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S2E2- Exploding Stabby Porno Counseled Gays

posted 5 years ago by Rorikon (16364)
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Sums up the whole episode. Guess this was the gay episode of this season. Was funny seeing Bortus trying to get new forms of jerk off material from that alien.

-I would be pissed if the first minister said "woman and children first" instead of the select drawing for the 30 survivors. Yay for equality.

-CGI seems to have improved a tiny bit for this series.

-Porn addiction, not a disease. That's like saying people with gender dysphoria are a disease which they don't classify as such.

-I don't see how they could've gotten the Orville out of that gravity pull with the system malfunctioning along with the intense heating burning up the hull and frying internal systems along the way. Talk about pure pure luck.

[–] [email protected] (139) 5 years ago

It is an addiction indeed and yeah, it kills relationships. Erotism in the arts and even pornography in healthy doses is OK. But when you start depending on it, that complicates things. (best film about it: Shame by Steve McQueen)

[–] Rorikon (16364) 5 years ago

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[–] strntz (10790) 5 years ago

-Porn addiction, not a disease.

Thank you.

Unfortunately, PC still exists in the future. A disease is something that one can't simply cure by making a choice to do so. To call bad behavior "diseases" is insulting to those who are inflicted with maladies not of their own choosing. It also enables those by telling them that it's not their fault.

One of my best friends smoked for years despite my constant chiding. One day I noticed he was no longer smoking. He told me that during a routine physical, his doctor simply told him that he would quit when he found something that was more important to him than ciggies. On the way home, he decided his two young sons and wife were more important, and that was the last smoke he's had.

[–] Rorikon (16364) 5 years ago

Congrats on him turning his life around. Better late than never. I've always wondered how effective those cig patches (Nicoderm?) work. It's just nicotine in them right? Might be just the cravings or withdrawal effects. Same goes for coffee.

[–] strntz (10790) 5 years ago

He just stopped with no medication, but I do see value in Nicoderm or any other nicotine substitute.

Smoking is two parts; the nicotine physical addition and the habit of actually smoking a cigarette.

I think that if you can cut the battle into two fronts, you'll have a better chance. The nicotine patches or gum will mitigate the nicotine craving while the smoker defeats the habit of actually smoking. Once the smoker gets used to lighting up and inhaling a cigarette, he can then hopefully wean himself off the nicotine by reducing the patch or gum.

Coffee is a bit different. I've always been a coffee drinker and I remember the week I started getting bad headaches about 3 in the afternoon. The first was a pip, and every day for about 4 days I got another, each one less severe than the previous. I found out about a week later when I was making the coffee that my secretary had inadvertently picked up some decaf coffee.

Other than the headaches, there were no other symptoms. At that point I was technically off coffee, but since coffee is not a health problem, we simply went back to regular coffee when we finished the decaf can.

[–] Jes' Sayin' (5947) 5 years ago

But totally random is kind of stupid. What if they got only old people incapable of reproducing? Or all of only one gender? Should have put some selection criteria into it.

[–] footlegger (1462) 5 years ago

That's how socialists think!
Capitalists always prefer random luck scenarios, because that's how they get their wealth.

[–] Jehosaphet (1055) 5 years ago

Interesting point that I was going to dispute at first...but you're right, huh?
Its not just being born into a wealthy family, or a family that can afford to send you to a decent college (if any college at all) because even an education doesn't necessarily lead to a comfortable life.

Its the belief in one's self, isn't it? Self worth dictates...possibly everything. How you present yourself, how apt you are to be sociable, to develop social skills, to meet people...to know and befriend the RIGHT people.

Because its not 'what you know' but 'who you know', and that goes hand in hand with luck. If you were lucky enough to be born into a functional family...to have parents that love you, that give you the sense of value that you'll carry through life...that'll end up affecting your life more than "hard work" ever will.
Because you can be the hardest worker at the plant, but the person who's able to rub shoulders with the boss, who's more likable...that'll be the person who gets the promotion.

Something like that?

[–] footlegger (1462) 5 years ago

Yes, you can do everything by the book and still fail if you are not lucky. Just like the athletes who get injured after a long successful career in sports.

[–] Satan2016 (23276) 5 years ago

Primal Urges is the lowest rated S2 episode. Written by Wellesley Wild, who has only written comedy before. Seth must have owed him a favor, he was a S1 producer.