the main diagonal (not including the diagonal itself). As the matrix is symmetric (¬p[i]∨¬p[j] = ¬p[j]∨¬p[i]), it wouldn't matter if it included the opposite side, so long as it doesn't include the main diagonal i=j. IOW, it's the conjunction of every distinct term of the form ¬p[i]∨¬p[j] where i≠j.

¬p[i]∨¬p[j] = ¬(p[i]∧p[j]) is true if at most one of p[i] and p[j] are true. If both p[i] and p[j] are true then the expression is false. The outer conjunction is only true if all terms are true. As the conjunction involves every possible pair of p[i],p[j] for i≠j, it's only true if there exists no pair for which both are true,. If there were two or more true propositions, one of the pairs p[i],p[j] would have ¬p[i]∨¬p[j] false and thus the conjunction overall would be false.

My advice is from somebody in England, so make of this what you will. I'd have to look at the specific syllabus for this advanced course but if your goal is just getting hired you're actually better off taking a pure math degree and teaching yourself to program in your own time.

It may be nonsensical but programming is one of the smaller aspects to a development job, or rather the coding practices one picks up in a typical university are used less than the standards you pick up post being hired. Mathematics comparatively can't really be taught on the fly, furthermore all math degrees should include elements of programming and afford you many opportunities to develop a more technical portfolio by the time you graduate. If you take a very comprehensive CS course they may include enough applied math but it'd still pale in comparison to what even a general math degree would teach you.

The exceptions to the above advice are if you want to work in hardware as an engineer, I can imagine a math degree would still be very helpful but I'm not speaking from experience on that point, my guess is that you'd be best served taking a good CS degree were that your inclination; nor can I speak on physics, I've not studied it nor are my immediate colleagues trained in it.

Best of luck. Were I you I'd take a math degree and spend my first year trying as many different things in the field as I could, decide on a specific job and specialty and then work backwards to fill in my competencies. Any good institute will allow you to change course after the first year and possibly transfer credits as well.

Simulation or Life?

Some people have theorized that we might be living in a computer simulation left to run. There is nothing truly physical about our universe. Well, there's a problem. Let's say someone from the real physical universe wants to create a simulation. They would need to use physical material from their universe to run the computations. The material would have to configured in such a way as to have variations that represent data whether its gears in a mechanical computer or a on-off switch representing 0's and 1's in an electronic computer. Since the computer would have to be made from material from the real universe, the simulation can not have the same level of variability/complexity as the real universe that it occupies. If anything, it would be a simplified dumb down version of it. This is more of an issue if there are sapient programs in the simulated universe the programmer is trying to fool. The way around this is to give the illusion of a whole, complex universe.

An example is the night sky in a video game. The white dots in the black background are just that-white dots against a black background. The programmers did not program the video game to simulate convection currents of the plasma, which composes a star, as it interacts with gravity, magnetic fields, and fusion reactions. So each time someone looks through a telescope and sees something that is not visible to the naked eye, they offer evidence that we are not living in a simulation.

Okay, so the programmer is hiding the cheats deeper in the software. That he has a telescope.foolsims subroutine that gives a false image in every telescope. But then he would need another .foolsims program for microscopes and another one for Geiger counters and another one for X-ray machines and another one for space probe instruments and...you get the point.

Once upon a time, natural phenomenon such as lightning, rain, storms, earthquakes, disease, etc were the venue of the gods. Then humans took a deeper look and found no man behind the curtain operating nature. Lightning is a discharge of static electricity when an excessive electric charge builds up in the clouds. Rain is just water vapor condensing into water and falling back to Earth. Storms are produced by the differiential heating of the Sun creating low pressure cells high pressure regions. Earthquakes are the products of plate tectonics. Disease is caused by microscopic parasites. Now the gods or god has been relegated to setting up the physical laws of the universe at the very beginning and letting everything run on autopilot. While this is fine for a deist, this is a far cry from the interventionist gods of myth and sacred text.

Just as human exploration of the cosmos has showed there was no god in a chariot pulling the sun or pixies making flowers bloom and has shrunk the hiding places where the gods might dwell, so too does that same exploration shrink the places where the divine programmer of the hypothetical simulated universe could hide his programming shortcuts.

