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I mean, Odyssey is quite good, I think I just prefer the characters and setting of Origins more. And I'm not a fan of the level scaling in Odyssey, so I changed it. I've still got a long ways to go and plenty more of Ancient Greece to see, though.

Based on what I've played of Odyssey so far, I actually like Origins more.

My take has always been if a person has the desire to serve and can pass the physical and psychological tests required, then they should be able to serve. Plus, the military isn't all about fighting. There are tons of non-combat jobs.

I mean, racial and ethnic minorities have endured a lot of shit, but at least if you were a black kid, you had the support of your family. LGBT kids are disowned by their family in a lot of cases. They often have no support.

I also dislike cake frosting. I hate when I get cupcakes with a mound of frosting on top. I just scrape it off. I never get the corner piece of a cake. I usually scrape it off cake, too. A thin layer of chocolate frosting is acceptable, though.

I've had those a couple times and they're good. That filling be so nasty. I can only tolerate it in small doses. I wish they made just the cookie for sale.

I finished Becoming and From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime(finally!) in the last few days. Started Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens last night. Thought a novel sounded good and this one seems to be quite loved.

I don't really know what you're trying to argue anymore. I also am a bit surprised you're using Wikipedia as your source. The actual definition of atheism is "a lack of belief or a strong disbelief in the existence of a god or any gods" according to Merriam-Webster. If you don't have a belief in a god, you're an atheist. It's pretty simple. I don't believe in a god, just like I don't believe in an invisible pink bunny, therefore I am an atheist, not agnostic. I would say the fact that I'm 99.99999999999whatever% sure is enough to state I'm pretty confident while also acknowledging that you can't prove a negative. This is just a really pedantic argument. I am an atheist. I take the same stance as the vast majority of atheists, including the most prominent atheists. Now let's go back to Boyle's dumb arguments with everyone else here, that's enough pedantry for one thread.

Kentucky has some beautiful mountain scenery. I wouldn't wanna live there, but I'd like to visit some spots at some point in my life.

I enjoyed Spider-Man, though it took me a minute to start clicking with it.

I don't believe so. I don't even think you can do that.

He cannot, I asked him that last night. Basically, any accounts that didn't get restored or if the poster hadn't been active in a while were deleted since he didn't figure those people would be back anyway.

Well, I have discussed how my family, my parents in particular, are super shitty about racial issues, so, yeah, not a surprise. Pretty sure I remember them grumbling back then about how the black people were too sensitive and ruined the fun. Or something to that effect.

Yeah, I'm sure you had your beard when you were a kid.

I don't know if I've mentioned the sotry on this forum or not, but I remember being a kid in the mid-late 90s and my mom and her friends always did the lip sync contest for their company's annual family picnic. That year, they performed "Stop! In the Name of Love" by Dianna Ross and the Supremes. I remember them talking back then about how they wanted to paint their faces black, but the company said that was a bad idea and axed it. I think even at 10 years old or so, I knew that didn't sound like a good idea. They still did the routine, no face paint, but they had the dress and wigs and they won the competition anyway.

I was actually thinking about doing something like that. Let's see if Jason know any of those!

I mean, okay, okay, I see you're really insistent about how you've never ever watched commercials. I'm just saying it's been their slogan for around 30 years(I looked it up, they first used it in 1989), and given they're a high profile company that's been around a really long time,, a lot of people know the slogan. I was just surprised a dude had never heard of it before.

I was gonna say, I'm no expert, but it kinda looks like blackface to me.

Maybe I just have weird memory or whatever, but repeated slogans have a way of sticking. That's kinda their purpose.

I mean, I don't watch much in the way of live TV, either, but this has been around a really long damn time. Like, all my life.

You seriously never seen a Gillette commercial and you're, what, around 30?

I mean, like Eblazon said, it does fit with their tagline of "The best a man can get" and it's not like companies haven't been wading into social issues for quite some time now. It's not hard to figure out why they did it. Of course, sincerity is another issue.

I'm seeing some ads for Billie lately, but honestly, I'm content with DSC and I like their other products.

I have a friend who has been posting all kinds of stuff about masculinity and why it's needed since this ad came out. He's laughed at my jokes about all of it, but he still says he's never buying Gillette again. I think he missed the point of the ad. Also, I quit buying Gillette a while back and switched to DSC. I have no regrets thus far.