Pic is of the Hubble Deep Field Image - an extremely long exposure of an otherwise empty spot in the night sky where nothing should be and where we would find signs the universe we exist in is a lie.

The simulation hypothesis is like a modernized version of the demiurge. The idea that some being created us, but he himself was bound to some physical laws. It's an interesting thought experiment but I never found the idea too convincing. If we were created by a demiurge/simulator, who created him? It opens up more questions than it answers. Occam's Razor says we should look for the simplest, most elegant explanation.

The universe has an undeniably mathematical quality. You look at how all these mathematical concepts show up repeatedly in nature - Fibonacci sequences, the golden ratio, fractals, etc. All physical laws can be described mathematically. And these patterns show up at every scale. Consider the way the hydrogen filaments that join galaxies together resemble neurons, or how both honeycomb cells and Saturn's poles have hexagonal shapes.

I believe Plato had it right, that the physical universe we experience through our senses is a shadow of some underlying reality, but I don't believe that underlying reality is physical in nature like our own world. I see it more as a world of pure primordial logic and truth.

Here's a fun thought experiment. When you look at this M.C. Escher drawing, where does the picture exist exactly? Does it exist in some server as a series of 0s and 1s describing the RGB value of each pixel? Or is the picture the photons of light coming off your screen? Or is the picture the qualia, the colors and patterns that your mind sees?

1. If it's a simulation you will never leave it, you are the simulation.

2. Our reality is too complex to be a simulation.

3. Where does the universe of this computer running the simulation come from?

4. You would need infinite energy, infinite computing power and infinite materials to infinitely upgrade this computer.

5. No need to simulate an entire universe or an entire lifetime of a human being.

I’ve heard from several people each with their own bads in life. And of different race and backgrounds. That they don’t like certain countries or their laws because they put you in a simulation systems that’s against everything the US is for. So they don’t really travel abroad. Their warnings were the only validity such system exists. Apparently they are known to be used on people validating patriotism or prisoners, educators. We supposedly didn’t agree with it because it means encroachment into personal property and space. Plus you don’t know how it might screw you up. However a doctor told me later on that such technique has gotten approval in US. They could techniquely have you live a different life upto that point then form a continuum to bridge it with physical life. That’s how powerful it is. Even instigated thats how they first created Jewry, a public that doesn’t break character. In theory you’re forced to Judaism by circumstance. So they use it to restart life.

1. You can, just move to another computer, or acquire the interface to interact with the parent universe.

2. Looks pretty primitive for me.

3. From just another universe.

4. First, infinity is not necessary. Second, it is not impossible.

5. Of course, but that defeats several previous points.

Actually I would say the existence of dreams is in opposition to simulation theory as there is a material basis for dreams in such a situation and so you have to have the processing power and resources fully devoted to the act of dreaming of which half the world's population of humans and mammals are experiencing at any given time

And then theres the confirmed phenomenon of lucid dreaming, where the dreamer takes full control of their dream, and the dream can become as realistic as real life, and this is something that can be learned or be a natural ability for someone since childhood. Literally a simulation within a simulation by your reasoning, taking up even extra processing power and resources compared to a non-lucid dream because your simulation is now processing a super realistic simulation within the simulation and having to account for the extra resources of the brain conscious within a dream which is more active and processing different regions of the brain than the non-lucid dreaming brain.

The only argument against this you have is that the processing power of the simulation is nigh-infinite and these things take up so little resources and power in comparison that they are just left in or ignored, but you have no evidence of that, you are arguing for the existence of your belief system non-scientifically.

You can also argue as others have that these concerns dont matter because this simulation is limited compared to the power and energy available in the universe running it, that's no different from the planes argument of metaphysics that these are the lower material planes and there exist higher planes on alternate "higher" strata of reality that govern our realm. If anything lucid dreaming supports that theory as a glimpse of what is possible in those other realms.

You are making the same unprovable arguments as these essentially, only thinking that cloaking them in the veneer of higher speculative technology is somehow different.